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 Mel Record and Account Book. 



rcalxino. liy N. T. Hammond. 

 i Dot/ l\aiuituj, ivilh Points of 



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Club, at Incline., 



TURES. 



a SHOWS. 



alie Richmond County Poultry and 

 •mcctiou with Augusta National Ex- 



L Madden. Superintendent. 



fche Northern Illinois Poultry and pet 



ford, 111. A. H. Currier, Seerotar v . 



• how of me Merideit Poultry Associ- 

 "tary, No. 430 Pratt street, Merideit, 



i Annual Dnpr Show of the Southern 

 •iociation, at Now Redford, Mass. F. 



Annual Dog Show of the Columbus 



0. Thos. R. Sparrow, Secretary, 

 toe Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

 tjeo. L. Wilms, Secretary, 143 Monti- 

 X. J. 



tenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 .lames Mortimer, Superintendent. 

 -Second Annual Show of the RenssalaiT 

 Alba M. Me. Secretary, 

 ••utd Annual Po;i Show of the Albanv 

 N. Y. Geo. R. Gallup, Secretary, 

 ■cond Annual Show of the Port Schuyler 

 '. James W. Duillop. President. 

 , I rst Annual Dog Show of the Maryland 

 ore, Mr!. W. 8. Hi Ifendorffer, Secretary. 

 ■First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 jyun. Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 

 jTst Annual Show of the Rochester Kenntl 

 *. Y. Harry Yates. Secretary, 

 annual Show of the New England Kennel 

 . J. W. Newman, Secretary, No. 6 Hamilton 



—First Annual Dog Show of the Maseoutah 

 icago. m. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 

 l.-The Seventh Dog Show of the Philadelphia 

 iladelphia. Pa. Wm. C. Child, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 ad. P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis. 



nmial Field Trials of the Philadelphia Kennel 

 ^bers only. Wm. H. Child, Secretary, Phila- 



Walton u. ' 

 consider thai 



to his heart's annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 accurate info int, N. C. (Members' Stake, Nov. 15.) W. A. 

 State on flu Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



uu i ti< nnU!tl FjRld TrialB of the Southern Field Trial 

 branches, wli ,jyiiss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Chattanooga, 

 can be found 



cident to Sin / Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

 game «st Point, Miss. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincin- 



Corning is Lxth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific. Coast 

 the State an a* Bakersfield, Cal. N. P. Sheldon, Secretary, 

 "Deer Range ' 1 Sar granciaco, 

 impUes. turk< K R ._ S PECIAL NOTICE, 

 stoci'ecf w ip AN 'KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 Can be obta" =, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is 

 liver which y month. Entries close on the 1st. Should he in 



ELnohel b 'hwk 8 seut on receipt of stamped and addressed 

 turkey, ch - ^istration fee (50 cents) must, accompany each entry, 

 crop pie' "serted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

 - Aau 93 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 6666 



ERICAN COURSING CLUB MEET. 



(Concluded from last week). 



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Wednesday, Oct. 17— Continued. 

 ise crowd which gathered ahout the cluh house at 

 'i- time, aud the general hilarity and good fellow- 

 i prevailed, spoke volumes tor the established suc- 

 ■ American Coursing Club as au event of the great- 

 fir interest. The members of the club looked about 

 'wonder. It began to be apparent that they had 

 letter than they knew. What was at first derided as 

 jt of a few foolish men to "watch some dogs chase a 

 had gathered together here very nearly 3,500 

 Moreover, they were all satisfied. More than that, 

 .^.fnuous clouds of white dust rolling down the hill 

 e^wuiV many other conveyances hastening to the scene of 

 and M ':. A broad smile of happiness spread over the faces 



Swi i ab members, 

 tied c dinner Young Goiddust and Little Lady Glendyne 

 bear again. Lady killed ahead in 130yds. No course, 

 and ■ inex * bare, Lady led up, and at three-quarters of a 

 \ . , , T _ td a go-by, two turns and several wrenches. She 

 h e iolddust, who for one and one-quarter miles scored 

 -idly. Lady took a go-by, but lost to Goiddust, who 

 _L'ciis. 'up too many points for her, killed and won. Mr. 

 i all had been anxious for a strong hare, and he got it. 

 1 also repeatedly offered to wager that in any course 

 list would be the first dog to the hare. He' found a 

 ' ere which beat him up, and he also found such a dog 

 ers other occasions; which shows how naughty it is 

 1 5, and how unsafe it is to talk of your dog too con- 

 > ly. Mr. Williams judged this course. 

