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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 21, 1887. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS. 



THE coming trials of the Eastern Field Trials Club will 

 undoubtedly prove to be the most interesting as well as 

 the most important yet held in this country. The large 

 number of entries in the several stakes is unprecedented m 

 the history of field trials, and the interest manifested by dog 

 owners throughout the country in the coming meeting 

 speaks well for the management of the Association and is an 

 assurance that the future of field trials in this country is 

 secure so long as they are properly managed. We are ad- 

 vised that on the club grounds quail have never been more 

 plenty, and that they will be fairly well grown when the 

 trials begin . Many of the handlers Have already gone South 

 with their dogs aud are hard at work preparing them for the 

 contest. T. M. Aldric-b, with his string, is at Progress, N. 

 C; .John White, with Tammany, Springbok, Mars, Peach, 

 Dagobert, Birdo and several youngsters, is at his old place, 

 Thomasville, N. C; S. C. Bradford and J. B. Phelan are at 

 Concord, N. C, with Sachem, Match II., Plash R., Lucia, 

 Queen Bow, Kent Queen, Queen Naso, June, Bob Clifford and 

 several puppies, twenty-two in all. They report an abundance 

 of birds. F. Wmdholz and J. T. Miller will soon leave for 

 Brown Summit, N. C, with Rockingham, Cora of Wether- 

 all, Princess Phoebus and five youngsters. AV. Tallman will 

 also leave this week for Progress, N. C, with Foreman, 

 Royal Albert, Dan Petrel, Foreman's Lass, Galatea, Nelly 

 II., and several youngsters. We have already received the 

 names of several sure winners, but, as they were given in 

 confidence, we cannot divulge them. We regret this en- 

 forced silence, as we are sure that our readers would be 

 very much gratified to get a straight tip. 



SPANIELS FOR BENCH AND FIELD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. H. G. Charlesworth, writing in a recent issue of your 

 paper, says he "will not stand quietly by and see two or 

 ( luce inches taken from their (the cockers'") bodies and added 

 to their legs." The same writer also says, "We like the 

 long, low, strong-built little fellows such as we breed here, 

 aud we think we can produce them of this style," etc. 



Without wishing to hurt the feelings of any friends of the 

 cocker I must say that it is very improbable that any man 

 who has seen a typical cocker would suggest taking two or 

 three inches from their length. The cocker spaniel proper 

 is not the long-bodied animal some people would suppose, 

 and to reduce his length two or three inches and add to his 

 length of leg would be to produce a short, tucked-up, stilty- 

 looking brute of the milking stool order. My lamented 

 friend, Mr. Langdale, as good a judge of spaniels as ever 

 went into a riug, said that the cocker is a "small cobby- 

 made spaniel." The word "cobby" is not so elastic as to 

 allow of its being twisted into meaning "long." The cob is 

 not a, long-backed horse, neither is a cobby fox-terrier, for 

 instance, one that is long in the back. Mr. Langdale was a 

 horseman as well as a dog man, aud nobody knew better 

 than he did the meaning of the word "cobby." There need 

 lie no doubt about it that when Langdale said the cocker 

 should be "cobby" he meant it. 



