The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-14
TO HOLD TRIALS FOR
SPORTING SPANIELS
New Organization Will Con-
duet Tests on Rutherfurd
Estate in New Jersey.
WORKING DOGS NEEDED

sporting spaniel as y sporting spaniel
will be fostered and encouraged In
America A. Clinton Wilmerding Of
planHeld. y. j.. one Of tho earliest mem
bers Of the old established Spaniel club.
said last week tina, he had been promised
certain support that ought to- guarantee
field trials Tor spiniels: and there can
he M reason why these should not he ~
popular AS the beagle trials held IN New
Jersey
Those who desire to see field trials
for pointers and settlers are catered for
by close to New York events AZ Win
throp Rutherford has offered tho advan-
tages OF his all round sporting and
game holding estate. Namuchy, near
Hackettstown. y. j.. for the purposes
Of spaniel trials IL has been remarked
nv those who are aware Of what is re-
aulred for spaniel trials. that better all
round rough shooting could not be found
anywhere than on the combined Stuyve-
SAINT and Rutherturd estates that lie
at the base OF the Alamuchy Mountains.
one part OF these being an immense en-
closed deer park where elk and white
tall deer roam as in the wild state.
beaver thrive and the ponds are alive
with malards pintail ducks and other
wild fowl. Rabbits abound; and thou
sands OF English pheLsants were reared
every year until recently and II can be
well understood that the Alamuchy es
tates are ideal for the purposes OF
spaniel trials where spaniels are re-
II.
trieve what Is shot 10 them.
These spaniel trials have been of enor-
nous service on the other side. They
have regenerated the springer and
working cocker spaniels and to GER
tain extent they have had much TO do
in bringing about spaniel of com
mon sense bulld--a spaniel that is abe
30 accomplish an honest days work, be
~ much consequence and a source Of
pleasure and profit TO his owner. More
over, this class OF spaniel Is always
salable
II cannot he said that the show spaniel
Of to-day. II he be not really first
class show dog is a marketable animal,
whereas an on the leg. short in body
and even curly coated broken springer
or working cocker Is always salable AZ
considerable price. The amounts that
were obtained for the diversified syringe
sranelS at auction in London are not
vet available. but they probably will he
large, as they are working spaniels, for
in Europe these dogs are recognized as
worthy animals When it is stated that
the American hunting country offers
every opportunity for the peculiar work.
ing powers Of the sporting spaniels. and
that they probably would he of much
more service than the other dogs now
in use. II is evden, that the spaniel field
trials of 1915 in the United States will
not come any too soon.
Mr. Wlmerding. who regularly shoots
over spuniels. said that he had some
a!aa;-;:!;; II getting cuIfc.t from ccn!e
OF the members of the Spaniel Club. who
perhaps preferred not to bother with
their show dogs and make working dogs
~ them. Many persons had not the
time. and with others game was scarce
and they had not any great liking FOR
the sport of hunting. Nj. Wilmerdinp
had. however more hopes from men who
owned working settlers. Many sportsmer
had begun their shooting careers as
spaniel owners. Mr. WilmerdinG pointed
To the fact OF Mr.. Purcell-Lewellin''
remarks in the London Field OF January
o. 1918
diversified I did not know even by
sight hut as an old spaniel man myself
(the spaniel was my first love and
took up the setter because II was merely
the larger spane) and n 3 member o.
the Sporting Spaniel Society. ] wa'
always Interested in the doings OF thu
Deune spaniel" The Llewellin setter Il
Justly celebrated in America. and here II
the evidence that the man who founded
this strain is still a spaniel man a
heart Referring to his spaniel days
Mr. Purcell Llewellin was thinking o
the old rough shooting days of Treg
wynt.
II is said that f. Berwind Chas,
Of Philadelphia, large owner o
pointers and settlers and one who shoot
over them besides sending them to tn
hest shows, will take an interest in th
new movement toward the introductio,
or putting 20 work the spaniel as foun,
in North America to-day. 1t must no
he forgotten that the bench show classe
Of cocker spaniels in the United State
and Canada are larger than In any othe
places in the world. That they are beau
tlful and handsome dogs no one ca
deny. but IL has been said that Their
could be more sport had out of them.
Spaniels break themselves they re
quire only To be restrained TO make Their
drop 10 hand, wing, fur and shot. Tn
sporting spaniel Is good tempered do
and as willing az a poodle. He can h
taught TO retrieve an old stuffed skin o
rabbit indoors he soon will recogniz
what is meant when no is told to retriev
newly shot cottontall or bird when 4
the open. And then the dog IL OF res
service to his owner and the man will b
even more proud of him II Beppo ca
win prizes in the show ring The chic
drawback 10 the holding of field trials G
any kind is often a scarcity OF game
For spaniel field trials the best OF mike
shooting Is desired and necessary HaT
PLY. therefore. the offer Of the Alamuch
estates has aroused the greatest enthus
asm In Mr. Wilmerding and his assoc
ates. II may be regarded as certal
that once these spaniel tests nave bee
tried in Warren county, New Jersey, {
elsewhere. they will remain among III
chief sporting competitions In America
NEW RULE SUGGESTED.