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ing. Put down again at 2:30 on stu"bble, and in less than SO 
seconds Lock had a handsome point. Tana refused to back, 
but ran np close to point. She then passed him and the 
birds went up ahead, both steady to shot and wing. On 
corn, Tana pointed a single, it going out as she stopped. 
Tana pointed. Lock pointed. Tana none too steady to 
wing here. At a fence Lock worked out a nice point on 
three birds that went out. He now worked out the fence 
row in good meat dog style, getting three points. Tana ca.-t 
in ahead and pointed, Lock backing perfectly at Boyds., a 
good bevy find for Tana. Brought up. Lock pointed and so 
did Tana still, and two more birds went out. Singles, on 
grass, Lock pointed, Tana drew by him and stole his point, 
Lock taking it good-naturedly and steadily. These showed 
us a lot of work, Lock looming up pretty well. Tana was a 
merry one, a mere vest-pockei one, of a type which I can 
never learn to like. Yet sbe seemed a finder, and her worst 
fault was failure to back and a shade of unsteadiness 
BASK AiJTONio— Selkirk "Whyte.— The former by Sprock- 
lin, the latter by Mr, Wells, owner. Dash went over his 
field in his customary rapid style. Whyte showed plenty of 
speed, and a merry and cheerful action. Whyte flushed a 
I single, not to wind fault, ashe dropped instantly. He backed 
Dash on a po^nt which developed no bird. Whyte now went 
out far ahead,hut his legs were too good for his nose. Com- 
ing down wind, he had the bad luck to run smash through a 
bevy. Both honored this footscent when brought up. Oq 
the woods, after singles the dogs were hurried on entirely 
too fast, in fact, absurdly so for shooting purposes, though 
this may be orthodox field trial work. They passed and 
missed about all the birds. Dash pointed and Sprocklin 
killed. Dash steady; Whyte cautioned by his handler. Both 
made game on a partridge which went out ahead. Dash 
pointed at a brush heap, one bird was found; but a few yards 
on both made gsme, and Dash cast about to head the run- 
ning birds. He ran over a single, dropping to wing. He 
moved on and another went up not pointed. Dash pointed 
once more, but the bird hnd slipped him again and run on. 
Whyte was having no better luck, though he made a very 
good impression. Down 50 minutes. 
CleopatkA— MAUD W.— Mr. Wells handled his old favor- 
ite, once winner of this stakes, last year set-ond in them. She 
was down with the only pointer in the stakes, Maud W., 
handled by Hess Milliken^ Maud showed a very fast, 
nervous, snappy one, going out very far ahead, yelpuig and 
barking. She stopped to gaze down a rabbit hole, but left 
it. Clo had plenty of speed, of course, and at first it seemed 
she had the first point, but sbe moved on. Maud .jumped 
into a grand-stand bevy-point 60yds. ahead, along the fence, 
Clo backing handsomely. On some distance, Clo was seen 
on a fair jioint, and Maud backed uncertainly and to order. 
Clo could show nothing but some domestic chickens for all 
this and got laughed at. Clo again made game on corn, but, 
though she rounded, no birds were found. Across a wide 
field, Maud jumped into a secood fine bevy-])oint and was 
steady to shot. In heavy cover, she flushed two singles. 
Led tor fifteen minutes, they were put down on corn at 
5 P. M.. a good time for bird-finding. In less than a minute 
Maud had nailed her third bevy in fine positive style, Clo 
backing all right. In less than three miuutes more Maud 
had pointed her fourth bevy, and was booked for further 
nmning. Clo pointed a single. She pointed again and 
moved on. Maud backed very badly. Maud whipped into 
a single point, Clo backing nicely. Maud had scored four 
bevies and one single clean, and two shaky backs. Clo had 
little to offset this, but she had made no mistakes, so it was 
wise of the judges after all to a.sk to see her again the next 
day, as they did. Down one hour and twenty minutes. End 
of day. 
