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THE CHIN
DOGS FIGHT 1
SPORTSMEN'S“
BETS
LONDON, FEBRUARY 1.
A REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED SOON WILL REVEAL THAT FIGHTS BETWEEN DOGS BACKED TO TEAR EACH OTHER TO PIECES ARE BEING REGULARLY STAGED BY GROUPS OF SPORTSMEN IN BRITAIN.
For 15 months a National Canine opponent, even though it may have Defence League investigator, in to be destroyed itself later because secret, has been watching the de-of its own injuries, he added.
velopment of the "sport" and the
people who regularly attend to see
it.
The dogs used are mostly specially
bred
Staffordshire bull-terriers.
The contests take place mostly They are kept hungry when due to in cellars guarded by scouts before fight. crowds which sometimes include
women:
he publication of the report of investigator, Mr. R. H. Johns, will signal a drive to stamp the "sport" out.
Mr. Johns describes
his report.
""The dogs were let go," he says. “Jack was a throat and chest fighter. He
Mr. Johns will reveal that it is five minute's throat for
widely practised throughout this country and the United States.
NEAR LONDON
So secret have the the contests are called that the police so far powerless to act.
him severely.
“Grip was able to chew on Jack's then lega from time to time and
had him down on the floor.
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been kept, Grip's throat, Both were cut up have been and bleeding."
Certain towns in the Midlands provide the biggest following for the "sport," but fights have been staged within 20 miles of London.
Mr. Johns' - dossier contains the names of the foremost promoters of the "sport," besides the names of dezens of breeders and backers.
Most of them are of the fairly well-to-do sporting fraternity who stake large sums in wage on the results of a “ġett.”
After 20 minutes Grip was taken out of the ring. He was found ly- ing dead on his chain in the yard later.
BIG TRADE
The ring the dogs fight in is gen- erally in the form of a pit, varying in size but never very large.
It is walled in and the dogs are set to fight from opposite corners
"Some of those who support this by their owners releasing them so-called sport are well known and from their chains. respected personalities in their own localities," Mr. Johna told me.
KEPT HUNGRY
With the Increase in the po- pularity of the "sport" on both sides of the Atlantic, there has grown up dog has no value in the eyes an extensive trade in dogs between
of breeders unless it has killed its this country and the United States.
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