The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-09-01

eye. and enjoy the thrill and excite
ment these spor,smen mus, have en-
joyed when they made tha, Gentry
fox take his hole.
a Chase in a Thousand.
A well known writer has said. "Ir
every mans life are certain under.
scored sports which ar, the frs, "a
NEE, his eye in a review 81 the past q
Jus, 80 j; Is with the Fox Hunter
There are a few races that stand out
from the rest-races that will lin.
ger in his memory 20 long a. mem.
DRY shall dwell with him. We had
just such a race on Friday night, May
9th. 1921. cut at Gentry's place on
Sal, River. There was only one thing
needed to make il perfect and that
was the presence Of every Chase
reader. u seemed just too bad to
have any real FOX hunter miss such a
race.
For months We had been hearing
Of this Gentry fox which wa. claimed
no dog in the country could hole.
Howard Camnitz. pinning all his faith
on Magruder Of the Moeking Bird
Valley Kennels. agreed 20 ca, the fox
for breakfast providing Nagruder
didn't hole him h.for. daylight.
Boosting this Kennel wer, Dr. W. =.
Falls. Drs. J. n. and Bill Allen. How.
ard Camniiz. Mason Brown. karl
kaelin and /. Il. Shous,. 81 Lcxing-
ton, who left LOUISVILLE about sly
o'clock. Their entry consisted Of
Magruder. Fan Mambrack ,Clem-
Shaver Jane ,Big Strideb Lee. Kills
and Browns Rambler and Shouse'S
Molhe. who have been running with
Kennel Before reaching Gen;ry's
they were joined by c. l. Cahill. ".
i. MeCawley. and Wm. Smith, with
Fancy Allen and Blue. also Note
Williams with his Derby pups by
Chad tBig STRIDE when on arrival
Gentry came out not only with Joe
and Queen and eight others bu, with
q bushel basket Of lunch which made
the air fragran; with the smell Of
old ham end chicken. Gosh. I'm
here said Camniiz, sccnting the
chicken with a typical Mockng Bird
Kennel nos. Your, not IN or
this" said Gentry, your breakfas,
viii be that fox" Very well. TT
get nay lunch and your too"
Everybody was on; for good
time and the very ar seemed 70 quiy.
er with excitement. The dog. were
turned loose with a. much pomp and .
ceremony as u Paul Rainey or Bit
Woodward were VI r H.
Inside Of ten minutes, Nagruder
and Gen;ry's Joe g; up the FOX and
went trailing up Salt River. They I
came back IN about az hour running
and were joined by the rest Of the
dogs-about twenty In all /, was a
closely run race. Every dog running
a. 4 he didn't want bis owner 70 have
20 eat fox for breakfast. They raced
up and down the cliffs % Sal, River
and were never OF; Of hearing. run
ming in a circle Of SIX or seven miles
!. was one Of those crases that makes
your hair stand on end and makes
DOG worth al least 1--WE thousand dol.
lars az just that time Well III ne
IN. II that amt my little white
bitten leading them over that hl. III
souldni take a thousand dollars for
Ter right now" said one % the party.
You might take less before morn
ng." said Daelin. the swede, in MS
'masing accent.
They went down IN the bottoms
With Magruder. Joe Blue and Mollie
leok and neck with Williams pups.
queen, Fan Ham Braek. Kills. Ramb-
er and Allen close on their heels. |
BY this time. we had all gone over 20
IL on big gate and there in the
right moonlight we told each other
gain just how valuable each dog was.
Ne heard them coming over the cliff
nd dogs were yelping like they
would catch that fox every minute.
It's goodbye TO your famous fox.
;entry," said DR.. Falls. Looks like
iagruder and Mollie are going TO eat
i'm instead Of Camnitz." don't worry
'oc. you see the logs over there 20
make the fire TO cook that fox, don't
ou' He's just playing with your
ogs."
Nearer and nearer they came and
re all sat on that gate holding our
reaths for fear we'd turn them in
mother direction. We could hardly
elieye our eyes when we saw the fox
nth all the dogs in hot pursuit max
~ straight for that gate. Every
ian sat there tensely gripping his
olt while every nerve tingled. In
'inctly W drew up our feet to let
he fox and all twenty dogs pass