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second street, Zaughere, on the same evening, and was voted 
a great success by all present. The executive committee 
only hope that another year will see more present. 
Dr. S. ,T. Beadbtirt, Sec'y-Treas. 
Irish Setter Club. 
The annual meeting of the Irish Setter Club of America 
was held at the Madison Square Garden, New York, Feb. 
a.5, at 13 o'clock; Dr. G. G. Davis in the chair, 
Present: Dr. G. G. Davis, James B. Blossom, B; L. 
Clements, F. L. Clieney, Woodruff Sutton, Geo. H. Thom- 
son, and by proxy W. L. Washington, 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- 
proved. 
The treasurer's report, showing a balance of $68.46, was 
read and apjjroved. 
It was moved and seconded that the secretary be em- 
powered to have the constitution and by-laws printed as 
amended, with the list of officers for the ensuing year. 
It was decided to continue the standard for Irish setters 
originally adopted by the club. 
It was also decided to offer a special prize of $10 to the 
Kentucky Kennel Club and $10 to the Baltimore Kennel 
Association for the best Irish setter in open classes that has 
been placed in any stake in a field trial, said setter to be 
owned by a member of the Irish Setter Club. 
Mr. James M. Bullock, of Philadelphia, was elected a 
member, 
A field trial committee, consisting of Messrs. Cheney, 
Clements and Thomson, was appointed, with power to offer 
such prizes at field trials and bench shows as in their judg- 
ment may be best calculated to further the interests of the 
Irish setter. 
The following gentlemen were then elected to hold office 
for the ensuing year: President, Dr. G. G Davis; Vice- 
President, James B. Blossom; Secretary-Treasurer, Geo. H. 
Thomson; Executive Committee: P. L. Cheney, Woodruff 
Sutton, B. L. Clements, Dr. Wilham Jarvis and Ray Tomp- 
kins. 
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. 
Geo. H, Thomson, Sec'y. 
Gordon Setter Club. 
The annual meeting of the Gordon Setter Club of Amer- 
ica was held in Madison Square Garden on Feb. 22, 
The minutes of the previous meetings and the secretary- 
treasurer's report were approved. The president was em- 
powered to make arrangements for and hold field trials 
during the coming autumn if in his judgment he should find 
sufficient support to do so. The president, Mr. Blossom, 
was continued as delegate to the A. K, C. The election of 
members during the past year was approved. It was 
resolved that the managers of dog shows be requested to in- 
crease the number and value of prizes in the challenge classes, 
so that the good dogs which were continually being buried 
therein might be resurrected to public competition by induce- 
ments at least equal to those offered to poor novices and 
poorer puppies. The following were re-elected ofiicers and 
executive committee for the ensuing year: President, James 
B. Blossom; Vice-Pre&ident, John R. Oughton, Dwight, 111.; 
Secretary -Treasurer, L. A. Van Zandt; Executive Commit- 
tee: C. C, Hendee, E. K, Sperry, Geo. Bleistem, E. H. 
Schusen. 
Pointer Club of America. 
The annual meeting of the Pointer Club of America was 
held on Feb. 22, at 'Madison Square Garden, New York. 
Present: Me,ssrs. Jarvis, Brush, Root, Mott, Blyth, James, 
Westlake, Knox, McSherry, Webster, Lewis and Pickhardt. 
Mr. J Roger McSherry presided. The minutes of the last 
meeting were read and accepted. The treasurer's report was 
read and accepted. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as 
follows: President, George J. Gould; Vice-President, 
Frederick S. Webster; Treasurer, C, F. Lewis; Secretary, 
W. H. Brush; Board of Governors: J. Roger McSherry, 
Thomas Blyth, R. E. Westlake, J. D. James, George .Jarvis, 
James Mortimer; Delegate to the American Kennel Club, 
George Jarvis. Mr. Frederick G. Lenoir was elected to 
membership. 
It was resolved that the Pointer Club of America shall 
offer a breeder's cup, the conditions under which it shall be 
competed for shall be regulated and determined by the board 
of governors. 
E. F. T. C.^ Meeting. 
A MEETDTG of the Eastern Field Trials Club was held in 
Madison Square Garden at 4 P. M , Feb. 23. Twelve mem- 
bers were present. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., President, in the 
chair. The reports of the secretary and treasurer were read 
and approved. The treasurer's report showed a balance of 
$65 in the treasury for the year ending Dec. 31, 1896. 
