Nov. 13, 1890,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Rheuma soon showed his Irish blood, for he dashed away 

 like a thoroughbred. The longer he ran and the faster, the 

 better he seemed to like it. The dogs were started near the 

 Southwest Point and bunted easterly. Hares were put up 

 continually, both dogs steady under much provocation, 

 Rheuma roading a good deal in the quickest kind of style, 

 Blue working much more slowly, finally stopped on a stiff 

 point. Rheuma, called up to back, refused and ran past 

 the standing dog; ordering the bird up nothing was found. 

 Moving forward once again, Blue, after a little roading, got 

 a point in the scrub oak which surrounds the little bit of 

 water known as Black Duck Pond. Rheuma, called once 

 again for a back, came along at a jump, passed the pointing 

 dog and ranged off and away. No bird found. The party 

 then struck off and around the little patch of water and 

 through an opening in the bluff to the sedge on the south 

 beach. Along here Blue again stopped, but nothing was 

 found in front of him. Still along the beach to its upper- 

 most distance at South Point. Here Rbeurna did a little 

 roading, nosing up a bird which flushed wild some distance 

 ahead of the dog. Turning backward and retracing 

 steps, a single bird flushed wild - ahead of dogs. Rheuma 

 threw up his head, walked toward Van Anden, when 

 bur-r-r-r, out sprang a quail not a yard from the man's toes. 

 A step forward and Blue, roading along gently, stopped 

 hard and fast. Rheuma took a turn round, came up, passed 

 Blue, and flushed the bird in handsome style. Blue steady 

 to wing and to shot. Then a turn north along East Bluff 

 for a short distance and Blue established another capital 

 point, bird flushed to order. Dogs ordered up at 11:20. At 

 half past the nest brace in order, 



TARDY JACK AND BINSSE, 

 were cast off at the same bit of cover where the last brace 

 had been taken up. Quail were heard whistling and calling 

 to each other from all directions. A movement made to the 

 left, where the notes were loudest and clearest. Scarce 

 started, when up with a roar jumped a bevy of at least 

 twenty birds. They scattered in every direction, north, 

 south, east and west; marked down and followed. On the 

 top of the south bluff, in a little patch of dried grasses, 

 growing in a small opening of the scrub oak, Jack drew to 

 a beautiful point. It was in a style particularly handsome. 

 The birus flushed wild ahead of the poiut. Then across and 

 through this sedge grass. At the very edge of the bluff, 

 where it pitched in sharp incline to the beach, out jumped a 

 dozen birds. One-half flew west, the other half east, over 

 the salt sedge growing right in the sands of the beach. 

 Moving back into scrub again a bird flushed in front of 

 Binsse. The dog was hunting in a slow, listless manner, as 

 if it all was awfully tiresome. Dogs, horses and men are 

 alike. Each has his day, and this day did not belong to 

 Binsse. A little further m scrub and .Jack got a good solid 

 point. Bird put up to order. Stanley shot and killed. 

 Jack retrieved in "smashing" manner. Into the scrub 

 again and through it and a tangle of blackberry canes to 

 top and very edge of south bluff, where the quail had been 

 marked down. Binsse very slow and methodical, Jack 

 faster and doing his work stylishly and in good form. 

 Going down wind Jack flushed a bird. Stanley shot and 

 killed. Binsse retrieved, but indifferently. Dogs ordered, 

 up at quarter past twelve. Ten minutes afterward the bye 

 dog, St. Elmo TV., hunted by Dr. Speir, and the dog selected 

 to run with him, Swan's Ply, hunted by trainer Glessing, 

 were cast off. 



ST. ELMO IV. AND FLY. 



The birds had been marked down and were followed to 

 the southwest point of the island, where they had been 

 located. St. Elmo worked slowly, but also with great care- 

 fulness. The spot was a tangled mass of blackberry canes, 

 vines and knee-high bayberry bushes "in confusion worse 

 confounded." Saint struck the scent, and throwing his 

 head up to snuff the air, roaded through the spot with his 

 nose only above the bushes. He soon stopped stiffly. Fly 

 came spinning along from the other side, ran into the birds 

 and started them grandly; Saint perfectly steady to shot and 

 wing. Ordered on again, he moved but a few yards when he 

 stopped again to a stiff point. A single bird flushed wild 

 hefore the point, was shot at and missed. The birds had 

 been marked down by Judge Pratt and were at once fol- 

 lowed. Judge Bruce almost stepped on an outlying bird, 

 it lying like a clod until the Judge's foot was almost on it. 

