New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-30
Golf and Guns Go
Hand in Hand Here
GREAT RUSH TO
SHOW AT GARDEN
Despite the War Prospects
Are That Entries Will
Break Record.

This las been week Of iuSh ana
hustle about the new Offices OF the
Westminster Kennel Club. Is East
Forty-frs; Street. for the entries ha'
been piling up in every mail for the
fortieth annual dog show Of the time
honored organization. which viii be
held in Madison Square Garden during
the week Of Washington's Birthday.
As letters mailed from distant PORTS
en- Thursday are good entries accord
inc 10 the American Kennel Club law
i will be impossible 10 prepare the
compilation for fully wees. but JudG-
irc by tine early entry. William kauch'
Chairman of the dog show committee -
confident that the benching w'il bc Dot
ter even than last year. In view OF me
many complications regarding the IN
portation OF dogs due TO the war, TINS
state Of affairs is very pleasing TO inc
projectors Of America Oldest ana
greatest dog show.
Among new and old exhibitors who
will be represented in strength are the
RockcMfo Kennel bulldogs. the Val
lev Farms Russian wouhoundS' me
cocker spaniels Of H. K Boodgood :
Mepal Kennels, and the German shep-
herd dogs Of Mr.. and Mrs. BENJAMIN II,
Throop. The Vernon Castles ana
Thomas T. Ryan have also sent early
entire, If German shepherd dO-'-
An unusually large entry OF AlredaIe
terriers is assured. and those 10 come
with gres, reputation from Cal1orn,a
and the Middle West. in conjunction
with the Eastern entries, are relied
on bv the fanciers Of this large and &C
tive type of terrier 10 make the Dreed
the most important in that section OF
the show
To overcome the great popularity
now held bv the wire haired fox ter
riers VII be great achievement for
the Airedales II the energy OF those
who specialize in them can bring II
about. The advent of the relgnlng
wire-haired champion from England.
Wv Collar Boy, imported by Mrs Roy
4. Rainey. will strengthen the latter
division. which has been so prom nent
of late 5v the great string exhibited
BY George ". Quintard, jr.. which IN
ciudes the famous Wireboy OF Paign-
ton. Matford Vic. Holmbury Reye and
others.
There is 2 specially large entry OF
dachshunGe. the West sending entries
in strength for the first time TO com
pete with the we'll known Eastern ken
nels. The Vickery Kennels. of Chi
caeo. have entered twenty dogs each.
ana every one of them a British or
American champion Airedale or wire
haired fox terrier. Other Chicago eX-
hibitors include O. ". Lehman. with
a large string Of wire haired fox ter
riers, and Alex II. Stewart, who Will
bring on bulldogs in the hope OF re-
peat.ng the great successes OF recent
years gained by his champion Strath-
tay Prince Albert.
The classification for American fox
hounds on the Peterborough plan. with
the added special prizes given by the
Masters Of FOXhounds' Association, has
stimulated the interest in the home
bred type. and. besides individual en-
tries, there will be packs shown by the
Piedmont. Montpelier and Middlebury
hunts, with other entries from Nir-
GINA.
Robert !. Collier has made an early
entry Of English foXhounds from his
Monmouth County Hunt, and Major
Wadsworth has also made q strong en-
try from the Genesee Valley Hunt
Club. Besgles will include for The pack
special the entries of II. {. Phipps S
Wheatley Kennels and the Vernon
Place beagles Of Richard Gambrill, Of
Newport.
Greyhounds have been entered in spe-
cial strength by Mrs. Haley Fiske, Of
the Overcross Kennels. and A. b..
Maclay's Killearn Kennels, the latter
also entering Dandie DinmOnts and
West Highland white terriers. Mrs.
Payne Whitney and the Long Island eX-
hibitors who have been prominent in
exploiting this pretty type of the Scot
tie have also made early entries, and
the former will also be represented by
her rare sheepdogs.
All the well known Eastern and
Western fanciers of Scottish and Irish
terriers have made entries, or sent
word that they have mailed them. W.
Ross Proctor again leads as a nomi-
nator Of Sealyhams. and the fact that
3 for the first time there are classes for
working terriers of this Welsh strain
has increased the interest in the breed.
4 1t is possible that classes for working
terriers will become general.
Pomeranians are coming IN fast, and
when the out Of town mails have all
been heard from. 1t is thought that a
bumper entry will be recorded. Pc
kinge5e and Brussels griifons have
also been entered IN strength. and the
early entry Of Japanese spaniels indl-
Gates that this type is again TO forge
10 the front among the toy breeds.
Yorkshire terriers are also increasing
in popularity. while the standard Eng
lish toy spaniel breeds have held their
place in the early nominations.