Dogs

Two years ago Exhibitor Florence B Ilch got a telegram that said: "Your son died this morning." Mrs. Ilch fainted beside her collies at the Westminster Kennel Club show; later learned that her son was alive and well, that the telegram had been a fake. This year Exhibitor Madeline Frank's collie, Black Pirate, lay down on his bench, vomited, and after a convulsion of his sleek body, ruffled with white at the chest, closed his eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity. Amid the smell of chlorine that effaces the natural smell of dogs, flanked by rows of booths where biscuits, whips, brushes, blankets, Spratts food, worm medicine and Old Trusty were offered for sale, hundreds of thoroughbreds paraded through Madison Square Garden to be judged.

Chows. Red Cloud III, a male with a coarse pelt, bred in the U. S. by Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Quereaux, was named best of winners. Mrs. David Wagstaff's Ledgelands' Nyan Lok beat the other bitches.

Collies. "I have never seen such a magnificent pair as Mrs. Ilch's winners, Lucason of Ashtead o' Bellhaven and Bellhaven Bo Peep," said Judge Walter Reeves. Mrs. Ilch won first and reserve, best of breed and best bitch. Her kennel has won in the collie class every year since 1923 except 1927, when she did not exhibit.

Irish Wolfhounds. Big ones weigh two pounds the day they are whelped. The day they are six months old they should weigh 100 Ibs. Cragwood Bally Billy, who is not yet full grown, weighs 150 Ibs. and stands six feet high when you lift his front paws. Just out of the puppy class, he won in the novice class. Mrs. Norwood Bowning Smith of Urbanna, Va., owns him.

Bull Terrier. Best in the puppy class was Punch, son of Judy, a polite, muscular dog with a deep body, shoe-button eyes, and spry ears. He is owned by William E. Schratweiser.

Samoyede. The best was Mushnick of the Wingbrook Kennels--a dog like a fluffy, courtly wolf, with a cat's feet, and the face of a tiny, popinjay lion.

St. Bernard. Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime brewer, owner of the Yankee Baseball team, entered his Hercuveen Satellite but was beaten by Pythagora Junior of Berncrest Kennels.

Best in Show. Champions of six classes--a Pekingese, a wire-haired fox terrier, a beagle, an English bulldog, a shepherd and an Irish setter--paraded at last. The judges gave the gate to Delaware Kate, seemed wary of the famed shepherd, Giralda's Lola. Would they like Champion Meadow Lark Watchman, the merry beagle? A hound-dog is rarely judged champion of champions, and last year a collie beat a wire-haired fox-terrier. The judge went back to Giralda's Lola, and narrowed his job down to her, the beagle, and Pendley Calling of Blarney, the wire-haired fox, owned by John Bates of Morristown. N. J. He looked at them all once more, then fastened the purple and gold rosette on Pendley Calling. Champion Meadow Lark Watchman placed second, Giralda's Lola third.

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