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CHAPTER V, 
POPULARITY. 
rs T was at a meeting held at Devonport in 1886 that an Indian 
M Game Club was first formed, when the above-mentioned 
=  Hnglish standard was adopted for the breed, Mr. Julius 
Mosenthal being secretary; but on his being called to the Conti- 
nent, Rev. H. J. Crockford, of Broad Wood Kelly, Winkleigh, took 
up the secretaryship, but on account of disagreements respecting 
some of the members, the Club fell to the ground. 
In 1891 it was resuscitated at a meeting held at Bridgwater, 
with Mr. John Frayn as President, and George T. Whitfield as 
secretary, and a good representative committee, consisting of Rey. 
H. J. Crockford, Messrs. Brent, Williams, Bevington, Frayn, Brook, 
Crew, Clark, Cross, Cocker, Davenport, Gott, Goodall, Huxtable, 
Keough and Marshall, the old standard being adopted. Thirty 
members were soon elected, and with recent elections the club now 
numbers fifty, and bids fair to become one of the popular clubs in 
England. 
In 1889 an Indian Game Club was started in America, with Mr. 
H.S. Babcock as president and Mr. O. K. Sharp as secretary, and 
a committee consisting of Messrs. Gaylor, Bowman, Irving, Crocker, 
Sharp, Babcock, Bicknell, and Drevenstedt, and soon enrolled fifty 
members. By this time we understand that there are a hundred 
members, so that it is not only in England that this breed has 
made such rapid strides, but also in our colonies, and especially 
in America, where it has been quite a boom the last two years. 
Without wishing to claim what rightly belongs to others, 
I think I may fairly say that it was the birds which I exhibited 
at the Baffalo International Show, New York, in January, 1889, 
which first started the rage for the breed over there. I do not say 
that Indian game were not there before, because they were, as some 
competed against mine then, but they were such poor specimens 
that they did not increase in favour. And here let me remark that it 
