June 4, 1885. 



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FIXTURES. 



B.FiNCH SHOWS. 



June a. 8, 4 and 5.— First Annual Dos (show ot the Illinois Kennel 

 Club. John H. Baylor, Secretary, 3.182 Archer avenue, Chicago, 111. 



Sept. 22, 23, 2-J and 2\— Dog Show of the Milwaukee Exposition As- 

 u'li. John IV Olcott, Superintendent, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Oct. 27. 28 and 2!).- Twelfth Dog Show of the Western Pennsylvania 

 Poultry Society, Pittsburgh, P,i. C. B. Batten, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 16. 1885.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, High Point, N. C. Entries for Derby close May 1. W. 

 A. Coster, Secretary, Flattmsb, L. I, 



Dec. 7.- Seventh Annual Field Trials of the National Field Trials 

 Club, Grand Junction, Tenn. Entries for Derby close April 1. B, M. 

 Stephenson, La Grange, Tenn., Secretary. 



A. K. R. -SPECIAL NOTICE. 



rpHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 ■*- pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 

 lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be hi early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1.50. Address 

 ''American Kennel Register." P. O, Box S882, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 2386. 



ENGLISH AND NATIVE FOXHOUNDS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



We notice what we (as breeders of both English and native 

 foxhounds and as fox hunters) call a bright and right idea set 

 forth by "Homo" and sanctioned by H. C. Newell, that there 

 should be two classes in foxhounds, as the American foxhound 

 and the English, foxhound are entirely different in appearauce 

 and working qualities. There is nearly as much difference in 

 a well-bred specimen of both breeds as there, is between a 

 pointgr and a hound. But we differ a little with Mr. Newell, 

 as we would prefer a good English hound to a "yearling calf" 

 to tun a fox over "granite hills" or any other hills. We don't 

 find so much difference in their hunting as in their appearance, 

 and no better feet or staying qualities were ever allotted any 

 dog than has one of our imported English dogs. He is eight 

 years old and this winter past was his first winter in America, 

 ftnd he had never run only hi a pack, and the second time he 

 Was Out with but One other dog With him, was toward spring, 

 and on the he&v-'est sharpest crust We had; They started a fox 

 at 8 A. M;j ran all day, all night' and until 10 A. M. the second 

 day, when they caught and killed their fox, and came in With 

 just as good feet as when they started. No blood on their 

 trail. We call this good "doings 7 ." Would say the doe: that 

 ran with him was pure English, but American bred. We 

 think them a good dog, but as there is so much difference in 

 appearance I think there should be a standard for both, as 

 there are some elegant uative hounds and I would like to see 

 the breeding of both varieties encouraged and our natives 

 given a chance at our shows. Black-Tan-and-White, 

 Glens .Balls, N. Y> 



THE PROPER AGE FOR DERBY ENTRIES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



YottT issue of April 2 contains the information that the 

 Eastern Field Trials Club had reconsidered and abandoned the 

 contemplated change of dates within which puppies must be 

 whelped to be eligible to their Derby. The proposed change 

 was an important and correct step in the right direction had 

 it been taken, and undoubtedly would have found great favor 

 with the supporters of field trials and would make the stake a 

 popular and successful one. Under present conditions there is 

 no doubt but what the stake will lose more or less support, 

 owing to the hardship worked on real puppies. To make a 

 showing of the injustice worked under this arrangement, it 

 will be necessary to particularize, and this will develop the 

 errors without argument. From Jan. 1 until the latter part 

 of November of the following year is, in round number's, a 

 period of twenty-three months, and all puppies must be 

 whelped during this time to be eligible to the Derby. It will 

 be seen that this time covers a period of nearly two years, and 

 that a dog whelped in January of the first year will be about 

 eleven months old at his first Derby, and will have all neces- 

 sary experience and training as a puppy, and as such, 

 if he is precocious and well-grown, may run a brilliant race! 

