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FOKEST AND STREAM. 



pBOKMBBB 23, 1880. 



WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB'S SENSATION. 



fffe i^ennel. 



Pittsburgh Dog Show— Pittsburih. Pa., January 17, 18 and 19, 

 I88I, Entries close January 6. C. B. Elben, Secretary: Charles 

 Xineoln, Superintendent. iL' 



SENSATION. 



SENSATION is the property of the WestDiinater Kemiel 

 Olub. of this city, imd was bred by Mr. J. D. Hum- 

 phrey, England. This famous lemon and white pointer is 

 by Mr. R. J. Lloyd Price's Jim, out of Sir. Huuiphrey's 

 Nell Jim was by Whitehouse's celebrated Hamlet out of 

 Judo. On September 9th, 1870, Mv. George De F. Grant 

 Bailed for Europe, and while in Wales picked .Sensiitioii o\ii, 

 as the best dog he had ever seen. Sensation was liroken 

 when bought, and was bred for a field trial dog. He was 

 wlielped May, 1874, and imported on November 10th; 1870. 

 His winnings on the other side .were as follows: Shifnal, 

 1875 first prize; Swansea, 1875, first prize; Carmarthen, 

 1875, first prize; Oswestry, 1875, second prize: Birming- 

 ham, 1875, second prize; Llanelly, 1875, second prize, and 

 at Newport, 1876, second prize. In the L'uited States he 

 won first and special at Baltimore, 1877; first and three 

 specials at St. Louis, 1878; first and two specials ut Balli- 

 more, 1878, and first and special at Boston, 1878. Besides 

 these winnings the dog has been exhibited at all iif the New 

 Tork shows, but not entered for competition. As a stud 

 dog there has never been a pointer in the country whose ser- 

 vices have heen in more frequent demand. The dog is so 

 well known on the bench that it is unnecessary to refer again 

 to his make up. His head, which is grand, is as well known 

 among dog men us Hambletonian's shape is by lovers of the 

 turf. The appearance of Scn.sation in the field was a siu-- 

 prise to many, and his excellent performance an astonish- 

 ment to all but a very few. He is a plucky goer, and has a 

 wonderfully good stj'le, backed by a very keen nose. In the 

 trials he was placed after contesting for first with the famous 

 Gladstone. 



FIELD TRIAL RULES. 



Pi'iTaBTTRGff, Va., Dec. 13. 

 JElditor Forest and Blreum : 



I have read the Forest and Strkam of late with increas- 

 ing interest, and noticed its rapid improvement. How 

 often of late, after reading many articles, .suoli as yoiir own 

 oil Diltmar powder and correspondents on various subjects, 

 have I felt like slapping the authors on tJie shoulder, and 

 with hcartv approval, in the language of an ..Id friend, say- 

 ing, "That's right, my boy, now you are shouting." But 

 "Couples'" articles of late on the crudities of the N. A. Iv. 

