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fairly maintained his former record. He was better in speed 

 and range. Dave W. did a Rood deal of pottering at times, 

 with some running after Blade, and his pace did not favor- 

 ably compare with that shown yesterday. Blade should 

 have won the heat. He ran at a disadvantage, for Mr. 

 Tncker, his owner and handler, was called home by the 

 death of his father, leaving Mr. Rose to handle his string of 

 dogs. Mr. Rose did well, of course, but it is tinfair to both 

 dog and handler. Blade's point work was equal to that of 

 Dan and, as mentioned, his superiority at other points 

 should have won him the race. Near the end of the heat, 

 both dogs drawing to a point, a single bird was flushed, ap- 

 pearing to be crippled it flew very low and slow, both dops 

 chased. Blade going the farthest and this may have lost him 

 the heat. Dave afterward made a false point, which ended 

 the heat. Dave won. 



Fourth Series. 



PAUL BO AND PINK B. 



Started at 10:53. After a short run a bevy was flushed, 

 I'oUosving the bevy to heavy grass, Pink B. pointed on scent; 

 no bird raised as they had run through to the other -side. Paxil 

 Bo then quickly ma'de two points. Pink to the right, at the 

 edge of cotton, flushed several birds and dropped to wing, 

 Capt. McCargo claimed a point, which was not allowed. 

 Near a hedge row Paul got another point on a single, 

 Across a branch and on the hill Pink made a good point on a 

 bevy. Paul in meantime was over the hill, and when found 

 seemed to have had some work but it could not be decided 

 what it was. Recrossing branch, Paul pointed a lai-k and 

 then a single bird. Then he pointed again and Titus urged 

 him on, and while roading the bird flushed. The heat ended 

 at 11:20. .Paul Bo won. 



RUPERT AND DAVE W. 



Dave pointed a bevy in a small plum thiclset. The birds 

 were flush ed, dogs steady. Another run and R upert by good 

 work located a bevy. Both dojis winded along a path. "Ru- 

 pert passed on, circled to the right to locate, and then crossed 

 to the left, and coming back up wind, nailed them. On the 

 singles Rupert did the be.st work and, properly, won. Lunch 

 over, and returning to field at 1 :20 Mr. Avent asked the judges 

 for time to rest his dog for the final heat, but after consulting 

 the judges decided to go on with the heat instead of running 

 one in the All-Aged Stake as might have been done. 



PAUL BO AND RUPERT. 



Both started well to decide first money, Paul the faster, 

 and he soon made a good point on a bevy, Paul steady to 

 flush. Rupert soon after made what was supposed to be a 

 false point, but as two rabbits were started it was possibly 

 the cause of the point. Paul Bo followed with two false 

 points. After a short run, Paul Bo making a cast to the left 

 dropped to a point. He proved to be just above them. Mov- 

 ing on he made a short east to left. He turned to come 

 back when Rupert, close by, down wind, flushed the bevy. 

 Following the birds he made a i)oint on a single. They 

 were then ordered up after running 30 minutes, and Paul 

 was declared the winner of the Derby and first money. 



Mr. Brumby, the secretary of the club and owner of Paul 

 Bo, received manjr congratulations. The dog is by Paul 

 Gladstone— Bohemian Girl, he is very like his sire, having 

 his action and pace. After this four heats in the All-Age 

 stake were run. 



Saturday. 



Rain fell all day Friday and no work was done, but to-day 

 was bright and quite warm, though cloudy. A start was 

 made at 8:37 about a mile from town and Rupert and Zula 

 M. were put down to run for second, in the Derby, shebeing 

 selected as the best dog beaten by Paul Bo, the winner. The 

 heat was void of interest, neither showing the work of their 

 former heats. Zula made the first point and to the right two 

 or three birds flushed. After these each pointed, Rupert backed 

 Zula but Zula refused to return the compliment. After a 

 while Rupert pointed in some grass near woods, moving on 

 he in casting to the left down wind, made an excusable flush 

 Then Zula pointed false, Rupert backed. 



