224 The Dog Book 
Poor success. in breeding killed off the Ottawa kennels, and another 
year or two of poor entries ensued before Mr. Little once more made another 
of his dashes into the breed, and at the same time Mr. George’R. Preston 
took Clumbers up in a way that promised much good for the breed. At 
New York, in 1895, they made up a total entry of ten, without any duplicates, 
and in this lot were such good ones. as Friar Boss and Glenwood Greeting, 
each of the exhibitors scoring a first in the two classes provided for the breed. 
In the following year Mr. Preston had the field to himself at New York and 
won all four prizes in the two classes, his best being Major Gilfeather and 
Glenwood Greeting. Mr. Preston had been much annoyed by some law 
proceedings for over a year in connection with some of his dogs, and the 
unpleasantness was such that he disposed of his entire kennel of Clumbers to 
Mr. Henry Jarrett, who with. another useful addition of his own put down 
an excellent team of four at the New York show of 1897, with which he not 
only took all the Clumber class prizes, but also the special for the best four 
spaniels, other than cockers and this under Mr. George Raper. Mr. 
Jarrett then sold them all for a good price, and once more the breed was a 
blank for another year or so. It was not until 1901 that.there was any 
apparent revival of interest, and competition became somewhat diversified 
but. still scant. Miss Douglas, who had been an occasional exhibitor for 
a few years, still made. her customary entry at New York, and in the fall of 
that year we had two new competitors in Mrs. Robert Stride and the Nor- 
wood Kennels of Chestnut .Hill, that being the name under which Mr. D. 
Murray: Bohlen shows his dogs. How much good the accession of these 
two exhibitors did the breed is shown by the total list of winners of 1903 
jumping up to twenty from the usual five or six at which it had beer standing. 
Colonel Stride was now showing the dogs from the Agawam Kennels, and 
he: exhibited six. winners that year, while Mr. Bohlen had. eight with the 
prefix.of Norwood, and Maggie of Eaton Park, a very good bitch brought 
over by Mr. Tilley and ‘sold to Mr. Bohlen after she had won at New York 
from Norwood Harmony. The getting together of the Norwood: Kennels 
team had its usual effect however, for when others could not beat them com- 
petition fell off, and at New York last year only two opposition entries of 
one dog each were made out of a total. of thirteen entries, and. this year, 
1905, the entire entry of ten was made bythe Norwood: Kennels. - 
This is:not'a very encouraging state of affairs, andthe outlook is no 
better, for the breed seems to be even more of a fancy one with us.than the 
