The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-21
APPRECIATION
OF STRANGERS
Western Sportsman Writ S
About the Deep Run Hunt
Club.

| We do not know really what a credit
able showing we make before the world
| until some kind friend let's us see our
selves as others see us. Captain a. W.
DuBray, of Cincinnati, a widely-traveled
, gentleman. who was in Richmond some
| through the South, has written for the
Sportsmeu's Review, over his South
American DseudonyIn OF Gaucho, a very
| interesting description Of the Deep Run
Hunt Club ana his impsessl19ns q Its
| bies," and reads as foitows:
To a man who roanas ABOUT the country
from Winnipeg and Calgary In the far
good, bad and indifferent, meeting ali
kinds of shooters-gentlemen pot hunters,
grabbers and sportsmen-snootnS one
| day at a well-laid out ground, and on an
other where it is difficult to even see the
| trap-house, to such q man. submit,
| comes now and then particularly attrac-
| tive spot, and one to which his mind IN
| voluntarily reTerts Whea N pensiVe
| mood.
Then. what really and above all counts
! for most, is the personnel of any gun
| club. The kind OF stuff the men who
comprise it are made. The welcome with
| treatment they accord him, and the well
| bred style IN which .>ley Immediately
! make him feel at hos1e
| Some people ars fortunate enough to
| be clad by nature IN rnfnoceros hide,
| SO blind to COO! and Indifferent treatment
| that any words of encouragement OF SYM
! others are-unfortunately-t skin,
| ned, more's the pity, and to these would
say: There are gun clubs and gun
dominate to such a large extent that the
others loom up the more by contrast ana
| because one seldom sees them.
| II has been my pleasure from time TO
| time to make mention Of some striiing
| feature found afeld or at some particu-
! lar shooting ground. ana now IT is wtisi
sxanste a 5l ev that View o w the s taoa my
| Deep Run Hunt Club OF Richmerd. Va
In the first place, then, at one OF the
eharmds pas59e spo! sed On bS ea the
Ginter eatate. and rented by the Deep Eur,
! Hunt Club for s1.CO0 per year. THIS coun-
! try place covers an area or Ii acres, ~
! ing between Richmond. F'redericksburs
| and Potomac railroad and borders on the
Lakeside trolley The hoqss ITSELF t, -,e egs
of its kind-cool. comfortable. well ap-
house should be. It is located in two
acres OF lawn, garden and trees. encircIed
by a four-foot hedge Of honeysuckie, all
upon. At some distance are the tratn/s
bles, race track, while in the f/Is
are bar and hedge jumps ros the school
ing Of hunters-the hunting season con-
| tinuing until spring race meet
| AT the west is the mile race track. one
| of the finest in the country. built at q cost
Of from Ave to six Thousand oosIars. There
| Is being surveyed at present a strip OF
| ground adjacent TO the rest to be used as
| a polo field. I mention these various
points OF interest in the endeavor to
show what a grand place it all Is
| Now we come to the shooting ground.
| which III my humble opinion Is without
| doubt absolutely perfect. 1t lies directly
in front OF tina Lodge. ia, as billiard s
| barely enough TO drain itself. The traps
are set i've in a row. fiye yards apart.
and every target is thrown against az ;i1s the
| distinctly from the time il tops the very
low screen until it aIights fifty to fifty
| five yards from whence it has sprung
/ Tha ARRANGEMENTS OF the ground Is such