Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-14
RIDERS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC
lover LOCAL. PROSPECTS
Next Sunday; Morning ct 1890
O'Clock Is Tentatively, Set for
First Rock Creek Outing.
Regular Time Hereafter to Be De-
:cided by the Majority-Many
Showing Interest in Sport.

The Washington riders VINO nave
taken the Initiative In the eHore ~
who the young and the old back 10 'he
saddle and the horse for the sans VI
health and pleasure met IN inc uppe'
humping field of Rock Creek farh Se'
tefday afternoon. Though there "eie
few absentees among the ciVicSP
horsemen the enthusiasm 1or ,he nv ~
$50 showed a gain of 900 degrees vi
a rise of $50 points. ,n,sual
THOSE in the saddle at this unusua'
meeting felt that there was nv tho
ton that the people wouio .rs
-, n.nd that they, the riders, are
So,dinp out. They believe that ai.
h'.oNe hove any regard in their
800 for Dobbin, as we'll as Tor MOI
- a.har names. will come along win
80, ON the rides Sunday. NOR
80 men and women of Washins
80 u.bo ride regularly and wen' 49,
.a,,s. they like to be looked a.
.h.y have horse-loVe a."
49, blood in them, and are
Ht-o,, neonle who could a1oro " w..
80. before mechanics great.
III. cost of locomotioh ae
;na IN the support of the oaoA
or the health-and-giow pfop'
ganda. some men
lhe iraadv come to the 1ronl 60
have leaped into the saaoIe horse for
nnt been on the back OF nv one
nifty years. They are poy sssrSed a sad
aS,,sman said that he pre1erleu nd
od hrifle to a pair of crutcne CIV nv,
oIr $3.50 said. II have thrown aWas
sasnat SINNERS and put on stirrupS'
! Meeting Time Discussed.
-, ;,,ninp field
<, the meeting in the )uihpine -
-aeterday afternoon the mann -
&c the time at which all the
Washinston-all those VINO ever
,iaden and those who have ho''
would like to-will be askea ~ seek
IT was the desire of the morse e,,
MN not to interfere with tne 10
hohrs and the dinner hour " ~ or;np
nls and as the afternoons are Sr.eons
49, though the woods are sorseoS
sn1rG orions this was not an easy prop
lem. . ..t and il was
6etermined to take pieblsci.e a t0
those who intend TO rloe ~ of
adjust the time to the convenieNe
rhs Greater number of persons 200
Tbe time tentatively agreed on NJ NJ
1o:3O o'clock Sunday morhiIis' $40
other hour under consldeLa:S ~ was
o'dock in the afternoon, whlch, !. w.
satd. would give all the people on r;aes
to,pet dinner and return from ING
in time for evening service
:. Two Assemblies Suggested.
M, the time will be set in-accordance
With the will of the majority. Incl.
Is also another proposition pending ana
this is that there shall be two as
.einblies of riders, one at the mill at
1880 in the morning and another at
$50. Mr.. Hazen, Capt Mitchell MI
Bones and Mr. Evans. master OF hounds
of:the' Washington Riding and Hunt
Club, will be glad to receive sugges-
tions so that the weight OF pubic
opinion may be determined. or the sug-
gestions would reach the proper
so,,rce if they were sent to the horse
editor Scf The Star.
The committees of riders at work. on
this proposition, will select ana name
the patrol leaders who will take the
Washington.rider in groups rnrougn
those patches of the country winch AL
the regular riders and veteran walkers
know, and which the uxurfous ana
OTTER automobiiists glimpse. from afar.
viii be picked out so that 1t viii be
easy enough fos the most conservative
family horse ,3Sergt, Patrick Joyce, Z.
g. "A, retired. superintendent sof ROCK
Creek Park, has-his army at work on
the saddle paths and places that are
too steep for the family horse OF too
rough for a horse that has been pound
Ing the asphalt for twenty years, and
these places will be smoothed out, SO
that every horse that passes over them
win say, What a splendid footing this