 Let us assume that, during the following January, another 

 puppy is whelped, whose age and opportunities at due time 

 will fit him in every respect to run in the Derbies of the year; 

 but he has to compete with puppies, so-called, that had already 

 been trained, run in one stake as a puppy, and were gathering 

 strength and experience while he was iu his puppyhood. Of 

 course, this is all based on the assumption that a Derby is, ac- 

 cording to the common and popular belief, a puppy stake: the 

 belief is undoubtedly correct, inasmuch as the Derby is pub- 

 lished to the world as a puppy stake, and conducted and com- 

 pleted with all due formality accordingly. As the clubs have 

 agreed that a dog at twenty-three months of age is a puppy, 

 the sportsmen at large are bound to believe it, since it is ex 

 cathedra, therefore correct and final, and no dog, at least no 

 well bred one, would outgrow his puppyhood in the face of 

 orthodox dicta based on scientific principles, all of which is 

 directed to his own good axd advancement, although it does 

 seem at first sight as if the two-year-old January puppy had 

 all the advantage. There are about three or four months, 

 from January to April or May 1. during which a puppy may 

 be whelped, and have age enough to be educated and run in 

 the Derby of the same year. Puppies whelped after May I 

 cannot be trained until the following winter, and in the major- 

 ity of cases, only partially then. The great majority of pup- 

 pies that rim in the Derbies are whelped between April 1 of 

 the Derby year and May 1 of the year previous to that in 

 which the Derby is run, thus covering a period, more or 

 less, of eleven months. Puppies whelped during this time 

 can have but one season's work, while the Janu- 

 ary or February dog of the previous year has 

 been trained during the first year, has ■ run already 

 as a puppy in one trial, has had the benefit of extra 

 education and experience of a full winter's work after 

 the trials — from December 1 to April 1 — and then the benefit 

 of the same season, during which the later whelped dogs must 

 be wholly trained. This January dog of the previous year is 

 then about twenty -three months old, thoroughly framed and 

 with all the experience and training necessary in an aged dog; 

 in fact, a fully matured dog, both mentally and physically, 

 and thoroughly educated. However, it might be worse than 

 this, as the limit coidd be so fixed as to permit a dog to run 

 three or four times as a puppy in tnree or four consecutive 

 years, since shedding puppy teeth, and, in due course of nature, 

 arriving at doghood, has so little to do with it. These twenty- 

 three-months-old puppies, singularly indeed, generally van- 

 quish their younger brethren, and sometimes the owners of 

 these youthful dbgs run them in the all-aged stake with signal 

 success. These ripe puppies have a way of soundly beating 

 their own class and demonstrating their ability to hold then- 

 own in the all-aged. It is well known that a dog between the 

 ages of two and four years puts more spirit and dash into his 

 work than at an earlier or later age. Of course, at a later age 

 a dog will do good work, but generally he grows cimning and 

 conservative, and loses some of his youthfid fire and enthusi- 

 asm, particularly if he has been worked steadily every year 

 during the whole season. It has been practically demon- 

 strated so often that a puppy cannot compete with 



the slightest chance of success with an aged dog 

 that it must be. evident to owners that the time limit 

 governing age is too liberal, and that a dog should not be 

 permitted to have age enough to run in more than one 

 entry. A policy that holds to such a wide limit for the sake 

 of the few additional entries possible thereby is pursuing a 

 policy fatal to the interests of the stake, as owners will keep 

 aloof from all aged dogs in a puppy class; in fact it would nob 

 be surprising if many owners have taken this view already. 

 Of course, there would be fewer phenomenal puppies, or iu 

 other words there would be fewer all-aged dogs in the Derby, 

 bub there would be more competition, a larger interest in it, 

 and more assurance of establishing trials on a permanent 

 basis than there is at present, for no man would care to run a 

 real puppy against an all-aged dog after it dawned upon him 

 that it was such. To fix the date so that a puppy could have 

 only sufficient age to run one Derby with any possibility of 

 success, would, I think be the just and correct solution of the 

 matter. Free Lance. 



Lamar, Mississippi. 



THE EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB RULES. 



WE publish below the regulations and rules for running 

 and instructions to judges of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club for the. trials of 1885. We have received a letter from 

 Mr. Elliot Smith, in which he says that Rule 4 will only be in 

 force this year, and that in the future all dogs to be eligible 

 for the Derby must be whelped on or after May 1 of the pre- 

 ceding year:" 



RuTiBl, The management of the meetings for the Annual 

 Field Trials shall be intrusted to the Governors of the Club, 

 and with them lies the interpretation of the rules. They shall 

 decide upon all matters not provided for in these rules. 



