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the few years he has been connected with Gordons bred more winners than 

 any of his contemporaries, and he is one of the restricted class to whom it is the 

 greatest gratification to breed their own winners — the true fancier feehng that 

 makes a man last. In 1901 Mr. Andrews showed Teddy A. and Wenonah, 

 his dam, and in 1903 showed and won with Bertha A., Billy A., Florence 

 A., Molly A., Peter A. and Teddy A., all from his own breeding. 



Present Time Conditions 



Although entries in the Gordon classes are now very poor, the total 

 in seven classes at New York this year being but twenty-one, from a total 

 of only ten dogs, yet it is just possible that this very paucity of entries may 

 be of benefit to the breed. There is now no controlling kennel to deter 

 the owner of one or two dogs or the small breeder. The chances for the 

 many are improved thereby, and we look for an increase in the immediate 

 future along the lines of present exhibitors of one, two or three dogs of good 

 average quality. There is one thing to be said regarding Gordons that 

 cannot be conceded either in the case of English or Irish setters. They 

 have not suffered from indefensible judging, as did English setters, nor 

 from injudicious breeding and loss of type, as was the case with the Irish 

 setters. The Gordons have always been very well judged; that is, type 

 has never been overlooked and there has been no field trials record to divert 

 judges from the plain path of deciding on the looks of the dogs. 



At the present time, while acknowledging that in the dog section 

 we have nothing of phenomenal merit, no Turk, nor Beaumont, nor Heather 

 Lad, nor Duke of Edgeworth as a pattern, they are mainly sound good 

 dogs. In bitches we have in Florence H. a beautiful bitch owned by Mr. 

 F. Howe Jr., of Lansdale, Pa., and Mr. McColley's Lulu M., one of the best 

 Gordons ever benched, possibly the best bitch we have ever had, and a setter 

 we venture to think the equal of any setter of any breed now being shown. 

 Lulu M. has been perhaps shown a little too lusty at times, but she is a 

 Gordon from tip to tip, in fact one of the few dogs that it is very hard to 

 find fault with, in character, quality or shape. This year maternal duties 

 have kept her from the show ring, but a little sister of hers named Dolly 

 has been very successful in the hands of Ben Lewis, who, failing in his 

 efforts to purchase Lulu, sought out another member of the family, for the 

 dam, Kate, is not the kind that is likely only to throw one chance good one. 

 To look at Kate one understands why we have a Lulu M. and a Dolly. 