 Saint moving very carefully, caught scent and roaded along 

 after a running bird. Once more the pointer ranged up, and 

 again were the birds flushed, this time within a yard of 

 Saint's noise. Birds shot at and missed, Saint perfectly 

 steady to both wing and shot. Dogs taken up at 1 o'clock. 



The wind was blowing freshly from the southeast. After 

 the hot work of the morning, when man and dog were 

 heated up, this wind carried too much of the North Pole on 

 its wings to be pleasant. So, as lunch was close at hand, a 

 move was made to a little hollow, which protected one with 

 its height from the chill air. Here on the still green sward 

 the cloth was laid and the contents of the hampers placed 

 on it. "Hungry as hunters" may be an old saw, but it meets 

 just such cases as the one now described in perfection. 

 Throwing tired bodies upon the grass, meat and drink were 

 amply discussed. In the conversation that followed hunting 

 stories were, of course, the chief subject. Dr. Speir told of 

 the trouble that had followed the introduction of two pairs 

 of hares upon the island in 1888. They became, as the rab- 

 bits in Australia, a veritable plague. Everything green was 

 devoured. All was grist that came to their jaws, and as a 

 consequence the birds suffered. The edict went forth last 

 fall (1889) to kill and destroy. No less than 3,000 were killed 

 in various ways. The plague was stopped for a time, but 

 there are enough left to again sow the seed for a large crop 

 the coming year. 



ALL-AGED STAKES, FIELD TRIALS SCOKE. 



Name of Dog. 



St. Elmo IV 



Gray 



Blue .... 



Belle 



Josephine 



Binsse 



Rheuma 



Tardy Jack 



Ned... 



Points op Merit. 



Demerits. 



3, EG 

 a K 



(iq O 



* Tardy Jack no opportunity given for a hack, as he had no 

 chance of winning a place, was not again tried. 



* Ned to try for a retrieve in morning (Saturday). 



BRACE STAKES. 

 Immediately at the finish of lunch the Brace Stake was 

 started. Two braces were put down at once, so as to save 

 time and get through the trials in a single day if it could 

 be done, and at the same time give every dog a fair and 

 equal chance to "get th^ere" $t Jje could. 



GRAY AND BUTE— RHEUMA AND GOUT. 

 Prom the very start the first named brace had much the 

 better of it. The Irish lads were too high in flesh, too short 

 in work to give a good account of themselves. They raced 

 here, they plunged there, each hunting by himself. The dogs 

 are both 'excellent ones in field work, but each requires "a 

 power" of work to bring him to a realizing sense ot what is 

 required of him. Gout was the first to get on the scent, and 

 roading up quickly the bird flushed a dozen yards ahead of 

 him. A dozen yards further on another single flushed from 

 before the roading Gout. The judges each flushed a single. 

 Rheuma wild and not at all amenable to command. Blue 

 not responding to whistle or call was hunted up and found 

 standing on a good stiff point. Gray called up, backed 

 beautifully as soon as he came in sight of Blue. Birds put 

 up to order, shot at, one killed, one wounded, both dropped. 

 Rheuma ran and caught the dead bird and gently mouthed 

 it. The wounded bird ran. Blue followed the scent and 

 soon located the bird and was again backed by Gray. 

 Rheuma again ran and chased the crippled bird. Called 

 back. Blue was ordered to retrieve the dead quail which was 

 still lying on the ground. He did so in first-rate style. An- 

 other point was gotten by Blue and he was again backed by 

 Gray. Rheuma coming up from the left, the bird flushed 

 itself. Blue got another point a moment or two afterward. 

 Bird flushed to order, Stanley shot and killed. Rheuma 

 ordered to retrieve, f ouud the dead bird but refused to bring 

 it in. Blue and Gray worked better as a brace and when to- 

 gether than when either was hunting alone. Taken up at 

 2:25 P. M. 



