Evening star., 1913-02-24
NEW YORK DOG SHOW.

leading Boston paper recently had
a leading editorial calling attention to
the rapid increase of interest in the dog,
as evidenced by the very frequent news
paper items relating to the canine family.
If any evidence fthe truth of this was
needed it can be found in the interest
shown in the great bench show of the
Westminster Kennel Club. held in the
Grand Central Palace, in New York, last
week. In the numbers of visitors drawn
from the fashionable circles of New
York and ether cities it was a close
rival to the Madison Square Garden horse
shows, and the interest was just as great.
With 1,SoO dogs bcnched in nearly 5000
classes, and judging going on i'm nineteen
rings at the same time. there was some
thing doing all the time. and interest
was kept at fever heat. The Judging, AS
a rule, was satisfactory. but there were
a couple of weird decisions. Thus in
Airedales, in the class for American-b
bitches, the judge placed BothWeil
Sorceress first and Nickery Soubrette
second Soon afterward the same Judge
in the open class placed Nickery Sou
brette first and Boutwell, Sorceress sec
ond. exactly reversing himself In the
specials for best Airedale in the show he
stood by his last decision and gave the
prize to Nickery Soubrette 1t Is sald
that Soubrettc won over dogs tnat cost
S1Oo O00 to import. Mrs. Mary Winthrop
Turner, Judge of French bulldogs. re-
peatcd this performance between Cham
pion Gamin Riquet and FenTay French
man But this was only another illustra-
ton of the fact that a woman has right
to change her mind, even as judge.
Perhaps moro interest centered IN
tered in the bulldog class than in
any other one feature of the show.
cd nf
had been bought in England at long
figures and imported especially for
this show, a great cont est was expected.
Arnold Lawson son of Tom, proprietor
of the noted Dreamwod kennels. had I'M
ported four dogs at Il reported cost OF
SIT coo, and was expected to sweep the
board, but Alexander 5. Stewart of Chi
cago upset all plans by winning every
thing in which he competed with Strath-
tay Prince Albert, Il dog that was landed
on our shores from England only four
weeks ago. When the time came for show
ing dogs in competition for the Spratt
trophy for the best dog in the show, Of
any breed, age or sex, Abbott, the man
ager of the Stewart kennels, hesitated
over taking Strathtay Prince Albert into
the ring, but c. q. Hopton urged him to
show the dog. Abbott asked Hopton to
show Prince Albert in the ring, but the
latter was called away for short time,
and Abbott acted as Snowman himself,
and Strathtay Prince Albert won the
crowning honor of the great show. Craw-
ford and Perrin's wire-haired fox terrier,
Vickery Estelle, was named as the re-
serve dog.
Space forbids an extended enun,cfat.Sn
of the winners, but in the specials for
best in show the following may ps named
as winners: Best fox terrier, Nickery Es-
telIe; best St. Bernard. Jacob Rupperts s
Splendidus: best collie, knockladye
Queen Prim: best bull terrier. Williston
Rose; best Great Dane, Champion Vhofs
Vulcan: best English setter Meadowview
Rock: best pointer, WiIdaSres Victoria
best brace of Irish or Gordon settlers, won
by ]. C. Hanna's Lanadowne's Rhu-
minancy Rhu and ST. Lambert OF Mont:
best English setter stud dog and two OF his
progeny. won by Berkeley Niue Girl; best
two couples of beaeles. won by Somerset
beagles; best two couples Of English fox
hounds, won by MiddleseX foxhounds;
best brace of pointers, Deadham Delta
and Deadham Jeff: best French bulldog,
Fenway Frenchman: best Russian Wolf
hound, Zyclon of Perchina.
The Charles III. Raym>nd cup for the
best Englirh setter. eighteen months old
or older F. the United States or Canada,
was oy Meadowview Rock. The cup
offered by Mrs. Charles III. Guthrie for
the best English setter in the field trial
class went to B. j. Aukenbruck's Lewellin
setter Pepp Windem d. This dog won
at McGregor. Ontario. in which there
were five starters. The special for the
best poodle in the show Went to Mrs.
Tyler Morse's Ch. Mile. Topple.
Stewartstown Rose, winner of the first
in Irish setter puppies. was sold during
the show to William Zeigler, jr.
Mrs John Jacob Astor. in deepest
mourning. made her first public appear
ance since the Titanic disaster. 1t was
rumored among those who had dogs Tor
sale that she would be a liberal buyer,
but she stopped after buying dog col
lar
The New York papers gave considerable
srace to an incident in which George +.
Foley who is designated as 'superin-
tendent of string of shows in Pennsyl-
vania. Maryland, Virginia and the Dis
trict. OF Columbia figured They rather