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FOREST AND STREAM. 



<GeorgeC. Colbnrn, New York; Bess, Lawrence Cnrtis, Boston; Pan, 

 Dr. S. Fleet Speir, Brooklyn; Whip, James R. Til ley, Locust Valley, 

 L. I. 



Pointer Does, over 50 lbs. Weight, over 2 Years— Nero, D. E. 

 Holmes, Milford, Del.; Tell, Herman C. Berg, Rocky Hill, N. J.; 



Grouse, A. F. Nultall, Newtown, Mount Kennedy, Ireland; , James 



Schofield, Philadelphia; , Wm. Ehinger, Philadelphia; Rover, F. A. 



Tremaine, Philadelphia; Mack, J. Warburton, N. Britain, Ct.; Bob, W. 

 Martin. Philadelphia; Rock, John T.Miller, Philadelphia; Capt., Jas S. 

 Baer, Baltimore; Jack, Wm. G. Dabbs, Philadelphia; Ned, Abraham C. 

 Smith, Philadelphia; Pete, George A. Strom,, West Meriden, Conn. 



Pointer Bitches, over 50 LB3. Weight, over 2 Years.— Belle, E. 

 M. Gillespie, Columbus, Ohio. 



Pointer Dogs, over 50 lbs. Weight, over 1 and under 2 Years.— 

 Rack, Joseph T. Bailey, Philadelphia. 



Pointer Dogs, under 50 lbs. over 2 Years.— Mack, J. H. Pake, 

 New YorK; Flake, Edmund Orgill, New York; Dan, Mas Hellmich, 

 Philadelphia. 



Pointer Bitches, under 50 lbs. Weight, over 2 Years.— Forte, 

 Hermm C. Berg, Rocky Hill, N. J.; Whisky, Dr. Wm. Seward Webb, 

 New Yoik; Lilly, Kdmund Orgill, New York; Kate, Newton B. Beam, 

 New York; -luno, James T. Martin, Port Richmond, Philadelphia; Belle, 

 George C. Colhurn, New Yoik; Fannie, Wm. Hanover, Marlboro, N. 

 J.; Fan, E. M. Gillespie, Columbus, Ohio; Fffie, Edward R. Won ell, 

 Philadelphia. 



Pointer Dogs, under 50 lbs. Weight, over 1 and under 2 Years. 

 —Dash, Tuoraas Dunbar, Philadelphia; Nig, Thomas P. Fardney, Lan- 

 caster, Pa.; Nell. James H. Laws, Phil .delphia. 



Pointer Bitches, under 50 lbs. over 1 Year and under 2.— Fan- 

 luie, Oeorge H Andrews, New York. 



Pointer Dog Puppies, under 1 Year.— Beau, Herman C. Berg, 

 IRocky Hill, N. J ; tohamrock, Ra en, Wash Costa, Snipe, Jim, Joe and 

 Eric, Dr. Wm. Seward Webb, New York; Phil, Jr.. Wm. M. Tileston, 

 New York; Dash, Charles K. Williams, Philadelphia; Jim and Fred, 

 James T. Martin, Philadelphia; Guy, Rush and Kap, Edmund Orgill, 

 New York; Sport. Fred Milnes, Philadelphia; Prince, W. H. Mann, 

 Hadaonfield, N, J.; Rex, Fisher Howe, New York; Pat, George Grant, 

 Bill, -Ned and Mack, E. N. Gi lespie, < oiumbu^, Ohio. 



Pointer Bitch Puppies, under 1 Year.— Daisy, Viola, Fannie , and 

 May, Dr. Wm. Sev\atd W< bb, New York; Louie, James T Martin, 

 Philadelphia; Beile, Pearl, Ruby, Rose and Liil II, Edmund Orgill, New 

 Yoik. 



Retrievers and Chesapeake Bay Dogs, over 2 Years.— Monday, 

 O. L>. Foulks, Chesapeake City Md. 



BETRIEVbRS ANU CHESAPEAKE BatDogs OVER 1 AND UNDER 2 YEARS. 



