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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 7, 1898. 



age medal and the much-prized cup, and for the second time 

 the superiority of the Southern hound was shown. 



The interest in the foxhound trials is constantly increasing. 

 New England sportsmen are progressive and are determined 

 to have the best there are. With this end in view, a number 

 of high-class hounds— the best that money could buy— have 

 been purchased during the past year, and will be seen for the 

 first time at the trials this month. Not only have these 

 hounds been bought by New Englanders, but Nova Scotia is 

 also coming to the front, and its priacipal pack will be rep- 

 resented by at least two Southern thoroughbreds. 



The large sums of money which have been invested in high- 

 class hounds in the last two years can but be gratifying to 

 those who have the improvement of our foxhounds at heart, 

 and again brings into prominence the mooted question— "Are 

 there any hounds that can run into the New England fox?" 



This question will be decided in one way or the other 

 within a year or two. I am no prophet and will not attempt 

 to prophesy, but I am convinced that those who watch the 

 work done by the Portsmouth Hunt Club pack, the Popple 

 Camp pack, the Kinney-White pack, the Oxford (Mass.) 

 pack, and others which I could mention, will see reynard run 

 much faster than lie ever did before or lose his brush. 



Bradlet. 



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The Englisb Greyhound Stud Book. 



We acknowledge with pleasure the receipt of the "Grey- 

 hound Stud Book," containing the names, colors, ages and 

 pedigrees of greyhounds registered therein up to July 1, 1893. 

 This is the first issue of the book under the new keeper's, 

 Mr, W. F. Lamonby, direction, and that he has compiled a 

 most interesting and valuable volume cannot be denied. 

 Coursing men the world over are always interested in the 

 big men of the leash, and the numerous excellent half-tone 

 portraits of well-known coursers found in this volume enable 

 one to form a much better idea of their identity. Among 

 these illustrations are the late keeper of the Stud Book, Ivlr. 

 David Brown, whose portrait adorns the first page. Then 

 follow portraits of Messrs. Wm. Patterson, Joseph Hutchin- 

 son, A. J. Humphrey, E. M. Douglass, Harold Brocklebank, 

 Francis Watson, Joseph Trevor, Thos. Quihampton, H. Hay- 

 wood, M. G. Hale, John Coke, the Marquis of Anglesey, Col. 

 North and Sir Thomas Lecky. 



A review of the 1892-93 coursing season by "Dromas" is not 

 the least interesting feature of the work, and will prove 

 valuable to the student of form in conjunction with the 

 record of all the winners, runners up and dividers of all 

 stakes during the past season. A picture of FuUerton is 

 also given, together with a record of his performances. 



The monthly supplement to the Stud Book having in its 

 publication incurred a loss, it was decided at the last meeting 

 of the National Coursing Club that this feature should be 

 discontinued. The code of rules, as revised and adopted 

 June 28, 1893, is also published. 



The number of greyhounds registered in the book is 3,674, 

 and the number of individual owners here represented 

 reaches 1,361, 



Another valuable feature that we may allude to in closing 

 our review of this useful volume is the "Statistics of Winning 

 Strains" during the season of 1892-93, compiled by "Dromas." 

 This shows that the lately deceased Greentick heads the list 

 of winning sires. His record shows that with the aid of 43 

 bitches, or 48 families, embracing 82 running greyhounds, 

 among them won 28 stakes, divided 80 and ran second for 

 23. Another pillar of the stud, MuUingar, just beats a no 

 less well known greyhound, Herschel, for second place by 

 means of 30 bitches, or 34 families, embracing 57 running 

 dogs. With these he won 19 stakes, divided .52, and ran sec- 

 ond for 20. Herschel's record is made with 25 bitches, or 26 

 families, embracing 52 running dogs, which accounted for 16 

 stakes, divided other 50 and ran second for 9. Another suc- 

 cessful sire, Toboggan, makes an excellent showing for a 

 young dog, having only one season's progeny to depend upon. 

 With the produce of 10 bitches his record is 8 wins, 18 

 divided and 5 runners up, this with 22 dogs. Such a guide 

 as this will prove almost inestimable in its value to grey- 

 hound breeders of both countries. 



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Northwestern Beagle Club Trials. 



Milwaukee, Sept. 25.— The Northwestern Beagle Club's 

 first annual field trials will be held at Whitewater, Wis., 

 beginning on Nov. 1. Whitewater is on the C. M. & St. Paul 

 R. R. fifty-one miles southwest of Milwaukee. Parties that 

 wish to run dogs, that can not attend the trials themselves, 

 can send them to the Northwestern Beagle Club, White- 

 water, Wis. The club will furnish a competent handler and 

 the dogs will get the best of care. Application for member- 

 ship has been made to the American Kennel Club. For entry 

 blanks, premium lists, etc., address Louis StefEen, Sec'y, 

 Milwaukee, Wis. 



