Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-12
GREAT DOG SHOW OF THE SEASON
Ihe Westminster Kennel Clubs Twenty
Third Annual Exhibition-Some World
Famous CANNES to Be Shown.
Copyright, 1897

Famous CANNES to Be shown.
Copyright, 1890
The annual show of the Westminster
Kennel club at Madison Square Garden,
New York, stands in the same relation
to other dog shows that the national
horse show annually held in the same
building does to other horse shows.
Exhibitors value a third prize at this
exhibition more highly than a blue rib
bon at any other held in this country.
The Westminster Kennel Club will
hold its twenty-third annual show on
February 21-24. and while it is GUS
tomary to announce that the coming
exhibition will surpass all previous
ones the prediction may be made this
year in all sincerity. Whereas last year
there were 2S4 classes provided for, this
year there are 292. The increase is not
only by the addition of new breeds, for
in that respect there are not many
changes, but also by providing extra
classes for those from which past ex-
perience has shown that the increase
of entries is likely to come.
Breeds are divided by the American
Kennel Club code into puppies, novice,
limit and open classes. The regula-
tons are that puppies must be over 6
and under II months old on February
81 A novice is one that has not won
prize in any but puppy class at any
show under American Kennel Club
rules. The limit class is for dogs that
have not won four first prizes at rec
ognized shows, puppy and novice class
not counting. The open class is free
for all, every dog of the breed over 6
months old being eligible In this class
one can judge the estimate in which an
exhibitor holds his animal. The dog
may have won many prizes at walk
overs" or small shows, where the COM
petition was light In this show, how
ever, he will meet dogs of the finest
and if he is afraid Of defeat may de-
cline to enter him.
There is still another class for which
the entry is free. The winners class
is the browning effort of the Amer
lean Kennel Club. At all shows Offering
cash prizes for at least three of the
before mentioned classes for any one
breed, one of which must be free for
all class, the committee of the show is
empowered to provide winners class,
in which all the first prize winners
shall compete, and no class winner can
be held back. but must accept entry
and be judged with the rest. In this
class there are no prizes, and it is rec
ord alone that is won. A dog that is
placed first in three winners classes
thereby becomes entitled to an Amer
lean Kennel club championship medal
and receives the privilege of having the
prefix champion" to his name.
At the coming show there will also
be team prizes for four dogs of the
same breed entered by one exhibitor,
the prize being the total of the entry
fees of the class.
Both the Westminster Kennel Club,
and the American Kennel Club have
been mentioned in this article. IL
may be of interest to those not directly
interested in such matters to unders-
taand the difference between them. The
American Kennel Club is an associa-
ton of kennel Clubs in the United
States, Of which the Westminster club
is but member. The American Ken
mel Club, whose headquarters are in
New York city, makes all the rules
and regulations which govern dog
shows in this country and issues IL
cense to clubs to hold such exhibitions.
All secretaries of clubs holding shows
must forward list OF all prize winners
and pedigrees of the dogs shown at
their exhibitions.