Thursday, Nov. 1 8. 
Weather again clear and lovely for the work. Running 
began at 9 in second series of the All- Age. 
Selkirk Tana— Count Vassak,— Count proved himself a 
gowerful, fast dog, though perhaps he might have quartered 
is fields a shade more thoroughly. Tana was fast enough. 
Both made game, Tana moved on, put up the bevy and 
chased. Count dropped. Tana chased again as the birds 
scattered up, seeming under baddish control here. A bevy 
was flushed and flew over Tana and she was steadier then. 
Count was found pointing, but no other bird went out. A 
moment later he whirled into a good single point on stubble 
and was steady to that. Tana also pointed at edge of 
thicket, but no bird was found. A bird went up ahead of 
Count as he lay, and Tana needed steadying as it crossed 
near her. On a bit, Count pointed. Tana refusing to back, 
but running a circle about him. Count roaded on and put 
up this bird. He was well under control. Up for 10 minutes 
and a cornfield drawn blank. LTp again for a few minute.". 
Cast off on stubble. Count showed h's bird sense by striking 
for a likely hedge and began roading. Tana was sent up 
and joined him, passed him and finally ran up the bevy, 
gaining small glory here. Tana pointed a single in a ditch. 
Count roaded, Tana stole ahead of him, pointiog, he com- 
ing up also pointed and two birds were put up before him. 
Count trailed a runner, but it went out ahead. Later, 
Count pointed a single. He was steady to shot and under 
perfect control at all times, and, in short, seemed a fine dog. 
His fault was a sort of hesitation about going up to his 
birds. Tana had a certain snappy quality, but needed far 
more handling and cautioning. Down 1 hour 10 minutes. 
Dash Antonio — Maud W. — Maud n entout yelpiog. Dash 
had been barking all the morning in the wagon, and tugging 
on the lead to get away. He plunged on like a locomotive 
and soon plunged bang into a bevy point in the heart of a 
brier patch, which beseemed to lilie. Maud backed indiffer- 
ently, looking at her handler and dropping as he came up. 
On a bit, Maud pointed a single. THey drew some blank 
covers and were led a short way over bare fields. Turned 
down again, Dash took the bit in his teeth and proceeded to 
run the whole procession. Always self-willed and headlong, 
he here broke away and went on a quarter of a mile, Sprock- 
lin running and whistling after him. This was at least awk- 
ward. Meantime Maud hunted rather aimlessly, and the 
heat had little quality. Finally, after some five minutes of 
hard work, Sprocklin came up with Dash, who had had his 
way and gone to the place where he thought the birds were. 
He had a bevy pointed in a weedy fence. Maud came up and 
pointed the same bevy independently on the opposite side of 
the fence, not seeing Dash. On a flat field, Dash again re- 
fused to obey, but went off by himself to a hedge, pointed, 
and a bird went up. He hung to the hedge, but failed to 
score on a bird which he passed close. Meantime Maud was 
far away, awd the scene was not ideal, Dash again refusing 
to honor his handler's whistle or call and making his own 
course. Maud, some 300yds. ahead, got a clean bevy point 
and held it handsomely till we came up. Ddsh came along 
a ditch, and probably not seeing Maud, pointed also. On 
singles in thicket, Maud pointed a single. Daeh pointed on 
a running bird, but had no credit, though two birds went 
out near. Both were ready to go on. Dash carried too much 
flesh and showed lack of the hard hunting he needs, but he 
evinced no letting up in his gait or his independence. Down 
in all 1 hour 14 minutes. Lunch followed this heat. 
