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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Colleysand their Trainings — With the rapid grow th 

 of sheep raising in this country, more particularly in Colo- 

 rado, California, and New Mexico, anything relating to that 

 most valuable of dogs, the colley. is of interest. In G-reat 

 Britain regular field trials are held in which the shepherd's 

 friend and assistant displays the most wonderful intelli- 

 gence in penning and driving sheep, and by the publicity 

 of their trials and the prizes awarded, great encouragement 

 is given to breeding and training. An Englishman, Mr. 

 W. Forthergill, has lately published a little book of twenty 

 pages on the management and training of colley's, which 

 gives some useful "hints. The first lesson, he says, is to 

 teach the whelp to lie down at command; then come this 

 way or that, always behind you. In a short time he will 

 leap over a hedge at your bidding, stand still at command, 

 or even walk backwards or forwards as >ou wish. All this 

 may be done before even it sees a sheep, and indeed many 

 whelps have been thoroughly trained before they have been 

 called upon to work. The more general practice, however, 

 is to take the young dog alone, when quite strong enough 

 to keep a few sheep up in the corner of a field, and teach 

 him to bring them after you short distances, and so make 

 him handy at working to the right or left. He should 

 never be allowed to run between his trainer and the sheep,, 

 for the great object ought to be to throw the dog well off 

 so lhat he may run wide. There is a great boldness or 

 dash in a colley so taught, and he does hot harass the sheep 

 nearly so much as one in the habit of running at or close 

 after them. You may teach him to obey signs, or words, 

 or a whistle, and for far distances on the mountain ihe last 

 is best. A dog so taught will gather miles of mountain, 

 bringing all the sheep to the shepherd's feet, and then by 

 an alteration in the note will take them right back again. 

 It should always be borne in mind that the sagacity, or 

 sense if you may will, of the colley develops with his years; 

 and therefore, if you are quiet and patient, and have plenty 

 of work for him, he will teach himself rapidl} T without 

 your worrying yourself very much about him. It would 

 be hard indeed for an intelligent man who had been work- 

 ing steadily upon the mountain with sheep dogs for a whole 

 season, and witnessed day by day their shrewd cleverness, 

 to declare that they do not reason. The dog that brought 

 the shepherd's boots one by one up to his bedside from the 

 room below, and tried to rouse the poor fellow from out of 

 the fever in which he lay, to put them on, surely was guided 

 by something higher than mere instinct. The great black 

 colley that threw himself against the cottage door, to in- 

 duce the inmates to come out and open the mountain gate, 

 through which he was unable, without aid, to pass, as re- 

 lated in the Field last year, surely considered how he should 

 act and obtain egress from the pastures to the open mount- 

 ains, and acted upon his thoughts. 



In this country in the States and Territory we have men- 

 tioned, the colley has another duty to perform. He is not 

 only guide and herdsman, but protector as well; for the 

 sneaking coyote is to be kept away, and if need be, fought; 

 and sometimes a hungry bear with a taste for mutton, as 

 well. According to Scottish superstition it is well to name 

 your dog after a flowing river, "for then ye ken he will 

 surely never gae mad." 



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The Hamburgh Bench Show.— Our correspondent Mr. 

 Von Smeedetmrg, late of Hoboken, and now editor of the 

 German sporting journal Der Hund, writes from Lindeman, 

 under dale of July 12th, as follows: — 



"Rev. J. C. Macdona's setters were the principal event of 

 the' show, though the best prizes went to others*. His set- 

 ters and his former ones, now in possession of H. H., the 

 Prince Albert Sohns of Brussels, gave a sight that can 

 hardly be beaten in England. We saw in Hamburgh the 

 Prince's Judy, mother of the great Hanger, Venus his own 

 sister, Ranger II, his son, and from this one a very promis- 

 ing litter of pups out of Venus. These "cracks" in close prox- 

 imity to Rev. Macdona's Gordon setters Ulunyaud Fan, the 

 Prince's Duke and Duchess, all four by Lome out of Bloom, 

 and near by the prize winners Monaghan, by Rover out of 

 Minnie, and Shirley, gave us a picture which I wished the 

 1 'Old Squire" could have seen. Add to that some excellent 

 pointers of Mr. I. H. Whitehouse, of Isley Court, and four 

 splendid foxhounds of Sir VV. W. Winn, Bart., and you may 

 well imagine how poorly most of our German dogs showed, 

 as they look in symmetry, in speed, and in ranging, chough 

 they have a good nose and good size. Luckily a German 

 nobleman had the good sense to buy at a high figure, the 

 two Gordons of Mr. Macdona, and some splendid pointers, 

 among them a bitch by the celebrated Don. 