 C. Field Trial rules are what have called me out. Now, 

 "Couples" is moving in the right direction, and I doubt not 

 but what he is seconded by many sportsmen nil over the 

 country. Thougli in Ins second letter he seems to manifest a 

 little impatience'that no ene has rushed in to assi.st him, yet 

 these litters will be productive of good fruit. And let me 

 Bay in Uio laiigiisige of the good old Scriptural injunction, 

 "Be nol weary iu well domg." . . ^ 



1 do not propose at this time tu uuderliike a revision of 

 these rules, but simply write to vrntilair some ihouglits in 

 Mipport of "Couples," and n:gur(liiig the dissulisraction at 

 'ne Pennsylvania State Field Trials, which, in lii.« article, lie 

 Bays CiiuMc Hii^thfvn><ias up in a row. I Ihuili i a^i p.ac in 



saying there never was a period in the history of this country 

 when sportsmen were BO thoroughly intcre.sted in field trials 

 than now. Last spriiut the spirit, seized the sportsmen of the 

 Keystone State, and the Pennsylvania State Field Trials 

 Association and trials at Lancaster last, dctolier were the 

 outgrowth. We adopted with little chmiee the N. A. Field 

 tria'] rules, and we discovered at the trials that the rules were 

 not perfect by any means, and that when read it cost Jio lit- 

 tle effort to understand them fully. As an illustration of this 

 let me relate a circumstance which took place n' 'he li'H"! it 

 Laueaslcr on the evening of that rainy day wh: n i.' • I ' :1 

 thoiieh victorious in the field liad been laid /("■' ' '"y 



the judges. In a pris'ate room I observed the S; n -irv, h<i 

 Vice-President and Treasurer of the Association engaged iii a 

 very animated controversy, and on drawing near found that 

 the'rulcs were the subject under discussion. The Vice-Presi- 

 dent and Trcusmer were insisting th.at at the conclusion of 

 liie first bf-al (not vet finished) the 1st, 2d and ?.d prizes 

 should 1)1- awanii-d, and the free-for-all ended; the Secretary 

 contended lhe\- were wrong, and on referring to the rules, 

 and reading and re-reading the disputants only insisted more 

 flnuly on the correctness of their positions. Not until the 

 Secretary called in oYcrwlielinintj: evidence would the Vice- 

 President and Tii-a-surer be <,T,uyinced that they were wrong. 

 So much for the a|ipii(;uio)i of the rules in tlus particular on 

 thepart of intelligi;nlgentk-uien. 



A"ain, two eiicmustances at Lancaster brought to light 

 ver/serious defects in the rides. For e.vample : After the 

 heat between Silcr's Dash and King Dash had been awarded 

 Siler, heieft. takina- his dog with him, thus shutting King 

 Daslj out of the i;nre entu'elv under the rules, though had he 

 remained and gone to the front winning first money King 

 Dash would have had a chance for second or third place. 



At the conchision of the heat Ijetwecn May Laverack and 

 Brown'jir)a.sh, in i'uvorof llie former, JL. Siielleuberg an- 

 nomice.1 tliat, lie withdrew :\lay, boldly avowing his intention 

 by so doin- t" shut .Dash out. The judges decided King 

 Dash's chances should not lie prc.iudiced by Jlr. Sder'.s 

 action (which tin; rules gave theni no authority to do), and 

 also refused to allow .May to be withdrawn. , . , „ 



Tlierc is no doubt atiout the rides being crude and mdefl- 

 nile but I caniint am-ee with " Couples" that the bad feehng 

 at Liuicaster grew otit of this fact, but rather out of a misap- 

 plication or wanton disregard of the rules, and here are the 

 facts to prove what i say : 



King Da.«h was badly oH in nose, as all knew who saw lum, 

 but notwithstanding this he demonstrated he had some nose, 

 whUe Siler's Diish showed no nose. He ranged wide, ciuar- 

 tered Ins ground well, showed good style :nul speed, wasper- 

 fecay obedient, found all the birds, seciued one magnificent 

 pointaudretrleved the bird when killed. 



Siler's Dath did not find a bird or secure a single point ex- 

 cept a false point, upon which he dropped, when King Dasti 

 wa.S penalized for not backing ; .showed no no.siMn- speed did 

 not ran^-e or quaiter his groimd to compare with King iJash, 

 aud vct°wo had the strange anomaly of u dog wdiich had ab- 

 sohiielv done nothing awarded the heat over a dog that did 

 all lhe"work. The error of the judges in penalizing King 

 Dash for not, backing here was most manifest to all ac- 

 uuaiuted with the rule's, for the instructions to Uie judges 

 ilislinclly say: - Ko ,1^..^ -.sH ho expected to back unless th<' 

 dog pointinL'Sfund? :i.i - '- ■^--- A dog sliall nol im 



said to refuse to l,aeU n ihe uog po.m.:i-, In^tli 



of Wliich provdsions v-o- ■ -i-ioiled i.y tiie juoges. but 

 their hlundermg did noi cease lien-. Alter the annoonee- 

 ment of the heat in favor of Siler's Dash it was soon given 

 out that there was a misunderstanding lJet^veeu I he jui g>?s 

 and a mistake as to the heat being decided, and that ilie .logs 

 were only ordered up to be put down again. The ne.vl niorn- 

 iiiii- we returned to the field and it was understood, 1>y :ni- 

 thority of tfie judges too, that the first thing lo be settled wa^ 

 the heat between iliese dogs 



The rain prevented any work during the day and we re- 

 turned to LancuBter. That evening about four or five o'clock 

 I he judges met in a private room of the hotel and again 



awarded the heal to Siler'.= Dash, Now, the strangesi ii:ol of 

 this transaction is this: as ii was a question of "poinlini;" 

 and '" retrieving" to be settled, that the judges should order 

 up the dogs for a fresh brace right in the midst of acnltered 

 birds. 



