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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. 11, 1898. 



Eoyal Crest Maybrook Ken- ) 

 nels' b b Miss Dollar n. (Eden ] 

 Castle— Miss Harknes) 



R. S. Howard's f b Elsie (Ax-{ 

 kansas Traveler— Fanny) 



St. Patrick Kennels' bk w d j 

 Border RufiSan (Dingwall- 

 Miss Kitten) 



Ketcbum (Major- Clipper). 



A. Massey's be w d O'Rorke 

 (Prince Patrick— Rose Mac- 

 pherson). 



(Royal Crest Maybrook Ken- 



Western Kansas Coursing Meeting. 



Otjk report of fhis meeting held at Loti, Kaasas, Oct. 24, 

 did not arrive in time for last week's issue, and contains 

 little more than the summary -whicli follows. The meeting 

 seems to have created considerable local interest, but the 

 Eastern dogs failed to run into the finals. Miss Dollar III. 

 and Royal Crest did fairly well and the owner of Drytime 

 should not be disappointed in the poor showing she made. 

 She should not have been slipped so soon after Goodland 

 meeting. A number of well Icnown coursers were present, 

 including Dr. Van Hummell, whose partner, Mr. J. R. 

 Cochran, was slipping; D. C. Luse, A. C. Bradbury, Goodland 

 Kennels owners, the president, R. S. Howard and Mr. E. H. 

 Mulcaster, who judged satisfactorily. 



The attendance was quite good for a small meeting and 

 everything passed off nicely. The club's secretary is Mr. W. 

 O. Allplin, and he, with Mr. Howard, had the management 

 of the whole affair, and did their work well. The summary 

 follows: 



Leoti Stakes. 



Sixteen greyhounds of all ages at SIO each, 50% to winner and 25^ to 

 runner up, ISJ^^.each to next two doKS. 



First Bound. 



( American Coursing Kennels' 

 beat -{ bd w bitch Belle of Eltham 

 ( (Jester— Bit of Fashion). 

 ( Royal Crest Maybrook Ken- 

 ■ beat < nels' f b Drytime (Britain 

 / Still— Haytime). 

 ( A. Massey (ns. D. Grey's) f w 

 beat < b What Care I (Trales— 

 .........^ ( Lightning). 



S. W. Vidler's bd b Buenarita \ i J A. Massey (ns. S. Airhart's) bd 



(Norwegian— Bueneritero) f ■ i?'°f-'>v,"rv, rM=.-!n,._p.imr.pr^ 



American Coursing Kennels') 

 (ns. F. B. Coyne's) bk w d I ^ y. 

 Willis H. (Lights of London f "^"■^ 

 -Nell) j 



Qoodland Kennels' be b Re- ) , - 



nella (Walnut — Humming V beat < nels' bk d Greenshine (Mul- 

 Bird) ) ( lingar— Greenfinch HL). 



GoodlandKennels'w bd b Rhea ) ( St. Patrick Kennels' bk w b 



(Major Glendyne — Daisy >• beat ■{ Bonnie Belle (Dingwall — 

 Dublin) ( Miss Kitten). 



Royal Crest Maybrook Ken- ) Goodland Kennels' w bk d 



nels' bk d P^yal Crest V beat ■{ Rear Adnairal (Major Glen- 

 (Greentick— Royal Rate) ) ( dyne— Lady Alice.). 



Second Bound. 

 Miss Dollar HI. beat Elsie. Willis H. beat Renella. 



Buenarita beat Border Ruffian. Rhea beat Royal Crest. 



Third BovMd. 



Buenarita beat Miss Dollar HI. Willis H. beat Rhea. 



Deciding Course. 



Mr. S. W. Vidler's bd b Buenarita and American Coursing Kennels 

 (ns. Mr. F. E. Cryne's) bk w d Willis H. divided. 



Home Stakes. 



For local greyhounds, all ages, at $5 each, 50^ to winner, 2h% to run- 

 ner up, laVS^ to each of the next two dogs: 

 R. S. Howard's f w d Bolivar beat W. O. Allphin's f b Queen. 

 W. O. Allphin's f d Jerry beat I. G. Noble's f d King. 



Deciding Course. 

