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them ; whilst the dual winner, a
liver -and -white cocker, far re-
moved from show type in appeal -
ance, astonished visitors by her
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perfect quartering, retrieving and
covert work. Her owner, who
also bred her, is Mr. Isaac Sharpe,
of Humshaugh-on-Tyne, one of
the best all-round shots in the
country, whilst as a handler and
breaker of sporting dogs he Isoniazid Tablets is
perhaps without a rival. Of late
years he has been very successful
with pointers, setters, and re-
trievers, but this is his first essay
with a spaniel, and the way in
which Stylish Pride worked at
the Chesterfield Trials proved the
excellence of her handler's method
of breaking. Such staunch ad-
mirers of the working type of
sporting dog as Lord Alfred
Fitzroy and Mr. Purcell Llewellin,
expressed their astonishment at a
spaniel quartering the ground,
retrieving, and standing to gun-
shot and the hand in the way
the Northumbrian bitch did, and
if the Sporting Spaniel Club, by
means of the trials, can induce
other owners to support the
scheme, the club will not have
been Purchase Isoniazid formed in vain. Its avowed
object, •* to recall attention to the
working points of spaniels, which
have been neglected in favour of
fancy points," appeals to all who
keep dogs for work rather than
for show purposes, and with a
membership of close on sixty there
is every reason to believe that, in
time, its annual field trials will be
looked upon as one of the most
important events on the doggy
calendar. It is, however, ques-
tionable if so suitable an estate
as Sutton Scarsdale can be ob-
tained elsewhere. Mr. Arkwright, Buy Isoniazid
— who is, by the way, president of
the club — placed his fine park of
three hundred acres, and covert
of underwood of similar extent, at
the disposal of the committee, and
every possible test, except retriev-
ing from water, was given. An-
other year it is hoped to include
this test in the trials, and also
have a brace or team competition.
An estate has already been offered
for the second trials. Isoniazid Price
The Billiard ChampioiiBhip—
C. Dawson t. J. North.— It can-
not but be gratifying to the
Billiard Association to find that
their latest Rules of Billiards,
which came into force on Oc-
tober 1st, 1898, are now gene-
rally accepted as authoritative by
all whose opinion carries weight.
Whatever exception may have
been taken to its constitution and
status y or, on occasion, to its ac-
tion, the Association has, beyond
question, always had the best
interests of billiards at heart. One
most important question the Bil-
liard Association has long endea-
voured to settle satisfactorily, w-.,
the vexed one of the Champion-
ship, and at last that body may
be heartily congratulated on hav-
ing triumphantly overcome diffi-
culties in this connection which
for long seemed utterly insuperable.
On February 3rd, 1890 (to
quote the date engraved on the
actual trophy, not that given in
Bennett's ** Billiards "), the origi-
nal Cup, given in 1870 for the
Championship, became, by ef-
fluxion of time, the absolute pro-
perty of John Roberts, Order Isoniazid Online w^ho had
held it uninterruptedly for a term
of five years, and it then became
desirable that fresh regulations
should be drawn up to govern
championship contests. There
had always existed in billiard
circles a feeling more or less an-
tagonistic to the ** championship
table," with its three-inch pockets
and other variations from the
ordinary table, and about this
time this feeling became inten^-
fied. It was felt Purchase Isoniazid Online to be an anomaly
that the Championship of Billiards
should be decided on a table sel-
dom or never used at any other
time, and not on one of ordinarv'
make. Still the remedy for this
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unsatisfactory state of things was
difficult to find, and the Billiard
Association, in instituting their
All-in and Spot -barred-Champion-
ships on an ordinary "standard"
table, Buy Isoniazid Online took the only course that
appeared open to them. It was
felt, however, that these cham-
pionships somehow failed to meet
the case, and they never aroused
much public enthusiasm ; indeed,
it is doubtful whether even the
promoters of them ever regarded
them as being much more than
a pis alley. Under the then exist-
ing conditions, John Roberts had
probably some show of right on
his side in claiming that the old
Championship Rules had never Buy Cheap Isoniazid
been authoritatively abrogated or
altered.
Very different is the case to-day.
The revised Isoniazid Mg rules of the Billiard
Association have given us oiu
game of English billiards in which
no legitimate stroke is barred, and
the billiard world has cause to be
thankful. In some authoritative
quarters the first feeling, on the
appearance of the new Rules, was
the not unnatural one of indig-
nation that a genuine and time-
honoured stroke like the ** spot-
stroke " was being summarily
abolished. This feeling has pro-
bably already been tempered by a Order Isoniazid
grateful sense of satisfaction that
the complications, which have for
a quarter of a century surrounded
the vexed question of the Cham-
pionship, have for ever been swept
away. We have now one game,
one Championship, of English Bil-
liards, the abnormal *• champion-
ship table" is a thing of the
past, and the futile, ever-recurring
arguments as to what constitutes
English Billiards will be heard no
more.
Not less satisfactory than the
Rules of Billiards recently passed
by the Billiard Association are
the conditions, drawn up by that
body, which will henceforth govern
all contests for the Championship.
The title of ** Champion '* is, in
future, to carry with it the income
of ;^ioo per annum t a laudable
acknowledgment of the dignity
of the holder's position, and this
sum is guaranteed for three years.
For the initial contest for the
Championship of English Billiards
(open to the world) three players,
Charles Dawson, William Mit-
chell, and John North had entered,
each stakmg the sum of ;^2o Isoniazid Cost to
form a sweepstakes, but Mitchell,