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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March 6, 1890, 



ENCLISH NOTES. 



LIVERPOOL hold its tenth sfhow tins week, and a great 

 success it turned rmt. The dog show is always held in 

 combination with the poultry, pigeon, horse, cattle and 

 other shows, and the combination, of comae, brings together 

 a multitude of exhibitors. M«;Keii7.ie. the Tiiverpoofsecre- 

 rary, is a very good fellow, wh» does his work thoroughly 

 we.ll, being one of those who regards himself as the servant 

 of the exhibitors, ootvice rerun, as many show secretaries 

 do. T. II. and VIC: Stretch reside at Liverpool; they will 

 be known to your readers «s the great owners of one or two 

 of the best stud collies, and of course they help the show a 

 great deal in every way. Besides collies they are large pigeon 

 .•md poultry nu n. Sumner, the Liverpool veterinary sur- 

 geon and Irish Icrrier fancier, also lent, valuable assistance 

 in making the show "go," and the combined efforts of the 

 committee may be summed up in two words— ''glorious sue- 



St. Bernards were judgc-l by S. VV. Smith. Sir Bedivere 

 was alone in the challenge class and proved the great at- 

 traction he always does. Heseemsto me to Improve both 

 in size and cha rac.ier. In smooth challenge dogs I he w Funer, 

 Rustic, had an exceedingly difficult task to boat Baron 

 Wallasey; as it was I think he only did it in consequence of 

 1 he latter being a bit lame. liaron Camrose w on in i he rough 

 open class, a really good dog who may eventually get into 

 the challenge class and then perhaps und his way to America. 

 Orson, second, is also a good one bui lacks in size when 

 compared with the winner. Lady Ida, the winner in bitches 

 is only a lair one. Waverfcree Mab, Florian aud Queen o' 

 Scots are only passable ones. Courtier won in novice dogs, 

 and a good one he, is. Florian won in the similar bitch 

 class, while Marvel, an enormous-beaded but somewhat 

 plain-faced youngster won in puppies. 



Great Danes were poorly represented. There is no doubt 

 whatever that before iong this bi'eed will ouly be kept by a 

 few of the most, ardent admirer's of the same, for each sue 

 ceeding year shows a steady decrease of fanciers and exhib- 

 itors. Stolte's Queen of Saxony won in the opeu aud novice 

 classes, only a middling one. Danes were also judged by 

 S. W. Smith. He also adjudicated upon bloodhounds. Mrs. 

 Tinker's Darby won, beating Craven's recent acquisition. 

 Koodoo, a big mistake in my opinion, for the dog is a very 

 short-beaded one and not owning the best of bodies Koodoo 

 has a fair bead, but her body, legs and feet are probably not 

 to be excelled by any hound on the benches. Craven has re- 

 cently purchased Cromwell from George Krehl, and it is re- 

 ported that he does not intend to show the only undefeated 

 bloodhound again. Retrievers were a poor lot, both the curly 

 and wavy varieties being poorly represented. Pointers were 

 also very small classes aud not a real good one amoug them. 

 The North country is notagood place for pointers, the best al- 

 ways coming from the west country, Devonshire being partic- 

 ularly famous for them, but Lancashire is a veritable hotbed 

 for the curly retrievers, and I am surprised at the poor entry. 

 It really seems that sporting dogs do not muster well at any 

 of the provincial shows, and that if one wants to see a really 

 good collection of pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels and 

 such like dogs, that it is only possible to do so at either the 

 summer or the winter show of the Kennel Club. 



Basset hounds mustered fairly well both in quality and 

 in numbers, Mrs. C. C. Ellis having quite a field day of it. 

 This lady won first, second and third in open class, first and 

 third in bitches, first, second and third in novices, and of 

 course won the couple prize. This feat is something to be 

 proud of, especially as the lady bred the lot. Xena looks 

 like making up into a very hot champion. Bevolina won in 

 Dalmatians. She is about the best of her breed going, aud 

 is owned by Drosse, the secretary of the club which was 

 recently formed to look after the interests of this breed. 

