Mabch 37, 1884.] 



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THE KNICKERBOCKER KENNEL CLUB'S LIVER AND WHITE TICKED POINTER DOG 



Winner of Champion Prize at New Haven and Washington, 1884. 



1 KNICKERBOCKER." 



award first to a disqualified dog. As a matter of fact, Jill has 

 no mange at all. She was confined to keep her clean and got 

 too high in blood, which caused skin irritation, and a scar 

 over her eye and one on her hip, won in a late battle, doubtless 

 added to the examiner's impression of mange. The class was 

 not rejudged that I have heard of, and I submit that, as far as 

 the record goes, the judge's awards were final and our bitch 

 is entitled to the place she won. Even if she had mange, it 

 would not detract, from her merits, and to shut her out the 

 protest should have been lodged before, and not after, the 

 judge's award. This is not my individual opinion, but that of 

 a dozen breeders in this section, and if we are wrong we would 

 like to know how and why. If right, we want the correction 

 made in your published list of awards. Surrey. 



Ellicott City, Md., March 13. 



[The disqualification of Jill places her exactly where she was 

 before she was judged, so far as the prize or honor is con- 

 cerned, and the question of merit does not, therefore, enter 

 into the case at all.] 



NEW ENGLAND KENNEL CLUB. 



A MEETING was held March 19, at the Parker House in 

 Boston, for the purpose of founding a new kennel club. 

 The history of the movement is somewhat as follows : Dishon- 

 est dog dealers have imposed on breeders to a certain extent, 

 by putting upon the public many dogs of impure blood, thereby 

 injuring honest breeders; attempts have been also made to 

 pass laws against the keeping of dogs, and believing that much 

 good could be done toward remedying these and other evils, 

 a number of gentlemen came together on the 22d of February 

 at the Parker House, to consider the subject of forming the 

 new club. After much discussion of matters relating to the 

 breeding, showing, sale and pedigrees of dogs, it was unani- 

 mously voted to form a club, having for its objects the inter- 

 est of "all honest breeders and lovers of dogs, to make breed- 

 ing on a par with any other business or calling, so that any 

 gentleman might with dignity acknowledge himself a breeder. 

 "With these ideas in view, a committee was chosen to draw up 

 a constitution, and at the meeting on the 19th inst., the "New 

 England Kennel Club" was organized, and the constitution 

 adopted. The objects of this club as provided for in its con- 

 stitution are: To encourage the breeding and importation of 

 thoroughbred dogs, to hold bench shows; also, to hold meet- 

 ings for scientificand theoretic discussions, and the reading of 

 essays on the subjects of breeding, to use every means within 

 its power to protect breeders of stock having authentic pedi- 

 gree, to influence the passage of just laws relative to and gen- 

 erally protective of dogs. 



The officers of this club are : President, Arthur W. Pope, of 

 Boston; Vice-President, Charles E. Shaw, of River Side Ken- 

 nel, Clinton, Mass. ; Secretary and Treasurer, J. A. Nickerson, 

 of Boston. There is an Executive Committee of five, consist- 

 ing of the President, Secretary and Treasurer and three mem- 

 bers of the club, whose names are Dr. Frank S. Billings, V. S. ; 

 Jean Grosvenor, Shamrock Kennel, Boston, and J. Dobson. 

 of Hyde Park, Mass. There is also a Finance Committee of 

 three — Dr. J. Frank Perry, Ashmont Kennels, Dorchester, 

 Mass. ; C. H. Baker and Edward S. Payson, of Boston. The 

 membership is unlimited as to numbers, and unrestricted as 

 to residence of members. There are two classes of members- 

 an active and an associate class. Both have the same privileges, 

 except that none but active members will vote, or have any 

 voice in the business of the club. The annual fees are, for 

 active members, $10, and for associate members, $5, payable 

 in advance. Blank applications for membership will be fur- 

 nished by the Secretary on application. The annual meeting 

 of the club will be held on the first Saturday of March in each 

 year, but probably monthly meetings will be held also. The 

 next meeting of the club will be held April 16, when all mat- 

 ters of interest to the public will be published in Forest and 

 Stream. Persons desiring to communicate with the club 

 may address P. O. Box 2,574, Boston, Mass. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 



~A TEMBERS Take Notice.— On April 8, 1884, there will be a 

 J-TJ. quarterly meeting qf all the. members of the club in con- 

 junction with the Board of Governors. 



