Show 2500 FOR GO BANG G 31 Carnochan Has Bought the Famous Fa-mous Wirecoated Fox Tsrrier Now York Sun Go Bang a dog noted at English bench shows as Ormonde was among thoroughbreds has been purchased by G M Carochan of the stock exchange and will be in this city with four kennel ken-nel companions in time for the West minister Kennel club show next month at Madison Square garden The price was J2GGO the largest sum i is said ever paid for a fox terrier wire or smooth In any country August Belmont Bel-mont Is reported to have refused a greater sum for Bleniton Victor I and the Rutherfords as much for Warren Safeguard No other dog in Great Britain has ever come near to Go Bang as a prizewinner prize-winner and he has won nearly as much fame as a sire of winners He is nearly I years old a cobby built type of fox terrier that the breeders rave over In the head Go Bang is heavily marked what the fanciers term gaily marked hisfoxllke snappy muzzle beIng backed back-ed by a tan face and blackish ears the coloring characteristic of the Knaves mire Jest stamp who was the sire of Meersbrook Bristles the father of Go Bang The dam Norman Bess was never of any great renown Go Bangs winning honors seeming to be entirely due to the paternal line He has won over 850 prizes andmoney awards His greatest honor has ueep to will twice the champion cup for the best fox ter ii rier at the Crystal Palace show and to i i have won a similar trophy at nearly every show in England at each of which he was always placed above the smooths always a rare occurrence In fox terrier classes Winthrop Rutherford Ruther-ford who saw Go Bang on his last trip abroad pronounced him the best fox terrier he had ever seen Meersbrook Bristles the sire of Go Bang and now almost too old for the show bench has just been brought out to Boston by J C Keyes who is said to have paid 1750 for him The first high price ever paid for wirehaired wire-haired fox terriers was in 1SS5 when Lord Lonsdale paid 250 guineas each for Champion Briggs and Miss Miggs H W Smith of Worcester Mass paid 1750 for Cribbage since dead In iSIS which ruled as the record price until the present sale Go Bang has been insured in-sured for one year for the full price paid The dog will be shipped on the Campania which is due to arrive just before the Westminister show |