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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[Feb. 33, 1893. 



The Settee Stake. 



This stake was begun immediately after the judges an- 

 noimced their decision in the preceding stake. 



The manner of rnnning it was somewhat noA-el, as in three 

 series but three dogs were dropped out, still the winners 

 were placed quite well. There was a good number of sports- 

 men in attendance. 



Some ladies graced the trials by thesir presence each day 

 when the weather was pleasant enough fpr them to venture 

 out. 



Following is the oi-der of drawing: 



Blue Ridge Kennels' liver and w^hite dog Bob Cooper (Roi 

 d'Or— Miss Nellie Y.), D. E. Rose, handler, 



Ad. J. Klofanda's black, white and tan dog Dan Noble 

 (Gladstone's Boy— Fannie M.), T. H. Poindexter, handler. 



Blue Ridge Kennels' black, white and tan bitch Gossip 

 (Roderigo— Belle of Piedmont), D. E. Rose, handler, 



until 



Philip M. Essig's black, white and tan dog Jean (Jean Val 

 Jean — Miss Thompson), H. M. Short, handlei". 



Avent & Thayer Kennels' black, white and tan bitch Bet- 

 tye S. (Roderigo — Bo Peep), J. M. Avent, handler, 



'IVltll 



Bert Crane's black, white and tan bitch Natalie II. (King 

 Noble — Natalie), N. B. Nesbit, handler. 



Dr. J. N. Maclin's and T. H. Poiudexter's black, white and 

 tan bitch Little Miss (Vanguard— Rhett), T. H. Poindexter, 

 handler, with 



Avent & Thayer Kennels' black, white and tan bitch 

 Novelist (Woodhill Bruce— Novelty), J. M. Avent, handler. 



Gen. W. B. Shattuc's black, white and tan dog Dave W. 

 (Gath's Mark— Daisy F.). G. R. House, handler, 

 with 



A. P. Gilliam's black, white and tan dog Eugene T. (Count 

 Noble— Ruby's Girl), owner, handler. 



Whyte Bedford's lemon and white bitch Zulu M. (Toledo 

 Blade ), A. P. Gilliam, handler, a bye. 



First Series. 



Bob Cooper a^jd Das Noble started at 3:10. Dan pointed 

 a single bird, and Bob coming in flushed it. Bob pointed a 

 bird m a fallen treetop. Bob was lost for a while, and when 

 found he was pointing a bevy in the open. As Rose walked 

 toward Bob, he flushed a bevy which passed over the bevy 

 Bob was pointing and flushed it, and both be^-ies flew away 

 together. Dan false pointed in high sed.sie. Both ranged 

 and hunted well. Bob was a bit vrider in range and faster in 

 speed. Up at 3:32. 



Zulu M. ran a bye at the time of the preceding heat. She 

 started at 3:11. Her range and speed wei-e good, yet she came 

 in to her handler unnecessarily at times to get orders. She 

 pointed as a bird of a bevy flushed in heavy .sedge. She held 

 her point and the rest of the bevy flushed to wing of the first 

 bird. In briers, she pointed scattered birds. Sent on, she 

 soon found and pointed another bevy on a sidehill in sedge. 

 On the scattered birds, she made two' points and two flushes 

 in heavy grass. Up at 3:59. 



Gossip and Jean started at 3:55 and ran about ten min- 

 utes, when a heavy thunder storm began, and the work was 

 declared ended for the day. 



FRIDAY. 



It can be said, in favor of this day that it did not rain. 

 However, a terrific thunder storm and steady rainfall there- 

 after during the night made the grounds heavy, the low 

 places wet, a,nd the streams in a state of overflow, 'i'he dark 

 solid mass of cloud gradually broke, the sun shone through 

 the breaks in tlie clouds betimes, and a stiff wind blew from 

 the north, gradually growing colder till at nightfall it was 

 uncomfortably cool. Birds were somewhat harder to find, 

 and also were difficult to point, owing to tlieir restlessness 

 and running from the dogs' points. The work of dogs, on 

 such days as the birds run swiftly from the dogs or their 

 points, always appears inferior. No sharp, accurate work 

 can be done on a running bird. 



Gossip and Jean started at S;21 and were run 37m. Gossip 

 pointed a bevy. Both roaded on the scattered birds in woods 

 and made a number of points on footscent. A few good 

 points M-ere made on the running birds. Gossip showed hes- 

 itation and pointed too much. She ended her bii'd work by 

 a good point on a single. Jean outworked her in range and 

 speed. 