Then agaui, it was asserted on good authority that the 

 judges adinitted that the figures of merit actually given by 

 theni ill the field showed King Dash had (9) nine poinLs the 

 advantajre. 0, ye gods! what strange work we have out of 

 judges at field trial's. 



\Vlia! we need is :i sel of rules as near |ierfect as possible, 

 U.af will nol admit of jockeyinL; or tricks, and judges that, 

 rptrardless ui (Mrseai or blood, will dare to do right ,and give, 

 honest judffmcnt according to the rules. I can safely say 

 there never \vill lie another trial run in this State under the 

 present rules. In this connection I should like to .speak of 

 some of the uaTi.'-uhirities ot the N. A. K. C. trials, ;ind espe- 

 cially the 1 lad taste in Dr. Rowe in trying to run Count Noble 

 to the front when he was fairly beaten, in the judgment of 

 parties present, by two entries iu the Derby, but I will hiavc 

 this until inv next. . 



The chief interest now among sportsmen of this city is llie 

 coming dog shiiw iu January. We learn some of the finest 

 dogs in Ihe^country will be here, and it bids fair to he llie 

 mo.st interesting .show ever held in this city. Fritz. 



Dbfkotive TivLKS.— December 17, \880.—Editif)- Forest 

 and Stream.— In the account of the Eastern Field Trials given 

 by your Western contemporary, he speaks of Isabella having 

 won at jMemphis in 187fi by an imperfection of the rules. 

 I would ask any practical .sporfsman ( not the gilt-edge mod- 

 ern Solomon \vhose cartridge bolt weighs more iu the morning 

 than his "ami: has at nisht i whether rules that will admit of 

 a part of a third prize goini; to a bitch at the N. A. K. C. 

 field trials for pointers and setters which made nothing but 

 fiu.shes, and later at the Eastern field trials a first pri/e going 

 to a dog which made four straight flushes before a captive bird 

 was turned down for him to point, is more perfect than tho.«e 

 under which Isabella made five straiglit points aud won — 

 "Consistency, thou truly art a jewel." M. 



EASTERN FIELD. TRIALS OLUB. 



AMfclBTING of the Eastern Field Trials Club was held at 

 24 Park Place, Thursday afternoon December 16, 

 The following gentleman were present : Mr. Chas, H. Ray- 

 mond Mr. U. W. Bassford, Mr. H. W. Livingston, Mr. W. 

 ^ Coster, Mr. Max Wenzel, Mr. E. A. Herzberg, Mr. F. A. 

 Ryer Mr J Peniz, Dr. L, C. Monroe, Dr.- Holmes, Dr. H. 

 P J 'iten, Mr. J. Von Lcngerke, Mr. H. E. HainiUon. Mr. 

 J. O. Donner, Mr. Charies DeRonge and Captain Tuttle: Vice- 

 President F. N. Hall in the chair. The couimittee on the 

 Tileston fnnd reported the subscription closed and ready to 

 be handed to Mrs. Tileston, 



The following gentlemen were unanimously elected mem- 

 bers of the club : Mr, J, Stewart Slosson, Mr. O. DePorest 

 Orant 'Mr, Robert C Cornell, Mr. U. S. Bloodgood, Mr. 

 Newton Earie, ^Ir. Benjamin M. Earley, Jfr. Janies Bencard, 

 Dr S Fleet Speir and .Mr, Cllias. Fiske. The Pi-esident, Dr. 

 At.en havin<MUTivcd, now look the chair. The following were 

 d.-cted honorary members. Dr. J. Rawliugs Young, Col. 

 i;ord n ^iT. S. O. Bruce and Mr. George Bird Grinnell. 

 The^.r'ietary read a protest from Mr. G. W. Bassford pro- 

 ^(,s,i.'^ ':; ;;,, , .-jpening of the club stakes. This pro 

 i^^j;f7 .;ly warm discussion, and was finally- 



j^.;.i ;lie stake off, and returning the forfeit 



m„i',,', .. . jiave paid it. It was decided to call » 



nieeti'iJ:i of ail the members of the club for the purpose nl" 

 Hlierire' the by- laws in regard to changing the number neces- 

 sary to coinpiiise a quorum of the Executive Committee froui 

 I uiiie to five. The cluli resolved iliat t'uc thanks of the club 

 should be offlc-ially sent to thi: gentlemen who had conlribu 

 I ted prizes. They also resolved that the prize for the Brace 

 , Stakes should be raflicd olf, for the benefit of the club, and 



