Nov. 25, 1893,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



\By a Staff Correspondent.^ 

 The Eastern Fielfl Trials. 



Newton, N. C, Nov. 18.— Tlie Members' Stake of the 

 Eastern Field Trials Club will not be run this year, the 

 necessary support not being forthcoming. Mr. Pierre Lonl- 

 lord, Jr., was the only member present who had any entries 

 for that stake, and he preferred to refrain from entering, 

 rather than to win it without any competition. This is a 

 lamentable falling ofE in interest and support as compared 

 with the time when the Members' Stake compared favorably 

 in every particular with any stake of the trials, considering 

 that the handlers were members and therefore did not have 

 so much finesse in handling as some of the professionals. 

 Nevertheless, there were some very good handlers among the 

 members in the competitioos mentioned. The other stakes, 

 so far as can be judged from present indications, will not have 

 a large number of starters. 



Newton , the place at which the trials will be held this year, 

 is forty-eight miles west of Salisbury, on a branch road of the 

 Richmond and Danville Railroad. It contains about 2,000 

 inhabitants, and has a much greater air of prosperity than 

 most North Carolina towns. The dwellings are homelike, 

 with a profusion of flowers about them which make a most 

 pleasing and gratifying eiTect to the eye. Birds are reported 

 to be moderately plentiful, and the grounds most satis- 

 factory; but this will be more fully touched on iu the report 

 of these trials. The Secretary, Mr. Washington A. Coster, 

 has been here several days attending to the preliminary 

 arrangements. Mr. Bdw. Dexter, of Boston, and Capt. C. E. 

 McMurdo, arrived to-dav. Others already present are Major 

 J. M. Taylor, Messrs. Pierre Lorillord, Jr., A. T. Latta, 

 Denver, Col., J. M. Avent, C. Tucker. Mr. S. C. Bradley, 

 one of the judges, is here, Mr. J. B. Stoddard is at Thomas- 

 ville, and is expected to arrive to-morrow, while the other 

 judge, Mr, "W. W. Titus, is expected to arrive before the 

 trials begin, though no word has been received' from him in 

 some time. 



Field Trials in General. 



From a gentleman who is a known observer of field trial 

 matters, whose judgment is sound and whose sportsmanlike 

 interest is surpassed by none, I received a letter recently from 

 ■which 1 take the following excerpt; ' Has it ever occurred 

 to you that field trials are losing prestige? The bitter 

 bickernings and personal paper controversies from those who 

 ought to keep quiet, are the cause of it. * * * I am 

 cosmopolitan not to get or rather take a prejudiced view, but 

 I think I prefer the English idea of field trials, viz., to be 

 managed and run without the professional element.'' 



It is too true that certain papers, which ostensibly pose as 

 supporters of field trials and dog shows, furnish every facility 

 for the publication of private brawls, malice or vernom. 

 Instead of drawing on the great fund of literary abundance 

 with which field sports are so richly endowed, their columns 

 teem with malignant personalities or discordant themes, or 

 with columns of the excellence of certain kennels, written 

 by the owners of them, the advertisement sometimes cloaked 

 under a challenge or a description of a novelty or to illu.s- 

 trate an immate'rial point, yet all served up to the reader as 

 good modern reading at a high figure. 



To Fur;i:si' a^d Stream the sportsmen should bestow 

 unlimited appreciation and esteem for a new and better era 

 in sporting journalism. Its pages are clean, wholesome and 

 instructive. Its writers are the best in the laud. There is 

 no place in its columns for the brawler, the shark and the 

 malcontent. Not that these sorts of people do not attempt 

 to come in, but that they can not. That Forest AND 

 Stream's good work is appreciated, no one could learn 

 better than we did at the World's Fair, where each day 

 brought its large number of visitors to Forest akd 

 Stream's exhibit, who expressed their preference in terms 

 of affection for a journal which gave them such healthful 

 knowledge, fresh fTom the forests and streams. And there 

 are genuine sportsmen enough in the land, men who love the 

 sport truly for its own sake, to carry on the good work, let 

 others pander to the disturbing element as they may. 



