Show I BOAR HUNTING GREAT AT SPORT Americans Don Pink C Coats ats and Mount Trusty Bicycles I By JESSIE SOX The New Yorker Abroad ial Radix RAdio Had I Dispatch DI patch Copyright 1928 by The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press PreM Pre Association PARIS April The lI-The 11 The majority of the retired American capitalists an and retired sons eons of ot American capi capi- capitalists over hero here who look or think they look well In pink coats coah have deserted Paris to go a hunting for forthe forthe the wild boar In the woods outside the elt city Not that the American has any any- anything anything thing In particular against the wild nor boar nor that he h Is passionately fond of ot pink coats But fashion decrees that about this time of ot the season one must hunt the wild boar And fashion also decrees that the huntsman shall go 0 clad cladIn cladin cladIn In that scarlet thing known as pink And who ho In Paris will Ignore any decree of fashion Certainly not any American The pink contused coat cont used to be grinned at b by the tho French The countryman himself p I hunts the boar in farm clothes But recently French I prejudice against the pink coat haa hae I dwindled l with the rise of a con con- conviction conviction con conviction that more than once at sight eight of ot it a boar has laughed him him- himself himself self to death SPORT OF KINGS In the good old days of th the Bourbon Bourbon Fran France not Kentucky I I hunting the wild boar boor used to be bed I Ith th the sport of kings whenever the supply of ot discredited foreign min min- minIsters min ministers inters or slothful tax collectors ran mn short It was a sport In which am- am ambitious ambitious am ambitious courtiers Joined with zest because the boar Is such auch a tem tem- tem I animal that pot shots are frequently necessary After I the boar had been killed or got gotI I mad and gone home it sometimes developed that an entire privy I council had gone out of ot office Oc- Oc Occasionally Oc- Oc Oc Occasionally they even had to pro pro- proclaim proclaim pro proclaim claim a new king I Today however the wild wll- boar Is III hunted without other regal com com- complications com I com complications than those of or the pink coats some mo modern ern coats an and a Epack pack of ot sanguinary boar hounds al And of course a good deal of ot dra- dra dramatic dramatic dra dramatic conversation matic Gallic conversation and gesl gee tures on the part of the French hunting guides FrenchI I The hunt bunt generally takes place I Ion on foot but bicycles now and then i play an Important part They I I played It In an exciting boar hunt from which one American business businessman businessman i man has Just returned with his lovelY pink coat In tatters One I judged judge that the bicycle and the th bram brambles bles had lacerated his feelings more than thon the boar He lie motored to a village not too 1 near which a 0 family of wild boars dwelt In the midst of ot a bosky dale To reach the tho dale he bicycled I pink coat and all for eleven miles over the wild and wold the the tarn tarns the glens and other bl- bl bi of the French landscape lie He was tired tiled not having been ona on ona ona a bicycle since 1890 but he then walked for tor what he figures was I several thousand kilometers through a dense forest DOGS DISAPPEAR There were nine boar dogs which immediately upon being unleashed un- un un unleashed leashed disappeared Into the mat mat- matted matted mat matted ted undergrowth Every little while the tho French guide blew a whistle at the dogs don which paid no attention By and b by the guide stationed this American and his six friends at int Intervals of ot yards ards or so through explainIng the undergrowth explain explain- explaining ing that they had reached the boars boar's retreat Then he went around In back of where the boar was meditating and made a great deal of ot noise Tho The boar accord accord- according according ing to the rules rull's ought then to have bave rushed out at one ono of or these yard Intervals an and got killed After Af- Af After Af After ter a stupendous clamor of ot hunt hunt- huntIng hunting hunting ing horns borne shouts and the toane uproar of or the dogs dos that had now caught up with the tho rest reat of ot the party the tangle of underbrush gave gove up Its beats They were two big rabbits One of these after a look down the line IIno Qt ot pink coats turned tall tail and scuttled back The Tho Theother Theother other made a bold rush for tor the bicycle weary American who In hIs surprise spread his life legs apart so no that the rabbit scudded between them and vanished d GREAT SPORT WHY After awhile the guide reap reap- reappeared reappeared reappeared with a thoughtful look on bin face He lie regretted extremely to Inform Messieurs les lee huntsmen that In all probability due to the warm weather the wild boars in III that section of ot the woods had re retired re- re retired retired tired to their summer place In the tho hills h Ills It is an old bearish custom just when whon the weather own grows warm arm enough for tor a pink coat to be comfortable So everyone tramped back to the bicycles bicycled back to the mo- mo motors mo motors tors tore motored back to the city and sent the pink coats Coate to the tailor But Its It's great sport the tha th Am Am- American American American maintained stoutly Asked why he be added It keeps the moths out of your our hunting clothes |