But what you will like to hear best of all, is that the Rev. 

 J. C. Macdona will probably visit New York and Philadel- 

 phia in September next, where, I trust, he will be received 

 with all the honor due to a breeder of the best stock in the 

 world. I wish Egerton, his handsome little son of nine 

 years of age, would accompany his father, for he, the boy, 

 is a true cnip of the old block. He can talk dog with the 

 best of you, and knows the pedigrees of all the great guns 

 in England. Besides, he is quite a linguist; he speaks not 

 only French, but German most splendidly, and is ever will- 

 ing, and proud too, to be interpreter for his father. One 

 day during the show, Egerton, who in his becoming dress 

 of a Highland Chief was a great favorite with all the ladies 

 and the observed of all observers, had a long ccnversation 

 with the King and Queen of Denmark, and the King and 

 Queen of Greece, the latter of whom he told he had had 

 the pleasure of presenting a grand St. Bernard dog to his 

 sister, the Princess of Wales. My dog Prince, "got an 

 honorable mention." Yours, "Smeedy." 



, Poor Tyke. — The killing of a well trained setter, near 

 the Twin Lakes station, a short time since, by the one 

 o'clock Connecticut western train, prompts me to ask "If 

 dogs have any rights that railroad men ought to respect?" 

 Of the exact manner of the "taking off" of poor Tyke, 

 none but the engineer or fireman of that train can tell. It 

 would seem that she and her mother, "Fan," had tracked 

 her master to the station, and were promptly bidden to go 

 home, and as he supposed did start for home, some ten 

 minutes before the cars were due. At any rate, they were 

 both out of sight when he got on the train; and must have 

 started along the trestle-work, at the west end of which one 

 of them was struck by the cow catcher, and a "forty dollar 

 dog" reduced in value to less than nothing. Of all this the 

 owner got no word till his return from Salisbury in the af- 

 ternoon — though the engineer must have knew all about it, 

 and whose dog it was. Of course it is too inueh to ask of 

 the average engineer to slow up his train on a grade; but 



it might be generous in him to "whistle just a little" to save 

 the life of a dog whose cash value is as great as a cow or 

 horse, and whose intelligence, affection, and training might 

 put to shame many specimens of the genus homo. The 

 killing of a remarkable dog on the Housatonic Railroad at 

 Ashley Falls, a year or so ago, may seem to emphasize the 

 foregoing, and "point a moral" if not adorn a tail This 

 dog, in addition to being a thoroughly trained animal, was 

 a wonderful retriever— -and is known to have been sent 

 back eight miles, and bring a ram-rod that his owner had 

 lost the evening before, on being shown the gun minus rod, 

 and told what to "go fetch !" He was made to run errands, 

 carry money, and letch goods from the store, and the mail 

 from the post office, and was depended on to go daily to 

 the train for the paper left off by the newsboy. *" One luck- 

 less day this newsboy — foolishly or scampily — dropped the 

 paper under the train just as it was getting under way — and 

 the poor dog was translated to the "happy hunting ground" 

 — where, if the foolish newsboy should ever chance to go, 

 it is hoped that "all the dogs in our town," will give him a 

 bite of their canine teeth. Anyhow,' Superintendent 

 Franklin saj's "if it can be shown that the boy did it on 

 purpose" he shall be turned up so high that he will never 

 want to come down in Berkshire county agaiu. 

 1 win Lakes, Conn., Gyp say. 



Kennel Produce.— On August 8th Mr. S. J. Bestor 1 s (Hartford) 

 cocker spaniel Juliette wbelpid nine pups, sixtgyps and three dogs, 

 sired by his &nip. Six were engaged in adduce, and ail are uniioimly 

 and handsomely marked. 