Bulb :.'. The judge or judges shall be selected by the Gov- 

 ernors, and their names shall be publicly announced as soon 

 as possible after tlieir selection, and before the closing of the 

 entries. When a judge is prevented from attending a meeting 

 or finishing it, the Governors shall appoint a substitute. 



Rule 3. For all stakes, the names, pedigrees, ages, colors, 

 and distinguishing marks of the dogs shall be detailed in 

 writing to the Secretary of the Club, to be filed at time of 

 making entry or entries. Any dog's age. markings or pedi- 

 gree which shall be proved not to correspond to the entry filed 

 shall be disqualified, and all such dog's stakes or winnings 

 shall be forfeited. 



Role 4. Dogs, to be eligible for the Eastern Field Trials 

 Derby, must be whelped on or after the first of January of the 

 year preceding tbe trial for which the dogs are nominated. 



Rule 5, The forfeit money must accompany every nomina- 

 tion, and the balance of entrance fee must be paid before the 

 drawing'. 



RULE 6. The Governors may refuse any entry they may 

 think proper to exclude; and no person who has" been found, 

 to the satisfaction of tbe Governors, to have misconducted him- 

 self in any manner in connection with dogs, dog shows or dog 

 trials, or who is a defaulter for either stakes or forfeits in con- 

 nection with either thereof, or for any money due under an 

 arrangement for division of winnings, or for penalties for 

 infraction of rules, or for any payment required by a decision 

 of the Club, shall be allowed to compete in any trials that may 

 he held under the auspices of the Eastern Field Trials Club. 



Rule 7. Any objections to any entry must be made in writ- 

 ing addressed to the Secretary of the. Club, and will be acted 

 on by the Governors, whose decision shall be final. 



Rule 8 Immediately before the dogs are drawn at any 

 meeting, the time and place of putting down the first brace of 

 dogs oh the following morning shall be declared and posted in 

 a conspicuous place. 



Rule 9. All stakes shall be run in the order of the pro- 

 gramme when possible. Should, however, the competitors or 

 their representatives in the various stakes agree otherwise, 

 the order may, with consent of the Governors, be changed. 



Rule 10. Dogs shall be drawn in braces by lot and run in 

 heats; the beaten dogs to be retired (except as hereinafter 

 mentioned), and the winners rim in heats again in the order in 

 which they ran their successive heats. When two dogs, owned 

 or handled by the same person, are drawn together, the name 

 of the second dog so drawn shall be returnee! to the undrawn 

 names, and another name drawn in its place. 



Rule 11. If two dogs owned or handled by the same 

 person should come together after the first series in any suc- 

 ceeding heat, the second dog so owned or handled shall change 

 places with the first dog not so cwned or handled in the order 

 of running. If, after the first series, such separation is found 

 to be impracticable or without benefit, the running of two 

 such dogs may be permitted 



Rule 12. If in any series of heats there should be a natural 

 bye, such bye shall run with the winner of the first heat of the 



Erevious series as the first brace of the next series, except as 

 ereinaf ter provided. If, during the running of the first series, 

 a dog be withdrawn or fail to appear, the brace mate of such 

 defaulting dog shall run with the bye at the end of the first 

 series of heats, except that should there be more than one of 

 such defaults, the remaining dogs shall ran together in the 

 order of natural precedence. 



Rule 13. Each dog must be brought up in its proper turn with- 

 out delay ; if absent for more than twenty minutes,its opponent 

 shall be adjudged the winner and entitled to the heat, and 

 shall in that case receive a bye, and be subject to rule twelve. 

 If both dogs be absent at the expiration of twenty minutes 

 from the time of call to run by the judge or judges, the 

 judge or judges shall have the power to disqualify both dogs. 



Rule 14. An owner, his handler or deputy may hunt a dog, 

 but it must be one or the other, and when dogs are down an 

 owner must not interfere with his dog if he has deputed an- 

 other person to handle and hunt him. In members' stakes a 

 dog must be handled by his owner. 