— Triton, O D. Foulks, Caesapeake City; Bob and Sancho, M. Von 

 Culin, Delaware City, Md. 



Irish Water Spaniel Dogs, over 2 Years. — Sinbad, J, H. Whit- 

 man, Chicago; Sueider, F. A. Howe, Chicago. 



Retrieving Spaniels, other than Pure Irish, Dogs, over 2 Years. 

 — Toby, J. W.. Leigh, Branchtown, Pa. 



Bitches. — Neil, J. M. Aldrich, Providence, R. I. 



Retrieving Spaniels, other than Pure Irish, Dogs, over 1 and 

 under 2 Years.- Prince, J. H. Whitman, Chicago. 



Cocker Spaniels, Dugs, over 2 Years. — Suoudy, Harry R. McNeil, 

 Philadelphia; Witch, Fred H. Ho<-. Tarrytown, N. Y\; Sam, Henry 

 Smith, Paterson; Da-h, C. A. Page, Philadelphia. 



Cocker Spaniks, Bitches, over 2 Years. — Minnie, M. J. Herold, 

 Jr., Pniladelphia; Nellie, John C. Darsey, Philadelphia; Cora, Samuel 

 Scranton, Providence; Neil, Wm. II. Nugent, Port Richmond, Philadel- 

 phia. 



Cocker Spaniels, Dogs, over 1 and UN' er 2 Years.— Rock, John 

 P. R. Polk, Wilmington; Punch, Tip and Toby, Belmont A. Purdy, 

 New York. 



Cocker Spaniel Bitches, over 1 and under 2 Years.— Judy, Bel- 

 mont A. Purdy, N^w York. 



Cocker bPANiEL Puppies, under 1 Year.— Snap, T. M. Aldrich, 

 Providence; Ned, G. H. Anurews, New York. 



springer Dogs, over 2 > ears.— Curly, George B. Wood, Jr., Phila- 

 delphia; Shut, G. H. Andrews, New York. 



The following are tlie names of the winners of the spe- 

 cial prizes : — 



C. L. Westcott's of Philadelphia prize, value $50, for the second best 

 English setter bitch over -1 year old; won by Juno; owned by John E. 

 Long of Detroit, Mich. 



Frank Roan's prize, silver cup, value $50, for the best imported En- 

 glish setter dog over 1 and und r 2 years; won by Llewclliu; owned by 

 L. 11. Smith, S raturoy, Ontario, Canada. 



Silver cup, value $100, off red by the Philadelphia Sportsmen's Club 

 for ttie best setter (tio«£ or bitch) over 1 year old in the show; won by 

 Paris; owned by L. II. Smith of Strathroy, Canada. 



Silver cup offered by the Philadelphia Sportsmen's Club for thebes 

 pointer (dog or b.tchl over 1 year old, any weight; won by Pete; owned 

 by Geo. A. Strong, West Meriden, Conn. 



John Krider's prize; silver mounted dog whip, for the best native bred 

 setter; won by Glen; owned by James Ayres, Allamuchy, N. J. 



Capt. A. H. Clay's prize, silver dog whistle, for the second best native 

 setter; won by Bess; owned by Nesbiit Tuinbull, Baltimore, Md. 



Charles Tucker's silver cup for the best cocker spaniel (dog or bitch) 

 over 1 year old; won by Nell; owned by Wm. H. Nugent, Port Rich- 

 mond, Philad. lphia. 



The Turf, Field and Farm prize for the best couple of fox hounds 

 bred in the United States (dogs or bitches) over 1 year won by Dandy 

 and Chip; owned by J. L. Laner, West Chester, Pa. 



The Chicago Field cup for the best Irish setter dog over 1 year old; 

 won by But'us; owned by M. Von Culm, Delaware City, Dei. 



The Forest and Stream prize, a tea service, for the best Irish Set- 

 ter bitch over 1 year and under 2; won by Ailleeii; owned by J. K. Mil- 

 ner, Dublin, Ireland. 



Prize offered by Messrs. W. & C. Scott & Son of London, Eng.; a 

 gun, value, $350, for the best native born setter (dog or bitch); won by 

 Guy Mannering; owned by Dudley Olcott, Albany, N. Y. 



