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Show ro Hunting in utomobiIe&. The Hartford Courmnt reports the birth of a new sport fox hunting by automo OU The hounds are carried to the hunt Ing field In a touring car and put on scent The motorists follow as near aa roads permit, the route of the chase The fox la shot If a chance to shoo a It presents tteeit Another picturesque sport has gone bv laments the Courant. It Is enouc to cause weeping among the handsome horses whlcn carried their masters to the hunt It Is an error to connect a to mob le fox hunting with the real sport. Thoee who want to adapt the tour ng (ar o the reou remente of the fox haee are primarily mo tori rts like the enthusiasts of the da a of the bicycle craae who Stayed polo on wheals uot because a Icy He was stilt able aa a replace r of the Klo pony but because they were first it and all the time oyellais Wire fences hare made fox bunting bn practical in many farming areas. The protection of foxes has proved unpopular among persons who get their Irving from the soil bra e there la no means of breeding foxes wblct do not share the general appet te for poult rv The coun r part of a ca air charge across a grow ing crop Is not relished hy fam er, and fox hunters have too of en neglected to consider the farmers point of view a though there Is an entente cordials be tween the hunters and farmers Id some sections a pro Islon of wh h s thst winter grain and rovr rope ihall not be rampled T e Increa ng cost of keeplntt riding horses n a priori when t ev a esn mldel) kept for u tl an fo whs the ase has put s qu c s u o fox hunting where t was n upo t dental to the possess on of ho re ra her than the ratabl rhed pastime of a elsured class, whose p se per n ted ma n a n n hqfreee for fox hunt ng iole or fl Fashionable hun bs have In man n stances invited hostile legls ation b n aking the chase exclusive fal ing to I profit by such ex amp es as that of some j of the oldest Engl sh clubs whose funda mental principe has been to make the ! hunt open to everyone in the countrje de regard ess of ranlc or social caste with the object of perpetuating the pri -liege of i ga oping over private property 1 There are contr but ng causes which 1 ave reduced grea ly the scope of the fox chase n America There is perhaps not one pack where there were a dozen twenty five or fifty years ago in the coun try as a who e Certa nly the baying of hounds opce familiar muts c in rural Ken tucky s now seldom heard but the use of tour ng cars as supp anters of hunters i will never be sufficient y popular to be : assigned as a cause of the death of a sport which former y stood next in point of picturesqueness and excitement to fol low ng the stag hounds and the moving d n of c anglng hoof and horn Lou s ville Courier Journal |