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BAILY’S MAGAZINE OF Sports and Pastimes

VOL. LXXXV.

LONDON, VINTON & C^{o.} 1906.

BAILY’S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS & PASTIMES.

_VOLUME THE EIGHTY-FIFTH._ BEING NOS. 551–556. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1906.

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1906.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

ENGRAVINGS. PAGE Biddulph, Mr. Assheton, M.F.H. 343 Cardwell, Colonel W. A., M.F.H. 91 Hawkins, Mr. Henry 259 Helmsley, Viscount, M.F.H. 427 Hirst, George H. Title Huntingdon, The Earl of, M.F.H. 1 Mashiter, Mr. Edward, M.F.H. 175

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ascetic’s Silver 406 Beech, The 374 Broadland Sportsman with his Punt and Dog 118 Borzoi Puilai 290 Borzoi Sandringham Moscow 288 Casting a Net for Small Line Bait 116 Clumber Spaniel 481 Cocker Spaniels 480 Country Fair in 1819, A 444 “Dick” 24 Diplomatist, Mr. Ramsay’s 308 Famous Liverpool Riders 210 Flair 490 Foxhounds 8 Gorgos 488 Gubbins, The late Mr. John R. 364 Hot on the Trail 396 Jack Shepherd on Whitethorn 356 Kerry Beagles 318 King Edward, Mr. Drage’s 316 Leicestershire Runners 110 Menella, Mr. W. Scott’s 310 Mother, The 188 Oxford and Cheltenham Coach 114 Pheasants, Koklass 64 Pheasants, Monaul 64 Pinderfields Horace, Mr. T. Smith’s 312 Present King II., Messrs. Forshaw’s 306 Proportions of the Horse 220 Puckeridge Colonist and Cardinal 104 Punt Gunning 464 Red Prince II. 438 Returning from Market 44 Ridgway, Mr. C. Henry 384 “Sent to Walks” 190 Sixth Viscount Galway 200 Swinton, David 20 Vanguard Running a Fox to Ground 198 Wales (Stallion), Lord Middleton’s 314 “When all is Quiet” 400 With the North Cotswold 275 Worry, The 396

CONTENTS.

PAGE Advent of the Otter-hunting Season (Illustrated) 397 Becking: The Last Shot at the Grouse 15 Beech as a Commercial Tree (Illustrated) 375 Billiard-Cue, The (Illustrated) 442 Biographies:— Biddulph, Mr. Assheton, M.F.H. 343 Cardwell, Colonel W. A., M.F.H. 91 Hawkins, Mr. Henry 259 Helmsley, Viscount, M.F.H. 427 Hirst, George H. 485 Huntingdon, The Earl of, M.F.H. 1 Mashiter, Mr. Edward, M.F.H. 175 Borzoi, The (Illustrated) 289 Breeds of British Salmon 195 Broads as a Sporting Centre, The (Illustrated) 115 Christmas Dream on Sport, A 3 Clever Shot, A 465 Cocks and Some Rabbits, A Few 192 Collection of Indian Weapons 92 Country Fair, A (Illustrated) 443 Cricket Notions 467 Cricket Topics 37 Development of the Modern Motor, The 13 Distemper in Hounds 176 Dressing Flies 367 Education at the Public Schools 433 Education of the Puppy (Illustrated) 187 Englishman’s Sport in Future Years 346 Famous Grand National Riders (Illustrated) 211 Farewell to a Hunter, A (Verses) 128 Foxhounds (Illustrated) 103 Foxhounds of Great Britain, The (Illustrated) 199 Foxhounds: Their Ancestry (Illustrated) 7 Foxhunting in France (Illustrated) 385 Goose Shooting in Manitoba 230 Gossip on Hunting Men, A 56 Gubbins, The Late Mr. John (Illustrated) 362 Half a Century’s Hunting Recollections—IV.-V. 31, 138 Hermit Family, The 377 Herod Blood 300 Hind-hunting 204 Hound Sales, Past and Present 456 Hundred Years Ago, A 36, 127, 217, 287, 398, 477 Hunt “Runners”—II., III., IV. (Illustrated) 19, 109, 272 Hunting Ladies 234 In Memoriam: The late Captain J. T. R. Lane Fox 265 Is Foxhunting Doomed? 40 Jack Shepherd (Illustrated) 357 Judging of Polo Ponies 447 Last of the Bitterns, The 303 Navicular Disease (Illustrated) 369 New Year at the Theatres, The 129 Notes and Sport of a Dry-fly Purist 120, 452 Old Horse, The 276 Olympic Games, The 462 “Our Van” (Illustrated) 67, 155, 241, 320, 405, 487 Oxford and Cheltenham Coach (Illustrated) 113 Pelota 353 Plea for the Hare, A 350 Pheasant Shooting in the Himalayas 65 Polo in 1906 402 Preparatory School, The 358 Pursuit of the Pike, In 47 Racing at Gibraltar in 1905 133 Recollections of Seventy-five Years’ Sport—I.-II. 183, 260 Rugby Football 143 Salmon’s Visual Apparatus, The (Illustrated) 469 Some Fables on Horses 391 Some Novelties in the Laws of Croquet 279 Some Sport in the Transvaal in 1878 292 Some Theories on Acquiring a Seat 237 Song of Homage, A (Verses) 299 South African Policy of the Marylebone Cricket Ministry 387 Sport at the Universities 381 Sport at Westminster 429 Sport and Animal Life at the Royal Academy 449 Sporting Intelligence 85, 171, 254, 339, 420, 500 Sport in the City: The Old Year and the New 26 Sportsman’s Library, The (Illustrated) 45, 218, 317, 399, 478 Spring Horse Shows, The (Illustrated) 305 Spring Trout and Spring Weather 266 Successful Steeplechase Sires (Illustrated) 437 Thoroughbred, The 147 Towered Bird, The 268 True Fishing Stories 283 Two Noted Hunting Sires 223 University Boat Race, The 228 Walker, Mr. Vyell Edward 151 What Next? 100

