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FOREST ANDSfSTREAM." 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



bvotbp to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

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FIELD TRIALS. 



Professionals vs. Amateurs. 



WE learn from a letter which appears in a contemporary 

 that the Tennessee Field Trials will be held as usual 

 this fall. The proposed Maryland Field Trials have been 

 definitely abandoned. It occurs to us that there is room for 

 much discussion as to the mode in which these trials should 

 be held in this country in the future ; whether there are not 

 abuses to be corrected ; whether a gentleman who may choose 

 to break and handle his own dogs, and who works them in 

 the trial as he would in the field, is not heavily handicapped 

 as against the professional breaker who handles his dogs with 

 a view to " trials" alone. If the latter proposition holds, and 

 we apprehend that it will meet with assent from many who 

 have witnessed Field Trials, the question arises as to whether 

 the " Corinthian" should not have some opportunity shown 

 Mm as well as the professional. In all contests of this nature 

 it is supposed to be the desire of every one that the "best" 

 may win, but certainly in Field Trials this does not always 

 occur. The slow, pottering dog, who makes no mistakes sim- 

 ply because no opportunity is afforded him of making them, is 

 ranked as better than the high-spirited, wide-ranging dog who 

 works as nature and his master intended him to, merely be- 

 cause the judges cannot, or do not care to keep up with the 

 latter. No better instance of this can be cited than one which 

 occurred at the late Minnesota Trials, when one dog, doubt- 

 less a good one after a fashion, was allowed to consume nearly 

 all of one day and part of another in her trial rather than be 

 permitted an opportunity of making a flush, or a false point. 

 In the hands of a skillful breaker, and one more particularly 

 skilled in the ins and outs of a Field Trial, who scarcely al- 

 lows his dog to go beyond the reach of his hand and voice, 

 such a thing is very possible. We have received many letters 

 on this subject, and it is one worthy of attention, and regard- 

 ing which we shall be glad to have the views of our readers. 

 If Field Trials are to become popular and universal it is neces- 

 sary, first, to guard against anything like unfairness, or favor- 

 itism ; and, second, against a system of breaking which will 

 ruin dogs for general field work. Gentlemen sportsmen do 

 not keep dogs for the sake of winning trophies or dollars at 

 Field Trials, nor are they, as a rule, anxious for a record which 

 will enable them to sell their stock. Neither have they their 

 own reputations as breakers at stake. The professional is in- 

 terested in all of these points, and if these " trials" are to be 

 run for, or by Aem, it is better that they should be abolished. 



A RIGHT GOOD BISHOP. 



WE took occasion some time ago to express our approval 

 of the direct usage of physical force in the individual, 

 regardless of his cloth, when in defence of himself, his own 

 reputation, or the fair fame of others. We cited how Mr. 

 Trollope, in a recent book of his, places a clergyman of the 

 Church of England in such a position that he fells to the 

 ground a blackguard who has cast foul imputations on his 

 daughter. We hold to the idea, without being of the sword- 

 and-pistol school, that even in good society, if the fact was 

 perfectly well understood that a knock-down would infallibly 

 follow a coarse word or a shameful innuendo, men would 

 be more guarded in their expressions, aud causes of dispute of 

 a frivolous character be less frequent. Wc honestly admire 

 England andEnglish gentlemen and society for this fact. Less 

 overheated than the French, by no means inclined to efferves- 

 cence, somewhat indifferent to that polished glaze of manner 

 which is but at the surface, your Englishman, positive as to 

 his rights, is not to be bullied by word or gesture. The true 

 bull-dog instinct is in him. Rouse his ire by direct insult and 

 he seeks, not with pistol and knife to defend or to attack, but 



ith that good strength of fists which nature gave him. Here 

 is a case in point, and the clergy all over the world may be 

 proud of one of their own cloth : 



The Rev. Rowley Hill, Bishop of Sodor and Man, is driv- 

 ing out with his wife on the Isle of Man. A coarse fellow 

 hurls an insult at the Bishop and his wife, and ends by throw- 

 ing a stone which inflicts a scalp wound on the Bishop's wife. 



Now," says the London Telegraph, "a good many laymen 

 would in these circumstances have driven rapidly on to avoid 

 a possibly worse assault." Let us add that quite possibly a 

 large majority of American clergymen would have done pre- 

 cisely the same thing. Not so with our Btaunch Englishman. 

 He stops his carriage, leaps out, collars the dastardly hound, 



id when the latter breaks away and runs the Bishop is close 

 at his heels. A flying navvy and a doughty clergyman of 

 course might have been an unusual sight. The rufflao draws 

 a knife, flourishes a club, but tho Bishop is not a bit frightened 

 and, having a better pair of legs, corners him. Between the 

 two there can be no doubt but that, indifferent to the weapons, 

 the Bishop would have mastered his man ; but somebody 

 comes to the help of the Church and the beast is captured. 

 We clap our hands and cry out " Bravo ! to you, Right Rev. 

 Bishop. You are a Christian gentleman and all the better for 

 being muscular." Certainly, with that pluck you have, there 

 is tenderness and mercy in your soul. 



Now, what is the upshot of all this ? It must mean that this 

 English gentleman has legs than he can run with, and arms 

 and fists that he can strike with. He belongs to no maudling 

 type of man. When he was young, either at Eaton or Harrow, 

 he had been taught, perhaps even by the great Dr. Arnold, of 

 Rugby, to be true and honest and fearless, and at the same 

 time to develop not only his brains, but the thews and sinews 

 the Lord gave him. It was long ago that we thought that 



physical exercise was useful to clergymen. We pride our- 

 selves in the*fact that the Fobest and Stream was among the 

 very first to teach what was before our time considered heresy. 