I would respectfully ask those gentlemen, who appear to 

 be getting things very badly mixed up on this cocker ques- 

 tion, if the best cockers that have been exhibited have been 

 long-backed dogs. Was Dr. Boulton's truly celebrated Rhea 

 along-backed animal or was she one of the compact and 

 cobby sort? It is fifteen years or more since 1 first saw that 

 beautiful little bitch at the Birmingham show, but her 

 almost perfect lines still live in my memory. No, gentle- 

 men, she did not bear any resemblance to ' 'crocodiles, weasels 

 or double-action Skyes." She was a charming little bitch, 

 stout, compact, strong in bone, straight in limb, merry and 

 active. She had neither the bandy legs of a Beau, the slab 

 sides of a Brahmin, the poodle coat of a Master Shin a, the 

 cut up flanks of a Brant or the snake-like head of a — well, 

 there are a thousand of them, too many to antagonize, and I 

 don't want to get into a fight. Because I and others have 

 awarded prizes to the dogs just named does it follow that 

 we consider them modern cockers or typical cockers? We 

 give the dogs the prizes because we cannot find anything 

 better, not because we consider them typical. Pray do not 

 understand me as wishing to defend my awards or those of 

 others. Some of the most peculiar decisions ever made in 

 this or any other country have been made in the spaniel 

 classes at our shows. I know an exhibitor who took a dog 

 into the ring and was told by the learned judge to "chain 

 him up — no good." Instead of chaining him up the owner 

 took a pair of scissors and clipped all the feather from the 

 dog's legs and belly and then marched him into the ring 

 again to compete in the puppy class. "Good dog," said the 

 judge, and gave him the prize. The learned judge in ques- 

 tion is now "special reporter" for a Western paper, and he 

 doesn't forget to tell his readers what he knows about dogs. 

 Just so long as you spaniel men palliate such work by main- 

 taining sphinx-like silence and testify to your belief' in the 

 competency of such chaps by entering your dogs to be passed 

 on by them, just so long must you and I expect to find our 

 shows flooded with a lot of worthless brutes of every size and 

 shape imaginable. 



instead of fighting the standard, quibbling in the papers 

 and blaming your dogs for what may easilj' be traced to your- 

 selves, how would it be for you to ask yourselves the ques- 

 tion: How many of us have availed ourselves of the stock at 

 our disposal, and used it intelligently to produce typical 

 dogs? In this question, gentlemen, you will find the secret 

 of your troubles. I have generally noticed that when a man 

 wishes to produce spaniels for the bench, and of course for 

 the field as well, he starts out about in this fashion. The 

 first step taken is to purchase three or four brood bitches, 

 some of which are very long in back, short in head and light 

 in bone, the others short in back, long in head and heavy in 

 bone. The next step is the purchase of a stud dog, this 

 means a dog that has won prizes. No matter whether he be 

 long or short, high or low, light in limb or heavy, snipy or 

 stumpy in head, curly or straight in coat, long or short in 

 ear, good or bad in feet, it is 7 all the same thing, and he is 

 bred to every bitch in the kennel. What is the result? Look 

 down the benches of one of our shows and you will see for 

 yourselves. I do not wish to be personal, but in order to in- 

 sure myself against contradiction I will ask you how Mr. 

 Ren die, for instance, could ever expect to breed cockers from 

 a dog like Brahmin crossed on all sizes and types of spaniels 

 under the sun? It is iniposible; but if it were not so, and a 

 good looking dog should come of such reckless mating, what 

 would the worthless brute be likely to accomplish for pos- 

 terity? This sort of work is going on right under your eyes, 

 and as a remedy some of you want a new standard and no 

 wonder. 



It seems to me that there is a desire on the part of certain 

 owners, who evidently cannot breed typical dogs, to belittle 

 the stock of those men who, by perseverance and greater in- 

 telligence, have succeeded in bringing their kennels into 

 prominence. It is the last-named that will eventually suc- 

 ceed in producing the type of dog that Boulton and Langdale 

 loved and prized. Don't blame your judges and don't blame 

 your dogs; there is the blood in this country to produce cock- 

 ers second to none in the world, but it must not be splashed 

 around in the reckless manner it has been. Newspaper 

 quibbles will not assist you. Mr. Nelles's idea of having 

 measurements taken will do no earthly good, but rather 

 tend to mix matters worse. Study the standard, be sure you 

 know what it calls for, and then go to work— carefully, 

 slowly, intelligently. Select the best qualified judges, and 

 let those exhibitors who cannot breed good dogs take a back 

 seat t Do not alter the standard to fit certain dogs, but fit 



your dogs to the standard. Which of us can say the stand- 

 ard is defective until we have succeeded in breeding a dog 

 such as the standard calls for? When the dog our standard 

 requires shall have been produced and found wanting in 

 those qualities which all sportsmen insist upon his having, 

 by all means let us revise the standard, and as quickly as 

 possible; but I, for one, as a member of the American Spaniel 

 Club, strongly protest against any tinkering with the stand- 

 ard until I have seen my bran ideal of a cocker, and also 

 seen it practically demonstrated that he cannot outwork the 

 milking-stool brigade. Charles H. Mason, 



Editor Forest and, .Stream: 



It would be well for Mr. Charlesworth to post himself on 

 spaniels before he attempts to tell us how he is going to 

 breed cockers, for Old Tippo and Toronto Jet were just the 

 opposite style from what he is trying to breed now. Old 

 Tip was a great dog in the field, but he stood ! Pan. at the 

 shoulder and Jet over loin,, she was remarkable for nothing 

 except legginess, still I think that a better foundation to 

 build on than the double-action Skye style, because Tip and 

 Jet could work. 



