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of Jilt, and Don, as previously stated, was of the Bang family. Meteor's 

 fame, or more properly his notoriety, rests largely upon his being placed 

 over Beaufort at New York in 1884. The result was the most aggressive 

 correspondence that was probably ever published on dog matters in any 

 country. Mr. Sterling placed Meteor first in a very strong champion 

 class in which were Beaufort, Croxteth and several others. Beaufort 

 was immeasurably the best dog in the class and Croxteth the next best. 

 As an illustration of how show matters were misconducted in the anti-A.K.C. 

 times, the following summing up of the " Pointer Protest " case, taken from 

 the American Kennel Register, of September, 1884, will prove interest- 

 ing to exhibitors who have always shown under present rules and 

 government. 



"Mr. Munson has stated over his signature that at the time he made 

 his entries for New York the bitch Vanity was the joint property of himself 

 and Mr. Sterling [the judge at New York that year]. He also states that 

 he has the show rights of Meteor, but against this there are the reiterated 

 statements of Colonel Hughes that he owns Meteor, and he makes no 

 allusion to Mr. Munson's claim. Mr. Munson also stated that he advised 

 the club of the ownership of the dogs he entered. Mr. Sterling knew of his 

 own interest in Vanity at the time the entries were made, and we have 

 every reason to assume that, being on such intimate terms with Colonel 

 Hughes, he knew who owned Meteor. . . . Meteor won in the cham- 

 pion dog class, but when it came to the bitch class in which Vanity was 

 entered Mr. Sterhng, on account of his part ownership at the time of entry 

 [he later sold his interest to Mr. Munson, it was said], had Mr. De Forest 

 Grant to give, or assist in giving, the decision, and we are under the im- 

 pression that the same course was adopted when Meteor and Vanity were 

 shown as a brace. 



"The blunders made in the judging ring to our mind were these: 

 Mr. Sterling for his own sake should have said to the club, 'Vanity has no 

 business in the ring. I partly owned her when your entries closed, and 

 you must order her out, for I will not judge her.' ... In the brace 

 prize we come across further complications in the fact that two dogs came 

 before Mr. Sterling for a prize 'for the best pair of pointers to be owned by- 

 one individual or club,' and these dogs were, to the judges' knowledge, 

 owned separately and by three individuals when entered." The occasion 

 was then taken to show the need of a governing body which would put a 



