Evening star., 1913-04-11
CROWDS ATTEND
C[UbBENCH SHOW
Visitors Comments Indicate
That 1t Is the Best Ever
Held in Washington.
MANY HONORS WON BY
WINDERBOURNE KENNELS
Few Scrub" Dogs Seen in Exhibit.
Midgets Delight All-St. Ber-
nards Big Card for Attention.

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nards Big Card for Attention.
| The second day of the bench show of
| the Washington Kennel Club opened with
a good attendance and every prospect
| of record crowd by night. If the COM
| ments of visitors to the show, which
| is being held at the Arcade, 18th street
and Park road are an index, the club
has benched the best show ever held in
Washington.
The Winderbourne kennels, owned by
Howe Totten of Washington. has won a
large share of the honors SO far. With
one dog and one bitch shown, it won
seven first, one second and one third
prizes, including the tri-color winners
ribbon for the best Great Dane bitch,
| and special prizes. The Harlequin bitch
| in the show and several other medals
and special prizes. The Harlequin bitch,
Brunhilde of Winderbourne, owned and
bred by the Winderbourne kennels, by
beating all of the other thirteen Danes,
remains as yet unbeaten, and Is TWO
points nearer a championship.
Not for years have SO few scrub dogs
been shown. Judging was fnlShed IN
sporting classes and toy spaniels yester-
| day, and last evening was taken up with
bulldogs and terriers: While pointers
| and settlers were being judged large
crowds surrounded the ring and COM
mended the final verdicts of the veteran
judge Charles II. Mason.
| Washington pointers and settlers were
flew in number In local setter dogs
there were only two entries, and in
bitches only one. Bean Danston Ill won
in dogs and Baldwin's Princess IN
| bitches. In local pointers, Maryland KIP
Rap won in dogs and Lady in bitches.
lin limit settlers Champion Lansdown
Lena won and in points Maxim's Dan.
| Draw Crowds of Admirers.
| No exhibit draws more delight from
visitors than the midget Teddy w, Jul
nior, owned by Mrs. Warns of Baltimore.
His blue ribbons weigh almost as much
as he. Raymond C. Reed of Washington
also shows a very attractive specimen.
| r. ]. McGoyern of Trenton, N. j.. is
| visiting the show, having on exhibition
| two little beauties, the Chihuahuas Lady
| Vita and Gold Bug. Between them they
| weigh six pounds and one ounce. They
have won. thirty-two blue ribbons and
eight medals at various shows. Lans-
| downe Larry Lynn, said to be the COM
Charles A. Watson. kept up his winning
ribbons and five specials. Mrs. Raymond
Belmont's Pomeranian Cupid, made
great hit, and local Pomeranian, Bijou,
exhibited by Mrs. Jerome Fanculli,
wife Of the former newspaper writer,
took two blue ribbons.
| AS is always the case at a bench
show, the St Bernards draw great
crowds. Champion st. Francois. owned
by Mrs. T. o. Crown, the largest dog
| in the show. was the hero of his class
| but many regarded DR.. M. H. Darnalps
| beautifully marked Prince as the real
| beauty Of his class.
Visitors of All Glasses.
| show, and casual inspection of the
| crowd serves to indicate how wide
spread is the appeal that the animals
make. Children of the poor as well as
| the rich mingle their expressions of
formances of this or that pet, and
doggy" persons, in corduroys and put
tees. from the professional breeders
kennels. are seen hObnobbing with
milady from the Avenue of the Presi
dents.
1t is a sort of horse show crowd that
one gees. except that not so much at
tention is paid. apparently, to the dis
play of feminine apparel as Is paid at
horse shows. although socially promi-
nent people from out of town as well
as from Washington are very much in
evidence.
more Interested in the dogs than they
seem to be in one another. Capt. and
Mrs. Heathcote Grant of the British
embassy were strolling among the
in the animals. apparently oblivious
of the fact that others from the en-
bassies, Including Nine. Bakhmeteff,
the wife of the Russian ambassador.
were visitors. and Mrs Raymond Bel
mont of New York, who has number
of dogs on exhibition, talked dog"
apparently with any stranger who
might come along and become In
terested.
For the sake of the "greenhorns, re-
gret was expressed today at the show
that so few exhibitors have put up signs
over their animals. giving their names,
pedigrees, class or other facts about them. |
Now and then one sees For Sale sign, |
with some details about the dog over
which it is placed, but for the most part |
visitors are evidently supposed to know |
all about what they are looking at.
All Kinds of Dogs in Exhibit.
There are certainly all kinds of dogs |
in the exhibit. An inquiry or a reference |
to the catalogue brings forth the name of |
a breed every now and then which the |
uninitiated never heard Of before, such as
the "Schipperkes,' class 476. of which !
there are only a few shown. In the |
various classes there are dogs of .all sizes, |
some Of them being actually as small as
a ladys slipper. and others the size OF
young pony. Their names, too, offer
visitors an opportunity for comment.
some OF them being longer than the dogs
themselves among them Champion Lans-
downe Fiery Fox. good-looking grey
hound; Heliolindus Of Winderbourne. a
great Dane; Iona II From the Helder,
St. Bernard; Wyoming Valley Siski,
pointer; Berkeley Rumney Regalia. a
setter; Mauschen Won der Halde, dachs
hund: Champion Southport Aristotype, a
collie and Mokel Monarch Won Tebengen,
and Champion Hewlett King Orry, the