The New York herald., 1921-01-23
Ready for FNyJna Campaign With
DOG SHOW EXTENDS
DATE FOR ENTRIES
Westminster Kennel Club to
Accept Them Up to Next
Wednesday.
by FRANK f. DOLE.

BY FRANK r. DOLE.
Patrons and dilatory exhibitors will
be surprised to learn that despite the
announcement that the entries for the
Westminster Kennel Club annual show
at Madison Square Garden had closed
last Wednesday it will be possible to
enter a dog UP to next Wednesday, and
even a mailed entry bearing the post
mark of January 26 will be In time. 1t
is a rare opportunity for those who in
tended to make an entry but whose de-
cision was lacking at the last moment.
or course there Is slight inconven-
ience to the late comers as he or she will
be subject to an extra fee, as according
to the rules a double entry fee will be
charged. thereby bringing the cost of
entry for q single dog up to $3.50. The
show takes place on February 10. IL and
IL, so that those who were slow to avail
themselves of the regular date Of nomi-
nation will have ample time to groom
their dogs and make a bid for the prizes
and other honors of what promises to be
the greatest exhibit in the history Of the
Westminster Kennel Club. and it will be
the forty fifth attempt at bringing to-
gether the foremost dogs on this side OF
the Atlantic.
Three Day Show Helps Entry.
An enormous entry has been handed
in, and exceptionally preeminent this
year is the lone dog" element and they
will be seen in every class on the cata-
logue. This is the result Of the three day
show which l advocated in The NEW
YORK HERALD and which the Westmin-
ster Kennel Club needed by putting into
execution. 1t is just what the small ex-
hibitor wanted. For years and years
fanciers with one or two dogs were kept
away from the show because they shud-
dered at the thought Of spending four
days around the Garden watching their
dogs, but although there is not so much
difference between three and four days
they have not baked so much at the
latter term and they have come forward
and swelled the entry to a great extent.
When the plan of three day show
has shown results on it's first trial 1t Is
sure to be more effective as the years go
by. Another thing which kept the small
exhibitor from mingling with the throng
of the dog world was the fear that the
single dog might catch some unforeseen
contagion at the Garden. Such a mis-
fortune will be impossible. for Superin-
tendent Gall will have the building thor
oughly disinfected and every dog will
be subject to a veterinary examination
before it is allowed to enter the Garden.
The Weeks Shows.
A brace of shows will engage the at
tention of the pet dog fanciers during
the week. The American Spaniel Club
will hold the boards at the Waldorf
Astoria on Wednesday and the American
| Pomeranian Club will stage its annual
affair on Friday. While the entry in
the Spaniel Clubs competitions is not
quite as numerous as it was q year ago,
| the 'Poms" can boast of bumper list.
Mrs. Frank Il. Clarke has a fine collec-
| tion some OF the entries being tempted
| from Canada, so that Vinton Breeze will
be confronted with no small task when
he Is called upon to distribute the rib
bons. j. Robinson Beard will judge the
spaniels.
For some time past there has been a
decidedly unfair tendency to criticse the
American Kennel Club for the manner in
| which ii published the American Kennel
| Gazette. A glance at the latest issue of
| the magazine leaves nothing to be de-
sired as far as details go, for it contains
not only the names of the owners but
the full pedigree of all dogs registered.
so that an enthusiast has only to put
the Gazette on file or bind the numbers
together when he has the full history
of every dog listed. Formerly only the
name of the owner and the name of the
dog were mentioned
| 1t is worth while to remind the ter
rier fanciers that the entries for the
annual show of the Combined Terrier
Clubs close next Saturday. The exhibit
has been scheduled for February .. the
day before the opening of the West
minister Kennel Club show, at the Sew
enty-first Regiment Armory. and to
judge by the interest manifested in the
fixture thus early, 1t is bound to be more
of n success than any of its ten prede-
cessors. The clubs banded together are
the Irish Terrier Club. Wire Haired
Terrier Club and Airedale Terrier Club
each with plenty of backing In the way
of money, challenge cups and other val
liable trophies In the matter of cash
prizes the Irish club leads with total
! OF sol, while the Airdale club ranks
second. with $50, and the total for the
wires is $325 John G.. Bates has prom
ised to be on hand with his famous Irish
champion. Blarney. Beckside Begorra.
winner of the best of all breeds at
Mineola. Morristown. White Plains and
Newport and the gold medal for the best
Irish TERROR at the 1920 special show.
Mr.. Bates will also figure with other
| Irish entries.
Old time lovers of the field dogs no
doubt will be pleased TO learn of the
success of Luke White, the veteran field
trial expert, with his pointer Alabama
Nose in the Continental field trials. at
hurtSlOru, Ala., recently. Luke is ~
brother of John White of Hampstead,
l.. l., the veteran field trial judge. and.
although he is now 73 years Of age. he
showed the knack of being able to school
pointer to get his nose on the quarry.
Nose was formerly the property Of WILL
| lam Ziegler of New York, who owns
some of the best gun dogs in the world.
but he is now in the kennels Of r. r.
| Coleman OF Lebanon, Pa. Alabama Nose
was not as snowy as his two opponents.
Great Island Robert the Devil and Guys
Romeo. but when IL came to the final