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Third Scries. 

 King Leo beat Nat Goodwin. 

 Ollie S. beat Roger. 

 J.ack Modoc a bye. 



Fourth Series. 

 Jack Modoc beat King Leo. 

 Ollie S. a bye. 



Final for First Pi arc, 

 Ollie S. beat Jack Modoc aud won first prize. 



Tics for Second Place. 

 Bob H. beat Roger. 



Jack Modoc beat Bob H. and won second prize. 



Bob H. was awarded third. 



Roger and King Leo divided fourth. 



THE CHAMPION STAKE. 



There was a great deal of interest in tbe Cbampion Stake, 

 and each dog nad keen admirers and supporters. The 

 judges were the same as in the All-Aged Setter Stake. On 

 the whole the quality of the work was excellent. The day 

 was clear and warm. The dogs were drawn to run as fol- 

 lows; 



JEAN VAL Jean (Memphis and Avent Kennels, Memphis, 

 Tenn.), black, white and tan English setter dog, Nov 7, 1886, 

 (Mingo— Twin Maud), 



against 



Bob Gates (Whyte Bedford, Horn Lake, Miss.), white, 

 black and tan Euglish setter dog, H.,yrs. (Count Rapier — 

 Belle of Hatchie). 



Ollie S. (Memphis and Avent Kennels, Memphis, Tenn.), 

 black, white and tan English setter bitch, 3yrs. (Paul Glad- 

 atone— Lottie), 



against 



- Bohemian Girl (W. G. Mellier, Kansas City, Kas.), black 

 aud white English setter bitch (Count Noble— Mol lie Belton). 



JEAN VAL JEAN AND BOB GATES. 

 The heat began at 8:27 near the glass house. Jean was 

 handled by Avent: Bob Gates by Tucker. Bob had been 

 purchased by Mr. Jas. L. Breese, Tuxedo, N. Y., before the 

 stake began. One of the handlers walked into a bevy and 

 flushed it. The birds were followed into the woods close by. 

 Jean brought up in a stylish point on a single bird and was 

 steady to wing; Bob was not near to back. A short dis- 

 tance further od, by the edge of the run, Jean brought up 

 in a point on a single. Avent killed and Jean retrieved 

 cheerfully and well. The dogs were then brought together 

 to give them an even start again ou the scattered birds. 

 Jean had hardly been cast off when he dropped to a point 

 by the edge of the run; several birds were flushed to the 

 point. On the opposite side of the run Bob pointed, moved 

 on and flushed the bird. In the run shortly afterward he 

 flushed again. Jean pointed on the footscent. Jean next 

 pointed a bevy at the edge of the pine woods, or wheeled to 

 the point just as the bevy flushed. The scattered birds were 

 followed into open sedge. Jean located and pointed a bird 

 and was steady to wing. The dogs were then sent in the 

 oak woods close by, Bob flushed two birds, then pointed a 

 single bird. Turned back into the open. After working 

 about a few minutes, a bevy was seen to rise in the open and 

 go to the woods. Jean was found dropped near where the 

 Bevy flushed. He had been gone some time; but whether he 

 dropped on point aud the bevy flushed wild or whether be 

 flushed no one knew. The 45 minutes were up aud Jean 

 won easily. He was very quick in locating, pointed very 

 stylishly and carried himself with a great deal of dash and 

 spirit His work and manner of work was of a higher 

 grade than that of Bob Gates. He had the advantage in 

 speed, range and style; he also showed greater judgment in 

 bunting his ground. 



OLLIE S. AND BOHEMIAN GIRL. 



They were started on stubble at 9:21. Bohemian Girl 

 showed a magnificent range and earned herself very styl- 

 ishly. She was very obedient without being overtrained, 

 aud showed a finished education. Ollie also ranged well, 

 but did not have the speed of Bohemiau Girl. It was a brace 

 of bitches that even professional trainers rarely see. Bohe- 

 mian Girl was handled by Titus, Ollie by Avent. Ollie 

 pointed in a hollow in sedge; the Girl, coming in from a cast, 

 backed instantly and stylishly. Avent beat out the ground 

 but failed to flush. Sent on, Bohemian Girl pointed on the 

 foot scent; Ollie took the trail and roaded quickly up the 

 hill to the level ground and pointed; three or four birds were 

 flushed near her and the rest of the bevy flushed wild some 

 distance ahead. The birds were foil owed into the oak woods. 