 Mr. R. S. Howard's Bolivar and Mr. W. O.. Allphin's Jerry divided. 



Cowly County Meet. 



Tbk second annual meeting of the Cowly Cotmty Coursing 

 Association was held at Winfield, Kansas, Oct. 31. A full 

 report will be given in our next issue. The running resulted 

 as follows: 



The Winfield Cup. 



Open stake for 16 or more greyhounds, entrance fee $10, winner 50 

 per cent, of entrance and $75 cash donated by the citizens of Winfield, 

 the runner up 25 per cent., third dog to receive 15 per cent., and fourth 

 dog 10 per cent, of entrance money: 



^ X , / o ^T,vlI,,.'.,^ ) ( D. M. Ridle's white and fawn 



D. C,Luse's (nsS. W. V.dlers)(. ^g^^ J bitch Lady Maud (late 



Maudy Luse). 



brindle bitch Bupnarita 

 D.M.Sidle's fawn dog Laughed I J D C. Luse's white and brown 



At ) ^^'^M ^ bi'ch Lady Cleveland. ^ 



F. D. Coyne's black dog 



D. C. Luse's Living Yet, a liye. 

 Buenarita beat Laughed At. 



, „„t I J. R. Ballard's (ns D. C. Luse) 

 I ''^"'^ 1 Nettlefleld. ' 



Willis H. beat Living Yet. 

 HI. 



Final Course. 



c tT-.ii^'^ 1, T3„^„o^if o 1 ) F. B. Coyne's bk and w d Wil- 



^■?^T-^'^^^^^^ alfHV^^ \ beat y lis H. (Lights o' London- 

 (Norwegian-Buenaritero) ] [ Nell) and won. 



County Stake. 



For dogs owned by resident members only, entrance $2 50. Winner 

 +0 receive 50;^ of the entrance money, runner up 25%, third to receive 

 15^ and fourth 10^ of entrance money. 



S. S. Raper's black bitch Juli- 1 , j Ricks & Smiths black bitch 



ette ( I Dinah's Pickaninny. 



John Weakly's black dog I t,„„j ( D. S. Hanna'a brindle dog 



Lightfoot f "^"^ ) Jack. 



C. C. Stevens's brindle bitch 1 . 1 D. S. Hanna's black bitch 



Skip f "I Dicky. 



E. B. Condit's fawn bitch | \ E. A. Fisher's bitch Lady 



Zip. f "'^"'^ I Grace. 



James Ramsev's fawn and j . „„j \ D. S H.«inna's black and white 



white bitch Goldie. i ) dog Jerry. 



John Weakly's red dog Gold- 1 , . ( A E. Johnson's brindle dog 



dust \ 'I Jo Jo. 



Jas. Ramsey's brindle bitch [ j^^„. ( E. P. Condit's fawn dog 



Fanny (" "^""^ ) Pedro. 



Ricks & Smith's black and 1 j,„„f^ ! D O. Miller's brindle bitch 

 white bitch Sailor Maud f ) Minnie, 



Frank Sidler's white and black | , . I Jas. Ramsey's white and black 



bitch Witch Hazel f "^"■^ 1 dog Bob 



Jas. Ramsey's red bitch Me- 1 f,„„^ l C. C. Stevens's white and black 



teor ( 1 bitch Snowball. 



n. 



Lightfoot beat .lullette. 

 Skip beat Yip. 



Golddust, a bye, Jerry drawn. 



Sailor Maud beat Fanny. 

 U itch Hazel beat Meteor. 



III. 



Witch Hazel, a bye. 



Lightfoot beat Skip. 

 Golddust beat Sailor Maud. 



Final Conr.^e. 



John Weakly's red dog Golddust (Jack— Minnie), beat Frank Sidle's 

 white and black bitch Witch Hazel (Bob — Unknown), and won. 



• ■ • • 



Quality of Courage. 



