Evening star., 1936-01-15
BY NINA CARTER TABB.

"HE annual meeting OF the Mas
terS of Fox Hounds of the
Southeastern States was held
L at North Wales Club, Warren
ton, Va, yesterday. Its purpose was
the election of representative to the
National Steeplechase and Hunt Asso-
citation. Algernon S. Craven of Abe
marie County, Va, was unanimously
chosen. Mr. Craven's election was no
surprise to the hunting gentlemen OF
this section, as he has held this office
for the last IS years, with no oppoSi-
ton, and is a most popular and be-
loved sportsman.
After the meeting the masters"
were entertained at delightful
luncheon given by MIR. Craven at the
club. Among those present were Mr..
Arthur W. Talcott of Keswick Hunt,
Daniel C. Sands of Middleburg Hunt,
Sterling Larrabee and William E.
Doeller, Joint masters of Old Domin-
ion Hounds, Amory Carhart of War
renton Hunt Fletcher Harper OF
Orange County Hounds. William H,
Lipscomb of Loudoun Hunt, Reed
Thomas and E. De Long Bowman of
Fairfax Hunt, Maj. Charles S. Roller,
jr., of Glenmore Hunt Club, Morris
Clark of Montpelier Hunt, Chauncey
Williams, eX-master of Casanova Hunt
and now acting as joint master with
Mr.. Carhart when hunting the old
Casanova territory; William Bell Wat
kins of Blue Ridge Hunt, Mrs. Fay In
gals of Bath County Hounds, Miss
Julia Shearer of Rapidan Hunt, Mrs.
j. P. Jones and Mr.. Roger Rinehart,
joint masters of Pennington Hunt at
Charlottesville, and DR.. John M.
Hughes of Deep Run Hunt, Richmond,
Va.
Applications for dates for Spring
race meetings were made during the
meeting. April IL and IS were asked
for Middleburg and May 2 was re-
quested for Warrenton. 1t is expected
that these dates will be approved by
the National Hunt and Steeplechase
Association.
After a period of enforced inactivity
due to weather conditions, Warrentap
Hounds met at Ashland Farms, home
of Mr. Armory Carhart, master, last
Saturday. They drew that farm and
Picketts Mountain and found promptly
at the latter place. The fox circled
the mountain twice and took straight
line around to View Tree. After run
of about an hour they denned on View
Tree Mountain. While the going was
49,. /Nf lNnt
will be long remembered by the. field,
among whom were Mrs. Alex Hagner,
Mrs George Cutting, Mrs. Baldwin
Spilman, jr.; Mrs. Amory Carhart,
Miss Lucie Duer, Mr.. William B..
STREET., Mr.. Harry Pool, Mr.. George
Cutting and Mr.. Baldwin Spilman, jr.
Arthur Talcott tells me that his
hounds (KeSWick, near Charlottesville
met at his home on Friday. They drew
Maiken Woods and found promptly.
The fox went away toward the town
of Keswick, turned and carried line
generally to Gotham, through Old
Merry Mills, the home of the late John
Armstrong Chandler. and on to Castle
Hill, now owned by Prince and Primo
ess TroubetZkoi, the latter being the
former Miss Amile Rives. The fox
finally went to ground at Peters
Mountain. This run was probably
over II miles of Keswicks beautiful
country. These hounds have had
splendid season of hunting, and the
SHOWS that have closed so much of our
good hunting country have not inter-
ferred with their sport.
Among those who enjoyed Satur-
days run were: The Master and Mrs.
Talcott, Mr.. Malcolm Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Joslin, Mr.. Richard Hall,
Mr.. Chester Hall, Miss Elizabeth Hall,
Miss Jamie Terrill, DR.. Erich Mosettig,
Mrs. Elliot Fishburn, Mrs. Cary jack
son, Mrs. John Sulley, Mrs. Fawcett
Grimes, Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. T. Brown,
Messrs. Turner and Blake Brown, Mrs.
Frances Clinch and her SON Peter