 Ollie pointed a single bird in the dry leaves; Avent shot and 

 missed. Moved on and both pointed; as the judge passed to 

 go to the Girl he flushed a single near Ollie. Titus beat out 

 the ground ahead of the Girl, but did not go quite far 

 enough out; the Girl was sent on and she flushed the bird. 

 Ollie pointed after being sent on; the Girl backed well; noth- 

 ing found. Ollie stopped and pointed just in time to save 

 making a flush. Bohemian Girl coming up, wheeled to a 

 pretty point on two*or three birds, and was steady 

 to wing. Bohemian Girl dropped instantly to a point 

 near a thin growth of briers, and was well backed by Ollie. 

 Titus shot aud missed. Bohemian Girl made a pretty point 

 on a sidehill, and Ollie, 60yds. away, backed stylishly. Titus 

 killed to the point and Bohemian GM scored a neat retrieve. 

 They were sent on to find another bevy. In a hollow in 

 woods Ollie pointed a bevy; the Girl was not near to back. 

 Avent shot and killed; he did not work Ollie in the right 

 idace to find the bird, hence did not find it. Some one inti- 

 mated that Ollie would not retrieve. The dogs were sent 

 into the piue woods to work on the scattered birds. Ollie 

 false-pointed and the Girl roaded carefully up wind through 

 some dead pine limbs to a flush. Her nose was evidently 

 "off," as she was not doing as finished work as her admirers 

 had seen her do. Ollie S. won. Down lh. and 15m. Titus 

 was handicapped in handling by not being familiar with the 

 haunts of the birds. 



First Series. 

 Jean Val Jean beat Bob Gates. 

 Ollie S. beat Bohemian Girl. 



Final Heat for First Place. 



JEAN VAL JEAN AND OLLIE S. 

 After a rest of twenty minutes they were cast off at 

 11:00. The time of day was bad for finding birds or getting 

 good work on them when found. Jean pointed on a side- 

 hill in weeds; Ollie, further down the hill along the run, 

 came in shortly afterward and pointed independently. 

 Avent failed to flush. Sent on both dogs made game, but 

 did not locate. They were up wiud of the birds all the 

 while which were flushed near the judges' horses only a few 

 yards from where Jean first pointed. The birds flew a 

 short distance and lighted iu the sedge. Ollie was first to 

 point on them. Avent killed one and Ollie retrieved it, 

 which set at rest all questions as to her retrieving. Sent on, 

 Ollie took but two or three steps when she pointed and Jean 

 backed; a bird was flushed to the point. Jeau going up 

 wiud flushed a bird, Next Ollie false-pointed. A short 

 distance further, Ollie pointed a bevy staunchly in dead 

 pine limbs; a moment afterward Jean, called in to back going 

 rapidly downwind near Ollie, did not see her; he caught scent 

 when he was almost on tbe bevy, and dropped instantly 

 to point. At this stage it looked as if Ollie was to be the 

 winner of the Champion Stake, She was doing very steady, 

 neat work and much of it. On the way to the scattered 



birds Jean pointed a bevy. In the woods Jean pointed a 

 bird nicely and was well backed. Moved on and Jean pointed 

 in the open sedge; several birds were flushed to the point. 

 Both pointed at the same time. Avent flushed a bird of 

 Jean and killed it. Jean retrieved nicely. In tbe meantime 

 a bird flushed wild ahead of Ollie. Ollie next false-pointed 

 and Jean backed. Moved on, -lean pointed a single bird in 

 the sedge and Ollie backed. Avent beat about and was 

 about to give up trying to flush when the bird rose. Jean 

 won. Down 45m. It was a very closely contested heat. 

 Jeaii had the better style; there was not much difference in 

 speed and range. 



SUMMARY. 



Champion Stake. . Open only to winners of all-aged 

 stakes at recognized field trials in America. Forfeit $10, 

 and £15 additional to fill. The club adds $100 to entrance 

 money and a western paper adds a cup, value 8100. 



First Series, 

 Jean Val J ean beat Bob Gates. 

 Ollie S. beat Bohemian Girl. 



Final for First Place. 

 Jean Val Jean beat Ollie S. and won first prize. 



THE SOUTHERN FIELD TRIALS. 



[Special to Forest and Stream.] 



AMORY, Miss., Dec. 3.— The first annual meeting of the 

 Southern Field Trials Club began here to-day with the 

 Derby. Of the 56 nominations there were 21 starters, which 

 were drawn to ran as follows: 



Capt. Bethel (J. M. Foster), black, white and tan English 

 setter dog (Gordon— Blanche), 



again hI 



Lin do (S. L. Boggs), black, white and tan English setter 

 dog (Gladstone— Flounce). 



