Sporting Intelligence.[During March-April, 1906.]

Sporting Intelligence.[During March-April, 1906.]

Following an operation for appendicitis, Colonel Stanley Arnold, of Barton House, Moreton-in-Marsh, died on March 14th. A prominent member of the Warwickshire Hunt Club and of the Heythrop Hunt, the deceased was a good preserver of foxes.

At the meet of the Quorn at Frisby-on-the-Wreake, on March 16th, the Duchess of Sutherland met with a mishap. As hounds were moving off to draw, her horse slipped up, and the Duchess was thrown into the midst of a crowd of horses, carriages, and motor cars. Her Grace sustained some injury to one leg, and had to be conveyed to her hunting quarters at Pickwell Manor.

At the age of 74 years, Mr. Hopton Addams Williams succumbed to an attack of pneumonia and pleurisy, on March 25th, at his residence, Penarth, Llangibby. The deceased, who joined the late Mr. John Lawrence in the mastership of the Llangibby in 1897, had since the decease of Lawrence continued in office. He was always fond of outdoor sports, and it is said he had not missed the New Year’s Day meet of the hounds for close on sixty years. According toBaily’s Hunting Directory, we find the family had been closely connected with the Llangibby for many years, Mr. W. Addams Williams being the first Master, 1790–1814, while other members held office until 1856, when Mr. John Lawrence took over office.

On March 29th the Rev. Sir William Hyde-Parker was presented with a handsome silver centrepiece and a silver hunting horn in recognition of his services for four seasons as Master of the Newmarket and Thurlow Foxhounds, which he is giving up. The presentation took place at Brinkley Hall, at the closing meet of the season, in the presence of a large number of hunting people belonging to Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk.

While out hunting with the Cheshire Foxhounds, on March 29th, the Marquis of Linlithgow met with a serious accident, sustaining fracture of several ribs, injury of the lung, and dislocation of the collar-bone. His lordship was removed to his hunting quarters at Higginsfield, Cholmondeley, and makes satisfactory progress.

The Grand National course of four miles and 856 yards was covered on March 30th by Ascetic’s Silver in 9 min. 34⅖ sec., the previous best being 9 min. 42⅖ sec. by Cloister, also a son of Ascetic.

Writing to theFieldof March 31st, Mr. W. B. Thornhill, Castle Cosey, Castle Billingham, gives the following account of the remarkable capture of a salmon: “The following may be of interest to your readers, and I shall be glad to hear if such a thing has ever occurred before to your knowledge. On Wednesday, March 21st, I was with a certain noble lord trying for a salmon in this neighbourhood; he only had a trout-line with him, and put up a single gut trace and a blue phantom; he got into a fish, but his trout-line broke, and the fish got away with phantom, trace, and a small piece of line. I was fishing the same water on Monday, 26th, with a single hook and worm for a salmon. I got what felt like a nibble and then a run. I raised my point slowly, as I did not wish to break in a stone, when to my surprise my hook came out of the water with a bit of gut attached. At first I thought, of course, of the lost fish, and supposed that the gut would slip off my hook when it became tight, but it did not. My hook had got into the loop of the broken trace, two feet behind the fish. I saw the position then, and played and landed the fish, which scaled 15 lb. As this seems such a tall story, I may add that I can produce half a dozen eye-witnesses to the fact if necessary, and vouch for it myself.”

In the following issue of the same paper Mr. Caryl Ramsden, writing from White’s, relates another strange experience. “It is with no desire to ‘cap’ your correspondent’s story that I relate the following true story, which can be vouched for by a salmon-fisher of much experience. On a well-known beat on a Welsh river a salmon was hooked on a prawn. The angler had a long line out, and the line broke. Standing at the time far back on a long slab of rock, the angler had time to seize the broken piece, and after hand-lining the fish, joined it again to the line on the rod. Again he broke the line, and the fish was apparently gone for ever with prawn, hooks, wire trace, and line. While he had luncheon he told his gillie to try down again with a prawn, and although it may seem incredible, the barb of one of the gillie’s hooks fastened itself in the small eye of one of the swivels of the trace which was still fixed in the lost fish. The gillie played and landed the lost salmon, and then this remarkable discovery was made. Compare the size of the eye of a swivel and the loop of a gut cast, and the deduction as to which is the greater chance is clear.”

