Dec. S, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



49S 



Ml. Lorillard's dogs distingtiished themselves most favor- 

 ably, showing up in strong form in nearly every detail of 

 field work. Re is to be congratulated ou Ms plnckiness in 

 competing year after year till he developed a string of 

 strong competitors. He is a good loser and a good veinner. 

 There can not be too many like him in field trial matters. 



WEDNESDAY. 



A. plecisancer day coald not be vs'ell imagined, although a 

 trifl.e too warm t'tirottgh the midday hours. There were 

 birds enough for field trial purposes. Messrs. Aveut and 

 Tucker gave the field trial party a lunch, one of the luuches 

 which is excellent in itself, and doubly so by contrast with 

 the meagre and slovenly-served lunches of the preceding 

 daya, There wei'e two stuffed roast turkeys, cooked to per- 

 fection and served hot, cranberry sauce, roast pig, good 

 bread, butter and crackers, pickles, eggs, cake and pies 

 galore, and excellent hot coffee. It was neatly spread and 

 was served with politeness. It was not furnished by the 

 Bellevue Hotel. Xow as to the contrast of previous days. 

 The lunches were largely dry bread ham or beef sandwiches, 

 the meat and bread was cut with a sharp knife and a steady 

 hand, making a morsel of most wonderful thinness, yet 

 tough and surviving. Some cheap sardines, on some days, 

 reinforced the zephyr sandwiches, and the happy guest had 

 a choice between water or cheap beer to drink, coffee being 

 too much to expect when guests are paying from |3,50 to $3 

 per day at a country hotel largely devoted to cold draughts 

 of wind and perpetual inconvenience. 



First Series. 



No brilliant work was done in this series. There was a 

 great deal that was commonplace and some which was poor, 



Bettye S. and Gttv— Started at 9.15 and ran 33m. They 

 took a wide cast, Bettye was close on to a bevy when Guy 

 ran into it in the open field and flushed it. Bettye dropped 

 to wing, In woods on scattered birds each pointed. Bettye 

 flushed a bird. In sedge, Bettye pointed: nothing found. 

 Bettye dropped to point on a bevy in sedge. Guy flu.shed an 

 outlying single and dropped. In the open, Bettye made a 

 good point and Guy backed. Steady to shot. Neither did 

 well considering the opportiinities. Each ranged well, Guy 

 the more earnest in seeking birds and beating out the likely 

 covers with the better judgment. Bettye made the better 

 work on birds. 



Pr 4.w^N AND Hap.by C. began at 8:5S and ran twenty- six 

 minutes. Harry took a long cast up a stubble field and 

 Dointed well. Prawn backed. No birds were found to the 

 point, but when the dogs were sent on they roaded. Harry 

 roaded from the stubble into pines and pointed the bevy, 

 which probably ran from his point. Both were steady. 

 Both ranged with judgment and at good speed, Harry the 

 wider ranger. The work on birds, however, was small in 

 quantity. 



Lena and Count Anted started at 10:21 and ran thirty 

 minutes. Both made game and the bevy flushed wild on 

 the other side of a fence. Lena made two good points on 

 birds, one of which she wheeled into sharply and prettily. 

 Antonio flushed twice carelessly and made one good point 

 on scattered birds. He made a point in sedge and was 

 backed; nothing found. He was the speedier and wider 

 ranger. 



CoLEEAiTNE and CotTNT GLADSTONE Were started at 10:58 

 and ran thirty-two minutes. Count went very fast from 

 the start, too fast, in fact, for he waf? racing and not hunt- 

 ing. No dog can run at such racing speed ;and maintain it 

 long. Count paid but little attention to the gun, ranging 

 where he pleased, staying as long as he pleased, and work- 

 ing out such ground as he pleased. He was headstrong and 

 disobedient, except when close to his handler. Coleraine 

 ranged close at ordinary .speed. Count was led on chain 

 with studied slowness across a large field; the handlers 

 being orought together, Coleraine working in the mean- 

 time, it appeared to rest Counf a good deal, 



Geouse and Rupeet began at 12:38 and. ran thirty-six 

 minutes. In pines some work was done on a bevy, but the 

 doss were partially hidden in the thicket so that it was 

 difficult to see what was done. As near as we could deter- 

 mine Grouse pointed the bevy and Kupert flushed a bird. 

 On the scattered birds Rupert false pointed. Grouse on bare 

 ground flushed scattered birds. Grouse false-pointed and 

 was backed. Both ranged well at good speed, The work on 

 birds was poor. 



