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by Mr. Austin Wadsworth, who has been the 

 Master twenty odd years. 



The Westchester Club (Chester County, Pa.) 

 while a young one, having been organized in 

 1902, is a flourishing one, with twenty couples of 

 American hounds. Colonel A. M. Holding is 

 President, Carrol Jacobs, Secretary, and J. C. 

 Murtagh, Chas. F. Oat, P. S. Darlington, W. H. 

 Cochran, and Herbert Carter are the Board of 

 Governors. The Master, Mr. Jno. J. Gheen, has 

 the hounds afield every day, weather permitting, 

 between December ist and April ist. It has a 

 membership of fifty-five, w^ith an average attend- 

 ance of from ten to twenty, including two ladies. 

 Red foxes are plentiful; the country is open and 

 rolling, with post, rail, and worm fences, and no 

 finer counti*y for fox-hunting could be desired, 

 the runs frequently being from three to six hours. 



In point of membership, the Green Spring 

 Valley Hunt Club, of Maryland, organized in 

 1892, is second only to the Deep Run and Elk- 

 ridge Hunt Clubs in active membership, having 

 200 members. Mr. Redmond C. Stewart is not 

 an idle Master, and hunts the thirty couples 

 of American hounds every other day, weather 

 permitting, from October ist to March 20th. 

 The country hunted is the northwest section 

 of Baltimore County, which is a farming com- 

 munity with an occasional strip of heavy 

 woods, the stifif timber fences and many ditches 

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