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HANDY AND HELPFUL STABLE PIGEON Jockeys who make their quarters in Overland stable No 1 have dispensed with alarm clocks They found them wholly unnecessary since the ar ¬ rival of Mike McGarrity of Vancouver It isnt Mike that has made the alarms a superfluity but a pigeon that Mike carries with him all over the country His names Bill and many a jockey points to a pecked face as mute testimony to the visits of Bill in the early hours of morning when its time to get up Bill roosts above his masters boudoir At live minutes to four every morning lie swoops down bites bis boss in the cheek with a well directed tsij of his beak and flies away to the next sleeping trainer or jockey until he has awakened the entire stable Bill when a few days old accord ¬ ing to Mike fell into the toneau of an auto speeding to tho race track at Vancouver last summer He was too weak to fly and he was turned over to Mc ¬ Garrity who fed him He refused to have anything to do with other pigeons when Mike turned him loose and thereafter became a part of Mikes stable He has traveled to Juarez to Cuba to Louisville and then to Denver McGarrity who owns three horses which will rim at this meeting says he does not know how Bill came to develop his alarm clock tactics Denver Rocky Mountain News
