21 8 The Sporting Dog 



location. Consequently, as the dogs were not far 

 apart in other respects, the decision and the 

 championship went to Joe Gumming. 



King Cyrano, the orange-and-white son of 

 Jingo, is a pointer which always impressed me 

 particularly with his class, for the reason that, 

 even when he first appeared in his Derby year, he 

 was what a field trial man would call badly over- 

 trained. His trainer, Mr. Updike, had been pre- 

 viously giving his entire attention to shooting 

 dogs and was probably the most finished trainer 

 in the West. All of his dogs at that time obeyed 

 the slightest order and retrieved with perfect 

 manners. A dog which, after such an elaborate 

 course of training in his youth, could begin by 

 winning a Derby and afterward compete success- 

 fully with the best dogs in his all-age form must 

 have had inherent class of the highest order. In 

 his second season I saw him put down with a 

 fast pointer, Spring Dot, owned by Mr. Turner of 

 Chicago. Cyrano is not a large dog, in fact 

 barely up to the average size. That day he 

 was going so high that he looked as big as a St. 

 Bernard. The two pointers dashed into a large 

 weed field where the growth was scanty except in 

 one corner. Notwithstanding the speed of his 

 competitor, Cyrano swung round the field on the 

 outside and then made straight for the heavier 

 growth in the corner. There he jumped into a 