Yazoo (Whyte Bedford), black and white English setter 

 dog (Bob Gates— Hustling Hannah), 



against 



Count Piedmont (E. Dexter), black, white and tan Eng- 

 lish setter dog (Count Noble— Belle of Piedmont). 



Fashion (J. F. Hart), black, white and tan Euglish setter 

 bitch (Count Noble— Lit). 



against 



Duke of Maine (H. F. Farnham), liver and white pointer 

 dog (Beppo III. — May F.). 



Dimple (F. Myles), black, white and tan English setter 

 bitch (Gordon — Blanche), 



against 



Kkswick's DAN (J R. Dougherty), liver and white pointer 

 dog (Osborn Ale— Keswick II.). 



Tuberose (W. E. Venable), black, white and tan English 

 setter bitch (Count Noble— Lit), 

 against 



BOB'S Bot (C. L. Stewart), black and white English setter 

 dog (Bob Gates— Hustling Hannah). 



Hope's Lass (J. O'H. Denny), black, white and tan Eng- 

 lish setter bitch (Gath's Hope— Lady May I, 

 agaimt 



OLiVEE TWIST (B. F. Wilson), black, vjhite and tan Eng- 

 lish setter dog (Count Noble— Fannie W.). 



Mildred (E. Dexter), lemon and white English setter 

 bitch (Dashing Rovei'— Muriel) . 



against 



Felix M. (G. Knapp), lemon and white English setter dog 

 (Gath's Hope— Daisy F.). 



Florence Gladstone (J. I. Case, Jr.), bla«k and white 

 English setter bitch (Gladstone— Flounce), 

 against 



Sancho (J. A. Greenleaf), liver and white pointer dog 

 (Beppo III— May F.). 



Bass (C. E. Michel), liver and white pointer dog (Osborn 

 Ale— Keswick II.), 



against 



Glamorigan (L. A. Biddle), liver and white pointer dog 

 (Robert le Diable— Tuck). 



The Corsair (B. M. Stephenson), black, white and tan 

 English setter dog (Dan Gladstone— Haidee), 

 against 



Millie Gates ( ), black and white English setter 



bitch ( Bob Gates— Hustling Hannah;. 



Bloomo n. (J. L. Anthony), liver and white pointer bitch 

 (Lad of Bow— Bloomo), a bye. 



The quality of the work tc-day was of an inferior charac- 

 ter, although there was an improvement t his afternoon. Six 

 heats were finished, the seventh being undecided. 



First Series. 



Capt. Bethel beat Lindo. 



Count Piedmont beat Yazoo. 



Duke of Maine beat Fashion. 



Dimple beat Keswick's Dan. 



Tuberose beat Bob's Boy. 



Oliver Twist beat Hope's Lass. 



Mildred and Felix M. undecided. 



The weather is unpromising, it is cloudy and rain threatens. 



[Special to Forest and Stream.] 



Amoky, Miss., Dec. 4.— The work to-day was a decided 

 improvement on that of yesterday. The grounds were bet- 

 ter and birds more plentiful. The work in two or three 

 heats was of a high order. The weather is warm and pleas- 

 ant. Quite a large number of prominent sportsmen are 

 present, and a great deal of enthusiasm is manifested. The 

 undecided heat between Mildred aud Felix M. was awarded 

 to Felix M. The running to-day was as follows: Florence 

 Gladstone beat Sancho, Glamorigan beat Bass, The Corsair 

 beat Millie Gates, Bloomo II. a bye. In the second series 

 Bloomo H. beat Capt. Bethel, Count Piedmont beat Duke of 

 Maine, Dimple beat Tuberose, Oliver Twist beat Felix M., 

 Florence Gladstone beat Glamorigan, The Corsair a bye. In 

 the third series Count Piedmont beat The Corsair, Dimple 

 beat Bloomo II. This finished the work for the day. 



SCENT.— Editor Forest and. Stream: In reply to "H. B. 

 N.," Idrove tbe same horse each time that champion Johnny 

 tracked me; but it was a stranger to him, and he doesn't see 

 the beast more than three or four times in a year and then 

 only for a few days together. If any one else drove the mare 

 from the house when 1 was out of sight he never attempted 

 to follow. He did not sleep in the stable nor go about the 

 horses at all.— Clumber. 



