| BIG JESTER |
| Front Cover S.L.W. On the front cover this month is a picture of T.C. Wells' Big Jester. When we write about this noted hound we think of his sire, Tom Crowe, one of the greatest hounds of all times, a hound whose gameness no one could question for the longer the race the better he got. Big Jester is out of Kit Gentry, one of the best bitches Flying Cloud ever sired. She is out of Mary Davenport, a hound that made history year after year. There is no question but what this cross is a great one. Big Jester shows just how good this cross was because this hound has everything, speed, type, color, wonderful mouth, extreme gameness and lots of substance. He has proved that he can not only win on the bench but in the field. It would be hard to put down the number of times he and Big Joker won the pair class, winning at the Mid-West, Harrodsburg Show, Illinois State Fair and many other shows. He won the Grand Championship at Vandalia, Missouri and also at Ellsberry, Missouri and Tom Wells has won with him time and time again in his celebrated pack. Big Jester won the All-Age Championship here at the Mid-West at Troy, Missouri in the field. Here is an extract from a letter from Carl Dolan of Sullivan, Illinois, who kept Big Jester for a while. "I have thought lots of tiems about how I liked the way Jeter and his pups ran that time you were over." A letter from Harry Loyd of Maryland says this about Shdadow by Big Jester out of one of Tom Wells' bitches, "I will never get through talking about Shadow but, Mr. Wells, he is as near perfect as any hound I ever owned and I wouldn't take $500.00 for him." Big Jester also won the Combination Cup at the Mid-West for Best Hound in field and on the bench. The Chase Magazine October, 1943 |