186 The Fox Terrier. 



Exhibited at the Kennel Club's Show held at Olympia in 

 July, he was awarded the Challenge Cup and other prizes by 

 the judge, Mr. A. Maxwell — himself a well-known popular 

 and highly-successful breeder of wire-haired terriers. On 

 the day following the one on which the prizes had been 

 announced, Mr. Maxwell made a further examination of 

 Tyro, with the result that he formally protested against the 

 dog, on the grounds that the ears had been tampered with 

 for the purpose of making them hang or drop properly. 

 The matter came before the committee of the Kennel 

 Club in due course, the protest was sustained, the dog 

 disqualified, and all his honours were taken from him. Nor 

 did an appeal and a subsequent re-opening of the matter 

 four months later result in any further light being thrown 

 on the proceedings. There were marks on the dog's ears, 

 but it was stated they arose from scratches made by pig 

 iron, amongst which the puppy had been reared at Barrow- 

 in-Furness. Mr. Carrick was so much aggrieved at the 

 decision of the Kennel Club in the matter that he imme- 

 diately announced his intention of never exhibiting his 

 terriers again, a decision by which he still abides. 



With the disqualification of Tyro, Mr. C. W. Wharton's 

 Bushey Broom was awarded the Challenge Cup. This was 

 a very good terrier indeed, and a much improved one since he 

 had made his first appearance on the show bench as Hermit. 

 Then his nose had more than an inclination to be flesh- 

 coloured, but it gradually darkened with increasing age, 

 and at the time he took the Challenge Cup there was no 

 fault to find with him in this particular, and little in any 

 other. An all white dog, built very much on the lines of 

 Carlisle Tack, weighing 171b., he was only beaten by the 

 Carlisle dogs in length of head. Bushey Broom's coat was 



