The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-23
RIDING TO HOUNDS.
Fox HUNTING A FAyORITE SPORT
WITH WOMEN.
Etiquette of the Hunting Field In
wolves II Vast Deal of Entertain-
ing That is Jolly as Wei as Pic
tueresque.

New York, Sept. 21.-That imported
English sport, hunting, is becoming
more and more the fashion every year
There are clubs for the hunting set
at Rockaway and Meadowbrook; the
Richmond County club has its local
habitation on Staten Island; the Essex
County club belongs to the Oranges; the
Duchess County club is at New Ham
burg, while little farther away are
the Genessee Valley and Buffalo County
clubs. The swell hunting club of
Pennsylvania is located at Bryn Mawr
the Radnor; there is also the Rose
Tree club at Media. Maryland has the
Belmont club at Annapolis with that
splendid horseman, S. S. Rowland, for
master of the fox houndS-"M. f. H.,
as he writes after his name when
sending out the schedule of fixtures for
the season. The Chevy Chase club of
Washington is the rendezvous for
sportsmen who live at the nations cap
l1tal, while the Warrenton club is fire.
quented by more lovers of saddle
mound and horn who reside in Virginia
FIELD RULES AND PARLANCE.
The hunting season begins in Septem-
Der and ends about the last of April.
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little sport. To hunt during the sum-
mer is something of an innovation, but
Narraganset Pier set the pace this sum
mer- and during July and August there
have been runs three times a week with
the hounds; hunt breakfasts and a. hunt
ball which went off with great eclat at
the Casino, in August, have been bril-
liant features of the season at the Pier
The members talk of good going.
dr.ov
in at the death, the brush and the
mask, and so on, quite as though born
in merry old England. Sometimes
there is really and truly +" fox more
often, however, it is the trail of the an
Use seed bag, a drag hunt, which lures
on the hounds. Just here par paren-
these, when taking part in hunt.
hounds dogs" such faux pas writes
one down at once a neophyte in the
sport
A word in regard to the other phrase
ology of the hunting field.
Good going is opposed TO a "stiff
country" the two suggest in them
selves that your ride will be compare
lively easy. or else you will find fences
galore. Drawing cover" is a term
only used when there is a fox to hunt,
and is opposed to drawing blank
When fox is started up in a certain
quarter, it is spoken of as drawing
cover" where no Raymond appears in
the place expected, drawing blank" is
the correct way. of expressing it,
FOLLOWING THE HOUNDS.
To ride straight" i. E., 10 take
bitches and fences as they come and
not try to avoid them by even a slight
detour, should be the aim of everyone
who hunts.
Possibly this advice must not be fol-
lowed too closely, if the story which
comes from Canada be true. At one of
the hunts of the Montreal club Rey-
nard made for a shop, which being
unable to enter, the hounds following in
full cry, he ran through the private
grounds of gentleman's residence and
into the drawing room.
To gain renown on the field, ditch
after ditch, fence after fence, wall af-
ter wall, must be negotiated" Ito use
the technical term without any finch
ing; better get a fall, than to turn
aside from an obstacle.
The runs usually take place three
times a week.
HUNT ENTERTAINMENT
The Westchester club is frequently
entertained by Mr.. Cyrus Field Judson
at Ardsley Park, or by Mrs. Reynal at
White Plains-every hunt, however.
does not necessarily have a hunt
breakfast thrown in, although a tea is
given at the club house after the sport.
and occasionally hunt ball follows.
A pretty feature of the ball given this
spring at the Westminster club was the
dancing of a quadrille by ladies and
gentlemen in hunting costume. The
songs We'll All Go Out Hunting To-
day. Drink Puppy, Drink" "The
Place Where the Old Horse Died" and
other familiar hunting airs were sung
by the dancers as they executed the
figures of the quadrille.
Those who expect to take, part in a
hunt, if living in the neighborhood of
the meet, ride to the rendezvous; if at
a distance, they must go by train but
always in time to be punctuaI to the
hour
Ladies who follow the hounds usually
wear a riding habit fitting close to the
figure, of black or dark blue cloth, with
a high hat. The scarlet cloth habit is
the thing, however, for the field
Hunting pink" as it is called, is
dedicated to hunters, both men and
women, from time immemorial The
costume of the greatest dictinction is
that which uses the colors of the clubt
For instance, one English club the
Beaufort, wears buff and blue, with