WHIPPET RACING
(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAJC.) WELLINGTON, November 30. Wellington was introduced to whippet racing last night, but it wa3 hardly a success. So much time was lost in stringing tapes for the course, taking the dogs to and from the starting point and removing the tapes again to allow other items to proceed, that it became wearisome, and in the end, of the three events arranged only two were run. Even then the spectators were detained on the ground till nearly 11. It was obvious that this sport must be kept to itself and cannot be mixed with others. The dogs are small, flash by at 15 vards a second, and the actual running over all only takes a few minutes altogether, which is out of all proportion to the time wasted waiting for it to begin.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19271201.2.95
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19172, 1 December 1927, Page 11
Word count
Tapeke kupu
137WHIPPET RACING Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19172, 1 December 1927, Page 11
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in