)CTOBER, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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FIELD TRIALS ON THE PRARIES 
By RODNEY RANDOM 
The All-American Field Trial Club, the 
greatest bird dog organization in the 
rorld, decided upon Mowbridge, South 
)akota, as the meeting place for 1918 and 
ince their announcement most of the 
Teat field trial dogs of the country and 
heir handlers have gathered in the vicin- 
y of that modern little prairie town. It 
ikes several months of careful training 
nd conditioning to prepare a dog for one 
f these great field trial stakes, but the 
rizes and honors that are won make the 
spenditure of time and money well worth 
hile to that earnest body of men who are 
n oted to the American bird dog. 
The past two years have been hard on 
;ld trial clubs and several organizations 
ive abandoned their trials and at one time 
iere was some talk of the All-American 
ling so for the duration of the war, but 
e President’s proclamation regarding all 
orts and happier council prevailed. The 
ials last year were the most successful in 
e history of the club, in fact the entry 
is the largest a field trial club has ever 
id, and this year that remarkable record 
s again been broken. The position that 
e All-American Field Trial Club holds 
the field trial world is due to its being 
ganized and conducted on broad demo- 
atic lines and these are the only lines on 
licit a field trial club can long exist. 
The Secretary of the Club, Dr. T. Ben- 
11 King, of Brownsville, Tennessee, is a 
:an cut sportsman who knows the field 
al game from every angle and has han- 
-d the affairs of the Club with a firm 
d impartial hand that has gained for 
n the confidence of the field trial world. 
Mr. H. F. Fellows, the President, is a 
asperous manufacturer of Springfield, 
issouri, a broad gauged, liberal minded 
irtsman whose greatest pride is a re- 
irkable family of pointers that he has 
veloped which have brought him high 
nors both on the bench and in the field. 
rhe most important race that will be 
1 on the prairies this year, the event 
it will attract the greatest attention 
over the country, is the All-American 
icken Championship stake in which 
ctically any dog can compete. The 
phy is the Dr. Rowe cup, a magnificent 
rling silver affair presented by friends 
the great sportsman, editor and field 
1 enthusiast whose name it bears. No 
i did as much for the promotion of 
|i trials as the late Dr. Rowe, the 
nder of The American Field, and no 
:r name is held in such veneration by 
d trial men today. This cup must be 
1 three times by the dogs of one owner 
• 're the absolute title is transferred to 
The races for this trophy have al- 
:s been run on prairie chickens, the quail 
1 opionship being represented by a sim- 
1 emblem known as the Edward Dexter 
1 which is competed for at Grand Junc- 
> Tennessee. The names of the dogs 
1: ing these events each year are en- 
f -d upon the cup, and it may be truly 
''of every dog who has ever placed his 
1: upon the Dr. Rowe cup has been a 
credit to his breed and a performer of high 
ability. Several very ordinary dogs, how¬ 
ever, have placed their names upon the Ed¬ 
ward Dexter cup. It is a three hour race 
and the way it has been judged on several 
occasions has not met with the entire ap¬ 
proval of the field trial world. Although 
endurance is one of the highest qualifica¬ 
tions of a field trial dog, a champion must 
possess somehting more than heels to com¬ 
mand the admiration of the field trial 
world. Last year the National Champion¬ 
ship and the Edward Dexter cup was 
awarded to a dog by the name of Joe 
Muncie, a light colored easy running dog, 
about whose breeding there was once some 
question but we are told has since been 
cleared up. This dog, Joe Muncie, ran on 
the prairies two years ago against a setter 
from Oklahoma named the Candy Kid. In 
this race Joe Muncie was handled by J. M. 
Avent, an experienced handler, wise to all 
tricks of the game, and who has always 
been known for his skill in putting things 
over. The Candy Kid was piloted by Ches- 
ley Harris, a young Mississippi handler, 
who is now in France. Harris, although a 
comparative novice in the game, had great 
confidence in his dog and ran a straight 
level headed race. He took the course the 
judges laid out for them and worked with¬ 
in the rules of the sport. After the first 
casts Avent discovered he was up against 
a real dog that was as speedy, intelligent 
and far more level headed than the one he 
was handling. When he discovered he 
could not out-step the other dog, which is 
one of the things he always attempts to do, 
he swung his dog away from the competi¬ 
tion and attempted to give Joe the appear¬ 
ance of wider ranging than he was really 
doing, that is, he kept off to one side and 
quite a distance from the judges so as to 
appear that his dog was really further out 
and working faster than the dog that was 
holding strictly to his course at a proper 
distance from the men in the saddle. The 
judges call Avent back on three different 
occasions and made him bring his dog into 
direct competition, and every time that this 
was done Candy Kid out-stepped him, out¬ 
ranged him and out-birded him. 
Prairie racing in the early fall is very 
exhausting work, and an hour and a quar¬ 
ter to an hour and a half is considered a 
long heat, but in this event the judges kept 
the dogs down to two hours and forty min¬ 
utes, which was the longest heat that has 
ever been run at a prairie trial, and the 
result demonstrated beyond all question of 
doubt the superiority of Candy Kid. No 
one knew better than Avent that he was 
defeated fairly, and Candy Kid went on 
down the circuit and won repeatedly at 
quail trials in various sections of the 
South, and came to the prairies last fall 
and repeated his winning of the Dr. Rowe 
cup. This gives him two legs on the cup, 
and if he can repeat his previous perform¬ 
ances this year, it will pass into the abso¬ 
lute possession of his owner. It will stamp 
him as one of the most remarkable dogs in 
the country, and C. E. Duffield will possess 
the highest honor in all the field trial world. 
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