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Dec. 1.— Washington C. H., Ohio. — American Championship- 
Field Trial Club's second annual trials. Chas. B. Cooke, Sec'y, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Dec. 1. r-; — . — . — Interstate Championship Field Trial 
Association's second annual trials. C. D. Cooke, Sec'y. 
Dec. 15.— Huntsville, Ala.— Alabama Field Trial Club's (member 
of the American Championship Club) third annual trials. John 
F. Fletcher, Sec'y, Birmingham, Ala. 
. — . , — . — .—Western Field Trial Association's sec- 
ond annual trials. C W. Buttles, Sec'y. 
twitting. 
Hybrid! Wolf Dog. 
I have much pleasure in calling attention to the an- 
nexed photo of a wild-bred hybrid which I have received 
from India from Major Manners-Smith, of Bikaner, who 
informs me that the hybrid, which' is in his possession, 
is a first cross between a wolf bitch and a domestic 
dog, and is now just three years old. 
Major Manners-Smith obtained her at Gilgit when a 
small puppy in April or May, 1899. She was caught 
in the hdls above the village of Minawar, where the 
mother and the rest of the litter were seen, but the others 
all escaped capture. At first it was regarded as a 
specimen of one of the allied animals belonging to the 
genus Cyan, which is distinguished by having only two 
true molars in the lower jaw, twelve or fourteen in place 
of ten incisors, and long hair between the footpads, but 
she answers the description of Canis rather than of Cyon. 
Local inquiries at Minawar elicited the information that 
a wolf bitch in season had been seen consorting in the 
hills with their village dogs, and that the pups were prob- 
ably the result of this visitation. 
My correspondent personally saw three other speci- 
mens like this animal on various occasions near Gilgit. 
Thev all lived wild like the wolves, and killed village 
HYBRID WOLF DOG. 
sheep, as well as the wild Oorial Ovis vignei. One of 
these, if not more, in 1899-1900 and in 1900-1901, gave 
birth to litters in the jungle, having been apparently 
visited on both occasions by the village dogs of Minawar. 
Major M. Smith received a report of the 1899-1900 litter, 
but failed to get a specimen, as they were all killed by 
the shepherd boys, and he heard of their discovery too 
late. In 1900-1901 the mother was caught and killed by 
the villagers, with her litter. The skin and skull of this 
specimen and two of the puppies were sent to the Indian 
Museum in Calcutta. The same year he tried to breed 
from his specimen with a retriever dog, but failed. This 
year the bitch allied herself with a crossbred Indian dog, 
and had a litter of seven pups. These all took much 
more after the sire than the mother. Majer Manners- 
Smith informs me that the beast is fairly tame, and is 
fond of him, but cannot be trusted without a muzzle, as 
she chases sheep and goats, whenever possible. I may 
add that he has kindly offered to present her to the 
Zoological Society if desirable. 
The existence of this hybrid is of much interest as bear- 
ing on the question of the origin of the domestic dog, 
which has always been the subject of much controversy. 
Some naturalists believe the dog to be- a distinct species, 
the original animal no longer existing in a wild state; 
others, to use the words of the late Sir William Flower, 
have sought to find its progenitors in some one or other 
of the wild races, such as dogs, wolves, or jackals; while 
a third set believe it is derived from the mingling of two 
or even more wild species, which is undoubtedly the most 
probable theory, and one which receives considerable sup- 
port from the present example, for which I have to ex- 
press my indebtedness to Major Manners-Smith. — W. B. 
Tegetmeier in London Field. 
American Kennel Club Stud Book, 
With each recurring year the American Kennel Club 
Stud Book appears with greater thickness from cover to 
cover. Vol. 18, 1901, comes to hand with "59,209 to 
65,643" stamped in gold on the back thereof, which indi- 
cates the number of registration's contained in that volume 
of the official stud book. Beside the registrations, it con- 
tains a list of the active members of 'the A. K. C. ; the 
names and addresses of the associate members ; kennel 
names, prefixes and affixes; a list of the champions of 
record; a list of foxhound and beagle trials and the wm- 
ners thereof; a list of the bench shows and their judges, 
1901 ; a list of bench show winners, 1901, and also much 
other valuable information. It can be obtained of Mr. A. 
P. Vredenburgh, Secretary A. K. C, 55 Liberty street, 
New York. 
Points and Flushes. 
