The evening times., 1896-11-26
CAMPH0R IS NOT WANTED
Chevy Chase Pink Coats Will
Still Follow Hounds.
PLENTY OF SPORT PROMISED
Rumor Came From Philadelphia
That the Club Intended to Give
Up Its Runs-stOry Flatly Denied
by Those Who KnOw-NO One Be-
Heved the Report.

The Chevy Chase. hounds are not going
breaths easier.
Nobody in this part of the country sup
posed that the Chevy Chase hounds We're
going out of harness till the sensation Was
sprung from Philadelphia yesterday. 1t
is not often that Philadelphia springs a
sensation. raIlroa d collision in Il cemetery
would be about as likely, but yesterday 1t
came.
How the report started no one knows,
but IL probably had its origin IN the brain
of some vagrant correspondent anxious to
kill space, some mute, inglorious Richard
Harding Davis, whose inventive genius
has NOT yet been recognized by the public
and the publishers.
Anyhow. the rumor came. The Chevy
Chase hounds, according to report had be-
come discouraged That wary animal the
anise seed fox, was rapidly becoming ex-
tinct in Montgomery county. Covers had
been drawn for him in vain. and the Ma
tional Museum was thinking Of organizing
Il grand cross-country hunt TO secure a last
specimen to be mounted for the benefit Of
po terity. Therefore it was that the Chevy
Chase hunt was to be abandoned.
PINK COATS STILL OUT.
The pink coats of the members were to
be sold at a sacrifice Or put up in camph or
To await the coming OF the eXt tame stag
from England. The last tame stag that
used TO occasionally Relieve the anise seed
fox IN giving the hounds breather devel-
oped corns some time ago and had to be re-
tired from active service, his head and ant
iers going to adurn the ballroom OF the
club, and his steaks going to EN- bellsh the
game stall in the Center Market.
All this is the report frcm Philadelphia
set forth with circumstance and detail and
the rumor brought with 1t sorrow to a hest
of sport-ioying chappies, who do not
pay any dues 10 the Chevy Chase Club. but
who take the Rider and Driver ON acc ount
Of its ciety-sporting flavor, and who ride
out to the club on n livery stable hack
once a week, or twice, mayhap, if they have
the price, and follow the hounds, - usually
by the aid of an opera glass, from the
nearest convenient turnpike.
OF course, The club members themselves
know better. They realize that the PhiIa-
delphia story was "A canard, and they knew
that the drug stole cOverts could be sue
cesSfully drawn for more anise seed when
ever the astcr Of the hounds o desired
They sat in front of the checry log fire in
The clubhouse and over their brandy and
soda, smute their riding oots with their
hunting crops, while they swore Olympian
oaths that the Philadelphia Hunt was ieal-
Gus, and wanted merely to throw discredit
ON the Washington pack. This was prob
ably true. But chappy dom at large, that
portion which pays club dues did not
know it, and grieveth yet
To RELIEVE APPREHENSION
II is to relieve this apprehension that this
authentic statement is given to the public
u was too late when this distressing report
reached The Times office for an official
refutatlon to be sought from any of the
officers Of the club. The sporting editor,
also, was too prostrated with grief to be
sent out ON the story. The sporting editor
Is a stanch friend of the club, and takes "A
warm interest ia the noble game Of aniSe-
fox hunting, though he is usually too much
engaged in reporting glove fights and mis-
slonary meetings To attend the runs in per-
son, and usually follows the hounds over
the telephone
He pulled himself together after the first
shock and called up the club.
iesSuh,'' answered "A mellow voice in
response To his II ellov'
Who dis? Dis de cook. suh'
Stop de hunt, sun? Nav, bress yo' soul:
dey amt no truf In it. Dawgs is fe.iiu'
fust rate; eats dey 'lOwance regular. Lurs
e er anlse-ile left in de secretary's desk Wit,
an specs lie young gemInen gwine out
agin next Saturday.