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The Washington times., 1934-09-12
A Moster--- Obeyed, Loved, Imitoted---o Sportsman

Mastership at Norfolk, both the field and
the country hunted over have almost quad
rupled-and every Master knows what that
means. Being good horseman, he had few
physical accidents to handicap him during
his long hunting career. But it takes more
than an accident to stop Mr.. Vaughan from
finishing whatever he has started. In 1882
his horse slipped in crossing a macadam
road and came down in such a way that
Mr.. Vaughan's knee joint was fractured in
four places. The horse stood up and Mr.
Vaughan was still in the saddle. He re-
Elected that he had never failed to finish
a run, that no one else knew where the
drag and the hounds were going, and so he
continued for over two miles to lead his
jumps as they came, to the very end with
the fortitude of Spartan.
One could go on indefinitely singing the
praises of Mr.. Vaughan, Master, exMaster,
official and leader of the foxhunting world.
But that would be less than half of the
story. What makes Mr. Vaughan'S influ-
ence so widely felt is not found in the
offices he holds, but in his personality and
in his attitude toward life and his fellow
men. His unselfishness his generous giving
of himself, his almost quixotic sense of honor
are noble attributes, but they might be
shared or initiated by other men. No one
else, however, could share or initiate the
unfailing charm of Mr.. Vaughan's personal
ity. It is all his own. It has made him
loved wherever he has gone, by rich and
poor, by farmer or fellow sportsman.
Virginia Master once said to me: II
like to think of Henry Vaughan as typify
ing the best kind of New England gentle
man." I answered: Henry is the best kind
of New England gentleman, but he isn't
typical There is only one Henry Vaughan"
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

riding to hounds in the drags at the
Norfolk Hunt Club and in 1903 he was
elected Master. He was continued in
office, by yearly election, for 80 years,
through the season Of 1882, and into 1888,
which constitutes record for the longest
elective and continuous Mastership in
American hunting history. On his resigna-
ton in 1888, he was elected Honorary
Master for life of the Norfolk Hunt Club.
One of the six founders of the Masters of
FoxhoundS' Association of America, in 1907
he was promptly elected to the post of Sec
rotary and Treasurer, and served continu-
ously in these offices until 1881, when he
was elected to the presidency. In his long
tenure Of office he was assiduous, untiring
and tactful He adjusted differences be.
tween Masters in the thorny foxhunting
world, where every Master is an autocrat.
He settled irreconcilable antagonisms with
a skill which was in no way founded on a
Machiavellian diplomacy, but wholly on the
entire trust which all the parties concerned
repoSed in his fairness and honor. Mr..
Vaughan is no diplomat. "Step on the tail
of his coat, and you'll see." But he has the
virtue, which is far greater than the diplo-
matte ones, of sticking inexorably to his
standards of craftsmanship and fair deal.
ing; he treats everyone on the assumption
that the other is a gentleman and, only
when he decides that the complainant is
not such and that his claims are meretri-
cious, does he loose the walls Of a wrath
which is truly Olympian.
For many years he has, almost ipso facto,
represented the hunting district of New
England on the Hunts Committee of the
National SteeplechaSe and Hunts Associa-
ton, and has been director of the Ameri-
can Horse Show Association. During his
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Plenty of Foxes

The all-day program included
a horse show, comprising % diff
ferent classes for draft and
thoroughbred horses, farm
teams, brood mares with foals,
draft stations, several pony
races, heavy, middleweight,
lightweight and green hunters,
etc., and five races. Prizes were
awarded in all classes and no en-
trance fee charged in classes for
draft horses.
With the further improvement
by the State Roads Commission
during the past winter and
spring of several roads leading
to the kennels from the main
highways from both Baltimore
and washington, which makes
our hunting country practically
equidistant therefrom and so
readily accessible by motor or
for vanning of horses, it is ex-
pected that an additional mum.
Der of interested huntsmen from
those points will join our field
this season.
With evidence of plenty of
foxes this year and further i'm
provement to our panelling Of
the country, we are looking for
ward confidently and with keen
interest and enthusiasm to the
renewed thrills Of the chase.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
By RICHARD E. DANIELSON
Editor and Publisher of The Sports
man MGQazlMe