 British Monarch won in challenge bulldogs. His owner 

 evidently meant to break the record of prizes won with him. 

 It is rather a pity to see so good a dog being hawked about 

 all over the country pot hunting: it neither does the dog's 

 health good, nor does it add to the owner's reputation, and 

 this continual showing a dog certainly does him harm from 

 a stock-getting point of view. Hades won in the open class, 

 a good dog all over but a nasty tempered, customer. 



In bull-terriers the good Little Baron won, and in the 

 open class Charming Tom got premier honor's, followed by 

 Diamond King — both very good ones and not much to choose 

 between them. Brickbat won in challenge Irish terriers. 

 The Irishmen were judged Dy j) v Carey, who certainly 

 ought to kuow a lot about the breed, but from the way in 

 which he placed his awards I am very much afraid that 

 those who entertained that opinion of him previously to his 

 judging do not think so now. He made one or two lament- 

 able errors which upset some of the fancy. For instance, 

 St, Simon, the winner in the open dog class, is a perfect 

 duffer compared with Daniel II., who is undoubtedly next 

 t o Bredenhill, the best Irish terrier now iu the open classes. 

 Bencher, too, was very low down in the prize list, when he 

 ought t o have, been in the first thi'ee. The vviuner in bitches, 

 too. Miss Peggotty, was badly placed, the class containing 

 at least, thi'ee better specimens Of the breed. 



Pugs w ere fairly represented, Loris being the only one in 

 the challenge class. Some One, a grand little pug, Bonsor, a 

 grander little pug, and Logic, a very nice one, were placed 

 in the order written, but Bonsor should have won, he being 

 a much better pug all over— bar wrinkle— than Some One. 



.Toy spaniels were poor. The best of this breed are to h& 

 found in or close to London, and it is seldom that their 

 owners care to travel so far off as Liverpool. 



A few Sehipperkes—the new fashionable breed— put in au 

 appearance, and they attracted a deal of attention at the 

 show.' I know very little about this breed myself, but a 

 Belgian gentleman whom I met at the show and who 

 seemed to me. to kuow a tremendous lot about theui.and who 

 told me that he had bred them for thirty-eight years, was of 

 opinion that they were badly judged. * Tn hia' opinion Jo 

 Piot (third) should have been first— iu fact, he went into 

 ecstacies over this lively little dog, and said he 1 bought him 

 about the best of the breed he had ever seen. Black Beetle, 

 fiajst, be thought, a poor one, as he did Blackball, second. 

 English t erriers found Eclipse— a clinking terrier all over, 

 baT eyes, which are full and -'goggled"— in the challenge 

 i I. is£j and Semolina and Pearl placed as written in the opeu 

 class: This is a very nice breed to go tn for, being both 

 raeefiil to look at and full of life and dash. They are not 

 so heavy as the bull-terrier, nor so ''fast." looking. 