Running a short distance Zula pointed, then moved on and 

 to the left pointed a bird about oOyds. oflE, During this 

 Rupert had secured a single, both dogs steady to flush. Then 

 Zala. pointed false in woods. Then while Rupert was point- 

 ing in a ravine Zula came in and flushed the bird. In heavy 

 grass Rupert secured a single, when Zula indulged in a sin- 

 gle flush, Avent soon claimed a point in some briers: 

 several birds got up. but it was impossible to say whether it 

 was a point or a flush. Then Zula made a point acro.ss a 

 ravine. Short should have shot as directed. 



The heat was then awarded to Zula. This was nut very 

 satisfactory, as she pottered a good deal and had not the 

 style of Rupert, nor did she back well unless cautioned. 

 Rupert won third money. Thus under the heat system a 

 good yonug dog was frozen out. 



[Owing to the late arrival of the report of the four heats 

 in the All- Aged Stake, and lack of space, it must lay over 

 till next week. The result of the stake will be found in the 

 telegi=iim.] _ 



-Laics*.— New ALBAl^^T, Miss., Feb. 9.— Trials closed to-day 

 on account of continuous rain, handlers requesting judges 

 to decide on work done in the All- Aged Stakes. It was de- 

 cided as follows: Antonio first, Dad Wilson, Jr., second, 

 Noble C, Satan and Sam R. divide third. 



MEMBERS' SHOW AT HAMILTON, ONTARIO. 



Editor Forest a.nd Stream: 



A few details of the Hamilton Kennel Club members- 

 show may be of interest. The terriers all through were of a 

 very ordinarv quality with the exception of these three fox- 

 terriers: First, Mr. D. Rickett's Fan; she had a long, pun- 

 ishing head, with a good vermin expression, trifle large in 

 ears, rather soft in coat, light in bone and only fair feet. 

 Second, C. W. Rickett's Tuttles, short in head and weak in 

 muzzle, nice formation of ear, light in bone and good tex- 

 ture of coat. Third, Mr. D. Rickett's Tom, good head, nice 

 small dark eye, well carried ears, fair coat; the dog was 

 very sick and would have been better at home. 



Two bull-terriers were shown; they were of very bad type 

 and were ordered out of th.e ring. 



J. Anderson's black and tan terrier received he; he was 

 void of all thumb markings and pencilings, and was very 

 heavily breeched. 



In toy terriers first went to a small silver, Thos. Church's 

 Beauty, nice formation, with a good terrier head. Second a 

 good dark Yorkshire teiaier pup, Frank Close's Tribble. 



A very fair type of Airedale terrier was shown belonging 

 to Mr. E. R. Rickett, a little advanced in ears, which made 

 him look a little coarse and heavy all through. 



There was a large attendance of members. Great interest 

 seems to be taken in these meetings by the members. G. B, 



NATIONAL GREYHOUND CLUB SHOW.- jStZitor 

 Forest a7id Stream: You have omitted the number of en- 

 tries from your report of the N. G. C. show. There were 61 

 exhibits, which is, I believe, the largest show of these 

 breeds— greyhounds, deerhounds and wolfhounds — ever 

 held in America. The quality, especially in deerhounds, 

 was x\l. Last year New York had 59, including of course 

 the three wolfhounds entered in the miscellaneous class. In 

 1889 there were 45, in 1888 just 44 and in 1887 only r38. Mr. 

 Huntington informs me that a number of entries were re- 

 turned "too late," and that the Western exhibitors could 

 not show without having their dogs put back in condition 

 for New York. Had the show been held a month sooner, I 

 suppose there would have been about one hundred dog,s.— 

 CBA6. H. Mason. 



NOTES AND NOTIONS. 



I CAN hardly follow "Busy Bee," in your Philadelphia 

 contemporary, when he alludes to my note about coflies, 

 Hugh Dalziel's opinion of the tapir colhe and Mr. Thomp- 

 son's expressed admiration for Marcus. "Busy Bee" says, 

 "As to the first named gentleman doubtless he [Onlooker] 

 is correct, for he has but recently expressed his opinion 

 very plainly, but as to Mr. Thompson, who is one of the 

 foremost collie judges of the present day, it is rather 

 far-fetched to quote his opinion of old Marcus, * * * i 

 am quite .sure Mr. Thompson does not share the opinion 

 that collies of the Marcus type are to be compared with the 

 Metchley Wonder type, etc." It would seem impossible 

 that Mr, W. W. Thompson should refer to Marcus as the 

 best dog he ever owned and yet hold that the dog was a bad 

 one. The variance in the heads of Marcus and, say, any 

 crack of the day is so marked that if the dog of to-day is 

 good, Marcus must have been bad; therefore Mr. Thompson 

 was either not a believer in the extreme long and very nar- 

 row head of the modern collie — thereby concun-ing witb Mr. 

