The Washington times., 1932-04-28
OLDER PERSONS
To SEE CUP RACE
SATURDAY
By HARRY COSTELLO

Many older persons will be in
attendance Saturday at the HiSer
estate in the Green Spring Valley
country when the thirty-seventh
renewal of the Maryland Hunt
Cup race will be decided.
A number of the older men and
women, many of whom witnessed
the first running of the event in
1894, have asked that the 1894-95
history of the event again be re-
corded.
Five members of the Elkridge
Fox Hunting Club sat in front of
the kennels one bright spring day
in 1894 discussing the merits Of
various hunters. The five were
Gerard T. Hopkins, jr., Frank j.
Baldwin, Henry j. Farber, Ross w.
Whistler and Jacob A. Ulman.
Among them it was decided to
inaugurate a cross-country race
for hunters, a race that would be
a real test of endurance as we'll
as speed and jumping ability.
A challenge went forth from
the Elkridge to, the Green Spring
Valley Hunt, and was accepted by
the latter. Entries for the 1894
race were limited to hunters
owned by members of the two or
ganizations. A course was
tagged, the start on DR.. William
Lees property near Stevenson
station and running cross-coun-
try for nearly four miles to a
point on Mr.. George Browns
estate, BrooklandWood.
Nine Faced Starter
Nine started in the race. There
were IL entries. John McHenry's
John Miller won the event, with
Redmond C. Stewards Tim Burr
second, S. E. Georges Sixty third,
Eugene Levering's The Sport
fourth, F. H. M. Birkhead'S Bar
ney fifth. Wilson K. Levering's
Upset sixth, C. Morton Stewards
The Squire seventh, and DR.. Will
liam Lees Leida eighth. C. M.
Wilson'S Kildare failed to COM
plete the course.
The Squire, Tim Burr, The
Sport and Johnny Miller we're
ridden by their respective owners.
C. K. Harrison, jr., rode Lelda, r.
N. Elder, jr., was astride Sixty,
S. M. Nicholas had the leg up on
Kildare, Isaac Tyson had the
mount on Barney, and c. E.
Reiman guided Upset.
Before leaving the course on
the day of that first Maryland
Hunt Cup race, Ulman and
Whistler determined to make the
event fixture. They invited Red
mond Stewart to join with them,
and in February of 1895 the ,hlee
assumed a sort5 of dictatorship.
They made the conditions which
called for a closed race" essen
TALLY local in character.
Large Crowd on Hand
When the day for the 1895
race dawned, word had spread
through the countryside and a
large crowd, for those days, was
on hand for the race.
The 1895 event was run at
Hampton" the estate of Capt.
John Ridgely, near Towson. Out
of the 19 entries, Is accepted the
issue, many of them veterans of
the first race year before.
On this occasion, the first re
newa1 of the Maryland Hunt Cup,
R. N. Eldur. jr, piloted Mr..
Georges Sixty to victory. Morton
C. Stewart, on his own The
Squire, placed, and Mr.. Ulman's
Miss Nina was third.
Answering questions about the
Maryland Hunt Cup:
The 1896 race was at Brook
landwood and the 1899 race was
decided at Long Green, estate of
G. S. Williams in Baltimore
county. In this latter race the
distance was four miles and a
fraction and over 80 jumps.
T. D. Whistler rode Mrs. Whist
ler's Kingsbury to victory in the
1896 race.
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