Dec. 23, 1887.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE, 

 rpns AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is 

 published every month. Entrios close on the 1st. Should he in 

 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 2832, New 

 fork. Number of entries already printed 5582. 



THE BOOMiNG OF ARTILLERY. 



THE E1KST GUN. 



THE American Kennel Club is an association which as 

 sumes to have special charge of the interests of dogs 

 and dog matters in this country. The crowning blunder of 

 its career was committed last week, when its executive 

 committee passed a new rule which provides that every dog 

 entered at any show held under the rules of the A. K. C. 

 must be registered in the American Kennel Club Stud 

 Book. * * * The present attempt to bullyrag the dog 

 owners of America into registering their dogs is a last des- 

 perate device to keep all oat their venture, which was under- 

 taken by the A. K. C. a year ago, aud which then had not 

 the slightest prospect of success. * * * The A. K. C. has 

 chosen" a very unfortunate expedient to rally the dog public 

 to the support of their publication. Most self-respecting 

 people are much more easily led than driven, aud when the 

 A. K. C. says "you must register in our stud book or you 

 cannot show under our rules," they make it certain cither 

 (hat sh&ws vjM he held under nthcr rules than theirs, or 

 else that the shows which are held under their rules will be 

 failures from a financial standpoint, as well as in numbers 

 of the dogs shown. 



The sense, of justice inherent, in every man will rebel at 

 such an arbitrary rule as this, and we venture to predict 

 that if it is enforced, dog shows this year will show such a 

 falling off as will astonish those delegates to the A. K. C. 

 who were concerned in the passage of this rule. In all the 

 history of dog shows in America no such serious blow has 

 been given to these interests as is threatened by the passage 

 of this rule.— Forest and Stream, Dec. 15. 



THE SECOND GUN. 

 Coercion will not succeed here anymore than in Ireland. 

 Neither will any attempt at muzzling the press or prohibit- 

 ing free speech. A temporary success may natter those who, 

 sitting in a dark room without any windows, haye neces- 

 sarily a restricted view, but those who look ahead, investi- 

 gate and see and argue for better administration will 

 eventually succeed. As for the resolution compelling regis- 

 tration of all entries at A. K, C. shows, it simply means 

 we cannot make the official pay by the voluntary support of 

 the breeders, and in order to protect our pecuniary interests 

 we must coerce people and make those support us who don't 

 wish to do so. I can see other results likely to accrue from 

 this and the refusal to acknowledge non-members' shows, 

 but they are yet to be developed; but this is not the time to 

 expatiate on that subject.— Porcupine in Sporting Life. 



THE THIRD GUN. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



At a special meeting held to-day to consider Rule 2 of the 

 American Kennel Club, it was moved and voted tha,t the 

 secretary be requested to notify the American Kennel Clnb 

 that the New England Kennel Club withdraws from the 

 American Kennel Club on account of the following clause in 

 said rule: "Rule 2. Every dog * * * must be entered in 

 the American Kennel Club Stud Book." etc. 



J. W. Newman, Sec. 



Boston, Deo. 17. 



THE FOURTH GUN. 

 [By Wire to Forest and Stream-] 

 New Haven, Coun., Dec. 21.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 The New Haven Kennel Club has voted to withdraw from 

 the American Kennel Club.— S. R. Hemingway. 



REVERBERATIONS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The first entries to close for the year 1888 will be for the 

 Collie Club sweepstakes announced to be held at the New 

 York show. I am an owner of one or two puppies I thought 

 I would enter in this sweepstakes, but the new robbery rule 

 of the A. K. C, renders it impossible for me as an independ- 

 ent American citizen, opposed to the revival of the ideas of 

 government upset a century ago, to support any show which 

 will aid in the carrying out of' the new rule. Time is short 

 and I would urge upon the Collie Club managers the neces- 

 sity of advising the would-be subscribers to the sweepstakes 

 what their position is. 



I would also say the same to the Philadelphia Kennel Club 

 officers who I notice announce a series of sweepstakes with 

 entries closing Jan. 15. The success of Philadelphia this 

 year depends upon the club following in the footsteps of the 

 New England Kennel Club and repudiating the robbery rule. 