Washington A. Coster, Sec. and Treas. 



CHAMPION KNICKERBOCKER. 



WE give this week a cut of the large pointer Knicker- 

 bocker, winner of first, Boston, 18S2; champion at 

 Ottawa, Out., and champion at both New Haven and Wash- 

 ington, 1884. He is by Glenmark (Rush— Romp) and out of 

 Girl (Maryland— Tub. . 



ROBINS ISLAND CLUB. 



THE annual meeting of the Robins Island Club, March 17. 

 The following list of officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: 



PRESIDENT. 



Dr. S. Fleet Speir. 



VICE-PRESIDENT. 



Mr. W. B. Dickerman. 



SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 



Mr. A. F. Plummer. 



BOARD OP DIRECTORS. 



Dr. S." Fleet Speir, W. B. Dickerman, 



A. T. Plummer, W. B. Kendall, 



Hemy J. Cullen, H. D. Polhemus, 



A. S. Swan. 

 By unanimous vote of the club a vote of thanks was tendered 

 to the retiring president, Mr. Wm. B. Kendall, for the very 

 able and satisfactory manner in which he has administered 

 the affairs of the club during the past year. The club is in a 

 very prosperous condition, the treasurer's report showing a 

 handsome balance on hand. $1,000 was appropriated for im- 

 provements the coming year. Much interest was manifest in 

 the annual field trials of the club to be run next fall, and no 

 effort will be spared to make them first class in every respect. 



FOX SHOOTING AND FOX HUNTING. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It is probably hardly worth while to "let fall any word of 

 extenuation from the pallid lips of the man who has shot a fox ;" 

 it would avail nothing with the man who thinks the only 

 proper way to kill a fox is to worry the poor outlaw to death 

 with a pack of hounds that give him not more than the ghost 

 of a chance for his fife. But then, we are all wedded to our 

 idols and each to the sport he loves, and we all have little 

 enough charity for the worship or the sport of others. 



There is an element of cruelty, a strong leaven of the old 

 savage Adam in all field sports, so much of it that every one 

 who recreates himself with rod or gun or hound, must cry out 

 at pertain times when his heart is tender and the fire of the 

 cha*» not burning within him, "God be more merciful to me 

 than I have been to His creatures that He has set before me !" 

 There is only one feature in field sports to redeem them from 

 the charge of wanton cruelty, and that is fair play. Now, 

 wherein does the shooting of foxes before, one or two hounds 

 lack this quality more than running them down with a dozen 

 or more hounds followed by men on horseback? A man may 

 get his neck broken, or a horse his knees, but that does not 

 help poor reynard's case at all, for the hounds go bellowing 

 after him just as if nothing had happened. 



Wherein is there less of fair play to shoot a fox before 

 hounds than to shoot a hare or a deer in like manner? And as 

 for the skill required in each case, either as marksman or 

 woodsman, any one who has tried the three knows which calls 

 for most. If one will stand still long enough almost anywhere 

 in ttie woods when dogs are running a hare, he may get a 

 shot, and if long enough on a runway a shot at a deer, no 

 matter how little he knows of the habits of the game. But 

 he who hunts foxes on foot successfully must have much more 

 of woodcraft and some knowledge of the manners and cus- 

 toms of the wiliest animal tnat ranges the woods, and he must 

 be as much a man physically as he who goes a hunting on a 

 horse's legs instead of his own, for he must endure long and 

 hard tramps. 



As for riding to the hounds, it is a very fine and noble thing 

 to do, and I have read that the young men at Newport do it 

 very well in the exciting chase of the anise-seed bag or the 

 hobbled fox, and would doubtless die supremely happy it' they 

 broke their necks in the sport, if by so dying they could ape 

 Englishmen as closely as they do in dress and speech and 

 other matters of living. 



This is the gist of it: It is un-English to shoot foxes, there- 

 fore it is unsportsmanlike. It is humihating to think that 

 any American, North or South, should care a snap of his 

 fingers now for British opinion of anything concerning us. 