WATERTON.— Boston, Nov. 26. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: I notice in last issue of Forest and Stream Mr. 

 Wade's inquiry in regard to works of Waterton, He will 

 find the essays he mentioned in "Essays on Natural History," 

 by Chas. Waterton, edited, with a life of the author, by 

 Norman Moore, B. A., St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. 

 With portrait and illustrations. London; Frederick Warde 

 & Co. In this work are the caustic articles against Audu- 

 bon. He also wrote Waterton's "Wanderings."— C. W. C. 



SALISBURY'S PEDIGREE. 



Recently, in look'ng through some dog journals, I came 

 across a correspondence initiated in 1820 by Mr. H. A. Craig 

 of St. Paul Minn., as to a mast iff pedigree that had doubtless, 

 been constructed on your side, to fit an imported dog. One item 

 in tne bogus pedigree was "Mason's Salisbury," and as I have 

 some knowledge of this dog's breeding, I looked np the whole of 

 the correspondence, thinking that. I might perhaps be able to 

 give some information on the subject. Mr. M. B. Wyim settled 

 tJie question raised by Mr. Craig, and Mr. Wade then asked two 

 questions which were never answered in print, so far as I can 

 see. So on the principle that it is "better late than not at all," I 

 have pleasure iu answering them now. The questions were: (1) 

 Is there any evidence that Duchess (the dam of Mason's Salis- 

 bury) was by Victor out of Beldam? (?) Is the pedigree of Han- 

 burv'a Peeress correctly given in Salisbury's pedigree? 



One answer will suffice for both questions, for the whole pedi- 

 gree is undoubtedly false, having been expressly arranged so as to 

 bring in all the best names of the past, and there never was and 

 never can be a tittle' of evidence to support it. The Duchess m 

 question was a bitch kept on chain by Mr. Carr as a yard dog, 

 and he knew nothing whatever of her breeding. She obtained 

 a free service from a neighbor's dog called Monarch, of whose 

 breeding nothing was imown, and who also was a yard dog. One 

 of the results of the union was the puppy which Mr. Carr called 

 Leo, aud with which he did some winning. Leo was, I think, 

 shown first at Farnworth in 1879, and appears in the catalogue 

 without pedigree, a circumstance not by any means uncommon 

 in those days. But as the youngster soon made his mark, inquiry 

 was made for his pedigree, when Mr. Carr said "hehas none." At 

 tbe same time he gave the details on which this note is based. 

 Afterward Mr. C. H. Mason bought the dog, but Mr. Carr de- 

 clined to supply a pedigree. The gentleman who at that time 

 looked through mastiffs and some other breeds for the K. C. S.B., 

 knew of these facts, and was much surprised when readingproofs 

 for the coming volume, to find among mastiffs, Salisbury (late 

 Leo), with a pedigree of the very first order. He at once drew at- 

 tention to this, as a matter that wanted looking into, and added 

 that he had good reason to suppose that the whole thing was 

 false. The entry form was looked up, and was found to be signed, 

 not bv the breeder, but by the new owner, and a promise was 

 giveu that the matter should be looked into further. However, 

 nothing more was done, and the next volume of the Stud Book 

 gave Salisbury a pedigree which made mastiff men sit np and 

 stare. However, it was nobody's business to interfere, and so the 

 record remains. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



The above mean, sneakish and unreliable statements con- 

 cerning; the pedigree of the mastiff Salisbury appeared in a 

 Chicago weekly comic of Nov. 24. The writer, "Our Special 

 Commissioner," has office room at 191 Fleet street, London, 

 and is trying to work up a sale for a paper that ceased long 

 ago to have any influence or weight in doggy circles in this 

 country. 



The editor's reputation, as faithfully pictured in a contro- 

 versy I had with him a few years ago, his intense ignorance 

 of everything pertaining to dogs, and the peculiar freaks of 

 his mental faculties made it necessary for the paper to seek 

 succor In another country or die. The editor therefore sailed 

 for England and eventually succeeded in making arrange- 

 ments with a number of English dog men to tell the Chicago 

 comic's worn out readers something they never had a chance 

 to learn from that crooked organ— dogs. The editor's agent 

 and "Special Commissioner," a mere tyro in dog matters, 

 was also engaged to write what he didn't know about dogs, 

 and the above article, which is one of his early productions, 

 goes to show that with a little more practice and closer 



intercourse with the Chicago slippery novice, Mr. W. H , 



will soon be on an equal footing with his employer, whose 

 unenviable record in connection with stud books, Laverack 

 setter funds, Tom Jerome's Gordon setter, the fishing rod, 

 the taxidermists' birds, etc., etc., is public property. 



