The White Runner Club is now more than a year old, while 

 the two clubs for English Runners are now (May, 1913) nearing 

 a year, counting from the beginnings of publicity as to organiza- 

 tion. When it was about a year old, the White Runner Club 

 voted thenceforth to breed to the English Standard as to type. 

 This sensible action may be regarded as a striking victory for 

 the English type. 



One of the peculiarities as to club influence is seen in recent- 

 ly published news and comment. One of the English Runner 

 Clubs here has adopted the Standard heretofore in force, just as 

 British breeders have adopted a revision of it, and Belgian breed- 

 ers have petitioned to be allowed to use this revision. A man 

 somewhat prominent in the International Club has declared for 

 the older 1905 American Runner Standard, whose requirements 

 were largely discarded by the best British breeders years ago. 



The Cumberland White-Egg Indian Runner Club, of which 

 the present writer has been President since its organization, has 

 made a slow and steady growth, and has put out a year-book de- 

 claring its aims, laying down breeding ideals, giving information 

 boiled down for all its members. It has prepared an original 

 Standard for the Penciled Runners, and, with others, has peti- 

 tioned for its rightful place in the Standard of Perfection, for 

 the English Penciled Indian Runner Duck. Its Business Unity 

 Committee was a bright, original thought, and this Committee is 

 doing good work. This Club invites to join it, as members, only 

 those who place the English Penciled Runner first, as being the 

 true breed type. As all varieties must follow in type the one 

 which gains admission as the breed type, breeders of this type 

 stand fast in the claim to this position. 



Breeders of the American Standard type have recently 

 shown much unfairness by keeping very prominent the state- 

 ment that the English Runner is a disqualified bird. This has 

 never been true, if the Standard was followed, for it uses the 



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