The San Francisco call., 1899-12-30
HUNTING GAINS
IN FAVOR WITH
BURLINGAME MEN
Large Fields Follow the San
Mateo Hounds.
Frank Carolan. Master of the Hunt,
Soon TO keturn From the + asst
With Fresh Ideas.

The San Mateo Hunt Club has decided
not to accept the proposal OF the Bur-
lingame Country Club TO use part OF the
latters grounds, but will preserve an in
dependent existence. Already rough tenn
porary kennels have been built. and the
pack will be removed from Walter Ho-
bart's place and housed in the new quar-
ters next week. The kennels are on Will
liam III. Towards land on the Crystal
Springs road. TO the west OF San MateO.
Later on. when Frank j. Carolan, master
OF hounds, returns from the East. the
kennels Will be improved. y letter recent
ly received from the master OF the San
MateO Hunt says that he Will return
early in January. bringing with him a
first-class huntsman, who hunted for sew
eral years in England and has been for
some time in the employ Of the Toronto
Hunt Club. The master writes that he
had hoped TO bring back with him some
good hunters for the members OF the club,
but has been disappointed in his arrange
ments for shipping them. He will. how
ever, come home with three or four good
horses. During his absence he has hunt
ed with many OF the Eastern clubs and
has derived several ideas for raising and
benehting the San MateO Hunt. lie will
also bring with him a few good stud
hounds from Canada, which Will be used
To improve the local pack. There are at
present about seventy-fVe In the pack.
of which twenty-five couples are III for
work and the rest are puppies about five
months old. The hounds are in charge of
Jerry Heating. who came To California
with the pack from the East
The following are the officers OF the san
Mateo Hunt Club: John Parrott. presi-
dent: J. J. Moore, vice president. John
Lawson. secretary; Duncan Hayne. treas
urer; the foregoing with J III. L. Howard
w. OBJ. Macdonough Hugh Hume, +. ID.
Beylard, Frank j. Carolan and W. >
Hobart form the board OF directors
There are about twenty-eight subscribers
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From now until May /. when the sea-
son closes. there will be two meets each
week. in which any one. whether belong
ing to the club or not. may join. The OBJ
ject OF this is To increase public interest
In the sport. The club has the right to
ride over wide extent of country, en-
bracing hill and dale. and having plenty
OF stiff fences. Not to make the going
too difficult the top rail OF the fences IS
taken down at some points. so that those
who have not fine hunters may not be
A very pleasant afternoons sport was
enjoyed last Saturday. The air was clear
and invigorating and the ground. having
dried somewhat since the rain. the going
was fair The hounds were laid on at
Millbrae Dairy. and after a ten-mile run
through a pretty country. with two
checks finished at the Homestead. near
San Mateo. The hounds were In charge
of Jerry Heating and the field Of twenty
two included Mrs. Dunphy. Miss Marie
Oge. Miss Marie Wells. DIR. de Marvile
ply. f. ID. Beylard. J. J. Moore. r Dun
ply. Duncan Hayne, II. Howard. ].
stables). and - Mckenzie lin charge OF
p Dunphy's stables). Il. Dunphy's horse
fell at two fences. but the rider got up
again at once and rode on.
The meet to-day will be al Reid's School
Belmont at in the afternoon. On New
Years day the meet will take place at 10
in the morning I'm front OF the Burlingame
Country Club. and at in the afternoon
there will be polo match. On Saturday.
January 6. the Hunt Club will meet at 3
D. m at Ten-mile House. beyond Millbrae.
on the San Bruno road. On Washington's 3
birthday the members will hunt over the
country about Menlo Park