FIRST FAT STOCK SHOWS 387 



Another "Row" Over the Championship. 



Once more the ' ' old-timers " scored a win for the 

 1881 championship, but under circumstances that 

 did not send the Hereford host home in very good 

 humor. Mr. Gillett continued to cut a big swath 

 in the show, but in the first ring which he entered' 

 upon this occasion he met defeat at the hands of 

 the Hereford, Conqueror,* brought over from the 

 show of 1880 with consummate skill at a weight of 

 2,145 pounds to head a high-class lot of 24 three- 

 year-olds. A Kentucky Shorthorn shown by Mor- 

 row & Muir was placed second, with Gillett 's Bar- 

 ney third. 



At that time there was a "sweepstake by ages" 

 class, entrance to which was not limited, as now, to 

 the winners of the various ages in the different 

 classes ; and so it transpired, that with a new com- 

 mittee working, a 2,095-pound red steer called Mc- 

 Mulliri, a Gillett entry that had not even been placed 

 in the ring for three-year-old grades, was given the 

 championship of the show for steers of that age, 

 over the bright particular star of the Hereford 

 stalls, which had beaten him earlier in the week. 

 The committee was two hours in doing this, there 

 being twenty-five contestants. The tension about 

 the ringside was extreme, and when Conqueror 

 finally lost there was wrath in the house of Here- 

 ford. 



"Conqueror was bred by Mr. Miller from a bull called Seventy- 

 Six, a son of Sir Richard 2d (4984). The dam of the steer was a 

 grade Devon. George Waters fed him the first year at Mr. 

 Miller's sale barn on Root Street near the Chicago Union Stock 

 Yards. Meantime "Uncle Willie" Watson had gone to work for 

 Miller, and fed the steer for his second appearance. 