UHIS special fox hunting section Of the
Washington Times is dedicated to
Mr.. Henry G. Vaughan Of Sherborn'
Massachusetts. am proud and happy that
the editors have asked me to write
short summary of Mr.. Vaughan's career-a
career and Characterization have made
such a dedication inevitable.
Men of intelligence adapt their activities
sporting or otherwise-to the environ
ment in which they live. 1t is impossible
to reproduce, and it would be absurd to
try to reproduce, the fox hunting stand
ards of Leicestershire in the stony fields
and woodlands which make up hunting
country in Massachusetts,. Mr.. Vaughan
has not been in the literal sense, fox
hunter, but in his 80 years MasterShip
of the Norfolk Hunt Club he has been at
once Master, in capital letters beyed,
loved, and imitated-a rider to hounds
of the first quality, a sportsman, and
leader of sportsmen. Moreover, his per-
Sonality has combined unique and COM
polling charm with an integrity, devotion,
and a courage which set him apart from
the ordinary run of Masters, and resulted
inevitably in his election to the presidency
of their Association.
Consider, for moment, the bare facts
of his career. He began hunting in 1895
with Mr.. A. HigginSon's beagleS. Mr..
Higginson, who was his predecessor as
president Of the Masters Of Foxhounds
Association and is now Joint Master of
the Cattistock, in England. started his
career with very sporting cry of beagles
which were hunted on horseback at Lin
coin, MaSs@ In 1898 Mr.. Vaughan started
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Unique System

In order to open up a hunting
territory these farmers and
landowners had to be visited,
made friends with, and slowly
won over to the point, where,
when appealed to from one
angle or another, they would
tolerate our crossing their prop
erty and building panels Of
chicken coops or poSt-and-railS
at many points on the wire
fences. This winning over of
the farmers was accomplished
in a rather unique manner.
The prospective hunting ter
ritory was divided into seven
districts, with a pink coat" re-
SponSible for each district. 1t
is the duty of this member of
the Hunt to know personally
and cultivate every property
owner in the respective district.
In this way grievances are al
layed, restitution made quickly
for damage to live stock or
crops, and propagation and con-
Servation of foxes fostered.
Years of continuous work of
this kind has borne fruit. Our
hunting territory embraces a
strip IL miles long and six miles
wide. starting about seven miles
from the city limits of st. Louis,
and extending west with only
one main highway bisecting it.
The country is rolling, Streaked
profuSely with large patches Of
first growth oak and hickory
timber and occasionally a slash
of thicket and, to be so close to
a large city, we have SurpriS-
ingly little wire.
We dispensed with drag hunts
two years ago.
Our season starts with early
morning cub hunts four times
a week from the first Of August.
The formal opening meet is the
latter part of September and
hunting continues through the
winter until the middle of Feb
ruary, hounds going out four
times a week, weather permit
ting.
In addition to a beautiful
hunting country, plentiful with
fox, much of our sport can be
laid to the work of the Bride
spur Hounds. The pack has been
carefully built up with Ameri-
can, English and rough-coated
Welsh hounds, and culled con-
stantly.
The gold cup race is draw
ing fine horses from the north
and east, and we are grateful
for the support and interest Of
such owners as T. w. Durant,
Richard K. Mellon, Benjamin
Behr, Roy Nafziger, and others.
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Perseverance
Is BridIespur
Virtue
BY AUGUST A. BUSCH, JR.
NJ. F. H., BridleSpur Hunt, Hunt
ZeiOh VILLAGE Mo

ny AOUOOA IA DOSN11S Jno
M. F. H., Bridlespur Hunt, Hunt
leigh Village. Mo.
Fox hunting in St. Louis
county as it is today, and as it
was at its inception about seven
years ago, forms an interesting
contrast.
In 1926 a few of us, who had
partaken of the sport in the
East and abroad, became inter-
ested in formulating a hunt so
that st. Louisans and their
friends might enjoy the sport
in the manner residents of the
eastern States and Europeans
know it. We assembled a pack
of hounds, recruiting them from
several well known packs, and
employed the services of a pro-
fessional huntSman.
On a certain cool morning
early in the fall of 1927, we set
out to follow our hounds. Each
of us harbored a peculiar mix
ture of feelings. To set down
our thrills, disappointments and
near-tragedies for that season
would fill fair-sized volume.
We learned quickly that to
transplant a sport as venerable
and as stepped in tradition as
Riding to Hounds, into a con-
sentative Middle West atmos-
phere, would require much per-
severance and courage on our
part. Fox hunting might be a
res ected aud time-honored
sport, but bunch of city
sports dyked out in red coats
and gallavantin over crops and
scarin' stock" was nothing short
of a durn nuisance to the aver
age st. Louis county farmer.
This worthy's idea of a fox
hunt, if he tolerated sport at
all, was to take one or two
hounds to some remote wood
land section at night, turn
them loose with a "hunt
'em up" and "go git 'em, boy"
then sit down and listen to the
music"
The Washington times., 1934-09-12