The collies were fairly good numcrcially. .md some tip- 

 top representatives of the breed were on view, notwith- 

 .st. Muling ('he fact, that not many champions put in an ap- 

 pearance. Edglvtst on Fox (Mel-. ho it's !.-.'00 Crystal Palace 

 pnreha.se.) was alone iu the challenge' class. In the open 

 class for sinool lis the same owner's Pick mere, a good one 

 all over, won from Mai da, who is a hot one to contend 

 against at any tune, but the dog shows a great deal more 

 collie character than does the bitch. What maybe termed 

 the sensation of the show came in the open class for rough 

 does. Rere Si. retch's Christopher, the swell stud dog of 

 the day, was put over Morton Campbell's Stracathro Ralph, 

 the dog who created such a tremendous sensation at Birm- 

 ingham, where he won all before him. and whose owner re- 

 fused £250 for him at that show. IN. B.— In a former letter I 

 stated that I heard that £400 had been offered aud refused 

 for this dog. I stated this on hearsay; it turns out to be in- 

 correct, hut the £1350 offer is quite true,] C. H.Wheeler 

 was the. judge, aud I think I may safely say his award be- 

 tween these- two dogs was indorsed by those present, hut I 

 fancy if Ralph had been in the hands of Stretch and Chris- 

 topher in Campbell's the award would have been reversed, 

 for Stretch is a thoroughly practical collie exhibitor and 

 knows how to get a dog into the best possible form, while 



Campbell's dogs are all good workmen at sheep and he does 

 not pay sufficient attention to keeping a collie in his best 

 coat. The. winner was in grand form, but Ralph looked as 

 though he, had been disporting himself on his owner's moors 

 up in Bounie Scotland. He won some very valuable special 

 prizes. Hollen Bitters, a true collie, and unlucky to meet 

 such tine specimens of the breed as were in front of him, 

 came third, a good performance in a class of twenty-one. 

 In bitches Bleachlield Wonder was first, a very nice one in- 

 deed, who should have a prosperous future before her; she 

 excels in coat aud symmetry and her facial expression is of 

 the best. Keepsake, second, is also a rare good one, and in 

 the opinion or main fanciers should have beaten the win- 

 ner. Both belong to Percy lleaton. Keepsake is a bit on 

 the small side. but. otherwise is equal to Bleach field Wonder, 

 and if the former grows a little and tills out more, her 

 chances of beating her more successful rival here, are pretty 

 certain. Hollen Bitters won in puppies (dogs) and Keepsake 

 in the corresponding bitch class. 



Fox-terriers were a capital lot, and. of course, handled 

 well by Sea Ranter, who is undoubtedly a good judge of 

 the breed. Broeken hurst Lottery won from Surety in the 

 smooth challenge class— both good ones and not much to 

 choose hetvveen them. Lexden Net tle— better known by the 

 name of Quantock Nettle— won iu t he corresponding class 

 for win -hairs, looking, as usual, At In opeu smooth dogs 

 Kermineham Trumps, first; Milnrow Process, second, aud 

 Redmond's Director third. The latter is the truest-built 

 terrier of the trio, but be is spoiled by a peculiar expression 

 abouJ the eyes Which detracts considerably from his other- 

 wise smart appearance. Trumps is a grand headed one and 

 a capital mover in the ring. Process's chief fault is light- 

 ness of bone. Be Quick won in smooth bitches — show n in 

 capital form and improving. Second went to "L. N. R.," 

 which I presume is intended for a pun on "Eleanor." 

 This bitch set the mouths of many terrier men watering, 

 for she is a nailer, and if she improves with age will make 

 our best bitch sit up later on, but many good judges seemed 

 to think she is one that is now at her best and would not im- 

 prove. Grouse II., third, is also a. good specimen. Holland- 

 aise won in wire-hairs, followed by Telocity— both are only 

 just fair ones at their best. Wire hairs were generally 

 poorly represented, and nothing of particularly promising 

 quality turned up in the novice, puppy aud local classes. 



Tremendous excitement prevails in bulldog circles this 

 week, and feeling runs very high over the election of a new 

 secretary for the Bulldog Club. Pybus-Sellon has occupied 

 that post for the past six years, and has served that term 

 with credit to himself and great benefit to the breed and the 

 club. Prior to his tenure of office the committee of the club 

 were continually being called upon to put their hands in 

 their pockets and pay the debts of the club, but since he 

 became secretary he has paid a ll debts out of his own pocket, 

 aud to-day the club is quite at the head of the specialist 

 clubs which exist, solely owing to Pybus Sellon's devotion 

 to the British bulldog. No man has ever owned a finer 

 kennel than he, aud no one has won more prizes. He is sup- 

 posed to be giving up the secretaryship on account of its 

 being too much call upon his time, but it strikes me very 

 forcibly that the main reason of it. is that many of the mem- 

 bers have disgusted him by their actions. Some people 

 suppose he is giving up the breed as well. This is a great 

 mistake, tor Pybus-Sellou's love for the bulldog is stronger 

 now than it, was when he first commenced showing them, 

 ten years ago, and he has one or two youngsters in his ken- 

 nels which will astonish the natives very shortly. Cyril 

 Jackson, of Bath, and Sprague are the candidates for the 

 vacant post. Every one thinks the polling between the two 

 left in will be very close indeed, as both are popular, and 

 moreover men who have done a lot of work for the breed. 