 This is no time to be fooling about. Philadelphia wants the 

 cream of the entries which she will have if she strikes off 

 from the opposition. Exhibitors will draw a very sharp dis- 

 tinction between New York and Philadelphia if the former 

 attempts to stay by the robbery rule and the latter repudi- 

 ates it. A Breeder and Exhibitor. 



Editor Forest and. Stream: 



1 believe that all dogs that are exhibited at any show should 

 registered, and I do not care a continental whether in Amer- 

 ican Kennel Register or American Kennel Club Stud Book, 

 and I would go so far as to have a rule to prevent any dog 

 being exhibited with "'pedigree unknown. ' What would 

 Beaufort, Graphic, Brackett, Naso of Kippen, Nick of Naso, 

 Tammany, Bang-Bang, Robert le Diable, be worth if shown 

 with "pedigree unknown?" 11 dog shows are to improve, 

 dogs, let's have blooded dogs. Show catalogues cannot be 

 relied on always, but have the dogs registered in the Amcr- 

 can Kennel Register, or A. K. C. S. B., and for any error in 

 pedigree found that cannot be explained let the exhibitor be 

 suspended. Let's have the views of exhibitors over their 

 own names. A. C. COLLINS. 



Hartford, Conn., Dec. 17. 



[From the Turf, Field and Farm, Dec, VS.] 

 Editors T» / f, Field aiulFarm: When I wrote you a week 

 since I was too mad to go into a discussion of the iniquities 

 of the above rule, and really wrote more to give notice that 

 Sir Lucifer would be out of the way of aspirants in the 

 miscellaneous class, simply referring to the gag rule as the 

 last straw on the camel's back. To seriously discuss the 

 rule itself, I do not think that I am a very marked exception 

 to the ordinary exhibitor in refusing to be bulldozed, and 

 even although the end bulldozed for is really a good one, I 

 am not an unusual crank in refusing to do a thing when 

 forced into _ it that I might have done willingly enough if 

 allowed a little liberty of action, and I think many exhibi- 

 tors will say the same, that they will not be dragooned into 

 supporting a stud book whether they like it or not. 



Then what will be the actual effect? Remember that dog- 

 show are not primarily intended as profitable speculations; 

 incidentally they may be so, if the promoters have good luck, 

 but the underlying ground of their existence is improvement 

 of dogs, gratification of the desire to see good specimens, &c. 



The entry fees are not intended as affording revenue to the 

 club, but to pay a. part of the expenses of the show. Now 

 who are the exhibitors? I take the catalogue of the last 

 Pittsburgh show, as I am better acquainted with the exhib- 

 itors there thau at any other show. I have gone over the 

 list carefully, aud out of -138 exhibits, 191 are by strictly local 

 exhibitors; exhibitors who never show elsewhere than in 

 Pittsburgh. In addition to those I have selected, there are a 

 great many names that I never heard of at any other show, 

 but I keep'tke number strictly within those I know as only 

 local exhibitors. One of these exhibitors gets a premium 

 list and comes to the show office to make an entry; he sees 

 that the entry fee is $2, and puts up that amount, but the 

 secretary says: "Oh, no! I want fifty cents more." "What 

 for," says the innocent exhibitor, "don't your premium list 

 say two dollars?" "Yes, but there is fifty cents for the offi- 

 cial register, the American Kennel Club ' Stud Book." The 

 exhibitor's answer will depend greatly on whether he is a 

 cussing man or not; if he is, he will probably intimate his 

 wishes that the show, the secretary aud the "official" be in- 

 sured from warm weather for a long time. At all events, 

 his action will probably be a walk out of the secretary's 

 office without filling out his entry blank, is there anything 

 unreasonable in his so doing? Is it a, legitimate part of a 

 dog show to collect money for an outside operation? Allow 

 that the "official" is a kindred industry to dog showing, is 

 it one that an exhibitor may properly be coerced into sup- 

 porting? 



Any reasonable exhibitor will cheerfully agree to such an 

 entry fee as is proper to cover the show expense, but when 

 it conies to his contributing to something he never heard of, 

 don't care a fig for, that has no evidence of its existence, he 

 very naturally suspects a swindle, and an extortion, and 

 kicks. Then suppose the exhibitor has entered his dog in 

 the American Kennel Register, That satisfies him on that 

 score; the dog is recorded where all who run may read, and 

 know all that is required to be known. What does he care 

 for an "official" record? What better is it thai; what he has? 



