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stop to such proceedings, and it was about two months later that the 

 American Kennel Club was started. 



What foundation Mr. C. H. Mason had for calling upon Mr. Munson 

 to prove that the dog shown as Meteor was actually a dog bred by Mr. 

 Pilkington, and by Garnet out of Jilt, was never known. The challenge 

 was not taken up and the promised disclosures were not forthcoming. 

 The influence of this dog does not compare with that of many others, and 

 he was individually not a high-class dog. In thus criticising this Western 

 favourite we know those who believed in him will not agree, but he was 

 very faulty in head, his neck was short, and so was his body, he was leggy 

 and stilty, and above all he lacked the quality so essential in a pointer of 

 class. When the St. Louis sportsmen had such good type pointers as 

 Bow, Faust and Keswick for comparison, it was inconceivably strange that 

 they went so astray regarding this dog. Whether the notoriety of the 

 "Pointer Protest" business caused the pointer men in St. Louis to stop 

 we know not, but that was about the end of the importations of dogs to that 

 city, and kennel interests fell off very much. 



The Western dogs were not* missed, however, for during 1885 a new 

 Richmond took the field in the person of Mr. James L. Anthony, of New 

 York, who startled the kennel world by importing the famed English 

 champion Graphic, and a valuable brood bitch, Nell of EfFord, from Mr. 

 Norrish's kennels in Devonshire. We saw Graphic in England during 

 the preceding winter and had a commission to buy him if we thought he 

 could beat Beaufort. The price asked was ^2,400, and that would not 

 have been too much if the dog was what was wanted, but we could not 

 conscientiously advise the purchase, and our judgment was supported when 

 the dogs finally met under Mr. Davidson at Newark. Graphic was a good 

 dog, a dog of exceptional merit, and we owe a vast debt to Mr. Anthony 

 for bringing him to this country, and also the dogs which followed : Bracket, 

 Meally, Revel IIL, Lad of Bow, Lass of Bow and Beppo IIL That was 

 a collection of pointers such as no person ever owned in this country, before 

 or since, and they bred on and produced better than themselves in some 

 instances. To these was added Donald, got from Mr. Moore, of Phila- 

 delphia, and a most valuable acquisition he proved as a stud dog. 



Of course these good-looking dogs were attacked as being useless in 

 the field, but not only did some of them run in English trials, but they 

 were shown on game here, and it was well known were regularly shot over. 



