The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
SOUTHERN FIELD
 TRIALS ON MONDAY Second Annual Meet to Be
 at LetOhatchie MANY ARE EXpECTEn
ARE EXPECTED
Drawing of Derby Stake at the Exchange in Montgomery Tonight and the All-Age at Same
 Place Monday Evening

Montgomery, December 9-(Special)- The second annual trials of the Southern 1 Field Trials club will begin at Letohat- chic, Monday, December Il. The entire
 field trials world is looking forward to this event with the keenest possible in- terest, for the Southern Field Trials club has broken the record for having the largest number of entries for the year one hundred and fourteen. This club oc- cupies a position second to none in the world. The high character of the off cers and members of the Southern Field Trials club, all of whom are true and un- selfish sportsnlen, coupled with the iact that those actively connected with the management of the affairs of the club do not campaign pointers and setters, put are only ill the field trials game out of pure spor;smanship, has combined to place the club on pinnacle that but few other similar organizations can aspire to attain.
 The Southern Field Trials club blazed the way for larger stakes, and while yet an embryonic organization proclaimed to the world that two stakes would annu- ally be competed for, the guaranteed value of which would be $750 each-ths Derby and the All-Age
 Sportsmen, handlers and field trial de- voices from all parts of the continent are now extending pigrimages to Leto- hatchie. where for the first time this year the most famous pointers and setters will shiver lances for supremacy. The ground of the Southern Field Trials club at Let ohatohie have been declared by many of the most prominent field trials experts of the nation to be the best in the country. For the most part they are rolling; this enables the judges and spectators to see the dogs work, while if the grounds were perfectly level the dogs would be often lost to view Aside from this, the abund- ance of game found on the course guar antees that every dog entered will be given an opportunity to point birds. The treatment that field trials patrons have received at Letohatchie has elicited the most enthusiastic plaudits possible. for there old time southern hospitality is dispensed in oriental plentitude.
 The drawing of the Derby stake will take place in the parlors of the FIX change hotel Montgomery, at o'clock, the evening of December 10, while the drawing of the all-age will be had at the same place on Monday evening, 8 o'clock December 11th. The annual meet ing of the club will be held in the par lors of the Exchange hotel immediately | after the drawing of the stakes on next
 Monday evening, at which time officers
 for the ensuing year will be elected. The judges of the Southern Field Trials | club are R. T. Stedman, Winston-Sal N C., Lee Moody, Bessemer, and John B.. Rosentihl, Birmingham, all of whom are renowned judges of the merits of field trials pointers and settlers.
 Adeouate arrangements have been made at Letohatchie for mounts for all those who may desire to attend the | trials Arrangements have been made
 with the Louisville and Nashville of hcials to stop the New York and New orleans limited train, No. 37, at Lato- hatchie .on the nights of the 10th and l 11th This will enable handlers and oth- CTS, ouartered at Letohatchie, to attend the drawings at Montgomery and return the same night, reaching Letohatchie about 10:30 o'clock D. m.
 | While the entertainments of the South 1 ern Field Trials club in the past have
 been exceptionally brilliant the forth coming event gives excellent promise of 1 eclipsng all of these splendid prede- | cessors