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BAILY’S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES NO. 551. JANUARY, 1906. VOL. LXXXV.

CONTENTS.

PAGE Sporting Diary for the Month v. The Earl of Huntingdon, M.F.H. 1 A Christmas Dream on Sport 3 Foxhounds—Their Ancestry (Illustrated) 7 The Development of the Modern Motor 13 Becking—The Last Shot at the Grouse 15 Hunt “Runners”—II. (Illustrated) 19 Sport in the City—The Old Year and the New 26 Half a Century’s Hunting Recollections—IV. 31 A Hundred Years Ago 36 Cricket Topics 37 Is Foxhunting Doomed? 40 The Sportsman’s Library (Illustrated) 45 In Pursuit of the Pike 47 A Gossip on Hunting Men 56 Pheasant Shooting in the Himalayas (Illustrated) 65 “Our Van”:— Racing 67 Staghounds 71 Hunting in Yorkshire—a Capital Suggestion 75 Spaniel Trials in the Vale of Neath 76 The Christmas Shows 77 Sport at the Universities 80 Golf 82 The London Playing Fields’ Society 83 “The Mountain Climber” at the Comedy Theatre 83 “Mr. Popple (of Ippleton)” at the Apollo Theatre 84 Sporting Intelligence 85

WITH ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF THE EARL OF HUNTINGDON, M.F.H.

The Earl of Huntingdon, M.F.H.

Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, fourteenth Earl of Huntingdon, was born in the year 1868. His career as a sportsman dawned three years later, for at that, we trust appreciative, age he was blooded with the old “H. H.” in the County Waterford, where his father, then Lord Hastings, hunted a part of the old Curraghmore country, and what is now the territory of the Coshmore and Coshbride Hunt. The late Earl, it may be observed, in 1872 became Master of the Ormond and King’s County, and held office until 1882.

The subject of our portrait was reared in the atmosphere of sport which is so peculiarly strong in Ireland; indeed, so intimate have been his relations with hounds and hunting from his earliest days, that he says he was “reared in the kennels.” He lost no time in mastering the art of handling a pack, having owned and hunted beagles at the age of fourteen. He kept a regular pack of harriers in 1886, and showed good sport with them. In 1897, being then twenty-nine years old, he was asked to accept the mastership of the Ormond, in succession to Mr. Asheton Biddulph, which he did, carrying the horn himself, and hunting the country to the great satisfaction of field and farmers alike until 1904. During the season 1900–1901 the Earl hunted the East Galway twice a week in addition to the Ormond, bringing his hounds over from Sharavogue by van. Though a veritable “glutton for work” where hunting is concerned, he confesses that this was a very arduous season. On one occasion he had to get home forty Irish miles (which is about fifty Statute miles) after hunting: this, we imagine, must be the record back home. He was frequently out from 7 a.m. till ten at night; and when it is remembered that he was hunting hounds five days a week, we think it will be admitted that to continue such work long would have killed Squire Osbaldeston himself.

During his first (1897–98) season of mastership in the Ormond country he also kept (and of course hunted) a pack of harriers. These, with the foxhounds, gave him enough to do. One day he had the bitch pack out cubbing in the early morning; came home to breakfast; took the dog pack out cubbing till lunch time; came home to lunch; had out the harriers in the afternoon, and enjoyed sport with all three. Had there been light and another pack of hounds convenient, we make no doubt the indefatigable master would have gone out again after dinner; but the day’s work as it stands probably occupies a unique position in the annals of hunting.

In 1903, Lieut.-Colonel Harrison acting deputy master for him in the Ormond country, he came over to England and acted as huntsman of the North Staffordshire, Messrs. Phillips and Dobson being masters; and in 1904 he assumed the mastership of the Hunt. We may here remark that this is the twentieth season he has carried the horn with beagles, harriers, and foxhounds, having hunted as well deer and otter. As he has hunted with no fewer than fifty-eight different packs of all sorts in his time, Lord Huntingdon’s experience is probably about as varied as that of any man now living. He hunted much in Leicestershire while still keeping his harriers, Somerby being his centre. Of good runs he has borne part in many; he thinks one of the best he ever saw was that with the Belvoir from Harley to Staunton on December 14th, 1892, one hour and thirty minutes.