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HUNTING AND COURSING NOTES. 



Mr. L. P. Bartels, of Denver, conveys the sad intelligence, 

 in a letter to me under date of Sept. 20, of the death of Mann 

 Page, of Denver, Col. Of him he feelingly writes as follows: 

 "Mr. Page was one of the finest fellows that ever lived, a 

 man in every sense. He was a chemist and assayer of great 

 ability, having filled the position of assayer in chief for years 

 at the Grant Smelters (our largest smelter) in this city, and 

 up to the time of his death, which occurred yesterday. He 

 was an enthusiastic friend of the greyhound and of coursing. 

 He has owned a number of good dogs. In 1891 he entered his 

 dogs Fleetfoot and Quebelle at Great Bend, Kan. He had a 

 number of young ones which he was training for the fall 

 meetings at Goodland and Leoti. Mr. Page was a Virginian 

 by birth." 



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It would be a pleasant circumstance to the winner of that 

 cup if that cup was given to the winner thereof. Why not 

 call it the Phantom cup ? ' 'Curious, very. Not only curious, 

 but a trifle queer." 



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Breeding greyhounds seems to be a lucrative game in 

 England if you get the right strains. A litter by Restorer 

 out of Harpstring, the dam of Fine Night, five in number, 

 realized $2,155, one of them, a bitch, bringing at auction $875 

 and another, a dog, $500, another bitch brought .S47.5. Speak- 

 ing of large prices given for greyhounds by such fashionable 

 sires as Greentick, Herschel, and Mullingar, we note that 

 at the sales during the past season a number of dogs went 

 at auction for prices over S500, and one, Bab-o'-the-Burn, a 

 first-season bitch, brought §1,250 at the Royal Repository, 

 Barbicary, London. She is by Herschel out of Miss Jessie II. 



During the show at Cranston, a Mr. Tarr, of New York, 

 who is said to have a cry of beagles, in passing Mr. A. D. 

 Fiske's team took a fancy to the winning pup, Arline, as the 

 most likely-built one for work ta the show and purchased 

 him. Mr. Fiske also sold another one, a bitch. 



At this show there was a good deal of discussion over Mr. 

 MuUane's beagle bitch Beauty. It was recognized by the 

 "faculty" as Baby Deane, who was lost shortly after the 1890 

 beagle trials. She belonged to Mr. W. S. Clarke, who has 

 offered to replace the bitch with another one, but we believe 

 Mr. Mullane wants expenses for time he has kept her. The 

 affair is slightly mixed, and how it will turn out we cannot 

 tell. This bitch as Beauty, it will be remembered, scored at 



Toronto and was well spoken of in our report. She is one of 

 the few typical ones in body, and is well worth having. 

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Owing to ill health, which prevents him from keeping up 

 with his beagles and training them as he should like, Mr. 

 Wixom tells us that it is not likely he will compete in the 

 trials this year, though he has some young stock that he 

 would like to see go. 



The races for the America's Cup have come at a most opportune 

 time for the daily papers, when the excitement has all gone out of the 

 silver purchase repeal, and the fall elections are still a month off. To 

 add to this good luck the new challenger is not a mere M. P. like Mr. 

 Ashbury, or even a baronet, or a plain sailor man, but a real live Peer, 

 and with him have come a Peeress, their two daughters and several 

 members of the "nobility.'" Even more attention has been devoted to 

 the movements of Lord Dunraven and his party than to the two prin- 

 cipals in the contest, Vigilant and Valkyrie, and the voluminous 

 chronicle of their daily doings is hardly less than a liberal education 

 to those who aim to pattern themselves after the "nobility." It is 

 quite evident from some of the stories that the writers had based their 

 Ideal of the British peer solely on "lolanthe" and the other Gilbertian 



operettas, and also that this ideal has been shattered in the most ruth- 

 less manner. No one could read the description of the dress and 

 appearance of the Dunraven party in a certain New York paper with- 

 out a keen sense of sympathy for the disappointment of the writer— in 

 place of jeweled coronets and ermine only plain everyday garments 

 were worn, and very little jewelry was visible. In another paper, 

 after the exact time of the arrival of Lord Dunraven at the New York 

 Y. 0. is noted as cai'efully as the start of a race, we learn with sur- 

 prise that he walked quietly into the house and ascended the steps, one 

 at a time, in much the same manner that any gentleman would, in- 

 stead of tripping upstairs like the lords in "lolanthe," and afterward 

 emulating Sir Joseph Porter and dancing a hornpipe on the big table 

 in the Model Room. 



One funny accompaniment of the international contest is the dog- 

 gerel in which the partisans of Vigilant and Valkyrie have sought to 

 relieve their feelings, and which has in some way got into type. The 

 most unconsciously funny of these is one in which a staunch upholder 

 of Vigilant predicts that "England's defender will see but your keel." 

