Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12

Dagglng plenty OF ducks and several geese
and swans.
| James NJ Green and several friends
are shooting near High Point, n. c..
! where Mr.. Green has a large game pre-
serve
DR.. George Mater has returned from
hunting trip near Norfolk, but found
scarcity of birds
| Owen Ryan has disposed of his Rox
puppy and is now handling one by Cali
| fornia Bell Boy. jr.. and thinks it the
most promising prospect he ever owned.
| Every one who has been in the south
! west has heard the cowboy lyric:
As this: wcrld YOU travel through
lon Will cften come across
n fortydOllar saddle
On Il ten-dOllar horse
| gentleman was exercising a pair of
me settlers a few days ago, just across
ROCK creek when hOrseman mount ed
on a raw-boned Rosinante accosted him
| and said banteringly: Il will give you
this horse for that pair" The gentleman
| looked Rosinante over critically and said
| Yes. and If you knew half as much
about dOes as / do about horses you
would give stable full like him for
either of them.
Few men in Washington have owned
more bird dogs than Officer Stridnitz of
! Potomac Park. He lost several in
mad dog" scare some months ago but
now has big black and white pointer
that can hold his own with the best of
| them.
A reliable and esteemed correspondent
recently gave Field and Kennel a
sporting item that while interesting
seemed too weird to be true, hence it
was not published at the time. The
story has come to him from several other
reliable gentlemen since then and ap-
pears perfectly well founded. 1t is to
the effect that a gentleman sportsman
who has game preserve on the lower
,, Potomac has during the season just
closed killed over forty wild turkeys in
a very limited area in that section, and
that out of one flock of eleven of these
noble and fast-vanishing birds not one
was left, every one being slaughtered to
make a sportsmans co holiday. That
SO many wild turkeys could be killed i'm
that section seemed improbable, and that
an amateur sportsman could be found
who would wage such a war of extermi-
nation appeared impossible. 1t is said
that two barrels of wild turkeys were
shipped to this city for distribution
among the sportsman's friends. Early in
the season it Was said that parties from
this city were killing quail in that sec
ton before the season opened and il
must have been this same mighty killer
of balted turkeys. For obvious reasons
names are omitted. AS this is sports
mems column they do not belong here.
At called meeting held in Montgomery.
Ala. the United States Field Trial Club
rescinded its action barring James NJ
Avent from its trials. This leaves the
Continental Club as the only one in which
Mr.. Avent is barred. and patrons of the
sport will probably force it to reopen the
case for an impartial hearing, for the
class Of men who maintain field trials will
injure a lifelong sportsman. The United
States Club evidently heard from the
boys.
The United States trials held at Leto-
hatchie, Ala, were a great success In
the $1,000 all-age stake Comanche Frank
(pointer), Melrose Mohawk. and Momoney
ran one, two. three. Avent handles
Comanche Frank and Momoney. 1t seems
almost a certainty. barring accidents,
that the national championship lies be-
tween these three dogs.
During the year 1912 twenty-siX field
trial meetings were held by the different
associations. OF these ten meetings were
on what is known as the grand circuit
embracing the most important clubs.
Seven hundred and eighty-three dogs
started in the different stakes. the ratio
of settlers to pointers being as about three
to one. OF the starters 3O4 We're in the
derbys 34S in the all-age, 30 in the four
championships, and 1O1 in membership
and subscription stakes. OF 1871 places
awarded in the derby and all-age stakes
112 fell to settlers and As to pointers.
showing slight proportion in favor of
the latter in last years stakes.
Four dogs, three settlers and one point
er mote the usual ratio). won the title
of champion. These We're Commissioner
Benstone Comanche Frank (po:nter) and
Uncle Dave. To Commissioner fell the
honor of winning the national champion
ship, the others winning their titles at
the opening meetings in the early fall
in Manitoba. North Dakota and British
Columbia. Many think that these win
ners should be designated prairie chick
en- champions. as these trials are run
on these birds. In fact, it is a question
whether two of the three should not be
discontinued entirely. leaving the one in
Manitoba. which could be designated as
the Canadian championship. They |
are run in the early fall when man, of
the best dogs are not ready to start, and
to dub these dogs as champions in |
the space of many weeks. when the
thermometer may stand in the eighties. |
only cheapens the title. The dog that
wins at Grand Junction, Tenn. in jan |
nary. is the real and only champion.