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# Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85: January to June, 1906 ### By Various
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BAILY’S MAGAZINE OF Sports and Pastimes
[Illustration:
_George H. Hirst._ ]
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.
LONDON: VINTON AND CO., LIMITED, 9, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LUDGATE CIRCUS E.C.
1906.
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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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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ DIARY FOR JANUARY, 1906. │ ├──────┬─────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │Day of│ Day │ OCCURRENCES. │ │Month.│ of │ │ │ │Week.│ │ ├──────┼─────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 1│ M │Manchester and Hamilton Park Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 2│ TU │Manchester and Hamilton Park Races and Steeplechases. │ │ │ │ Essex Club Coursing Meeting. │ │ 3│ W │Gatwick Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 4│ TH │Gatwick Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 5│ F │Windsor Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 6│ S │Windsor Races and Steeplechases. │ │ │ │ │ │ 7│ =S= │=First Sunday after Epiphany.= │ │ 8│ M │Birmingham Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 9│ TU │Birmingham Races and Steeplechases. Tendering Hundred │ │ │ │ Coursing Meeting. │ │ 10│ W │Haydock Park Races and Steeplechases. Altcar Club │ │ │ │ Coursing Meeting. │ │ 11│ TH │Haydock Park Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 12│ F │Plumpton Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 13│ S │Plumpton Races and Steeplechases. │ │ │ │ │ │ 14│ =S= │=Second Sunday after Epiphany.= │ │ 15│ M │Wolverhampton Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 16│ TU │Wolverhampton Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 17│ W │Manchester Races and Steeplechases. Gravesend and Cliffe│ │ │ │ Coursing Meeting. │ │ 18│ TH │Manchester and Wye Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 19│ F │Hurst Park Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 20│ S │Hurst Park Races and Steeplechases. │ │ │ │ │ │ 21│ =S= │=Third Sunday after Epiphany.= │ │ 22│ M │ │ │ 23│ TU │Windsor Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 24│ W │Windsor and Tenby Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 25│ TH │Tenby Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 26│ F │Lingfield Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 27│ S │Lingfield Races and Steeplechases. │ │ │ │ │ │ 28│ =S= │=Fourth Sunday after Epiphany.= │ │ 29│ M │Nottingham Races and Steeplechases. │ │ 30│ TU │Nottingham Races and Steeplechases. Rochford Hundred │ │ │ │ Coursing Club. │ │ 31│ W │Gatwick Races and Steeplechases. │ └──────┴─────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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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.
Lord Huntingdon has played polo for many years. He is President of the King’s County Club, also the Crystal Palace Polo Club, and is a member of the Roehampton, Ranelagh, and other clubs; for many seasons he played back in the King’s County Irish team for the County Cup.
A first-class rabbit and rifle shot, he is fond of the gun, and since he took Madeley Manor from Lord Crewe has begun preserving there; this, however, is his first season at Madeley, and a few years later will no doubt see a much larger head of game there than now exists. He used to do a little racing and also a little race-riding; in 1898 he won the private sweepstakes at Croxton Park, on Captain Herbert Wilson’s Sailor, in a good field of sixteen starters.
He has twice visited the United States, and has been in Canada, Japan, and China, but has not done much big game shooting. Interested in yachting, he is Commodore of the Lough Dearg Corinthian Club. He fishes when he has nothing else to do, principally in the Shannon and Lough Dearg; but with his numerous occupations we gather that the occasions when he has leisure to use the salmon rod are somewhat rare. He is a keen motorist, and drives a great deal; the machine he now uses is a 24–40 h.p. Fiat.
For some years he kept a stud in Ireland and bred horses of various breeds; he has now given this up, but still breeds a few half-breds at Sharavogue.
Lord Huntingdon, who is a Deputy-Lieutenant of the King’s County, retired last year as Lieut.-Colonel of the 3rd Batt. Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regiment. He was unable to go to South Africa, owing to an accident. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1885. In 1892 he married Maud Margaret, second daughter of Sir Samuel Wilson, late M.P. for Portsmouth, by whom he has a son, Francis, born 1901, and three daughters, who are very keen sportswomen, and never so happy as when riding to hounds. Lord Huntingdon is also very fond of driving four horses, and until motoring started made many driving tours with his yellow coach and team of greys. Lady Huntingdon is also very fond of hunting, and is out regularly with the North Staffordshire. One of Lord Huntingdon’s brothers is the well-known gentleman rider, the Hon. A. Hastings.
The family of Hastings is a very old one. John of Hastings was Seneschal of Aquitaine, and a claimant to the throne of Scotland. Sir William, who became first Baron Hastings, was Master of the Mint under King Edward IV., and first coined the piece known as a “noble.” The first Baron became very powerful, and was eventually beheaded by Richard Duke of Gloucester. The third Baron attended Henry VIII. in his French wars, and was present at the capture of Tournay in 1513; it was this ancestor who became the first Earl.