The report of the annual meeting of the Fox Terrier 
Club ,of which Mr. H. H. Hunnewell, Jr., is Secretary- 
Treasurer, shows an active participation in competive mat- 
ters and a generous disbursernent in relation thereto, 
For Cruising Yachtsmen 
With the purpose of stimulatmg the interest in cruis- 
ing, and the keeping of a detailed log by cruising yachts- 
men during the season of 1902, the publishers of Forest 
and Stream offer prizes for the best stories of cruises 
submitted to be published in Forest and Stream. It is 
believed that these will form not only entertaining records 
of pleasant summer days spent afloat along our coasts and 
waterways, but will furnish information of practical value 
to other yachtsmen making subsequent cruises on the 
same waters. 
Prizes will be awarded to the three best stories as fol- 
lows : 
First prize, $50.00. 
Second prize, $30.00. 
Third prize, $20.00. 
Contributions are invited under the following condi- 
tions : 
1. The cruise must be made in waters of the United 
States or Canada in the season of 1902. 
2. The cruise must be made in a sailing yacht, power 
to be used only as an auxiliary, if at all. 
3. The story must be prefaced by a description of the 
boat. Cruises should be treated in as interesting and 
readable a way as possible, but should be practical and 
contain all possible information and data that would be of 
value to men going over the same route. A description 
of the handling of the ship in all weathers will be re- 
garded very favorably in making awards, and it is sug- 
gested to writers that an accurate account be kept of all 
incidents happening while under way. 
4. An outline chart suitable for reproduction, showing 
the course taken, mu-st accompany each article. When 
possible, articles should be accompanied by amateur photo- 
graphs taken on the cruise, including one of the boat. 
Good photographs will be considered in making the 
awards. 
5. The story should contain about seven thousand 
words, written on one side of the paper only, and must 
be received at the office of the^Forest and Stream Pub- 
lishing" Company, 346 Broadway, New York city, on or 
before Nov. 15, 1902. 
Mr. T. C. Zerega has very kindly consented to act as 
judge and to make the awards. 
Designing Competition for the Sea- 
wanhaka Corinthian Y, C* 
To be Known as the Seawanhaka J5-Footers. 
The competition is open both to amateur and profes- 
sional designers. Three prizes will be awarded for the 
best designs of a yacht conforming to the following con- 
ditions : 
I. A keel sloop to measure 15ft. racing length under 
the club's new rule. 
II. Sails: Mainsail, jib and spinnaker. The area 
of the mainsail and jib shall not exceed 350 sq. ft., not 
over 80 per cent, of which shall be in the mainsail. 
III. Planking shall not be less than Kin. in thickness. 
IV. Spars shall be solid, and the mast shall be of 
sufficient strength to be used without runners or pre- 
venter backstays. 
V. Cockpit shall be open, and bulkheads or air tanks 
are to be provided sufficient to insure the boats being 
non-sinkable. 
VI. The boats shall be capable of carrying full sail in 
ordinary summer breezes on Lonjf Island Sound. 
VII. Construction shall be strong and durable. 
VIII. All competitors must furnish a drawing of the 
lines, which will also show the position of the lead keel, 
and a table of calculated weights, which will give dis- 
placement, weight of lead, weight of hull, weight of rig, 
center of buoyancy and center of lateral resistance, center 
of effort and center of gravity of the"Tead keel; also a 
sail plan, on which the diameters of spars and sizes of 
rigging shall be marked; also a deck plan and amidship 
section, which will show height of cockpit seats and floor, 
and height of coaming. The midship section must also 
show the construction. ' 
The boats are to be measured with a crew of two men 
aboard, their weight to be taken at 30olbs. 
The actual sail area will be measured. 
The following prizes will be awarded : First prize, 
$100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25, 
In the event of one of the prize designs' being selected 
by the club and yachts being constructed therefrom, the 
winner, in lieu of the cash prize, may furnish the neces- 
sary additional plans and specifications and supervise the 
construction and receive. $25 for each yacht built. In 
awarding the prizes, speed will be the first consideration, 
but appearance, construction, simplicity of rig and con- 
venient arrangement will also carry weight. 
Sail plan, J^in. scale. All other plans, iin. scale. 
The designs must be received at the office of Forest and 
Stream, 346 Broadway, New York city, not 'atcr than 
May 15. 1902, and should bent a nom-de-plume onh. A 
sealed em-elope containing the designer's nom-de-plume, 
together with his own name and address should accom- 
pany the designs. The right is reserved to publish any or 
all of the designs. Those desiring the return of their 
drawings should inclose the necessary postage. 
