He must have felt strongly on the issue as you really do have to go out of your way to mention the set on a cricket page. Having read that it is difficult to determine what the person that said the set was 'laughable' was meaning. It was always a set I had a yearning to get my hands on in those early collecting days when an overseas set was a world away an 'expensive' cards were out of my league. Before Bonzo was a Doo-Dah Band, even before he was a chimp upstaging Ronald Reagan during his amazingly prolongued film career, he was a little dog. I always imagined him a mongrel but in the cards illustrated there are an awful lot of other dogs which look just like him, which suggests he is not.
Bull terrier seems most likely.
White dog and pretty much shades of grey everything else. This must have been the colour range of the artist as there were no such limiting factors when it came to sets of cigarette cards. Still that is the way it was and that is the way it will stay. I have already mentioned Bonzo can be worked into a cricket page but the fellow is a deal more versatile than this. The CB Fry of the dog world he is also seen in enjoying a bit of tennis, collecting golf balls and not enjoying a boxing match.