ST. ELMO AND BELLE. 

 These were hunted westerly along the bluff at south side 

 of island, and in and out of the patches of scrub oak. A sin- 

 gle bird got up fairly under Stanley's feet, was shot at and 

 missed. A little distance ahead Saint pointed and was 

 backed in first-rate fashion by Belle. The bird was flushed 

 to order, not shot at. A rod or so to the left Belle got a 

 point, Saint backed in excellent shape— the birds flushed 

 themselves before the point. Not a dozen yards away Belle 

 got another point. Saint again backed her nicely. Birds 

 flushed, shot at and one fell. Saint retrieved the bird, a 

 wounded one, in good form. While bringing it in a single 

 quail flushed before the incoming dog. Judge Pratt shot 

 and killed it. Belle returned to order, but not in the best 

 fashiou. Dogs taken up at 3:50 P. M. 



BRACE STAKES, FIELD TRIALS SCORE. 



Name of Dog. 



Blue i 

 G-rav f 

 St. Elmo I 

 Belle f 

 Rheuma I 

 Gout f 



Points op Merit. 



THE DERBY. 

 The south side, which part of the island had proved so 

 prolific in birds, was now left and a hasty march made to 

 the north side, toward the open meadows lying to the. east 

 of the club house. At Blackberry ravine, where are located 

 several open fields, the first two puppies of the Derby were 

 cast off. 



CHUMP AND FEATHERS. 

 The first, a red Irish hunted by Dr. Speir, and the last- 

 named, a handsome blue belton, owned and hunted by S. B. 

 Duryea. Each was exceedingly puppyish in action, seem- 

 ingly not knowing what to do. The red one, as usual, rac- 

 ing along like a thoroughbred, but with little purpose. 

 Feathers was still more of a youngster and passed the most 

 of the time looking for a face and figure she was acquainted 

 with. After a fifteen .minutes' spin they were ordered up 

 as having no chance to win, unless the other brace of 

 puppies did no better work then Chump and Feathers were 

 to be put down again for another triaL 



TARDY JACK AND NAPOLEON. 

 At a little opening in the oak timber and just out from 

 the road bisecting the island, the dogs were started. Not a 

 dozen steps from the road Jack got a point, but was so un- 

 decided in manner that the Doctor did not claim the point. 

 Judge Pentz and others saw the birds running away, scatter- 

 ing as they ran. Jack was called away by the Doctor, but 

 after a short turn came back to the starting point and 

 pointed again good and staunch. Dr. Speir walked in and 

 flushed a bevy of at least a dozen birds just at the edge of 

 the wood. The light getting too dense to follow them to the 

 cover of the timber, a move was made to the large open 

 meadow in front and to the right of the club house. This 

 runs directly to the beach on the north side of the island, a 

 little fringe of bushes separating the grass land from the 

 beach. Hunting aloug this fringe of slight cover and from 

 east to west, Jack pointed capitally. Scarce had he estab- 

 lished, when with a roar was started the largest bevy of 

 birds yet found. It had at least 30 well-grown birds in it. 

 Napoleon slightly unsteady to wing. Here was seen a pretty 

 instance of good behavior, the triumph of education over 

 instinct. Jack, when this mass of birds flushed, made a 

 single jump after them. As he struck the ground after the 

 jump he flushed a single bird. He now dropped to wing, as 

 if knocked down with a club. After this Jack secured a 

 succession of good points. Birds flushed, shot at and two 

 killed. Each puppy tried for a retrieve, neither did well, 

 but Jack much the better of the two. Dogs ordered up. 

 Time 5 P. M., and the trials of 1890 a matter for record and 

 following the record of history: 



THE DERBY," FIELD TRIALS SCORE. 



Name of Dog. 



Tardy Jack. 

 Napoleon . . . 



Chnmp 



Featheis... . 



Points of Merit. 



a go 



Demerits. 



S. CD 



The tired sportsmen adjourned to the hotel, where a sound 

 wash, toned up every one. Dinner followed, and as a_ matter 

 of course the events of the day met with full discussion. 