Frank Roan's prize for the best dachschund; won by Unser Fritz; 

 owned by Dr. L. A. Twaddell, Philadelphia. 



The Detroit Gun Club, silver cup. $100, for the best native setter (dog 

 or bitch) over 1 year old exhibited from tue State of Michigan; won by 

 Juno; owned by John E. Long, Detroit, Mich, 



And up to the hour of our going to press — Tuesday 

 evening — these-are all the awards we were able to obtain, 

 notwithstanding that we have made two trips to Philadel- 

 phia for the purpose. The judges' books have gone to the 

 general commission, or the jury of awards, or whatever 

 the name may be, of the red-tape-bound body who, in 

 their thickheadeness, will not see that a bench show of 

 dogs is different from a competition of piano-forte makers, 

 and who propose to keep the information for their own 

 delectation until they get ready to promulgate it. If there 

 was anything wanting to cap the climax of absurdity and 

 mismanagement which has characterized this bench show 

 from the beginning, it would be the withholding the awards 

 beyond all reason. The only recourse we have is to in 

 struct our children to tell their grandchildren that if there 

 is a bench show in 1976 to keep their dogs at home. Not 

 knowing the winners beyond the "specials'' it is impossi 

 ble to criticize the awards; but the general impression is 

 that there are even more surprises in store for us. We are 

 informed that the judge on Gordon and Irish setters 

 deducted five points for every tail docked, notwithstanding 

 that such has not been the custom at any bench show in 

 this country. But the most astonishing performance of 

 this gentleman was his declining to judge Mr. Humph- 

 reys (Bob Robinson's) Jack and his (Hamilton Thompson's) 

 Belle, because they had too much feather. Mr. Milner's red 

 Irish setter Ailleen was a source of much curiosity, from 

 the fact of her being priced at $2,500. We think that most 

 of these recently imported Irish dogs look too light in build 

 for this country, and also that they are getting the color too 

 dark for beauty. Our space this week will not permit us 

 to allude to the different dogs as we should desire, but 

 when the class awards are announced we shall take the 

 opportunity to do so. 



Transportation of Dogs. — We are glad to note that 

 the newly elected President of the National Sportsmen's 

 Association, Greene Smith, Esq., has taken in hand a sub- 

 ject which we have repeatedly ventilated in these columns, 

 viz: the transportation of dogs by railway companies. The 

 General Passenger Agents representing all the principal 

 lines in the country have bene in convention in this city this 

 week. The following letter has been addressed to them : — 



New York, September 5th, 1876. 

 To the General Passenger Agents' Convention: 



Gentlemen— May I take the liberty of suggesting to your able body 

 the propriety of fixing a tariff on the transportation of dogs over rail- 

 road lines? A fixed price from point to point or per 100 miles or more, 

 on dogs, as there is on passengers, would enable sportsmen to know 

 whether to transport their dogs or not, and thus increase the attendance 

 at bench shows, enhance the comfort of sportsmen generally, and proba- 

 bly be of benefit to railroad companies. Greene Smith, 



T. C. Banks, Cor. Sec. Nat. Sports'ns Asso'n. President. 

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DEER HOUNDS IN CALIFORNIA. 



San Francisco, Cal., August 28th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Our deer season commences September 1st. All our sportsmen are 

 cleaning their rifles and taking more interest than usual in their hounds. 

 We have a bad lot of hounds out here. They are usually called fox- 

 hounds, but are all colors, shapes and sizes. I have an idea that a regu- 

 lar bloodhound would be the best dog to track a wounded deer. We 

 want here m California a slow but very sure-scented dog. Our hunting 

 season commences in our hoitest and diyest season when the hidsides 

 are parched with the burning sun. On such ground and in such weath- 

 er the deer leave very little scent to guide the dots, and a fast houud 

 will become exhausted soon in such weather. We therefore want a 

 very long-winded, persevering breed of dogs. I have a black-and-tan 

 hound, cross between fox hound and Cuban bloodhound, a very slow, 

 sure-scented dog, who always takes a detr by the throat and never mu- 

 tilates any other portion of the deer's body, and will follow a wounded 

 deer all day and night. Please answer through your columns if the reg- 

 ular English bloodhound is obtainable in tue United States, if so, where? 