Lock— Selkikk Whyte. — These were taken back from the 
road and put down on exactly the same place where Lock 
had been with Tana the day before. Witness the intelli- 
gence of the meat dog. Lock in less than twenl y seconds 
had gone direct to the spot where he had found these birds 
the day before, and was pointing them again at about the 
same spot. Over on corn, no single work was had. On a 
slashing, Whyte took a turn or so out of a rabbit, just for 
fun. They drew some blank fields. Whyte was letting 
flQWH in speed as compared with the day before, Lock was 
fast as ever, and regular as clockwork; with a lohg, reafching 
gallop, that took him over a lot of ground and at a gait 
plenty fast enough to find birds in a sustained manner. 
Lock was now working outside of Whyte, and on dead 
leaves he first pointed- Moving on, Whyte pointed and 
moved on, Lock backing, looking back over his own shoul- 
der, a singular position. This was likely a squirrel. Lock 
pointed again in the woods, Whyte backing. A rabbit was 
.«een. Taken up for a few fields and put down at woods, 
.Whyte pointed, Lock backed; no bird found. All this cover 
briefly a very long and discouraging walk in the middle of 
the day. The advice of our gnide, the local enthusiast Char- 
lie Mills, had taken the party a couple of miles astray over 
sheep pastiires, marshe.'; and woods, with no feeding grounds 
nea;r them — a very unlikely country. It was not the fault of 
the dogs that no birds were found in this bruising heat. 
Down 1 hour .5.^ minutes, the longest heat yet. 
Dash Antonio— Cleopatra.— iDest in ed to be a brilliant 
heat. Both dogs went out past a bevy which w s at onCe 
walked up near the edge of a narrow wood, and marked on 
grass. Dasti was first to point. Clo backing. Three feet 
f urther be nailed another, and she also one close by. Clo 
pointed again, or stopped just as the bird went up. They 
were all aroimd in the grass. Dash pointed again here and 
nioved oq. On woods, Clo pointed, but did not locate her 
bird very accurately, Mr. Wells walking it to one .side. He 
steadied her to order. Three iV.et further she picked off 
another point in her smart way, and Mr. Wells killed, she 
steady to shot. Ten yards further she pointed again, but as 
Dash cHme up she sprung in and put up the bird— a baddish 
error. Ten feet further she and Dash both pointed, a bird 
going out. A few moments later Dash pointed, Clo back- 
ing sweetly, but no bird was found- On to thicket. Dash 
got the first point, but Clo swung in around him and point- 
{ d ahead. Clo sprung after this bird as Mr. Wells put it up, 
showintt an unsteadiness which is a singular thing in the 
old lady, who showed better last year than she did this. At 
this time Dash was out nearer the edge of the thicket, and 
here he pointed, the bird going out over the fence. Dash got 
five points up to this time on this bevy. The birds were wild 
from having been harried so much (most of the work had 
been done on five bevies in this neighborhood) and they ran 
like deer down the fence. Clo made a half dozen roading 
points, and at last headed them and proved out five birds. 
Dash pointed on stubble near by, no bird; perhaps running 
bird. 
They were now taken to a new stubble and cut it out 
handsomely, the little bitch going at her true form and Dash 
just getting his stride. It was noticed that the dog Lock, 
after his two hours' heat, was eager for more. He tugged at 
his head and whined to get away to the work again. His 
mate, Selkirk Whyte, made no such demonstration. I may 
be old-fashioned and unorthodox, but I believed a good big 
dog can run a good little dog off his feet just as surely as a 
thoroughbred horse will run a polo pony to a standstill. I 
fancied Lock from this time on. 
On corn, both Dash and Clo made game, and Clo located 
the bevy first, 30yds. ahead of him. In briers both stopped, 
Dash firm, and a bird went out beyond them in the thicket. 
Along the hedge row Clo cut in aheatl smartly and pointed 
a single, starting in a few steps to wing. Later Clo made 
her worst blunder in a beat otherwise brilliant. On a bare 
cornfield she made game, roaded, ca°t about and came to a 
point, but the bevy was walked up 30ft. back of her, and she 
must have passed fairly through it to get where she was. 