Editor Forest and Stnam: 



I have read the articles in a Chicago contemporary upon 

 the "Quality of Courage," and was much edified at the man- 

 ner in which Foi;est and Stream disposed of their sophis- 

 tries with regard to the quality of courage in bird dogs. Let 

 me add some data gathered from experience with foxhounds. 

 It is not exactly clear what the writer of those articles was 

 driving at, but I gather a hazy idea that courage is a very 

 undesirable qualification in a dog. With pedantic pessimism 

 he asserts "Courage is the genius of the sulks," and he 

 attributes to high courage the inability of race horses to 

 repeat. 



"Courage is in the nature of a stimulus, and like artificial 

 stimulants it fails when the contestant begins to feel the 

 eftlect of exhaustion. Indeed, if it asserts itself at all, when 

 it might be useful it is only in resisting the wishes of the 

 handler, and it matters not whether it be in dog, horse, or 

 man." 



The one qualification that distinguishes the Kentucky fox- 

 hound, that has given him the national reputation he now 

 enjoys, that has been bred in him for generations and is as 

 characteristic of him and as true a test of the thoroughbred 



as gameness in a game chicken, is courage. No matter what 

 his extremity, no matter how lon^ and arduous the'chase, 

 how great his weariness, he will still strive, however feeble 

 his endeavors be. His pace may be slow, it will be forgiven 

 him; but let him show the white feather, quit in the chase, 

 and his life will pay the forfeit. I know of no more serious 

 misfortune that could befall a Kentucky fox hunter at a 

 Kentucky meet than to have his dog fail in this crucial test 

 and brand himself a quitter. The question that instanter 

 arises is what is his breeding, where is the outcross, for a 

 cold cross there must be somewhere. No thoroughbred if 

 physically capable will ever lack the moral quality of cour- 

 age. This is the distinguishing trait of the Kentucky fox- 

 hound. I know of no other that possesses it in such an emi- 

 nent degree. 



We have had the Birdsong, the July and the best of the 

 Southern flyers, and it is a conceded fact that they cannot 

 stand in competition with the Kentucky foxhound the test 

 of enduring courage. They are sprinters. They are light of 

 muscle and build, of the greyhound type, and are perhaps 

 the best for their country, but where bard going and long 

 running is the rule they are physically unable to stay the 

 pace the Kentucky dogs set day after day. 



So far from courage failing a dog at the moment of exhaus- 

 tion, it is then that the quality of courage demonstrates 

 itself. It does not take courage to keep a dog in the chase 

 when fresh and full of redundant energy. It is when the 

 muscles tire, when the feet ate sore, when weariness and 

 exhaustion come, it is then that high courage spurs him on 

 to oblivion of his ills and animates him to those wonderful 

 exhibitions of endurance that no other animal on earth can 

 parallel. 



