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(2) The average bag is about 210 boar. 



(3) The largest pig, 37 inches — of. Baden-Powell's book. 



(4) The largest bag was obtained in 1910-11 by the 

 Royals — 400, excluding sows. 



The average height of the pig in the district is 29 inches. 

 None below 27 inches allowed. Season : January to July — 

 Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The original Muttra 

 Cup (won annually outright) was run for the first time in 

 1885, when Major Lockhart's (R.H.A.) b.a.h. "Poacher" 

 won. The New Muttra Challenge Cup was run for the first 

 time in February 1913. This is for teams of three from 

 any Regiment or Tent Club in India. Run this year after 

 7 boar per team. The team killing the greatest number of 

 their pig wins. Only pig actually killed are allowed to 

 count. 



R. WooTTEN, Hon. Sec. 

 Lieutenant, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. 



THE POONA TENT CLUB 



The Poona Hunt is, I believe, the oldest in India, and 

 was first instituted at the time of the British occupation 

 in the Peshwa's days before the Battle of Kirkee. The 

 best year of late was in 1903, when 34 pig were killed by 

 the Hunt ; but from then the bags vary very much, and 

 before the last two years there was a gap during which 

 hardly anybody went out at all. Last year we killed 20 

 pig, all but one over 30 inches ; and this year we only 

 hunted for about two months, on Sundays, and killed 10 

 pig. We only ride pig 28 inches and over here ; and the 

 average pig we kill is usually over 30 inches. We got one 

 34-inch pig this year and one the year before. A 36-inch 

 pig was killed by Captain Mowat of the 26th Cavalry about 

 four years ago, and that is the largest I can find mentioned 

 in the records. 



We usually hunt here in the plains to the east of Poona. 

 The boundary of this Hunt on the east is the Bheema River, 

 as far up as its junction with the Ghod River near Sirur (the 

 old Native Cavalry station), above which point the Ghod 