 Dalziel, Mr, Rawdon B, Lee, Mr. Wm. B. Arkwnght, etc.— 

 or he took some pains to make it known that his best dog 

 was a bad one. Of course, I do not vouch for Mr. Thomp- 

 son's statement as to Marcus, but I remember having seen 

 it stated in print that Tlie Scottish Fancier made this 

 statement as to Mr. Thompson, and on being challenged re- 

 peated it in most positive terms. I took it for granted that 

 it would not be denied that within the last five or eight 

 years fancy had gone crazed on very long and exceedingly 

 narrow heads and profuse coats, and that within a very 

 short time— perhaps sinee Mr. Arkwright published his 

 memorable "The Fancier vs. The Collie" -^there had been a 

 check in this mad race, and I think that if "Busy Bee" 

 will impartially look up the facts he will find it as I state. 

 He must excuse me from specif jMng dogs with the deformed 

 modern head, that should never be done except over the 

 writer's name. 



The hope of the editor that the late (?) discussion on "The 

 Cockers of 1890" may be led into a discussion of what con- 

 stitutes a cocker and what a small field spaniel, is admirable, 

 but I fear it will result in little. That point has been one to 

 be discussed ever since I knew aught of dogs, nor has it ad- 

 vanced an inch toward settlement. One thing is noticeable 

 —the real authorities, those who thoroughly know the 

 breeds, the Boultons, Lowes and others, all discard modern 

 type as untypical, Mr. Lowe saving himself Avith the frank 

 declaratioM that although he has krown and used the 

 breeds for years, he supposes he does not know anything of 

 them. 



* * * 



The great difficulty in changing an exaggerated type lies in 

 the extent of the investment in the extravagance of the 

 type; i. e., the dogs possessing and transmitting a deformed 

 excess of a valuable property are expensive, have cost their 

 owners much money, or could be sold for a large amount if 

 this exaggeration remains as the one and only correct tvpe, 

 and the revolution involved in a reversion to exact regarJi of 

 what the property— now exaggerated— should be, is terrify- 

 ing. This is not specially applicable to spaniels, as it holds 

 with all breeds more or less. Where there are extensive and 

 powerful interests not guided by considerations of type, as 

 m the cases of foxhounds and greyhounds, these pranks of 

 the fancier are innocuous, as the power, outeidethe fancier's 

 scope, is too great to be battled with. The mischief is done 

 where show type is the only— or main— consideration. 



