306 The Dog Book 
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. Sterling, 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 