B. Waters. 



Chicag'O K. C. Show. 



The premium list of the Chicago Kennel Club show seems 

 quite a businesslike programme at first glance, and shows 

 that the club has catered for the most popular breeds almost 

 entirely. The show will be held Dec. 13 to 16, at the Second 

 Regiment Armory, corner of Washington Boulevard and 

 Curtis street, a new venue for a Chicago show, but one that 

 is said to be well adapted. The show opens on a Wednesday 

 and closes on the Saturday night following, but is not under 

 A. K. C. rules. This should not be in any way a detriment, 

 as many exhibitors will no doubt welcome shows of this sort 

 where t^hey win money with their dogs without the fear of 

 counting for the challenge class. The prizes offered are ex- 

 tremely liberal in some respects For mastilfs, great Danes 

 and St. Bernards (rough) the challenge prizes are -$15, open 

 class S40, Si20 and SIO and puppy classes with ^S10 and §5. 

 Smooth St. Bernards get 810 challenge prizes and SSo, §1.5 and 

 S5in open classes and puppy prizes the same as the above. 

 Russian wolfhounds and deerhounds get §15, $10 and §5 for 

 each sex, grej'houuds and American foxhounds have the 

 same, with a third prize of S5, no challenge classes. Pointers 

 and setters have SIO iu challenge and $30, A15 and $10 iu open 

 and $10 and $5 in puppy classes. The pointers, as before are 

 not divided by weight. Irish water and field spaniels fare 

 alike with open cla.'^ses of $10 and $5. Cockers get challenge 

 classes with $10, and in the open $15, $10 and $5. Collies are 

 well treated, with challenge classes $10 and open $30, $15 and 

 jlO. Bulldogs get $10 and $5, bull-terriers have a challenge 

 class with $10, open $15, $10 and $5. Dachshunds, toy ter- 

 riers, Italian greyhounds and miscellaneous and toy spaniels 

 have one challenge class with $10 and $5. Beatles have one 

 challenge class with $U), open classes $15 and $10. 



Fox-tevriei-s get challenge $10, open $20, $10 and $5, pup- 

 pies ->lli and -So, and a novice class with $15, $10 and $5. Pugs 

 get the same except puppies have but $5 for each sex. York- 

 shire, black and tan and rough and wire terriers, any vari- 

 ety, $10 and $5 for each class. This latter arrangement is 

 scarcely wise, although it is stated thaL if four dogs of one 

 variety are entered, special classes will be made. 



The entry fee is $4 for the first three breeds mentioned and 

 $3 for the others and must be sent off by Dec. 4 to G. H. 

 Groodrich, room 735, Unity Building, Dearborn street, Chi- 

 cago. A selling class at auction has also been instituted, the 

 sale to he on Saturday, and an entry fee of $1.50 is charged 

 for each dog not entered iu regular classes, and 5 per cent, 

 off amount of sale as auctioneer's fee in every case. B^ntries 

 for this class will be received up to Dec. 13. The usual ar- 

 rangements have been made for expressage, etc. Jas. A. 

 Locke will be superintendent and L. F. Whitman the "vet." 

 Spratts Patent will bench and feed. Specials will be re- 

 ported later. 



The show is not burdened by rules to any great extent, and 

 we are sorry to see that the good which the A. K. C. has 

 sought to do' by curtailing the puppy classes will not prevail 

 here. It is a great error and may prevent many from exhib- 

 iting. Litters of puppies are provided for, and puppies under 

 six months of age may enter for exhibition only by paying 

 the fee of $3. In tact, the club has catered to the "pup pur- 

 veyor" at the expense of considering the general health of 

 the show. The judges are drawn entirely from the West, 

 and whether they have been chosen wisely will be shown 

 when the entries are ia. Their names were published last 

 week. 