 M iss Smart and Rich aud Rare made a no-course of seventy 

 yards. On the next hare Miss Smart was better off, though 

 both were wide. Miss Smart had three go-bys and had 

 scored ten points before Rich and Rare got in. The Denver 

 dog. as usual, required a forty-acre field to turn in, but got 

 extended in a long course, quite his sort of race, began to 

 score lightly, and ran four and a half miles. The judge, Mr. 

 Nash, got unsighted and held it no course. Two courses 

 later these dogs were ordered in again, but Rich and Rare 

 had been sent to the club house, and Miss Smart was de- 

 clared winner. 



Lady Milly Glendyne beat Reno Pilot almost pointless in 

 a long' course. Following his dog on his hunting horse, old 

 John, Mr. Allison got a decidedly ugly fall, and would have 

 been crushed but for the horns of his cow saddle. The 

 heavy saddles seem best for this work. Mr. Williams 

 judged. 



SECOND SERIES OF THE DERBY. 



Miss Rare and Plymouth were slow to their hare. Ply- 

 mouth scored light for one and a quarter miles, and placed 

 Miss Rare, who led for one aud a half miles, not scoring. 

 The hare went to earth. It is not plain where Mr. Nash 

 found points to give Miss Rare the course. Plymouth ran 

 till the hare was lost, and neither scored in the long follow. 



Master Rich and Goldy ran a give-and-take course, in 



at once offered Minnehaha to run. saying he "would show 

 him how she could run around Pilot," And this she cer- 

 tainly did. Mr. Allison claimed Pilot was out of condition, 

 and drew him to prevent his making another holy show of 

 himself. 



There was more or less drunken rowdyism on the grounds 

 during the day, a great many fellows of the baser sort .seem- 

 ing to think the runnings were simply "dog races," and not 

 the meet of a coursing club composed of gentlemen who 

 kindly threw the grounds open to the public. Deputy 

 sheriffs were after this sworn in to act as marshalls. This 

 had not been thought necessary at any time earlier, but the 

 crrowth of the meet had begun to attract such crowds that 

 legal means of enforcing order were seen to be an imperative 

 want. One or two young merchants of Great Bend were 

 thai night cautioned that they must thereafter take their 

 whisky elsewhere lor a lark, and come to the grounds only 

 with such speech and couduct as are fit in the presence of 

 adies. It began to be seen that the club meant business in 

 the matter of order and decency. 



Thursday, Oct. 19.— By common consent of the public, 

 Thursday seems to be set. apart as the great field day of the 

 coursing' meet, and this was indeed a great and flattering 

 day for the club. The public schools were dismissed, and 

 poured their legions of troublesome young folks over the 

 grounds. The day was clear and warm, and a continuous 

 stream of riders and vehicles flowed through the gates till 

 late in the day. Since flic event is now so evidently one of 

 the greatest popular interest it is quite fit that Forest AND 

 STREAM should mention its purely social features as well as 

 those of technical sporting character. Following are the 

 names of a few of the ladies seen in the field: 



Mrs. Fr tnk Loan, of St. Louis, Miss MacDonald, of St. 

 Louis, Miss Bessie Chant berlio, Miss Jennie Rice, Mrs. 

 Branch, Mrs. Jones, Miss E. Jones, Mrs. Ohamberlin, of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. D. C. Luce, Mrs. D. Teed, Miss Potter, 

 Miss Taylor, Mrs. W. W. Carney, Mrs. Laidlaw, Mrs. 

 Touusley, Mrs. Chappel, Mrs. Heizer, Miss Butler, Mrs, 

 Davidson, Mrs. Schermerhorn, Miss Clara Johnson, Miss 

 Conkrite, Mrs, Saport, Mrs. Yettick, Mrs. Bain, Mrs. Wells, 

 Mrs. Culver, Mrs. Moses. Miss Tounsley, Mrs. Barley, Mrs. 

 Carr, Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs. Anna Johnson, Mrs. Heckebee, 

 Mrs. Woodridge, Mrs. Tilden, Miss Clement, Mrs. Sclaek, 

 Mrs. Willsou, Mrs. G N. Moses, Mrs. E. R. Moses Mrs. 

 Butler, Mrs. W. Dodge, Mrs. John Winstead, Mrs. Berks, 

 Mrs. Willis Winstead, Mrs. Ed Crail, Mrs. L. Nitnieks, 

 Mrs. Judge Nimicks, Miss Welch, Miss Roseo, Miss Saport, 

 Mrs. Smart, Mrs. Josie Johnson, Miss McKinner, Mrs Dr. 