When the picture" becomes
economically valuable and help
full to men and women of whole
counties, then is there all the
more reason for having painted
it.
In America there are untold
thousands Of square miles of
woodlands and workaday agri-
cultural country; much of the
latter may be likened to the
mule without pride of ancestry
or hope Of posterity," but in
some fortunate spots there ex-
lists terrain which is ideally
suitable for sports of the field
and especially for riding to
hounds-the sport par excel
lence of Princes and Yeomen
since time immemorial.
When a given agricultural or
pastoral district has suitable
topography and climate, proper
percentage of grass to tillage,
adequate disposition and extent
Of cover, it has a potential value
(often undiscoveredO as if the
ground were underlaid with
veins of gold.
The possibility of riding to
hounds in certain regions near
Washington has increased resi-
Dental values Of these regions
In untold percentage in recent
years, but only after the devoted
effort of a comparatively few
people who have given of their
enthusiasm and their treasure
for "the sake of the game" and
for the joy of painting a pic
ture."
More power to the support.
ing landholders, to the devoted
Masters of Hounds, the en-
thusiastic Hunt secretaries, the
helpful committees, the sub
scribing followers, and all OF
those who not only put beauty
and joy into life, but who
create an American country for
Americans, unprecedented land
values, jobs and markets.
The possibilities in any given
district are only restricted by its
topography (gift of the Gods,
but let it never be forgotten
that the best of hounds that
can be bred, and jumpable
fencing controlled by mani
are all essential when hunting
"a country that none can sur
pass for a flyer to cross like
a bird IN the wing"
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Sports Spirit

Were it not for these, as
compared with minor fields of
sport, it is probable that the
sacrifices which most of the
hunts throughout the country
have had to make in order to
maintain their organizations
and retain the interest of their
members during the past sew
eral difficult years, would
have resulted in the number
thereof represented in your
edition this year being much
smaller rather than, as an
ticipate, either equal to or
larger than last year. But it
is the spirit inherent to this
sport which. seems to carry it
on from generation to genera
ton.
The Howard County Hunt
has not been immune to the
effects of the business and
personal reversals of the day,
but its spirit has survived as
fortunately also have our
hounds and huntsman.
The pack for the approaching
season, comprising 20 couples,
is the largest and will be the
best We have ever hunted. Our
cub-hunting season opened the
first week in September and in
due course, though the fixtures
have not been officially an
nounced, the regular biweekly
meets will follow. Previous
thereto and as mark of ap-
probation by the members of
the hunt for the courtesies
extended during the season by
the farmers and landowners of
the community, there was held
on Saturday. September l, 1884,
at our kennels, Glenelg, Nd,
Second Annual Farmers and
Landowners Field Day.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
Builders of Countryside
Beauty Deserve Same
Praise As Artist
By JOSEPH B. THOMAS

Recognized throughout the a0orld one of the FORE
most Foo Hunting authorities, If not the foremost;
Author of Hounds and Hunting, etc.
He has not lived in vain who has painted beautiful
picture created a magnificent building, planted a
lovely garden.
Those who responsible for the beauty of the
tryside and it's improvement place of residence
have done much the artist.
To paint picture in grass-to create "hghlights" of
charming houses-to add life and joy to the by
causing brilliant pageant of hounds, horses and color
full hunt uniforms to flash itthat is indeed
contribution to the beauty of existence.
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so Top Hounds