The fact that the Chicago K. C. offer challenge classes at 

 their coming show without providing rules that will explain 

 the eligibility of such entries, and tie compulsory entry in 

 the same, is rather an anomaly. Challenge classes are only 

 known under A. K. C. rules, and we do not think a show 

 held outside of these rules could compel any one to show an 

 A. K. C. challenge dog in their challenge classes unless they 

 make rules that cover the point. Not owing allegiance to 

 the A. K. C, they have no rights in the challenge ruling. 

 Nothing is mentioned in the rules of the Chicago K. C. as to 

 what qualifies a challenge dog. 



Since the premium list was issued the club has offered the 

 following additional prizes for their coming show: Grey- 

 hounds, challenge, bitches, prize SIO; bull-terrier puppy class 

 dogs, prize $5 and $3; bitches $5 and $3; black and tan terrier 

 challenge dogs and bitches $10. There was a mistake in the 

 premium list, for we are now informed that Mr. E. Bardoe 

 Elliott will judge the spaniels and not Mr. Donoghue. 



THE UNITED STATES F. T. C. TRIALS. 



SATURDAY. 



The weather was much cooler than that of yesterday, 

 though mild; clear and comfortable. Birds were hard to 

 find until toward the latter part of the afternoon. The 

 grade of the work was ordinary in respect to fljiding and 

 pointing and excellent in respect to ranging. There was a 

 large attendance of spectators. 



Chevalier akd Dashawat began a,t 7 :44. Chevalier was 

 far superior to Dashaway in range and speed, the latter 

 being slow and narrow in. his casts. Chevalier made a point 

 on a bevy and was ordered up, he having run six minutes. 

 DashawaV ran alone for nine minutes more without Bnding. 



Dan Burgess akd Spot Cash were down seven minutes, 

 beginning at S;02. Dan pointed a bevy in woods. Both dis- 

 played good range and speed. 



Gleam's Sport ran a bye heat and showed excellent capa- 

 bilities in the nine minutes in which he ran. On some 

 marked birds he roaded and pointed, winding tip the work 

 with an excusable flush. He made a good point on a single 

 bird. His speed and ranging were excellent. He carried 

 his nose well. 



Gleam's Pink and Lochinvae were started at 8:27, and 

 were ordered up at 8:43. Pink found and pointed a bevy 

 nicely in the open and was backed by Lochinvar. 



Dave W. and Dan's Ladt at 8:51 commenced and ran 

 till 9:05. They ranged wide and fast on ground unfavorable 

 for a trial, it being mostly bare open ground. Dave pointed 

 a bevy in com. 



Count Gladstone and Fleety Noble began at 9:15. 

 There were many opportunities for points during the heat, 

 very few of which were taken advantage of. Fleety ought 

 to have pointed a bevy which the handlers flushed. She 

 next made a false point and a point on a single, which 

 Count refused to back. Up at 9:35. 



Chevalier and Gleam's Sport, at 10:10, showei some 

 wide, fast ranging in the open field. Sport the faster and 

 better ranger, and far more sensible in beating out his 

 ground. The judges called Mr. Avent to order for whistling 

 and shouting too much at his dog. Up at 10:-iO. 



Dan's Lady and Spot Cash showed some excellent 

 ranging in the seven minutes in which they ran, beginning 

 at 10:50. 



Pink antd Dan Burgess ranged eleven minutes. They 

 ranged fast, wide and well. No birds found. 



Dan's Lady and CHEVALrEU were cast off at 1:33. By 

 mistake Chevalier was cast off with her. Both ranged wide. 

 Thev were ordered to go on a certain course. Sport cast 

 back and pointed a bevy well. On the scattered birds which 

 were running in corn Lady pointed and was backed. Both 

 moved on. reading, Sport the better. They roaded and 

 pointed, the birds at last flushing wild ahead. 



The judges evidently disagreed in their opinions. 



The prizes were awarded as follows: First, Chevalier; 

 second, Dan's Lady; third. Gleam's Sport. 



