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CHAPTER VIII 



JUDGING FIELD TRIALS 



HIS ever-interesting topic, and the reasons 

 I of the why and wherefore of the then sys- 

 tem of adjudicating winners, as called for 

 by the National Beagle Club Rules, caused as much 

 discussion then, a quarter of a century ago, as it 

 is today in a prominent sporting joui-nal of the 

 day, where there are some advocates of the point- 

 scoring system as there was in those days, though 

 I am sm^e that the present-day critics, who want 

 the rules changed to a point-scoring system, knew 

 nothing of the then efforts to have the rules 

 changed, which met with little favor and were 

 thi^own in the discard. Mr. H. L. Kreuder opened 

 the argument, saying: "We have now had beagle 

 field trials for five or six successive years and such 

 practical results toward the advancement and bet- 

 terment of the breed as is Hable to accrue from such 

 work, should have manifested itself by this time in 

 a tangible form. Has it? A mild 'yes' and em- 

 phatic 'no' would be suitable answers. Having 

 used and put to a practical test such ideas as have 



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