The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-06
FIRST FOX HUNT HELD
DURING THE PAST WEEK
Visitors MT Hot Springs Enjoy Chase-
Tennis and Golf Tournaments
Hnyc Many Entries.
Especial to The Times Dispatch.l

Hot Springs. Va November 1.-The /,
legal hunting season is almost here, |
and there is much talk of the cunning
tor deer and bear that will result as
soon as the law is off. lot Springs is
IN the widest part of the Allaghany
Mountains, and hunters have to travel !
pnly eight or ten miles just beyond the
circle of civilization that surrounds it.
- find plenty Of big game. Wild turkey
and cartridges arc also very plentiful
At Fassifern the first fox hunt of
be season was held this week, when
party of young people went over
from the Homestead. and taking the
Fassifern pack jumped a fox on Jack
son River near the ford. But they
found the woods not yet open enough
Tor much running. and he got away.
'h,m,m,mthc. the, the, the. the. the,
Both tennis and golf tournaments
were on this week, the former round !
robin aftermath of the ladies' dou-
bles of last week. and the latter a |
putting tournament on the green near |
tho clubhouse. Mrs. Frederick Edey and |
Mrs Joseph G. Thaw gave the cups /
Tor the tennis, and in the finals Mrs. /
Edey and Mrs. William Wellowes Nor
gan won from Miss Gladys ingalls, and
Miss Louise Witherbee.
Others who made a good showing
IN the tournament We're Mrs Francis
u.
Anna Sands. Mrs Carl de Gersdorff.
Mrs. Fl. G. Brewster. and the Misses
Helen and Emily Whitney.
The putting tournament Tuesday |
morning. which Mrs William Fellowes
Morgan won, was a good deal OF |
society affair. Half the people in the
Homestead occupied chairs set for |
them about the "whiskey hole" as
that at the end OF the course near
ho of Il
nineteen. is generally alluded to. There
was one play from each of the four
corners. Mrs. Morgan doing the four
IN nine. Five players tied at eleven
Tor second honor. and of these Miss
Ailcc Strong won out in the play-off
Others in the tie were Miss Josephine
Patton, Miss Clara Ogden. Miss Caro-
iyn Putnam and Sonora Riano, wife
of the Spanish minister.
As a great majority of the visitors
here have the bridge and auction craze,
2 tournament of bridge players which
Mrs William e. Strong organized was
novelty that won much attention. 1t
was in one of the private dining rooms,
IN which was a buffet bearing the
sign. Bar will open at midnight"
while another reading NO smoking, 1
please was on the wall. The latter
1T was said, unofiiclally, was a tip 20
the women. as the room was com
raratiyely small for SO large a COM
nany Miss Katherine Fay, playing with
Henry ". Lowe, got first prize, though
pressed hard by Mrs. Frederick Edey /
and Carl A. de Gersdorff who won
the second award
Others playing We're MIR. and Mrs.
William G. Denny, Reginald de Koven.
Mrs. William Fellowes Morgan, Mrs I
lie Gersdorff. Miss Alice Strong, Miss
lalizabeth Latimer, Judge Peter Il. Bar
low, Colonel Robert M, Thompson, Mrs.
stephen II. I, Pcll, Miss May Tolfree.
Mrs, Francis Mcneil Bacon, Mr.. and
Mrs, Josiah G. Thaw. Miss Josephine
t,atton. Miss Anna Sands, A. ". Black, |
MISS Evelyn Noble, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. /. |
Gowan, and Mr.. and Mrs walter c. |
Witherbee.
Mr.. and Mrs. William ii. Erhart |
gave large dinner party in the Jap |
anesc room a few -..ghts ago, ,when
they had as their guests Mr.. and Mrs /
Is. j. Singer, Mrs Latham Bartlett |
Nh. and Mrs. William C. Denny, Miss
Elizabeth Hayes, Reginald dekoyen, !
Mrs w ], Walker, Newbold Edgar, |
AIR and Mrs. Ethelworth Magiu Mr. /
and Mrs Stevens ulman and Louis !
Bound,
With Mr. and Mrs. Bertram q. Work. |
Miss Gladys ingalls, and Elton Hoyt |
IN, rvok an eighty-mile horseback ride
this week 10 Goshen Pass. accomplish
ing the trip in two Gays. Upon their |
return 10 the Homestead Mr.. and Mrs |
Work gaze = dinner TO celebrate the |
event.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl IL. Page stopped
here in their automobile on the way
from New York to Atlanta, where they
nave gone TO sec the races.