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FIXTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Mav ?2 to 35.— Pacific Kennel Club Show, San Francisco, Oal. 



Sept, 10 to 18.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the London Kennel 

 Club, at L' nrtot). On v.. C. A. Stone, Manager. 



SeDt. 10 to 13.— Dos Show of the Ceu rail Canada Exhibition As- 

 sociation, at Ottawa, Can, Capt, R. O. W. MacOn i f, Secretary. 



Sept. 11 (oil— First Annual Dos Show of the Toledo Kennel 

 Cluo, Toledo, O. T. B. Lee, So retary. 



Feb. 18 to 21, 1S90.— Fourteenth Annual Show of" the Westminster 

 Kennel T'lnh. N> w York. Jami-s Mortitn r. Superintpn<'ent 



March 11 to 14, 1-90.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

 Kennel Chi ri, at Rochester, N. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 1.— Third Anrual Fiehl Trials of the Indiana Kennel Cliib. 

 P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Nov. 18,— Eleventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at High Point* N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 top. Sr-ri- R's. N V. 



fee. 2.- Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Eield Trial Club, 

 at Lexington, M. C. C. H. Ooell, Secretary, Mill's Building. New 

 York, N. Y. 



Dec 16.— Second Annual F ; eld Trials of the Southern Field 

 Trial Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Marietta, 

 Ga, 



THE SPOTTING SYSTEM. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Whether the spotting system, as adopted by the Southern 

 Field Trial Club, is right or wrong, time and experience 

 will, doubtless, prove. I believe that, with competent, and 

 fair judging (without which no system will do) this system, 

 combined with the heat system and the time limit, consti- 

 tutes the very best plan that cau be put iuto practice at 

 present. One' thine, at least, is certain, viz : That the heat 

 system alone, based on the theory of constructive beatings, 

 is essentially wrong and inconsistent with fair play and com- 

 mon sense. This fact needs no further proof than merely 

 the application of the most ordinary reasoning faculties. 

 Two good dogs are drawn together (as. strange to say, they 

 generally are), and two poor ones also chance to come 

 together. One of these good ones must go out in the first 

 s ries, and one of the poor ones must go up to the next 

 round, where the sime thing may, aud oft<m does, occur 

 agaiu. That this is an evil surely no one will attempt to 

 deny. That the Central Field Trial Club leaves it, at least, 

 possible to remedy this evil, is certainly not out of the fry- 

 ing-pan iuto the lire. 



It may be said that although a good dog may be knocked 

 out in the first round by another good oue. he still has a 

 chauce of being spotted or selected to run for second or third 

 place under all of our field trial rules. This is only true 

 provided the dog by which the unlucky dog was beaten wins 

 first place, which, makes his chances to get in again so 

 remote that experienced hnndlers whose dogs, good or bad 

 ones, get beaten in the first series, always consider them out 

 of the race. The good one beaten in the first series becomes 

 dependent on his conqueror's hehavior, condition and (last 

 but, not least) on his luck for a chance to get into the stake 

 again. This dog may have run a g and heat in the first 

 series, and yet he may, aud often does, go all to pieces or 

 misbehave m the next or subsequent series. Is it fair, 

 then, to consisu the one beaten by grand work to further 

 and hopeless defeat by inferior work? I think not. There 

 fore, I approve of the wise provision in the rules of the Cen- 

 tral Cluo, which gives the judges power to place dogs on 

 their merits, as shown by the work done, instead of obliging 

 them to be governed by chance, bad conduct of a lucky com- 

 petitor, or other uu fortunate circumstances. 



The spotting system is now and has been in practice under 

 all the Held trial rules that I am acquainted with, but only 

 in such a manner as to deprive it of its full value. The 

 judges of all the trials have been spittiug or selecting dogs 

 to compete for second place or to receive, the award of third 

 or fourth prizes. All have, therefore sanctioned and by 

 using it, indorsed the spotting system, but it remained for 

 the Central Club to advance to the application of the system 

 in the broader and more comprehensive sense in which it 

 proposed to use it. If the argument against this system ap 

 plies to its use by the Central C lub, then why shuuld it not 

 also apply to its use by other clubs. The fact that other 

 clubs use this system of spotting at the clo^e of their stikes 

 instead of at the opeuing of them, does not, I think, make 

 its use essentially different except in this particular. 



By spotting at the start the judges are given power to cor- 

 rect more than to create evil, whereas I think the spotting 

 at the end gives the same power to create aud little, if any, 

 power to correct evil. 



