The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
PROTECTION POLICY FOR DOGS
AL APPROPRIATIONS NOW BARRED
FROM NOVICE CLASSES.
A chinese Wall Against the winning ways
OF travelling Fanciers-Embargo viii
BENEFIT the Americans Who breed
and Bench CANNES Eneot Aug. 1.

Of travelling Fanciers-EmbarE0 Will
Repent the Americans Who Breed
and Bench Canines-In Eneot Aug. 1.
There ia a vail OF protest throughout
doggy England at the exclusion OF all but
American bred dogs from the novice classes
At our bench shows. Ninety per cent.
a, the dogs brought into this country como
from England which 10 the fountainhead
Tor the wide world in blue ribbon stock
The English market will still be visited by
American buyers and also dogs brought
here will always be in demand; but where the
shoe pinches is that the new edict lessons
the bench show opportunities Of foreign
dogs and as consequence their selling
value The Englishmen say the policy OF the
American Kennel Club Ii a narrow and short
.ehted one that will lead quickly to de-
teroration in all the breeds. The Amer-
can breeders snap their fingers at all suoh
predictions and say they will stand pat.
All bench shows here are controlled by
the American Kennel Club, with only few
unimportant exceptions, and the prizes are
under conditions specified by the ruling
body. The classification consists Of puppy,
novice, limit and open classes, In the regular
order. There are also winners classes and
all sorts Of optional special and variety
classes. At the quarterly meeting Of the
American Kennel Club in May the delegates
made the much discussed change in the
novice class, one Of the four bedrock classes
Of the shows. The rule as adopted reads:
The novice class shall be for American bred
dogs only never having won first prize at
any recognized show. wins in the puppy
classes excepted.
On Aug. I the change will 60 into effect.
The show to try the new condition first
will be that OF the Orange County Agri-
cultural Society, at Middletown, N. Y,
Aug. is to IS. The Rookland County In
oustrial Association will be next in limo,
Aug. 20 to IS Its show Is held at New City,
n. Y. near Con gers. Society will be intro
duced to the restricted novice class at the
Newport show. Aug. 30 to Sept. 2. after
which all will be plain sailing for the new
conditions at the fall and winter shows.
To give a single instance Of the importance
Of the change in widening the horizon for
Kennel Club Show in Madison Square Garden
thirty Of si1ty-eight novice classes were
won by imported dogs. Tho bulk OF the
prize money in these thirty classes to be
divided among Am erican breeders, had the
rule been in force last February. would have
been more than 81 900. New York's il the
largest show in the country, and while the
money saved, directly and indirectly, to
the home breeders will not be 30 great In
any other instance, the grand total will
be something not 10 be sneezed at. Tho
number Of shows in 1904 under A. X. G.
license was forty-two. They included the
annual fixtures at New York, Brooklyn
Indianapolis, Boston. Pittsburg, Milwaukee,
Chicago Buffalo, st. Louis, San Francisco.
Providence, Philadelphia, Newport. Dan
bury and Rochester.
II is expected that the change will bring
out larger entry in novice classes, for
exhibitors will no longer be frighten on
by the presence OF sure winners from the
foreign shows Under the old rule a dog
that had won championship under English
Kennel Club rules was barred, but other
wins did not bar an entry. This led to the
admission Of imported dogs that were
actual possession Of the title. to the detri-
nent Of the American bred dogs, and con-
vertei the classes into contests between
Immature homebreds and seasoned cam
nagners from abroad. The change puts
IN. the class in its right place Oh the ladder of
bring out a competition that will show our
breeders just where they stand in COM
rar,son with their brother exhibitors. and
when the winners pass up TO the limit class
the homehred owners will learn how their
dogs rate with the imported ones.
The limit classes remain as before, open
70 all dogs not having won four first prizes
A. any recognized show, not a champion.
Winnings abroad are not recognized but
English champions Of record are barred.
Imported dogs not champions, which is the
glst of the matter, must now make their
champions 60 into the open class. The
change hits the Canadian exhibitors and
dogs brought from Canada actly as It does
those Of Great Britain or the Continent.
orl Inc pnPpy classes remain unchan ged.
txe We months, and mo entry can be
made Of one under six months, or whose
GATE OF birth, breeder. sire or dam Ia TN
known.' An imported puppy is eligible.
snether winner abroad or not, for the
the bringing in Of thoroughbred dogs, but
ohly acting in the endeavor to classify
mem properly among their peers when
'nfy are brought out at our shows.
Onder the change IT will be more COM
mon for home bred winners In the puppy
q the ladder, win n the novice class.
by mature foreign campaigner In the
next class. The exceptions for a puppy
No. W" IN the novice against imported dogs
ception occurs 1t is usually In the case Of
aphenomenally good one, when the novice
win by no means stops it's victorious career.
an instance in point at the Westminster
hennel Club show was the triumphant
ssrogress OF the Airedale terrier bitch Inga-
nora through the puppy and novice Glasses,
YIN second In the open from a large
ned and reserve IN the winners class.
iihgarora also won the blue In an open class
Tor American bred and one for entries
bred by the exhibitor.
Airedales are so new here that tho prom
lnence OF an American breeder should
guarantee that the quality OF the more