Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26
HARE AND HOUNDS {


The members of the California cours-
ing committee took an important step
at their meeting last Thursday evening
that will regulate the care of hounds and
may result in the hounds running 10
form better. The matter of rubbing ana
giving hounds stimulants is one which
has been the hardest for the members
of the governing body to handle. as
there was no set rule and no regularity
about the class of stimuants 1t has
generally heen considered that as the
hounds run several courses day her.,
though but two rounds of any stake aie
run elsewhere on account of oppressive
weather. there would be no harm in Civ
ing some s,imulant. such as beef tea.
i sherry and egg. or even whisky The
| lack of any strong rule opened the way
10 irregularities and the members Of the
committee decided tina, hereafter 10 !ni
ment or drug could be used for a ruo
except pure witch hazel and tina: no
! s,imulants whatever could be given but
unalult eraled beef tea The penalty ior
any violation of this rule will be The
ruling off for life Of any one caught a.
! minis;e rins any other stimulants or hiv-
ing them in his possession.
! The California courSing committee de-
sires the cooperation of the dogowners
and trainers in several matters and they
! have called Il meeting to take place
after the draw next Wednesday ev enine.
Ali trainers and owners are reu lestAl -
he present.-San Francisco C..rnncln.
Good dogs it is claimed, bring better
| prices in England than in the United
! States. We hear now and then of Amer
| icau purchasers who pay large sums for
/ In ha % S,, a
price is larger across the water. Ac-
| cordng to the English Stock Keeper
! good individual dogs bring more money
| and the market for ordinary specimens
! IS better recent greyhound sale at
! Barbican. London. shows some excellent.
! selling figures. Mr.. Graham's consign-
! ment of /, first and s second season
greyhounos brought $1,000. The sensa-
tional price of over $4,000 was obtained
t for the pair Good Form and GarbitaS.
| 100 straight in the shoulders to please
fanc.ers present, but otherwise perfect
greyhounds. the former being beauti-
fully moulded for running, a brace any
man could be proud of. They formed
part of a litter by Gallant. winner of
the Waterloo cup in 1897, and the aggre-
gate price of the litter was no less than
s.. 4S0 -
The St. Louis Coursing clubs annual
election of officers for 1901 took place
January ,. and resulted as follows: John
J. LAWN. president: James Menown vice
president: Thomas Mcclure, vice pras:-
dent: NJ. F. Gibbons treasurer; G. +.
Benson secretary. Executive commit
tee-W II Ries Thomas Mcclure, @.
Schuette f. Schraut, J. j. Curran, \.
i D. Adrich and j. j. LAWN. ]. J. Lawn.
slip steward: w. H. Ries field steward;
Lawrence j. Smith, judge; John Ega!,.
slipper.
A. w. Jones' good young son of Billy
| Wake Montana Jack. has been doing
very well in California lately. In the
| last three Sundays he has gone into the
! last four each time, being once third,
! once second. and again third. He will
probably have the luck to win stake
shortly. His running has been done at
| Stockton.
j. f.. Hoskng's King Cashier has been
running in the hardest kind of luck.
three or four times lately he has been
! beaten by a narrow margin by dog
| that eventually went into the last four.
! c. II. MacdOugalrs Colonel Lopez
does not seem to round to-" He start
I'd twice several weeks ago, but lid
nothing, and has not been out since. II :
trainer says he does not feed very Well
! an old fault of his. The same owners
| Fa!staff, who made such a bad showing
several months ago. started again last
Wednesday. and it was hoped he would
show something. Trainer Price intended
to give him up, but was tempted by his
good looks and fine size to give him an
other chance.
The Grace cup winner of 1897. Nellie
Conroy. the property of G. H. Mac
dougall, whelped four puppies on Jan
uary Is, to the same owners Bonnie
Crawford, two dogs. Three are black
with white legs, muzZes and collars, the
ether. a black bitch. They look nice and
| strong. which is all that can be told
about them at present. They are en-
tered in the California F'uturity IF 1902.
| c. F. Nichols good bitch, Lady Fuller
ton, is now in San Francisco. bue her
name has been changed to Montana
Belle, as there was Lady Fullerton
already registered. She made her fics
start last Sunday, being beaten in the
first round. She was in again Cor las.
Wednesday. but no reports of THAI days
coursing have yet been received.
The California coursing committee
| has recently made rule requiring all
trainers to be licensed. After a stormy
discussion. the members also made a
rule absolutely fOrbidding the use of any
kind of stimulant. 1t seems that some
of the trainers We're using WASH SC
powerful as to act as a stimulant, and
it was currently believed that that wa,
not all, but that some. of the pr'niei'
kennels were using dope" on the s'S
in spite of the prohibition airea$S
in force against it, The new rui, for-
bids the administration of anything ex-
cept beef tea, or the use of any wash
except witch hazel. One Of he most
. prominent greyhound owners of Cali
fornia for long time mai aimed Thai
as long as Il stimulant was not admins