G. W. Green, an enthusiastic guest at the trials, but 

 forced by business engagements to leave before they were 

 ended, sent the following note, accompanying it was a round 

 of Pommery Sec: 



"To the president, members and guests of the Robins 

 Island Club. Greeting: 



"I leave my farewells and a heartfelt blessing for my three 

 happy days (a bottle each, interpolation), and I ask you to 

 drink to the health of winners and losers both. To the former 

 I say, be modest in your bearing and remember that I pre- 

 dicted your success;' with the latter I sympathize deeply, and 

 don't forget I wished you to win. 



"I shall long remember the joy of each morning's start. 

 The daily starting signal of Judge Pratt will long ring 

 pleasantly in my ears— 'Where in sheol is myhatt' With 

 the warmest as well as the best of wishes, I am, 



"The Novice (George Walter Green)." 



Mr. Green's memory was fully toasted in his own wine. 



This ninth annual trial of the Robins Island Club will go 

 down in the history of the club as the greatest success yet 

 had in that direction. 



The judges at the trials were Calvin E. Pratt, of the Su- 

 preme Court; Jacob Pentz and Leslie C. Bruce. 



Peconic. 



CENTRAL FIELD TRIAL ENTRIES. 



THE entries of the Central Field Trial All Age Stake for 

 1890 closed with 77 nominations, distributed thus, 29 

 pointers, 46 English setters, 1 black and tan, and 1 Irish 

 setter. 



pointers. 



Tamarack (Tarn O'Shanter— Croxteth's Royal Queen), 

 Frank Billings. 



Barker's Grouse (Mainspring-Swain's Fly), S. T. Barker. 



Hickory's Staunch (Ayer's Don— Lady Spottswood), E. 

 R. Bellman. 



Rock II. (Graphic— Lady Belle), Connell & Cullen. 



Fan Fan (Graphic— Lady Belle), Connell & Cullen. 



Moonshine (King of Kent— Hops), Charlottesville Field 

 Trial Kennels. 



Zig-Zag (King of Kent— Hops), Charlottesville Field Trial 

 Kennels. 



Tapster (King of Kent— Hops), Charlottesville Field Trial 

 Kennels. 



Maid of Kent (King of Kent— Hops), Charlottesville 

 Field Trial Kennels. 



King of Kent (Priam— Kent Baby) , Charlottesville Field 

 Trial Kennels. 



Frank W. (Duke of Vernon— Royal Cute), L. Gardner. 



Doctor (Don Juan— Alameda), Wm. Howkins. 



Lass of Bloomo (Lad of Bow— Bloomo), W. T. Hunter. 



Duke of Hessen (Luck of Hessen— Blarney), Hempstead 

 Farm Kennels. 



Ightfield Dick (Dick III.— Bell of Bow), A. P. Heywood- 

 Lonsdale. 



Ightfield Guelph (Bang's Boy— Linda), A. P. Heywood- 

 Lonsdale. 



Ightfield Deuce (Wynstay— Dainty), A. P. Heywood- 

 Lonsdale. 



Keswick's Bot (Osborne Ale— Keswick II.), Dr. C. E. 

 Michel. 



Zero (Osborne Ale— Keswick II.), Dr. C. E. Michel. 

 Shot (Neno— Vic), w. B. Mears, Jr. & Co. 

 Orange Don (Neno— Vic), W. B. Mears, Jr. & Co. 

 LallA Rookh (Sensation's Son— Grace), C. H. Odell. 

 B. D. (Bang Bang— Lalla Rookh), C. H. Odell. 

 Cronie Wise (Croxteth— Young BueJah), P. H. O'Bannon. 

 TRAY (Tory White— Lapford Pearl), N. L. Rockwell. 

 Devonshire Don (Molton Baron— Village Star), Dr. H. J. 

 Thomas. 



Pearl's Dot (Trinket's Bang— Pearlstone), J. B. Turner. 

 Tempest (Beppo III.— Lass of Bow), J. H. Winslow. 

 Tammany's Boy (Tammany— Juno), Miss H. Wooster. 



black and tan setter. 

 Beaumont (Ronald III.— Floss), Beaumont Kennels. 



RED IRISH SETTER. 



