The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-02-25

WueTe are tue tnlngS OF yeStor-
day?" an antediluvian Butte citizen
asks. Investigation supports the
statement that many of the hoary in
stitutions Of the great grandfathers
are, still going strong while others
nave been crushed out in the march
OF progress and reformation; others
are modified, while others have been
discarded as obsolete. ~
Among those sacred ancestral in
stituttons Of Butte that have gone
BY the board are the race tracks,
both dog and horse. The sites of
these one-time favorite amusements
are now occupied by residences and
little children gambol and frolic or
try, under the inspiration of q cham
Der Of commerce gardening prize, to
coax the blushing radish, the odor0us
onion and the rejuvenating carrot
from the soil where erstwhile the
panoplied monarchs of the turf toss
ed their proud heads and champed
IN impatient bit a. they passed In
c0lorful review before the racing
Judge stand. Today there are only
81 thoroughbred race horses in Silver
Bow county. No statistics are at
hand regarding those other famous
racers known 80 the "Cousin Jack"
race horse, the greyhound.
Cabbages and lettuce flourish in
the spring time about the homes
that dot the coursing park where
slender nosed greyhounds, aristocrats
Of their breed were wont to split the
wind in their killing drive after their
quarry. the famous Idaho jackrabbit.
The famed hound of the Douglas,
which Scott lauds DO highly, in his
Lady Of the Lake" had nothing on
the Butte greyhound of bygone days
according to the old time lovers Of
the coursing game.
!. Best BLOOD OF Europe
The best blood OF Europe was rep
resented In the kennels of Butte and
more than one prize was brought
home by them from the national
coursing events. Ownership was not
confined to Englishmen. The Irish
and Scotch were well represented and
much money changed hands on q
summer afternoon on the results of
the races.
Rabbits from Idaho. big boned,
rangy fellows with the speed of a
coyote which, Mark Twain said, had
the ability to travel 80 fast that they
simply poked hole in the atmos-
phere," met their Waterloo when a
brace Of race horses" slipped their
leashes and came gliding after them
with the speed of an express train,
their heads thrust forward, watching
every move of the quarry, their long,
1.-THE. huge barreled bodies almost
sweeping the ground as their power
full legs drove them forward like ar
rows shot along the grass. Finding
himself overmatched in speed the
rabbit would dart to the right, the
left. make whirl, try to double on
his tracks and. with the lesser breed
of dogs, succeeded now and then.
But when Mr.. Rabbit found himself
pitted against the breeds whose an
cestry went back to the time of Bruce
his stratagems were of no avail.
Wherever he turned the pulsating
muzzle of the onrushing hound was
at his quarters. The more he turn
ed the sooner his finish. As the
hound came abreast of his prey there
was a flash of teeth, a snap that
closed across bunny's back and a
brown body was tossed high in the
air.
The race was over. Another Idaho
rabbit, like the gladiators of the time
of Spartacus. had died, not to make
a Roman but Cornish holiday. The
coursing park and the race track are
among the things of yesterday.
Those who were not born to the
coursing game criticised the sport
because it took two greyhounds to
pull down one jack but this was on
account of the jacks uhwillingness
to rely on his legs and to his dodg-
ing and turnings.
A Bull Ring
Another of the old time institu-
tions that has gone by the board,
swallowed up in the expansion of the
city, is the bull ring. 1t wasn't built
for that but gained the designation