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the special, for the best pointer. She is not so good in head even as Graphic, 
and not nearly so good in neck as Beaufort, neither has she so good a tail, 
and has not enough the best of him in other respects to overcome these points. 
She is a very taking animal to look at, and, as we have before remarked, 
is the best large bitch we have ever seen, but we do not think’ she is quite 
good enough to beat Graphic even.” Mr. Anthony thought otherwise, 
and his opinion was that at that show Revel III. was the best in his kennel. 
The late J. M. Tracy judged at, New York a month later, and he 
also put Robert le Diable over Graphic, but it was not accepted without 
protest; indeed Forest and Stream, then the leading ‘kennel paper in New 
York, stated that “last year and the year before the pointer judging was 
remarkable for the number of erroneous decisions made, and we regret 
there was no improvement this year in this respect.” Exhibitors of the 
present day have little idea of what owners had to put up with twenty 
years ago in the way of judging. 
We cannot devote the space that would be necessary to give anything. 
like an adequate idea of the successes of the Graphic Kennels during the 
next few years, but it was anything but a pleasant experience outside of 
winning. prizes, for the length to which ‘personal attacks were permitted, 
in the press at that time can hardly be imagined now. Mr..Anthony stood: 
it as long as he could and then pulled up stakes. From the third and 
last edition of their kennel catalogue we quote: ‘‘We have been driven 
from the arena of competition on the one hand by libellous and vindictive 
partisans who have been permitted not only the use but the abuse of the 
kennel press to belittle the kennel, and, if possible, to injure us; on the 
other by judges in the field who did not know good work :when they: saw: 
it, while in the show-ring kennel partners of exhibitors are.at times appointed 
to judge their own partners’ dogs in competition with those ‘of outsiders.’’. 
There was a great deal more truth than poetry in that statement, and the. 
Graphic Kennels. disposed of some.of their dogs and divided the. others. 
Mention must. be made of some of the breeding done by the Graphic 
Kennels: From Donald and Revel III. came two good litters, one’ of 
which included Rumor, Slander, Revel VI. and ‘Donald VI. The first: 
two names were aimed at those who had been attacking the kennels. Rumor 
was:a most exquisite small-sized: dog, but just as he was old. enough to _ 
show-the decision to withdraw was. arrived at.and he was never exhibited.. 
Mr. Anthony -held at the:time that. this was ‘the best. pointer the kennel 