Only to-day a fox hunter of the old school who has passed 

 the biblical limit of life was recalling the exploits of the late 

 John Shanklin's Tap. Day after d.ay Shanklin called upon 

 his dogs to make not one chase, but to close the run on 

 three or four red foxes before he considered the day suffi- 

 ciently rounded out. And many a morning, my mentor tells 

 me, he has seen Shanklin take old Tap, who vvas physically 

 incapable of moving, upon his horse and carry him on the 

 saddle until some of the fresher and younger' dogs opened, 

 when he would throw old Tap down, and at the sound, fired 

 by that high and indomitable courage which triumphs over 

 physical ills, the old dog would crawl away, limbering his 

 stiffened limbs, until when the fox was up he would get 

 away in the front flight,'never to flag again that day. He 

 was the great grand .sire of a worthy descendant in the 

 SpringknoU pack who bears his name. Last winter the 

 younger Tap was caught in a steel trap and his right fore- 

 foot terribly mutilated, the flesh being torn to the bones and 

 the toes simply hanging. The next morning after finding him 

 his whole leg was inflamed and swollen, and no fear was 

 entertained of his following, but he was chained for conve- 

 nience in doctoring him. He slipped the collar, and overtak- 

 ing us went into the chase on three legs and stayed to the 

 finish. Next day, as may be imagined, the dog's sufferings 

 were intense. He was fastened in the kennel, but deliber- 

 ately dug out through a hard clay floor. If he only dug 

 with one foot he must have sustained his weight on the 

 mutilated member. There were several inches of snow on 

 the ground and that dog ran in half a dozen chases with that 

 foot, leaving a trail of blood behind him. It is the quality of 

 courage in such dogs that endear them to us. It is the pro- 

 duct of many generations of careful breeding, and it is in- 

 digenous to the strain. If it be an undesirable quality then 

 we and our fathers before us have labored in vain. For it 

 is our creed that gameness is the sine qua nnn of the red 

 foxhound. FRAilCis J. Ha&AN. 



Louisville, Ky., Oct. 20. 



• • • • 



Coursing at Corsicana, Tex. 



A PE'SV items of interest that Mr. C. L. Witherspoon, secre- 

 tary of the Corsicana Coursing Club, sends us may be of use 

 to some of our readers. Corsicana is a town of about 11,000 

 people, situated in Navarro county, and about fifty miles 

 from Dallas, also about the same distance from Waco and 

 Fort Worth. He says: "We have a fine country around and 

 we have some good coursing grounds, although we are fenced 

 up considerably with barb wire. Our main coursing ground 

 is situated some three and a half miles from town. It is 

 three miles square and level, with plenty of jacks. Our 

 people seem to take more interest than we expected, and T 

 think our prospect for success is fine. The stake is for all- 

 age greyhounds raised in the State. We did this in order to 

 get the" Texas people to take interest in it before in^dting 

 others. We shall have a meeting in February, to which we 

 invite all comers, and especially the Kansas coursers." 



Northwestern Beagle Club Trials. 



The report by Mr. Waters of the trials at Whitewater, 

 Wis., has come to hand too late for publication this week. 

 It will be given in our next issue. The trials were highly 

 successful. The winners were in the Derby: First, Dilling- 

 ham & Rammele's Mayfly; second, G. A. Buckstalf 's Ilwaco; 

 third, divided by Louis SifHo's Tony W. and E. Bender's 

 Little Cooney Duke. All-age stake: First, Ilwaco; second, 

 Dillingham & Rammele's Bose; third, G. A. Buckstalf 's 

 Royal Rover. Champion class: Mayfly. 



• a • • 



HUNTING AND COURSING NOTES. 



The following item from Mr. T. B. Bartels will be of in- 

 terest to coursing men. He writes as follows: "As you 

 probably know Boomerang hurt his fore leg while at 

 (Joodland before meeting Princess May. I thought two or 

 three days' rest would (fix it up, but such was not the case. 

 I have nursed it ever since the meeting. This morning I was 

 obliged to have Dr. Bock fire it. He put about lo points in it 

 and then a strong blister on top of that. I shall do nothing 

 with him until the spring meetings, at which time I hope he 

 will be as good as ever." 



• • • • 



Mr. H. L. Kreuder leased about a half mile square of rough 

 land about a mile from Nauuet during the Beagle Club 

 trials last week. He takes ib for five years, and as this piece 

 includes the swamp below Mac's Hillside and is the very best 

 rabbit country round there under protection, it is very likely 

 that he will nave rare sport by next year, and if the club 

 elects to hold their trials on these grounds next year there 

 should be lots of fun, as rabbits will be thick by that time. 

 We should advise Mr. Kreuder to have runways cut through 

 it; they would make it easer to follow the dogs and alford 

 more opportunities to get "pop" shots at the game as it 

 crossed. 



See advertisement on another page of "American Big Game 

 Hunting," the Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, which 

 has just been issued. Every big game hunter and. rifleman 

 in this or any other countj-j .should have a copy. 



The Fife Cutter Sigrun. 



