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carefully, it is quite likely that the season of 19 22 
was larger than that. This is conclusive proof that 
the beagle interest is forever growing, though I am 
firmly convinced that the field trial end of the game 
would advance far more rapidly and with less un¬ 
necessary red tape if the clubs would organize into a 
national association of some kind, independent of 
the ruling of bench show associations and concen¬ 
trate their interests upon the field beagle, with a 
view also of preserving type, by holding bench 
shows in connection with the trial meeting. Shows, 
of course, are being held in connection with field 
trials, but under the present system of restrictions, 
due to being ruled by interests entirely foreign to 
the sport of field trials, they can never become the 
great institution that they are in bird dog circles. 
There should be a national governing body, un¬ 
questionably, but this should be conducted by a 
class of men directly interested in the line of sport 
that is being catered to and not by an office force 
in a large city that is not in the least conversant 
with the practical side of the beagle or bird dog 
interests. 
Looking over the noted dogs that have been an 
influence on the breed since the days of imported 
Minstrel, imported Foreman, Champion Bannerman, 
Lee II, Colonel Lee, and double champion Frank 
Forest, there comes a vast array of names. To 
mention them in detail would be to fill a book in 
itself, but since 1898, for instance, we must not 
forget Champion Dorsey’s Pilot, owned by H. L. 
Krueder, of Nanuet, New York, who also owned 
Frank Forest in later days. Summers’ Sailor is 