From November 1 to April
we hunt regularly on Sunday
and Thursday mornings. The
fields are usually rather small
as there are only IL regular
subscribers to the pack.
In addition to the subscribers,
who hunt very regularly, there
are usually several local land
owners in the field.
At the present time we have
so top hounds in our pack con-
sisting mainly of the Thomas
strain, a cross of the old Vir-
ginia and Trigg lines.
Last season we had the pleas
ure of having Miss Eileen Bige-
low, of st. Paul, Mimi, hunting
with us as a guest during No
vember and then returning
after Christmas, bringing her
own hunter by truck from st.
Paul, and hunting for the re-
mainder of the season.
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HowordCounty
Hunt Likes
"a Pack
BY T. STOCKTON MATTHEWS
President, the Howdrd County
Hunt, ElHcott City, Md.

by Il. SxOChxON MA II NE w .
President, the Howdrd County
Hunt, Ellicott City, Md.
The pleasure of contributing
an article to the Washington
Times second annual special
fox hunting section is mine. I
first desire to commend the
renewed evidence of The Times
continued interest and CO.
operation in this major field
of sport, as well as the four
fold purpose which prompts
the publication of this section.
1t is gratifying for us of
The Howard County Hunt to
note the happy coincidence
that your fox hunting section
is dedicated primarily to the
same traditions and detectives
as those which The Howard
County Hunt emphasized last
year in the first annual fox
hunting section.
1t is upon these traditions
which have survived for gen.
erations, upon such an inspi-
ration for good craftsmanship
as that of fox hunting and
upon its valuable medium for
fostering and developing whole
some community interests that
the permanency and pride of
the sport rest.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
HUNTING INCREASES LAND VALUES IN UNTOLD PERCENTAG
Virginia Hunting People
In Ferment As Officials
Continue Indifferent
By STERLING LARRABEE

Joint Master of the Old Dominion Hounds and prob
ably the best informed vita economic questions
IN the three great foe hunting counties of FGuQuler,
Loudoun and Rappahamnock, IN Virginia.
For more than century, that part of Piedmont Vir-
gina comprising the counties of Fauquer, Loudoun and
Rappahannock, has been famous grazing country,
noted for the quality of both cattle and horses;
The excellent horses of the Confederate cavalry were
largely recruited from these countless and from here the
finest grades of heavy export steers shipped to
Liverpool in the old cattle boats In the present day.
great portion of the cattle slaughtered in the Baltimore
stock yards has been fattened in this section of Vir
ginia.
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Traders Point
Stages. Party
For Farmers
BY GEORGE Nj. BAILEY
M. F. H., Traders Point Hunt,
INDIANAPOLIS

M. +. H., IT01eTS POtnt Hnnt,
indianapolis
This year, Traders Point
Hunt is entering upon its fourth
season of drag hunting with a
rolling country northwest of In
dianapolis and 2312 couples of
English, American and cross
bred hounds.
The country is now about
nine miles long by six miles
wide, and extends on both sides
of Big Eagle Creek, mostly in
Pike Township, Marion County,
Indiana.
During the past year, eight
couples Of English and crossbred
hounds we're added to the pack,
having been drafted from the
GoEden's Bridge pack. Other
hounds were added from Vir-
GINA and Kentucky. 1t was
necessary to add considerably
to the kennels.
Paneling was continued this
summer and by the opening Of
the season-October is, 1884
there will be much new coun-
try added.
The following gentlemen of
: Indianapolis make up the Board
Of Directors of Traders Point
Hunt:
Mr.. George M. Bailey, Master
of Fox Hounds; Mr.. Cornelius
o. Aig, President; Mr.. Russell
Fortune, Vice-president; Mr..
Ralph G.. Lockwood, Secretary;
Mr.. Charles Mayer, Treasurer;
Mr.. Samuel B. Sutphin, Mr.. A.
Keifer Mayer, Mr.. Nathan Da-
Wis, and Mr.. Thomas Ruckels-
hauS.
The Hunt Staff consists of
Mr.. Raymond Hollingsworth,
. HuntSman; Mr.. Marion Wilson,
first Whipper-in, and Mr.. Ward
Odin, second Whipper-in.
During the past year, at
least IL good hunters have been
purchased and will be added to
the Field during the coming sea-
son.
There is an excellent under
standing between the property
owners and farmers and the
Hunt organization.
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Those characteristics which
make a fine grazing country
luxuriant turf, wide pastures,
mild winters, high fences and
abundant streams - are also
the attributes of a superb hunt
ing country. And. for over
century, stock farming and
fox hunting have gone hand in
hand.
AS everyone knows, Wash
ington was a noted fox hunter,
and it is matter of record that
Lee loved a good horse and
a good hunt"
In the olden days, almost
every prominent landowner
land many not so prominently
kept hounds. These they hunt
ed informally, and on highdays
and holidays score or more
got together with their hounds,
sometimes to the number of
hundred or more, and had a
rip-roarin', old-fashioned "fox
race"
You could ride anywhere
then-there were no macadam
roads, and wire had not been
invented. Then, as now, fox
hunting was a grand sport,
but it had no economic value
whatever.
During the past Is years,
however, the status of fox
hunting has entirely changed.
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All Are Welcome