This bad locating of her birds seemed hard to explain, and 
Mr. Wells admitted he did not see how ,ihe could have done 
it. On to woods a single went out, and Clo was seen behind 
the dog which had it, and where she had probably located it. 
Taken on over a field at a hede;e Clo cunningly got in ahead 
and pointed, Mr. Wells tramping up two birds. This ended 
a very close and interesting heat, in which it would have 
been hard to pick a winner. This was the best heat Dash 
run in the stakes. It certainly proved sufficient warrant for 
bringing Clo forward into the second series and showed her 
to be the good one she was and is. 
Count Vassar— Maud W.— The.se got the desirable evening 
run. Id was disastrous for Maud, who went to pieces, 
though showing streaks of great brilliancy. She needs more 
work, and with plenty of that may make trouble later, 
though she is of a timid, tender sort, not to one's fancy for 
field work. On stubble Count pointed, Maud refused to 
back, passed him, raced on, flushed and chased the single 
bird, stopping only to order. Count stopped and kept down, 
and a bevy was walked up just beyond him. Both steady to 
shot. On singles, Count pointed, Maud would not back, but 
raced in, chasing. Maud pointed a single, Count backing. 
Count pointed, Maud refused to back, but went in and stole 
the point, he steady. On 50ft. Maud pointed, but broke in 
unsteady. Count pointed on two birds, but he might have 
been a bit more positive, and less backward in going up to 
his game. Now ensued, however, the severe test of single 
bird work on dry leaves, and here the shooting dog triumphed 
decisively over the nervous and flashing field trial brilliance. 
No better single work was seen at the meet than Count did 
here. Count picked up four points and one point on fur, 
Maud getting one independent point, and twice running 
ahead and taking Count's point. Again Count pointed, and 
she once more passed him. Count pointed and she passed 
him; no bird found. On a bit from the woods, across the 
canal to the open fields. On corn Maud put up a single, and 
chased it. A bevy was near by rose and was marked. On 
these Maud ran up a single deliberately, and then hustled up 
the bevy and chased them merrily. Her work had now 
grown rank, and was not more than what would be called 
brilliant puppy work. Of course, she no longer belonged in 
All-Age stakes. On a bit of stubble Count pointed, too far 
back on his bird, showing his worst fault. Maud started to 
run in to him, but caught scent on the way, and wheeled 
into a good bevy point, steady to wing on order, her handler 
being near. Down 51 minutes. End of dog's work. 
Friday, Nov. 19. 
Weather cool and sky overcast, a good morning. Running 
began 8:30 A. M. 
Cleopatra— Lock — Lock's long, sweeping stride kept him 
outside of Clo's more choppy gait, though the little one cov- 
ered her ground handsomely. Lock showed a grand head 
carriage and also a lot of bird sen.'se. Crossing a wood, Clo 
pointed a small bevy ahead on stubble. Jjock in a way did 
not .see her. Lock was 75yds. ahead, when Clo nailed a sirgle. 
Lock froze into a grand point as soon as he saw her. In high 
weeds Lock nailed a single in turn, and in turn Clo backed 
handsomely. On stubble Lock made game first, but the 
bitch swung ahead of him up wind and pointed in front of 
him. he then backing. As the bird roge Clo started in a step 
Or two, dropping to caution as usual. Over bare corn ground 
Lock was ahead and made game on a ruuidug bevy which 
was following a ditcK Clo made a swift and suspicious dasli 
ahead and was stopped by her handler just in time. Sprock- 
lin was just in front of Lock when the birds went out of the 
ditch, no actual point being scored, though Lock found the 
bevy. 
"The dogs were taken over the canal to a flat, marshy piece 
of ground, open, with bits of cover. They cut this up nicely, 
it now being plain we were seeing a grand heat. Clo pointed 
a sifigle and dropped flat to order, Mr. Wells tapping her 
with the whip and standing over clobe by. Lock was called 
up to back and passed up to Clo as she lay, not backing, and 
yet without di-tinct fault, as Clo was lying flat down and 
all the party were standing about, as though he were called 
up to his handler and not to a distinct and visible point. He 
Cd^not point Clo's bird or notice it till just the Instant it 
t-ose. It was known long before that both these dogs would 
back perfectly. 