Jupiter and Hempstead Duke— Started at 13:07. Down 

 34 minutes. There was a lot of ordinary work done on 

 scattered birds during the heat, the circumstances all favor- 

 ing qu antity. Duke made a good point on a bevy and was 



Tobo was reading on this bevy in sedge in pines and Tucker 

 accidentally flushed it. Antevolo showed some wildness 

 and was headstrong. Tobe made game and pointed on bare 

 wheat ; nothing found. .Antevolo flushed a bird. Antevolo 

 pointed a bevy in a thicket and Tobe backed. Antevolo was 

 getting steadier. Both w^ere steady to shot. Both ranged 

 well, .although irregtilarly betimes, Antevolo the wider, 



Heiwekek and LoK.'i-— Were started at 3:4.6; down 30m. A 

 single waa flushed Itefore the heat began. Lora saw it, 

 When cast otf she cunningly followed directly in its course. 

 She went into a stubble and pointed a bevy which was scat- 

 tered about feeding, When cast off Lora followed directly 

 in the coizrse of the scattered birds and disappeared in a 

 hollow. As the judges rode up a bevy was .seen to leave the 

 hollow. .Lora when seen was cautiously drawing to where 

 it had flushed from, it appearing that she had been pointing 

 and t hat the bevy flushed wild. Lora -when sent on followed 

 the course of the birds into the woods. She got a point on 

 them. She marks the flight of birds very accurately, and 

 thus by her intelligence has a gieat advantage over every 

 dog in'this stake, Lora found and pointed a bevy. Heine- 

 ken backed well. I.(Ora was much the better pointer and 

 was quite skillful in all the details of ttie coraoetition. 



Grouse and Rupert— Were put down at 4:25 and ran 6m. 

 Grou.?e soon pointed a bevy, which flushed wihb Rupert 



0. M. Ball. E. S. Kiiowlea. Prea. Oeo. W. Eoraback. Mr. Owens with Ruby. 



WESTERN MiESACHirSETTS SOX CLUB B-UNT, 



promptly backed by Jupiter, Both Were Steady tt) shot. 



In weeds in an orchard, Jupiter pointed a bevy and was 

 backed. Both steady to shot. Jupiter next made two flushes 

 on singles, then flushed scattered birds. Jupiter pointed 

 and the bird was flushed after (the dogs moved on. Duke 

 made three more good points, one of which was on a bevy. 

 Jupiter made one more point which was on a single, but 

 which flushed as he moved on to locate better, and being 

 brought up to back, pointed the bevy with Duke. The 

 latter was much the' better ranger. He was over fond of 

 backing and would back Jupiter roading. 

 The party then went to lunch. 



Miss RURT AND Pete— Bega,n at 1:S8 and ran 33 minutes. 

 A bevy flushed near both dogs, but bo one could see which 

 dog was in fault, if either was. Miss pointed a bevy in 

 pines. Moved on= Pete pointed, and at the same time 

 ibout fifteen yards further on, Miss pointed the bird. Pete 

 in pines pointed ; nothing found. Both backed well. Miss 

 ranged the wider and kept up her flins more regularly. 



PiN&LAS AND MEE.LIN.— Began at 2:33 and ran a9 minutes 

 on excellent ground, but neither would go much out of gun 

 shot. No birds were found. 



Bki&hton Tobe aijd Antevolo— Commenced at 3:1a and 

 ran 29 minutes. Antevolo flushed a bevj. It waa fallowed 



J. Iff. Freeman. K.o,v;ii fiobiu.iO):, W. A. TliompsoD, 



.JUDGKS AT AMEhlCAN JTIELn TRIAliS CLTTB TBlAIfS. 



made three good points on the scattered birds. Each backed 

 well. Grouse made one point which was birdless. 

 This ended the day's work. 



THURSDAY. 



No pleasanter weather could be desired, though it was too 

 warm for such dogs as were not in first class condition or 

 which ran too hard for their endurance. 



Secnncl tSeries. 



Too many dogs were taken into this series.'* About four 

 were all that were necessary to continue the running on a 

 proper grasp of the situation. One of the handlers referred 

 to this series aiS a "consolation stake." There is positively 

 nothing gained by trying to toady to owners and handler.*, 

 if such were the intention. If it was done as a matter of 

 deliberate judgment, it did not show a keen discrimination. 

 Some of the dogs taken into this series showed no merit 

 whatever equal to the occasion. It costs the owner of a poor 

 dog quite as much for team hire as it does^che owner of a 

 good dog. It is much better to prune the matter according 

 to its merits. 