Bettte S. and Natalie II. were cast off at 9:01. On the 

 scattered birds of a bevj;' flushed by one of the handlers, each 

 made a good point on smgle bii-ds. Bettye retrieved a bird 

 killed by Nesbitt. Natalie made a false point. Bettye made 

 a good point on a single. Natalie was dropped nearbv be- 

 cause she could not see Bettye through the sedge, and a 

 single flushed close to her when sent on. In woods, Bettye 

 pointed, moved on, roadtng. Natalie joined in it and both 



Eointed the scattered birds. Natalie made a point on two 

 irds in woods. Bettye was quicker and sharper in bird 

 work. Up at 9:54. 



Little Miss and Novelist were cast off at 10:02, and ran 

 forty-four minutes. A bevy flushed from near Novelist, but 

 it was not seen whether she flushed it or not. On the 

 scattered birds. Miss pointed to a flush on a single. Novelist 

 pointed and Miss backed. The birds were in open sedge, an 

 easy place for pointing, yet both dogs showed poor work on 

 them. Novelist roaded to a flush oh a single, and then the 

 rest of the birds flushed wild. The horses flushed bird after 

 bird which the dogs had passed. Sent on, Miss pointed a 

 bevy in open sedge near the edge of woods. Poindexter 

 shot. At the same time Novelist, some distance away, 

 pointed, but at the report of the gun she moved on and birds 

 were afterward flushed when she pointed. The next bevy 

 was found by Novelist near the edge of woods. Miss flushed 

 a bird. Both ranged well and were fast, but the work on 

 birds was inferior. Up at 10:46. 



The judges announced that the creek would be crossed be- 

 fore the running was resumed. On the way, Col. Sloo, while 

 riding along the sharp top of an embanlstnent built along a 

 creekside to keep the water witliin its hani^s, had what 

 might have been a serious fall. The top of a small tree lay 

 on the path, thus forcing the rider to turn his liorse off the 

 top of the bank on to the side of it. It was steep and wet. 

 when Col. Sloo's mule stepped off the top of the ridge to the 

 side he slipped sideways to the bottom, a distance of e or 7ft., 

 tTien rider and horse fell over sidewise flat into a foot or 

 more of water. While the cold water was most unpleasant, 

 it was fortunate it was there, for had it been bare ground a 

 broken leg or worse might have resulted. Col. Sloo wisely 

 returned to town for dry clothing, the other twojiTdges 

 going on alone till lunch. 



Dave Ward and Eugene T. began at 11:29. They ran 

 35m. In a plum thicket Eugene pointed a bevy. Dave 

 pointed the scattered birds and was backed, after which 

 Dave made a good point on a single bird. In open sedge 

 Dave caught scent of a bevy, when Eugene, coming in from 

 the opposite direction, pointed the bevy. On the scattered 

 birds Dave pointed twice. Eugene pointed on two birds and 

 flushed a single. Dave made a diflicult piece of reading 

 down Avind in woods on a .single bird, which he excusably 

 flushed. Dave showed excellent bird sense in all his work, 

 ranged wide and fast and did good point work. 



Second Scries. 



Bob Cooper and Zulu M. were started at 13:10. Bob took 



a vrlde cast and false-pointed. Zulu pointed a bevy, and next 

 pointed a woodcock. At this time the dogs were separated. 

 Bob pointed a bevy on wet ground in sedge. Zulu pointed 

 one of the singles and Bob flushed one. Next Bob pointed a 

 bevy and each got a point on singles. 



Tim dogs were all kept in the second series, which prac- 

 tically left matters as in the beginning. It would have been 

 better to have run some of the heats longer and sifted out 

 some of the dogs. It is hardly a skillful way to run an en- 

 tiro stake twice in the beginning. 



Final Heat of the Derby. 



LAD OE Rush and Lillian Russell started at 3:09 to con- 

 test for the Derby absolute victory. Lad was keen to go and 

 he ranged wide and fast. He opened the work with a good 

 point on a bevy, and was steady to shot and wing. On the 

 scattered birds Lill made two points, one of which was on a 

 wounded bird, made one flush up wind and two down wind. 

 The handlers were rushing then- dogs. Each dog made a, 

 point to which nothing was found. Lad pointed a bevy of 

 which he did not have the wind direct. The birds were run- 

 ning. Lad lost the scent, took a cast the wrong way and 

 lost the birds. He made an awk^vard job of it but no doubt 

 would have pointed the birds ag.iin if given moi-e time. He 

 had been on the point qnite a whihrbofore starting on to 

 locate. Lad flu.shed a biid in open. Lill pointed; nothing 

 found. Lill pointed a bevy and Lad Ijacked. (Jn scattered 

 birds in heavy sedge Lad poiuterl a single and Ijill backed. 

