The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-16

Hash of dog and a flash of fur and n
CLOUD OF aust, and then, suddenly, out
comes the rabbit and away he goes again.
TO repeat the performance in another part
OF the lot if he does not make the es-
cape.
Courses Are Short.
The ordinary course is brief A minute
course is considered long and a three-min
ute course is killer for dog and beast. .
minute and half, or, at most two
pretty much all in" Few owners will
permit their dogs TO run LONGER than two
minutes, and at some coursing meets time
LIMITS UNITS are flXed. Owners of fancy grey
themselves to death. This is not strange
IN view of the fact that some OF the grew
mounds are worth S2.50O and $1,000.
Inc method usually adopted to end n
course Is to turn into the course a third
Dog This dog is called a RELIEF dog
AFTER ms appearance on the scene the
Tabblts chances are about 100 Der cent he
low par Another method is TO shoot the
tnuplt Win shotgun, taking great care
however. not to shoot the dogs
Kills of Little Importance.
The coursing man does not pay much
attention to kills. and counts them only
one or two points as the case may he
meritorious or unmeritorious The kill IS
seldom distinctly seen by anyone excent
the judges on the field, for there is such
a HilAup OF dog ana rabbit and dust that
tne view is Obscured.
There has been much said about the
dylng cry" of the rabbit when he is
Killed. unquestionably the rabbit utters a
dylng shr1ek-if he has time-but il
doesn't strike the coursing fan as being
peculiarly heartrending or much differ
ent from the squeal of a pig that gets
caught under a fence
IN ADDITION to scoring for run-ups. turns
bys and kills, there are marks for
Nrenches, which count half a point and
are counted when dog causes the rab-
DIT TO swerve from his course but does
NOT turn MN and for trips which occur
when a dog touches a rabbit with his
nose. WIN MS
Inc fact that there is coursiny in Salt
Like fas caused a tremea6 Us arcount of
IAN, nnt on Monday it didn't cause a
great amount of crowd But then Mon
day was the opening dav of the snort
and nobody knew anything much about
IL, and thought they would wait untii
coursing proved itself meritorious or
otherwise. The crowd that did see the
sport Cor the most part enioved II and
sac IL was good work for the puppies.
sympathize With Rabbit.
Tins part of the crowd. of course was
knew It's fine points. There was another
part OF the crowd, however that didn't
1ahcy the coursing sport. This part of
the crowd was that which did not under
CANT Iletu never seen a cOnrS-
ing match and was swayed by sentiment
It's sympathies were with the rabbit.
whereas. the sympathies of the coursipg
people were ell with the dogs the rabbit
being merely means of putting the dog
through his steps.
AS a spectacle, certainly the running of
greyhounds is grand. Two dogs. lined
out. as only greyhounds line out. FLYING
with the speed of the wind and a good
deal faster, present a picture of life and
action rarely seen. That they are grace
full in motion is undeniable; that they arc
apparently dull and stupid and unattrac-
tive in inaction. few deny except their
owners and their trainers
Some there were at MONDAYS cours-
ing who said the sport was cruel and that
1t was no sport at ALL as the word sport
is accepted. but merely a slaughter of in
nocent rabbits. sent into their heaven
with plenty of exercise just prior to the
instant of demise.
The coursing man will tell you that the
racing yesterday was pretty good. The
Butte coursing man saw in il too much
punishment for his dogs and too little OPP
portunity to relieve the dog og the pun
ishment he was receiving The Butte
coursing man would have ended one of