The club's trials are to be held at Newton, N. C, on the 
club's preserve, beginning with the Members' Stake, Satur- 
day, Nov. 13, to be followed with the Derby, open to all 
pointers and setters whelped after Jan, 1, 1896. The All- 
Age Stake is open to all pointers and setters which have not 
won a first prize in the open stakes of the United States and 
Continental trials. The purses in each stake are $600. The 
Subscription Stake is open to the world for pointers and set- 
ters. I'he heats in the first series to be two hours each. 
Purse $500. The judges selected are: Col. Arthur Merriman, 
Memphis, Tenn., and S. C. Bradley, Greenfield Hill, Conn, 
The third judge will be selected later. 
S, C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Irish Terrier Club. 
A RATrPiCATiON meeting of the Irish Terrier Club of 
America, which was organized in December, 1896, was held 
on Feb. 23, at Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. 
Edward Brooks presided. Present: O. W. Donner, Edward 
Brooks, G. M. Weld, H. G. T. Martin, E. L. Beadleston, S. 
L. Sacketc, W. A. Thomson, Morton E. Cobb. Bancroft C. 
Davis, M. Bruckheimer, Thos. Wise, Jr., Singleton Van 
Schaick, A constitution and bj'-laws was adopted, and an 
election of offi cers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : 
President, Oliver Ames; Vice-President, W. L. Beadleston; 
Treasurer, S, D. Parker; Secretary, O. W. Donner; Board 
of Governors: Oliver Ames, W. L. Beadleston, S. D Parker, 
0. W. Donner, Edward Brooks, B. L. Sackett, G. M. Weld, 
W. A. Thomson; Delegate to the American Kennel Club, 
W. L. Beadleston. 
The standard adopted by the club is the revision made by 
the Irish Terrier Club of Great Britain. 
THE GOULD CUP. 
MoNTPBLiER, Miss., Feb. 22.~E(litor Forest and Stream: 
I have just received Forest and Stream of Feb. 6, in 
which your reporter ably describes one side of the question 
of the All- Age Absolute for the Gould Cup, which should 
have been run for at West Point, Miss., Jan. 23. I will en- 
deavor to give another side, which the said reporter carefully 
ignores. 
First: The holder of the cup had no right whatever to 
have the said cup in his possession, his time of hokling it 
having expired, and it should have been delivered over to 
the secretary of the club before the competition. 
Second: The said holder of the cup had no possible fur- 
ther claim on the same, as he was beaten in the All-Age 
Stake. 
Third: In Rule L of the U. S. F. T. will be found that 
the management shall be intrusted to the governors of the 
club, and with them lies the interpretation of all rules. They 
shall decide upon all matters not provided for in their rules, 
I think it will be found in the minutes of the club meeting 
that evening that the judges did not decide that Tippoo had 
won by default of Tony Boy, as stated, but that it was so 
decided by the members present. I know Mr. Dexter pre- 
sided at the meeting and declined to vote or have any say in 
the matter, he being the owner of Tippoo. 
I believe in the case of all horse and yacht racing when 
one competitor fails to start the cup is awarded to the other. 
In the face of this, 1 would say that if the judges erred at all 
it was in not making Tippoo run over the course that day for 
the two-hour limit. 
Of course I am aware that a win by default is a very 
empty honor, but the cup was awarded to Tippoo, and legally 
so, by the rules of the club, and in the face of the above 1 
fail to see the right of the former winner to withhold the 
same. C. E. Buckle. 
[Briefly touching on Mr. Buckle's foregoing charge of an 
ez parte treatment of the matter of the absolute heat for the 
Gould cup at the recent II. 8, F. T. C. trials, it is but fair to 
say that the cup matter was treated in the most impartial 
manner by us, and in accordance with the facts pertaining 
to it. As Mr. Buckle is a directly interested party, it is not 
a cause of wonderment that our impartial statement might 
to him seem to be partial when it was opposed to bis personal 
interests and beliefs. Under such circumstances his letter 
might have been in better taste had it dealt with the matter 
on its merits instead of weakly pleading unfairness. 
As the circumstances may not be known to every one, it 
may be well to review them. On Saturday, .June 23, the 
All-Age running was finished. The Derby absolute was 
run. The All-Age setter and the All- Age pointer winners 
were next in order of competition for the Gould cup. Mr. 