 The dogs were then hurried on in high grass and made flush 

 after flush, and what the dogs did not flush the handlers did. 

 It was poor work. Lad at last pointed, then roaded to a 

 flush. Next each flushed a .single. On scattered bii-ds of 

 another bevy marked down in sedge, Lill made a point and 

 a flush. The judges ordered the dogs up at 3:21, consulted a 

 few minutes and sent the dogs on. Ijill flushed twice. Lad 

 pointed a bird and jumped at it as it flushed. Lill in sedge 

 pointed a single. Up at 3:42. Lad was much the wider 

 ranger. He remained out at his work, carried his head bet- 

 ter on birds, and beat his ground with better judgment. 

 Lill -w as sj)eedy but she did not range Nvith the judgment of 

 Lad, nor did she remain out at her \vork so well as Lad. The 

 work of both was quice faulty, yet it was, taken in its entirety, 

 in Lafl's favor. Lill won the heat and was thereby absolute 

 \vinner of the Derby. 



The All-Age Setter Stake. 



Jean and Bettte S. ran a most unsatisfactory heat, be- 

 ginning at 3:48— unsatisfactory because a large part of the 

 work was done out of sight of the judges. Jean pointed a 

 hovy. Next he pointed as the bevy flushed. The handlers 

 Avorked their dogs on scattered birds across a small creek 

 which the judges could not cross. Point after point was 

 called, but the dense cover prevented a view of it. Aft.er a 

 while the dogs got, where a point for each could be seen. 

 Jean worked well to gun and whistle. Up at 4:08. Each 

 had good speed and range. 



Gossip ran a bye at the same time as the above was run. 



Natalie 11. and Noveltst started at 4:11. Novelist 

 pointed a bevy in sedge in woods. Next she made a point 

 and nothing was found. Natalie pointed, Novelist backed. 

 Both then roaded on; Novelist got to btivy first and pointed. 

 The bevy flu.shed wild. Up at 4:45. The do.gs were ordered 

 up. Nesbitt discovered her at the same time on point and 

 flushed the bird. Both were industrious and ranged well. 

 LTp at 4:45. 



SATURDAY. 



A delightfully pleasant day, the first one during the trials, 

 improved the working conditions of the competition, yet 

 birds were not moving far from cover. The grounds were 

 soft and, in the low places, muddy and wet. 



After the first heat had been run Col. Sloo felt too ill to 

 judge further, he therefore retired for the day. The wetting 

 and exposure incident to the accident of the" day before pro- 

 dticed the unpleasant results. It is gratifying that his ill- 

 ness was not serious. At night he was much better. 



The board of governors met and invited Mr. P. T. Madison 

 to judge in Col. Sloo's place, which invitation he kindly ac- 

 cepted. 



Dan Noble and Dave W. began at 8:23. They ran 27 

 minutes. Dan pointed, then moved on and drew about, then 

 false-pointed. At this time the dogs were separated. Dave 

 was found pointing a single bird. He moved on and pointed 

 a single. The birds were spread about feeding. Dave pointed 

 the bevy. A single bird of it flushed, then the rest flushed 

 wild. Each pointed a separate bird and was steady to shot. 

 Dave was the better ranger and better worker on birds. The 

 heat was ordinary. 



LiTTLK Miss and Eugene T. started at 8:59. Up at 9:30. 

 Miss pointed a rabbit. Eugene false pointed. Miss ran 

 across wind into a bevy in open sedge and flushed it. She 

 dropped instantly. Eugene pointed the birds in high sedge. 

 Miss pointed, moved on and flushed a bird. Eugene made the 

 better showing of the two. 



Gossip ran a bye. It was said she pointed three be\des and 

 two single birds. 



Third Series. 



SLx dogs were first takeji into this series, and soon after 

 commencing the running of it the judges took in three more, 

 Natalie, Dave W. and Gos.sip. 



Bob Cooper and Jean were cast oft' at 9:43. Jean pointed 

 prettily a bevy in open sedge. When the bevy flushed, one 

 of the birds flew over Jean and he started to chase, but 

 stopped promptly to order. Bob at the same time had made 

 a point to which nothing was found. Jean next roaded in 

 the open sedge, carrying a high nose. He was folio wing- 

 accurately t he ti'ail of a bevy. Bob passed close to him, but 

 did not recognize the scent, and at last flu.shed the bevy. It 

 was a bad error. L^p at 10:45. Jean w^as much the better per- 

 former. 



