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in writing, which were agreed to by all the other stewards piesent, 

 and thus all discussion was avoided. The rule is clear enough, 

 viz. : that the draw once made shall only be disturbed for the 

 purpose of guarding. The programme set forth that both sides 

 should be guarded as far as possible and the general practice in 

 the north, where Scotch and English are usually guarded, is that 

 the first brace of either side coming together shall be split and 

 each shall take the next two of the opposite side. This was pro- 

 posed by Mr. Randell and adopted, and I cannot see how it can be 

 objected to, though next morning there were several influential 

 coursers who thought the plan wrong.' 



The result of the third day's running was still in favour of the 

 club, and after a full week's coursing the match ended in success 

 attending them in the first and second events, while the World took 

 the third. For the All-Aged Challenge Cup, Mr. T. T. C. Lister's 

 Cheer Boys beat Mr. Borron's Bit of Fashion in the final, and it is 

 rather remarkable that while the World had five representatives 

 that survived the first round, all of these went down in the second. 

 In the Challenge Bracelet for bitch puppies the same proportion 

 stood in the first round, and Mr. Bartholomew's Mock Modesty 

 managed to get into the fourth, but the final was fought out between 

 Mr. Randell and Mr. G. A. Thompson, both members of the club, 

 the former with Rising Star, by Beacon Gregson's Polly, defeating 

 Theatre Royal, by Cardinal York Meg of the Mill. In the 

 Challenge Bracelet for dog puppies, the fortune of war was com- 

 pletely reversed, the World having three of the last four left in, 

 and running first and second with Mr. Strachan's St. George by 

 Seagull Seaweed, and Mr. J. Jardine's Jacob by David Goneril. 

 In addition to these three thirty-twos, wherein the club dogs were 

 guarded as far as practicable, there were two open stakes for bitch 

 and dog puppies, seventy-four of the former and forty-six of the 

 latter putting in an appearance. In these stakes the final positions 

 were reversed, for while the club, in the person of Mr. Randell, 

 won the Druid Cup for dogs with Revolving Light (beaten in 

 the first round of the Challenge Bracelet, No. 2 for dog puppies 

 by Jacob, one of the dividers), a brother of Rising Star, the World 

 was first and second in the Great Western Cup for bitch 

 puppies with Mr. Purser's Pastime by Seacombe Peony, and 

 Mr. S. Smith's Sultana by Sea Foam Editha. The triumph of 

 the club was very marked, especially as in the Open Stakes they 

 were to a large extent overmatched in numbers by the representa- 



