The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-19
FOX HUNTING AT NEWPORT.
THIRD MEET OF THE QUEENS COUNTY HUNT
CLUB-A LIVELY RUN IN THE RAIN.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

THIRD MEET OF THE QUEENS COUNTY HUNT
CLUB-A LIVELY RUN IN THE RAIN.
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
NEwroRr r. l.. August IL. 1879.
So far as weather is concerned this genuine
English hunting day. The rain poured down in
an incessant food and the ground was as
soft and muddy the most exacting sportsman
could desire. The "huntng morning." accord
ing to the old song. is proclaimed by o
"southerly wind and cloudy sky" The
direction of the wind to-day not southerly bnt
northeasterly ana instead of merely 'cloudy sky"
it real old fashioned New England rain storm.
Closet sportsnen would have preferred ''seekng the
secluson that parlor grants with book and
cigar to facing the elements. 1t really hunting
in earnest.
THE MEET.
The meet was about mile from Newport. ut what
is known here the sOne Mile Corner" near the
farm of Mr.. Bull. The gathering comprised seven
or eight ardent sportsmen, two or three carriages
and one drag-quite a contrast to the crowds that
turned out to the two former meets. As the
spectator along the road Messrs Griswold. the
master. and Zbrowski. first whip. In their
rcd coats. presented dripping picture of
the sort so common in Leicestershire
Their field composed Of Messrs. Farman
Rogers. Colonel Waring. Captain Candy, Mahlon
Sands. and that irrepressible sportsman. Mr. Pete
Dickers, who will face anything from gutter to II
u
pony. There We're also two or three beefy coach
men, mounted on fine horses, which in experienced
hands might have gone cleverly but which the
ignorant servants seemed far more likely to spoil
than to teach how to go "cross country"
FINDING THE SCENT.
The hounds found in u held to the right of the
west road, a farm house, half mile from
where they started The drag evidently laid
from this small held across o post and rail more
than four feet high. into another eld then turning
sharply to the left. took the hunters another
very high rost and rail. continuing in northerly
no
pace. Mr.. Griswold and Mr.. Zbrowski close behind,
taking the fences in fine STYLE followed by the small
but plucky field. the coachmen alone excepted The
last seen of the hunters by the spectators was tho
in the distance closely following the hunt. III tho
centre of the field surrounded by the highest fences
in Rhode Island. How no managed to get there
mystery, as the fences had no gaps, any holes
big enough to crawl through and drag pony
after 1t is supposed that. like Guy Heavystone. he
must have thrown his pony over first and jumped
the fence himself afterward.
LIVELY RUN.
From one Of the feld who followed the hounds to
the finish your reporter learned that the fox escaped
alter y lively run of an hour and five minutes to
Stone Bridge, distance of eight miles as the
flies Besides the huntsmen and whips. who were
in their proper places throughout there in at
the finish Captain Candy and Mr. Mahlon Sands, the
latter gentleman proving the truth OF the adage that
where there's a will there's q way, as he rode
Newport. without knowing whether he could jump
not Mr.. Sands riding showed that he had not
forgotten the lessons he had learned in Leicester
shire, the first principle OF which is chucking your
heart first" which he carried out thoroughly.
Messrs Rogers and Warning, who were going remark
finish consequence OF having to meet engage
nents for dinner