A Lively Lord. 



TEXAS FIELD TRIALS. 



MARSHALL, Texas, Feb. 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 The Texas Field Trials Club held their annual meet- 

 ing at Waskom station, about twenty miles east of this 

 place, with the results as given below. The judging was 

 done bv Capt, W. W. Tucker and Messrs. W. L. Thomas 

 and F. Y. flail until after the Ross Capt. Craig heat in the 

 All-Aged Stake, when the judges were. Messrs. Hall and 

 Thomas and Mr. W. E. Winston. The running was done 

 ou the 11th and 12th, the 13fch and 14th being entirely too 

 wet. 



Fourth annual meeting of the Texas Field Trials Club, 

 open to amateurs only. 



THE DERBY. 



Fifty dollars to first, $25 to second, and $10 to third. 



First Scries. — Hamilton and Jackson's black, white aud 

 tan English setter dog Fred Gates (Bob Gates— Lilly B.) 

 beat H. EvI. Hutchiug's black, white and tan English setter 

 dog El Rio Ray (Gath's Mark— Blue Chiqua). Robert W. 

 Shaw's liver aud white pointer Brazos (Spring — Daisy 

 White) beat Ben Cook's black pointer Rex (Leasing— Tyne). 

 R. R. Scott's black setter Jack (Joe— Kretz's bitch) beat A. 

 J. Ross's orange aud white cross-bred setter bitch Light 

 Foot. (Breckeuridge — Kate Coleman). 



Second Series. — Fred Gates beat Brazos, Jack a bye. 



Tliird Scries. — Fred Gates beat Jack and won first. 



Fourth Series.— El Rio Rey beat Jack and won second. 

 Jack placed third. 



ALL-AGED STAKE. 



One hundred dollars to first-, $50 to second, and £10 fcq third. 



First Series.— A. J, Ross's orange, and white cross-bred 

 setter bitch Kate Coleman (Guy— Stela) beat R. M, Huteh- 

 ing's liver and white pointer dog Spring (Mainspring — 

 Curfew). W r . J. Rosborough, dr. 'sliver and white pointer 

 dog Bang (Cloud— Fan tine) beat R. R. Scott's black and 

 white cross-bred setter Jack (Joe— Kretz's bitch). W. J. 

 Cook's liver and white pointer bitch Boss (Bruce Hanger— 

 Frank) beat John L. Phillips's white, black and tan English 

 setter dog Capt. Craig (Gladstone — Lady M. ). S. H. Green's 

 black pointer dog King Cotton (Tyler— Dream S. ) a bye 



Second Scries.— Kate Coleman beat King Cotton, Ross 

 beat Bang. 



Th ird Scries.— Ross beat Kate Coleman and won first. 

 Fou rth Series. — Kate Coleman beat Bang aud won second. 

 Spring placed third. 



The number of entries was small, owiug to [the fact that 

 several members of the club were absent from "the State and 

 others sick. Everything passed off very pleasantly. 



W. L. Thomas, Sec'y. 



BUFFALO DOG SHOW— In addition to the cash specials 

 offered by the American Spaniel Club if, has been decided 

 that the second competition for the *100 challenge cup for 

 cockers shall take place at Buffalo. The American Kennel 

 Club offer a complete set of Stud Books for the best kennel 

 of four Gordon setters and a large number of other specials 

 are promised. Entries close March 95. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB MEETING. — The 

 adjourned annual meeting of the Eastern Field Trials Club 

 will be held at the office of Mr. F. R. Hitchcock. 44 Broad- 

 way, New York, ou Tuesday, March 11, at 3 P.M. A full 

 attendance is desired. Those who cannot be present are re- 

 quested to send proxies to the secretary, Mr. W. A. Coster. 