In my opinion Sport was the best dog iu the stake. He 

 ranged fast and wide, and had the faculty called bird sense 

 in a high degree. Gleam's Sport for first, Gleam's Pink for 

 second, and Chevalier and Dan's Lady for third, would have 

 been much a better placing of the dogs. 



The All-Age Absolute. 



Franklin and Chevalier were started at 3:13 and ran 

 till 3:44. Franklin was ill and ran in poor form compared to 

 the great showing which he made in the AU-Age Stake. He 

 appeared to be completely off his nose, and he was lacking in 

 enthusiasm in his work. One of the judges saw him flush a 

 bevy willfully. Chevalier made three points, two on bevies 

 and one on scattered birds. Franklin sought well. Cheva- 

 lier ranged with energy. Chevalier won. B. WATERS. 



Eastern Field Trials Derby. 



[Special to Forest and Stream.] 



Newton, N. C, Nov. 20. — The Derby had nineteen starters: 

 Lad's Rush with Solitaire, Beryl with Topaz, Thalia with 

 Miss Hattie, Selah with Lady Araminta, Leona with Maid 

 Marion, Cactus with Pauline, Blue Ridge Mark with Rod's 

 Mark, Alene with Topsy's Rod, Bessie Shoupe with Tate, 

 Antoinette a bye. Mr. Coster acted to-day as judge in place 

 of Mr. Titus, who arrived at noon. Messrs. Bradley and 

 Stoddard are the other judges. Birds are abundant, twenty- 

 two bevies were found to-day. The work to-day was very 

 inferior save that of Selah, Alene, Topsy's Rod, Bessie 

 Shoupe and one or two more. There is a large attendance of 

 .■spectators. The grounds are excellent. B. Waters. 



DOG CHAT. 



Phiiadelphla K. C. Trials. 



Prom reports it looks very much as if the^ Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club will once more hold a show. Several of the 

 moneyed men of the club are willing to help to this end. 

 With proper social backing and the right sort of manage- 

 ment, Philadelphia should become a good show town yet. 

 The Keystone Club did fairly well with wretched weather to 

 contend vrith and no particular social element to lend a 

 hand. At a recent dinner and meeting of the P. K. Club 

 the field trials arrangements were made. The party will 

 leave Philadelphia on Saturday evening, Nov. 25, and ar- 

 rangements have been made to stop at Thomasville, N. C, 

 where the trials will be held. 



Those who are intending to go are Messrs. Alexander, 

 Mitchell, Phelps, Fiuletter, Schreiber, F. S. Brown, Dr. Davis, 

 Dr. Darby, Dr- Littleton. Col. Ridgway, T. F. Sturgis, J. B. 

 Baker and F. G. Taylor. 



The entries for the AU-Age Stake are J. H. Winslow's 

 Breeze Belton (Breeze Gladstone — Nellie Belton), Francis G. 

 Taylor's Sandy Gladstone (Breeze Gladstone— Belle of Dela- 

 ware) and Katie Noble II. (Breeze Gladstone— Katie Noble), 

 Dr. G. G. Davis's Currer Belle IV. (Tim— Currer Belle III.), 

 C. H. Phelps, Jr.'s Carmen (Paul G.— Belle Ray), Pierre Loril- 

 lard, Jr.'s Miss Ruby (Gladstone's Boy — Ruby D ), Antevolo 

 (Count Noble— Trinket II. i, Dr. Rodgers's (Roderigo— Glad- 

 stone's Girl), and Eugene T. (Count Noble — Ruby's Girl), P. 

 Pv. Hitchcock's Roi d'Or (Roderigo— Bo Peep), Bess (Clarence 

 —Bessie Avent), and Annie T. (Roderigo— Juno A.) 



— Mr. W. C. Reick sailed for Europe last Wednesday. With 

 the recent sale of Sir Bedivere and Rustic Beauty in our 

 mind it is not unlikely we shall hear something more soon. 



Newark Dogr Show. 

