Evening star., 1931-12-19
Mermaid Takes One First,
One Second, a Third and
Places With Team.
BALTIMORE SCHOOL WINS
AGAINST 20 ENTRANTS
Cup to Be Awarded Best Mount at
End of Season After Series
of Competitions.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS. Jr.

Those equine prima donnas, the thor
oughbred and halfbred hunters, shone
Iortn here last night in show as bril-
llant and longer than dress rehearsal
OF the 20 acts of "Ziegfeld Follies."
crowd OF 400 spectators gathered
at the Riding and Hunt Club to see the
show
Every type Of leaper, from colts to
seasoned timber-to -toppers, traversed the
tanbark OF the hunt clubs ring at
IWenty-second and P streets last night.
When the performances were totaled.
Mrs. William j. Chewning's Mermaid
was awarded the championship of the
snow IN reward for one first, a second,
a thlro ana membership on the hunt
team Whlch placed second. The show
championship, new feature of these
events, will be awarded on each occa
sion to one horse selected by the Judges
AT the end of the season the horse
scoring the most wins will be declared
series champion and receive a cup.
Had Other Winners.
Mrs. Chewing also was in the rib
bon with Golden Girl, which took q
second; her colt, second in the lead
out class for Suitables, and Bean Beetle
winner OF one class and awarded the
red in another
The first class out was for 3-year-
olds and under suitable to become hunt
ers. Miss PerSis Myers Ticonderoga
was adJudged best in the lead-out d.
vision, Mrs. Chewnings entry second
and Mrs. Francis Plummer's Royal
Pleasure third. There were l6 horses
in the event.
TWerty-nine rode into the ring in
the second class a hack and hunter
competition. The quarters were de-
cldedly cramped for exhibition of the
pest IN every horse, but at least this
event cleared away more than its share
Of the huge list of l63 entries recorde !
in the show.
When considerable wedding out had
been done the Hechter Riding School
OF Baltimore had won the cup and blue
With its Ask Him. Mrs Chewing 8
Mermaid was runner-up under Ray-
mond Clark's ride and Mai w. M
Grimes took the yellow with his Riley,
Next was The lady's hunter contest
Mrs. Chewing scored. riding her own
Mermaid, and Miss Elizabeth Martin
displayed fine riding skill to bring in
a H. Ryan'S Shamrock for second
DR. Robert Humphreys entry was third
Inc ladies led another class. the
handy hunter trial, when Mrs. Frank
NJ. Andrews took the walk. trot. canter
and lead jumps on her Willowbrook,
The Fort Myer horse show team won
the red with Miss Melbourne. Lieut., C
II. Noble uD, while R. H. Norton's High
Compression was third
Washington drag hounds hunters
were tested in the fifth division, which
was won by Mrs. Chewing, on Bean
Beetle; Mrs NJ. Robert Guggenheim on
Flrenz Red, second, and Mai. Grimes
master of the hunt, third, with Nancy
Andrews
Fort Myer Team First.
The last three classes we're witnessed
by an ever-diminishing crowd. which
dWndled not from boredom but from
exhaustion with the over-long program,
Bean Beetle placed second to High
Compression in the open jumping and
MISS Melbourne was third. Bobby
Robey rode all three winners of the
next class, DR.. Humphreys Royal Tent
frSt, Mrs. CheWningS Golden Girl sec
ond ana her Mermaid third.
MAJ. George S. PattonS crack hunt
team, ridden by Fort Myer officers, cap
tured the event for trioS of that tvpe
MRS. CheWnings team was second anG
Mrs. William G. Hills third.
The silver cups which went to class
winners were donated by Senior Don
Orestes Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador
Edgar L. G. Prochnik, the Austrian
Minister; Sonora Don Ramon PadilIa
second secretary. Spanish legation
Lieut.. Col M. Robert Gugeenhein
C!auoe Owen, John Finerty and the
Riding and Hunt Club. ''~