This is as far as I dare to trespass on your space at present, 

 and with your permission I will dissect how much "official" 

 character the A. K. C. S. Book has, how far it is the. work of 

 the A. K. D.. and what is the quality of the work it has 

 done, as well as some of the childish folly perpetrated at the 

 late A. K. C. meeting. Yours tmily, W. Wade. 



Hulton, Pa., Dec. 17^ 1887. 



AMERICAN FIELD TRIALS. 



[From a Special Reporter to Forest and Stream.] 



X FLORENCE, Ala., Dec. 16.— Wednesday morning the 

 . weather was cool and damp. Following is a summary 

 of the running in the Derby: 



Second Series. 

 Ollie S. beat Miss Thompson. 

 Jacobin beat Latonia. 

 King's Mark beat Hector, 

 Jack Modoc beat Cinch. 

 Dave R. beat Sunshine. 

 Laddy beat Lilly B. 

 Joey B. a bye, 



Tliird Series. 



Joey B. beat Ollie S. 



Dave R. beat King's Mark. 



Jacobin beat Jack Modoc. 



Thursday morning the weather was cool and clear for the 

 Fourth Scries. 



Dave R. beat Laddy. 

 Joey B. beat Jacobin. 



Final for First Place. 

 Dave R. beat Joey B. 



Fined for Second Place. 

 Joey B. beat Laddy. 



The judges divided third mouey between Laddy, Jack 

 Modoc, Ollie S. and Jacobin. The judges were Messrs. II. 

 M. Markley, I. M. Brumby and J. H. Whitman. Dave H,, 

 the winner, is by Gath's Hope out of Daisy F. The Mandan 

 race was not run as parties could not agree- on rules. The 

 drawing of the 



ALL-AGED STAKE 

 took place Wednesday night. There were 51 entries, aud 

 out of this number- 31 starters. The order of running was: 



Cassio against Daisy F. 



Dad Wilson against Effie Hill. 



Lad of Bow against Tasso. 



Nellie Cambridge against Bessie B. 



Joy of Prince William against Noble C. 



Spot against King's Mark. 



Lass of Sow against Rena. 



Rod's Gem against Bun Roy. 



Cyclone against Keystone. 



Jean Valjean against Dan. 



Nat Goodwin against Bow of Portland. 



Chance against King Noble. 



King's Dan against Pap Smizer. 



Bohemian Girl against Gay Gladstone. 



Graphic III. against Joe Pape. 



Prince Mack a bye. 



The stake was begun on Thursday at 12:30, immediately 

 after the finish of the Derby. The judges were Messrs. Gil- 

 bert, Brumby and Markley. Daisy F. beat Cassio in a bril- 

 linax heat. Dad Wilson beat Effie Hill, Dad showing much 

 the best on game. 



Friday morning the weather was cool and clear, but 

 toward noon it was cloudy and threatened rain the 

 remainder of the day. Lad of Bow and Tasso were the 

 first brace; they ran a very poor heat, which the judges have 

 not decided. Nellie Cambridge beat Bessie B., Nellie show- 

 ing well on game. Noble C. beat Joy of Prince William in 

 a heat void of interest. Spot beat King's Mark in a fair heat. 

 Lass of Bow beat Rena, out-classing her all round. Rod's 

 Gem and Ban Roy heat undecided. Keystone beat Cyclone, 

 Keystone showing well on game. 



Special to Forest and Stream. 



Florence, Ala,, Dec. 19.— Undecided heat between Lad of 

 Bow and Tasso given to Lad. Undecided heat between 

 Bod's Gem and Bun Roy given to Rod's Gem. Saturday 

 morning, Dec. 17, weather cool and cloudy. Jean Valjean 

 beat Dan. Chance beat Beau of Portland. Nat Goodwin 

 beat King Noble. Pap Smizer bea t King's Dan. Bohemian 

 Girl beat Gay Gladstone iu a fine heat, both dogs showing 

 well. Joe Pape beat Graphic III. Prince a bye. Monday 

 morning, Dec. 19, weather cool and cloudy. Second series', 

 Dad Wilson beat Prince. Lad of Bow beat Daisy F. Nellie 

 Cambridge beat Noble C. in a nice heat on the part of 

 Nellie. Spot beat Lass of Bow. Keystone beat Rod's Gem. 

