Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28
NOTES OF COMING
KENNEL SHOWS
Exhibitions at Philadelphia, Al
toona, Hartford, New York
and BOston-MerIed
CollieS.
By James Watson.

By James Watson.
II IS natural to associate Friends with
the Quaker city and things connected with
Philadelphia. and it is. perhaps, no cause
for establishment to find the local philan-
thropis; assOciating himself or themselves
with the dog show to take place next
Thanksgiving week. Mr.. Carrigan, it will
be well to state. quickly avai!ed himself of
the opportunity 20 announce that tAt1
weeks surmise was correct and the omis
sion Of the mention of the prize money for
novice and limit classes was a clerical
error. they are rs was suggested. repei-
tiOn of last years $l3. $40 and 81. Pnila-
dc!phia show is indebted this year to "a
friend" fer ten contributions each of $40,
as additions to the long list of specials
which will add SO much interest to the
show. These donations OF SO are dis
tributed as follows: St BernardS. Great
Danes. deerhounds. greyhounds or Russian
wClfhuunds, bea2l@s. pointers. all settlers.
cCllies. French bulldogs and dachshunds.
II addition to these donations M. George
C. Thomas. jr.. ard Mr.. Edward Moore
Robinson each donated five similar prizes,
making the handsome total of $iG0 as
specials for teams Of -four doge. the only
condition being that there shall be two
competitors. While recognizing the hand
some nature of these gifts | cannot but
think that in place Of teams Of -four it
would be better to have these competitions
for teams of three. Team Judging is not
necessarily the giving the prize 10 the four
which respectively ranked highest in their
classes. In other words. they should not
be judged individually as classes are
judged, but a collection. uniformity of
type, size. make and even color in some
cases all being componen;s in team judg
ing.
Take horse show judging. for instance.
as an adaptable illustration. Mr.. Jones
shows winner in the gig class. with Mr..
Brown second; he shows another in another
class and again wins first ever Brown.
a n q
separate winners come in as pairs No
horse show judge would think for a mo-
ment of saying. "Oh. Jones wins; lie beat
Browns horses in the other classes Yet
that is what far too many dog show judges
do. The horse show judge proceeds to
judge the pairs aHi il is quite posi- !e that
Brown may win. and rightly. too. The dog
show judge has 4 similar Pre- position in
front Of him, thaug! net to the same ex-
tent. perhaps. yet he should never lose
sight of the fact that the prize he is award
Ing Is for the best brace or the best
team and not the best two dogs or the
best four dogs.
The Airedale Terriers
In the matter of specials the Airedale
terriers seen to have a little the best of
the others. There are two clubs which
support the breed. tie AireGale Club of
America and that of New York. and the
latter seems to have more life in it than
the pioneer club. 1t offers five cups four
of which are challenge trophies and one
can be won outright by the best team The
old club also offers its two challenge
shields. for the best dog and best bitch. and
both add cash prizes for members. Boston
terriers are also well provided for. but the
cups for this breed are all to be won out
right satisfactory condition for the ex-
hibtors. even If the cups are not valu-
able the challenge trophies. OF the
sporting dogs the best off in the way of
cups are the span!els. One good terrier cup
10 win will be the one offered by Mr.. Nc
Comb for the best American bred Irish ter
rier which gets third or better in the open
class. The dog that wins that cup will
merit it. as the ranks of the open class
will have one or two important arrivals
from the other side To crowd back the ma
tives. Fortunately in the judge we have
gentleman who has no likelihood of hand
ing all the prizes to the professionals, but
will take a line of his own and please him
Premium lists for Philadelphia are prom
ised for the beginning of this week. En-
tries will close on November II,
lately announced show is that at AL
toona TO be held on November { TO 10 and
for which entries close on October 81. The
prizes 81 and So. with a ribbon for
third. The premium list shows a total of
235 classes, which seem to be distributed
with good judgment, and Altoona is IA
vOrably situated for Philadelphia Wash
ington. Pittsburg and the good dog dis
tr!cts north of the latter city this show
should certainly be a two-pointer. The
for Bostons, S. s. Leslie OF Plttshurg for
bull terriers and bulldogs and Charley Hop
ton for the rest of the show
Merled Collies.
1t looks IL the merled collie will be
taken up more strongly in England than
has been the case, and we will naturally
follow. Breeding for color has the great
drawback of Limitation of numbers to
select from or breed from. That is what
killed OFF the fancy In this country for
white collies. The difficulty was to get a
collie with as little color as possible and
get good one at the same time. Good
looks had to be discarded in favor of color
and the result was extremely poor collies.
II has been somewhat the same with the
Birmingham district that they have been
fostered at all. There is even difficulty
with the name. our Dogs" has just in
troduced another variation in marie"
those previously of most frequent occur
renee being merle or merled, with an oc-
casional mrle mirled. The Standard
dictionary failed 20 give either OF these
words, but under mari the agricultural
fertilizer. gives merl and merle as obso-
lee spel,ngs. Still another similar word
given as provincial English is used both
for the marble of commerce and a boys
marble. and Scottish word, married, Is
given the meanings of marbled varegated
and notified. Old words survive among the
have given them up, and they are also
driven back. or more properly speaking,
they survive longer in outlying districts.
Many OF the oldest English words and
recommendations existed thirty or
forty years ago on the Scottish side of the