CHAPTER XIII 



1877 (continued): Shows at Bath, Belfast, Burton'On'Trent, 

 and Royal Agricultural Hall, London 



IN the Wells Road, Bath, was held the First Exhition of Sporting 

 and other Dogs on June 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th, 1877, with Messrs. 

 Falkner and King as secretaries, and an entry of 562, when the 

 following were the appointed judges: for Blood-hounds, Deer-hounds, 

 Retrievers, Mastiffs, St. Bernards, Newfoundlands, Dachshunds, 

 Collies, Bedlingtons, Skyes, Dandies, Pomeranians, and Toy Spaniels, 

 Rev. G. F. Hodson ; Greyhounds, Pointers, Setters, and Spaniels, 

 Mr. Sam. Lang (this is the first occasion on which I have 

 noticed my old friend acting as a judge) ; Bull-dogs, Bull-terriers, 

 Smooth, Black-and-tan, Broken-haired, and Toy Terriers, Pugs, and 

 Italian Greyhounds, Mr. Vero Shaw; Fox-terriers, Dalmatians, and 

 Extra Class, Mr. H. Gibson. 



Deer-hounds and Greyhounds were poor entries. Blood-hounds 

 found Messrs. Mark Beaufoy and Edwin Nichols dividing the money. 

 Pointers had well-known men amongst all the winners Messrs. 

 J. Fletcher, R. Lloyd Price, Whitehouse, Grimwood, aud H. Clark. 

 Setters (except Irish, which had one only) had two classes, all the 

 winners being owned by H.R.H. the then Prince of Wales, Messrs. 

 S. E. Shirley, J. Fletcher, W. P. Sim, Rankin, Mapplebeck, Trevithick, 

 and A. D. Hussey-Freke. In Retrievers, one class each, Messrs. E. S. 

 Farquharson, Fletcher, How, and Staples-Browne were at the front. 

 In Spaniels (Water, Clumber, and Other Varieties) Messrs. Fletcher, 

 T. O'Brien, Page, Tugwell, Way, Bonner, and R. Nicholls accounted 

 for all the prizes. 



Lord Charles Ker, Captain Donald Shaw, and Rev. G. F. Lovell 

 were the winners in Dachshunds. In St. Bernards Messrs. F. 

 Gresham and S. W. Smith cleared all before them. Newfoundland 

 prizes were in few hands, Messrs. Mapplebeck, Leader- Brown, and 

 Mrs. Cunliffe Lee taking them all. Collie winners, too, formed a 

 small group, composed of Messrs. W. W, Thomson, Mapple- 



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