 Jean Valjean beat Pap Smizer." Nat Goodwin beat 

 Bohemian 'Girl. Chance beat Joe Pape. This finished the 

 second series. In the third series Lad of Bow beat Dad 

 Wilson. This ended the work for the day. 



The Champion Stake was declared off to-day, it being im- 

 possible to procure judges. 



Many prominent sportsmen are present and the trials 

 each day are witnessed by a goodly number of interested 

 spectators. Among those, here are: Major Renfroe and J, 

 W. Martin, Atlanta. Ga.; Col. J. H. Trezevant, Dallas, 

 Tex.; P. T. Madison, Indianapolis, Ind.; J. R. Stiee, Jack- 

 sonville, 111.; E. O. Kurd and R. S. WaddelL Cincinnati, O.; 

 B. P. Holliday, G. A. Lougee and Win. Strickland, Missis- 

 sippi, F. I. Stone and F. J. Waddell, Chattanooga, Tenn.;R , 



M. Dudley, J. M. Lasseter aud Andrew Young, Nashville; 

 John Davidson, Monroe, Mich.; Dr. Maclin and Major Mur- 

 nan, Keeling, Tenn.; John Rolns, Wooster. O.; J- Mack, 

 New York; H. W. Fuller, Louisville, Ky.; W. B. Gates, 

 Memphis, Tenn.; T. S. Martin, Lexington, Ky.; C. G. Stod- 

 ard, Dayton, O., and many others with whose names I am 

 not faniiliar. 



[By wire to Forest and Strcam-l 

 Florence, Ala., Dec. 20.— Morning cloudy and stiff wind. 

 Jean Valjean beat Spot. Chance beat Nellie Cambridge, 

 Keystone' beat Nat Goodwiu. Fine work on part of Key. 

 Fourth series: Jean Valjean beat Lad of Bow in a good heat. 

 Chance beat Keystone. Fifth series: Jean Valjean beat 

 Chance and won first, A brilliant heat on the part of Jean. 

 Sixth series: Lad of Bow beat Spot. Chance beat Lad of 

 Bow and won second. The judges selected Daisy F., Lad of 

 Bow and Keystone as the best beaten dogs and divided third 

 equally between them. Jean Valjean, the winner, is a game 

 goer, very stylish on point and very decided in his work. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS. 



r pHOMASVrLLE, N. C, Dec. 3.— Editor Forest and 

 JL Stream: In your report of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club's Derby you state that Luke White and Mr. Tucker 

 protested the decision in the case of Ossian and Waterford 

 being placed equal third. So we did, but I believe we had 

 much stronger grounds for doing so than your readers are 

 apt to infer from your report. 



Neither of us protested in our own behalf, as we had no 

 reason that I am aware of, for believing that we would re- 

 ceive any part of the awards. On the contrary I knew that 

 my dog would not be selected because he was beaten by 

 Ossian, whose right no one disputed, and it would be in- 

 consistent to give Roger Williams equal honors with a dog 

 that had actually beaten him iu the third series. 



The reason we protested was this, two of the judges stated 

 in the presence of most reliable witnesses that Waterford 

 was not as good as several other dogs in the stake, aud when 

 asked why they placed him in preference to better ones, they 

 accounted for doing so by stating what was clearly a mis- 

 apprehension of Rule 20, of the E. F. T. Club's Running 

 Rules, viz.: "We could not help ourselves, as we were 

 bound by the rules to select from the dogs beaten by the 

 winner of second place." This belief was s'oon dispelled by 

 looking at the rules, which plainly state that all prizes be- 

 sides first and second, may be awarded by selecting from all 

 the other dogs in the stake. 



The judges had a perfect right to select Waterford and no 

 one could dispute their selection on any grounds whatever, 

 provided only that they believed him to be the best dog in 

 (lie stake after Joey B., Go Bang and Ossian. They stated 

 that they did not believe him to be as good as several other 

 eligible dogs and we entered a protest simply and only in the 

 interest of fair play to all. You say "the Board of Govern- 

 ors very properly refused to sustain the protest." Then 

 kindly inform me who is at fault, for there is "com" some- 

 where and I will cheerfully acknowledge it if it can be laid at 

 my door. Waterford had a bye in the first series, was beaten 

 in the next series and only beat Romeo (who was off his nose 

 by your report) in the tie for second. Your report states that 

 he ran "fairly well," while the work of Dave R. and other 

 competitors is spoken of in far higher terms. Still this may 

 be all right, but the question is, Did the judges plaeeWater- 

 ford equal third with Ossian because they believed him bet- 

 ter thau all other eligible dogs in the stake? I heard two of 

 them say, No. Will they deny that they said so? 