A distinct gain to kennel interests everywhere is the re- 

 turn of Mr. Vero Shaw to kennel matters in his papers con- 

 tributed to the London Stock-Keeper, We are too apt to 

 rush ahead on our own abstract notions, relying on our in- 

 tuition (if on anything) for the safety and wisdom of our 

 courses, and that there is such a thing as experience, or that 

 it can guide us, is almost lost and forgotten, and the recital 

 of the experiences of as old a hand in "fancy" as Mr. Shaw, 

 should open our eyes to a good many things. The last sug 

 gestion of his that has impressed itself upon me as of import- 

 ance is that of the great value of the jjrof essional dog breeder 

 to dogs at large. This is worth taking home and thinking 

 over. It is all very well to prate about "gentlemen" and 

 gentlemanly dealings, and abstractly there is something in 

 it, but in practical application, the man who breeds and 

 sells dogs as a business, is apt to breed better ones than the 

 gentleman who does it as a diversion, and not uncommonly 

 the gentleman who goes into breeding as an amusement, 

 finally gets to be as commercial as anybody. I am not 

 aspersing the character of our gentleman breeders, their 

 personal characters need no defense, but certainly they 

 cannot, and will not breed with the practical skill of 

 the professional, and it should not be lost siglit of, 

 that many of the revivers— almost ereaiors of breeds, 

 bred professionally, for the money to be made out 

 of it. The Yorkshire terrier owes his development and his 

 wonderful variation from his original stock almost wholly 

 to English workingmen, whose wives and daugbter.** ex 

 pended the time on their coats that has made them such 

 marvels. The whippet is as well defined a breed, and as far 

 as my observation goes, breeds as true as any breed, and 

 they owe their existence to the same class of English work- 

 ingmen. In fact, but a few years since, whippet racing was 

 looked upon as a shady diversion, both here and in England, 

 and entirely on account of the men fostering it, 



The world moves nowadays and men who are fond of ex- 

 citement have begun to interest themselves in this little 

 racer, and surely we have a precedent for the better class of 

 sportsmen to take this sport up, when we remember that 

 fox terrier coursing, which has been aptly named a "bas- 

 tard" sport, finds its most strenuous supporters on the other 

 side among the same class of men who foster whippet rac- 

 ing. Fox-terrier coursing on Long Island has received the 

 stamp of fashion, then why should not the harmless amuse- 

 ment o'f whippet racing afford the same excitppient to our 

 leisure class that horse racing does? with this advantage, 

 that the most squeamish person can find nothing in it to 

 oppose on the score of cruelty. 



The most brilliant accession to kennel ranks for a long 

 time is Dr. .J. A. Tatham's, of the Canine World, coming 

 into the field. I cannot remember when so many new and 

 very valuable suggestions, reforms and improvements have 

 been made. He actually seems to have made an impression 

 on the Chinese wall behind which the English Kennel Club 

 has been entrenched, and is battering a hole in these ancient 

 ramparts, he has a splinter new gate, with a broad road, all 

 ready to put in the breach he has made. He now promises 

 a startling departure, and from his so-far success 1 am dis- 

 posed to think he will make it work somehow. He proposes 

 ;o unite demon.strations of the usefulness of dogs side by 

 side with their show qualities. At present the plan is not 

 outlined, and to me the task seems an impossible one, but I 

 cannot help having a faith in "Peto," that he will eitber ac- 

 complish what he starts out to do, or make a most wonderful 

 rattling of the dry bones in doing it. I suppose from his 

 name, that Mr. Ta'tham is to the manor born in all matters 

 of sportsmanship. 



Forest and Stream has*done a service to all readers in 



cutting a brake on personal discussions. I fully agree with 



;he disputants that they have a right to their defense, but 

 the public have some rights also, and one of these is that it 

 shall not be tired out with personalities long after they have 



lost all interest in them. I think that journals will have to , ^. „ 



?ome to some feed, definite role as to this matter, perhaps ; Third— Sankey B.. Qneen Croxteth and Rose, divided. 



something like the rule of parliamentarians, that a speaker 

 can speak but twice ou one question, allowing the attack, the 

 reply, the rebuttal and the sur rebuttal. Surely this would 

 meet the needs of all such cases, .and it would educate dis- 

 putants in being terse and vigorous, to make the most of tha 

 opportunites afforded them and give a much needed relief to 

 the reading public. ^ 



A Western paper repeats an old piece of rank humbug 

 that I thought was buried long since. "A show held out- 

 side American Kennel Club rules would not attract a cor- 

 poral's guard." If this is meant to apply to attendance, its 

 stupid follj; and falsity is manifest. If meant as applying 

 to entries, it is the most open of questions and one about 

 which nothing whatever can be presented. Experience has 

 settled this beyond dispute. The American Kennel Club is 

 a most excellent institution, and its rules inure to the benefit 

 of all, but no greater harm can be done it than the stupidly , 

 false claims set forth for it. "Deliver me from my friends" 

 is a makim few do not have a chance to learn some time in 

 their experience^^ The Onlooker. 



THE PACIFIC COAST FIELD TRIALS. 



THE eighth annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Field 

 Trials Club commenced on Jan. 19, at Bakersfield, Cal. 

 The headquarters for the sportsmen was The Southern, 

 which is a large and elegantly equipped hotel kept by that 

 genial and obliging host. Col. John C. Morrison. It was vir- 

 tually turned over to the members of the club and visitors 

 participating in the trials. Every ai3tention was freely and 

 even lavishly bestowed and all were made to feel at home. 



Ladies' day, says Breeder and Sportsman, was the great 

 .social event of the meeting, and was a pronounced success 

 in every respect, a large number of the fair sex being present, 

 enlivening the proceedings and adding immeasurably to the 

 interest and pleasure of the day. 