The conditions in Germany are hardly favorable to the development 

 of yachting, the sea coast on the Baltic and the North Sea, the only 

 available yachting water, is at a distance from the larger and wealthier 

 cities to which yachting must naturally look for its chief support, and 

 the rivers and inland waters afford a very limited sailing ground, even 

 for centerboard sailing boats of the American type. In spite of 

 natural disadvantages,however, yachting is firmly established through- 

 out the Empire, and of late in particular it is benefited by the patron- 

 age of the Emperor himself, a keen and enthusiastic yachtsman. The 

 formation of the new Imperial Yacht Olub, at Kiel, with the pm-chase 

 by the Emperor of the Thistle, now Meteor, and the building of the 

 <JO-rater Irene for Prince Henry, his brother, has given a stimulus to 

 yachting and yaclit racing that is likely to have a permanent effect. 



The accompanying cuts, for which we are indebted to our enter- 

 prising German conteoiporary, Wassersport, show one of the later 

 additions to the fleet, a racing cutter owned by Captain Rittmeyer. 

 The design was originally published in the year book of the Imperial 

 Y. C, but the cuts here shown were made for the Wasse^sjjort, which 

 has very kindly furnished us with dupUcates. 



Sigrun is a racing cutter of modern type, designed by Mr. Wiil Fife, 

 .Jr., and in form is fully up to the most advanced ideas prevailing at 

 the time the design was made, the winter of 1891-2, the yacht having 

 been launched in the spring and raced with success during the seasons 

 of 1892-3. The design is specially interesting as a step from the older 

 type of cutter toward the fln-Ueel, and also from the remarkably 

 light construction, no less than 64 ijer cent of the displacement being 

 carried in ballast. The details of cost, construction and dimensions 

 are given fully in the Wassersport as follows: 



DIMENSIONS AUD ELEMENTS. 



Length over all 36ft. lOin. 



l.w.l 24ft. Sin. 



Beam, extreme 6ft. 5in. 



l.w.l 6ft. UvD. 



Draft 5ft. 7m. 



Displacement, long tons 3.94 



Ballast, lead keel 3 55 



Ratio of ballast to displacement 64s{ 



Spars. 

 Ft. In. 



Mast, deck to hounds 21 



hounds to truck. .... ,10 8 



diam. at deck 5U 



hounds 5}^ 



Bowsprit, beyond l.w.l .12 4 



diam i% 



Boom 38 4 



Sails. 



Boom, diam.. 



GafiE . ; 



diam. . . . 



Ft. Id. 



TopsaU yards \%t 





















151 











Cost. 



Design 895 00 Carving ,,..,."...>... f 9 50 



Hull and spars 570 00 Sails 186 00 



Lead keel and bolts S40 00 Blocks and rigging 90 60 



Iron work 105 00 Equipment, flags, etc. ... 48 50 



Painting 80 00 



Coppering 83 50 Total cost .....$1,404 00 



The cost is not very different from the 25ft. sailing length cutters, 

 such as Nameless and Needle, built about New York. 



The yacht is fitted up simply for racing, with a small cockpit aft 

 and a companionway in the flush deck, the interior not being finished 

 for cruising. The keel and keelson are of oak, the former i^in. 

 thick and shaped to the lines of the hull; the latter d^in. deep, i'Um. 

 •wide at the middle and tapering to 3%m. at the ends. The deadwoods 

 are of oak, SJ^in. thick. The frames are sawn and bent in alternation, 

 the former sided 1 ^, moulded 214 at heels and IJ^ at heads, spaced 

 Min.; the latter I14 by between each pair of sawn frames. There 

 are five floor knees of angle steel, 2X2XWa., with arms 20in. long. 

 The planking is lin. thick, the five lower planks of pitch pine, the top 

 sides of European yedow pine, similar to American white pine and 

 the sheerstrake of mahogany. The beam clamp is 5xl'4in. and the 

 beams are spaced from 14 to ISio., to fit in with the positions of the 

 deck openings. The partners are specially reinforced. The deck is of 

 2|^in. thickness. Near the mast are holes through which the halliards 

 lead below, where they are made fast. The scale of the drawing is in 

 meters. 



Vigilant and Valkyrie. 



