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J VOL. XXVIII.— No. 22. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Collie Trials. 



Pembroke Disqualification. 



Lake Chaniplain Yacht Club. 



The Diamond Hitch— iv. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Nepisiguit.— n. 



A Zebra Chase. 

 Natural History. 



Notes on New Mexican Squir- 

 rels. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Cherokee Strip. — I. 



Bison in the Park. 



The Diamond Hitch. 



New York Game Laws. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Trolling for Trout. 



The. Large Trout Record. 



They Wouldn't Bite. 



Worm vs. Fly. 



American Silkworm Gut. 



The Leap of the Silver King. 



Canadian Angling. 



Angling Notes. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Fish Preservation by Acids. 

 The Kennel. 



Am. Kennel Club Methods. 



Collie Trials. 



She Knew It All. 



A Dog Would Have Come in 

 Handy. 



His Name is Davidson. 



Five Newspaper Dogs. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Stillwater Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



British vs. American Canoeing 

 Yachting. 



The End of the Battle. 



Pappoose as a Child of Reform 



Facts About Thistle. 



The Form and Speed of Yachts 



Brooklyn Y. C. Regatta. 



Yachting in New South Wales. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE PEMBROKE DISQUALIFICATION. 



THE action of the Bench Show Committee of the New 

 England Kennel Club in disqualifying the grey- 

 hound Pembroke is, though tardy, perfectly correct. The 

 dog was shown in the open class, winning third prize, 

 when he should have been shown in the champion class. 

 The dog having won a prize for which he was not eligi- 

 ble to compete, there was nothing for the committee to 

 do, upon learning the facts, except to render the decision 

 they have given. The justice of their action is patent, 

 irrespective of any consideration of who was to blame for 

 the dog being shown in a wrong class. 



When the committee go on to charge the dog's owner 

 with entire responsibility in the matter, they are mani- 

 festly in error. The responsibility cannot be transferred 

 from the local delegate of the American Kennel Club, 

 upon whom it properly rests. When Pembroke was 

 entered by his owner he was, as a winner of only two 

 prizes, eligible for competition in the open class. Subse- 

 quently to the date when the entries closed he won 

 another first at Newark, and thereby became eligible 

 ican to compete in the champion class. The Amer- 

 only Kennel Club rules prescribe that in a case like 

 this a dog entered in the open classes shall be 

 transferred to the champion class, and it is further- 

 more declared to be "the duty of the local delegate 

 of the local club to examine all entries and see that they 

 conform to the rules of the American Kennel Club." In 

 this case, then, it was the business of the local delegate 

 of the New England Kennel Club to see to it that the dog 

 Pembroke was transferred from the open class to the 

 champion class. It is not in good taste for the bench 

 show committee to s?ek to evade blame for the derelic- 

 tion of their local delegate. The rule is plain, and no 

 rush of work nor other plea can be accepted in justifica- 

 tion of the error. Local delegates must do their work; 

 that is what they are appointed for. 



If the American Kennel Club rules relative to this 

 mean anything, they mean that the owner's duty ends 

 when he has once correctly entered his exhibit. From 

 that moment responsibility for any changes rests with 



the club local delegate and show committee. If the owner 

 of the dog had been present at the Boston show, and had 

 been aware of the negligence of the show authorities, it 

 would have been his duty, as an honest man, to notify them 

 of the oversight. But Mr. Webber was not at the show; 

 he was in New York, and could not be expected to know 

 that the local delegate in Boston was not doing his duty. 

 He appears to have acted throughout in compliance 

 with what he thought to be the strict letter of the rules, 

 and to have lost the awarded prize through no error of 

 his own. 



We are not discussing the merits of the rule. If others 

 agree with the Boston members that it is an unwise one, 

 it can be very easily changed. But so long as it is in force 

 clubs should live up to it, and if the press of business is 

 so great that the local delegate does not or cannot per- 

 form his duties, exhibitors must continue to be the suf- 

 ferers thereby. 



THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN YACHT CLUB. 



npHE movement in support of rational outdoor recrea- 



, tion which originated last year in the efforts of Mr. 

 W. H. H. Murray at Burlington, on Lake Champlain, 

 and which culminated a month ago in the formation of 

 the Lake Champlain Yacht Club, is so liberal in its scope 

 that it calls for more than a passing notice from those 

 who love healthy exercise and amusement. 



The object which Mr. Murray had in view when he 

 first began to advocate the movement was not to form an 

 ordinary yacht club, but to organize a company of gen- 

 tlemen in an associate capacity who should take courteous 

 and benevolent charge of all the sports and pastimes nat- 

 ural to such a magnificent body of inland water. The 

 gentlemen who quickly caught his enthusiasm, caught 

 also his spirit, and it is not, therefore, surprising that the 

 club has had a rapid growth. Its membership already num- 

 bers nearly three hundred, with ex-Gov. I. Gregory Smith, 

 of ;St. Albans, for president, and Dr. W. Seward Webb, 

 of this city, as vice-president. The personnel of the mem- 

 bership is most remarkable for its high standing and char- 

 acter; a wise rule of selection having shaped the canvas. 

 A club house to cost $5,000, unfurnished, located on the 

 very shore of the lake and commanding one of the most 

 magnificent views in the world, is in process of erection, 

 and when completed will be one of the most commodious 

 and elegant aquatic club houses in the country. The 

 membership is from all parts of our country, being truly 

 national, and it is expected that Canada will bring a dele- 

 gation to the list of its membership. 