 Are we not old enough and strong enough to have ways of our 

 own and sports of our own, without regard to what others 

 ttiink of them? The nature of our country and the temper of 

 our farmers alike forbid the hunting of foxes here in English 

 or Southern fashion, and the Newport style of hunting is not 

 likely to come into general favor yet throughout New Eng- 

 land. Let us continue to hunt our foxes in our own way, and 

 if beagles are ' 'deadly" and staunch and musical, let us have 

 them by all means. 



My lips are not pallid when I say that I had good sport in 

 shooting half a dozen foxes last fail, and that I hope to have 

 many another day of such goodly sport in the brown, 

 autumnal woods of 'my beloved New England. Awahsoose. 



Ferrisburgh, March 12. 



N. A. K. C. DERBY. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In inclose additional list of entries for the Fifth Annual 

 Derby, National American Kennel Club, received up to date. 

 I have received a great many applications for entry blanks, 

 and think the entry will be large. P. Bryson, Sec. 



Memphis, Tenn., March 21. 



ENTRIES. 



Jim Bledsoe. — Major J. W. Renf roe, Atlanta, Ga., black, 

 white and tan English setter dog, Dec. 3 (Baden Baden— Daisy 

 Royal). 



Paul Jones.— Major J. W. Renf roe, Atlanta, Ga., black, 

 white and tan English setter dog, Dec. 3 (Baden Baden — Daisy 

 Royal). 



Gem.— Dr. J. N. Maclin, Keeting, Tenn., lemon and white 

 English setter bitch, April 16 (Gladstone— Gazelle). 



Nabob. — E. F. Stoddard, Dayton, O.. liver and white pointer 

 dog, Feb. 17 (Croxteth— Trinket). 



Dandy Bob.— E. F. Stoddard, Dayton, Ohio, liver and white 

 pointer dog, Feb. 17 (Croxteth— Trinket). 



Dayton. — E. F. Stoddard. Dayton, Ohio, liver and white 

 pointer bitch, Feb. 17 (Croxteth— Trinket. 



Frank S.— F. I. Stone, Chattanooga, Tenn., blue belton 

 English setter dog, May 31 (Gladstone— Zell). 



Glad S.— F. I. Stone, Chattanooga, Tenn, blue belton Eng- 

 lish setter dog, May 31 (Gladstone — Zell. 



Tangipahoe. — H. Fontaine, Magnolia, Miss., black, white 

 and tan Enghsh setter bitch, April 21 (Gladstone— Flossy). 



Jo Jo Gladstone.— E. S. Bond, Chicago, HI., black, white 

 and tan Enghsh setter bitch, July 10 (Gladstone — Lavalette). 



Countess Speed. — J. Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., lemon 

 and white Enghsh setter bitch, April 1(5 (Gladstone— Gazelle). 



Mable.— J. Hayward. Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., black and white 

 English setter bitch, May 18 (Dash III. — Jessie). 



Alfred.— J. Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., black and white 

 English setter dog, May 18 (Dash IH.— Jessie). 



Baby Mine. — J. Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., lemon and 

 white English setter bitch, July IS (Rake— Madam Llewellin) . 



Gladroy. — Whyte Bedford, Horn Lake, Miss. , black, white 

 and tan English setter dog, June 28 (Gladstone — Donna J.). 



Lotta — W. B. Gates, Memphis. Tenn., black, white and 

 tan Enghsh setter bitch, Aug. 19 (Count Rapier— Juno). 



Pegmatite. ^Dr. N. Rowe, Chicago, 111., black, white and 

 tanEnglish setter dog, April 11 (Cambridge— Marchioness Peg). 



Pegomancy.— Dr. N. Rowe, Chicago, 111., black, white and 

 tan Enghsh setter bitch, April 11 (Cambridge— Marchioness 

 Peg). 



Gildie.— W. W. Titus, Cherry Creek, Miss., lemon and 

 white English setter bitch, July 23 (Count Rake— Minnie). 



Carrie H.— W. W. Titus, Cherry Creek, Miss., blue belton 

 Enghsh setter bitch, June 3 (Roy— Gretchen). 



Jamestown.— W. W. Titus, Cherry Creek, Miss., 'black, 

 white and tan English setter dog, May 7 (Count Noser— Lola). 



