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Year after year we hear that J. M. Avent, of 
Hickory Valley, Tennessee, will not go to the 
prairies or be seen on the grand circuit and 
next we hear, the Avent outfit is already on the 
prairies or has been there for some time and 
always in a particularly favored locality. His¬ 
tory repeats itself and with becoming regularity 
for Mr. Avent. There was the usual crop of 
rumors that Avent would not be out this season, 
but we have just been informed that the Avent 
outfit is now encamped upon the prairies ninety 
miles straight north of Denbigh, N. D. Ninety 
miles straight north of Denbigh lands you on 
the Manitoba border, which enables Avent to get 
his dogs at work in Manitoba several weeks be¬ 
fore the North Dakota law permits of them 
being worked in that state. 
For a great many years Avent’s training was 
done by a colored boy named Charley, that he 
had raised and broke. Many men, when they had 
nothing to do, attributed Avent’s remarkable suc¬ 
cess to Charley and consequently Charley was 
in demand. 
Eventually he left Avent and went to the 
Pacific. It has not been recorded that Charley 
has done much or his dogs have done much on 
the grand circuit since then, and the following 
year Avent had another colored boy as well 
trained as Charley, younger, keener, and more 
active. 
A goodly number of men have come and 
gone in the field trial world since Avent first 
blew a whistle over Roderigo and some of the 
old champions that have been identified with 
his name but if among them there was a keener 
man or one who could get up earlier, stay up 
longer and bring more keenness and love of com¬ 
petition to bear we have never met him. There 
is always more or less talk that Avent will only 
win with certain dogs. This is sheer nonsense. 
We have watched him for years. Avent runs 
every dog to win. He is out to win and he is 
too smart a man to let any opportunity get 
away. Winning a field trial is too much of an 
uncertainty to take chances. 
Colonel W. D. Gilchrist, of Courtland, Ala¬ 
bama, one of America’s premier handlers, who 
at one time and another had been identified with 
about as many field trial surprises as have been 
sprung on the disciples of the check cord and 
the whistle, is at Towner, North Dakota. In fact, 
he has been there for several weeks, not break¬ 
ing dogs, but getting ready to do so. Colonel 
Gil has been sick—just a touch of liver or malaria 
or something that was annoying without being 
real serious enough, however, to keep his mind 
turned toward the big stretches of the country 
of the pinnated grouse and the land of ozone. 
There was nothing for him to do but to buy a 
ticket for the north, where he will be joined later 
by Mrs. Gilchrist, the charming daughter and 
the ever faithful and always competent John 
Grant. “I have only a few dogs,” writes Mr. 
Gilchrist, “but will do the best I can with them.” 
Gil always has been known as a few-dog man 
and he certainly has done a lot of winning with 
those few dogs. 
“Nothing to complain of but mosquitoes,” 
writes Bob Armstrong, of Braber, North Caro¬ 
lina, who is now at Homefield, Manitoba, with 
a string of bird dogs. “I have the best six 
Derbies I have ever seen in my life; they were 
good when I came up here and they are getting 
better every day.” There is no man on earth 
who knows more about a bird dog than Bob 
Armstrong and no more thorough and conscien¬ 
tious breaker. The Armstrong family have been 
writing field trial history for half a century on 
both sides of the water and no one will be sur¬ 
prised if the redoubtable Robert, the head of 
the clan, writes a page or two this season. It 
is in the blood. 
Roy P. Garr, who is a son of that veteran 
among handlers, Edw. D. Garr, is branching out 
for himself and this season will take on a string 
of shooting dogs as well as a few field trial 
prospects for trying-out purposes. Naturally, he 
learned many of the ways of the handler—the 
inside ways, I mean—from his father, for Ed. 
has always been known as the “Kentucky fox” 
in this handling game, but there is a great 
amount of natural aptitude about the son and 
he has acquired things, or they have just come 
to him naturally, that are original with himself 
and now he need not take lessons from any one. 
It was Roy Garr who broke Louis McGrew’s 
setter bitch, Old Joe’s White Fox, which enabled 
her owner to win the subscription and the all¬ 
age stakes of the English Setter Club’s trials at 
Medford last spring and it was Roy who put 
the finishing touches on quite a few others in 
the McGrew string. They say poets are born 
and not made; that is true of handlers, too, for 
one man might spend a lifetime trying to get 
results and never succeed, while another, with a 
natural aptitude will prove himself efficient in a 
few years’ time. Roy Garr has been around dogs 
since his boyhood days, it is true, but he has 
been breaking dogs only about three years. 
Now he is ready to take his place with any of 
the old timers, for few have anything on him. 
He did not go to the prairies this year, but he 
is well located at Sulphur, Kentucky, where he 
is doing his early fall training, and then later on 
in the season he will be located on a ten thou¬ 
sand acre preserve near Letohatchie, Alabama, 
where birds are so plentiful that he can find 
from twenty-five to thirty bevies a day. 
No one knows whether or not J. A. Gude, the 
Bruceville, Indiana, handler, will make the whole 
field trial circuit this season or not. One thing is 
certain; he is not getting together a large string 
and he has not gone to the prairies, but no doubt 
by the time the big trials of the south are on 
the calendar he will very likely be in line with 
a few that will be able to take care of part ’of 
the money—when the purses are divided. 
O. S. Redman is another of the young handlers 
who has been coming to the front very rapidly. 
Last season was his first year on the professional 
circuit, but he had the distinction of winning 
first money ir. the Derby of the United States 
trials at Grand Junction, Tennessee. This was 
the largest Derby stake of all the quail trials 
and it was some feat to capture it. The dog 
which carried the honors for him was Kirk’s 
Buss, a son of Wise’s Ruby Sport and Kirk’s 
Maude. He is the property of H. D. Kirkover, 
of Buffalo. Redman located at Rinard, Illinois, 
early in June where he had the advantage of a 
good game country and ample acreage. It was 
here that his good Derby string received its pre¬ 
liminary work-outs. On the first of August he 