The Show Cockeu Must Go. 

 (He's too long and too low.) 

 The short-legged cocker can git on a bench, 



And display his fine feather all day; 

 But he can't hunt grouse nor the royal woodcock, 

 Because he ain't built that way. 



Who told Mr. C. that the sires and grand sires of our best 

 dogs came from England, and how does he know any are 

 good without testing them in the field? I bred prize' win- 

 ners, their sires, grand sires, and great grand sires for many 

 years before Mr. C. was ever heard of as a breeder. 



If Mr. C. is "proud of the blood of Beau, and has others^ of 

 precisely the same style," I am satisfied, but Beau never 

 weighed less than 40lbs. while we owned him, and we were 

 glad to sell him at ?50, the price of a pup two months old. 



What nonsense to say "we should use a different dog for 

 mixed work, retrieving from water, etc." Why, the cocker 

 was used for all kinds of work before Mr. Charlesworth's 

 grand sire was born, and the dogs did not require a label 

 either, as their action spoke plainly for them. If Mr. C. is 

 not ready to join us in the march of improvement then let 

 him be wedded to his crocodile Skyes, and when we have a 

 field trial for spaniels he will get badly left. 



The long body and the short leg, 

 And the dog that loves the house, 



Have had their day and mnst give way 

 To the dog that can hunt the grouse. 



J. Otis Fellows. 



AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER. 



FOLLOWING are the numbers of the dogs entered in 

 the October number of the American Kennel Register: 



BEAGLES. 



5401. Ellis's Victor, W. E. & H. 5403. Lady Vixen,R. M.Darrach 

 L. Ellis. 



COLLIES. 



5403. Cairo, Tower Grove Collie 5414. Glendale, J. Watson. 



Kennels. 5415. Glen Bosa, J. Watson. 



5404. Clio, J. F. Ryan. 5410. Glen Ruadh, J. Watson. 



5405. Clipaway, J. Watson. 5417. Glenwood, J. Watson. 

 5408. Collie Joe, J. Collett. 5418. Jack, O. E. Lockwood. 



5407. Delia Glenlivat, C. Hinck- 5419. Keeper, Jr., S. B. Roberts. 



ley. 5430. Lady Eclipse. G. C. White. 



5408. Donald VII., E. Bradbury. 5421. Lady Watson, C. Tlinckley. 



5409. Earl of Warwick, G. Drape. 5422. Palmetto, J. T. Wells. ' 



5410. Fancy Maida, J. DeForest, 5428. Sf rephoh's Rex, N. B. Reid. 



5411. Flitaway, J. Watson. 5424. Trifle of Trefoil, H. E. Al- 

 54J.2. Glen Athol, G. A. Drape. vord. 



5413. (Ben Cairn, J. Watson. 5425. Tunstall, B. W. Lacy. 



ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS. 

 5426. Dandy, D. W. Wing. 



MASTIFFS. 



5437. Ashmont Suwanee, E. H. 5432. Ilf ord Czarina, H. J. Groes- 

 Palfrey. beck. 



5428. Beau Tibhs, Tiot Kennels. 5433. Trust, Hugli Falconer. 



5429. Bess, H. Falconer. 5434. Vermont Gvpsv, G. W. 



5430. Chester. W. B. Smith. Hoffman. 



5431. Groesbeck's Pluto, H. J. 5435. Wacouta Nap, Wacouta 



Groesbeck. Kennels. 



POINTERS. 