 The American Spaniel Club offers the following specials, 

 open for competition to members of the club only: $5 for 

 best brace of field spaniels, $5 for best brace of cocker 

 spaniels, $5 for best brace of Clumber spaniels, $5 for best 

 brace of Irish water spaniels. An open bitch class is made 

 for French poodles, with $7 for first, $3 second, and diploma 

 third; also puppy dog class with two cash prizes and 

 diploma. Ruby, Blenheim and Prince Charles spaniels will 

 be divided by sex in the event of five entries. A puppy class 

 with two cash prizes and diploma will be made for bulldogs. 

 I The entries are: Mastiffs 19, rough St. Bernards 70, smooth 

 St. Bernards 24, bloodhounds 4, Newfoundlands 2, great 

 Danes 16, Russian wolfhounds 13, deerhounds 3, greyhounds 

 22, whippets 7, pointers 44, English setters 26, Irish setters 19,. 

 Gordon setters 17, beagles 13. foxhounds 3, dachshunds 12, 

 Clumber spaniels 1, field spaniels 9, cocker spaniels 18, collies. 

 13, bulldogs 9, bull-terriers 13, Boston terriers — , smooth fox- 

 terriers 28, rough fox-terrier^ 4, Irish terriers 18, Dandle Din- 

 mont terriers — , Bedlington terrier 1, Scotch terriers 4, Skyc 

 terriers 5, black and tan terriers (over 71bs.) 7, Clydesdale ter- 

 riers 3, poodles 38, Yorkshire terriers 7, toy terriers 5, King: 

 Charles spaniels 5, ruby, Blenheim and Prince Charles span- 

 iels 2, Japanese spaniels 1, Italian greyhounds 4, Schipperkes. 

 1, pugs 6, Mexican hairless 4, miscellaneous 9, selling class 4. 

 Total, 533. 



Strideaway Changes Hands. 

 In a recent issue we spoke of Mr. E. O. Damon, owner of 

 the Meadow City Kennels, of Northampton, Mass., devoting 

 his attention to pointers. Mr. Damon did not hesitate long^ 

 and the wires have been hot between Northampton and 

 Bicknell, Ind., lately, with the result that Strideaway (King 

 of Kent— Pearl's Dot), which made such a grand record at 

 the U. S. trials two weeks since, becomes his property. To 

 win the Derby was honor enough, but to beat Avent & 

 Thayer's Topsy's Rod and all that that means, stamps him 

 as a crack young dog with a brilliant future if lucky, and 

 Lad of Rush must look well to his laurels. Strideaway's 

 work was fully commented upon in our report of the U. S. 

 trials. He will remain in the hands of his late owner and 

 will endeavor to repeat his successes at the U. S. trials B in 

 February next. Mr. Damon has received Soult II. from Mr. 

 Wise and is well pleased with him. If the Meadow City 

 Kennels continue on the line they have started they_ wUl 

 will soon have a formidable kennel. Pearl's Dot, it will be 

 remembered, won first in Derby of 1889, at the Indiana trials, 

 and is by Trinket's Bang, who is also the .sire of Spotted Boy 

 and Cherrystone, both field trial winners. We understand 

 that Mr. Damon paid $1,000 for his new acquisition. 



New York Horse Show. 



Several of our best known dog breeders and exhibitors are 

 also interested in horses, and we were pleased to see that in 

 the keen competition during the horse show held in Madison 

 Square Garden last week they fairly held their own. Mr. H. 

 W. Smith, the wire-hair fox-terrier exhibitor, took several 

 prizes for best turnouts; his noted horse Skyhigh won against 

 33 competitors in the class for single harness high steppers. 

 He won other prizes during the week in tandem competitions, 

 with Skyhigh and Sky Rocket, tooling his own team in a 

 workmanlike manner. Then the Chestnut Hill Stock Farm, 

 owned by Mr. Mitchell Harrison, entered houses in 33 classes;, 

 but his hobby chiefly runs to hunters, and his horses Sea- 

 breeze, Acrobat, Shylock, Escape and Gamecock showed the 

 way over the fences, ridden by Caff'rey, and winning several 

 competitions. Mr. A. H. Moore's Granite, a lady's hack, also 

 caught the judge's eye on two occasions, winning a first and 

 a second. Th e show was a great success, realizing something 

 like $100,000, with a prize list of $33,000. 