Cases are cited where dogs rau poor heats in the first series 

 and afterward proved themselves good dogs by doing uni- 

 formly good work, and cases where good work was done in 

 the first heat by dogs that did indifferent work in subse- 

 quent heats. Most potent proof, I should say, of the great 

 value of the spotting system property applied, and of the 

 wisdom of the rule of the Central Club, which requires 

 their judges to consider a dog's work in all his heats. If a 

 poor dog does good work in the first series, and consequently 

 is overrated and passed into the next series, where he shows 

 up in his true light, no harm is done by this error. 



As the keen, expert judge will see and understand the 

 case, he will want positive proof of inferiority, aud rather 

 than dismiss a good dog m the first series he will take 

 chances ol putting an indifferent one into the second series 

 of heats. At least it is not only possible to do so, but pi o- 

 bable that such work will be done under the new rules. On 

 the other hand, under the old and weather-beaten system of 

 constructive beatings, from beginning to end of a stake, 

 where two good ones were drawn together, judges were left 

 no other alternative than to dismiss one or the other, no 

 matter whether the work done was good or indifferent. 

 Now, do not all who hunt dogs aud are familiar with their 

 work know full well that the more brilliant a dog's best 

 ■work is, generally the more remarkably bad his bad work Is? 

 By this rule, is not the least meritorious of a good brace 

 almost certain to win a heat where both dogs are off and 

 doing their worst work? It seems plain then that the sys- 

 tem which would surely put the best dog of a brace out of 

 the stake is not as good as that which would leave it possible 

 to keep either or both dogs in till the true winner is dis- 

 covered. 



So far as the judges are concerned, I am satisfied that un- 

 fair or incompetent ones could do great wrong, despite auy 

 and all rules. I think no one will deny that the Central 

 Club has done the yery best that could be done to guard 

 against trouble arising through their judges. They have 

 selected tho:*e who are generally believed to be thoroughly 

 competent, fair and impartial gentlemen; they announced 

 their names before an entry was asked for. if the public 

 do not approve of those judges they need not enter their 

 dogs to be judged by thetn. If sportsmen and breeders at 

 large do approve of those judges they will, no doubt, indorse 

 them by making entries liberally. Other trials have been 

 advertised, nominations have been made under the impres- 

 sion that so and so would judge, but when the fees were 

 paid, the dogs on the ground and the owners absent, alto- 

 gether different judges were sprung upon the handlers, who, 

 ignorant of what their employers would have done under 

 the circumstances, started the dogs often to their sorrow. I 

 am not now trying to stir up bad feelings between the old 

 clubs and the new one. I am simply trying to call attention 

 to what many, others as well as I, believe to be facts, and 



for no other purpose than for the good of the cause to which, 

 no doubt, those who may differ with me are as much at- 

 tached and perhaps of far more consequence than I am. 



I have little to say at present about the new departure of 

 the Central Field Trial Club regarding the running of set- 

 ters and pointers, alternating the days for each breed. I 

 have giv-m this proposed feature of the running very little 

 study; but the argument against it, based on the point of 

 eudurance as tested at field trials, is no argument at all, to 

 my mind at least, for the reason that trials as now don- 

 ducted do not pretend to test endurance, and if they did pre- 

 tend to do so, such pretension would be ridiculed by sports- 

 men in general. 



1 am pleased. with the prospects of a trial that will reason- 

 ably test endurance, although t am not a believer in the 

 doctrine of endurance testing to the extent of backing 

 brilliant performers. I believe, though, that a dog of en- 

 durance should hold his pace, unslacked, for four or six 

 hours, and that, how much he would slow down between a 

 short spin and a whole-day r ice should, with stayess, alto- 

 gether depeud on how they were fitted lor the work. 



Common sense shows that a dog that goes at the rate of 

 ten miles an hour should require greater power to run ten 

 hours than one that goes only two or three miles an hour. 

 Yt t 1 know that any level-headed dog will regulate his 

 pace according to the length of time he is habitually re- 

 quired to work. 



I believe, though, that some of the cracks will wisely 

 keep out of any trial that will test their endurance, or 

 rather expose their lack of it. Ou this subject, and in com- 

 pliance with Major Muruan's kind request for my opinion, 

 more anon. LUKE W. WHITE. 



SOME NOTED GREYHOUNDS. 



