FOREST AND STREAM 
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Smith’s Lady Gladstone, A Quail Champion, 
Handling Chickens in Dakota. 
held. This year promises to be a repeat of last 
for the club will run three stakes as usual; a 
Derby, an All-Age and the All-America Champion¬ 
ship. The entries are large and the best dogs 
of the land will be gathered there. The trials 
will begin on August 29 and owing to the num¬ 
ber of dogs nominated it is likely that they may 
continue well into the following week, but the 
time will not hang on anybody’s hands for there 
will always be something of interest transpiring. 
AMONG THE HANDLERS. 
Most of the handlers are located this year in 
Ncrth Dakota. The law there allows them to 
work dogs after the first of August provided 
they comply with the requirements by paying 
the license which is the same as for non-resident 
shooters. Some are under the impression that 
it is a hardship on the handlers by not being 
allowed to work dogs before August, but after 
all, that is really ample time, for no actual work 
can be done in July. A few of the boys have 
gone farther north, and among these are J. T. 
Jones and W. H. Martin. The latter lives at St. 
John, N. D , but does his training on the other 
side of the border. 
CONTINENTAL FIELD TRIAL CLUB. 
The Continental Field Trial Club, the premier 
organization of Eastern Field Trial Sportsmen 
identified with Carolina and Georgia trials for 
a quarter of a century, are going to the prairies 
and are out with an announcement that they 
will hold a trial beginning September fifth some¬ 
where in the Dakotas. The place not definitely 
determined will be announced in due time. 
The club will stage three events, consisting of 
Derby, All-Age and Champion Sweepstakes, 
with purses of $600 each in the first two stakes 
named, divided into three prizes, $300 being 
awarded to first, $200 to second and $100 to 
third. The first forfeit in each of the stakes 
will be $10, with $15 additional to start, payable 
at time of drawing. The Championship Sweep- 
stake will have an entry fee of $25, not trans¬ 
ferable, dogs to be named the night before the 
running and all moneys in the stake to be 
awarded to the winner. In addition, the Bernard 
Waters Memorial Cup has been donated for the 
Champion Stake, to be won twice by the same 
owner before becoming his permanent property, 
and a small replica will be given the winner. 
Edmund H. Osthaus also offers a portrait of the 
winning dog in the stake. 
Gunner, The Leading Setter Derby of Last 
Season. 
It is unnecessary for us to say anything about 
a portrait of a field trial dog from the brush of 
Edmund Osthaus. No man approaches that 
gifted artist in portraying the American Bird 
Dog in the haunts of our game birds, whether 
it be the soft sedge fields of the Southland, the 
hillsides of New England when the woodlands 
are aflame or under the subtle charm of the 
boundless prairies. 
(Continued on page 1108.) 
Whether on the Prairies or on the Uplands, Game Bird Shooting Has the Same Fascination 
for the American Sportsman. 
