The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
CHASING AFTER
 WILD BOAR GREAT. SPORT IN INDIA
Contest For Kadir Cup Draws Finest Riders
 And Horses

is an economic, factor--with vast difference, writes W, G. Tinckom- Fernandez in the New York Times. When Kansas had bumper crop of wheat, tie pig goes to market in prime condition. But when the farmer of India raises, with the aid of good monsoon, fine crop of wheat or rice, I his next concern is how to. get to, market before his ancient enemy, sus Indicus, the Indian wild boar, with his numer- ous progeny, has taken toll by dam- aging all he cannot eat.
 To the Hindu, as well as the Moslem, the pig is an unclean eanimal-tO about GOO million of the worlds population its flesh is anathema. The great Indian Mutiny of 1857 is believed to have been precipitated by issuing cartridges greased with pigs fat. Only the Chi nese include pork as an article of diet for the rest of Asia not only as food but by itsfvery contact, the pig is de filing. IT.
 l, The Kadir Cup,
 Wherefore, i'll March, when the In. dian sun prepares to go into second gear, sporting India forgets it's main diversions of racing and polo and turns it's attention to the famous Kadir cuI which, except for the period of the World war, has been annually con. tested by pig-stickers since its fOun, dation in 1869. It is. run off in a series of elimination heats, and is won by that rider who, in the final heat, is the first to spear the wild boar from his own horse. Thus it will be seen that if pewter" and fame are desired, pig sticking, like polo, demands a string of the finest ponies. ~;
 Among 1ndia's greatest honors is the winning of the Kadir cup. Its second honor is to win the Hog Hunters cup. which IS aipoint-to-point contest ridden with spear in hand, but not after a boaf. 1t is run over typical hog coun- try, the old beds of the Ganges and its tributary, the Jumna, a region that is fwild and desolate, known in Hindustani as Kadir (riyer bed). Here; among sand dunes, marshes, streams, nullahs or dry dltches with steep, rocky banks, is the ideal country of the doughty Indian boar. But there is plenty of pig-stick. ing elsewhere in India.
 Sus Indicus is ugly. He gives no quarter and expect none. He stands as high as 42. inches and weighs about 250 pounds of fighting bone and muscle, He is so swift thatsit demands n per. fectly trained polo pony, that can also jump, to meet him on his own terms in his own rugged country. Armed with his double pair of upper and lower tushes, half-circular, about nine to eleven inches long and sharp as a razor blade, it takes good rider and horse to avoid or meet his fierce charges With swift, upward motion he has stuck many horse, or knocked it off it's feet. Many an unoffending Indian farmer has been suddenly charged and killed.
 The Tiger. Fears 1t
 The Indian boar is the only animal of which the tiger stands in awe. He has been seen to trot down to the jungle pool and defiantly take his place to drink beside the tiger Inglis, an early writer on pig-sticking, once wit messed an impromptu fight between a boar and tiger at pool. The boar was the aggressor in this case. and after determined fight, during which he was fearfully mangled by his adversary, he finally killed the tiger. In his powerful neck and shoulders lies his strength and it is usually here that the tiger makes his futile attack. Nor does the Indian boar hesitate to charge an ele. phant.
 His temper is uncertain. An Indian farmer hesitates to disturb him when he is feeding in the crops. In India Tn 1921, not far from where I was camped, an English planter out bird shooting was suddenly charged by q bear and met him with his shotgun. The small shot merely maddened the boar, and the man was knocked down and cut to death before assistance came. And yet, just as one may never sLoot a fox in Britain or Ireland, so one must never shoot boar in rideable country in India. It's not done. Circumstance keeps me from being socially damned. In hilly section of Guzerat, at the request of village of scandalized Hin dus who complained that a boar was defiling their only drinking water at night ravaging their crops and cha tgins man and beast that happened to cross his path, l shot him with small Savage and was promptly charged be- fore the third bullet stopped him.
 The "UntOuchabIes"
 Nor, for the usual reasons, does one ever ride and spear a SOW. No doubt the Indian farmer sometimes regrets this sporting formula when he is far from a sahib carrying spear. But there are plenty of sportsmen, Indian princes as well as Britishers, who are ready to risk life, limb and expensive horseflesh in the sport In the excite ment of the chase mistakes occur: a barren SOW often assumes the shaggy appearance of boar. Only in certain primitive jungle tracts, where the aboriginal, pre-Aryan stock survives, is the boar attacked and eaten by Indians, and these are naturally of the pariah class of India's "untouchables."
 Riding to hounds after the fox has been described by one who was never a horse lover as 'the chase of the un- eatable by the 0nspeakable." But for the facts with which hope to win the sympathy of the American hog, raiser, the phrase will only appeal to q city bred Hindu disciple of Mahatma Gand- hi. Hut pig-sticking, as rigorous sport calling for nerve, quick decision and superb horsemanship, has been ad- mitted by those foxchasers who have been initiated to it's dangers to be the greatest equestrian sport in the world.
 In 1922 the Prince of Wales ardu- Ously won his spear and tushes. In the valnglorious past, mindful of the fact that his august parent, disguised in Tyrolese costume, had the Black Forest boar driven up to his miniature Krupp the German crown prince aspired to spear the boar during his tour of India. But the viceroy, fearful for his inept sporting guest, saw to it that certain officers first rode the pig ''cold" in order to help cOnsummate the imperial ambition.
 The sport calls for two. kinds of spears. On the western side of the peninsula and in the south, where the country is rugged and broken. with formidable cactus hedges to fly, the long 1 or cavalry lance is nsad If hnr n lo.,s