There were two or three specimens imported years ago to California at 

 great expense, but the breed has been allowed to die out. I am going on 

 the Walhalla river for deer in a few days. There is to better deer coun 

 try in tne world. I will send you an account of our experiences after 

 deer and black bear. The Walhalla ison the coast in Sonoma county, 

 right in our coast range of mountains. W. P. S. 



[Our correspondent would have difficulty in finding the 



bloodhound in this country. The most appropriate dog 



we should think would be the Scotch stag hound, of which 



breed it is now possible to procure puppies in this country. 



Ed.1 



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— Mr. G. DeF. Grant, one of the members of the West- 

 minster Breeding Kennel, sailed last Saturday in the Oily 

 of Berlin for England. One of the objects of his visit is 

 to purchase a fine pointer dog of field trial stock to be 

 used as a stud dog in the Westminster Breeding kennel. 

 Mr. Grant is expected back in two months. There are now 

 no puppies for sale in the Westminster Kennel, nor will 



there be any until spring. 



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Kennel Produce.— Theo. Morford's famous orange and white setter 

 bitch, May, whel ed seven pups on the 6th mst.,hve dogs and two 

 gyp<S hy Col. Valentine's orange and white settei doe, Glen, a prize 

 winner at the recent International Bench Show. It will be ri membered 

 that May took first prize at the Springfield Bench Show as the best 

 American bred bitch on exhibition. The pups all have black points. 



Mi, A. P. Sandhein's blood-ree setter biicb, Fannie, has dropped 13 

 pups to Walter Humphrey's Jack, better known as Robinson's Jack, 

 six dogs and seven gyps. 



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— At the Buffalo Park track last week, Francisco Peralto 

 rode 160 miles in eight hours, using twenty mustangs. 



THE INTERNATIONAL MATCHES. 



As we go to press the International matches are in pro- 

 gress at Creedmoor. Time and space permits us to give 

 but a brief summary of the shooting on the first day. The 

 first match on the programme was the Centennial short-range 

 match, the conditions of which were as follows: Open 

 to all comers; distance, 200 yards; position, standing; 

 rifles, any not exceeding ten pounds weight; minimum 

 pull of trigger, three pounds; ten shots, without sight- 

 ing shots; entrance fee, $2. Prizes— First, medal of 

 the United States Centennial Commission, and $100 cash 

 presented by the National Rifle Association; second, Cen- 

 tennial medal and $75; third, Centennial medal and $50; 

 fourth, Centennial medal and $25; fifth, Centennial medal 

 and $15; five prizes of $10 each, and ten prizes of $5 each; 

 total, tour medals and $865. There were 186 entries for 

 this match and 164 competitors, Mr. F. J. Rabbeth of 

 Providence was the winner with a score of 45 points. The 

 best scores were as follows: — 



Name. Total. 



Wm. Hayes 42 



M. A. ticuU 42 



J. E. Stetson 42 



H. J. Quinn 42 



1). E. Vannett 42 



John Krueger .,..42 



Yale was the best of the team men with 41 points. 



The second maich was the mid-range, the conditions of 

 which were as follows: Open to all comers; rifles, any; 

 distances, military rifles of fifty calibre or over, to be used 

 at 500 yards, other rifles at 600 yards; position, any with- 

 out artificial rest; ten shots, without sighting shots; en- 

 trance fee, $2 each distance; competitors may enter at 

 both distances. The prizes were precisely the same as in 

 the preceding match at short range. In this match the 

 shooting was excellent but the military rifles at 500 yards 

 had no chance with the small bores at 600. Mr. H. S. 

 Jewell made a clean score of 50 points and the reserves and 

 team were all well up. Mr. Millner of the Irish team be- 

 ing the best of the visitors. The best scores at 600 yards 

 were: — 



Name. Total.) Name. Total. 