5436. Beauty L„ T. H. Little. 5446. Grenade, W. H. Beasom. 



5437. Betsy, Stiver & Comfort,. 5447. Hairspring, AV. F. Gillman. 



5438. Bracket II., Floyd Vail. 544k. Joe, James P. Swain. 

 543!). Bruce III., Alex. Barr. 5449. Lou III., Henry W. Smith. 



5440. Clifton Kennels, J. P. Cart- 5450. Nick, James P.' Swain. 



wright. 5451. Nick of the Woods, Barnes 



5441. Dark II., E. D. Treadwell. Brother. 



5443. Devonshire Countess, 5452. Shot Croxteth, Ernest M. 



Barnes Brothers. Bassett. 



5443. Frank M., J. P, Cartwright, 5453. Topsv, E. D. Treadwell. 



5444. Fred Mac, J. P. Cartwright. 5451. Westmoreland Bessie, 



5445. Geo. R. Eager, J. P. Cart- Barnes Brothers. 



wright. 



PUGS. 



5455. Bradford Midget, W. B. 5458. Pansy Blossom, C. G. 



Woodward. Hinckley. 

 5450. Daisy V., A. E. Adams. 5459. Port, A. E. Adams. 

 5457. NeUie II., Homer S. Bowles. 



ST. BERNARDS. — Rough-Coated, 

 5400. Barrina, W. H. Dent. 5466. Helen, Dr. C. R. Whitcomb. 



5461. Countess Minnie, of Wood- 5467. Hilda II., W. II. Dent. 



stock, Louis A. Congdon. 5408. King, Weinier &. Lincoln. 



5462. Czar II., Walter Raynor. 5409. Nellie Blv, D. Pettigrew. 



5463. Czarina, Walter Raynor. 5470. Prince III., J. I. Geddes. 



5464. Folko II., W. H. Dent. 5471. Prince Hal, J. O. Stevens. 



5465. Gerda, W. H. Dent. 5472. Thora III., W. H. Dent. 



SETTERS. — English Setters. 



5473. Banjo II., J. F. McKee. 5477. Ivanhoe Dr. W. P. Paxson. 



5474. Countess Blitz, E. Maker. 5478. Queen Esther, J. Bunting, 



5475. Duke of Richmond, E. Jr. 



Maker. 5479. Sparkle, G. M. Johnston. 



5470. Gun Gladstone, J. Bunting, 5480. Yum Yum, L. II. Gardner. 

 Jr. 



Gordon Settehs. 

 5481. June, J. B. Blossom. 5483. Vic, J. B. Blossom. 



IniSH Setters, 



5483. Bruce II., R. A. Kirsch. 5486. Green's Gypsy, T. P. Green. 



5484. Con naught, G. Dana. 5187. Moua III , J. B. Blossom. 



5485. Dalco, Wm. Rodgers. 5*88. Prince N., J. M. Weigle. 

 SPANIELS. —Field and Cocker. 



5491. Josie, G. Krause. 

 5493. Ober K., G. Krause. 



5489. Chippy, T. W. Yates. 



5490. Gipscy M„ G. Krause, 



AMERICAN FIELD TRIAL CLUB. — Cincinnati, O., 

 Oct. 22.— Editor Forest and Stream: The following geu- 

 tlemen have been appointed to judge for the American Field 

 Trial Club: All-Aged Stake, T. M. Brumby, Marietta, Ga.; 

 Harry W. Fuller, Richmond, Va., and John H. Gilbert, Lex- 

 iogton, Kv., with ft, M. Mark ley, of Eaton. Ohio, alternate. 

 For the Derby, H. M. Markley, of Eaton, Ohio, and T. 1V1. 

 Brumby, of Marietta, Ga. The third judge will be an- 

 nounced in the immediate future. — C. W. Paris, Secretary. 



THE STAFFORD DOG SHOW.-Worcester, Oct. 21.- 

 Editor Forest and Stream: I notice in your last issue in 

 the account of the Stafford Dog Show that the first prize in 

 heavy weight pointer dogs was given as S. T. Colt's Rob 

 Roy II. This is an error as the first prize was won by the 

 Don Quixote Kennels' Punch. Will you please be kind 

 enough to make this correction, aud greatly oblige FRED W. 