Lock was noAv going strong and free'; Clo a bit shorter 
than on the evening before. The wider range and the equal 
nose and intelligence now made a decisive gap between 
these two beautiful performers. Lock cut out the next 
stubble ahead of her, and made game. She joined him, 
roading with him, and like two grand machines they swung 
off neck and neck on a wide cast to head the bevy, crossing 
the entire field beyond them. It seemed a toss-up which 
would first get this bevy. Lock would not leave them, but 
came back. He was wisely left quite to hiniself. Mr. Wells 
perhaps thought the birds were ahead on the woods, and he 
took Clo on over there, and .she begau to make game. Mean- 
time Lock nailed the bevy he had been after, dropping in 
the fence corner with his head up till Mi\ Davidson could 
get up from behind, Mr, Warner being ahead with Clo in 
the edge of the wood. Here the bitch pointed, but moved 
on, and, as it proved, in the wrong direction on her trail, for 
in less thau thirty seconds after Lock's bevy was flushed at 
the field, he sprang over the fence, made a straight run for 
the woods, and at once jumped into a second bevy-point at a 
log and brush heap, doubtless on Clo's bevy, though she 
was now working off to the right, away from the bevy. 
Leek was now getting in some hieh-tllass work. He con- 
tinued steady as a clock, and needed practically no handling 
at all. He was simply a high-grade meat dog at his work, 
anu that means a field trial winner of the best sort. Ivfor 
should the bitch be accused of innocense of meat 
sense, for few are better on singles. She picked 
up two fine single points on leaves, but later 
pointed firmly at a brush heap where no bird at all 
was found. A moment later than this the party came 
to a fence, and here the judges ordered thedogs up Sprock- 
lin went on over into the woods afler Lock, calling to him, 
but shouted back that the dog was on a point. This was 
seen to be the case, Sprocklin putting up the bevy and kill- 
ing two birds. This ended a rattling, exciting heat, and 
brought out some highly satisfactory work by good bird 
dogs, the sort of heat which is all too rare at field trials. Clo 
was now still going, but not with the steady vigor of Tiock. 
When the latter was put on the lead while the nest brace 
was going on, he followed after with head high up, tugging 
to get away and whining in eagerness to hunt some more. 
He was not in the least pumped out. Clo, though perhap.s 
more quiet in habit, certainly was not begging for more, 
though she would have gone on freely of course. This side- 
light on the dogs is not without value. It is dogs with the 
ability, the courage, and the phy.sique to keep on hunting, 
hour after hour and day after day, which should be devel- 
oped by field trials, and yet which are all too rarely found in 
field trials, these being set aside for shorter and "faster" 
work. Mr. Wells has hunted this good little bitch of his for 
three days, and Lock has been hunted for a week; but again 
it seemed to me that as the dogs ran this year, it was a case 
of a good big dog being too strong for a good little one. 
Down 1 hour 15 minutes. 
Dash Antonio— Count VAssAtt— Sprocklin was obliged 
to handle them both. His whistle was now in much use on 
Dash, who again laid out his own course. Dash pointed an 
old ti'ail of one of our earlier bevy, Count backed, no bird. 
Count made game continuously. Dash backing. On a few 
yards. Dash pointed. Count backed. Dash moving on. 
Under a bru.sh heap Dash pointed, no bird found. Moved on 
from woods to stubble, the dogs being led for some distance. 