Lake Champlain is the natural rendezvous of all yachts- 

 men and canoeists, who would voyage from the coast to 

 the St. Lawrence, or from the St. Lawrence waters to the 

 coast, and such a club house as this will be will serve the 

 very highest purposes. 



All the expenses of the club are paid from an annual 

 tax on the membership of $10 each, which is the sole 

 financial responsibility membership imposes. The club, 

 through Mr. Murray, who is Chairman of Committee on 

 Membership, extends a cordial invitation to all gentlemen 

 of standing who love the outdoor life, whether nominally 

 yachtsmen or not, to join its membership and thus help 

 provide for others, and personally enjoy themselves the 

 facilities of pleasure which would not otherwise be attain- 

 able. 



THE COLLIE TRIALS. 



THE first annual sheep dog trials of the Collie Club of 

 America are announced for Sept. 15 and 16, at 

 Washington, Pa. This is a move in the right direction. 

 Of late years great attention has been given to the impor- 

 tation and breeding of collies for the bench. At the 

 shows the classes are well filled, and all things considered, 

 as show dogs the collies are easily ahead of other non- 

 sporting breeds. It is high time that due attention should 

 be given, also, to the development of their actual field 

 qualities and working merits. The collie is valuable as a 

 pet, a companion, a "fancy;" but his true worth is devel- 

 oped only when he becomes the companion and aid of the 

 farmer or stockman. Where there is one pure-bred work- 

 ing collie in America to-day there ought to be a thousand, 

 and these collie trials in the practical work of sheep driv- 

 ing will demonstrate the merits of the breed much more 

 effectually than competition on the bench. It is greatly 

 to be desired that the meet at Washington may prove to 

 be the beginning of a series of annual trials. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 r piIE Governor of New York has signed the bill making 

 J- unlawful the capture of trout which are less than 

 Gin. in length. The purpose of this law, which works 

 hardship to anglers in certain localities, is to stop the 

 indiscriminate killing of little fish by summer tourists 

 intent on making a big score. Streams restocked at an 

 expense of money and time have been made barren again 

 because the immature fish have been caught out 1 by 

 greedy fishermen. The sentiment in many parts of the 

 North Woods was strongly in favor of the six-inch clause, 

 and the Legislature forfeited the respect of guides and 

 woodsmen when, under the leadership of Mr. Hadley, it 

 omitted the clause from a revised draft of the trout law. 

 There is one consolation about New York game legisla- 

 tion; the botchery of one Legislature can be remedied by 

 the next. 



Numerous broods of ruffed grouse are reported by ob- 

 servers in different quarters of New England, and the 

 stock gives every indication of being an abundant one, 

 with promise of a supply in the fall that will entitle 1887 

 to distinction as one of the grouse years. There are fore- 

 bodings of trouble from the ticks; but one experienced 

 grouse shooter, holding the opinion that by a winter like 

 the last, marked by numerous thaws and freezes, the 

 ticks are destroyed, prophesies that the birds will not be 

 troubled by them this year. It will be interesting to 

 note whether his theories are sustained by the facts. 

 The birds have been comparatively free from ticks for a 

 number of years, and it may be that the time has come 

 around again, irrespective of what the winter may have 

 been, when the tick will again do his deadly work. The 

 certainty of a good grouse supply is never so well estab- 

 lished by any known signs that an experienced man 

 would be willing to wager much on the game abundance 

 until the season actually arrives. 



Success and failure in the field and on the stream, as 

 elsewhere, are comparative. What is counted " a big 

 thing " by one person may appear only ordinary and in- 

 significant to another. The angler who has cause to com- 

 plain because he is not permitted to take the largest trout 

 in his stream — none of them 6in. in length — could hardly 

 expect much genuine fellow-sympathy from another an- 

 gler who has a personal interest in watching the record of 

 10ft> trout to see that no one detracts from his own claims 

 to head the list. The man to whom the capture of a 

 pound trout is an epoch in the outing score of years may 

 be just as much of an angler as the other man who com- 

 plains that a five-pounder is a little one. He is the true 

 philosopher who takes whatever of reward the waters 

 yield and makes the most of it. 



Fly-fishing for shad in the Connecticut River at 

 Holyoke, Mass., began on the 17th of the month, the fish 

 rising freely. There appeared to be many shad in the 

 river. The fishing is below the dam at Holyoke. The 

 proper tackle consists of a light trout rod and fine, with 

 large trout flies, the red-ibis, almost any brown fly, and 

 at dusk the white-miller. The best success is to be had 

 in the early morning and in the evening, Mr. Thomas 

 Chalmers, of Holyoke, will undoubtedly take great 

 pleasure in giving any hints to visiting anglers. 



Although so brief a note, Mr. Fellows's allusion in our 

 kennel columns to the prizes and medals which he has 

 won at past dog shows is very interesting. Mr. Fellows 

 has been a successful exhibitor for many years, and the 

 fact that he has not been able to find in his large collec- 

 tion of medals any bogus ones except those furnished by 

 Pittsburgh is rather strong presumptive evidence that the 

 clubs referred to by Messrs. Gregg and Elben are guilt- 

 less of the charges brought against them. 



That is a very interesting report of bison in the National 

 Park. This refuge for big game was established none 

 too soon. There are so many men in Europe and America 

 who long to add a bison to their record that, were these 

 creatures not protected by the Park regulations, they 

 would straightway be surrounded by as many rifles as 

 would equip a company of militia. 



Quail were cut off in large numbers by the New England 

 ice storms last winter, but Bob White's whistle is heard 

 from the fields, the same old familiar call, significant of 

 the brown and russet of autumn days. 