Rose then announced that Tony Boy was ill, and therefore 
he objected to running him. Both judges made a personal 
examination of him. Mr. Buckle, who was near by all the 
while, then announced that he did not care to win the cup 
by default. The discussion and hesitation lasted some min- 
utes. At last the judges announced that the heat between 
Tony Boy and Tippoo was postponed to some day in the week 
following. The party returned to town with this under- 
standing. The secretary wrote it on the club's bulletin 
board and it so stood during several hours. We maintained 
in our report that there was no default on the part of Tony 
Boy under the circumstances. The consent of all concerned 
to a postponement of the heat till a day in the following 
week waived all question of default. That later the club or 
judges or both arbitrarily decided that Tippoo had won by 
the default of Tony Boy is no more pertinent to the matter 
at that stage than if the King of Ashantee had so decided it, 
since they had no authority to decide in that manner. 
In his letter to Mr. W. B. Stafford, Secretary U. S. F. T. 
C, Mr. George J. Gould, announcing the gift of the cups. 
Imposed certain conditions, among which were these: "The 
winner of the Pointer All-Age Stake and the winner of 
the Setter All-Age Stake to run a final trial for the trophy, 
the heat or heats not to be shorter than two hours, the 
judge or judges to insist on thoroughly broken dogs." 
Mr. Gould specified that the trophies were offered under 
the ''conditions and restrictions" specified by him. 
It is palpable that the donor did not contemplate a win by 
default, and it is equally palpable that the U. S. Club so in- 
terpreted it when it incorporated the following in its rules: 
"The absolute trial for the Gould cup raust be at least one 
hour's duration in the Derby and two hours' duration in the 
All- Age Stake," etc. This is a mandatory condition. This 
rule fully provides for the matter, contrary to Mr. Buckle's 
third objection, dealt with hereinafter. 
Mr. Buckle makes his objections under three heads. The 
first one will now be considered. The holder of the cup had 
a right to hold it till there was competition for it again. 
The "conditions and restrictions" of the gift absolutely re- 
quired competition for it. The U. S. Club's rules were man- 
datory in requiring competition. Now there either was 
competition or there was not. If there was, the cup could 
be awarded. If there was not, it could not, Mr. Buckle 
did not compete for it, and therefore he has no more stand- 
ing in the matter than all others who did not compete. That 
he was qualified to compete makes no difference. Actual 
competition is what is essential. To be eligible is another 
matter. 
Now as to his second objection, it may be said in reply 
that the All-Age stake within itself had do bearing whatever 
on the cup except in so far as to qualify a competitor for it. 
The cup had no relation to the determination of the All Age 
Stakes. It was distinctly detached from them. It applied 
only to the winners of them. The competition of the two 
winners for the cup related to the two winners and no other 
dogs. Whether the holder of the cup was or was not beaten, 
in the All Age Stake is entirely irrelevant. Until there was 
competition for the cup, the last holder of it was rightfully 
the legal holder. The competition in the absolute heat is the 
point at issue, and not what was done elsewhere. 
As to the third objection, the club's rules undoubtedly 
govern its own affairs. The cups, however, were special 
prizes, governed by "conditions and restrictions" not in the 
club's rules, and yet they were "conditions and restrictions" to 
which the club had acquiesced when it accepted the trophies. 
Those special restrictions were paramount to the club's rules. 
They govern the trophies absolutely. 
Mr. Buckle raises very indiscreetly the point that the man- 
agement shall be intrusted to the governors of the club, and 
with them lies the interpretation of the rules, and that they 
shall decide on all matters not provided for in their rules. 
The implication is that they can do about as they please. 
However, the plea made by Mr. Buckle is irrelevant: 
first, because managing the affairs of the club is some- 
thing distinctly apart from the judging; and, second, the 
whole question at issue is fully provided for in the rules. He 
thus is wrong in his understanding of the board's relation to 
the matter-. If the board of governors rejected the decision 
of the judges in the matter, and took it upon themselves to 
decide arbitrarily as it best pleased them, they could place 
any dog in the stake as they pleased, overrule the judges as 
they pleased, and generally convey a most unpleasant implica- 
tion of the extent and trend of their powers. And yet if 
they choose to act illegally, as Mr. Buckle holds they did do, 
it by no means follows that their ruling will be either re- 
spectfully heeded or obeyed. If the judges did not decide 
that Tippoo won, the board surely had no right to arbitrarily 
take the matter into their own hands. 
The matter of horse and yacht racing is not analogous. If 
the horse or yacht owner waived his right to win by default, 
the case would then be analogous to the one under considera- 
tion. 
In conclusion it maybe said that once recognize the sound- 
ness of a win by default and the honor of winning the cup 
would not be worth a picayune.] 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
The prize list of the Duquesne Kennel Club's fourth an- 
nual show, to be held beginning March 24, can be obtained 
of the secretary, Mr. W. B. Littell, Box 754, Pittsburg. 
