Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-05
HARE AND HOUNDS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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The first blood TO a Montana grey
hound in California was taken on De-
cember so at stockton, when n. w.
Jones' Montana Jack (Billy Walker-Fly)
got third money in a IS dog stake. beat
ing Just in Time. Americus and Allisan-
dro and being beaten by the eventual
winner, Tap Out. in the semi-tinals
Jack ran very brilliantly here last
season. He had abundance of speed.
but was a bad worker. turning very
wide at times. That is a common fault
with fiery young greyhounds, and one
that they usually get over with age.
Jack went from Butte to Seattle. and
divided big stake there With threee
others, the owners preferring to divide
rather than run off, a proposition that
Mr. Jones was willing to accept. as
Jack was slightly injured in the last
course. He has run several times since
reaching San Francisco Winning two or
three courses on one occasion at Union
park in a mid-week stake.
On the same day King Cashier (Rattle
Royal Brunette). owned by j. f. Hos
king, ran at Union park. san Francisco.
He beat his litter Brother. Fred Nichols
Lear King. in the first round. beat
Bunco Bill in the second. and was
beaten one point by Warpath in the
third. This was in a 12Sdog stake, in
which most Of the good ones We're en-
tered. The stake was Won by Ireland,
with Honesty second and Warpath
third.
the shelf probably mainly from the in
sidious effect that the California eli
mate has on most horses and dogs that
go there from the mountains.
The Frisco coursing men are rather
excited over the quality shown by
young bitch called The Owl, bred by
Fred Nichols. She is by Battle Royal
Brunette. an own sister younger litter,
to King Cashier and others We'll known
here. She Won two courses in a mid
week stake a couple of weeks ago, in
a style that looked as if it meant some
thing. They say she is rather slow to
begin. but is a hot thing when she gets
on the hare. Another of the same litter.
owned by A. Nanderwhite. is regarded
as of promise. though she has not start
ed more than once or twice. G. H. Mae
dougall has still another that he had
trained in San Francisco for several
months. but his first start was so dis
couraging that he was ordered home.
He is very large, "growthy,' awkward
dog, and probably needs more age.
John E Rees of Anaconda writes an
entertaining description of typical
course in the open after a Montana
Jack There is no hare in the world
in the same class with our native
Whitehall. In England it is held unfair
TO let more than two hounds go after a
hare-unfair to the hare, that is. Mon
tana coursing men have been figuring
for years how many hounds it would
take after a Whitehall to make it half
way fair to the dogs. Mr.. Rees says:
Last sunday, after the snow Satur-
day, jacks came around the house, and
one made his seat about a hundred
yards away. / took the dachshund and
followed his tracks about seventy five
Yards when up goes big white jack
and joys along before the dachshunl
until the greyhounds got up. Then he
put back his ears. They took one turn
out of him and after that he bade them
good-bye They never stopped him, so
! went back to the house and sat by the
fire and argued with Macdonald which
was the best dog, and what they would
have done if somebody took down all
the fences in the valley SO that the dogs
could have better shake
Five or six years ago a party of Butte
coursing men went down below the
Hump. They had 16 greyhounds along,
the best that We're here in those days.
Twister, then in his palmy days, was
there. and another good one, a Colo
rado bitch called Bon-bOn, that could
mix it with Twister after the first three
turns, and others of note, most of which
have now gone to the happy hunting
grounds. They jumped a big white
tail on the Thomas ranch, and all the
dogs We're let go. If they turned him
once, they turned him 40 times: and. if
they ran a foot, they ran five miles, for
there was always some dog in the
bunch that had wind enough to keep
right on the hare, but he beat them
after all. One hound almost died, ana
never amounted to anything afterWard,
and the rest were SO nearly done that
there was not 4 gallop left in the bunch.
Good hare. The course he took was
through pretty fair ground, too, except
the last part of it, when he took them
up a rocky hill. but the dogs We're done
by that time, SO the ground did not mat
ter Twenty or 80 like that fellow would
last the Coursing park for three or four
seasons.