The designs will be judged by a committee consisting 
of Messrs. John Hyslop, A. Cary Smith, J. Rogers Max- 
well, jr., and Clinton FI. Crane, and the result of the 
competition will be announced through these columns in 
the issue of May 24. 
The club's new rule referred to in Paragraph I. is as 
follows: Yachts shall be rated for classification and time 
allowance by racing measurement, which shall he de- 
termined by adding to half the load waterline length, 
half the square root of sail area, and a quantity expressed 
as L, and by dividing the sum of these quantities by 1.1. 
% LWL + % VSA + L _ RL 
1.1 
The quantity L is to be obtained in the following way : 
B is breadth of load waterline plane at l /% of its length 
from forward end. 
B' is breadth of load waterline plane at % of its length 
from after end. 
B" is breadth (greatest) of LW plane. 
C is any excess of (B+B') over B". 
D is draft at MS+2-5 of any greater draft aft, and all of 
any greater draft forward. 
E is any excess of (B"+D) over 3 1-3 VMS submerged. 
C+E=L. 
How to Build a Launch Jfrom a 
Set of Plans. 
BY C.-G. DAVIS. 
The rapid development of the gas engine during the 
past few years has put so many launches on the market 
that hundreds of people now enjoy boating who were 
not interested in it before the advent of these handy and 
serviceable little machines. 
Nearly every town has its own make of gas engines, 
and beating is indulged in where sailing was out of the 
question. Then, too. so many people, especially the 
women, who are too timid to trust themselves on a sail- 
boat, can now enjoy the water in a launch. 
Its cheapness has put it within the reach of hundreds 
who could not afford a steam yacht or steam launch 
with a licensed engineer to run it. With a gas engine all 
expense -and consumption of . fuel ceases the moment the 
motor stops. 
A beat designed for use on Seneca Lake, would 
be of no use whatever to use in going in and 
out of Rockaway Inlet. That is where the unex- 
perienced man sometimes makes a mistake. " A boat is a 
boat to him — nothing more. But to those who study 
boats one is as a tender lap-poodle compared to a hardy 
fighting bulldog. One is to glide about on moonlight 
nights when the world sleeps, and with a lake like a mir- 
ror beneath and silvery moon above, to slip quietly 
along lulled by the music of a guitar into forgetfulness 
of this world's trials. But when the wind gets up and 
blows about five miles an hour, such a butterfly runs into 
a boat house and ties up for security. Her sides are frail 
— she is long, narrow, and low, and a wave a foot , high 
would swamp her. Of what use would such a boat be 
to a party of bluefishers who want to buck the tide and 
seas that run 3ft. high in Rockaway Inlet. And the boat 
drops off the crest of one sea into the hollow of the next 
with a sheck that would break every frame in the lake 
craft's hull. 
Fortunately, boats seldom migrate enough to bring 
about the dangers I have just outlined. But occasionally 
this scene has been enacted, and I can distinctly remem- 
ber the old boatmen on the Hudson River remark, when 
a party put off into rough water in a boat built up State 
and intended for use on a small lake, "There goes an- 
other suicide party." 
But to come down to some of the principles that gov- 
ern boats. The subject of floataton is naturally of first 
importance. Suppose you had a cigar box made of cedar, 
as most of them are; a paper box exactly the same size, 
and a solid block of wood also the same size. If all three 
are put into a pan of water, they will float as shown in 
Fig. i, each sinking according to its weight. What is 
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CIGAR BOX 
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true of these square blocks is just as true of a 'aunch and 
furthermore, each block or launch sinks until the wa cr 
that the'r hulls take up or displaces is equal to the vveig'it 
of the launch, men, engines and everything in it. To 
prove this, take a pan with a drain pipe fitted at one 
end and fill it so it overflows, then when it has drained 
so the water is just up to the drain, set your cigar box 
into it and catch what water runs out in a cup. You 
will find by weighing them that the box and the water m 
the cup are both the same weight. The water the solid 
block displaces will likewise weigh just what the block 
weighs. 
But you can't weigh a launch very easily, nor can you 
measure the water the launch displaces. But by setting 
the launch in water and marking a line around her to 
show how deep she set in it, we can calculate the size in 
square feet of the launch below the surface of the water 
from her plans, if we have them, and as each square foot 
of salt water weighs 64lbs., we can find how many pounds 
of water she displaced by multiplying the number of 