She is planning to return this
season and bring several of her
st. Paul friends along, includ-
ing George Shallenberger, who
has already become a subscriber
to the pack.
We are all looking forward
to the 1934-35 season with pros
poets that it will be the best
ever. We hunt in a very simple
way with only a small clubroom
and rustic stable and kennels,
but we assure anyone who
would like to come along real
sport in the field behind what
we think is Americas greatest
pack.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
Thomas Strain
Pred ominutes
HiIIsboro
By JOHN SLOAN
Honorary Secretary, HillSboro
EOn11dc

Hounds
Hillsboro Hounds, Subscrip-
ton pack, was organized in
Nashville, Tenn, two years ago
by a small group of hunters
headed by Mason Houghland,
who was later made Master.
We have hunted for the past
two seasons in a country about
Is miles southwest of Nashville,
which is probably the largest
tract of all natural rail country
left in America. This country
appeals particularly to those
who enjoy riding hard and TAX
ing lots of varied jumps.
Our country is we'll stocked
with both red and gray foxes.
Very seldom have we gone out
without having a good chase.
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TO HENRY G. VAUGHAN Ex-M F. H. the Norfolk
Hunt Club and president the Masters of Fox Hounds
Association of America, ths-the special fox hunting
section of The Washington Tmes-respectfully is ded
Gated. Fox hunters everywhere join with in reiterat
ing the words of Richard E. Danieson: Henry Vaughans
with integrity devotion, and courage which set
him apart from the ordinary of Masters He has
the virtue-far greater than the diplomatic ones-of
sticking nexorably to his standards of craftsmanship
and fair dealing He treats everyone the assumption
that the other is gentleman and only when he decides
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Packs Given Up

To begin with, the motor
car nosed off the roads the
carriage horse, which was also
the huntin' horse. Light horses
were either given up entirely,
or kept for hunting alone. The
chestnut blight killed off the
chestnut trees, from which old
rail fences were made, and
wire began to creep in. Wages
increased materially, as did the
cost of feeding horses and
Continued on Page 4, Col. ~
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that the complainant is not such and that his claims
meretricous does he loose the walls of wrath which
truly Olympian What makes Mr. Vaughans influence
his personality and in his attitude toward life and his
fellow His unsefishness, his generous giving CT
himself his almost quixotic of honorare noble
attributes but they might be shared initiated by other
No else, however, could share or initiate the
unfaling charm of Mr.. Vaughans personality it is all
his The painting of Mr.. Vaughan, by Richard B.
ADAM reproduced in this section by special permission
of The Sportsman Arlington St., Boston, Mass.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Entry Blanks to Schools.

The contest to select a slogan and
poster design to be used on all litera-
ture Of the Board Of Trades Safety
Campaign Is to be extended TO the
school children of the city.
This contest, along with the safety
course outlined above, the Voice Of
Safety" automobile and the Com
mittee Of 100" traf1c safety observers,
is part of the boards safety cam
paign, to which its traffic committee
dedicated itself at the beginning Of
this years work.
Paul E. Gilbert. chairman Of the
Contest Committee, has announced
100000 entry blanks in the contest are
to be printed, in addition to the $4,000
already given out, for distribution to
the children of the city's schools, in
the hope that they will be required.
as a part of their home work, to re-
turn the completed entries through
their teachers.
1t is believed, Mr.. Gilbert said, that
this will cause the children as well
as the parents to take more than q
passing interest in the campaign of
which the contest is q stimulating
part.
A committee of the managing edi-
tors of the Washington newspapers
will judge the slogans and poster de-
signs for the award of the S25 in each
classification.
The contest will close at midnight,
October 81, and in addition to the
cash prizes many honorable mention
awards have been offered by the ctty's
merchants.