There was a large attendance of polo men at Albert Gate on April 2nd, when Messrs. Tattersall sold the polo pony stud of Messrs. E. D. and G. A. Miller. Twenty-nine lots were catalogued, and sold without reserve, yielding an average of 137 gs., the total being 3,992 gs. Heartsease made top price, 380 gs. Others: Mavourneen, b., 200 gs.; Sobriety, b., 240gs.; Dolly Grey, gr., 210 gs.; Quickstep, ch., 130 gs.; Free Trader, b., 135 gs.; Miss Gordon, ch., 110 gs.; Tintack, bk., 135 gs.; Wallflower, br., 200 gs.: The Cub, br., 200 gs.; Miss Doris, b., 105gs.; Number Four, ch., 91 gs.; Lady Dorothy, br., 115 gs.; Sylvia, gr., 160 gs.; Country Girl, br., 80 gs.; Winsome, b., 150 gs.; Rose, b., 150 gs.; Miss Robinson, br., 110 gs.; Melayer, ch., 125 gs.; Blair, br., 86 gs.; Socialist, br., 150 gs.; Radical, br., 120 gs.; Ladysmith, ch., 100 gs.; Butterfly, b., 54 gs.; Rake, b., 76 gs.; Swift, br., 145 gs.; Life Buoy, ch., 81 gs.; Pretty Boy, br., 54 gs.; Pretty Girl, ch., 160 gs.

The members and supporters of the Taunton Vale Fox Hunt and the Taunton Vale Harriers, at a dinner held at Taunton on April 2nd, presented Sam Brice, the retiring huntsman of the Harriers, with an illuminated address and a cheque for £150. Brice has for some time past been the oldest active harrier huntsman in England, and has held his position with the Taunton Vale pack for thirty-two years.

As the result of injuries received when riding Seymour in the Lydd Steeplechase at the Folkestone Meeting, on April 9th, Richard Woodland died at the local infirmary on the following Saturday.

Mr. James S. Darrell, of West Ayton, Scarborough, died at his residence on April 10th, aged 75 years. Mr. Darrell was a prominent Yorkshire sportsman, a well-known breeder, exhibitor, and judge of hunters.

The executors of the late Sir James Miller have sold the famous horse Rock Sand to Mr. A. Belmont, U.S.A., for £25,000. The son of Sainfoin and Roquebrune, Rock Sand was bred by his late owner and foaled April 17th, 1900. He won the Derby, Two Thousand Guineas, and the St. Leger in 1903, and the Jockey Club Stakes in 1904. Of the twenty races he started for he won sixteen, the value of the stakes being £45,618.

Mr. Henry Lockwood, Master of the Colne Valley Harriers, has received a presentation from the followers of his pack on the Saddleworth side. This took the form of a silver cup, bearing the following inscription:—“Colne Valley Harriers. Presented to H. Lockwood, Esq., Master of the Hunt, by Lancashire friends.”

It is stated in theFieldthat last year, on Archduke Frederic’s Belize estates, the following were killed: 32,895 hares, 16,502 partridges, 12,611 rabbits, 10,367 pheasants, 7,112 crows and magpies, 4,137 dogs and cats, 4,048 squirrels and hedgehogs, 2,104 hawks and falcons, 1,959 duck, 1,725 weasels, 944 polecats, 696 hinds and young deer, 672 roebuck and 397 does, 478 snipe, 410 woodcock, 404 quail, 378 foxes, 264 stags, 126 herons, 85 martins, 84 wood pigeons, 74 wild boars, 57 hazel hen, 47 kites, 46 bustards, 43 capercailzie, 34 waterhens, 28 badgers, 17 otters, 13 eagles, 12 wild geese, 7 wild cats, 4 owls, 3 cormorants, 1 black game, 1 eagle owl, and 2,152 various. Grand total, 99,537 head.

March 15th.—At Monte Carlo, Prix des Roses Handicap, Count Luca Gajoli and Mr. Asplen divided first and second.

March 21st.—At Monte Carlo, the Prix des Palmiers, Mr. Roberts, Mr. C. Robinson, and Herr Hans Marsch divided first, second and third.

March 27th.—At Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix du Littoral Handicap, Count Luca Gajoli won the gold medal, and divided first and second with Signor Fortunio.

March 17th.—At Edinburgh, England v. Scotland, former won by 3 tries to 1.*

March 17th.—At Dublin, Ireland v. Scotland, latter won by a goal.†

March 19th.—At Cardiff, England v. Wales, former won by 1 goal to 0.†

March 22nd.—At Paris, England v. France, former won by 4 goals 5 tries to 1 goal 1 try.*

April 2nd.—At Wrexham, Wales v. Ireland, drawn, 4 goals each.†

April 7th.—At Glasgow, England v. Scotland, latter won by 2 goals to 1.†

April 21st.—At the Crystal Palace, Football Association Cup Final, Everton v. Newcastle United, former won by 1 goal to 0.†

* Under Rugby Rules.† Under Association Rules.

* Under Rugby Rules.† Under Association Rules.

* Under Rugby Rules.

* Under Rugby Rules.

† Under Association Rules.

† Under Association Rules.

March 31st.—At Queen’s Club, the Amateur Championship (singles), Major S. H. Sheppard beat P. Ashworth in the final.

April 6th.—At Queen’s Club, the Amateur Championship (doubles), F. Dames—Longworth and E. H. Miles beat Major S. H. Sheppard and P. Ashworth in the final.

April 7th.—Oxford v. Cambridge (the University Boat Race). Putney to Mortlake. Cambridge won by 3½ lengths. Time 19 min. 24 sec.

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