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MODERN PIG-STICKING 



AHMEDNAGAR TENT CLUB 



The date of the formation of the present Club was April 

 16, 1908. We can get hold of no records whatever for the 

 Club before that date, in spite of the fact that the old 

 " Nagar Hunt " was one of the best-known Clubs of India 

 some thirty or forty years ago. 



So that in a good year the average is one boar per meet, 

 and in a bad year it is one boar per two meets. This year, 

 1913, is one of the worst on record ; but good sport can 

 hardly be expected, considering the drought that the Nagar 

 district has suffered from for the last two or three years. 



The heading of " Biggest Bag " can be left severely 

 alone, as there are very few occasions on which we have 

 even killed two boar at one meet, and never more than that. 



From glancing at the records of the Club, one very soon 

 realises that sport is not good in the Nagar district nowa- 

 days, and any one who comes out with the Tent Club 

 requires to exercise the utmost patience, or he will never 

 get his boar. It is due, I suppose, as I mentioned before, 

 to the constant famines which the district suffers from, and 

 which have had their effect on every other kind of sport. 

 When this Club restarted, in 1908 and 1909 the meets were 

 held fairly close to Ahmednagar, but now we have to go 

 much farther afield — by train, motor, or tonga, as the case 

 may be. Sirur, the old vacated Indian Cavalry station, 

 is a place where many good meets have been held, and more 

 boar have been killed there than in any other part of the 

 district. 



The following are the rates of subscription, which were 

 fixed in 1909 and still hold good : — 