H. S. Jewell 50|R. C. Coleman.. 47 



L. M. Ballard 49, A. S. Swan 47 



'J. E. Overoaugh 49\H. A. Gildersleeve 47 



R. Rathbone 48|E. H. Sanford 47 



T. H. Sargent 48 Henry Pulton 47 



Name. Total. 



F. J. Rabbeth 45 



E. T. Osgood 45 



G. M. Hand 44 



G. W. Havison 44 



C. E Ryder 41 



C.J. Stewart 42 



I. L. Allen 



S. G. Perry 48 



R. J. Haire 4? 



G. W. Yale 4? 



C. E Ryder 4; 



B. Parker 47 



J . K. Milner 4g 



J. Booth 4tf 



L. C. Bruce '.'."..4b 



L. Weber .46 



Practice by the Teams.— The American long-ran™ 

 team in its practice last week, for some reason or oth? 

 went all to pieces, the totals falling to 1,850 points o 

 Tuesday, and 1,486 on Wednesday. The foreign team? 

 however, show an improvement, and Mr. Gee, of the An 

 tralians, succeeded on Friday in scoring 73 out of apossiH 

 75 at 1,000 yards, beating Mr. Allen's famous score at the 

 same range, and coming within one point of tieino- hi- 

 score of 212. The following were the scores made ou Fri 

 day, the details, considering that the long-range interni 

 tional match will be probably finished to-day, being value- 



1GSS. 



Team. 



Total. 



Canadian team (8 men) . . . {f}: 



Australian team (4 men).'.'.'.'.!".'. 79ft 



The best at 500 yards were: W. Paton, 44; F. Backpfen 

 42; G. Williams, 4.2; G. D. Hobart, 41; Lieut. A. Menzies' 

 40; E. H. Sandford, 40; W. Edmonstone, 40; W. L, Gtm- 

 dee, 88. There were 158 entries for this match. 



Team. Total. 



Irisn team (10 men). 1912 



Scotch team (9 men) 1730 



Mr. Morris, of the Australian Centennial Commission" 

 has been requested to act as Captain of that team. 



On Saturday all the teams except the Australian prac- 

 ticed for the last time, and each sent a fair representation" 

 Col. Bodine and Col. Gildersleeve acted as coaches to the 

 Americans. The totals made by each team were as fol- 

 lows: — 



Team. Total. j Team. <- rot . 



Irish team 1559 American team .t.,;) 



Scottish team 1535J Canadian team ......... 1510 



Changes in the American Team. — At the conclusion of 

 Saturday's practice a meeting of tue American team was 

 held, and it was decided to invite Col. Gildersleeve and 

 Col. Bodine to enter the team. Although a confession of 

 weakness, in view of the scores recently made, this move- 

 ment was apparently necessary in order to lessen the 

 chances of del eat. Messrs. Bruce and Yale very gracefully 

 and generously waived the places, and with equal good 

 nature Cols. Gildersleeve and Bodine consented to assume 

 them. This undoubtedly strengthens the team, although, 

 with little or no practice of late, Col. Gildersleeve could 

 haidly be expected to make his usually fine scores. 



Ckeedmoor. — The marksman's badge presented by H. 

 C. Poppenhausen, Esq., was shot for on Thursday last for 

 the seventh time. The conditions are open to members of 

 the N. R. A. Distances, 200 and 500 yards; position, 

 standing, at 200, and any without artificial rest at 500 yards'; 

 five shots and two sighting shots at each distance; weapon' 

 Remington rifle, State model; entrance fee, fifty cents! 

 There were fifty- six entries. The badge was won by cap- 

 tain A. G. Brown, of the Forty seventh regiment, on a 

 score of 19 at 200 and 23 points at 500 yards— a total of 43 

 out of a possible 50. 