Dash, when put down, made for a weed row and was seen 
far ahead, pointing in the open road. He at last moved on 
before we got up to him, but no birds were found, though 
Count also pointed on the opposite side of the hedge. Both 
now cast far ahead and left this trail apparently satisfied 
the birds were gone. This brace was perhaps the widest 
ranging yet seen, indeed too wide, for Dash was handling 
Sprocklin, and carrying Count on out wider than he would 
otherwise have gone, though Count is plenty independent. 
Dash showed far too much independence, mildly speaking, 
though an absolutely just statement would pronounce him 
a self-hunting fellow and needful of about two weeks of 
hard horseback hunting to tame him down. He did not 
compare with Lock this year in sweetness of handling or in 
hunting to the gun. 
Oq over a field a bevy was noted flyiogfrom a weedy ditch, 
and Count was found point, a shade too late for much glory. 
Two other birds went up from the ditch later. Dash was 
brought up, and came up the ditch, the wind in his favor. 
He passed a single on the ditch bank, whirling as it rose be- 
hind him; not much credit in this. Later, at a fence row, 
on these running, wild birds. Dash pointed and moved on, a 
bird being put up later. TLcy now cast out over open fields, 
found nothing at a thicket, and were ordered up after a 
long but rather indecisive and unsatisfactory heat, DoWn 1 
hour and 30 minutes 
Lock— Dash Antonio.— Again Sprocklin handled both. 
The party walked some distance toward home before ca.sting 
oft' the dogs on a vnde stubblefteld. Here the ground was 
soft and sticky, certainly making hard gallojung, though 
both dogs took it cheerfully and kept out and on without 
stopping. Lock contintied his steady, workmanlike, method- 
ical quartering, his head high and his stride siiU long-reach- 
ing and powerful. Dash showed an equal, though more er- 
ratic power, takiug chances at hedges and fences and layiag 
long lines of hi-i own. Lock was obedient always, and con- 
tinued for the brief run the good impression he had made. 
Down 18 mioutes. The judges then announced the winners: 
First, Ijock; second. Dash Antonio; third, Cleopatra. 
The decision in the Derby was easy, but that in the All- 
Age required all the care and pains which it may be seen the 
judges gave it. The dogs all had full trying out on birds, 
and were not taken up after a few chance points ou bevies or 
on singles There was the customary dissatisfaction among 
the losers, of course, but this is part of the game and has 
little to do with>an impartial look at the merits of the dogs. 
Mr. Bangham has now won the International Trials Cup 
three times with his kennel, and it now becomes his property. 
Dash Antonio has won the cup twice for him and Lock once. 
Dash won first in his Derby in these trials, and he ran second 
this year, so that he has had his share, even had he not sired 
two Derby winners in these trials. His new California pur- 
chasers may be sure they get a good dog, but he wiU be 
missed in this country, where he is doing much to restore the 
only rational and lovable type of English setter, a breed well- 
nigh ruined by "field trial" squirts and whippets. Dash is 
by no means perfect as he ran, nor was he last year. His 
habit of false pointing ia hard to explain, and his headstrong 
breaking away from control is not the lovelie.st thing in the 
world by any means. Yet the old fellow wins by the strokes 
of brilliance seen in any distinct genius, and one cannot help 
loving his insistence that he knows where the biids are, so 
long as he really finds them and goes into them with such 
confidence in himself. He is a distinct character of a dog, a 
noteworthy individual, and we need more such in field trials 
and in the field. 
Cleopatra is well known and needs no comment. She haa 
gone after this cup five times, and landed it once. She is a 
finder and a rapid single bird worker, and a lovely shooting 
dog. She is smaller than I fancy, but that is no question in. 
a trial of merit in work actually done. 
She very rarely points fabe, and she is under control 
always, yet this year she made the bad error of missing her 
bevy in one by a wide error, fairly crawling over the birds 
without noting them, and she betrayed the singular unstead- 
iness to wing so often noted in the foregoing story of the meet. 
Lock was head and shoulders over anything that ran here. 
Big, symmetrical, lean, with high reached bftck and a good 
