Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-02
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informs Field and kennel that while
not denying. he doubts this. He said
that when cruising in those waters he
has several times seen immense focks or
sand snipes floating on the ocean. They
were evidently. he said, resting. and
when disturbed would rise high in the
air and resume their journey. He has
not seen ortolan doing this, but thinks
il probable that they do so. This view is
plausible. but having after a long and
laborious research exploded the time-hon-
ored tidewater tradition that the ortolan
is at times a mud turtle, Field and
Kennel declines to substitute one to the
effect that at certain other seasons il is
sea serpent.
In most of the large bench shows there
is d class for field trial settlers" that
have run in some field trial. Formerly
owners of hieh-class field trial dogs oc-
casionally entered their dogs, but the
practice has gradually been abandoned
until now the dogs that are entered in
this class at bench shows seldom have a
very high reputation i'm the trials A field
trial man recently remarked on reading
the New York entry list: well. that
bunch may be rated as field trial dogs
at a bench show. but they would be
called bench show dogs at field trial"
This was a little severe. for the three dogs
that were placed on the bench had won
I'm the minor trials, thus showing tina [
tfleN DdU some CLASS lO t-epp
Wind'em D. won first place i'm the inter-
national trials, al-age stake at Nc
Grecor, Ont.
There were five dogs in the race. Pepp
Wind EN- u. is a I4lewellin. being by
Blake's Boy eX Dora Wind EN-. Black
Fels Pete won third in the Pennsylvania
trials all-age stake. with eight starters.
Gloomy Gus. by E.ldred Quail. eX Bed
ford s Daisy, won first in the open-all
stakes of the Connecticut trials in 1910.
But PhilIpides. Momoney, Benstone and
their peers seldom find their way to the
bench now. and proba bly, would not con-
form to the type" that wins blue rib
bons at bench shows.
"Tubbie' Dickinson. chairman Of the
house committee of the Brightwood
Sportsmcns Club. is authority for the
statement that no honorary membership
III that club has been declined. The
members are busy looking for new quar-
tiers, and after they have found home
and assembled their handsome furnish
inGs they propose increasing their mem
hcrshp. both active and honorary.
J. n. Littlepase is mourning the loss of
his fine dog. Porte. Field and Kennel
shot over Porte several years ago and
knows that his owner has lost a good
companion and fine field dog. Porte is a
large setter. head and ears black, with
white streak down the center of the
head and body flecked with black. Mr..
Littlepagc has offered a reward for his
return. He was lost on the Marlboro
pike. in Prince Georges county. Look out
for him. fellow sportsmen.
| The last field trials of the season were
those of the Pacific Coast club, run at
Bakersfield, Cal. and the two all-age
stakes were, won By Shasta Queen and
| Peach Nugget, both good daughters of
grand old Count Whitestone. Shasta
| Queen has been winning races out there
| for a number of years. and is owned by
j. f. Terry. who is one of the pillars Of
| the sport on the coast.