 Shaw, Miss Atterbury, Miss Kline, Mrs. Kliue, Mrs. Cor- 

 nell, Miss Bolinger, M"iss Ruhe, Miss Moon, Mrs. Lowards, 

 Miss Lettie Lowards, Miss Rial, of Peuna., Miss Buchanan, 

 Miss Goold, Mrs. Goold, Miss Nichols, Miss MeTatrgart, Mrs. 

 Del. Gillham, Mrs. Bolinger, Mrs. Hedges, Mrs. F. J. Long, 

 of Col., Miss Armstrong, Mrs. Berchfield, Mrs. Loyd, Mrs. 

 Hall, Miss Lillie Cornell, Mrs. Maud Clayton, Mrs. Meacham, 

 Mrs. Sumners. Mrs. Dennie Meacham, Mrs. Geo. Meacham, 

 Mrs. Will Miller, Mrs. Jennie Castle, Miss Will iter, Mrs. 

 Brinkman, Miss Lillie Brinkman, Mrs. A. P. Parr, Mrs. 

 Benedict, Miss Ursula Benedict, Mrs. Niblo, Mrs. Tomphson, 

 Miss Agness. 



It would be impossible to give the names of all the gentle- 

 men and ladies who came from almost every State in the 

 Union to atend the meet, but among others the Forest AND 

 STREAM'S representative met visitors from Detroit, Mich., 

 Chicago, 111., Boston, Mass., Denver, Col., New York, and 

 from all points of Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and other 

 Western States. One feature noticeable was the growing 

 style and elan of the assemblage. Mention of costumes 

 would be tedious, but it will do to say that there is a grow- 

 ing movement toward cords and tops among the eentlemen 

 and to correct habit among the ladies. Mr. Doan, of St. 

 Louis, the secretary of the club, to whose efforts much of the 

 present year's growth is directly attributable, marshaled an 

 attractive party of St. Louis people. Mrs. Doau, a most 

 pleasant and winning lady, appeared to distinct advantage 

 in habit of green facings, and chaperoned an easy and confi- 

 dent, horsewoman in her friend Miss MacDonald, of the same 

 city, who rode in full park costume, hat, boots aud habit. 



Cousin Frank and Lee, therefore, were the focus of a large 

 and distinguished assemblage when they strained at the 

 sli ps in the 



SECOND SERIES OF THE DERBY. 

 Lee led up and took two turns. Frank drewin aud scored, 

 but the hare was lost, and no course was held. After the bye 

 race for this series, in which Locks showed well over his 

 mate, Cap, Cousin Frank and Lee went down again. Lee 

 was again the better up, and the two traded turns. Frank 

 held ahead for two miles, neither dog doiug much. The 

 hare escaped. Mr. Nash gave Lee the course, as showing 

 better at the start. Reno Pilot being drawn, there remained 

 only Dr. Van Hum mell's four dogs, Master Rich, Miss Rose, 

 Locks and Lee, in the Derby. He decided to run them out. 



THIRD SERIES AMERICAN FIELD CUP. 

 Bessie Lee played all around Sandy Jim, who biped along 

 with his ears up", and was beaten pointless! He is no longer 

 of any earthly use at a coursing meet. Bessie killed un- 

 aided," and began to earn place as a favorite. Mr. Williams 

 judge. 



Dick Taylor and Rowdy had a long course directly past 

 the club house. Rowdy had the better for a half mile, but 

 the scarred black wolf dog passed, scored, killed and won. 



The weather being very warm, the dinner hour was pro- 

 longed. Some views were made of the assemblage by a 

 photographer. 



Lavina and White Lips went in. White Lips at once 

 went to the hare, and worked her for the greatest two miles 

 ever seen in America. White Lips clearly showed herself a 

 wonderful bitch. At two miles, however, Lavina took a 

 go-by and began to score. The hare was lost in a corn shock. 

 In another mile Lavina might have cut down the fifteen 

 points White Lips had rolled up, for the latter was clearly 

 done. White Lips won. Mr. Williams, judge. 



Young Goiddust and Miss Smart were held back from a 

 young jack and started a moment later on a good one. Mr. 

 Lightball, owner of Goiddust, rode between the hare and 

 Miss Smart, unsighting her. She had much to do, but got. 

 in and scored well. Mr. Nash thought the course, good 

 enough for Goiddust, and did not order the dogs in again, 

 claiming that he only begr.n the count after Miss Smart got 

 place. Another course would have made better feeling, 

 though technically unnecessary had not the totals been so 

 close. 



Imported Lady Milly Glendyne rati a bye with imported 

 Trales, and showed better. The hare obligingly ran among 

 the crowd cor the finish. 



THIRD SERIES OF THE DERBY. 

