The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-17
TO RUN the DERBY,
The Eleventh Annual
Foxhound Field
Trials.
BRUNSWICK FUR CLUB.
Barre Is Crowded with
Sportsmen and
Hounds.
BRUNSWICK FUR CLUB.

Barre, Oct. 16.-The eleventh annual
foxhound field trials of the Brunswick
Fur club will be held here during the
present week. The program of the
meet is an attractive one, and will draw
foXhunters from all parts of New Eng
land. Tomorrow the derby will be Run.
This stake is open to all foxhounds
whelped on or after Jan. /, 1895 It will
be decided in one day, if the young
hounds are lucky enough to start a
fox, and the decision of the judges will
be given in the evening. On Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday comes the
great event of the week, the running
OF the all-age stakes, to which all fox
hounds are eligible. The final decision.
OF the judges in this race will be mads
on Friday evening, and at that time
the handsome silver cups and medals,
which arc on exhibition at Hotel Barre
this evening, will be distributed.
FOR number of years the shooting
OF foxes at the time of the field trials
has been prohibited. This rule has
been strictly enforced, and those who
prefer hunting with gun and mound to
watching the driving pack, have felt
year, however, change has been made
in the club rules, and while no shooting
at foxes driven by hounds entered in
the trials will be allowed, there will be
opportunity For the shooters to blaze
away til! their guns are hot on grounds
other than those selected for the trials.
A charge has also been made in the
running rules under which the trials
are held. Heretofore no one has bAGn
oil -,1 b
any way after they were cast Off. The
natural result was that unless a fox
was started at once, the hounds became
widely scattered. The new rule, which
Is tried for the first time this week
permits handler to hunt his hounds
In any way he sees fit, under the direc-
ton of the master of hounds. It is OK
pected that the pack will be hsld to-
gether better than in the past, and
that the interest in the trials will he
CORRESPONDENCE greater.
Hunters and hounds have been arriy-
ing by every train, and Hotel Barre is
filled tonight with an enthusiastic
crowd of sportsmen discussing the mer-
It's of the hounds, and endeavoring to
pick the winners in the great events Of
the week Among those present are
Hon. John r. Thayer of Worcester
with Duke and Ranger; c. S. Dearborn
VI Lynn; - II. 1dyIOf OF WODurn, with
Hunter, Fritz and LIE Grand; A. B. f.
Kinney Of Worcester, with Duke and
Keno; e. w Gill, Pittsburg; Hon. o.
S. Joslin, Oxford, with Ben Hur and
Collie; DR.. A. c. Messenger, Ports
mouth N. H, with Fonnet; DR.. L.
Pope, Jr., Portsmouth, with Sylph and
Bal; S. M. Alderman of Portsmouth,
with Duke: Goodwin Perkins, Ports
mouth, with Tunis; c. C. Gragg, Bed
ford w. B. Stone. Waltham, with
Boxer; DR.. C. A. Nichols, Urbana, ILL.,,
with Doris; G. L. Brooks, Bernon, Vt;
Arthur Parks, Bradford, N. H.; L.
Smith, Weston, with Mack; A. B. Nc
Gregor, Middleton, with Dandy; L. w.
Kembell, Woonsocket, r. l., with Louis
and Kinney; Solomon Bennett, Grams
ton, R. l., with Buss and Crank; Capt.
B. T. Williamson, Green Harbor, with
Shine, Dora, Farewell, Georgia and
Ben; w. H. OConnor, Boston; j. H.
Van Dorm, Ridgewood, N. j.; C. ].
Prouty, Scituate; Horace Fuller, Ded-
ham, with Price, Student and Rover.
Tomorrow's trials will probably take
place in the old reservoir district,
where such good sport was enjoyed last
year. Foxes are reported plentiful but
the ground is very dry and rain is
needed to enable the hounds to do their
best work.