 White, Prop., Don Quixote Kennels. 



THE EDINBURGH DOG SHOW. 



[From the London Field, Sept, 34.] 



HAPPILY, northward there has been a brief return of 

 summer weather, which will allow the ingathering of 

 the large quantities of grain which we saw after leaving 

 Beattock Junction. The country on all sides still looked 

 lovely, for the rivers full of water made one dream of trout 

 and salmon, and the m oors aud rough land, with their varied 

 shades of coloring from golden yellow to the darker chocolate 

 brown caused by the withering bracken and the fast-fading 

 purple heather, made one long for a tramp along the hillsides 

 behind a brace of good pointers or setters. This was not to 

 be, and, speeding onward, the Waverley Market, where the 

 Scottish Kennel Club were holding their eighth show, must 

 be our destination. We have on previous occasions descanted 

 upon the excellencies of this building for a dog show, and 

 exhibitors evidently agree with us, for on thepresent occasion 

 an entry of 959 was obtained, which will probably be found 

 to form the largest dog show ever held in the Scottish met- 

 ropolis. The quality, too, was throughout excellent, and 

 with the experience the secretary, Mr. Tennent, has gained, 

 and perhaps the more matured knowledge of management 

 possessed by other members of the committee, exhibitors 

 might be assured that the welfare of the dogs was looked 

 after properly, and the exhibition generally conducted as it 

 ought to be. The benching was done excellently by Messrs. 

 Spratt, 



The judging commenced about 10:30 o'clock on Wednesday 

 in four rings in the main building, and this important por- 

 tion of the proceedings was not concluded until late in the 

 afternoon. The judges were: For pointers, setters, retrievers, 

 and other sporting dogs, Mr. G. Hellewell; St, Bernards, mas- 

 tiffs, and large breeds generally, Mr. J. F. Smith; fox-terriers 

 and Scotch terriers, and fancy breeds, Mr. L. P. C. Astley; 

 collies, Dr. James; Dandies, Mr. Stordy Carlisle, and Mr. D. 

 Cunningham took the Skye and Clydesdale terriers. The 

 great feature of the show lay undoubtedly in the collies, their 

 uniform excellence throughout being particularly apparent. 

 Dandies, too, were great classes; so were St. Bernard dogs. 

 Setters of all varieties were more than fair, and the Skye 

 and other fancy terriers were likewise strongly represented. 

 Fox-terriers were but moderate, the wire-haired variety es- 

 pecially so. 



St. Bernards came the first in the catalogue, and Plinlim- 

 mon, looking just as fit and comfortable as he always does 

 nowadays, had about a walk-over in the challenge class; but 

 in the one for open dogs his kennel companion. Burns, was 

 easily defeated by Duke of Marlborough, whom we take to 

 be the better type of the two, and he beat the younger dog in 

 pretty nearly all respects. Bums, who also took the special 

 tor the best of his variety under 16 months old, was not in 

 full bloom, though he appears to have improved in head, and 

 Mr. Royle's dog was in nice coat and form. Behind these 

 notabilities came two or three fair second-rate orange and 

 white dogs. Edgar, third prize, with fair markings, a son of 

 Pouf's, is a little curly in coat, which may become .still worse, 

 as he is but young; he has a fairly characteristic head, moves 

 nicely, and his bone is good. There was not much to choose 

 between Beauvale and Lord Collingwood, the latter being 

 perhaps better in ribs and body. Raymond, vhc, is too 

 small, and Carl Rosa, the Scotch dog who has done a great 

 deal of winning, did not move so freely as we have seen nim, 

 nor does he improve in head and expression; he had only the 

 reserve, but, after the winner, the four animals which fol- 

 lowed him were peculiarly close in merit, one excelling in 

 one particular, another in another. Indeed, it seemad a pity 

 that some of the prizes awarded to the bitches could not have 

 been handed to the dogs, for the softer sex were here poor, 

 the winner, Yorke, being far from a good one; her head is too 

 long, and her expression soft and uncharacteristic. Norah, 

 next to her, though badly marked, is the better of the nair. 

