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in his prominent wins or happened out when his most dangerous rivals were 

 not in evidence. Mr. Croker's Rodney Stone followed him to this country, 

 and when they met at Philadelphia in 1901 the order they were placed in 

 was Rodney Stone, Katerfelto, Portland and Mersham Jock, the latter 

 not having filled out in body at that time. Mr. Codman was judge at 

 Philadelphia, and he is a very sound man in the ring, going for good type, 

 while at the same time he does not care for anything like an excessive 

 exaggeration. 



It is very strange that with all these good dogs which had been in the 

 country, more improvement was not seen in the young crop than was the 

 case. The young ones were naturally very much better than what had been 

 shown some years before, but they were not very high class, and the only 

 American breeder who has had marked success has been Mr. Hopton. 

 Mr. Codman bred Glen Monarch, but he was practically an English dog, 

 for Glendale Queen was bred to Ivel Rustic before being sent out. 



Following closely upon the withdrawing of the Vandergrift dogs, over- 

 lapping their later appearances, in fact, came the entry of Mr. T. W. Law- 

 son, of Boston, and the Earlington Kennels, of New York, into the bulldog 

 fancy. The former got together by far the larger number of show dogs, 

 and has been very successful. The best dog in the kennel is Fashion, a 

 fawn dog with a good amount of character and no very grievous fault, 

 if we except his long and badly carried tail. 



In 1902 a dog was shown at New York which later on caused a great 

 deal of controversy. This was Chibiados, a white-and-brindle dog, shown 

 by Mr. E. K. Austin. Mr. Codman was the judge, and put him first in a 

 novice class of twenty-three entries. Fashion coming second. Our catalogue 

 comments on the winner were exceedingly favourable, much more so than 

 with regard to Fashion, which had been boomed by his former owner with 

 ' the view of a good sale in America, and he was not all that fancy painted 

 him when it came to a look at the dog. He has much improved since then, 

 and we are speaking of him as he was in 1902. Chibiados then beat the 

 flat-under-jawed Rodney Grabber in both limit and open lightweight bull- 

 dogs, and finally got the reserve to Portland in winners, thus defeatmg 

 Mersham Jock, a heavy-weight he had not met in his classes. Katerfelto 

 died just before the show, and Rodney Stone and Persimmon were entered 

 but not shown. The classes, though large, did not have so many good 

 dogs at the top as we had seen at a few previous shows, but Chibiados 



