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Big King (Owner, A. M. Tunstall), Won 
Alabama Fox Hunters’ Meet. Derby 1st, 
Speed and Driving; 2nd, Hunting and Endur¬ 
ance. All Age 3rd, Speed and Driving; 3rd, 
Hunting and Endurance. 
J OYS of fox hunting, sport of kings 
and still the king of sports through 
many sections of the southeast, are 
tendered to Forest and Stream’s family of 
outdoor enthusiasts by the Alabama Fox 
Hunters’ Association. That is a group of 
riders to the hounds who combined them¬ 
selves last year into a hunt club, and have 
already a hundred beauties whining at the 
leash in their annual run. 
They accommodate visitors who want to 
ride with them at startlingly moderate ex¬ 
pense, and can provide mounts as well. 
Their runs in fact are a mighty blow to 
the high cost of living outdoors for a 
week-end. 
Three days of enthusiastic running to 
hounds, including just enough real chases 
to keep the members’ blood tingling and 
their interest high, marked the second an¬ 
nual meet of the association, which re¬ 
cently took place at Furman, Alabama. 
Several handsome brushes were brought 
in during the runs. Owing to the 
late arrival of a large number of en¬ 
tries, the bench show scheduled for 
the afternoon before the first runs was 
omitted, but it was announced as a prom¬ 
inent feature of future events. 
The most spectacular run took place on 
Thursday, the last day of the meet; thirty- 
six hounds were called, and the most en¬ 
thusiastic crowd of the week turned out 
mounted for the chase. Foxes had proven 
plentiful and a thrilling race was antici¬ 
pated. When the roll was called and the 
hounds let go, not a whimper was heard. 
They moved away fast, and soon had a 
trail. The fox was jumped quickly, and in 
a moment every hound was in. They kept 
the judges busy, dogs and fox being in 
sight frequently for minutes at a time, 
they on his heels at the clear and always 
in hot pursuit. The fox ran in a circle of 
about three miles, and at regular intervals 
could be seen at crossings where his trail 
lost cover. One of these was in a hillside 
pasture, where at one time he ran in the 
open for nearly half a mile. This was his 
first circle. The riders had learned to ex¬ 
pect him there, and fully a hundred had 
drawn rein on the hill-top to await his 
coming. 
John B. Vaughn, one of the judges, rode 
up just as the fox broke cover. Vaughn was 
mounted on a game little racer owned by 
Marvin Moore, which dashed forward to 
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FOX AND HOUND 
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ALABAMA 
By Rodney Random. 
the^break just in time to join the pack of 
hot-blooded dogs. They were in the open 
here, and that they were running to kill 
was shown when Reynard gave up his life 
to the gallant pack, after about two hours 
of hard going. 
The end of the race was spectacular. 
The fox had swung away from the judges 
and came dashing up a high hill with the 
W. C. Lee, an Enthusiastic Hunting Man. 
hounds in close pursuit. Number 30 (Dr. 
H. C. Fountain’s Steve) was in the lead. 
As the fox swung over the hill Steve 
gained the top, and got a glimpse of him. 
From that moment until the kill it was a 
life and death struggle, with the dog gain¬ 
ing at every jump, until the fox was run 
down and killed in full view of the crowd. 
The fox was tied to the pommel of Dr. A. 
D. Cowles’ saddle, and when the party 
returned to camp, the brush was presented 
to Mrs. Cowles, the only lady participant 
Flash (Owner, A. P. Patton, Ralph, Ala.), Won 
V. H. C. All-Age Stake Alabama Fox 
Hounds’ Trials. 
Red Head (Owner, A. P. Patton), Won Alabama 
Fox Hunters’ Assn. Derby 3rd, Speed and 
Driving; 3rd, Hunting and Endurance. All 
Age, 2nd; Hunting and Endurance. 
who actually ran her own dogs in the trials. 
The derbies, trials for which were con¬ 
ducted the first morning of the meet, failed 
to start a fox, though given a second 
chance in the afternoon. Their showings, 
however, were highly complimented by the 
judges. 
A. M. Tunstall’s Big King, Woods Walk¬ 
er’s Ab and A. P. Patton’s Red Head 
captured all three places in both speed and 
driving, and hunting and endurance grad¬ 
ings in the derby class, but in different 
order. Big King led for speed and driv¬ 
ing and came second for hunting and en¬ 
durance, with Ab winning second and first 
respectively in those two classes. A. P. 
Patton’s Red Head won third in each. The 
following were listed V. H. C.: A. M. Tun- 
stall’s Fannie, A. P. Patton’s Bob, J. B. 
Kendrick’s Music, Dr. G. W. Salley’s Frank 
and C. W. Hooper’s Nettie. 
Seventy-two entrants participated in the 
all-age stake on the second morning. They 
divided into three parts early in the run, 
those with the master of foxhounds and 
judges finding a trail soon and moving 
away fast. They trailed about two miles 
and jumped a wide-running fox, which 
went straight away, causing the judges 
some hard riding. Another pack of about 
fifteen got a fox going near camp, and 
furnished those who stayed ’behind a sight 
of their whole race and an almost continu¬ 
ous view of the fox. The running was 
fast and furious, and in about two hours 
the fox went to earth. 
A third pack of only a few dogs, con¬ 
sisting of Woods Walker’s Ab, J. H. 
Wolder’s Rowdy and Ford, Dr. Salley’s 
Frank, Doctor Fountain’s Tony, Mr. Ker¬ 
shaw’s Bart, Mrs. Cowles’ Spot and Cap¬ 
tain Reese’s Rought, ran a fox out of camp 
to some rough country about six miles 
away, and kept him going all day, accord¬ 
ing to messengers sent to get up lost 
hounds. About nightfall they had got back 
to within a hundred yards of camp, return¬ 
ing to kill. But the fox they brought in 
proved to be their second for that day, as 
Dr. J. H. Perdue, at Furman, sent word 
later of a brush brought in by some darkies 
who ran across the small pack. They re¬ 
ported that when the dogs started back to 
camp after their catch they jumped an¬ 
other fox, evidently the one they ran by 
camp later in the evening. 
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