KING CHARLES SPANIEL IMPORTATION.— Mr. 

 John P. Shea, of New York, has imported the King Charles 

 spauiel bitch puppy Dagaiar from the kennel of Mr. Ed- 

 ward Arnold, London, Eng.; she is nine months old and is 

 by Ben Lomond aud out. of Lilly. 



DOGS OF THE DAY. 



MR. J. H. WINSLOW, of Philadelphia, has purchased 

 from Mr. J. L. Anthony the pointer dog Tempest, by 

 Beppo III. out of Lass of Bow. Tempest is a nicely-marked 

 liver and white dog in the heavy-weight class, 'and Mr. 

 Winslow told me last Friday evening, as we stood on a back 

 seat, at the Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring Club's enter- 

 tainment, that he has a good one in Tempest, "aud you will 

 see him at Chicago if you are going." Well, I am going, 

 and hope Tempest will fill my eye. as well as he does his new 

 owner's. This dog won third prize at the Southern Trials 

 at Amory, Miss., last December. Mr. Winslow does not 

 mean to switch over to the setters just yet. Mr. Taylor, the 

 Philadelphia Kennel Club treasurer, in FOREST ANDStuEAM 

 of last week refers to a remark of mine respecting no show 

 this year in the Quaker City, states that the club members 

 are after a lot of good dogs to win at the field trials, and 

 adds thai the club will henceforth eschew dog shows. It is 

 a pleasure to have my own private information respecting 

 field trialers so ably vouched for, and a gentleman of Mr. 

 Taylor's experience will agree with me that an improvement 

 was eertaiuly to be desired over the form of say two years 

 ago. On the question of dog shows there does not seem to be 

 a unanimity of spirit iu the Philadelphia Club, for Secretary 

 Brown, in a. letter to a local paper, writes id' a dog show 

 uext year. Such a thing may be, but I doubt its being held 

 by the Philadelphia Kennel Club after its experience of 

 isso. Mr. Charles G. Thompson said at the associate mem- 

 bers' meeting at New York, "We have had all we want of 

 dog shows in our club. It has eost a few of us a matter of 

 S7,O0O to try and make them ponular and self-supporting in 

 Philadelphia.'' 



Mr. C. E. Rowland, secretary aud treasurer of fhe Toledo 

 Kennel Club, sends word that his club will hold its 

 twentieth annual bench show in connection with the Tri- 

 State Fair, on Sept. 9 to 12. We are promised list of judges, 

 etc.. as soon as decided upon. Mr. Rowlaud adds by way of 

 a P. S., "We hope to give a nice and pleasant show. Get 

 your entries on time this year, so I won't have to refuse 

 them as I did last time." Toledo has only to repeat its kind 

 treatment of exhibitors last year. I remember I had more 

 than one letter after the show last September to the effect 

 that "Toledo treated up splendidly." About the late entry. 

 I made out the blank on the proper date and left it with 

 other mail matter on starting that evening for a day or two 

 in the country. To my surprise and disgust the entry was 

 returned "mailed too late." The facts as given here were 

 communicated to Mr. Rowland, but he stuck to his text. It 

 is an ill wind that blows nobody good and the mishap at 

 Toledo put me in communication with the nicest lot of dog 

 men at Augusta, G.i., it has been my good fortune to come 

 across for some time. There was the greater pleasure in 

 this instance because a person who had visited Augusta at a 

 previous show, complained very much of sectional prejudice 

 and the, lack of that cordiality so prominent a feature 

 among Northern dog men. My informant was not a person 

 to give rise to any such display or lack of display of feeling, 

 aud I am at a loss to account, for our different opinions or 

 what caused them. 



Some of the dog papers of the country have copied with- 

 out correction the Associated Press cable that Fullerton * 

 beat Downpour "by three lengths" for the Waterloo cup. 