 We do not want O'Leary clericals, nor fox hunting deacons, 

 but we must ever inculate the idea that rational amusements, 

 where health and strength are afforded, are of as much benefit 

 to clergymen as to laymen. We are quite sure from the mauy 

 examples we see in the United States that our doctrines are 

 believed in, and we entertain the hope that good leaven will 

 quicken all masses of society. It is altogether exceptional 

 when the consciousness of strength develops brutal instincts : 

 it rather tends to temper them. 



CORINTHIAN SENTIMENTS. 



D UT a few years ago the idea that American yachts were 

 U unfitted for cruising, and built entirely with a view to 

 racing, at a sacrifice of almost every other desirable quality, 

 would have been rejected with scorn and the announcement 

 received as high treason. Did not America run a British fleet 

 hull down? Did not Vesta, Fketwing and Henrietta cross 

 the Atlantic and bravely meet blow after blow and towering 

 seas ? And is not Sappho a match for anything afloat, be it in 

 a gale or zephyr ? Have not other American schooners faced 

 the dangers of the deep off soundings, and reached a home 

 port again with the same spars they carried out ? And who, in 

 the face of such evidence, could venture to maintain that in 

 model, staunchness, outfit and seamanship we were one whit 

 inferior to our British cousins across the sea? All this is very 

 true. Our large schooners, or rather some of them, are able 

 sea boats, and have for skippers men who have trod the quar- 

 ter-deck of square rigged craft for many a year, and who can 

 if need be, keep a clay's reckoning, take an altitude and work 

 out a sight without landing themselves on the prairie or in 

 the middle of Africa. But what applies to our largest schoon- 

 ers unfortunately cannot be said of the smaller craft, in which 

 most of the rising generation receive their first induction 

 into and acquire their first taste for seamanship and a life at 

 sea. There was a time not long ago wbtu we stood alone in 

 these assertions ; but knowing something of the sport in the 

 old country as well as in the new, and feeling convinced Chat 

 the cruising spirit would in time develop among us as it had 

 abroad, and that sooner or later a class of sailor graduates 

 would naturally spring from among the racing members of 

 the yachting public, our efforts have been directed in the first 

 place to calling attention to the difference between racing ma- 

 chines and jockeying, as a means of excitement and passing 

 pleasure, and the nobler phase of the sport, as embodied in 

 the cruising yachtsman, master of a sea-going clipper, captain 

 of Ins own ship, and all which that implies; and in the second 

 place to pointing out the most ready course by which the as- 

 piring tyro could steer in the wake of his leaders and climb 

 the ratlines of the ladder of proficiency, until he himself in 

 turn shall have reached the pinnacle of the Corinthian proles- 

 sion. That we struck the current of the popular inclinations 

 is becoming more aud more evident with the advent of every 

 season. This is what the committee having in charge the re- 

 cent "cruising trim regatta" of the Dorchester Yacht Club 

 say in their circular : 



"Inasmuch as the tendency of the usual practice of regat- 

 tas is to develop the ' racing ' at the expense of the 'cruising' 

 model, which latter, in fact, receives very little, if any en- 

 couragement at all, the promoters of and subscribers to 'this 

 race have instituted it and opened it to all yachts large enough 

 for cruising purposes, in the hope and expectation that 

 ' cruising' yachtsmen wdl appreciate the effuri, and that the 

 result will appear eventually in the multiplication of Bea-coing 

 models, and the corresponding diminution of the 'skim dish 1 

 and 'sailing.macbine' varieties of yachts, which have been 

 so long, and are yet for a while, in favor. The fact that so 

 many of the larger craft are hauled into winter quarters be- 

 fore weather liable to test their abilities can be looked for, 

 speaks for itself, and demonstrates without words the need of 

 the stimulus it has been, aud is, the aim of this regatta to 

 supply. The mouth for this race (October; has been cho- 

 sen as being the more likely to furnish the desired weather, 

 and as also less likely to bring to the starting line craft which 

 ate unfitted to compete." 



We need hardly add that they strike the nail on the head, 

 and that ere long we expect to hear others speak in the same 

 strain. The influence upon model aud rig can only be to the 

 good of the sport. 



Trrs Bisbv Club.— Gen. R. U, Sherman, of Oneida County, 

 whose sketches have frequently enriched the columns of Fon- 

 kst and Stream, has associated himself with Lynott B. 

 Root, 11. Lee Babeoek, Henry J. Cookinghain, A. T. Good- 

 win and James W. Husted (the "Bald Eagle of Westchester") 

 and incorporated the Bisby Club, for the purpose of hunting 

 and fishing in the Northern New York Wildemess, and have 

 leased some 7,000 acreB and built a lodge in the neighborhood 

 of the headwaters of the Moose and Black Rivers, in Herki- 

 mer County. Their Arcadia is reached from Alder Creek Sta- 

 tion, on the Utica and Black River Railroad, by a wagon ride 

 of twenty-one miles, a row of three miles across Woodhull 

 Lake, and a walk into the woods, about a mile beyond. The 

 membership of the club is limited to twenty, and parties visit- 

 ing the lodge must provide Iheir own supplies and service. 

 With regard to the nature of the supplies, we notice by the 

 club pamphlet before us, that Gen. Sherman recommends 

 baked beans, and Secretary Root, sardines, both very good in 

 their way, and seldom known to be in any one else's way. 

 We wish the club success. 



P. 8. There is fiabing up there, they say. 



