The paper-hunting event for New Year's day proved a thoroughly enjoyable affair. There had been some foreboding that the frozen state-of the country, after last week's cold, might prevent a hunt on that day, and indeed, for that reason, the intended fixture at Kiangwan had to be abandoned. None the less, it takes more than old King Frost to spoil the sport of paper-hunters, and the substituted event in the home country was attended by a greater number of riders than would probably have gone to Kiangwan.
The meet was advertised to take Face at the False Fahwah Line on Siccawei Road, a nice little line of jumps, well known to the older generation of paper-hunters, and' quite near to Shanghai. The hunt was laid by Mr. E. S. Benbow Rowe, winner of last Saturday's event, and the route chosen lay entirely in the home country, along lines of jumps thoroughly familiar to riders. though it is long since some of them were laid.
'There was a rush of red-clad hunters at the end, but Mr. Cedric Boyd maintained his lead' and passed the flocs a winner, nosely followed by Mr. I. S. Law. The card reads as follows:—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.