Zulu M. and Bettte S. began at 11:26. Up at 12:14. The 

 dogs were often separated. Bettye pointed a bevy in a plum 

 thicket. Zulu going up wind flushed a single and Bettye 

 pointed one. Bettye was better in range, speed and point 

 work. 



Novelist and Eugene T. began at 12:20. They ran 34m. 

 Novelist pointed close to a bevy in open sedge. Next, she 

 roaded down wind to a point on a bevy. At the same time 

 from the opposite direction, Eu.gene was roadiug up wind 

 on it. He iiext pointed scattered blrd.s, h(;then 200yds. away. 

 Then ho roaded twice up wind to two flushes. Novelist 

 pointed; nothing found. Soon afterward, she again pointed 

 and nothing was found, but the horses flushed a bird a few 

 yards down wind of where she pointed. She was the better 

 ranger and the more skilful performer on birds. 



The party then went to lunch. 



Gossip and Dave W. began at 1:51 and were ordered up 

 at 2:07. A bevy was seen to come from open sedge and Dave 

 was .suspiciou.sly near when it flushed. He flushed three 

 times birds in vs oods. Gossip pointed twice and flushed once. 

 Gossip's work was the better of the t^vo. Dave appeared to 

 be off^ his nose. 



Natalie ran a bye. 



J^-i7ia{ Heat of the All- Age Stake. 



Bettte S. and Novelist ran together 5m., apparently to 

 comply with the rules requiring the first and second prize 

 winners to run together. They started at 3:09. Both ranged 

 well. No birds were found. 



The judges then announced the winners. First, Novelist; 

 second Bettye S., and third divided between Eugene T. and 

 Zulu M. 



Novelist and Lad of Rush began at 3:18 one of the most 

 interesting heats, if not the most interesting, of the trials. 

 It was one of the heats also in which the judges held the dis- 



tinguished position of being alone in their official views as 

 set forth by their decision. After carefully considering 

 wherein the short-haired dog was inferior to the long-haired 

 dog in this competition, I am still unable to comprehend the 

 grounds of the decision. The heat began with a good bevy 

 point by Lad in sedge near the edge of woods, Novelist at 

 the time being absent, as she was many other times in the 

 heat. The scattered birds were followed. Lad pointed a 

 single. He was then held up till Novelist was found, on the 

 hypothesis, the judge said, that Novelist might be on a point. 

 It did not occur to them that she also might be hunting for 

 birds, that it was her own fault if she did not work to the 

 gun, that Lad was not in the co7npetition to play to her con- 

 venience, and that he had a right to keep on working on birds 

 he had found. Why one dog \vhich was doing something in 

 sight should be held up on the assumption that his competi- 

 tor, which was out of sight was also doing something ot the 

 same kind can only be explained on the ground that the 

 rudiments of the competition were not understood. 

 Mr. Avent claimed at the time that there was no competi- 

 tion. However, Novelist was seen on the other side ot the 

 woods roaming cheerfully and it was then announced that 

 there was a competition. Had Novelist found a bevy and 

 pointed while Lad was held up, what would it be then? 

 Novelist made two points on singles. She next pointed and 

 nothin.g was found. She next pointed a .single. She false 

 pointed next and next flushed a bevy in sedge. In open 

 sedge, and in the same sedge under the same conditions. Lad 

 pointed a bevy, Novelist flushed twice and pointed twice on 

 .singles, laext she pointed scattered birds. Lad got two good 

 points on singles, one in open sedge, one in woods. Novelist 

 pointed a bird. Lad pointed; nothing found. Novelist, going 

 up wind, flushed a single. Lad pointed a bevy. The handlers 

 and dogs were now brought together, they having been 

 widely separated on account of Novelist's vsdllf ulness in select- 

 ing her own course and the necessity thus occasioned of her 

 handler following her. Lad pointed a lark. Next, he 

 pointed a rabbit. Next, going across wind, he flushed a 

 bevy. NoveUst pointed a bird in open sedge. At the same 

 time Lad pointed. His handler did not beat out far enough 

 ahead; he sent Lad on and the latter unhesitatingly flu.shed 

 two birds. Next, he made a point to which nothing was 

 found. The weak place in his work w;is within five minutes 

 of the end. Up at 4:33. The judges held a consultation of 

 some minutes duration. It seemed as if they did not arrive 

 at a decision with unanimous certainty, but this was only 

 judging from appearances. Lad was "the better ranger in 

 that he worked his ground out well, took as wide a range as 

 the character of the ground required and wor ked voluntarily 

 to the gun. He backed well, pointed with quickness and 

 certainty, and did more work on Ijirds than his competitor. 

