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stop to such proceedings, and it was about two months later that the 
American Kennel Club was started. 
What foundation Mr. C. H. Mason had for calling upon Mr. Munson 
to prove that the dog shown as Meteor was actually a dog bred by Mr. 
Pilkington, and by Garnet out of Jilt, was never known. The challenge 
was not taken up and the promised disclosures were not forthcoming. 
The influence of this dog does not compare with that of many others, and 
he was individually not a high-class dog. In thus criticising this Western 
favourite we know those who believed in him will not agree, but he was 
very faulty in head, his neck was short, and so was his body, he was leggy 
and stilty, and above all he lacked the quality so essential in a pointer of 
class. When the St. Louis sportsmen had such good type pointers as 
Bow, Faust and Keswick for comparison, it was inconceivably strange that 
they went so astray regarding this dog. Whether the notoriety of the 
“Pointer Protest” business caused the pointer men in St. Louis to stop 
we know not, but that was about the end of the importations of dogs to that 
city, and kennel interests fell off very much. 
The Western dogs were not missed, however, for during 1885 a new 
Richmond took the field in the person of Mr. James L. Anthony, of New 
York, who startled the kennel world by importing the famed English 
champion Graphic, and a valuable brood bitch, Nell of Efford, from Mr. 
Norrish’s kennels in Devonshire. We saw Graphic in England during 
the preceding winter and had a commission to buy him if we thought he 
could beat Beaufort. The price asked was $2,400, and that would not 
have been too much if the dog was what was wanted, but we could not 
conscientiously advise the purchase, and our judgment was supported when 
the dogs finally met under Mr. Davidson at Newark. Graphic was a good 
dog, a dog of exceptional merit, and we owe a vast debt to Mr. Anthony 
for bringing him to this country, and also the dogs which followed: Bracket, 
Meally, Revel III., Lad of Bow, Lass of Bow and Beppo III. That was 
a collection of pointers such as no person ever owned in this country, before 
or since, and they bred on and produced better than themselves in some 
instances. To these was added Donald, got from Mr. Moore, of Phila- 
delphia, and a most valuable acquisition he proved as a stud dog. 
Of course these good-looking dogs were attacked as being useless in 
the field, but not only did some of them run in English trials, but they 
were shown on game here, and it was well known were regularly shot over. 