NOW that there seems to be every prospect of coursing 

 Avith greyhounds being introduced into the Eastern 

 States, I h ve thought perhaps some of the readers of For- 

 est AND STREAM might like to know of some of those dogs 

 which have made great names for themselves, and that a 

 recital of some of their peculiarities and characteristics 

 might not be altogether uuinteresting. Onriug the past 

 ten years I have been in frequent correspondence with some 

 of England's oldest coursers, and from their letters have 

 gleaned such incidents as have served to while away for me 

 most pleasantly many an hour. 



In the present, age of hurry-scurry, little attention has 

 been paid to those happeuiugs which are fraught with great 

 interest to those who come after. A pleasing incident oc- 

 curred just before Mr. Campbell's great Canaradzo, called 

 sometimes "The King of the Whites," wou the Waterloo. 

 Just before the dog went into the slips, a gentleman ap- 

 proaching Mr. Campbell, asked him the meaning of the 

 name, saying, "I don't find it put down in Johnson's 

 Dictionary." "Isn't it?" replied the proud owner of the 

 dog and the inventor of the name, "Well, if Can aradzo "wins 

 the cup to-day, ynu'll find his name in the next edition." 

 Hedidiu very 'truth win the cup, and although the name 

 may never have appeared in the dictionary, it is so univers- 

 ally known among coursers that the absence is not felt. In 

 his Waterloo in 1861 Canaradzo showed remarkably fine 

 pace, (ire and worki tig form, commanded himself most beau- 

 tifully, and was particula rly determined and clever in closing 

 with his hare. In this course he gave Faklenside (a rare 

 good dog and brother to Crererand Border Union) a terrible 

 dressing, and only let Gilbert (by Weapon) get first turn by 

 favor of the ground. His stock was inclined to be a bit 

 quarrelsome and required a great deal of work. If they 

 were bad of temper they were very bad, while if they were 

 the reverse they were like the boy in the nursery tale, "very, 

 very good." All his progeny showed fine pace and were 

 yery game. 



Oue of Mr. Campbell's peculiarities was in the names he 

 invented for his dogs, all of which began with the initial 

 letter of his name. Some of them quite put one's jaw out 

 of sockets to pronounce, as may be verified by struggling 

 with Colcorxardo, Cararando, Calabarvono, Cliardona, 

 C<*xlarpeua, Giotoga (pronounced Kiotoga), etc. He was a 

 bit superstitious about naming his own dogs himself, and 

 without doubt was justified in it, lor the only ones he did 

 not name were Crested Lochiel and Carn-ye-by-Athol, both 

 of which came to a bad end. It is greatly to be regretted 

 that Mr. Campbell's advancing years caused him to" retire 

 from active coursing and so content himself with a few r of 

 his still marvelous breeding. His name will go down as 

 one of the shining ligtts of the greyhound world, coupled 

 with Scotland Yet and Canaradzo, the latter oue who, 

 besides his wonderful speed and cleverness ; transmitted 

 these qualities, which are especially apparentin his progeny 

 hoth ot the first and second generation, among which arc 

 found the notables: Spendthrift, Boanerges, Bab-at-the- 

 Bowster, Contango, Litigation, Charmer, King Death 

 (Waterloo, 1864), Cock Robin (second to Master MeGratb, 

 1868, tor Waterloo), Charming May, Chameleon (Waterloo 

 purse, 1862), Wee Avon, and a score of other flyers. 



Canaradzo was a beautiful dog, especially well formed in 

 the ribs aud outline of his back, and with his tail set ou 

 perfectly. Mr. Nightiugal", who judged twenty-nine meet- 

 ings in succession, and eighteen out ot twenty-one Water- 

 loos, in writing to a friend said of Canaradzo:" "He bad the 

 particular point which settles all disputes in my mind as to 

 a fast versus slow greyhound, viz., the proper description 

 of loin. A broad, thick, vulgar loin deuotes to a dead' cer- 

 tainty a slow dog, that worst of all complaint in a grey- 

 hound. What is wanted is a well developed loin, not 

 heavy, nor too long or weak, but growing finer and narrower 

 from the middle to the couplings just as you see it in him." 

 Of all the dogs tnat ever came under his judgment, Charm- 

 ing May was his especial delight, and he had her up to his 

 bedside before the Waterloo to pat her and as he said "give 

 her a piece of good advice. She is nearly as pretty as her 

 dam," he said, "and with that same curious dip behind the 

 chine." Of the stock of King Cob, it seemed as if he could 

 never speak enough praise, which he said "always ran so 

 short and kept their backs up and their heads so well down." 

