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the few years he has been connected with Gordons bred more winners than 
any of his contemporaries,and he is one of the restricted class to whom it is the 
greatest gratification to breed their own winners—the true fancier feeling that 
makes a man last. In 1901 Mr. Andrews showed Teddy A. and Wenonah, 
his dam, and in 1903 showed and won with Bertha A., Billy A., Florence 
A., Molly A., Peter A. and Teddy A., all from his own breeding. 
Present Time ConpDITIONS 
Although entries in the Gordon classes are now very poor, the total 
in seven classes at New York this year being but twenty-one, from a total 
of only ten dogs, yet it is just possible that this very paucity of entries may 
be of benefit to the breed. There is now no controlling kennel to deter 
the owner of one or two dogs or the small breeder. The chances for the 
many are improved thereby, and we look for an increase in the immediate 
future along the lines of present exhibitors of one, two or three dogs of good 
average quality. There is one thing to be said regarding Gordons that 
cannot be conceded either in the case of English or Irish setters. They 
have not suffered from indefensible judging, as did English setters, nor 
from injudicious breeding and loss of type, as was the case with the Irish 
setters. The Gordons have always been very well judged; that is, type 
has never been overlooked and there has been no field trials record to divert 
judges from the plain path of deciding on the looks of the dogs. 
At the present time, while acknowledging that in the dog section 
we have nothing of phenomenal merit, no Turk, nor Beaumont, nor Heather 
Lad, nor Duke of Edgeworth as a pattern, they are mainly sound good 
dogs. In bitches we have in Florence H. a beautiful bitch owned by Mr. 
F. Howe Jr., of Lansdale, Pa., and Mr. McColley’s Lulu M., one of the best 
Gordons ever benched, possibly the best bitch we have ever had, and a setter 
we venture to think the equal of any setter of any breed now being shown. 
Lulu M. has been perhaps shown a little too lusty at times, but she is a 
Gordon from tip to tip, in fact one of the few dogs that it is very hard to 
find fault with, in character, quality or shape. ‘This year maternal duties 
have kept her from the show ring, but a little sister of hers named Dolly 
has been very successful in the hands of Ben Lewis, who, failing in his 
efforts to purchase Lulu, sought out another member of the family, for the 
dam, Kate, is not the kind that is likely only to. throw one chance good one. 
To look at Kate one understands why we have a Lulu M. and a Dolly. 
