Show SPORT ON PRAIRIES I Modern Motor Car Used in Chasing Chasing Chasing Cha Cha- sing the Fleet Jack Rabbit Coyote Is Run to His Hole Then Hunters Pour in Gasoline When Gasoline When Animal Emerges Wild Race Across Open Is Resumed Topeka Kan The The faithful horse Is going into the discard in Kansas as a necessary adjunct of a hunting party or the chase of a horse thief Motor Motorcars Motorcars cars rs are becoming so plentiful In the state and they have been found so much better in chasing the fleet Jack Jackrabbit jackrabbit jackrabbit rabbit or driving the common coyote to its lair or catching those who take horses and mules from stables without without with with- out the owners' owners permission that the horse is being rele relegated to the rear Rabbit and wolf hunts have long been a common sport in Kansas Men would go out with horses and dogs and have a rabbit or wolf drive Now Nowa a party of a dozen men in three or four motor cars go out and make more successful drives than men with A wolf hunt with a motor car is about as exciting sport as any anyone one would care to indulge in In middle and western Kansas are thousands of acres of wheat and corn lands without without with with- out a fence Often one can drive five or ten miles across the country and encounter few fences except those around a small pasture on each farm Motorists can drive miles and miles across the prairie lands of the western half of the this state without running into a fence or creek or gully It is not much trouble to stir up a coyote or prairie wolf in western Kansas Kansas Kan Ian sas and when the motor party sees one the race begins The coyote runs In a large circle He does not dodge back and forth or zig-zag zig much so it is a comparatively easy matter for the driver to keep right behind Mr Coy Coy- ote But that motor car must be moving along at a lively gait gaiL The coyote can hump along across the prairie at about 30 miles an hour and he can also do some tall spurting when necessity demands In the days of coyote hunting with horses and dogs the wolves were ne er driven to their dens But about an hours hour's driving with a motor car gives the coyote about all the running he cares for and he makes for his den But his rest is not long because the hunters pour some gasoline down I the hole and the fumes soon drive the I coyote out and the race begins again Within the last month not less than eight coyotes have been run down and killed by oy the wheels of the motor cars or shot by members of the party after the animals had been driven until they could run no longer The Kansas jack rabbit Is also a 1 nifty chap on his legs when It comes to hitting a hot pace across the pral rie The rabbit cannot run so long but can go faster than the coyote The rabbit does more or less short dodging I but he also runs in a circle of about a aI amile amile mile in circumference and the short I dodges to one side or the other of the I path are simply by plays The driver of the motor car keeps far enough behInd behind be be- hind bind the rabbit to turn to either side and head the rabbit off oft when he makes these turns and still close enough to keep the rabbit going at full speed About two runs around the circle are enough for the rabbit and the hunters have no trouble in driving up close enough to shoot Sometimes the hunters are able to pick up a rabbit alive because he Is IsI too tired to run further I |