The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-18
Brunswick Fur Club
Fails to Run Off
Its Derby.
REYNARD KEPT OUT or THE WAY
1t is Probable the Class
viii Be Run With the
All-age Today.

Barre, Oct. 17-F'ortune failed to
smile upon the Brunswick Fur club
which began it's annual fox hound field
trials here today. The attempt to run
the Derby was unsuccessful. Not a fox
was started, and it will be necessary for
the young hounds to make a second APP
pearance before the judges. There were
thirteen entries in the stake, and the
unlucky number is held responsible for
the failure.
DR.. A. c. Heffenger entered his hound
Sonnet; DR.. L. Pope, Jr., put in Sylph;
DR.. C. A. Nichols, who has come from
Urbana, ILL.,, to spend a week with the
hounds on Barrels hills, entered Doris;
c. NJ. Akerman put in Duke. These four
hounds were bred by members of the
Portsmouth Hunt club and claim to be
of the Portsmouth strain. Capt. B. P.
williamson put his faith in the July
hounds, Farewell and Georgia. Solomon
Bennett believes there is nothing like a
native hound and entered Crank, while
L. w. Campbell, president of the Woon-
socket Fur club, entered Crank's little
brother, Buff. G. H. Mawhinney entered
Echo North Carolina hound, but he
was later transferred to the all-age
stake. c. E. Taylor put in the native,
Fitz, and the English Birdsong hound,
LIE Grande. The latter, however failed
to return from a preliminary run that
he took on Monday, and did not appear
= !, tn.
tered his hounds, Duke and Ranger,
both well known to all Worcester hunt
ers.
The club was a bit late in starting
away from the hotel, and it was 625
when the pack was cast off in the old
reservoir district. The conditions for
sport seemed excellent. The air was
still and the ground damp, but either
there were no foxes in that section or
scent lay badly. At all events the
hounds failed to find a track that
would be carried, and though all
worked industriously and there was a
bit of tonguing now and then that
seemed promising, nothing came of it
all The country was worked out thor
oughly without result. But if foxes
were scarce, chestnuts and walnuts
were plentiful, and more than one
hunter filled his pockets while he list
pack. A duller or more unsatisfactory
hunt is not recorded in the annals of
fox hound field trials.
The days work was over at u
o'clock and everybody was back at
headquarters at lunch time disap-
pointed at the days bad luck, but not
discouraged, and looking forward to
better fortune tomorrow.
The entries for the all-age stake will
h oil OF q of n ic itncg
If the foxes will do their part, there
is sure to be great sport before the week
ends. A. B. F. Kinney enters his Ken
lucky hounds, Keno and Duke; o. F.
Joslin enters his thoroughbreds, Callie
and Ben Hur; A. B. McGregor puts
in the English Walker hound, Dandy
w. A. Bragdon is represented by the
Portsmouth hound. Dare: Stonebridge
kennels enter Gar, who formerly won
at these trials under the name of Stu
dent; DR.. L. Pope, Jr., enters his Derby
winner of last year, Bal; H. E. Deal
enters the Juby-Shaggy hound, Ben,
Jr.; Capt. B. p. Williamson puts in the
Jubys, Shine and Dora; Roger d. Will
liams enters the Walker hound Marks
man. that has made the long journey
from Kentucky especially to compete
in these trials; J. G. Perkins enters the
English native, Tunis; L. w. Campbell
enters the JUDY, Kinney, and the Wal
kerr Walkers Lewis; C. L. Wellington
enters his native hound, Fan; Hon.
John r. Thayer enters Ranger; f. H.
Bragg enters the Pooler hound, Tippoe
Eli; ]. H. Gafney enters the native
hounds, Golf and Sport.
Hon. John r. Thayer's hounds Duke
and Ranger, We're the last dogs in to-
night They were taken off a fox at A
O'Clock, and were the only entries In
the derby stake that made start to-
day. Their workawas done late in the
day, after the race had been declared
off, but they will receive due credit
when the final awards are made.
1t is probable that, as no decision
was reached in the derby today, the
all-age and derby entries will be cast
off tomorrow together. New grounds
will be tried and the present plan is to
hunt the Moose brook district. A party
is being made up to attend the meet of
the National FoXhunters' Association
to be held in Kentucky next month.
President o. F. Joslin will go as the
delegate of the Brunswick Fur Club,
Messrs. Kinney and Prouty will ac-
company him. and others are expected
to join later.
Bradford S. Turpin