The much deferred Paperhunt Club's annual handicap took place on Saturday afternoon. and. the day was excellent for a hunting fixture, the going good underfoot, while the skies were somewhat overcast, with a mild wind. The proceedings were in charge of the Master, Mr. F. W. Potter, Mr. E. S. Benbow Rowe laid the course, while Messrs. W. G. Pirie and A. W. Olsen, Secretary of the Hunt, acted as starter and timekeeper respectively.
From the spectators' point of view, the best place of vantage was the middle jump en the Warren Line, known as the Big Schulze, but doubtless because of its awkward line of approach the jumping here was on the whole a poor exhibition. Of the first comers, the four-minute men, Messrs. Lemarchand and Spence, cleared it easily, but Mersrs. Demets and H. W. Lester entirely " failed, and they were speedily joined by Mr. A. K. Craddocky and others till there was standing room only on the banks of the jump, and not even that in the bottom. Dr. Davis got thoroughly mixed with the mud of the bottom, so that his best friends could not recognize him.
Meantime, the rest of the hunt had completed the course, except Messrs. Drakeford, Blix and Knipschildt who fell on the run in. Mr. G. G. C. Harper came in first, an easy winner, with Messrs. A. W. Burkill and W. A. Dalgarno second and third respectively. The card read as follows Ib. Heap. 1a-Inv. G, G. C. Harper on Wiltshire 154 1 min.
"Mr. A. W, Burkill on the Wise Bird 180 2 3—Mr, W. A. Dalgarno on' Djemnah 162 4.—Mr. W. R. Lemarchand on Big Ben 195 4 5.—Mr. M. 0. Springfield on Keysoe 1621 6—Mr. C. Blix on Sweet Lavender 170 24,
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