April 6, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
453 
Fixtures. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Uct. 28.—Southern Ohio Field Trial Association’s second 
annual field trials. G. R. Harris, Sec’y, 15 West 
Sixth St., Cincinnati, O. 
French Bulldog Club of America. 
Probably never before in the liistory of dog 
shows have so many valuable prizes been 
offered at a specialty show for French bull dogs 
as in the premium list of the annual gathering 
of the French Bull Dog Club of America, which 
takes place at the Hotel Astor April 20. 
Over 150 special prizes, ranging in value from 
$10 gold pieces to the Never Never Land tro¬ 
phies and numerous cups worth $250 each, the 
majority of which are open to all and to be won 
outright, are among the incentives which will 
probably attract all the champions of the breed. 
There are many innovations this year, which 
include classes for whites and brindles, made 
especially for recent importations, including the 
pair owned by Anna Held, and the famous Dol¬ 
lar, the property of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. 
Green classes for dogs never having won a first 
prize promise to be well patronized, as many 
pets of this fashionable breed are owned in New 
York which have never been shown. 
Local classes for dogs owned within a radius 
of twenty miles of the City Hall in which cham¬ 
pions are barred is another new feature. Others 
are ladies’ classes, for dogs owned and shown 
by a lady, and the miniature classes, for dogs 
under sixteen pounds. In all there will be fifty 
classes, which promise to call out a record entry. 
The judge of the exhibition will be William 
Lennox, an international authority on the breed. 
The premium list and all particulars can be ob¬ 
tained from the show secretary, Charles G. 
Hopton, Gaiety Building, Broadway and Forty- 
sixth street. New York. The entries will close 
April 10. 
Southern Ohio Field Trials Association 
Forty members met at Schulers on March 25 
and enjoyed a dinner. About nine o’clock the 
meeting was called to order by President Utter, 
and considerable business was transacted. The 
report of the treasurer showed the club to be 
in a prosperous condition. The following ap¬ 
plications for membership were reported upon 
favorably by the Membership Committee, and 
were duly elected; Dr. C. Behymer, R. H. 
Kemper, T. J. Widrig, G. W. Schuler, Wm. N. 
Andrew, C. E. Bultner, H. S. Frulan, He rman 
J. Groesbeck, C. C. Regan, A. J. Cobbe, R. L. 
Gregory, H. G. Buckner, Wm. W. Oskamp, 
Theo. M. Foucar, W. E. Cliver, J. A. Wood, 
Wm. Cooper Procter and O. R. White. The 
club now has sixty-five active members, and 
many applications are still in the hands of the 
committee. 
A suggestion to split the guaranteed purse of 
$1,000, giving $500 for one open stake, and di¬ 
viding the remaining $500 between the members’ 
stakes, resulted in considerable discussion. Mr. 
C. H. Cord, the breeder of Cord’s Lad of Jingo, 
and formerly one of the leaders in the Dayton 
Pointer Club, opposed this most strenuously. 
He favored making the members’ stakes strictly 
amateur affairs, with cups and not money prizes, 
and predicted that if the other plan was adopted 
the club_ would last a year and no longer. If it 
was desired to bring the big dogs here for the 
trials, all the money should go in the open 
stakes, and it would be impossible to get tbe 
handlers to bring a string of dogs here for one 
Messrs. Wood, Oliver, Turnipseed, 
Walker, Williams, Schuler and others spoke in 
tbe same strain, and a motion made by Mr. 
lurmpseed to retain the original plan of two 
open stakes, with $1,000 guaranteed, was unani¬ 
mously carried. 
Mr. A. F. Hochwalt was called upon by the 
president, and gave the club many valuable sug¬ 
gestions in regard to running trials, drawn from 
his wide experience. He said that the profes¬ 
sional part of the trials should be cut out en¬ 
tirely, or else that both stakes should be run. 
The purse, he thought, would prove an attrac¬ 
tion to the handlers and would bring them here, 
provided they could be assured of territory suf¬ 
ficiently large to run their dogs on, and that 
arrangements would be made for riding during 
the running. Another inducement would be the 
assurance that training quarters could be found, 
so that they could work out their dogs. The 
membership stakes should be strictly amateur. 
Members could, of course, enter their dogs in 
the open stakes if they desired, and it might 
easily prove that some of them had derbies 
which would hold their own with the entries of 
the professional handlers. _ 
The question of changing the date of the 
trials, on account of an eastern club having 
claimed the same date, was discussed. The sen¬ 
timent of the meeting was against any change, 
as the Ohio association was the first to claim 
the date, but in the interests of harmony efforts 
will be made to come to some agreement so 
that neither club may suffer from competition. 
Mr. Robinson, of Hamersville, stated that a 
tract of land sufficiently large for the trials 
could be secured, and that he had no doubt but 
that arrangements could easily be made to open 
gaps in the fences wherever necessary. The 
birds have wintered fairly well, and there should 
be no difficulty in finding a sufficient number to 
give all the dogs work on game. The Ground 
Committee will visit the locality, ascertain the 
exact conditions, and report at a future meet¬ 
ing. It was decided to fix the fees in the mem¬ 
bership stakes at $2.00 to nominate, and $3-00 to 
start, the money to be used in purchasing cups 
for prizes in each stake. 
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