Bass' Tramp Red Boy (Wendell Martin's)

[CYJ]

I never met Mr. Mc'Cloud or saw his bitch dog Mc'Cloud's Susie-Q. Mr. Mc'Cloud was the breeder of the litter of dogs that the Bass' Tramp Red Boy was bred out of. Mr. Mc'Cloud lived in Florence S.C. Mr. Mc'Cloud advertised his Pit Bull pups for sale through the Florence Morning News Paper Sales Ads. Even today time to time you will see Pit Bull pups for sale in the Sales Ads along with other breeds of dogs.

Tramp Red Boy was first owned as a puppy till up around 14 to 16 months old by W. Martin who lived in Dillon S.C. Some of Tramp Red Boy's male siblings out of that litter were named Louis Miles' Bouncer/Ford's Blaze/Lindsey Mc'Dougal's Happy/and Mr. Howard Teal's Mike, some called this dog Big Mac. Lastly Theo Hendrix' Sandy dog. There was one bitch I knew of owned by Louis Miles. Miles put this bitch down at a young age as it was a cold bitch. If any other females I do not know.

Tramp Red Boy/Ford's Blaze Dog/and Teal's Mike were larger dogs with Big Mac being the largest. Bouncer, Happy, and Sandy were around 45 pound dogs with the rest around 58 to 65 pound dogs. Tramp Red Boy was matched at 52 pounds.

Bouncer was a tiger brindle/black nose dog. Ford's Blaze dog was a reddish tan with black nose. Mc'Dougal's Happy was a light reddish tan dog with red nose/yellow eyes. Hendrix' Sandy was a light reddish tan with red nose/yellow eyes. Mr. Howard Teal's Big Mac was a dark brown dog with a black nose and was undershot with a more Bulldog looking head. Tramp Red Boy was red with red nose and yellow eyes. Red Boy, Happy and Sandy looked more a like.

W. Martin had a yard of dogs bred off the Loposay's Bullet II dogs and some Loposay Carver's Tiger Jack breeding. Martin sold Red Boy to Randy Bass. Martin later on sold his Martin's Lady bitch to A. Howell, along with a young male dog off Loposay's Tiger Jack x Loposay's Beanie called Buckshot.

You will find the Martin's Lady bitch in the breeding of Ray Carter's Blackie dog that helped found F. Jacob's Assassin line of dogs. A breeding off Howell's Buckshot dog x Martin's Lady can be seen in the Snake man and Fat Bill dogs.

The Martin's Lady bitch was also bred to Tramp Red Boy when Wendell still owned Red Boy. My brother owned one of the bitches named Young's Liz and Rowell had a male named Ringo. Both dogs were black and white, had good mouths and showed to be game dogs. Wendell bred Tramp Red boy to some of his other bitches but do not know anything of those dogs or breeding. Lot of dog men back then did not register their dogs. Just kept their own personal records.

All of these dogs that Mr. Mc'Cloud bred were U.K.C. registered. The papers shown on Louis Miles' Bouncer dog read the same as the pedigree shown on this site and others on Bass' Tramp Red Boy. I did not look at any of the other dog men's pedigrees,since all the owners knew their dogs were bred off Mr. Teal's yard. The Big Mac or Mike dog was probably the stud fee pup that was given to Mr. Teal for breeding the Mc'Cloud's Susie-Q bitch. This Susie-Q bitch was also shown bred off Mr. Teal's yard.

Katie Marlowe later became a dog partner with Bass,when he died she became the sole owner of Red Boy and the remaining dogs they had bred up. There were some breeding's off Red Boy and Bass's Cleo that Bass made. Bass sold some of those young pups and dogs to other dog men in his area. One notable dog man who got some of the older Bass Red Boy x Bass' Cleo stock was Mr. Carl Mims.

I can not remember his name. But there was one dog man that lived close to Bass in Dillon S.C. This dog man had some direct dogs off Red Boy and Cleo. Some were black colored like Cleo with black noses, body builds like the Marlowe's Britches dog. Were also a few red nose red dogs. Not sure where all this dog man's dogs went too after he got out of the game.

Katie Marlowe is one of the main founders of the Tramp Red Boy line of dogs. She line bred and inbred off Red Boy till late into Red Boy's life. Red Boy lived to a ripe ole age for a Bulldog. All of the rumor's of Red Boy's breeding were the same ones I heard forty years ago. Only two people know for sure and that was Mr.Teal and Mr. Mc'Cloud. No one disputed the Dam of Red Boy or the Mc'Cloud's Susie Q's breeding. The question and mystery was always who was the actual Sire of the Bass' Tramp Red Boy dog.

It may have been Rowell that was one of the last persons that visited Mr. Teal at the hospital or at his home not long before he passed. I was told Mr. Teal was again asked if he knew the breeding of the stud dog. That was the sire of the Bass' Tramp Red Boy and it's siblings litter. Mr. Teal's reply was the stud dog was bred down from the Ross' Red Devil bloodline.

It is best to just accept the fact that the Tramp Red Boy line began with Katie Marlowe and her breeding around Bass' Tramp Red Boy. I think she did a great job myself. Was right up there with the rest of the famous Male Dog men breeders of her time. Other Red Boy breeders like Mr. Mims/Hunt/Robinson/Gainey/Truett/Cottingham/Holland/ Bailey etc. did well with their own Red Boy strains and their crosses.

Katie's son Bo told me a few weeks back they had sold off their yard years back. That the remaining Red Boy dogs on their yard went to a dog man in Tenn., who wishes to remain private. There is one dog man that called me just this past week. He still has some tight bred Red Boy dogs off Marlowe's Chance/Mr. Bulldog/and Britches. He has over the years used his Red Boy/ Red Boy-Jocko crosses with some Garner's China Man/Mr. Wesley Truett's Prince dogs with good results. He wishes to remain unknown and was wanting some of V. Jackson's blood line to cross back into for some different pulling traits.

After reading some of those Red Boy stories over on the other site. I hope this clears up some of the mystery and mystique on Tramp Red Boy for some of the new comers. Marlowe's Tramp Red Boy/V. Jackson's Hank/William Kelley's Willie were the popular stud dogs in the Pee Dee area of the South East, in my time era. Cheers