The erroneous impression that a centerboard adds to the stability 

 of a vessel has many times been dealt with in oUr columns; but it is 

 not surprising to see it coming to the surface again amid the numhef 

 of absurd ideas which have been published about English and Amer- 

 ican yachts during the contests for the America Cup. Of all these ab- 

 surdities, the most mischievous of the delusions abr)Ut the cen»6r- 

 board is one relating to the eflPeet of a centerboard oh stability, espe- 

 cially when we find it presented in this circumstantial formr 



"Then she (Vigilant) has a larger sail area, which she is enabled to 

 carry safely by means of the movable fin or centerboard, which gives 

 her a stiflness only obtained by the English yacht at the cost of an 

 immense weight of lead affixed to her keel. Finally, when she does 

 not need stiffness, the fin is taken up and the frictional area is re- 

 duced, while with the fixed keel the area of opposing surface must 

 remain, even when a large portion of it could be safely dispensed 

 with.'' What a centerboard Will do is to make the process of heeling 

 slower; but if the wind force is sufficient to heel the boat to, say 40°, 

 she will go to that angle, board or no board. Also, for the same rea- 

 son that the heeling is slower when the board is down, so will be the 

 righting slower, and this fact used to be very apparent sometimes in 

 the old-fashioned Unas or catboats, with their cumbersome boards. It 

 might also happen in any sized yacht in a strong breeze, and, instead 

 of making her appear stiff, would have the effect of making her seem 

 crank and dangerous. 



"The reason why a board makes the heeling slower is simply because 

 it has to move a quantity of water, which, of course would not have 

 to be moved if the board were housed. It should also be remembered 

 that a board, if made of wood which will float, will exercise an active 

 upsetting tendency when the boat is heeling, as its exertion will "be 

 to come to the surface. If, on the other hand, the 'board' is made of 

 metal it wfll have some effect in lowering the center of gravity when 

 it is down, and will thus add to atabihty according to the weight of 

 the plate and the distance it is lowered; but in the case of a plate hke 

 the Vigilantes, weighing about three tons, the effect would be very 

 trifUng, and when the contra effect of the fittings and gear used in 

 working the plate is calculated, the addition to the stabihty would be 

 about nil. 



"Of course, a plate could be made heavy enough to produce a sen- 

 sible addition to the stability when lowered, but the time when it 

 would be most wanted for that purpose— on a close reach — would also 

 be the time when it would be most desirable to have it up to reduce 

 the surface friction, and, when up, it would have the effect 

 of decreasing stability to the same extent that it would increase 

 it when lowered. It is simply idle to attribute any of the Vigilant's 

 success to her centerplate. She is an enormously xjowerful vessel, 

 and these qualities are due to her great beam, great draft of water, 

 and the low position in which, by that reason, she is able to carry her 

 eighty tons of lead ballast. 



"In considering the power of Vigilant, it is interesting to note that 

 her great beam was utilized for perching a numerous crew on the 

 weather-covering board as live ballast. Of course, this is an old- 

 fashioned device, and one that does not much commend itself to Eng- 

 lish yachtsmen; but, if the crew has to be on board, the undoubted 

 best place for them to be arranged is as far as possible to windward. 

 Still, if they are carried as mere 'weight.' the weight had better be in 

 the form of lead ballast and stowed in the keel ballast box. Some pull 

 could, however, be obtained in the length of waterline by using live 

 ballast. VigUant is reported to have had seventy men on deck during 

 her matches, and we suppose that not more than forty of these would 

 be required to work the yacht. The other thirty would weigh about 

 two tons, which would immerse the VigOant about three-quarters of 

 an inch and increase her loadilne length perhaps three inches. This 

 might be an advantage, but we should still prefer the weight (if had to 

 be carried) in the form of lead ballast. 



"There is another point of view from which to regard this matter. 

 A deck load of men m a sea may greatly interfere with a vessel's good 

 performance, and under such condition the equivalent weight in lead 

 ballast, instead of the men carried as live ballast, would be an euoi-- 

 mous advantage. At any rate, the big crew of the Vigilant does not 

 appear to have availed her much in. her trial to windward in $1 reef- 

 eaU breeze."'— Field. 