A Christmas Dream on Sport.
In our school-boy days there were very few of us who could resist the opportunity of having a good stuffing, especially at Christmas, when the mince pies and plum puddings were an extra attraction, and when even the most austere of mothers did not gainsay our desires, although knowing full well that our penalty would follow in the shape of a black dose, or something worse.
It is not, however, to boyhood alone that Christmas has its temptations, and its feasts have their unpleasant accompaniments of dyspepsia and derangement, and we as in our boyhood lie down only to indulge in dreams and nightmares. The remembrance of these phantasies of a disordered stomach have a knack of being difficult to shake off, so much so, that I have determined for this once to chalk down some of the ideas that seem this Christmas indelibly written on my brain, and thus to rid myself of them.
I was carried sometimes into the near future, and then again into remoter times, yet ever onwards, wondering that there was no finality, no halting place, no respite from the excitement which relentless time casts upon our little world of sport.
I was bent on hunting, but I looked in vain at my front door for my hunter or hack. Instead, I found a horseless machine, which whirled me dizzily away against my will, and landed me amongst a throng of people with like machines, and clad like Laplanders, so much so that I turned over in bed, and shouted vainly for the sight of a horse and hound. The
## scene changed, and I was in a throng of gay horsemen and women at the
covert side, and the odour of violets and nosegays was not wanting. Positions were continually shifting, chiefly through the threatening heels of ill-tempered horses, when on a sudden a whistle sounded, followed by one shrill blast of a horn, and away went the throng, blindly as it seemed, jostling and pushing, each one thinking only of himself or herself. Carried away as I was, only a unit in this surging crowd, I had little time to collect my thoughts—all I know was that I saw no hounds, only just indistinctly heard them at starting. Yes, before us were white flags at regular intervals, and here and there a red one, from which the ever lengthening cavalcade in their gallop turned aside, and I heard the words “wheat,” “beans,” or “seeds” growled out by our leaders. Where the white flags predominated in front of us the hedges had been cut down and levelled, as if for a steeplechase. There were visions of that demon barbed wire on either hand, but I learnt that those white flags meant safety. The jostling soon ceased, but loose horses came as a fresh trial to my troubled brain, and, oh, the shaves I experienced to keep clear of them. Then we crossed a road, where a liveried hunt servant stood sentinel over the motor brigade, that but for him would have barred our way. After this all was confused galloping and jumping, until the horn sounded in a wooded hollow, and there was a baying of hounds at a hole, which betokened the end of a twenty-five minutes’ gallop after this supposed fox (if, indeed, it was one), but it was several more minutes before that strung-out array of riders drew together again, mopping and mud-stained, yet masterful in their happiness. They had had their gallop, the motors were near at hand, grooms were requisitioned from them, and thus away went the majority of that gay throng, back to their cities and suburbs, leaving but a few to work out the rest of the day in the woodlands, when I can distinctly swear that they found a fox, for I saw him cross a ride—a mangy little beggar was he—and we revelled in no more green fields that day. But, ah, I forgot to say that before starting a hat was thrust in front of me, whose owner whispered, “For the farmers’ field fund, please sir.” Only gold was taken!
And I awoke finding myself in a train, whose engine neither puffed nor smoked—all went by electricity.
And soliloquising, as I rubbed my eyes, the interpretation meant hunting in A.D. 1925. Again I dreamt. I was on a racecourse on a June day, when all was bright and beautiful. Such gorgeous stands, such crowds of fashionable and unfashionable people, such an array of motoring machines lining the course opposite the stands, such order and regularity, no hoarsely-shouting crowd of betting men, no Tattersall’s Enclosure. What did it all mean? The numbers were up in blazing letters of the runners for the first race. Was racing to be carried on in dumb show? I looked again, and beheld people like bees clustering round some low buildings, pigeonholed like enlarged telegraph offices, and numbers and names of horses figured here. There the money flowed in with startling rapidity. In some places only cheques and notes were received, in others gold, in others silver, and all payers had a diminutive numbered receipt. Then came the race. Each horse accurately numbered, and silence no longer reigned. An electric gong proclaimed the start, and thousands of eyes and thousands of voices bore witness to their excitement as the horses swept towards the winning post. What has won? The judge has touched one of a set of electric buttons that are in his box, and the winner’s number is simultaneously shown in half-a-dozen conspicuous places. Soon tinkles a bell on the top of the low building, and thither fly the bees to gather the honey that they have won. But this time they find their gains on the opposite side of the building from which their money was deposited. All the takings have been counted like magic, the winning number sweeps the pool, after due deduction made by way of percentage for much that the country stands in need of.