Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
By James Watson.

Tedesco Kennel Club show at Soampscott.
Mass had a total entry Of 800 dogs In the
catalogue and formed an excellent average
exhibit. The great collapse was In Enghsh
and Gordon settlers, two breeds one always
looks to be we'll represented In the Boston
district There were just six all told OF tne
two breeds. Mr.. Lenoir did better win
his other breed. the pointers, In which 'ne
best were Waldron's Fair Chance ana NOT
valid Primrose. Mr.. Brook1eld OF Whi'e
Plains won a whole lot of Airedale prizes,
hut of course the main terrier entry was
In Boston. In which Lief the Lucky won
high honors in the dog section. The fair
sex were considered better than the dogs
and It was a big win for Whisper "heh
she was first in winners. Mr.. A. Henry
Higginson had some excellent fox MOUNDS
from the Middlesex Hunt. as well as bas-
sets and wire-haired fox terriers. The sup
port given the show both in the way of
entries and attendance insures a repetition
OF this show next year when WIN more
time for perfecting arrangements the sec
ond should be a still greater success
After one day intermisSion the Bar Har-
Dor show opened Thursday and closed Two
days later The announcements as TO me
support given this show seem TO nave Deeh
misleading and it was little II ahytnln ns
ahead of its predecessors. A total OF ldo
over 300 classes shows how sparse the sup
port was and outside Of Boston terriers
there were only about twelve dogs. Col.
Morrell being the president accounted for
quite a good number of Philadelphia dogs
being sent, Ben Lewis taking on bunch,
and Mellin Stevens was also on from the
Quaker City with Airedales. The Boston
support was meager and the cluo Will mo
that three days, with a high entry lee ana
sweepstakes prizes. are not conductive 10
larger entry than was secured on this
occasion A one day show or at most a
Friday and Saturday event is all that Bar
Harbor can stand for it costs too much to
get there and to stay there for three days.
small show being held at New CITY,
Rockland county, n. Y, on the same Gays
as Asbury Park Is not attracting any at
tention 1t is got up In the oldfashioned
country fair style of alphabetic arrange
ment of catalogue, and unless Superlnten-
dent Carnochan turns in all the Cairnsmulr
dogs Judge Oldham VIII not have an ek-
cessive amount Of work to do. The entries
do not close until Tuesday night and the
show opens the next morning, lasting three
days.
Mr.. J. Stewart McComb of the Kowsley
kennels of Dobbs Ferry, N Y, has given
the record price of G200-$1 ,0OO-in round
figures for the Irish terrier bitch Beeston
Betty, believed by many to be the best OF
her breed In England. Mr.. McComb has
given about twice as much as any English
man would for female. whereas had she
been a dog the price would have been
nearer G5O0. for that could have been got
from men who would have made over that
much in a year from a dog that was as
good as she is by placing him at stud. In
speaking of the relative value OF the two
sexes Mr.. Crabtree. nearly If not quite the
foremost bulldog exhibitor in England and
who judged at the Buffalo show last year,
said that no bull bitch was worth over 91OO,
no matter how good she might be, but that
there was little limit to the value of dog.
You will remember" he continued. that
i not so very long ago gave you the price
of $500 on Prince Albert. Since that time
the income from that dog alone has been
over 1900. Here Is my mall this morning
and in 1t two checks each Tor z guineasE
$35 Now, the income from bitch that is
a great winner Is very problematcal, for
they are not all able to produce puppies
and IL they do there Is likely to be trouble
raising them, so that really 1t Is merely
fancy as to the price of a bitch, whereas
with dog there is revenue 1t is bust
ness"
On the same subject Mr.. Oates Of
Halifax, England. the owner of Straight
Tip, now owned by Mr.. Cochrane
and at the head Of his Irish terrier
kennels at Yonkers. ridiculed the report
which was current that Celtic Bella, who
had beaten all England and Ireland for six
months, had brought G250 two years ago.
Not knowing that I had bought her, he
asked me what thought of the sale. and
l replied that 1t was doubtless exaggerated,
but that in America a dog was ll..e more
valuable than bitch. He could not under
stand that, saying that he had refused 4oOo
for Straight Tip from an American three
weeks before, for he was far 100 steaoy a
source of income Eventually he sold the
dog for the reported sum of f400. Source