 The remainder were not worth a great deal. Nike, an excell- 

 ent and well-known brindled and white dog, won in the 

 smooth class, while behind him came Rustic, a fawn dog, 

 whose head and general appearance, possibly from his color, 

 denote something of the mastiff cross, though he is in reality 

 a well-bred young dog. 



Iu challenge mastiffs, Victor Hugo looked none the worse 

 for his long journey from Kensington, aud justly was placed 

 over Prince of Wales, a dog we have often had a good word 

 for. The open mastiff dog class had St. John, a great, 

 heavily-bodied dog, at its head; his face is not quite the thing, 

 but he moves moderately well, and has excellent bone Ru- 

 dolph, second prize, has possibly the better head of the two, 

 but his expression is marred by sadly villauous-looking light- 

 colored eyes, and on this account Sultan, who is as good in 

 body as the winner, might have been placed rather higher 

 than third; aud Halifax Nero, on the small side, when lying 

 at rest reminded us very much of Earl's picture o£ the late 

 Miss Aglionby's Wolf. A grand bitch is the brindled Zillah 

 II., who had second prize to Mr. Clarke's young bitch, Queen 

 of Scots, the winner at Barn Elms, and who has improved 

 much in body since that show. Then Lord Nelson beat the 

 beautiful little dog Alliance for the Newfoundland champion- 

 ship, and there was a numerous entry, though poor in quality , 

 in t he open division. Waterman had first in dogs, but Bis- 

 marck is quite as good in tpye, eoat, movement, and head 

 and ears. Norton, too, excelling in coat ? style, and head, was 

 shown in good condition, and was as big as any dog in the 

 class. Young Zoe, though her ears are over-sized, was well 

 ahead in the bitch class. Miss Jummy, second pri ze, is small 

 and out of coat, and Duchess of Aberdeen, who followed her, 

 is too much of the retriever type, A mixed class of puppies 

 included two or three promising St. Bernards that won the 

 money; and the team prize of that variety was won by Mr. 

 Smith with Plinlimmon, Burns, and Rustic, who later on 

 took a similar special for the best team of non-sporting dogs 

 in the show. 



A fine big blue dog, Dane, who did not move very well, won 

 in Great Danes, a very much smaller black bitch, in Sheila, 

 coming second. 



Triumph, looking, for all the knocking about at shows he 

 has had, very well, won oyer Hector II. in bloodhounds; the 

 merits of both are well known, and next them on the benches 

 were two couple of good-looking foxhounds from the Lin- 

 lithgow aud Stirlingshire Hunt, not for competition. 



The deerhounds, as a group, looked remarkably wel 1 on the 

 bench, but off it would scarcely stand pulling to pieces. Dr. 

 Haddon won with Wolf II., a big dog, on the coarse side, but 

 possessing excellent legs and feet, good front, nice shoulders,, 

 and strong loins. Buscar II., of similar stamp, had second;, 

 while Volthos, an equally good though smaller hound, was. 

 third; and Donavoura Bran II. , not in such good coat as we 

 have seen him, was fourth; his kennel companion, Ossian, 

 deserved a card, which might have been taken from Gruiam, 

 a bad-headed hound we did not like at all. A fawn bitch, 

 Countess, rather heavy in ears, won in the next class, but 

 Beatrice, though a little shining in her coat, should have 

 beaten her; the latter is a well known winner at Glasgow, 

 Birmingham, and elsewhere, and bears her years gaily. 

 Ebony, second prize, is a smallish blue bitch, wonderfully 

 typical in head aud excellent in eoat, Brora, fourth prize, is 

 well known: and in Argyle Cissy, third prize, we failed to 

 find much exceUence, excepting in her coat and shoulders. 

 The greyhounds were idee classes, well judged, the leading 

 winners all being known on the bench. 



In the wavy-coated retrievers, challenge class, Cypress won, 

 a lovely bitch in every particular, aud shown in fine condition. 

 In a good class for open dogs. Mask won, a heavy-headed one, 

 straight in jacket, but on the big side for work. The Palace 

 winuer, Goldstone, who had won at Warwick also, we pre- 

 ferred; Talisman, who took first at Darlington, now had third. 

 Mr. Whitelaw had all his own way in bitches with, three 