 Master Rich beat Miss Rare in a long course after a demon 

 whitetail. Miss Rare stopped at the club house. Master 

 Rich won. Mr. Nash, judge. 

 Locks and Lee went in, but found no hare. A blizzard 



xu.uuuwx -y'v" w' Vd-TI "'T"' ' "* cloud came up, and the crowd of neighing and restless horses 



which Goldy won ^X&tS'U^S^ Rl % he ^ sses - became unmanageable. For three-quarters of an hour there 



judge° Dg Mr. Williams was not ? field a ol ficer or officer of the club in sight, and 



Minnehaha was not on hand when called in with Reno 

 Pilot, and time elapsing the course was claimed for Reno 

 Pilot by his owner, Mr. Allison, and so awarded. Mr. Van 



Hummell objected to this. He would have done the same Friday, Oct. 19. -The cold morning cleared off kinnly 



thing for Mr. Allison's doe, and would have had a right to and a fair day was presented -for this, which was likely to 



do so. Objection to the enforcement of a rule is all wrong- be the deciding day of the meet. Only six courses remained 



the only deplorable thing is that they should not be enforced to be run. 



strictly in every case. j third series of the DERBY. 



Reno Pilot was now placed for a bye. Dr. Van Hummell Locks led Lee up to the hare, turned, had the better of it, 



only the judge and one reporter followed the dogs, whose 

 owner was absent with the rest at the club house. The day 

 closed. 



killed and won. The dogs coursed and killed a second hare 

 before they could be secured. Mr. Williams judged. 



FOURTH SERIES AMERICAN FIELD CUP. 



Lady Milly Glendyne and Bessie Lee got off on a close 

 hare. Lady Mil ley led up and placed Bessie, who scored a 

 wrench or {.wo and a kill to win before Bessie could recover 

 on her turn. The course, was not over 100yds. Mr. Nash 

 gave the course to Bessie Lee. The alternate judge and 

 everybody else thought it too short for a decisive course; and 

 so it clearly was. 



Great interest was manifested as homely but likely-looking 

 Dick Taylor went, into the slips with beautiful English 

 White laps. There were whispers that White Lips could 

 not stay over two miles. They got a strong hare, to which 

 White 'Lips got like a, thunderbolt, and in her absolutely 

 lovely style rolled up eleven points within two miles. She 

 was quite too fast at first, for Dick Taylor, who, however, 

 drew by and began to score, White Lips following him just 

 as he had her at first. Dick worked in well, tripped and 

 killed, scoring seven points. Had he waited 100yds. to kill 

 he might have won. Mr. Lowe rather ungraciously remarked 

 to Mr. Carney that "his duffer of a dog allowed White Lips 

 to pump himself all out and then came in to kill the hare." 

 This is quite unjust. Dick Taylor ran as honest as any dog 

 could, lie made every turn that White Lips made, hut she 

 was too clever for him, and kept inside. It is perhaps fairer 

 to say that the equal of White Lips has not been seen in this 

 country, but that she is too lately over to lie well used to the 

 rarer air of the plains, and .so fails in lung power at the finish 

 of a long course. In any event, it would sit far better on 

 Mr. Lowe to be quietly proud of his great bitch, and not 

 openly contemptuous of other gentlemen's dogs, who cer- 

 tainly did their best to beat him fairly. 



Young Goiddust ran a cracking bye with Dinah Black, 

 the latter showing a suspicion of waiting. 



DECIDING HEAT OF THE DERBY. 



After dinner Master Rich and Locks went in for the 

 honors of the Derby. Both dogs were in horrible condition 

 and hardly had three legs between them. Master Rich led 

 up, making five points in all. Locks killed at end of a long 

 course. Master Rich won the Derby; Locks runner-up. 

 Master Rich is a strong brindle and white dog of Snowflight 

 points, and barring perhaps Miss Rose is the best of Dr. 

 Van Ilummell's dogs. He is a trifle long, and turns too 

 wide, though infinitely better than Rich and Rose. Locks is 

 an ordinary looking black dog, but went into the meet in the 

 best condition of any dog on the grounds. He was bred and 

 raised by R. D. Williams, of Lexington, Ky., who owns old 

 Snowflight. Locks is clearly a good one; he ran a great 

 course after two stinging ones in the morning. 



Mr, W. W. Carney, owner of the great plain on which the 

 club grounds lie, and to whose courtesy the success of the 

 club is directly due, led off for dinner at his hospitable 

 home. Mr. Doan's St. Louis party, and the Forest And 

 Stream's representative, joined them for its annual dinner 

 with Mr. and Mrs. Carney, not the least pleasure, surely, of 

 the meet. Ou return to the grounds the dogs were found in 

 the slips for the 



fifth series of the American field cup. 