Jupitee and Rupeet started at 9:17. Rupert was much 

 the better and wider ranger of the two, though he was a bit 

 irregular and faulty in his casts and he also seemed a bit 

 stale. In an open field he flushed a .single bird of a btvy, 

 then he stopped to wing and pointed. Jupiter backed well. 

 On the scattered birds Jupiter flushed. He showed a dis- 

 position to point too often. He flushed a bevy and the heat 

 ended soon thereafter. Down 15m. 



Count Glad.stone and Antevolo— Began at 9:40 and 

 ran ITm. Count rushed out of sight from the beginning 

 and but one or two glimpses of him were caught in the first 

 ten minutes. He was unmanageable, showed no disposition 

 to work to the gun and was simply racing, not hunting. 

 His speed was great, but it was such as ends any dog's ef- 

 forts in about an hour. Antevolo pointed a bevy near the 

 edeeofapine thicket, she being up-wind of it. Antevolo 

 followed Count much of the time, and showed some wild- 

 ness. On the scattered birds Antevolo dropped to a point 

 on a single, which flushed wild. Count could not be kept 

 under control to work on single birds, he breaking away 

 and keeping out of sight. 



Haret C. and Beighton Tobe— Were cast ofl: at 10:L5 

 and worked fifteen minutes. The judges flushed a bevy. 

 Harry pointed two birds and was steady to shot. Tobe 

 pointed scattered birds and Harry, called in, pointed or 

 backed. Tobe, sent on, pointed a single. Harry showed 

 superiority in every way. Tobe was a bit slow on birds, and 

 showed an inclination to potter sometimes. 



LoEA AND Bettye S.— Were started at 10:33. Down 33m. 

 Lora located and pointed a bevy skillfully in the open field, 

 doing it prettily and accurately, she going down wind on 

 one side of it, then catching scent and drawing quickly to it. 

 Bettye was lost for some minutes, and when found the indi- 

 cations were that she had been in the woods working on the 

 scattered birds of Lora's bevy, Lora having been stopped till 

 Bettye was found. The scattered birds could not be found, 

 though one or two were flushed by the spectators. Bettye 

 false pointed. Lora showed superiority in every respect. 



Lena and Miss Ruby— Commenced at 11-10. Down lOm. 

 Lena soon dropped in sedge to a point on a single bird, was 

 steady to shot and retrieved the birds nicely. In the open, 

 Ruby pointed a bevy and was backed*, a good, clean piece of 

 work. Both were steady to shot and wing. Neither showed 

 wide range or more than ordinary pace. 



Count Anteo and Hempstead Duke— Began at 11:27 and 

 were run 31m. Duke dropped to a point on a bevy in the 

 open. Count in the open near edge of pines, false pointed 

 and Duke backed promptly, Duke flushed a bevy in the 

 open. The scattered birds were followed. Duke pointed: 

 Count backed to order; nothing found. Duke pointed to 

 one side near the edge of nines. He was across wind from 

 it and did not have the bevy located. Count passed close to 

 it. He made a poor showing of point work, considering his 

 opportunities. He was the^better ranger. Duke was given 

 to a fondness for pointing, and would make gams around 

 the likely corners by sight, so that, with making ga,me also 

 by scent, he appeared to be making game a large part of the 

 time. 



The party went to lunch and partook of some good coffee 

 and the sandwich which altereth not, though it is a toil and 

 a spin to eat it. The lunch had one redeeming fault, how- 

 ever, in that it waa the last one. 



Third Series. 



HARBY O. A?fD jL^ORA,--Were started at 1:47, A bevy ws 



seen to flush ahead near the dogs, but whether or not the 

 dogs were in fault could not be determined. Sent on, Lora 

 followed in the course of the scattered birds. Lora pointed 

 a single. Harry next pointed a single and was steady to shot. 

 Lora backed. Harry made two points and a flush and Lora 

 pointed a single. Lora pointed a bevy in weed,3. Lora made . 

 two points on single.s, and .Harry made two also. At 2:80 

 the judges ordered the dogs up and held a consultation 

 which lasted thirteen minutes. Everything indicated that 

 thi.g was the heat which determined Hmt and second win- 

 ners, and everything indicated that the judges were not 

 unanimous in their decisions. The dogs were again sent on. 

 Lora soon made a long cast, skirted along the edge of woods, 

 steadied and shortened pace as she turned into the woods in 

 a manner which indicated that she was drawing on birds. 

