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Show LION-HUNTING IS DESCRIBED BYKAY Danny Davis, popular Milford lion hunter and all-round sportsman, was one of a group appeai-ing in a photograph photo-graph published Monday in the Salt Lake Tribune in connection with a writeup of a lion hunt in the Spanish Fork mountains and in which he participated. par-ticipated. This and several other lion hunts have been the interesting subjects of a series of motion pictures pic-tures taken by Lee Kay, deputy in the Utah state fish and game department, de-partment, these pictures having attracted at-tracted widespread attention all over the west. Others who participated in the Spanish Fork hunt were George Cox of Springville, Arnold Smith of Provo and Rulon Gull of Spanish Fork. Mr. Kay, in the interview published publish-ed in The Tribune, told of long hunts for fresh tracks of lions', which killed hundreds of deer and livestock each year. After such tracks are found, there follows the most exciting part of the hunt. With the hounds leading lead-ing the way, constantly howling, the hunters follow on horseback, "galloping "gal-loping at a breakneck speed through rough country which under ordinary conditions we wouldn't think of traveling through faster than a ' walk," as Kay put it. The cougar, at heart a cowardly ; animal, Kay says, can outrun the dogs for only a comparatively short 1 distance, sometimes less than 200 yards. If the chase is longer than i this, the experienced hounds show remarkable instinct in following the 1 animals. Lee tells of the "coopera- l tive" method used by two fox hounds 1 in the pack of Lester Williams of Milford, Spot and Spike. One of these dogs, which leads the pack, proceeds on one side of the track, and the other dog on the opposite side. One dog disregards the track entirely and follows the scent, and the other follows the tracks. Thus, if the animal should turn in any direction, di-rection, and the one dog lose the track, the other's baying will steer him in the right direction. The dogs either kill the animal, or, in case it finds refuge in a tree, keep it there with their constant baying until the hunters arrive on the scene and make the kill. |