Mr. P. Weigancl's (of Galveston, Texas,) Gordon hitch Pet, imported 

 last fall by Mr. B. G. Duval, of that city, through Mr. Geo. de Landry 

 Macdona, Hil bre Hou.^e, West. Kirby, has dropped a tine litter of ten 

 pups, eight dogs and two gyps-, sued by Baron, bought by Mr. J. Bing- 

 ham, of that, place through Harry Jennings, N. Y. , which dog is out of 

 Mr A. Belmont's imported brace. The whole litter thoroughly takes 

 after the mother, a perfect beauty. 



CRICKET. 



—The match St. George vs. Manhattan was won by the 

 former on August 9lh by 103 to 85. It was ouly a one-day 

 play and the first innings decided the contest as follows: — 



MANHATTAN. 



EIBET 1NNINCS. SECOND INI IKG. 



F. Jenkins, b. Soutter c. Jones, b. Sleigh 4 



S. E. Hosford, run out 5 b. Sleigh [4 



R. Greiii, b. Soutter 14 st. W lie! ham, b. Jones .... l 



S. Makm, b. Moeran lu St. Wlietbam, b. Sleigh .... 7 



D. McDougall, b. Soutter 1 b. Jones 4 



R. Hooper, b. Sleigh 21 



P. S. Ronaldson. c. Whet ham, b. not on t ^ 



Jones 10 c. and b. Sleigh ." . *9 



G. Hay ward, c. Grade, b. Sleigh. 4 c ('ashman, b. sleigh ". 



U. Jackson, b. Jones 1 b. Sleigh 



L. Love, not out 7 c. Bance, b. Sleigh 



J. Smith, c. Whetham, b. Joues. 4 not out n 



Byes. 4; leg-byes 4 8 Byes '.'. 1 



Total 85 Total. 



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KUNS SCORED AT T11E FALL OF EACH WICKET. 



First 20 32 34 3b 67 71 72 77 85-85 



Second 6 10 12 20 20 36 39 39 39 41—41 



ST. GEORGE. 



PIBST INNINGS. 



C. W. Bance, b. Ronaldson 5 



J. B. Sleigh, b. Ronaldson 



J. B. Wheiham, b. Greig . g 



E. H. Moeran, b. Hosford .'. ^9 



J. B. Gashman, c. Jenkins, b. Ronaldson ' r, 



J. T. Soutter, run out ' "";" 15 



G. Giles, c. and b Ronaldson 16 



B. Jones, b . Hosford ...... 13 



B. Mostyn, run out, ......... 



A. E Tee, c. Hooper, b. Hosford 3 



A. Gracie, not out '" g 



Byes, 2; leg-byes, 2; wides, 4 i ...[..[[ .... s 



Total ^ 



KUNS SCORED AT THE FALL OF EACH WICKET. 



First inning 3 12 24 24 47 79 81 81 94 103-103 



Umpires— Messrs. W. Brewster and C. Tyler. 



The Largest Scoking on Record in this Country — 

 Match between Canadian and Ground vs. the Ger- 

 mantown Club. — This match came oft' onthellih inst., 

 on the grounds of the Germantown Club at Nicetown' 

 Philadelphia. The home club having won the toss they 

 sent Messrs. Large and Hoffman to the bat, against the 

 bowling of Baines of Toronto, and Irvine of Detroit. Hoff- 

 mann was bowled first bull by irviue, Caldwell taking his 

 place. When Campbell of Toronto, who had taken Irvine's 

 end, bowled him, he had made 11, in which score he gave 

 two chances. Joe Hargreaves followed, and both he'and 

 Large began to score rapidly. All the bowlers on the Cana- 

 dian side were called into requisition, among whom were 

 Messrs. Comfort, Law and Morris, of the Merion Club, of 

 Philadelphia. When Large was finally bowled by Baines, 

 (who throughout bowled remarkably straight), he had by 

 fine battling and careful play placed 108 to his credit with- 

 out a chance. Tom Hargreaves folio wed, and quiekly^tdded 

 48 to the score, when he was bowled by Baines. Marsh 

 was caught and bowled for 1 by Baines, and Brewster 

 was bowled for a single by Morris". John Hargreaves now 

 joined his brother, and had made 6, when the game was 

 called at half-past six, leaving Joe Hargreaves not out, for 

 the immense score of 1(33, in which he gave only one chance 

 at slip when he had hit up 139. This score is the largest 

 ever made in this country, and the prize bat which Kev. 

