The Archive · 1916

The Paper Hunt Club

The Annual Handicap.

The annual Handicap of the Paper Hunt Club was run off on Saturday afternoon. The weather was threatening, with overcast skies and a chill, damp wind, but happily the rain held off and members of the Club enjoyed an excellent afternoon's outing. The start was at Schulze Line at 3.30 p.m., and towards that hour numerous vehicles and mounted people converged on the meeting place from the Brennan and Hungjao Roads.

Riders were assembled as usual in batches according to their handicaps, and were despatched at intervals of half " minute, the gentlemen of generous girth going first, followed by the heavyweights on bad ponies, then those well mounted, the middleweights, and ending with

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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