Entries close on March 13. 
Mr. S. B. Cummings, secretary of the Monongahela Val- 
ley Game and Fish Protective Association, writes us that 
the association's next trials will be held on its preserve, 
Greene county, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 2 to 6. 
At a field trial held recently at Aiken, S. C, Mr, H. B. 
Duryea, judge, Mr. F. R. HitchcocR's Tory Topaz won the 
cup offered by Mr. F. T. Moorhead. The number of entries 
and other particulars are not at hand, but it was a friendly 
local affair of the kind that could be copied with profit 
throughout the game country. 
Mr. W. E. Littell, Secretary of theDuquesne Kennel Club, 
writes that Mr. L. C. Sauveur has resigned as judge at the 
Pittsburg show, and that his classes have been turned over 
to Mr. J. Mortimer. 
Owing to delays in making arrangements for the show of 
field trial winners at the Sportsmen's Exhibition, the matter 
has been given over for this year. 
"My Dog and I," a treatise on dogs, by H. W, Hunting- 
ton, the latest work on canine matters from the press, con- 
tains the scale of points and description of nearly every 
recognized breed of dogs There are also special depart- 
ments devoted to the dog in health and sickness. 
The first field trials of the Alabama Field Trials Club 
were run on Feb. 15 at Madison, Ala. The judges were 
W. B. Stafford and W. B. Hamilton, Columbus, Miss, 
There were five starters in the Derby, namely, H. H. May- 
berry's pointer Alabama Girl. T. W. O'Byrne's pointer Red- 
skin, H. K. Milner's pointer Alameda, Ash ford & Spencer's 
Oiho, and T. T. Ashford's pointer bitch Balsora. Winners: 
First, Alabama Girl; second, Alameda; third, Balsora. In 
the Alabama Stakes there were four starters: F.W.Dun- 
ham's pointer Elgin's Dash, T. T Ashford's HessieD., W. J. 
Love's Ijove's Kent, and R. M. Ward's setter dog ISrook's 
Gladstone. Winners: First, Elgin's Dash; second, Hessie 
D. ; third. Brook's Gladstone, 
A meeting of the committees of the A, K. C. and the C. 
K. C, in the matter of reciprocity between the two clubs, was 
held in the A, K C rooms, 55 Liberty street, New York, on 
Feb. 25, and no settled conclusion was reached. The C. K, 
C. was requested to formulate what it would concede. 
Communications for this department are requested. Anything on 
the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman is particularly desirable. 
Wheeling for Trout in the White Mountains. 
Ipswich, Mass. — Editor Forest and Stream: Frank and I 
had been at Jackson for two weeks on a fishing excursion. 
We had brought our wheels, for although the surrounding 
country is very hilly we thought that it would be easier to 
wheel than to walk, and much more economical than to hire 
a carriage every time we wished to go a-fishing. 
JacRson is a summer resort in the White Mountains. It is 
a veritable fisherman's paradise, abounding in numerous 
streams filled with sleek, gamy trout. 
One evening after a very fatiguing tramp through the 
Notch and Tuckerman's Ravine, I was sitting on the piazza 
of the hotel enjoying my cigar, when Frank came to me and 
said: "Ted, I have just been talking to Mr. Crawford, and 
he tells me there is excellent fishing at Glen Ellis Falls. I 
want you to go with me to-morrow. Will you?" 
"Yes," said I; "but as it is a seven-mile jaunt and mostly 
up-hill work, we will need an early start." 
' 'Is 4 o'clock too early ?" 
"Not a bit." 
Having thus settled the matter, we left orders for an early 
breakfast and lunch to be put up, oiled our bicycles and put 
our tackle in order. 
After a very short sleep, in fact it seemed to me as if I 
had just closed my eyes, there came a loud knock at my 
door. I hustled into my clothes and soon joined Frank. 
On emerging from my room I heard some people moving 
about downstairs, and soon a carriage drove up to the deor. 
"What does all this mean, Frank?" said 1. 
"It means that some of the other guests have heard of our 
prospective trip and are going to follow us to the fishing 
ground," he replied. 
"Well, in that easel don't need any breakfast." said 1. 
"Is the luncheon and bait ready? Yes? Well, let's mount 
and get away." 
At last we were under way and swiftly pedaling on to- 
ward our destination. After an hour's hard riding we 
arrived at the falls, and unstrapping our rods and lunch we 
hid our silent steeds in the woods. 
We had been fishing nearly half an hour before we heard 
the hotel party. Their horses seemed very much worn out 
and exhausted, as if they had been urged in trying to catch 
