The Washington times., 1924-11-08
HUNT CLUB is
MEETING
TODAY
Miss Sheriff. Unleashes
Hounds for Seasons
Official Opening

Msa
for the season this afternoon.
The run started from Kauffmann'e
fields, in Rock Creek Park, when
Mrs. Clarence o. Sheriff., wife OF
the military aide to the President,
unleashed the hounds for the chase.
Among, the members of the Rid
ing and Hunt Club, who are taking
part in today's hunt are General
and Mrs. William Mitchell, Ma jor
and Mrs E. G. Johnson, CAPTAIN
William BiddIe, Miss Madeleine
Aleshire, Miss Nancy jackson. Miss
Elizabeth jackson, Miss Esther
Praeger, Mrs. Jean WcKen1a, Rod
ney Lynn, Raymond Norton, John
Finnerty, and p. D. Holmes.
General Mitchell is master of
hounds for the hunt, Roland Daw-
son is huntsman and @. T. Conner
and George B. Mullen, jr., are
whips.
While the club win be having
semi-weekly hunts every Wednes-
day and Saturday--the next big all
fair on its November card is thC|
hunt and breakfast Mt the Congress
sional Country Club on Saturday.
November %. An extra hunt will
be run in for Thanksgiving Day.
In the last few years the wide
spread interest in horseback riding
has been conspicuous Rapidly 1t
is becoming an outstanding nation.
al recreation.
Horseback Riding Is Sport
Of Presidents-In Theory.
Horseback riding Is always. it
seems, popular sport with Presi-
dents-in theory, if not in actual
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some-h only long enough to have
his picture taken. Even President
Coolidge has slipped away from the
White House before sunrise, or
very soon after, to take a trial
canter around the Speedway, one
OF Washington's most popular
drives, with his son, John, free
from the curious gaze of the public.
He has not revealed any favorite
sport other than walking. but
should he add another to his physi-
cal recreation, horseback riding
would probably be ''it."
There is perhaps no city with
more enchanting bride paths than
Washington. And these marvellous
autumn days one can see numerous
riders galloping through Rock
Creek Park or along the Potomac
down to Hams Point and back to
town.
Senator Borah rarely lets a day
pass when he is in Washington
that he does not ride. He is one
of the best-known figures on the
bride paths of the park. Usually
he takes his riding easy with his
mount almost always in walk.
He seems to enjoy thoroughly
this safety first gait.
Constantin Brun, the Danish
minister. is probably the most fire.
Quent rider among the diplomats.
In the mornings he views on horse
back the beauties Of Rock Creek
Park and usually in me late after
moons The, views On foot the beauties
of r. street.
There are two Cabinet girls who
are skilled equestriennes Miss Ailka
Mellon, daughter Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury, and Miss Edna Wilbur,
daughter OF the Secretary Of the
Navy and Mrs. Wilbur. When in
washington both girls frequently
take horseback rides in the morn
lngs.
NOtabIes Frequent Bride
Paths i'm Rock Creek Park.
Among those who can frequently
be seen going out from the Riding
and Hunt Club, on p street, Just on
the edge of Rock Creek and not
very far from the Potomac paths,
are the American Minister to
Sweden and Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss, who are in town for a two
months stay; General and Mrs. Will
liam Mitchell, who ride in all of the
hunts; Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cary
T. Grayson, John Van A. McMur-
ray, Of the State Department, and
occasionally Mrs. McMurray; Com
mander and Mrs. Lee Warren, Mr..
Kimura, of the Japanese embassy;
Captain and Mrs. T. C. Hart, Alex
Legare, Doctor Walter A. Wells,
Mrs. J. Maury Dove, jr., Doctor G..
A. Simpson, and Breckinridge Long.
A group of children are almost
daily riders from the Riding and
Hunt Club, among them eight-year-
old Nancy Letter, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Letter, who has a
beautiful spotted pony; Caroline
Roebling, daughter Of Mrs. Arthur
O'Brien, who has learned to take
the jumps" and gives promise Of
becoming an accomplished horse
woman. Harriet Mitchell, daughter
Of Mrs. Caroline Mitchell, is another
accomplished horsewoman, as are
Miss Frances Virginia Waggaman,
daughter of Captain and Mrs. An
nails Waggaman; Virginia Cooke,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Cooke; Faith Adams, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. HI. H. Adams; Priscilla
Dove, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Maury Dove, jr.; Martha Ellis.
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s. N, and Mrs. Ellis, who is an
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