 Dr. Jarvis and myself galloped to where she disappeared, 

 and as we were about turning into the woods where Lora 

 disappeared I heard a bevy flush in the woods. When we 

 got into the woods Lora was working across a hollow as if 

 following marked birds. Soon afterward Harry C. came in 

 and made game and pointed in the woods, probably on the 

 footscent of the bevy which I had heard flush. LTp at 2:55. 

 Lora showed the better range, she working outside of Harry 

 in looking for bevies. She beat out her ground with excel- 

 lent judgment. She showed most excellent ability in find- 

 ing and locating bevies. On scattered birds she was sharp 

 quick and accurate, yet in this respect she had little advan- 

 tage over Harry. She remained out at her work, beat out 

 her ground with judgment and was quite easily handled. 

 Harry showed excellent qualities and performed well, but 

 he was not in Lora's class." 



Miss RUBT AND HE.MPSTEAD DUKE began at ;3:17, Miss 

 soon pointtd a bevy in the open. Duke 200yd.g. away pointed 

 lud nothing was found to his point. On the scattered birds 

 Huke picked up several good points in woods, but he was 

 100 ready to point ou conjectures. Miss also did some good 

 work on the scattered birds. Miss was the wider and better 

 ranger, as the class of her work on birds was superior. The 

 heat ended at 3:37. 



The judges held a consultation and announced Harry C. 

 first, Lora second, and JWiss Ruby third. The prizes were 

 SlOO, iSSOO, and SlOO respectively, 'Forfeit |10, $20 additional 

 10 fill. 



The stake was quite well judged, .so far as picking out the 

 three best dogs are concerned, but they were not placed cor- 

 rectly according to their running. Lora was a higher class 

 performer, and in the quantity of work done she also ex- 



elled. In a conversation with Mr. Coster, one of the judges, 

 he assured me that Lora was his choice for first, but that he 

 bad been overruled by his associates, therefore the decision 

 was not unanimous. Dr. -jarvis did not, I am quite sure, 

 hear the last bevy fl.ush in the heat between Lora and Harry, 

 ljut had she found none, or flushed one or pointed it, she had 



lone good enough work and enough of it to excel all the 

 others. 



The Members' Stake. 



This stake was run on Thursday, Mr. John N. Lewis, of 

 Ramsey, N. .J., being judge. Mr. Lewis is a famous breaker 

 and field trial handler. 



It seemed as if the members had some secret methods of 

 handling wnich they did not desire to become public prop- 

 erty, or their dogs were dark horses, since they went aside 

 by themselves and gave the press representatives no encour- 

 agement to foUew the stake. They did not inform said rep- 

 resentatives that they could not go, but they assumed an 

 air of modesty and esclu.siveness which implied that they 

 would enjoy their stake better without any spectators, so 

 the press'voluntarily denied itself the pleasure of seeing 

 much interesting competition. 



As to the coTnpetition, some of the rumor.s were that it 

 was good, and .some said that it might have been better, 

 one or the other of which may be accepted as being true 

 and part of the record. Also, it is said that some of the 

 members were satisfied with the results, and .some others 

 weie more so than some others, which all may be taken in 

 evidence that the stake was interesting. All the history of 

 the stake is hearsay and the above is the summary of it. 

 The following is the order of running: 



First Series. 



S. Murray Mitchell's lemon and white dog Sandy Glad- 

 stone (Breeze Gladstone— Delaware), F, G. Taylor, handler, , 



tvtth 



Walter B. Smith's black, white and tan dog Gath (Gath's 

 Joy — Dart), owner, handler. 



Pennsylvania Kennels' black, white and tan bitch Nanou 

 (Ben Hiil-Mary), P, G. Taylor, handler. 



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■ Pre?. Eoratact and Party. 

 VAth 



Walter B. Smith's orange and white dog Ben Hur Fianklirt 

 (Ike— Leda), owner, handler. 



Pennsylvania Kennels' black, white and tan drg Ben Hur 

 of Riverview (Ben Hill— Zoe W.), F. G. Taylor, handler, 

 vjith 



Fairmount Kennels' lemon and white pointer dog Promo- 

 tion (Lord Graphic— Belle Bishop). 



Second Series, 

 Nanon with Ben Hur of Riveiview. 

 Nanon with Promotion. 



First, Nanon; second, Ben Hur of Riverview: third, Ben 

 Hur Franklin and Promotion. Prizes, $30, -$20 and $10, first, 

 second and third respectively. Ten dollars forfeit ard $10 

 additional to fill. 



Brooklyn Show Awards. 



Breeze Gladstone won first prize in the challenge class at 

 Btooklyn, also won the National Greyhound Club's medal 

 for the best dog.j also the Polhemus cup for the best dog 

 or bitch. 



