The Washington times., 1935-09-05

fax Hunt Club
Gino SINH tangles wi h
the Fairfax county farmers team
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at
Fairfax, Va. Both teams are made
up of socially prominent sports
men.
If the heavens will refrain
from weeping the perverse brutes
who have successfully managed
to keep human beings off of their
bony spines Except L. one or
two instances) may find their
masters tomorrow.
Seasoned horsemen as we'll as
huntsmen, the Hunt Club partici-
pants will go into the game with
a reputation of staying aboard a
four-footed animal while it
bounds over fences, brooks,
brushes and similar obstacles.
The same applies to their op-
ponents, the gentlemen farmers,
over whose fields and through
whose woods they pursue the
elusive fox.
Five-tO-One Choice
But the fox-chaSers and the
sons of the soil, who hire others,
to do their work, go into the
melee very much the underdogs,
about 1-to-5 shots, to stay atop
the little imps of satans. It
will be like trying to ride the
fox they chase rather than the
horse.
In past encounters. especially
those between the Washington,
Alexandria and Anacostia Lions
clubs, the human element went
into the conflict with two strikes
and Walter johnson, in his
prime. getting ready to smoke
the next one over. The hunters
and the farmers will still have
the traditional two strikes but
with this years faltering Lefty"
Grove on the mound.
It is likely that several of the
donkeys will find themselves un-
expectedly forced to do a mortal's
bidding, though at the end of the
festivities the score will find the
donkeys' sheer stubbornness, plus
barrage of flying hoofs, retain
ing a decided edge.
Incidentally, the huntsmen, as
Stunning some of the craftiness of
the little animal they track down
on horseback from October to
March, have inveigled a couple Of
newspaper men and a radio an
nouncer to throw their lots with
them. It is rumored that the
farmers may protest the game, &C.
cusing the hunt club of Subsidiz'
ing, should the fox-chasers win.
Purring Arthur Godfrey is the
air-wave wrecker who will attempt
to keep astride of one OF those
quadruped eels. Though veteran
of previous Skirmish with the
vicious beasts, Godfrey is on the
short end of the odds at all bet
ting exchanges.
AS most of the participants are
Virginians and good Democrats,
the donkeys are expected to use
discretion.
List of Heroes
Here's the complete Fairfax
Hunt Club list of heroes-Daniel
Fahey, a former Maryland U.
track luminary, Arthur Godfrey,
belong Bowman, and his brother,
Smith Bowman. jr., Of Sunset
Hills, Reed Thomas, William
Sweet, Robert Phillips, of the
Star; Stewart Preece, Joseph
Wheeler and the following alter
mates, DR.. William Mcclellan, Dr.
Thomas Poole, Robert Graham.
Smith Bowman, ST.. Howard
Railey, Esler Palmer, Gen. Edwin
Winan, George Rothwell Brown,
of the Post. and DR.. Irving
Brotman.
The Fairfax County Farmers
who will endanger themselves are
C. D. Stoneburner, Arthur Sher-
man. Rixey Smith, Senator Carter
Glass secretary, Mac Crippen,
wallace Carper, Walter Fox,
John Kerns, Lewis Ferguson and
Mark Turner. as regulars, and
Claude Oliver, Frank Pick, Amos
Chilcotte, Mason Smith, ST..
Charles Roller, Sable Brockman,
Tom G. Elgin. Julian Thompson
and Frank Hammond as added
griSt for the mill should they
be needed
The game will be played on the
Huntmere Farm of j. A. Wheeler,
located at Browns Chapel, on
Leesburg Pike, 10 miles out of
washington.