 As to perfection and true characteristic greyhound head, 

 that of Sunbeam realized all his ideas, and Sam quite cap- 

 tivated him with "his healthful style of running, so true, so 

 clever, that you might ride for miles and miles after him 

 and yet never see his nob." 



The peculiar names given his dogs by Mr. Campbell had 

 no significance in themselves, but those given by other 

 coursers surely had, as evidenced in Mr. Jardine's Ladylike, 

 whose whole deportment indicated the character she repre- 

 sented. She was a very smart one, and clever too with only 

 just enough sense. If a hare chanced to go down hill she 

 would follow tier just far enough so as to stop herself at 

 will, but if perchance she did miscalculate, she rectified her 

 error by regainiug lost ground at a pace that was simply 

 marvelous. 



Studying Oscar seems to have come honestlv by his odd 

 name and his actions in the field warranted his having been 

 so-called. In one of his courses, which he won with much 



whenever he was beaten he ran well and worked hard, this 

 compelling his adversary to do his very best. 



Go and Glorv, one rough and the other smooth, the prop- 

 erty of Mr. Geddes, were a rattling b»ace of greyhounds, In 

 fact considered the fastest dog and bitch brace in any kennel 

 in all Scotland. Go seemed to be a. bit the faster of the two, 

 while Glory, with beautiful action and working ot her hare, 

 gave a charming finish to the course. 



It is upon the killing that Dr. Richardson's white and 

 black dog King Death's fame principally rests, and some of 

 his cross kills were simply beautiful to witness. He won 

 the Waterloo iu 1864, beating Rebe in the dual. It was 

 indeed death to any hare who felt his teeth, for when his 

 jaws closed the scene ended. 



Capt. Spencer's Sunbeam, a beautiful red dog. was a 

 most charming dispositionedone.aud fully realized the signi- 

 ficance of his name. John Irvine, the trainer, found him a 

 delicate dog to get into proper condition, as he was always a 

 very light feeder. He had a soft, mild eye, and a head so 

 snirill and beautifully formed that it might well have 

 belonged to a bitch. A. course over au open country suited 

 him exactly as he had a great antipathy to fencing, and 

 would hardly face a gate. His speed was good, though 

 nothing specially brilliant, but his work wheu he got well 

 into it was not only very even but beautiful as well. 



H. W. HTJNTINGTOSr. 

 [TO BE CONCLUDED.] 



RUSSIAN WOLFHOUNDS. 



EMbor Forest and Stream: 



Your indefatigable and always interesting correspondent 

 W. Wade in his article "Russian-Siberian-Circassian Wolf 

 hounds or Greyhounds" claims that "we really have no 

 breed of dogs thoroughly suited for i he purpose of follow- 

 ing a handsome span of horses or a lady on horseback," and 

 he is of opinion that the Siberian wolfhound would fill this 

 want. I do not want to dispute this point with Mr. Wade, 

 but on the contrary wish him luck and profit on his venture 

 in importing some specimens of that breed, but merely 

 want to differ with him on his assertion that for the above 

 purpose there is no other suitable dog. To my tas'e the 

 Great Dane is as stylish au animal as any lady or cavalier 

 could wish to take along on a ride or a drive, and he cau out- 

 run any horse and jump as well. Besides, he is the largest 

 breed known, and this alone would make him fashionable 

 at a time when sise is considered a main attraction. The 

 Great Dane is faithful to his master, indifferent, even un- 

 friendly, to stranger's and a first-class watch and guard dog. 

 what more could be wished for? 