 Novelist was headstrou.g, broke a\^'fly several times fi'om the 

 course, thus causing wiAe sejjaration of the handlers, and, 

 her class of Avork was inferior to Lad's, although she did 

 some good work on single birds. The decision was not well 

 received. 



This ended the trials. B. WATERS. 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



The American Field Trial Club. 



New Alb ant. Miss., Feb. 13.— In flitting about through 

 the hunting grounds of the South, I faUed to receive my 

 mail promptly, which will explain the lateness in sending 

 this report of 'the American Field Trial Club's meeting. In 

 a letter, dated Feb. 5, from the secretary, Mr. W. J. Beck, I 

 learn the following: 



The club elected Mr. A. B. Ree\ i_'s, President; Mr. U. R. 

 Fishel, Vice-President, and Mr W, ,1. Heck, Secretary, 



The club for the next trials guaruulee [.mrses aggregating 

 $1,300, divided as follows: iS15ti to lir.st, $100 to second and f50 

 to third; alike in both All-Age and Derby. 



The separate stake for Irish setters is eliminated. There 

 will be H(!parat(: stakes for setters and pointers. 



The trials will be held in Indiana. 



The time limit and instructions to judges were cut out of 

 the running rules, thus the judges are lei't free to go in any 

 direction, or run the competition witliout the oppressive 

 feeling that is necessary to refer to the instructions to judges 

 to see w'hat constitutes a point, flush, break-shot, etc. As 

 Mr. Beck says: '"Everything is theirs when the dogs are 

 turned into the pasture. " 



The member.snip fee was raised to $10. 



The entrance fee is $25, $5 to nominate, SIO second forfeit 

 and .■jflO to start. 



A vote of thanks to Messrs. Robinson, Freeman and 

 Tbomp.son, judges at the club's trials, was passed. 



It \A'aB voted that the secretary correspond with myself in 

 respect to whether I would join liim in looking for grounds 

 at Carlisle, Ind. It will afford mo genuine pleasure to com- 

 ply with the club's wishes in the matter and I appreciate the 

 honor which the club, through its secretary, has conferred 

 on me by the invitation. 



The Weight Classification of Pointers. 



I have read Mr. Muss-Amolt's reply to me on the weight 

 classification of pointers. I am glad that he presented the 

 subject from the defensive point of view. I am so busy at 

 present that I must defer answering his arguments till a 

 later time, but I will promise to answer them fully. 



Tlienameof the Manchester-Wartrace Kennels has been 

 chan.i„'ed to the Manchester Kennel Company. The address 

 is Manchester, Tenn. 



At the U. S. F. T. Club's trials Mr. J. W. Shriver sold the 

 setter dog Direct to Mr. J. L. Adams, the owner of the cele- 

 brated pointer Lad of Rush. 



The Manchester Kennel Company sold the setter dog 

 Sport, a winner in both the Soubhern and U. S., to Mr. P. L. 

 Atherton, Louisville, Ky. 



Fox Hunting: and Dragrs. 



Some most interesting sport was furnished by Mr. J. M. 

 Avent on several evenings after the field trial work for the 

 day was ended. His hounds were the medium. One live fox 

 which was captured and turned [loose was murdered expedi- 

 tiou.sly. The drag hunts were most enjoyable, and were par- 

 ticularly so when Mr. D. E. Rose laid the drag course, for he 

 always sustained his reputation as a swift rider, and he laid 

 out the course skillfully when he undertook it. About the 

 be.st run was on AYednesda.y evening, livery one rode as if 

 fleeing from the wrath to come. One rider took a cropper in 

 sedge grass. The horses came iu with heaving sides and 

 plenty^ ot perspiration. The fields were "wet and heavy. The 

 ov^ners of the horses sent woi'd to whom it may concern that 

 they did not care thereafter to let liorses to those who rode 

 after the 'ounds. It is strange how fussy some men ai-e. 

 After carrying a heavy man over wet fields all day following 

 the field trials, it is a mere nothing for a Mississippi horse, in 

 the piiik of condition produced by plenty of corn fodder and 

 .sleeping in the open air, to run in the mud across country, up 

 hill ancl dosvn, three miles to town. The price per horse is $L 

 per day. No horses ever earned a dollar more copiously. 



B. Waters. 



The Philadelphia & Reading Road will carry three dogs 

 free when accompanied by owner or care-taker to Philadel- 

 phia for the Keystone show, and the same pri\'ilege is ex- 

 tended to those desiring to exhibit at Baltimore the week 

 after. Identification forms will have to be shovm as usual-. 



