The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13


spectators at the field trials to-day
were not treated to the spectacular
work in the all-age stake which has
marked the previous performance of
the great settlers and pointers. 1t was
no scarcity of birds which brought
about this condition, as invariably the
handlers in shooting over their dogs
have discharged their firearms in the
air, thus saving the quail for addi-
tional work with the dogs. The day
was clear and was inclined to be
warm. This, with the absence of any
breeze, resulted in lack of scent and
was no doubt the cause of so few
points being made by experienced
dogs.
1t is expected the winners in the all
age stake will be determined by noon
tomorrow. The champion stake will
then be run and on Saturday the dogs
will be handled by their owners in the
members stake.
Some practical joker had all the
field trials people at the hotel called
at $50 o'clock this morning and a
procession of sleepy sportsmen COM
menced to wind its way to the dining
room shortly thereafter. AS this
meant an early start on the road, it
was taken good-naturedly.
Each evening a quartet made up of
Judge Charley Post and Joe Terry
of Sacramento and Jack Kilgarif and
J. w. Flynn has entertained the men,
har !, Tho foUnrifa
has to do with the joys of the good
old summer time.
The first brace put down in the
morning was the Stockdale Kennels
liver and white pointer. Cuba Jr,
handled by r. Nj. Dodge, and w. w.
Van Arsdale's black, white and tan
English setter McCloud Boy, handled
by c. H. Babcock. After an extensive
run over considerable country Cuba Jr.
drew to a point in weeds, which was
cleverly backed by McCloud Boy. Cuba
Jr. followed this with two more points,
McCloud Boy scoring one.
CONDITIONS ARE FAULTY.
There was something wrong evil
IDENTIFY with the atmospheric condi-
titns, as both dogs, well known to
possess good noses, ran over num-
Der of birds without noticing them.
The second brace to start was H. w.
Keller's lemon and white setter Som
bra, handled by w. B. Coutts, and
John Considine's black, white and tan
English setter Policy Girl, handled by
J. E. Lucas. This brace was worked
over the same grounds as the preced-
ing one. Sombra made three stylish
points, which she held stanchly. one
being made after Policy Girl had run
in front of her to steal the point. Pol
icy Girl made two points, from neither
of which a bird was flushed. Both dogs
showed good speed and range. but, like
| the preceding brace, seemed unable to
| locate birds on those grounds.
! The third brace was Stockdale Ken
nels' liver and white pointer Glenwood.
handled by r. NJ. Dodge. and w. w.
!, Van Arsdale's black, white and tan
| English setter. Counts Mark, handled
by C. H. Babcock, were also cast off
on the same grounds as the preceding
/ dogs If anything was necessary to
confirm the existence of faulty atmos-
! pheric conditions the work of this
brace certainly removed all doubt.
These two well-tried dogs. whose bird
| finding qualities are well known, ran
for more than a half an hour through
birds which were flushed by the spec
tators without either scoring a point
The next dogs put down were w. w
Van ArsdaIe's black, white and tar
English setter Avalon, handled by c.
H. Babcock, and j. H. Schumacher's
black and white English setter valita
| handled by ]. E. Lucas. These were
cast off on new grounds where condi-
tions seemed much better and scored
a number of points.
| AVALON SCORES SIX POINTS.
! Avalon placed six to his credit tc
valita's four. Both dogs were under
good control and pointing stanchly
Avalon especially proved a CLASSY
dog. Moving to another location the
two derby winners, J. T. Terry's Lady.
like and William Dormer's recent pur.
chase. Mariposa, were put down in 4
large open field and gave a fine exhibi
tion of fast and wide ranging. While
they both proved themselves birt
! finders in the derby. for some unac