 Mr. Phillips, the Canadian's Captain, brought from Can- 

 ada, became his property. Unfortunately for the Cana- 

 dian side Mr. Phillips was unable to play in this match, 

 having beeu injured in the Merion match on the 9th inst. 

 it is but just to say Canada was not represented by its best 

 players, and it was very short handed in every game, being 

 kindly aided by members of the St. George's, Merion, and 

 Young America. In the future we trust Mr. Phillips will 

 visit us with his strength. The following is the score, the 

 game being unfinished : — 



GERMANTOWN'S INNINGS. 



Large, b. Morris , los 



Hoffman, b. Irvine 



Caldwell, b. Camubeil , " i\ 



Joe. Hargreaves, not out ..163 



T. Hargreaves, b. Baines [43 



Marsh, c. and b. Bahies ' 1 



Bre ws'er, b . M orris . . [[ 1 



John Hargreaves, not ont *; [ 6 



Byes '.*."'. q 



Leg byes , 6 



Wides 6 



Total ....,:...,......,... 356 



BOWLING ANALYSIS 



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45 

 29 

 55 

 39 

 56 



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Bowler?. Balls. Runs. Maidens Wickets WinV fl 



Baines 173 76 8 i> 1 • 



Irvine 60 



Cambeil 66" 



Law 78 



Spronle 81 



Comfort 114 



Morris. 120 



Umpires, Messrs. Rhodes and Erving'on. 



The return match between the Canadian and the Merions 

 was played at Aidmore; Philadelphia, last Wednesday r e ! 

 suiting in a victory for the home club. Mr. Phillips' Leam 

 was short again ; this time two men, and played Messrs 

 Cope and Buckley of the Young xYmerieas second eleven 

 They secured in their first inning 44 runs, Calvert's 21 

 being the only double figures. The Merions made 80 to 

 which Ewing contributed 20, £ayres 10 and W. Huston 

 14. These scores were not fully deserved, as several 

 chances were missed in the field before any considerable 

 number of runs were made. Baine's bowling was reuiatk- 

 able, taking three wickets in one maiden over. The Cana- 

 dian's second inning was for 85, 43 of which were front 

 Buckley's bat, got by loose fielding, he being missed at 

 long-leg on first ball, and his chances refused several times 

 afterwards. The Merions played for 44 runs, with rive 

 wickets down, all clean howled by Baines with Comfort 

 and Baily not out, the former with 15 runs; but game was 

 called at 6i o'clock, and was decided on the first inning. 



BASE BALL — THE PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. 



This week Chicago enters upon her last campaign week 

 the St. Louis club, the rivals still for the local Western 

 championship, but no longer the rivals for the whip pen- 

 nant of the season as far as the Chieagos are concerned. 

 The latter club have closed their score with the Louisville 

 and Cincinnati clubs. The former they defeated nine 

 times out of ten by a total score of 109 to 81, and the latter 

 len games in succession, by the total score of 114 to 80. 

 They now have a lead which almost insures them the pen- 

 nant, the principal struggle for the remainder of the season 

 being between the St. Louis, Hartford, and Boston clubs 

 for second, and third places in the race. The record to 

 August 13th inclusive shows the clubs occupying the ap- 

 pended relative positions in pennant race:— 



Games Games Games Games 



Clubs. Won. Lost. Drawn. Played. 



Chicago 40 8 43 



St. Louis 31 15 46 



Hartford 30 13 1 * 4 4 



Boston 25 19 44 



Louisville 20 58 3 5t 



Mutual 18 i*5 1 u 



Athletic 12 M 1 47 



Cincinnati 6 40 46 



Total 182 



18-i 6 370 



Among the model games of the past week were the fol- 

 lowing: — 



August 7--Mutnal vs. Hartford, at Hartford 2 to 1 



August 7— Harvard vs. Rauer, at Lynn 4 to i 



August 7 — St. Louis vs. Capital City, at Indianapolis 5 to 2 



August 8— St. Louis vs. Louisville, at Louisville 3 to 



August 8- Hartford vs. Athletic, at Hartford 3 to 1 



August 8— Resolute vs. Aspine, at Boston 3 to 1 



August 8— Live Oak vs. Fall River, at Fall River 3 to 1 



August 8— Star of Newark vs. Star, at Elizabeth 4 to 1 



August 8— Meta vs. Orion, at Boston 5 to 3 



August 9- Cricket vs. Lowell, at Binghampton 3 to 2 



Augnst 9 -Montgomery vs. Democrat, at East New York (10 



innings; 4 to 3 



August 10— Meta vs. Union, at Boston 4 to 1 



August 10 -Louisville vs. ,St. Louis, at Louisville 4 to 2 



August 10— New Haven vs. Rhode L-land, at Providence ..4 io 2 



August 12— St. Louis vs. Louisville, at Louisville 3 to 2 



August 12— Chicago vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati 5 to 



