Show WIMS BIG BABB IT HUNT OVER BEAVER ANO ST GEORGE local boys ret more than st george and either of the other teams combined count gives parowan cedar beaver and st george edgar benson high man with scalps mey ward gets acts second place and roy benson third dixie pays for supper I 1 the big rabbit hunt on monday last in which fifteen picked trien men irom rom each of the sportsmens sports mens clubs of beaver parowan carowan Pa rowan cedar and st george competed with the cost of a big supper that evening as the penalty for the losing team resulted in an overwhelming victory for the par owan boys with more rabbits in four hours hunting than cedar sport sportsmen who were their nearest competitors peti tors were able to bag at a meeting of representatives from the four clubs the previous evening it was agreed that the hunt should be staged in the cedar valley that the valley should be divided into districts and the clubs should cast lots for hunting hunting grounds that they were to hunt built four hours from 11 a m to 3 p m that each team should have 15 men who were to be guarded by a couple of men from one of the other clubs ell lbs to see that everything was fair and the losing club should pay for the big supper in the evening in drawing for the hunting bunting ground parowan carowan got the territory between Rush lake and the grimshaw Gri farm beaver hunted north from Rush lake into the mud spring canyon st george had the territory from grim shaws south to the cedar iron springs road and cedar hunted from there south into the Quit chapah apih lake ten territory atory the local boys felt and still feel that they were unlucky in the drawing but a proposal to trade territory with Beaver was objected to by the other clubs what they would have done had they had good hunting they sto maintain that what they had was punk is only conjecture but when the scalps were counted they bithey had bad as against cedars beavers and st georges edgar benson was easily highest man of the hunt with scalps in his bag which meant that for the four hours he averaged a rabbit every two minutes and 25 seconds I 1 J W V wald waid and roy benson also of the local club were second all aul thaid high roen men with 89 and 83 respectively while the entire fifteen average 65 and only three of them went below SO 50 the cedar team ave averaged raged to the nian man dr thorley b being cg high roan man of their team with 56 who were high men of the other teams we have not learned this is the first of what is planned to be an air annual contest between the clubs and is also the first time parowan carowan has ever competed with beaver or st george in this sport spoil we lve did however a few years year sAnce hunt against cedar at which time anne there were 40 roen men on oil a side bide with the result that 22 or 23 of Pa rowans s men killed more rabbits than cedars 40 on that occasion they hunted from horseback and the big difference was attributed to paro being accustomed to shooting from horses while cedar boys were not this time the hunters went to the scene of action by auto at ai d walked during the hunt hun t during the big supper in the evering evening at cedar city which was a very elaborate one served in the relief relic f hall at the expense of the chest st george club mr van buren bure n who was called on oil for a speech said that chat lie he was glad of an opportunity to cven up the score with dixie for the dav they beat bi his ball team a few days since the pers onel of the local team with the first six high men named in their order is as follows edgar binson banson J al ward roy denson benson J C robinson J J R B dalton D ilton or lando IV adams win E Thorn thornton toll philip benson P A dark clark clarence claience pendleton clarece Cla richards 11 II L adams F C vanburen bail matheson and W II 11 dark clark |