'A Splendid Collection of Dogs but Poor Support by the General Public The second attempt, on Saturday, of a small group of dog-lovers to start a regular dog show in Shang hai was one of those curious mixtures of success and failure which occasionally occur. So far as the dogs on exhibition were concerned, the- show probably was great deal in advance of what anybody imagined could be done in Shanghai, but the trouble was that there were not a great many more people than dogs present and therefore it is extremely doubtful whether the show paid for itself, apart from making the profit which the promoters wore hopeful of handing dyer to the "Field" Distemper Fund. Last year's show was spoilt by a deluge of rain that continued all day: this year's apparently suffered through the gloriously fine wear for, a8 there were no other attractions until the tennis doubles match late in the afternoon, it is to be assumed that most people must have been engaged at cricket tennis, oF on up-river excursions, "As regards the dogs there can be nothing but praise. 'There were altogether about 350 benched and certainly 75 por cent, of them were (mals who would' have ranked in any provincial show at Homo, fen though possibly they would not have made much impression London, There were even some, according to the judges, who could with confidence have been benched anywhere, Notable amongst th Tater were Mr. H. E, Morris: Alsatian bitch, Mr. W. J. Hawkings bull terrier, Mr, A. W. Burkill's wirehaired fox terrier bitch, Mrs. EH, G, Tait's dog of the same breed (though the latter only took third place behind Caesar, last year's Champion), Mr, F. B. Scott's champion Boston bull terrier and Mrs, Schregardus's champion Jo panese spaniel. The Alsatians easily were the biggest class, it being possible to make sections for dogs, bitches and puppies, but the pointers probably were the best class as regards quality. Tt was particularly noticeable that, al though only two classes were judged cly the same judges as last year—and in neither of these two were the awards the same—in very many censes dogs who secured awards ast year also came to notice this time, #0 that their owners may be sure' theft animals really have merit, Sudging always is a dificult business and it is impossible to be too lavish in praise of those ladies and gentlemen who officiated on this occasion, Miss Vera McBain, Mr. 'Trevor "Twentyman, Mr. H. BE. Gibson and Mr. J. F. W. Milne had the tasks which' came more prominently to notice, through being the judges of the' more popular lasses, and they gave every satisfaction but only those more closely connected with the management of the show know of the immense help, given by Miss Jean Armstrong, Mr.
W, Goldring, Mr, C. H. Green, Mr. J. F, Duncan, Mrs. Wing and Mr. R. Neumann, who judged classes previously allotted to them and at the shortest notice also took over the duties of other judges who were indisposed. Mr. E. 'T. Byrne, Mi Bf. 0. Springfeld and Mr. A. de C. Sowerby accepted what always are the most difficult tasks—judging the miscellaneous classes—and did them well. One cannot omit some mention of Major H. EH. Keylock, who for two hours Sat' under a broiling sun conducting the veterinary, examination, but who seemed to be content with being able to say that not one of the dogs was suffering from disease.
During the afternoon, Mrs, E. T. Byrne kindly presented cups to the owners of the winners in each lass, and her husband, as chairman of the committee, in ' addition to Paying generous compliments to all who had assisted, offered some very direct comment, especially reminding exhibitors that it would be quite impossible to run dog shows if people who entered dogs walked them off as soon as the judging was finished, leaving only empty stalls to be viewed by visitors to the show.
Honoxone's public executioner has resigned rather than hang the Chinese woman condemned to death in the Lantao murder case, for Poisoning her husband.
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