Show MO NO N MORE SHOW THAN A RABBIT To see a rabbit scamper along un until untIl til ti the hounds are almost upon him before he realizes his peril perU to see him I Irace race madly against pursuers that are ar twice as fast fat and finally fi ally to see him dodge wildly with two enemies to dis discount dIscount discount count his greater agility may be a fascinating SpOt sport to those who fol tol follow I Ilow low it I It I Is said sad to have been ben a 3 favorite diversion of royalty for hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of ot years year To the uninitiated It I looks like a spectacle designed to pan pander pa pander I Ider der to a vitiated taste If I the rabbit Is to be considered at all al the sport Is lacking In the first principles of ot fair fairplay fairplay i play which is the essence of sports sportsmanship manship The coursing Is done on a level enclosed field where the rabbits chance Is reduced to a minimum minimum Two or three small escapes placed at the far tar end of ot a field feld are only an aggra aggravation agg aggravation as the rabbit Know Jow where they are and ad if i he stumbles up upon upon upon on one of ot them he time to dodge through before the tile dogs are upon him About one rabbit rabbi in four escaped the day the writer watched wace the proceedings but Jt it t was explained I that the hounds h used in the opening event were only pups Real sport was promised upon the appearance of ot the older dogs dOls later on Tho The announcer explained that the coursing is con conducted conducted conducted ducted to test the speed and working qualities of dogs that tha are ae worth up to 1000 that the rabbit is not worth con considering considering and besides many sportsmen fill fil birds full ful of shot and leave them tem to die a lingering death Nevertheless coursing as a seen at the fair grounds that day is hardly a sport that tt will wi appeal to the average average American who likes to see even een a rabbit get some kind of an even break breakS break |