The evening world., 1918-02-22

him?
At Madison Square Garden this
week 100 dogs are providing sport
for thousands Of visitors and rolling
up glory and ribbons and cash for
their wners. what are the dogs get
ting out Of it,
Some OF them-Ardshiel Bunty.
Ardshiel wendy, seedlsy Sterling,
Howbill Rival, and others to whom
prizes are no noyolty-soem TO enjoy
the strain, the publicity and all the
rest OF It as much as does any Broad
way starlet To other dogs the show
is torture. To the immortal Anfield
Model ("the dog without a fault") a
: show mean sustained horror, from
which he used to try ~piteously to es-
cane, IL was the same with sunny
bank Goldsmith and with many an
, other. To the kennel-raised dog it
Is part Of his routine. To the dog
who Is his masters chum II is often a
torment.
An actor. suddenly PLACED on a pin
nacle, would probably throw out his
chest and pose. A homo loving child,
thus placed, would be in agony. 1t Is
the same with a dog. And the pain Is
not all confined to the dogs them
selves. The veteran exhibitor takes
his gains and his losses as coolly as
does a good poker player. II Is all q
part OF his'day's work or sport. his
3 hobby or his trade. Just as 1t is
with the kennel raised dog.
But the amateur exhtbitor-like the
housebred chum-dog-suffers more
than the outsider car guess. Hore is
the idea:
THE PATHos OF NEARLY EVERY
SHOW.
A pretty. big-eyed girl, let's say
owns a collie her sweetheart gave her
1t Ia q thoroughbred. with a nice little
pedigree. She has made a pet OF the
dog from p%uppyhood. TO her 1t Is the
very loveliest and cleverest and ador-
ablest dog i'm all the world. And she
wants everybody TO know that So,
hearing OF tho dog show. she enters
her pet in several classes-at - pei
class. She is gleefully certain Rat
will win, because everybody say'
ne Is n dear, and because ne can 81
I'D and beg or play dead or fetcl
slippers or do any OF a dozen such
tricks she has taught him. So to TN
show the girl takes him.
Then comes a disillusion that ha!
more pathos than of comedy In II
She does not know that the seconds
Of every thoroughbred litter of pups
are the mes that are given away Il
friends or sold to novices; and tina
tho few pups with fine show-point'
are always kept by the breeders fol
future shows or else are sold AT TOT
prices TO professionals. Her pet, o
course, Is a second" And at TN
show he must compete with tn
at'nrsts'-the very greatest dogs II
.-Amerlca-perhaps on earth. 1t is a
though the sweet little soprano OF IN
village choir were to enter a SOM
contest with Galli-Curci.
The Judge is not al all intereste
In Rab's cunning tricks or in the wa
the girl has hufed up his hair an
'tied a bow 90 his collar. Rnb himsel
is in an anguish OF terror. in hi
grim and rackety new surrounding
The loved pet wins not one ribboT
He knows of his d~efeat--a bright do
always does. And II spells heart
break for the girl who so jubilantl
took him 70 sthe show. (rhis is nc
oone single case, but the story q
crnany hundred cases.) II is not a
unusual sight at all to behold a woe
begone girl or woman sitting huddle
at the edge Of her beaten pets bencl
trying to wink back the hot tear
and at the same time explain TO Ra
that she loves him and Is every b
! as proud OF him as IL the horri
-se had had the sense to give hi
every ribbon on the table ana a
the cash prizes besides,
Yes, the professional dog exhibitor
take their losses with a ~thoroughbre
sportsmanship that Is a model Il
the whole world Of sport, But 1t
cruelty hard upon the novices. An
there are scores of novices, For II
average beginner does not dream IN;
there IL every bit as much science
becoming a successful dog breed
and exhibitor as in learning how
assemble an airship and guide
across the lines,
A horse show, a live stock cNhibl
these entail no strain DR. sacrifice
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