Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14

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That Mr. Morgan and Mr.. Untermyer are
not to have all the collie prizes to them
selves is very certain for Mr.. Hgginson of
Chicago, who at one time owned that ster-
ling good dog, Winnetka Ballyarnett Eclipse,
has again made an excellent purchase in
buying Parbold Professor from Mr. Aims
coughs kennels. The show record of ihs
dog makes him out to be a very good one
and Mr.. Ainscough never wastes time with
one that is not. He still mas Parbold Pea
cock, so he could afford to let Professor go,
besides which men such as Mr.. Ainscough
generally have few good ones coming On
or they hear of some promising young dOg
that can be bought, so let the older ones
go when a good price is obtainable.
The English Kennel Club has just decided
a case that is bound sooner or later tt come
up for decision in this country. Can dog
beaten in his class be shown under another
judge when it comes to the special Tor the
best dog in the show? l have always held
that every dog in the show was eligible for
such a prize provided 1t had not been judg
ed by the person deciding the best dog in
the show special. The case which came be-
fore the English Kennel Club was an APP
peal from a decision given at the Cam
bridge show. Messrs. Tom Ashton and
Withers had to place the prize in question
and permitted fox terrier that had only
got third in it's class to compete, aotwith
standing the protest of the fox terrier judge
to the presence of the dog in the ring. The
two judges then went further and gave the
terrier in question the special for best GCg
in the show. The Kennel Club committee
rendered the following decision: That be
was not ineligible to compete for special for
the best dog in the show merely owing to
his having won third prize in his class.
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1t has been the custom to accept the de-
cisions of breed judges and take the best
dogs if any special for the breed had de-
cided that point, otherwise to let in ne .'rst
in winners classes, and that was perhaps
correct when it was the custom of allowing
all the judges at the show to have Il voice
in deciding the unclassified specials, hut
with the custom now in vogue of dlnounc-
ing one judge to act on these specials we
face the fact that 1t is that judges opinion
that should govern and that it is the dog
that he considers the best in the show and
not the best of a selection of dogs the pick
of others than himself. We face similar
problem in what are called variety classes,
where, for instance, two or more dogs
which have met in their regular classes
come under another judge for the Dest dog
eligible for limit class making SPECIFIC en-
try for this variety class The judge never
considers what the other judge has Gene.
but places them as he thinks mt. A case in
which was interested came up at Ph'ia-
delphia two years ago. Natica beat borth-
wick Bella In the Irish terrier open bitch
class and met under Mr.. Mortimer n va
riety class and he placed Bella over Narlca.
According to actual fact every dog entered
at the show is also entered under this spe-
cial prize-awarding Judge and to deprive 1t
of the right to be shown under this Judge
because some other judge thought another
dog was better Is unquestionably wrong.
AS to how all the dogs are to be accommo-
dated in the ring, that Is not befora the
court and is for the show committee TO de-
eide or control by making the conditions
for the special read that no dog beaten in
his class can compete. still that is putting
a restriction on the judge which should not