Young Goiddust and Bessie Lee were matched here. 

 Young Goiddust, though known by some few to be far from 

 perfect in health, was thought an easy winner of the stakes 

 over White Lips if the hare lived over a mile and a half. It 

 was supposed that he would, of course, beat Bessie Lee, who 

 had already run further down than she belonged on merit 

 per sc. Quite to the surprise of ail, Bessie Lee's lead and 

 scoring for one and three-quarter miles were never cut down 

 by Goiddust, although he took a possible go-by and worked 

 the hare by himself for a half mile. The hare went to earth. 

 Bessie Lee won clearly and unmistakably, although the 

 course was a singular one. Mr. Nash judged. Mr. Light- 

 hall took Goiddust to town, and in the evening complained 

 that there had all along been a combination to beat him. 

 He soon regretted this untortunate languae-e, on being 

 shown plainly that any possible current against him had 

 been excited by his own over-free vaunting of his own dog. 

 It is to be hoped that next year all the gentlemen will come 

 to the meet with never an expressed wish except that the best 

 dog may win. Goiddust is a good dog and beat good ones. 

 He had rather the best of the judging in two courses, one by 

 each judge, but was a favorite for first or second place. 



White Lips now ran a bye with Miuuehaha, and for once ■ 

 lost place early in the race to her mate, who actually did 

 give her a bit of work. The judge now held his decision 

 some time, apparently to give White Lips more time than 

 the thirty minutes' law after the decision for the final 

 course. 



DECIDING COURSE FOR AMERICAN FIELD CUP. 

 A great roar of expectancy swept over the long line of 

 beaters and spectators as the last brace went down, and the 

 little bitches Bessie Lee and White Lips pressed gamely for- 

 ward into the collars. One or two knowing ones laicLwagers 

 against the English bitch, on the strength of the fact that 

 the pads were badly torn on three of her feet, and that she 

 had had hot work for any but a great stayer. Had the course 

 been held over until the following morning no odds would 

 have been taken against White Lips, who is easily the best 

 coursing Greyhound ever seen here. A start on a strong 

 hare was made, the hare running diagonally across. There 

 was no test in the run-up. White Lips ran the outer curve, 

 the hare turning slightly in Bessie's favor to White Lip's 

 possible wrench. Once in, however, Bessie showed the great- 

 est speed and took the hare for more than her half of it, 

 turning the better over three-quarters of a mile. Bessie was 

 as clever on a corner as White Lips, speedier at the close and 

 killed, winning by two points, or perhaps one and a. half. It 

 was a close course, but no objection was heard to Mr. Wil- 

 liams's decision, since it clearly and easily belonged where 

 given. It was not generally known that W bite Lips's feet 

 were unfit for work. 



When it became evident that the Great Bend bitch had 

 won the championship, the greatest excitement prevailed, 

 and cheer after cheer arose, while hats and handkerchiefs 

 were flung wildly into the air. Mr. Luse's tall white hat 

 was banged down over his eyes, while all crowded about 

 Mrs. Luse — who owns Bessie Lee, and who rode every course 

 to take her up— to catch a glimpse of the game little one who 

 had won Great Bend her glory. 



Bessie Lee is a fairly well made brindle bitch, weight 

 forty-three pounds. She is hardy and likely, with forelegs 

 which plainly date back to Flink, a nondescript who was 

 always thought the fastest quarter dog in the West She is 

 by Flink out of Toots. No one knows where Flink came 

 from. He was bought from some gypsies. 



White Lips is a black and white bitch, weight fifty-five 

 pounds, whose worst fault is a tail slightly lacking fineness. 

 Her back and legs are good, she is wonderfully well sprung 

 in the ribs and her tread is very fine She is a beautiful, 

 muscular bitch, a wonderfully tidy worker, and full of 

 quality. She was first to the hare in every course she ran. 



Mr. Luse, the nominator of the winner of the American 

 Field Cup and championship, certainly deserves the highest 

 credit for his perseverance aud eventual success in these an- 

 nual coursing meets. He has brought better and better 

 dogs to the slips each year, and this year furnished the win- 

 ner. There is a general supposition that next year he will 

 crowd the puppy stakes very hard, since he this year went 

 to the trouble and expense of importing the famous English 

 bitch Dick's Darling (out of Daylight by Coleraine Diamond). 

 From this good one he now has a good litter of eight pup- 

 pies by imported Trales, and among these little fellows 

 there will be some likely ones indeed. It is to be hoped that 



