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Award of Excellence
Chip Somodevilla
The Detroit Free Press

"The Pigeon Racers of
Saint Claire Shores"
 

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"A Basement Full of Trophies" Despite his birds' poor showing in the most recent race, Leo Wernet does display in his basement the trophies from previous victories. Wernet entered 23 birds in this race and only nine of them returned, a bad result for the lifelong pigeon racer.
 
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