Rule 15. The person handling and hunting a dog may speak, 

 whistle to and work him by hand as he may deem proper, bub 

 he shall be called to order by the judges for making any un- 

 necessary noise, or for any disorderly conduct, and if after 

 being cautioned he persists in such noise or disorderly conduct 

 they shall order the dog taken up and adjudged out of the 

 stake. An opponent's dog must not be interfered with or 

 excited. In such case an appeal should be made to the judges. 



Rule 1 6. If au opponent's dog points game, the other dog 

 must not be drawn across him to take the point, but if not 

 backing of his own accord he must be brought around behind 

 the pointing dog. Dogs must be hunted together and their 

 handlers must walk within a reasonable distance of one an- 

 other. 



Rule 17. If a dog be withdrawn from a stake on the field 

 or at any time during the holding of a trial, its owner or his 

 deputy having authority shall notify in writing, with his name 

 attached, the Secretary or one of the Governors of the Club. 

 If the dog belong to either or any of those officials, the notice 

 must be banded to one of the others. When a winner of one 

 or more heats is drawn for any reason obher than defeat, the 

 dog or dogs previously beaten by him shah not be deprived of 

 competing for second or third prize if, in the opinion of the 

 judges, they have a chance to win. 



Rule 18. If any person openly impugns the actions or deci- 

 sions of the judge or judges, or otherwise annoys them during 

 the progress of a trial, he may be debarred from further par- 

 ticipation in the trials, and ordered off the grounds. 



Rule 19. No person other than the judge, judges or report- 

 ers will be permitted to accompany the handlers of dogs com- 

 peting in any heat, excepting owners of such dogs running in 

 charge of a handler or deputy, and they shall be permitted to 

 accompany the stewards until the finish of such heat, when 

 they shall retire until their dogs agam come in competition. 

 Two persons are prohibited from working one dog. "If from 

 any cause the handler of a running dog is disabled to such au 

 extent that he cannot shoot, upon his request to the judge or 



judges, he may select some person to shoot for him, and the 

 judges may in any case require handlers running dogs to go 

 through minutely the evolution of shooting either a blank or 

 shotted cartridge over any or every established point, upon 

 being ordered to flush a bird. The handlers of the two dogs 

 shall go together as if it were a brace of dogs, so that the dogs 

 shall be. on an equality as to ground, opportunities tor linding, 

 etc. Spectators shall not be allowed nearer the handlers of 

 dogs running than seventy-five yards to the rear. The privi- 

 lege, is gi anted handlers to ask the judges for information or 

 explanation that has a direct bearing upou any point at issue; 

 pending such questions the dogs shall not be under judgment. 

 Dogs afflicted with any contagious disease, or bitches in season, 

 will not be permitted on the grounds. Handlers shall not load 

 their guns until a point be established. 



Rule 2.0, When two dogs, the property of the same own^r, 

 or of confederates, shall remain in for the deciding trial, the 

 judges may determine which is the better, either by prior per- 

 formance or by fi other running, as they may order. Should 

 the owner of a dog or his representative induce the 

 owner or representative of another dog to withdraw such dog 

 for a consideration or bribe of any nature whatsoever, all 

 prizes wou by either shall be forfeited upon the fact being 

 satisfactorily proved to the Governors. If, however, either 

 dog be drawn without consideration, from lameness, injuries 

 or from any cause clearly affecting his chances of winning, 

 the other dog may be declared the winner, on the facts of the 

 case being clearly proved to the satisfaction of the judge or 

 judges. When more than two dogs remain at the end of astake, 

 which is not run out, the stake shall be divided ; and in case 

 of a division between three or more dogs, of which two or 

 more, belong to the same owner, these latter shall be held to 

 take equal shares of the total amount won by their owners, 

 and in the division the terms of any arrangement to divide 

 winnings must be declared to the Sccfetarv. 



Rule 21. The last dog beaten by the winner of the first 

 prize, shall compete for the. second prize with the best of those 

 dogs previously beaten by the winner of the first prize. The 

 winner of this heat shall be declared the winner of the second 

 prize. The dog beaten in this heat shall (except as hereinafter 

 stated) compete with the best of those previously beaten by 

 the second prize winner, and the winner shall be third in the 

 race. The discretion is given to the judges of deciding which 

 is the best of these beaten dogs in the competition for second 

 and third places, by selection, or by running extra heats 

 between them, After the award of first and second, the 

 judges may name the winner of third without running. 



