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ing when compared to All-Age dogs. In 
the Derby itself, he was undoubtedly the 
best puppy. He was up against a field of 
24 starters in the Derby, all of them pup¬ 
pies of great natural promise and many 
of them of considerable experience on 
grouse. 
Perhaps the most experience on birds 
was shown by the dog Bing Glendale, 
which finished second and won the award 
for bird work. Bing is a son of Cham¬ 
pion King, and is owned by Judge Harry 
Hyde, of Ridgeway, who is also the owner 
of Spot Glendale. Bing is a wide-going 
dog, rather awkward, but of considerable 
natural class and handles his birds like a 
veteran. 
Whitestone’s Sister, which won the third 
place in the Derby, was perhaps the most 
attractive-going dog that was down. She 
attractive-going dog that was down. She is 
a puppy of Zeb Whitestone out of Mollie L. 
As might be presumed there was more 
evidence of grouse dog breeding in this 
trial than in the first Derby. In addition 
to Bing Glendale, son of King, there ran 
in this trial the following puppies of dogs 
that competed in grouse dog trials: Bessie 
Du Barry, a puppy of Dot’s Bessie, com¬ 
petitor in 1914; Billy’s Sirdar Tess, a 
daughter of Kirk’s Billy; Teddy Hanes and 
King Hanes, descendants of Rodfield Dan, 
Jr., King N., Glad’s Rodney Gladstone and 
Outra Rodney’s Doll, all of them sired by 
Count Gladstone Glad, and the latter a 
puppy of Outra Rodney; Galeton and Vi¬ 
king, both sons of the Princess of India. 
Two descendants of the pointer, Security, 
also made good impressions during the 
1916 trials, one of them being Smoky City 
Belle, a competitor in the Derby, and the 
other being Security’s Frank, which won 
second merit in the All-Age. 
L OOKING over these grouse trials from 
the first, it would seem evident that 
progress is being made in two lines 
toward their definite objectives, the breed¬ 
ing of a proper type of grouse dogs; first, 
by the establishment of a standard of ex¬ 
cellence which seems to be producing a 
large number of better individuals every 
year as competitors; secondly, through the 
gradual development of a more thoroughly 
rounded idea of what a grouse dog should 
be, as evidenced in the fact that taken in 
all-around qualities, Lamberton’s Mack is 
perhaps the best type of champion yet pro¬ 
duced—that is, he combines a better style 
and a smoother physique, with a satisfac¬ 
tory bird-finding and bird handling ability— 
while the entrance of a son of Lady’s 
Count Gladstone into a permanent place 
in the runnings of these trials brings out a 
type of individual that is almost physi¬ 
cally ideal and, at the same time, has most 
desirable breeding lines. 
The tendency of puppies from grouse 
dogs to make good grouse dogs has be¬ 
come more evident with the running of the 
second Derby, and it will continue to do so. 
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throughout the grouse country, a practice 
of breeding to dogs that were good grouse 
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oped by a line of breeding to grouse dogs 
of local reputation. 
The grouse trials will insure the ulti¬ 
mate registration of these lines of breeding 
and will enable us to establish a more 
positive conclusion as to their value, be¬ 
cause the grouse dog trials are here to stay, 
for there is growing up a generation of men 
who are interested in them to the exclu¬ 
sion of any other trials and these men are 
amateurs, not professional dog-handlers, 
and they are animated by a sincere desire 
to see the best type of grouse dog devel¬ 
oped. It is said that Rodfield Dan, Jr., 
winner of last year’s trials, has been bred 
to more extensively during the year than 
any dog in the North. 
B UT of all this, if there is any truth 
in the theory that the good qualities 
of a dog can be transmitted to his 
descendants, there is bound to grow a 
line of grouse dog breeding, a line which 
is going to produce individuals especially 
endowed with sturdy physiques for all-day 
hunting, with the keen nose and bird wis¬ 
dom which are necessary to successfully 
handle the ruffed grouse. Combined with 
these, which possibly might have been se¬ 
cured by the local breeding to local grouse 
dogs before mentioned, therp will be added 
the easy gait, the classy running, the per¬ 
sistent and brilliant searching and the style 
that everyone desires to see in the grouse 
dog of the future. With the number of 
fine, classy, stylish, bird-wise dogs that are 
being developed at these trials, there will 
be no necessity and no excuse for a man 
who desires to produce shooting dogs to 
breed to dogs whose bird sense is question¬ 
able in any way. 
Therefore, it seems to us that the grouse 
dog trials are in a fair way to accomplish 
their ultimate object and that sooner or 
later there will be developed, as a result 
of these trials, numbers of individual dogs 
that, with proper training and proper ex¬ 
perience, will make what we are all look¬ 
ing for—the ideal shooting dog on ruffed 
grouse. 