Rockwood (Desmond II.— Luray III.), Chas. T. Thomp- 

 son. 



ENGLISH SETTERS. 

 CAssio (Count Noble— Lizzie Hopkins), J. M. Avent. 

 Antonio (Roderigo— Bo Peep), J. M. Avent. 

 TJ. S. Dan (Roderigo— Juno A.), J. M. Avent. 

 HATTIE (Roderigo— Juno A.), J. M. Avent. 

 Edge Mark (Skid more— Flo Maclin), Francis S. Brown. 

 Prince Lucifer (King Noble— Elsie Belton), J, I. Case,Jr. 

 Lady Rapier (Count Rapier— Donna J.), J. I. Case, Jr. 

 Little Gift (Roderigo— Queen Bess), Bert Crane. 

 Natalie II. (King Noble— Natalie), Bert Crane. 

 Rqi D'Or (Roderigo— Bo Peep), O. W. Donner. 

 King's Dan (King Noble— Elsie Belton), Elmwood Ken- 

 nels. 



Harry C. (Roderigo— Countess House), Elmwood Kennels. 

 Edith (Roderigo— Sue Gladstone), Elmwood Kennels. 

 Noble Count (Mac D.— Lady Mac), Mrs. S. A. Elliot. 

 Jubilee (Gath's Mark— Esther), J. M. Freeman. 

 Jim Phelan (Bob Gates— Nannie Gladstone), D. A. Good- 

 win, Jr. 



Miss Monarch (Roy Monarch— Flossie), Chas. E. Gray. 

 Gene (Druid— Barley), Chas. E. Gray. 

 Fannie M. (Gladstone's Boy— Flame), H. Hulman, Jr. 

 Sam Miller (Roderigo— Dixie), W. T. Hunter. 

 Annie F. (Roderigo— Juno A.), F. R, Hitchcock. 

 Tory Lieutenant (Jean Val Jean— Princess Helen), F. 

 R. Hitchcock. 



Fred Gates (Bob Gates— Lilly B.), Hamilton & Jackson. 

 Ightfield Ian (Woodhill Bruce— Lucy), A. P. Heywood- 

 Lonsdale. 



Ightfield RANGER (Dick Wind'em— Peep Bo), A, P. Hey- 

 wood-Lonsdale. 



Ightfield Rosa (Ross — Pitti Sing), A. P. Heywood- 

 Lonsdale. 



Dill (Toledo Blade— Dashing Lady), P. Lorillard, Jr. 

 Lady Noyice (Paul Gladstone— Dashing Novice), Joseph 

 Lewis 



Lewis's Fan (Jim Gladstone— Nina), Joseph Lewis. 

 Toney Gladstone (Paul Gladstone— Belle Ward), Joseph 

 Lewis. 



Roderigo Lufra (Roderigo— Lufra Cross), Wm. Marshall. 

 Nannie B. (King Noble— Queen Vashti), J. A. McLeod. 

 Orange Don (pedigree not given), W. B. Meares, Jr. & Co. 

 Kate Miller (Roderigo— Lufra Cross), N. B. Nesbitt. 

 Fraturness Don (Gath's Mark— Lufra Cross), N. B. Nes- 

 bitt, agent. 



Balie Gladstone (Paul Gladstone— Bessie A.), N. B. Nes- 

 bitt, agent. 



Reverdy (Gath's Mark— Rosa), P. H. O'Bannon. 

 Miss Nellie Y. (Gath's Hope— Lady May), P. H. O'Ban- 

 non. 



Lilly Burgess (Gath's Mark— Esther), Frank Richards, 

 Simonides (Gath's Hope— Gladys), D. E. Rose, agent. 

 Daisy's Hope (Gath's Hope— Daisy F.), W. W. Titus, 

 deputy. 



SAM R. (Dash Bryson— Daisy Hope), W. W. Titus, deputy. 

 Bandanna (May Dawn— Doe), Will Wilson. 

 Cash Boy (Cashier— Flake), H. A. Waldron. 

 Count Howard (Sir Allister— Mena), F. Windholz. 

 Princess Beatrhje TJ, (Royalty— gate Westmoreland), 

 F, Wiadfrolz, 



