The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
GREYHOUND %C0URSING.
vFoRT WITH JACK RARBITs on
RBREpsHEAp BAY RACE COURSE.

plvst Aspuat hutunan Stskcs-sevcrni Reach
- shsv Stara Compets--Csratio nnd Grow
DEG, TIVE uuportsa Hounds, Divide the
Resers-Ssnthsrn 1phy mos shows Up well,
A greyhound coursine match, with lusty Jack
rabbits A. tho quarry. furnished fine sport for
about 900 enthusiasts on tho middle field OF the
CcnaJ Island JOCKEY Club race track at Sleeps
head Bay yesterday. Tho event was the first
annual Autumn Stakes run nj by the American
National Greyhound Coursing Club, which was
organized 10 this city by tho greyhound fancicrs
during tho last February bench show of tho
.Westministor Kennel Club. In 1889 an attempt
70 hold = coursinH meeting on the Hampstead
Plains, In which many OF tho leading members
Of the hunt clubs were interested. was stopped
- outside Influences, but yesterdays coursing
H1eeting was conducted without O check and In
Smost sportninanliko manner.
The jack rabbits wero brought or from tho
West tor tho meeting. and were in vigorous
health aud as feat as the wind. The dogs were
a. high-class lot Those entered by Eastern
owners included Southern Rhymes, noted rs q
bench show winner both in England and this
country. md Grace Briant. q winncr Mt tho
recent bench show at Brooklyn. The coursing
soon settled itself into n race between bench
show form and field form. The Western grey
hounds. Coraiic and Crow Dog, both owned by
r. L. Leo, wore the only survivors in the
anaf heat. and the stakes. amounting to
V4o0. were divided. Both were bred in the ken.
sire is Babazoun. Tho first.namcd is from
pucnritero, the second. from Bonnie Belle. In
leo6 Coralie divided the Produce Stakes with
Magician ut Great Bend, Kan. and Crow Dog
ran third at the Altcar Coursing Clubs meet
Ing at Colorado Springs. The entries and draw.
tngs were:
4. r. Lsdew's Donald VS.. Charles NJ. Higgins's viva.
w. b. orotages Wood Nymph W.. Oliver ]. Wells
.Woodhaven Kennels Cyclone VS.. C. NJ. Higgins's
n L. Lees coralio VS.. N. Dcvon's Betsy.
wocdhaven Kennels Princetonia VS.. R. L. Lees
Grow Doe.
Lyke's Southern Rhymes.
Except in tho run between Wood Nymph and
Dash, whom the two were slipped from q hand
kerchief held through the collar, the dogs were
Get loose by tho handlers from leather thongs.
Tho summar OF the rounds follow:
first Round-Donald beat viva. Donald won the
run up. three go byes. and the kill. BY points, IL to II.
Wood. Eymph beat Dash. Both slipped by hand.
which favored the former. By points. II to IS. A
cycione beat Stella. Cyclone, after alternating
nasses, ran Up and killed. BY points, 2s to .. This
,S SoFEHlis ees, Betsy. y C cSsaiio had ten go byeS. then
Southern Rhymes heat Grace Briant by scoring
sE seScnS u a% ssss and a1,ii 5 sy Ps %ood q Sy to Ii. gaining
the honors By three 20 byes, the run up and kill. By
Cyclone and Coralis. No course. Cyclone slipping
collarsand being drawn after q hard course. Corslle
ran B bye with Grace Briant. who was substituted by
eonsent for Cyclone. coralie winning by a wide
Grow Dog beat Southern Rhymes, scoring the run.
up 2s spd f Rnnr6 ~ point Point,n; d II to- to 10 nor,,, ~. u,,,..
scored two go byes. the run up and kill. By points.
lot o: Coralie, q bye.
Fourth R~ound-crow Dog and Coralie divided
otakoa.