 In thus inviting a capsize, the poet is evidently laboring under the 

 popular delusion that Vigilant is really a centerboard sloop and fully 

 capable of "turning turtle" in a race. 



It is always well to have two striogs to one's bow, and though the 

 complete success of the American yacht is confidently announced in 

 many papers, the way for retreat in case of a fairly favorable showing 

 of the keel boat is still kept open. Not only has the term "sloop" 

 been liberally used in connection with British boats this year, but it 

 has been announced that Valkyrie really should be quite fast, as she 

 is purely of American model. One amusing incident of the sloop craze 

 which has lately broken out is the reporting of the cutter Medusa in a 

 daily paper as a "sloop-cutter," whatever that may be. 



The races of the last eight years have added permanently a new 

 term to the yachtsman's vocabulary, and "Cup defender" is now es- 

 tablished in general use. An attempt is now being made to add still 

 another, and we read of Jubilee, PUgrim and Colonia not as "Cup 

 defenders," but as "Cup candidates." 



Among the visitors attracted by the Cup races is Lieut. Henn, who 



arrived pn Friday last on the Germanic. He has been spending hi 

 time afc Larchmont. 



The immediate conditions of the present races are not only far more 

 just and liberal than have ever been afferded to a Cup challenger, but 

 they are practically the ideal conditions for a fair race, which the 

 Forest and Stream has persistently fought for through four succes- 

 sive Cup contests, dating back to 1881. Why these conditions were 

 given to the Earl of Dunraven when they were denied to Lieut. Henn 

 and the owners of Thistle is now of little account, the main fact is that 

 at last the New York Y. C. has reached a standard of absolutely fair 

 and impartial management for the races for the America's Cup. 



While the immediate conditions of the races are thus established on 

 a fair and permanent basis that should prevent all disputes in the 

 future, the same cannot be said of the conditions under which the 

 Cup will be delivered to a successful challenger. The statement 

 credited to the chairman of the Cup committee to the effect that 

 all differences were arranged when the challenge was accepted is, 

 as we happen to know, entirely incorrect. After the long discussion 

 of terms which began in 1889, the challenge of Lord Dunraven and 

 the Royal Yacht Squadron was finally accepted at the end of a late 

 meeting, and the one vital point of the holding of the Cup by the 

 winner was left undecided, and with opposing statements on each 

 side. Unless it was settled at the meethig of Tuesday or a subse- 



quent one on Monday of this week, this fruitful subject for dissen- 

 sion and dispute still remains. 



The number of people throughout the whole United States who take 

 a keen interest in the Cup races is beyond estimate; but at the present 

 time there is hardly a small town, even in the far West, where the 

 possibilities of the success of the American boat are not eagerly, if 

 ignorantly, discussed. Much of this interest is purely patriotic and 

 sentimental, but it exists to an extent which is unknown in England. 

 To the much smaller class of practical yachtsmen there is another 

 point of view in all such international contests, and while their sympa- 

 thies may lie in one direction, it often happens that the technical 

 points involved incline them to the other side. 



Compared with previous races, it must be admitted that the techni- 

 cal issues and the possible results of the coming contest are of little 

 importance. The great point of keel vs. centerboard has been practi- 

 cally decided since the last Cup races in 1887, and is likely to be little 

 affected by the present races. Minerva, Gloriana and Wasp have given 

 conclusive proof that it is possible to design a keel yacht which, to 

 state it moderately, is at least as good to windward as any center, 

 hoard boat ever built. The ability m racing, and the advantages and 

 disadvantages of the keel boat in the middle and smaller classes, have 

 been fully demonstrated, and boats of even excessive draft are in 

 general use. 



While the problem Is somewhat different in the larger classes, there 

 is every reason for the beUef that if the question of convenient draft 

 be disregarded, the Soft, keel can be made quite the equal of the com- 

 promise model of the same length. While this fact is gratifying to 

 those who have maintained for so long the keel side of the contro- 

 versy, it amounts to little in practice, as a yacht of over 12ft. draft 

 can be of httle use anywhere save for international racing. Once the 

 limit of 12 to 13ft. is passed, and it is exceeded even In the center- 

 board Cup defender, the yacht becomes a special machine and of no 

 general use. No yachtsman would deliberate long over the real merits 

 of such a craft as Lasca or Volunteer, drawing little over 10ft., and 

 Vigilant drawing 14ft. or over. The success of a large keel yacht, 

 like Colonia or Valkyrie, can only prove what many have long since 

 accepted and others cannot successfully disprove; it certainly would 

 not lead to the general adoption of the type by American yachtsmen. 

 The success of Vigilant is likely to have aa little effect, it cannot 



