28 The Sporting Dog 



Bang, in his turn, became a great sire, producing 

 Spotted Boy and other briUiant winners, and 

 Pearl's Dot, herself a Derby winner and the 

 greatest pointer matron of all time. 



Among the potent pointer movements was the 

 old St. Louis Kennel Club, composed of Charles 

 H. Turner, E. C. Sterling, John W. Munson, 

 Charles C. Mafifitt, J. B. C. Lucas, and other influ- 

 ential sportsmen. Their first importation was the 

 very fast, high-class field dog, Sleaford. He did 

 not entirely please his owners, and in 1878 they 

 brought over Champion Bow, a son of Price's 

 Bang. In 1879 Mr. Turner imported the hand- 

 somest large pointer of the period, the well-known 

 liver-and-white Faust, by Lord Sefton's Sam. 

 Faust was the admiration of all pointer men in 

 his combination of high quality with size and 

 substance. Dr. Rowe once told me that in the 

 mere matter of intelligence in handling birds 

 Faust was the best pointer he had ever seen. In 

 1 88 1 the St. Louis people imported their first 

 small pointer, Meteor. While small compared 

 with a dog like Faust, he would be to-day a good- 

 sized dog. He was beautifully balanced, but had 

 the defect of a shallow head with high set ears, 

 and after his sensational defeat of Beaufort on 

 the bench the friends of the latter dog grum- 

 bled a great deal about the "common" Meteor 

 head. Meteor did very well in the stud, siring 



