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Beagles and Beagling 
Krueger’s Bob, Bounce, Base, Finder II and others 
of lesser importance. It was Royal Dick, however, 
which like Frank Forest, won the championship 
with himself as the only starter. This dog was by 
Royal Krueger, out of Baby W, and was owned 
by (i. A. Buckstaff. That same year, in the New 
England trials, Thos. Shallcross won the fifteen inch 
derby with Baronet, the son of Daunter and Reck¬ 
less, referred to in the first chapter. 
Buckshot was another sire to show here. Spark 
R, by Kenneally's Lee, out of Skip, won the all-age 
under fifteen inches stake; while Lewis, a son of 
Bannerman, a tan and white dog, out of Parthenia, 
was second. 
Thus the years went on, the National holding- 
trials each season, bringing out new dogs as sires 
at every annual meeting. Pottinger Dorsey won 
the all-age stake for fifteen inch dogs in 1896, with 
Pilot, a son of Chimer and Belle; while at these 
same trials, D. F. Summers made his appearance 
for the first time, winning second with a bitch 
called Lucy S, by Frank, out of Jip, and first in 
the fifteen inch Futurity class with Belle S, by 
Clover, out of Lucy S. At the New England trials 
that same year, Ida Novice, by Clyde, the son of 
Frank Forest, won the thirteen inch derby for does 
and bitches. The Central Beagle Club inaugurated 
its trials this year at Waynesburg, Pa. This club 
is composed mostly of beaglers from the western 
part of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and has been one 
of the active clubs ever since its inaugural trials 
in 1896. The Summers dogs again played an active 
part among the winners and this season James 