The grounds are located about four miles south of Bakers- 

 field, and are large and commodious Under ordinary condi- 

 tions, such as have obtained generally during the previous 

 events of the club, they are all that could be desired, present- 

 ing just enough of timber, undergrowth and open space, 

 with a large number of points and knolls skirted with long 

 bunch grass in which every sportsman knows the quail are 

 wont to hide, to afford ample opportunity for testing the 

 dogs in every part of field work. The weather during the 

 trials was all that could be desired, save for the heat during 

 the central hours of Tuesday and Wednesday, which was 

 much against the working of the dogs when the conditions 

 of the grounds are taken into consideration. They are com- 

 paratively level, being broken by winding little depressions 

 and gullies which for the most part are studded with large 

 Cottonwood trees and clusters of underbusb which in some 

 places cover many acres; the open ground for the greater 

 portion is clothed with bunch grass, which affords excellent 

 cover for the birds. A third, and, as it proved this year, 

 the most trying portion of the grounds is covered with a 

 species of very short grass presented in small tufts with the 

 intervening spaces of bare ground whitened with alkali 

 which covered it completely, in appearance resembling a 

 light fall of snow. This detestable substance covering the 

 ground, clung to every bush and coated every blade of grass, 

 and when moving across the fifld, filled the nostrils of the 

 dogS; horses and people in a way that was decidedly ir- 

 ritating, evidenced by the animals sneezing and coughing, 

 in which exercise almost every individual on the field joined, 

 adding various terms, suh rosa, more noted for strength of 

 expression than for elegance and refinement. This condi- 

 tion arose from the fact that there had been but little or no 

 rain in that section for several days, we may say weeks, 

 prior to the trials, a condition which seldom obtains at this 

 season of the year, and never before noted on these grounds, 

 which have been used for number of years by the club -vith 

 the best and most satisfactory results. We have not the 

 space to give full details of the running and must confine 

 ourselves to a summary. The judges were Messrs, N. G. 

 Nelson, R, P, Vandevort and H. T. Payne. 



SuiiMARY.— The Derby— Jan. 20, 

 First Series. 



F. B. Dexter's lemon and white setter dog El Rey (Lode 

 .stone— Enid) 



against 



N. Rideout's black and white dog Lord Cliumley (Lode 

 stone— Janet). 



M. D. Walter's white, black and tan setter dog Lee R. 

 (Rodney— Phyllis IL) 



a.{iainst 



James E. Watson's Old Black Joe II., black pointer, imp. 

 Pape's Kennel, England. 



The Calif orma Kennels' orange aud whi te setter bitch Pet- 

 ronella (Harold— Sunlit) 



against 



J. M. Baa.sfoid's lemon and white pointer bitch Queen'H 

 Last (Mountain Boy— Beautiful Queen). 



Second Series. 

 Petrooella against El Rey. 

 Black Joe II. against Lee R. 



Third Series. 

 Petronella against Old Black Joe II. 



First— Lee R. Second— Old Black Joe IT. Third— Pet- 

 ronella. 



ALL-AGED STAKE. 

 This stake was concluded by Friday morning and resulted 

 as follows. 



Summary. 

 First Series. 



J. M. Bassford's lemon and white pointer dog Sankey B. 

 (Point— Blossom) 



against 



T. J. Knowles' Irish setter dog Dau II. (Elcho Jr.— 

 Brownie). 



A, B. Truman's white and liver pointer bitch Patti Crox- 

 teth T, (Croxteth— Patti M.) 



afiainst 



The California Kennel's blue belton English setter bitch 

 .Tanet (Count Noble— Dashing Novice). 



James E. Watson's Old Black .Joe II., black pointer dog, 

 imp., Pape's English Kennels, 



against 



J. M. Bassford's white and lemon pointer Rose (Point- 

 Blossom). 



W. W. Foote's black, white and tan English setter dog 

 Dick Foote (Royal Duke IL— Nelly) 



against 



A. B. Truman's white and liver pointer bitch Queen Crox- 

 teth (Rush T.— cham. Patti Croxteth). 



Second Series. 

 Sankey B, against Patti Croxteth T. 

 Old Black Joe II. against Queen Croxteth. 



T7i./7y7 Scries. 

 Old Black Joe 11. against Patti Croxteth T. 



Fourth Series. 

 Old Black Joe II. against Sankey B. 



First — Patti Croxteth T. Second— Old Black Joe IL 



