St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-02-03

tors for the Members Cup OF the Eastern
Field Trials Club, and one being with
drawn. the Others won it, How much
at Grand Junction, Tenn, in the Penn.
|S. +. r. Al. Members Stake, when first
nrize was equally divided between an
English setter and an Irish red
Did having a red Irish for his sire
prevent a certain dog from bowling
over all competitors in the Champion
Stake at Nashville in 1877 or from d.
yiding first prize with a Llewellin IN
same stake, at same place in 1878 or
again, did it check bis winning match
race of two days from sun to sun, over
the champion of all the famed LleWei-
Inns After shooting over that Eng
lish .crackn day after day., among the
quail in Tennessee about two months
before that match, did not believe the
dog stood in America that could van
0uish him, and yet, even he fell before
= dog whose sire is-asirabile dictu, an
Irish red.
And when the Puppy Stakes at Nash
vile. in 1877. were won by Gladstone,
was the third prize winner in the same
stake q failure because her sire was an
Irish red 2 In 1882, at Paramount,
Mimi. did not an Irish red divide fourth
nrize ia the chicken trials Derby, and
another Irish red got same position IN
All Aged-S Stake At High Point no
irish red cot placed in the An-Aged
Stake. though they shut out many a
fiald trial winning English before they
fell. Int in the Derby an Irish red ttl-
yided third. Now, don't see how the
assertion OF ..Pious Jeems," that Nthe
red Irish we're always failures at field
trials,n can stand for a moment against
the field trial record.
That the Irish have not won SO many
prizes as the English is true, and DO
not wonder at it, for they have not had
one-tenth the money spent upon them,
neither have they been run in any such
mum bers, still, generally they get a
prize and the records show. that, now
and then, an Irish nose has been poked
clear to the front.
Let aPious Jeems" or any man look
over the field trial records in America,
the number of each breed run IN each
trial and the winners in proportion to
tha number, and he will find that the
red Irish hold no place 70 be desplsed.
III Ills letter he says: $50 to the rec
orlls Of the field trials, and in nearly
eyery State you will find the Llewellin
first, and pointer second" Now, with
all due respect to tsPiOus Jeems" and
Stllat grand dog-the English pointer
/ beg to,insist that the records jim Amer
ica9ion't show any such thing, and it
he had carefully looked them over he
would hardly have written as he did.
The English settlers OF the various
strains have won the lions share; they
have had more chances, for go where
You will, either, to show bench or a
| field trial, and you will find they far
Outnumber any other Laeed.
Go to the field trial records, "Pious, !
and point out to me the pointer dog
that stands ahead of the old red Irish
man at my feet as q sire OF field
trial winners. / believe he leads
any pointer in America, and the
records prove it. Now, this is just
the truth of the whole matter the
pointer is q grand dog, so is the Eng
| iish and the Gordon yes, and the mer-
/ ~ Irish red. There are good and bad
Of all races, as well OF dogs as men.
III have attended field trials. have seen
good and bad of all breeds, have en-,
tered Irish reds and won and lost. and
nropose to enter more at the proper
time without fear of any other breed on
earth and il "Pious Jeems" judges.
nv heart will not grow faint either,
even though he damns the breed.
will show him that the Irish reds will
not be failures in the future, as the
records now show him they have not
been failures in the past.
I love and believe in the breed and
no man ever knew me to weaken on their
worth or beauty; and so with the best
of wishes for "Pious Jeems" among the
quail, while am in a snOw-bOund land,
[ will close these desultory records of
Irish reds. Mont CLARE.
CLAREMoNT, N. H., Jan. IS.