Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29
CURRENT TALK
OF DOG FANcERs
important Shows to Be Held
This Spring and COM
ing Summer.

A week ago the main topic for discussion
was the concluding show of what In for
u,er years would have been called the end
OF the spring season, and the dogs worli
have had a rest TIL the fall. Things have
changed, however. and In addition to shows
for which entries have already been made
we are IN receipt of early news of some
of the important summer shows, first In
tho way of prominence being that Of the
Ladies' Kennel Association. whiea takes
place at Mineola l.. l.. on May "A and 20.
The single-breed judges are an even half
Dozen and one is newcomer. This is
Miss Anna BrowneIl of Providence, r. l..
who will judge Boston terriers, which Is
certainly a task for the best qualified person
to undertake. Miss Browneii has long been
an exhibitor of Bostons and has had
number of good dogs. many of her own
breeding, so has very thorough knowledge
of the breed. She is sure to draw a large
entry both from the Boston district and
from Philadelphia well as locally. DE-
De Mund for wofhounds and greyhounds,
Mr.. ]. b. Thomas, jr., for dalmatians, Mr.
W. G. Rockefeller for beagles, MIR. q w
Bonner for Irish terriers and Mr.. w. F.
Hendricks for bull terriers are no novices
in the judging ring, and in addition we are
to have George Raper of England, Mr. t.
NJ u
Hopton of East Orange for the rest of the
catalogue which seems very soundly di-
vided except that Mr.. Oldham is a much
better judge of a collie than Mr. Raper
The Mineola Premiums
To Mr.. Mortimer. the superintendent OF
the l.. X. A. show, [ am indebted for an
early copy of the premium list. There ara
no money prizes in the regular classes, but
there are fifteen variety classes in which
tho prizes $50. $40, SIS and So, and the
entry fee is the modest one of 81. These
will draw surely, but it looks as II slip
had been made in the conditions for one
class, there Is one for sporting dogs of any
breed. except terriers, the corresponding
class for transporting dogs make no men
ton of terriers, and then there is ter
rier class 1t would look as II 1t was
intended that dog could only be shown
in one of these three variety classes, but
as 1t stands all terriers but fox terriers can
go in the transporting and also the terrier
variety classes. Finally there is in this coun-
try no division of terriers into sporting and
transporting.
year ago the stud book committee of
the American Kennel Club had the matter
of making some division which would insure
uniformity. At that time the Idea was to
divide into but two sections, which is a very
arbitrary matter when 1t comes to the ter
riers and in conversation with MIR. Viii. the
chairman of the committee, I made the
suggestion that terriers of all kinds might
go by themselves simply as terriers and
put the recognized shooting and hunting
dogs by themselves as sporting, all others
being mons sporting. The committee drew up
a division on that plan and also one in
which all terriers that could be used in
any sport were put in with the sporting
dogs the exceptions being bull terriers,
black and tan, Boston and Yorkshire, also
Maltese dogs, which were enormously put IN
as terriers. The club decided that the three
divisions suggestion was the one to adopt
and that Is the rule in force upon all men,
bers of the a. K. c., so that 1t looks as II
this l.. X. A. division Is what in ordinary
legislation would come under the head of
unconstitutional.
The regular classification of the show is
a very full one. there being total of 500
classes, including the winners classes,
which total about seyenty-hye.
The Charter Club Show.
The first show of the Chester Kennel Club
will be held at Wailingford. Pa, on May
10, and the total Of classes. winners omit
ted. is about 375. The compliment has been
paid Tom Middiebrook who has worked up
so many good shows about Boston. Of ask
ing him to perform similar duties here. He
Is always ably assisted by Mrs. Middle
brook, who acts as secretary at the show
while Tom hustles things in the show
itself The judges list presents one novelty
in the way of Miss Gertrude de Coppet of
New York for Welsh terriers. though either
she or her sister has acted in a similar ca
pacity on one occasion before this. The
Welsh terrier is not progressing as it should
do, and mainly by reason of the influence
of Mr.. Walter Glynn, a prominent English
Kennel Club magnate. the true type of dog
which should be shown Welsh terrier
is all but lost. Under his domination we are
now getting "A small AiTedale terrier in place
of the Welsh old English black and tan
rough terrier
The other judges at the Chester show are
Messrs Francis CT. Taylor, Thomas CadwaI-
ader and T. H. Garlick, all of Philadelphia,
and all in their well known specialties Mr.. 4
Jesse Hickman of Westchester judges fox
hounds and Mr. f. NJ. Oldham is the all
rounder, while sporting spaniels fall to Mr..
wallace y. Vreeland Of Jersey City.
The Long Island Kennel Club show is to
be two days this year and will be held as
usual at Brighton Beach race track. The
dates are May 20 and 30 and the judges
are c. G. Hopton for all hounds, French
pointers and settlers. NJ. NJ. Palmer for col
lies II. r Peters for old English sheep
dogs and dalmatians w. +. Reeve for Aire-
dales Walter Hanley for Bostons, II. X.
Bloodgood for spaniels. w. \. lie Cato for
bulldogs and Allan Northridge for bull ter
riers.
About two years ago Mr. Frank F. Cur
It's bred cocker spaniel dog puppy that
was entirely white. Others had done the
same but in Mr.. Curtis case his puppy
lived to maturity, and we now have news
from him that he has a litter of seven pup
pies bred from this dog, five of which are
pure white. 1t In this way we pro-
duced the red cookers the first of which
were very light bluffs and then came the
darker shade of chestnut red. Even If we
do not get strain Of pure whites these