That busybody, Mr. W. Peep-about Wade, is directly the 

 cause of this controversy, and all because I handed him a 

 piece of paper (familiarly known as "the Pittsburgh Piece 

 of Paper") to give to the person who officiated as .fudge at 

 Pittsburgh in 1883. Your readers will remember that I was 

 an exhibitor at the show, and that Mr. Wade too quickly 

 jumped at the conclusion that the note contained a request 

 to the person acting as judge to give one of my dogs a prize. 

 When it had been proven that I was judging the dogs out- 

 side the ring and seuding the numbers to the person (Mr. 

 Jas. Mortimer) who judged, and that the note given to Mr. 

 Wade was nothing more nor less than the decisions in the 

 black and tan terrier class, Mr. Wade took the only course 

 that an honorable man would take. He apologized to me 

 by letter and through the press. It was while Mr. Wade 

 was ransacking England to find something detrimental to 

 my character that he discovered that there was possibly a 

 loophole in Salisbury's pedigree. This, as he told me later., 

 was the only thing he could unearth that might be twisted 

 and cooked to do me an injury. 



Mr. Wade was too straightforward a man to attempt jug- 

 glery with his supposed discovery. Although he was my 

 sworn enemy, his conduct throughout the investigation 

 proved that he tried to get at oue thing— the truth, and that 

 he never allowed his sense of justice to be influenced by 

 hatred. It did not take him long to find out what kind of a 

 man Tom Carr, the former owner of Salisbury, was, and he 

 appeared to arrive at a verdict iu a very short time. Com- 

 pare Mr. Wade's conduct with that of the Chicago editor 

 and you have a vivid view of the wide margin that separates 

 a gentleman from a blackguard. The editor engages this 

 Mr. W. H , a man who is comparatively unknowu in con- 

 nection with dogs, to concoct such a case as will damage my 

 reputation. 



The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes come to 

 ;rief, and by the time I get through with this case it will be 

 ound that there is a lot of dirty linen to be washed. 

 To commence with "Our Special Commissioner," alias 

 W. H — , alias the Chicago comic's Fleet street agent. He 

 professes to write with the intent of giving information, 

 whereas he actually writes at the bidding of his employer, 

 He also falsifies his' statement that his object is to give in- 

 formation by writing for uninformed persons in this country 

 that which any dog man in England would at once detect as 

 unpardonable and unequalled ignorance, or dirty and vicious 

 perversion of the truth. In the first place, no man who 

 knows old Tom Carr would write of him as Mr. Carr. He 

 has never been called Mr. Carr by any man who was well 

 acquainted with him. The statement that "Mr. " Carr when 

 asked for a pedigree said "he has none" is a most deliberate 

 falsehood. There is no such person as "Mr." Carr, but there 

 is an old Tom Carr, an individual who at certain times 

 becomes rabid, smashes all (wife and family included) before 

 him with a heavy stick, and is not permitted to leave home 

 without an attendant. Let any American dog man who may 

 happen to be in England, run over to Keighley or Bingley, 

 Yorkshire, and ask about old Tom Carr and he will soon find 

 that "Mr." Carr has the reputation of being the biggest liar 

 in that section of the county. None but a most unreliable 

 writer would ever dare come out with such a bare-faced false- 

 hood as Tom Carr having said that Leo (Salisbury) had no 

 pedigree. Who ever heard of old Tom Carr having a dog 

 or a horse without a pedigree? Nobody. There is all the 

 evidence in the world to show that old Tom Carr described 

 Leo (Salisbury) to every man he met as the "best in t' world 

 and t' best bred un." When anybody praised the dog old 

 Tom immediately put in "O yes, and look at his pedigree." 

 It is quite possible that Salisbury's dam had no pedigree, 

 but the man that said that old Tom Carr ever said so is just 

 as crooked as old Tom Carr himself. "Our Special Com- 

 missioner's", statement that "Mr." Carr declined to give me 

 a pedigree with the dog I characterize as another willful 

 and vicious falsehood. Carr gave me a printed pedigree of 

 the dog's sire and assured me in a most positive manner 

 that the dam was bred exactly as I stated when I registered 

 him, "Our Special Commissioner" says that he believes 

 Salisbury was entered without a pedigree at Farnworth, 

 puppy class, 1879. He had better make another guess. 