The Great Dane travels in America under so many differ- 

 ent names that for the uninitiated it is difficult to know 

 which is which. Even I in speaking of Great Danes do not 

 correctly express what I mean, hut I use the word in its ac- 

 cepted meaning in the United States. What I mean is the 

 Ulmer dogge (also called Deutsche dogge). an animal simi- 

 lar to the Dauisehe dogge, but larger and heavier than the 

 latter. It would be well for American shows to have dis- 

 tinct classes for the German and for the Danish breed, as it 

 is an injustice that the smaller species should be compelled 

 to compete with the larger. Some years ago a correspondent 

 in your columns proposed to have it settled in the above 

 manner, and do away with all the other misleading names 

 as; Siberian bloodhound, German mastiff, German boar- 

 bound, etc., but at the time his suggestion was not 

 favorably received; perhaps there was not sufficient interest 

 iu this ciass of dogs. Now, however, they are rapidly gain- 

 ing favor in fashionable circles, and breeders are turniug 

 their attention to them, and, therefore, I believe the time 

 has come to do awa> with all cou fusion and distinguish the 

 German dog from the Danish, and altogether drop the other 

 erroneous names. Some of the daily papers have inaugu- 

 rated a new sport, so-called beauty contests; how woulcf it 

 be for you to take votes on the popularity of the different 

 breeds of dogs de luxe? 1 vote for the English mastiff, on 

 accouut of his affectionate nature, reliable temper aud his 

 eotnpaniouable manner, coupled with the greatest strength 

 and highest courage, George H. Kretz. 



New York. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Since writing the article on the above that appears in your 

 issue of the 9th inst. (which 1 wrote nearly two mouths since), 

 I have learned that I was mistaken in supposing that Mr. 

 Hacke's two dogs were sire *nd son. So tne inference as to 

 uniformity of type in the breed is not as strong as I supposed. 



W. WADE. 



THE ENGLISH FIELD TRIALS. 

 rpiIE fifteenth spring field trials of the English Kennel 

 1_ Club were run at Worksop, England. April 30 to May 

 2. There were 94 nominations for the Derby with 17 starters, 

 9 pointers and 8 setters. The vanning pointers were: 



First, Banco of Brussels (O. Morrei ), orange and white 

 dog. Jan. 3, 1838 (M ister Bung B.iug— Lorua Doone of Kip- 

 peu). 



Second, Dodona (Duke of Portland), liver and white bitch. 

 Feb. 20, 1SS8 (Kent Cob— Magpie). 



Third, Rene R (Rev. W. J. Richardson), liver and white 

 dog, Feb. 10, 188S (Byrsa— Regent of Milton). 



SETTERS. 



First, Trip of Kippen (F. C. Lowe), liver and white dog, 

 Jan. 17, 1888 (Tutsham Trip— Dido). 



Second, Blossom of Halesworth (C. Bishop), black ard 

 white bitch, April 28, 1888 (Pride of the Hillside— Essex 

 Belle). 



Third, Aldon Trip(F. Wardeand C. Gibbs), liver and white 

 dog, April 23, 1888 (Tutsham Trip— Penelope). 

 Absolute winner, Trip of Kippen. 



ALL-AGED STAKES. 

 For pointers or setters (limited to 16); the winners were: 

 First, Polities (Sir T. B. Leonard), liver and white pointer 



dog (Priam— DuchessJ. 

 Second, Drogheda (C, C. Ellis), red Irish setter dog (Frisco 



— Grouse II.). 



Third, Blue Maid of Cranfield (H. Harter), black, white 

 and tan English setter bitch (Ranging Aaron— Little Bess). 



Fourth. Belle des Bordes (P. Cailiard), liver and white 

 pointer bitch (Young Bang— Polly). 



ng." He bad a haoit of placing H „ 



self right m the hare's line,.thus verifying the old adage, 

 that "a cunning dog will throw you over, but it takes some 

 sense to win a big cup." 



British Lion was another worthy of his name both as to 

 constitution and strength. His ability to stop or turn was 

 the admiration of all who saw him run, and it is said he 

 could stop on the side of a hill in two yards. His constitu- 

 tion was such that he could run well about everv day, and 



DISTEMPER.— Hulton, Pa., May 9.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream -. I have a litter of two months old mastiffs with 

 distemper. They have never been out of the kennel yard, 

 into which no other dogs are admitted. I can only account 

 for the disease by a distempered dog having been put iu the 

 same range of kennels in the latter part of February. After 

 this distemper d dog's removal, the kennels were thoroughly 

 cleaned out, but not disinfected, although all bidding was 

 burned up. I had no idea that the contagion could retain 

 its potency for nearly three months Is this- usual ? Is there 

 any more effective disinfectant than burning plenty of 

 sulphur in the kennels while they are tightly closed ? — W. 

 Wade. [The poison of distemper retains its vitality for a 

 long time; just bow long has never b-en satisfactorily deter- 

 mined. It is claimed by many that the germs of the disease 

 can be conveyed through the air for quite a distance, and our 

 experience leads us to believe that this is true. A tnorough 

 cleaning and fumigation with sulphur will undoubtedly 

 disinfect the kennel.] 