The Canadian Team.— The riflemen representing the 

 Dominion, who are to participate in the international rifle 

 matches now in progress at Creedmoor, arrived here on 

 Friday last, and took up their quarters at the Sturtevant 

 House, their headquarters. The members of the team are 

 as follows: Capt. J. J. Mason, acting Captain of the team; 

 A. Bell, George Muiison, Capt. James Adams, Major J.M. 

 Gibson, George Disher, W. Cruit, Major W. H. Cotton, 

 and William 11. Cooper. Joseph Mason will form the re- 

 serve. Major O'Reilly, who had been chosen Captain, did 

 not accompany the team, but followed them the next day. 

 As we have given short sketches of the other visiting rifle- 

 men, a similar courtesy, even at this late day, is due the 

 Canadians. 



Capt. J. J. Mason, of Hamilton, shot atWimbledon 

 in 1874, and in the match with the American team, when 

 he made the score of 181 out of a possible 225 points. He 

 holds the championship as a small-bore shot in Quebec and 

 Ontario. 



Mr. A. Bell, the second in order, is a resident of Toronto, 

 and a native of Scotland. He was a prize winner at 

 Wimbledon in. 1875. 



Mr. George Murison is also of Scotch descent, and shot 

 at Wimbledon in 1871, and made the highest score in his 

 Learn, in the American-Canadian match last year— -189 outof 

 a possible 225 points. 



Capt. James Adams is a Scotch Highlander, and has shot 

 at Creedmoor in the fall prize meetings of the National 

 Rifle Association ever since its opening. He was a member 

 of the Canadian learn last year, but scored only 160 out of 

 a possible 225 points. 



Major J. M. Gibson is a Canadian by birth, and shot at 

 Wimbledon with his team in 1874. Pie has been shooting 

 two years with a small-bore rifle. 



Mr. George Disher is a resident of St. Catharine's, shot 

 at Wimbledon in 1874, and was a member of the Canadian 

 team in the American-Canadian match last year, and made 

 a score of 167 out of a possible 225 points. 



Mr. W. Cruit is an Englishman by birth, and shot at 

 Wimbledon in 1875, and has never shot at Creedmoor. 



Major W. H. Cotton is from Hamilton, and considered 

 an expert rifleman. 



Mr. William M. Cooper is Vice-President of the Any 

 Rifle Association of Ontario, and an excellent small bore 

 shot. 



Mr. Joseph Mason is a resident of Hamilton, and a good 

 small-bore shot. He has attended several 01 the fall prize- 

 meetings at Creedmoor. 



Rifle Notes. — The visiting teams have been taken 

 about the harbor and to West Point, and shown the mode of 

 manipulating the fire department. Strange to say, the 

 members of the American team accompanied them on their 

 first trip, and the want of courtesy is severely commented 



upon The Police Board, at the request of Col. Wingate, 



has detached thirty JNew York policemen for duty at 

 Creedmoor during the international matches. . ....The 



project of making a show of the visiting teams at Gilmore s 

 Garden, at so much a head, on the occasion of the presen- 

 tation of the international trophy, appears to have fallen 

 through Mr. Sheridan Shook, proprietor of the (gar- 

 den, was only willing to give the Joint Committee $wU 

 for the privilege of exhibiting them, whereas the Committee 

 think they ought to net $3,000 or $4,000 Col. Gilder- 

 sleeve, and "Old Reliable," will shoot on the American team 



in place of Yale and Bruce Gen. Dakin entertained 



the members of the Irish team in his tent on Saturday. 



Major Leech spoke in his usual felicitous strain rrains 



leave Long Island City (Hunter's point) for Creedmoor dur- 

 ing the International matches, at 7:32, 9:05, 11:03, a. ni., 

 and 1, 2:03, and 3:06 p. m. Returning, trains will leave 

 Creedmoor at 5:05, 5:16, 5:30, 5:18, 6, 6:42, 6:50, 7:12, anu 



7:34 p. m The Geiman Foresters Verein held tneu 



annual meeting at Eisenach, Saxony, on the 3d, 4th, a 



5lh of September Steele & Son, jewelers, of Harttoru, 



Conn., are having a beautiful prize cup matte, to be p ' 

 sented by them for competition at Willowbrook rang . 

 The cup is 16 inches in height, beautifully chased on im* 

 cover and base with rifles and other emblems of the spo 