 One can look over the ignorance of an ordinary editor in 

 printing these bungled cable messages on a subject of which 

 he knew nothing. But an editor of a kennel column is quite 

 another thing. To such I commend a very chatty article on 

 coursing iu imtintj for March from the pen of Mr. Hugh 

 Dalziel. The illustrations by Moore are also good, aud help 

 more than words can to give strangers an idea of what, 

 coursing at Altcar is. Mr. Dalziel is good enough to refer, 

 in the Bazaar, to the notes which/appear under the caption 

 of "Dogs of the Day." I appreciate very highly Mr. Dal- 

 ziel's reference to myself, particularly as Hugh and I have 

 been at pens drawn for some years. Perhaps the very silly 

 though amusing criticism of my ability as an editor, written 

 by au English amateur editor Of fewer months' experience 

 than I have devoted years to the business, prompted Mr. ' 

 Dalziel to remember that we were both born north of the 

 Tweed. 



This "kennel vendetta" i3 very shallow business. If a 

 man cannot make a success as au editor by the work of his 

 individual pen or his executive ability, he will never do it 

 by posing as a martyr. American readers may not be well 

 posted, so here is an outline of the latest English fuss, for 

 which, by the. way, America is in a good part responsible. 

 One of your contemporaneous English correspondents has 

 an unenviable reputation for vilifying people and for mak- 

 ing false accusations, Mr. Everett Millais, who is a new 

 hand at journalism, as represented by the Fanciers'' Gazette, 

 of London, warmly defends this correspondent when he is 

 attacked, declines to see. anything wrong in his conduct, 

 apologizes for him on the ground that he has a wife and 

 eight children to support, and seemingly considers him a 

 most estimable gentleman, worthy of bis most heart- 

 felt sympathy and support under any and all circum- 

 stances, even t.o the ex lent of the most flagrant plagiarism. 

 At this stage of the game another correspondent comes on 

 the carpet, whose copy was edited by myself. "The mem- 

 ber," as be was called, didn't seem to have any love or af- 

 fection for the Martyr Kennel Director, and lost few occa- 

 sions to say Unkind things. A good many of these were 

 eliminated and others pruned down within bounds, bearing 

 in mind the support Mr. Millais accorded the plagiarist. 

 Then there was a change, and Mr. Millais wrote letters to 

 America he could not publish iu England, using very un- 

 dignified language for the son of a baronet, even admitting 

 that, that baronet was created. 1 don't know, however, 

 that to Americaus if is more honorable to have a man a 

 baronet for something he has doue. himself rather than get- 

 some one who came over with William 

 nt English gentlemen are not in the habit 

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lescent from "gentle" blood. The little 

 s Mr. Millais, and . since then he has been 

 aud everything that can by any 

 be brought forward as an ad- 

 the foreground is called into 

 requisition. "Holy Friar's" attack on Mr. Hodgson in an 

 English paper, the "Lively Lord's" letters in Forest and 

 STREAAl are both made to do duty at this interesting cere- 

 mony of posing as the Martyr Kennel Director. 



That is not the way editorial reputations are made, and 

 Mr. Millais will find it out sooner or later. The public like 

 best the man who is not afraid of hard, raps, and who iu 

 place of offering his other cheek does a bit of cross counter- 

 ing. Posers may be popular in some circles, but not with 

 men or women of the world, and Mr. Millais would do well 

 to leave the business to such artists as Mr. Fred Leslie. 

 This, then, is the Kennel Vendetta we are hearing so Tuuch 

 about. On one side we have Messrs. Millais and Huscroft 

 arrayed against what it seems to one at this distance to be 

 all English kennel writers. 



The particular iniquity of which "Holy Friar" was guilty 

 was an attack on Mr. Hodgson of the bulldog club and for- 

 mer owner of Harper, the dog Mr. R. B. Sawyer won with 

 at Ne.v York. "Holy Friar," among other things, wrote 

 that as Mr. Hodgson had withdrawn from the contest for the 

 club secretaryship, the position would now be filled by a 



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