Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

fender, who dropped the goods he was |
carrying and ran. Instead of Selling the |
man the dog seized the clothing and tore |
number of garments to shreds. The |
police were notified and found the rascal, |
but as the lady objected to appearing in
court the officer had to rest content with |
giving him a good shaking.
recent inquiry addressed to the pub
fishers of the Field Dog Stud Book"
ELECTED the Information that about two
settlers are registered to one pointer. OF
the settlers about out of six and a
half is Llewellin the others being Eng
lish- IRISH and Gordon registrations are
comparatively few.
Mr.. Lowndes Jackson has recently re- /
turned from a successful shooting trip
in Maryland and is very enthusiastic
over the performance of his setter Banco.
Ban is by Marse Ben and was broken
by the well known handler. Tom Bald
win of Brightwood
Do quails migrate? This has long been
a disputed point but most spertsmen will
answer it affirmat.vely this year, for by
no other hypothesis can the amazing
discrepancy between the large number
heard of and the small number ac-
tually found in the same place be ex-
planned.
Frank Husemar and Phil Stu5ener,
Washinston's two leading trap shots,
ledNt ~ 10 take part IN the big
tournament at Pinehurst, n. c. If they
do as Well as they did at Atlantic City
the Analostan Gun Club will rank high
IT. the tournament. They take their dogs
with them and will do some quail shoot
ing after the tournament. Huseman has
splendid setter and as Stubener's Cali
fornia Bell Boy. jr., is a crack the quar-
tet should have some great sport
Dr. kirkpatrick. who is well known
member of the Analostan Gun Club,
leaves Sunday night for Hamlet, y. c.,
for weeks shooting
Messrs. Joseph Letter, Alex Legare and
DIR. Glazebrook are on shooting trip in
King George county, Va.
Some men cannot be leased and it is
waste of breath making the attempt.
A gentleman was recently describing to
Tub Dickinson a strange species of
duck he once killed in the south. 1t was
very large and of a rich brown color,
and no one in that section had ever seen
one like it, Tub" at once said he had
killed hundreds like it. Hold on "A min
ute." SAID the gentleman. When / came
to Washington l went over to the Smith
sonian Institute and described the bird
ton one of the scientists. After much
thought they identified it and were as
tonished at one being killed in this coun-
try. They showed mounted specimen
and said its habitat was in Patagonia,
IL.
We'll" said Tub, for once they were
right for that was exactly where 1 killed
mine''
Local dogs are not conspicuous in this
years trials. but a Washington sports
man. Mr.. w. c. Williams was one of
the judges at the Virginia-North Caro-
line field trials and gave great satsfac
ton. A decided innovation was intro
duced at these trials when Miss Nora
Armstrong handled Classic" a young
setter owned and broken by herself. in
the members derby and won second
place in a good field of youngsters. Does
this open a new field for new women?
Eighteen fine pointers and settlers en-
route to southern points We're asphyXiated
in an Overheated baggage car recently
and eight of them died. among these be-
ing. three owned by Beekman Winthrop
of New York. Claims amounting to
$1,000 were entered against the Southern
road. which acted in sportsmanlike man.
ner and settled promptly.
The Washington Cat Club will hold its
annual show January 1918. The place
for holding it has not been decided on.
nor is the catalogue out yet, but as there
are over 300 prizes every lady should be
happy. Mrs. d. B. Champion will judge
the long-hairs, and Mrs. +. l.. Brace
the short-hairs. How would it do to hold
dog show at the same time and place?
Charley kenglas Bob K, B. H. Weeks
Beau and several others ''just love cats"
Lovers of fine field dogs heard with
regret of the death of the great pointer
Hard Cash, which occurred in Nash
WILL Tenn, recently. He was owned
by MORGAN p. Estes of that city. Hard
Cash was whelped March IS. 1903, and
was by Young lingo. ex Browns Bella
Pointer, thus combining in his veins
the greatest pointer strains in the
country. He had a splendid field trial
record, which included five wins in his
derby form and six in all-age stakes.
He also won three firsts in bench
shows. AS a sire he was wonderfully
prepotent. having sired nine winners,
among them Security, one of the great
sationaI Gilt Edge. whose early death
cut short a brilliant field trial career.
The most encouraging feature of the
game situation that has come under the
writer's observation is the marked in
crease in the number of wild turkeys in
Virginia. Hunting turkeys at this season
of the year is more or less matter of
luck, and in the short time he has been
in the field it has not been the writer's
game birds this fall. but he still has
hopes, for they are undoubtedly all
around him. They have already killed
nine in the immediate neighborhood
lucky enough to kill two at one shot.
Mr. Maddox, merchant at Trevilian
Station, informed the writer that his ia
Their had killed fifteen this fall around
Spotsylvania Court House, some twenty
miles distant. Field and Kennel" is
going after them, and hopes soon to have
a story to tell of his own good luck.
The Virginia Carolina field trials will
be held this year at ASHORE, n. c., be-
ginning December q The entry list has
been published, and while the great dogs
of the country will not be on hand, still
enough good ones are entered to insure
a high-class field. In the derry fifteen
settlers and ten pointers will contend.
while the all-age field will be made up OF
fourteen settlers and six pointers.
Most owners are content to have their
Youngsters run in the derbies of one year.
but Louis McGrew, the well known field
trial man, enjoys the distinction of hav-
ing the we'll known litter by Mohawk Ill
ex Black-Eye Susan Whitestone run in
the derbies of 1911 and 1912 These Bah
bedrock youngsters began their field trial
careers when six months old and are still
winning places in the minor defbies.