O'Leary's Walk.— On Saturday night at 11:20-35, Dau- 

 iel O'Leary finished his great feat of walking 500 miles in 

 six consecutive days, with half an hour to spare. The 

 pedestrian was in excellent condition at the finish, and will 

 probably shortly attempt to repeat the feat at the Brook- 

 lyn Rink. 



The Clan-na-Gael Games.— On Tuesday afternoon the 

 Clan-na- Gael Association gave their seventh annual exhi- 

 bition of Irish national games at the Jones's Wood Colrs- 

 seum. There were between eight and ten thousand per- 

 sons present. The following are the winners of the 

 different prizes and races:— 



Putting the Heavy Stone- James McNamara. 26 feet 3 inches. 



Putting 'he Light Stone— James Daly, 34 feet 8 inches. 



Running High Jump— James Daly, 5 feet 



Standing Hi>jh Jump— James Murphy, 4 feet 5 inches. 



Three Standing Jumps- Tnomas Lyncn, 34 feet 2£ inches. 



440-Yard Foot-Race-Time, 1 minute and 2 seconds, John O'Donovan 

 Rossa, son of tbe Fenian, won this race. 



^hu-Yard R^ce for Members 1 Sons— Bernhard Hewson. 



1 Mile Walking Match— George Odeil, first prize; 8 minutes and 7 

 seconds. Second prize, Edwara Wise!; 8 minutes and 5(1 seconds. 



200- Yard Hurdle-Race- James Daly. 



1 Mile Running Race--Pai rick Fitzgerald, 4 minutes and 57 seconds. 



Three Legged Hace— Messrs. Tunney and Bovle; time, 13|- seconds. 



1-Mile Walking Match, for Members Ouly— Waiter Martin, time, 10 

 minutes and 28 seconds. 



200- Yard Sack Race — Joseph Prendeville. 



100 Yard Race— Mr. George Turtle; time, 12 seconds. 



100- Yard Sack Re ce— Joseph Prendeville, time, 17 seconds. 



The day's sport ended with a grand hurling match be- 

 tween the Sarsfe'd and Geraldine clubs, the former winning. 

 During the evening no fewer than twelve thousand per- 

 sons were present. In the afternoon Daniel O'Leary, the 

 pedestrian, who is a member of the Clan-na Gael, witnesed 

 the sports. He said he would have participated in one 

 of the races were it not for a stiffness in his right leg. 

 O'Leary sails for England in two weeks to walk a match 

 against William Vaughn for £500 a side, the one walking 

 most number of miles within twenty-four hours to win the 

 money. 



Newfoundland Boat.— We are indebted to our corres- 

 pondent, Mr. Henry A. Clift, of Harbor Grace, for a de- 

 scription of Newfoundland boats. Among others there, 

 the "high rat," a kind of punt, with jib and mainsail, 

 will carry three or four quintals fish. A cod-seine skiff will 

 carry five quintals. A "bully" and "jack" are nearly the 

 same; they carry jib-foresail and mainsail, and sometimes 

 driver, and carry ten to fifteen quintals of fish. They 

 have, too, the "galloper," which is a large skiff, carrying 

 boom to her mainsail, and generally has some kind of a 

 cabin and a dirty binnacle. The boats' sails are bark 

 —done in this way: 1st, fire; 2d, big pot; 3d, water; 4th, 

 a lot of lath from the spruce tree; 5th, bark put into pot; 

 6th, pot boils; 7th, after some time the canvas put into 

 pot; 8th, the canvas becomes saturated with the bark 

 and remains permanently so. The nets are barked in the 

 same way, to the awful destruction of trees. 



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Important .—Care should be taken, m buying Fishing or Hunting Suits, 

 to get a genuine Holabird Suit, and not one of the worthless imitations 

 which are being put on the r&arket. The-bestis tbe- cheapest. —A4 v. 