Rule 22' All protests, except as hereinbefore provided, must 

 be made and delivered to the Secretary of the Club, or in case 

 of his absence to the President of the Club, or in case of his 

 absence to a member of the Governing Committee at or before 

 midnight of the date of running of Dual heat. 



INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGES. 



The judges shall order up the dbgs as soon as they have de- 

 termined which is the better. Unless a dog shows such lack 

 of merit that in the opinion of the judges he cannot be placed, 

 all dogs shall, if time permit, have at least two chances to 

 show their behavior on birds. Either or both dogs of a brace 

 may be ordered up by the judges for want of merit. 



Pointing fur, feather, reptile or scent of game birds, if the 

 judges deem the same excusable, shall not be considered a 

 false point. 



The judges sball give a dog ample opportunity to discover 

 whether be is on a true point. 



No assistance shall be given by the handler to enable a dog 

 to discover whether he is on a false point. 



Judges are requested to avoid as far as possible holding a 

 dog so long on a point for the purpose of securing a back, or 

 otherwise, as to enable the birds to ran. When a point is 

 made, and has been observed by the judges, the handler 

 should be ordered forward to prove his point forthwith. 



Shoidd a dog be held an unreasonable time upon a point he 

 shoidd not be peualized for a resultant fault. 



The number of times a dog points, backs, etc., shall not 

 necessarily give him the preference, but the judges shall con- 

 sider the quality of the performance rather than the frequency 

 of the occurrence. 



Backing. — The judges are requested to give no credit. for 

 backing unless it appear to be voluntary. Auy assistance 

 from the handler shall deprive the dog of "credit for his per- 

 formance. 



Ranging. — The judges are requested to give greater credit 

 to the dog that maintains the most killing range throughout, 

 viz., wide or close, as the necessity of the case requires. 



Obedience and Disposition. —The judges are requested to 

 give greater credit to the dog that works promptly, without 

 noise or seventy and is obedient, prompt, cheerful and easily 

 handled. 



The rules are based upon the principle that each heat is a 

 complete race, and the winner of the trial is the unbeaten 

 dog who has directly or indirectly beaten every other dog in 

 the stake. 



The judges are requested to observe that the scale of points 

 below given are set forth only as the view of the Club as to 

 the comparative value of the various attributes or perform- 

 ances referred to. But the judges shall not, except in case of 

 an absolute equality between tue dogs, deem it necessary to 

 keep any scoi e whatever. 



MERIT. 



I'Nose 85] ,., ] " "i 



Staunchness.... 10 J od I 



Pointing. { \ ,...40 



Style in 

 [ Pointing 



Ranging 12 



Pace S 



Quartering 5 



Style in Same 5 



....30 



70 



i-100 



Obedience and Disposition 10 ) 



Backing 10 



Retrieving 10 ] 



False Pointing, Breaking In, Breaking Shot, Chasing.— These 

 faults shall be gauged by the judges in their discretion. Tbe 

 second chase, however, loses the heat. 



DEFINITIONS. 



Breaking In — Is where a dog, through imperfect breaking, 

 or front excitement, leaves his position when the birds rise, 

 whether the gun is fired or not, and starts to cbase, but stops 

 within a few feet from where he started, of his own accord or 

 by command. 



"Breaking Shot— Is where a dog rims in, when a shot is fired 

 with the intention of gstting to the bird, and does not stop 

 promptly at command. 



Chasing— Is where a dog follows the birds, either when a 

 gun is fired or not, to any extant to be beyond the control of 

 his handler for the time being. 



MASTIFFS WANTED.— Editor Forest and Stream: In 

 consequence of rash spilling of ink, I am overwhelmed with 

 inquiries for mastiff pups. They generally say ''1 know that 



, and are reliable, but they ask too much for my 



pile." What seems to be wanted is mastiffs of fair size, but 

 not of show form, at from $25 to $35 for a six w T eeks puppy. 

 If any one has them an "ad." in Forest and Stream should 

 bring customers. All hands that have anything to say against 

 Mr. Dalziel's mastiff judging at New York are requested to 

 open fire ; my battery is masked ; I am waiting for "Porcupine" 

 to open fire, when I will demolish him. — W, Wade, 