I hope* the Board of Governors of the E. F. T. Club will see 

 the inconsistency of offering an equal third, which cannot 

 consistently be awarded in the spirit it is intended. A fourth 

 prize would be far better. 



With all their faults, I love and admire field trials, but it 

 is just about time to try and get things right. I never pro- 

 tested before, in my life, but in future. I shall not hesitate to 

 do so when 1 believe a mistake may be corrected or any good 

 accomplished by such action. Nothing that I have said or 

 done was intended to reflect on the honor or integrity of the 

 judges, for I believe them to be above board in every respect. 

 I thought I discovered an error and 1 called attention to it, 

 and I shall have to keep thinking so until a clearer explana- 

 tion is given than your report embraces. 



Luke W. WniTE. 



IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I exceedingly regret the articles as to this dog that have 

 appeared in your last two issues; partly because -they seem 

 to attach a value to my opinions that 1 neither desire nor 

 deserve, and because the whole affair arose from a misun- 

 derstanding. However, the tone in which Mr. Moore attacks 

 the original article, seems to me to call for reply. 



As I understand it, that article appeared entirely on ac- 

 count of the error in A. K. R., by which it was made to 

 appear that Chancellor was owned by Dr. Longest, of Liver- 

 pool, England, which disposes of the charge of Mr. Marshall 

 attempting a "free ad.." a matter not needing any "disposi- 

 tion" to those who know Mr. M. Imperial Chancellor is 

 one of the four Crown Prince dogs that I have seen, that 

 have good hocks. Debonair, Prince Waldemar and Uford 

 Cambria being the others. Lorna Doone is fair, but not 

 good. Imperial Chancellor is unmistakably a larger dog 

 than any other Crown Prince one that ever came over here, 

 and after a careful search over show reports, stud books, etc. , 

 I am sure that there was never another Crown Prince dog 

 shown that was his equal in size. Orlauda may have 

 weighed as much as Chancellor does, but he had not the 

 height, length, bone and muscle. As to II ford Caution, the 

 comparison is odious, they never figured in the same day in 

 England. Caution never won a first except in a puppy class. 



Chancellor won something like half a dozen, and beat 

 many distinguished dogs. Chancellor was always a light- 

 fleshed dog, active and strong; llford Caution was always a 

 fat, lazy, flabby dog, and never walked an active step in his 

 life. Where he surpasses Chancellor in size must be due to 

 fat, not muscle. Mr. Moore surely made a slip of the pen 

 when he mentioned Caution's larger ears, for that is one of 

 the dog's great defects. As to hocks, Chancellor is a bit 

 cow-hocked, as well as I can remember, but it certainly is 

 very little; and Mr. Moore should remember that the Eng- 

 lish papers put down Minting as both cow-hocked and 

 crooked-legged, and I will go as far as Mr. Moore will in 

 disputing this. However, cow hocks are but a small blem- 

 ish, even in a specimen, as compared with the wretched 

 st raight ones that disgrace most of the Crown Prince line, 

 and in a stud dog are no defect whatever, for they are invari- 

 ably the result of bad rearing and are not transmitted to the 

 get' while straight hocks are one of the most potent defects 

 of transmission. 



A mastiff is sinrply of use as a watch; as such, it is his first 

 duty to spring on an offender and knock him down. To 

 this, cow nocks are no impediment; but with straight hocks 

 a dog can only rear up and fall forward, he cannot get his 

 kindfeet far enough under him to get his weight on them to 

 spring. 



It is curious that all this Crown Prince — Uford Claudia 

 litter should be in this eountry, and no two of them at all 

 resembling each other, that beautiful bitch of Mr. Aston 's, 

 Uford Cambria, being the third. These are all that I can 

 find in the Stud Book. When three litter brothers and sis- 

 ters vary so greatly, the results of the stud produce will be 

 an interesting study. W, WADE. 



Hulxon, Pa., Dec. 7. 



