The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-09

pack. with the exception Of "Bellman,'"
pleasant" "Feaity" and Negative
being substituted for Valiant, =
''Despot,' Fashion" and ruby" Ro-
bert cotesworth hunted the pack. with
Edward Cotcsworth and VIII Edwards
whippers In.
The Riders.
Among those mounted were Mr. A.
Henry tflggnson, Of Boston,; NJ. F. Fl.
OF Mddlescx. Mr.. Leonard Ali. OF Bos-
ton; Mr. Julien Chamberlain. OF Boston,;
Mr.. Hallam tJ..aMovius OF Buffalo; Mr..
James ( L. H Maddux, OF Warrenton;
Mr.. Paul within, OF Massachusetts,; Mr..
r. Dougherty of Philadelphia Mr. Fred
w. Okle of New York; MIR. and Mrs.
Westrnoreland Davis, Of Leesburg; Mr..
Edward Gay Butler, M +. II. Of Blue
Ridge Hunt, Mr.. Wildly Carter. Of Upper
Vile; Mi. Richard Wallach. of Warren
ton. Mr.. r. Hunter Dulaney, OF We'll
bourne Mr.. Richard Waller, of Middle
burg; Mr.. Richard lawson of Loudoun
county; Mrs. James X. Maddux. OF War-l
renton; Mrs. Jack Henderson. Of Mill
wood Mr. Harry w Smith, NJ F. H.,
of Grafton; Mr.. Pierri, OF New York;
DR.. Charles McEachran. OF Montreal:
Mrs. Tom PIERCE. Of Boston; Mrs. Laden
burg Of New York; Mr.. Gibson Smith,
of Uppervlle; Mr.. ]. ]. Graham, Of New
York; Mr.. g. A. Warren OF Nfiddlcburg;
Mr.. William lawson OF upperville; Mr..
D. D. Crenshaw. OF Rectortown.
A large number Of persons In vehicles
followed the run as best they could along
ride, and many of them were fortunate
enough to see hounds pass more than
once At 1923 hounds were cast into
IT, t2ol 1yo Nf,. 20
farm, where they found within nine min.
utes, and went racing away down Vague
pin Creek, giving tongue beautifully.
Crossing the creek they ran across Mr..
ELI Nichols's farm and through to Mr..
Dillon's At this time hounds We're nc-
companied only by Cotesworth, he hnv-
Ing gotten away completely from the
rest OF the field.
A Lady First.
The first rider to find the line was Mrs.
Tom Pcirce, who. followed by Edward
Cotesworth. the first whip, literally few
across country, her horse jumping stone
walls and fences in his strides. The rest
OF the field had chosen the far side Of
the covert and didn't get up with hounds
for twenty minutes. until they had
checked on the Dulaney farm, some three
miles distant, having run across the
farms OF Tom Nichols, Smith and Duffy.
The fox was viewed here by Mrs. Duffy,
and hounds we're brought up and put on
the line, when they circled Duffys wheat
field, ran through O Bannon's farm, and
again lost on the creek, the fox having
run through a flock Of turkeys on the
top Of the hill Mrs. Henderson viewed
him here, and hounds were again brought
to the line where they gave tongue and
ran hard for about a mile, when they
~ A .hp 1v,1p tFcto, a
near, informed the huntsmen that lie had
seen the fox running toward q disman-
tied stone house, and hounds were car
ried there In an attempt to unearth
him. 5 # g5s 34
Despite the endeavors Of hounds and
huntsmcn, no fox was found, although
the pack made loud and merry music.
Cotesworth claimed the fox had been
run to earth, and, sounding his horn, car
rled his pack back to their Middleburg
kennels. Judge McEachran decided that
hounds had holed their fox, and so re-
ported.
At the Finish.
Those who were in at the finish were:
Mrs. Grafton Abbott, OF Boston Judge
Charles A1cEachran,s OF Montreal; Fred.
". Dixie Of New York; Mr. Grafton Alb.
bott OF Boston; Mr.. Paul Within, OF
OF Boston; Mr.. A. Henry Higginson. OF
Boston; Mr.. Julian Chamberlain, Of Bos-
ton; Mr.. Deserega, Of Middlesburg, Mr..
Duffy. of Middleburg; R. Cotesworth,
huntsman, and Edward Cotesworth and
Will Edwards, whips. @
The meet tomorrow, when Grafton
hounds will make their fourth attempt
to kill fox, will be at zula, on the
road to The Plains, about seven miles
from Upperville.
There will be a meeting OF the judges
on Sunday to discuss the merits OF the
two packs and decide the protests made
both By Mr.. Smith and Higginson. Mr..
Smith claims that his American pack
ran to earth on It's second day out, and
that the judges did not record this. Mr.
Higginson claims that on two occasions
the Grafton American pack was hunted
by outsiders, when none OF the Grafton
establishment was at hand, and that is
contrary to the rules that govern the
trials. ~ *
It is OF interest to know that twenty
four OF the best-known hunts@in Amer
lea and Great Britain are represented at
this meeting. There are Ave from Mas
sachusetts, eight from Virginia, three
from New York, one from New Jersey,
three from Pennsylvania one from Can
ada, ono from ireland. one from England
and one from North Carolina. They are
as follows: A1ddlesex (Mass.), Grafton
(Mass). Piedmont virginia., Meadow
Brooke New York; Radnor (Pennsyl-
vania), Allendale PENNSYLVANIA, Brandy
wine (Pennsylvania), sKeswick svirginia),
Deep Run (Virginia) Cameron Run (Vir-
ginia), Blue Ridge (virginia) warrenton
CVtrginia Orange county,. Brunswick
(Mass) Virginia Carolina Westchester
(New York;. Montreal, (Cannda). Meath
2Greland), Mr.. Maddox's hounds (vir-
ginia)) Norfolk (Nass), Myopia (Mass),
Loudoun (Yirglnia), Nh. Fernie,s hounds
(England) and Essex New York;
ALLEN POTTS.