Saratoga P. and K. Club Show. 



Mr. Lyman Clute, secretary of the Saratoga Poultry and 

 Kennel Club, writes us thas the club promises to hold one 

 of the best shows iu the State at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 

 .Jan. 16 to 19, 1894. The premium list is very liberal, there 

 being 201 classes. All challenge classes have $5 for first; 

 open classes $10 for first and $5 for second in the larger 

 breeds, with $7 and $4 for the smaller breeds. Many valu- 

 able specials are offered. Classification No. 1 of the Ameri- 

 can Spaniel Club has been adopted and many leading ken- 

 nels have promised their entries. Their guarantee fund is 

 nearly $2,000 and they are bound to make the show a suc- 

 cess. Conventional Hall, second only to Madison Square 

 Garden, will hold the exhibit, opratts Patent will bench, 

 and feed the show. 



Jos. Lewis, the well known manager of the Oak Grove 

 Kennels, has received a new English setter from Mr. R. W. 

 P. Lewellyn. It arrived Tuesday last. Further particulara 

 are not yet to hand. 



One of the Yale men in a recent football match with the 

 Pennsylvania team is said to have been bitten iu the back by 

 one of the "Pennsy" boys. They now think of matching 

 Handsome Dan, their mascot bulldog, against the human, 

 biter. 



All signs point toward Newark next week, and it is 

 rumored that there will be quite a gathering of the clans. 

 Several new dogs are to come out and the pouiter cla.sses are 

 sure to be strong in this respect. Rinada Pointer Kennels 

 have Chancellor and one or two others ready, and Charles 

 Heath will uphold the honor of his town and kennel with a 

 young liver and white dog by Pontiac— Bloomo among others, 

 and old Graphic may also be on exhibition. A new ruby 

 spaniel is another surprise. Golden Taffy by name, by Golden 

 Ibiz— Beauty and bred by Mrs. Jenkins, Teddingford, Eng- 

 land. Ben Lewis will have a strong team, one of which will 

 be the pointer Tempest. 



If the Chicago Kennel Club will listen to the voice of rea- 

 son they will at once make some further provision in their 



Eremium list for the rough terrier contingent. We have 

 eard a number of complaints since the list was received. 

 Dog show committees .should realize the fact that the wire- 

 hair fox-terrier, Scottish terrier and Irish terrier elements 

 are becoming very .strong and quite as important in their 

 way as the mastiff, St. Bernard, collie, and more so than the 

 great Dane. 



At the last meeting of the Pacific Kennel Club a discussion 

 arose upon a rather novel petition from dealers in dog foods 

 and furnishings. This asks the kennel clubs to sign an 

 agreement binding themselves rot to make contracts with 

 any benching firm that requires the club using their bench- 

 ing, etc., to enter into a contract which forbids other com- 

 panies from making exhibits in the show. The P. K. C. 

 finally agreed to sign the petition. 



A special to Forest and Stream from our staff correspond- 

 ent, Mr. Hough, dated Vincennes, Ind., Nov. 21, reports: 

 "The case of McLtu, the fiend dog burner, comes up for trial 

 here Tuesday morning. Much interest. Many witnesses on 

 both sides. Prosecution's best hope is conviction for per- 



The sale of Messrs. L. & W. Rutherfurd's fox-terriers at 

 the American Horse Exchange last Friday afternoon was a 

 fairly good one A number of terriers changed owners at 

 f roni $20 to $45 each. Among those we saw at the sale were 

 Winthrop Rutherf urd, .James Mortimer, Dr. Glover, R.. 

 Lyons, Fred Lewis, German Hopkins, C. F. R. Drake, 0. 

 Purroy and others. 



