The New York herald., 1921-05-15

highway for the races on Saturday the
third event will be of special interest.
That Is to be "The Between the Flags
Steeplechase" of three and half miles.
to which seventeen hunt clubs from
among the reorganized hunts of 1921
have subscribed. The winner is to re-
ceive a piece of plate presented by the
Reorganized Hunts of America. 1t is
to be race that will make the club
and the Belmont Park Terminal Course
real centre of national sporting in
terest.
Hunt Clubs Subscribe for Events.
The extent of the interest taken n
1.-THE Between the Flags Steeplechase"
classic is best shown by the following
alignment Of hunt clubs that have
subscribed:
Albemarle County Hunt. Charlottes-
vile. Va, A. S. Craven. M. F. H.;
Bloomfield Open Hunt, Elliott S. Nicn-
OILS, M. F. H.; Brandywine Hounds,
West Chester Pa, Charles e. Mather.
NJ. II. H; Elkridge Hounds, Towson,
Nd. W. w. Lanahan and T. C. Jenkins,
| joint masters: Essex Fox Hounds, Pea
pack, N. j., A. Fillmore Hyde. NJ. F. H. !;
| Goshen Hunt, Goshen, \. Y, Capt.
\ T.. d. Gibbs, NJ. II. H: Hartford Hunt,
4 Monkton, Nd, John r. Valentine and
/ Frank A. Bonsal. joint masters; Hunt
\ inSton Valley Hunt, Willow Grove. Pa,
\ W. w. Justice. Jr.. NJ. f. H.; Middle
burg Hunt Club. Middleburg, Va, D. G..
Sands, NJ. F. H.; Millbrook Hunt, Mill
brook. N. Y, Cakleigh Thorne, NJ. +.
H.: Mr.. Behr's Hounds, Lake Forest,
Ill, Ben Leslie Behr. NJ. +. H.; Myopia
| Hunt Club South Hamilton, Mass,
James w. Appleton. NJ. +. H.; Norfolk
Hunt Club, Medfield, Mass, Henry G..
Vaughan, NJ. F. H.; Orange Coun "
Hunt Club. The Plains, Va, Fletcher
HSrper, NJ. t. H: Pickering Hunt,
Phoenixville, Pa, william J. Clothier,
/ M. f. H.; Radnor Hunt, Bryn Mawr,
| Pa, 8. Laurence Bodine. NJ. f. H.; and
shelburne Fox Hounds. Shelburne, VT,
James Watson Webb. NJ. +. II.
| While special trains from the Penn
sylvania Station will take to tho
Belmont Terminal meeting a portion of
the gallery, the attendance Is to come
largely from the Long Island colonies
that the motor places within easy
| roach of the club and course. The
North Shore with the Piping Rock Club
at Locust Valley as its capital and the
Cedarhurst colony will be particularly
well represented
Golf and Tennis at Piping Rock.
Piping Rock has been a live club since
It's organization and now is influencing
all North Shore society. The Board OF
Governors has outlined programme In
lawn tennis and golf primarily for the
women members. while frequent dances
will maintain the reputation OF the club
for comprehensive club amusements.
This month and next there will be
ball sweepstakes and medal play golf
handicaps every Friday morning for the
| women players Mrs. w. Goadby Loew
having presented the prize. which will go
to the winner of the greatest number Of
points during that period. Mrs. How
ard F. Whitney, wife OF the president
OF the United States Golf Association.
has given a prize for the best attested
| gross score made by a woman player at
| Piping Rock between May I and Novem-
ber l. and Mrs. Philip Boyer has also
| given a prize for the best attested net
score for medal play during that same
| period.
For a lawn tennis tournament ar
| ranged for June entries close June g.,
| the prizes for the tourney being offered
| by Mrs. Henry Rogers Winthrop. A
| tennis tourname for girls between the
| ages of IL and Is will be played on Juno
| 10, Mrs. Joseph T.. Davis being the
| donor of the prizes.
There will be women's doubles matches
1 every Thursday morning at the Piping
Rock club during the month of June, the
| winner each week receiving a box of
| tennis balls presented by Mrs. Morris w.
Kellogg.
There Is scarcely a vacant house
throughout all Nassau county. Among
the members OF the Meadowbrook and
Rockaway colonies and those at Great
1 r<xv,.x
| the North Shore, week end house par
| ties will be In progress until late au-
tumn.
At the Garden City Club, the Sails
| bury course, Cherry Valley and the
course adjoining the Meadowbrook Hunt
are scores of players daily. The inter-
national polo matches in England next
month between the pick of American
and British players have attracted
many lovers of polo abroad, but they
will return Immediately after the
events and take part In the various local
Long Island tournaments A number
| of players have appeared Mt Meadow
brook and the Rockaway Hunting clubs.
| Mr. and Mrs. Devereux Milburn will
| return to Long Island after the matches
In England.
The Garden City Hotel is the centre
for motoring and golfing parties who
| come to Long Island from various near
by sections.
Country Places Open.
The spring season is in full swing in
the Hudson River colony. Nearly all
the country estates are open and the
country clubs are arranging programmes
that will keep the members stepping
lively until tho Fourth of July. Nature
has never been more beautiful than this
year The season is about two weeks
ahead or time. This has caused many
city dwellers to close their houses earlier
than usual. Mrs. Howard Carroll has
opened Carroll Cliff at Tarrytown. Mr.
and Mrs Charles J. Gould have returned