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points, or, in a descending scale, in proportion 

 to the degree of merit displayed in that kill, which 

 may be of no value. The trip, or unsuccessful 

 effort to kill, or where a greyhound flecks the 

 hare and cannot hold her, one point. There are 

 also penalties for refusing to fence ; where a dog, 

 from his own defect, refuses to follow the hare 

 at which he is slipped ; and where he stands still. 



Of course, in dealing with a trial between two 

 greyhounds, very much rests with the judge, and 

 there is no doubt that the two judges of the 

 generation are Mr. G. Warwick, who officiated at 

 Waterloo for thirteen consecutive years, and his 

 successor, Mr. James Hedley, who, since Mr. 

 Warwick's retirement, has done duty at the same 

 meeting for nineteen years without a break. Almost 

 as much depends upon the slipper, and after the 

 celebrated Tom Raper, who was par excellence for a 

 quarter of a century, T. Wilkinson and T. Bootiman 

 are the leading exponents of this arduous and 

 difficult department of greyhound coursing. 



