136 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



Strawbridge won the Huntingdon Valley Cup for the third 

 time, with "Riverbreeze," while Strassburger's "Wolfer- 

 ton II," who was looked upon by some of the talent as the 

 winner, ran away with Gerry Leiper the last time around, 

 and disappeared down a lane. 



Monday, 20th October, 19 19 

 Hounds ran clean away from every one this morning, so 

 much so, in fact, that there was no one with them at all 

 when they marked their fox under in the drain under the 

 road by Louis Meimbresse's quarry. 



Tom Dillon, the stud groom at the Club, was the first 

 one there and he was on foot. The fox could be seen in the 

 drain, so a rock was put at one end and a kennel boy at the 

 other, while we sent back to the kennels for a terrier. 

 "Rags," the terrier, was put in, and, much to our surprise, 

 came out the other end with no sign of Reynard, and what 

 became of him no one ever knew. 



The field came up by degrees, and, just as we were all 

 standing around the drain in the narrow road, a man came 

 along leading a cow. The cow gave Brose Clarke's horse a 

 punch in the ribs with her horns, the horse jumped and 

 pulled away from Brose's servant, kicked up at the cow, 

 and the ill-matched pair galloped through the crowd, kick- 

 ing at each other and causing much commotion. 



Saturday, 25th October, 1919 

 After meeting at Old Square at seven-thirty with scenting 

 conditions apparently of the best, hounds could do prac- 

 tically nothing with their first fox, which was found in 

 Battles's Wood and carried with much difficulty to Innes's 

 and then left-handed to Mr. Battles's lawn, where they 

 gave it up. 



