October lo, 19 14 
LAND AND W A T E R 
Pink and Scarlet 
nPHERE are now serving with the colours, it is stated. 
-'- forty-four Masters of Hounds — really a very good per- 
centage, especially when the fact is taken into consideration 
that the ambition to take a mastership is not often realised 
by sportsmen until they are getting on in years, so that 
many Masters, who doubtless would otherwise be serving 
their country at the present moment arc precluded from so 
doing by age. The percentage of regular followers of hounds 
who are eligible for Service, and have joined some branch of 
the Service or other, must be nearly as satisfactory, for there 
is practically no one left in the hunting field who need have 
any qualms of conscience at being there, and huntsmen say 
tiiat they never recollect such a " lonely " cubhunting season 
as this has been so far. Mr. T. Bouch, Joint Master of the 
Bel voir, who has been in training on Salisbury Plain, is 
reported to have left Tidworth with his regiment for the 
front, where he will have the opportunity possibly of meeting 
several fellow M.F.H.'s who but for the war would be busily 
engaged in superintending the preparations for the hunting 
season. Captain J. E. X. Heseltine, of the King's Royal 
Rifle Corps, recently reported wounded, is a brother of 
Captain Godfrey Heseltine, Master of the Essex Union 
Foxhounds, of which he himself was a keen follower ; and 
the late Captain R. B. Parker, of the Northamptonshire 
Regiment, who was among the officers killed, used to be a 
brilliant rider to hounds in the shires. Only a season or two 
ago he had the great distinction of alone seeing the finish of 
I tremendous thing with Mr. Fernie's hounds, in the course 
'if which event that brilliant horseman Arthur Thacker, the 
huntsman, got thrown out. Then Captain C. W. Banbury, 
of the Coldstream Guards, whoee death is generally deplored, 
was a first-class man to hounds, a useful polo player, and a 
brilliant steeplechase jockey. He won many races at regi- 
mental and other meetings, notably the Grand Military Gold 
Cup at Sandown Park, which he twice secured on Sprinkle 
Me, the property of his brother officer. Captain E. G. Cliristie- 
Millar. 
In Abeyance 
T T is not every pack that will hunt at all this season. Mr. 
■*■ Curwen's foxhounds are among those establishments in 
abeyance, and the reason is one of which Cumberland sports- 
men may be proud. Practically every member of the staff 
is on active service. The Master himself, Mr. F. A. Ircdale, 
and his amateur huntsman. Captain A. F. Broadley-Smith, 
have rejoined their regiments, which are under orders to 
proceed abroad. The honorary secretary, Mr. W. T. Highet, 
is with the colours, and so is Captain H. R. S. Massy, adjutant 
of the 4tli East Lancashire Howitzer Brigade. More than a 
few of the followers of this Cumbrian pack have likewise 
given their services to the King in this critical hour of the 
nation's history ; and it furnishes a notable instance of what 
hunting is doing as a sport generally to strengthen the forces 
of the Crown. Mr. Curwen's hounds were started eight 
seasons ago to fill the void caused by the abandonment some 
years previously of the Whitehaven Harriers, which for 
many years hunted both fox and hare in the country. It is 
not a pretentious establishment, but a very sporting one ; 
and it is to be hoped that all the good men and true who 
have helped to make it such a success will come back from 
Service, when Germany has been fairly " run to earth," to 
enjoy many a great chase behind the stout greyhound foxes 
of \Vost Cumberland. 
Cricket in 1915? 
TS it realised that next summer there may be no first-class 
cricket, and that it is possible that we may have to wait 
until ifjif) before things are in shape and swing again at 
I-ord's, the Oval, and other county grounds ? Nothtjig, of 
course, is settled yet ; in fact, it is impossible to see how the 
authorities could come to a decision in the matter for some 
time to come, because no one can foresee or foretell the 
probable duration of the war, or its effect upon games seven 
or eight months hence. Still, at the special meeting of the 
Worcestershire County Cricket Club the other day " the 
probability of first-class cricket being suspended next year " 
was taken into consideration as well as the provision of the 
small sum of £350 to meet expenses assuming that no cricket 
takes place. Arrangements will be in the hands of the 
committee during the suspensory period, if suspensory period 
there is, and the professionals have consented to accejit 
winter pay for six months, when the club's liability will 
cease. All this shows plainly enough how problematical 
first-class cricket in 1915 really is. It is almost as doubtful, 
in fact, as is the holding of the Ohmpic Games at ruined and 
impoverished Berlin in 1916. 
A Light of Other Days 
TDEGARDIXG cricket, the mo.st notable item of news 
■*-*- recently — though in these critical days it has passed 
comparatively unheeded — was the report of the death of 
Mr. Bransby Beauchamp Cooper at Geelorg, Australia. 
Perhaps the present generation of cricketers can be said to 
know very little of Bransby Cooper ; as a matter of fact, it is 
nearly fifty years ago since he gave up participation in 
English first-class cricket, and his career for Middlesex and 
Kent, though brilliant, was of short duration. Yet he was a 
remarkably sound bat, and that in days when wickets were 
not nearly so good as they are now. Many of the important 
county matches in which he figured were played on a ground 
at Islington. But his best performance was at the Oval in 
1.S69, when he and Dr. W. G. Grace scored 2cS3 runs for the 
first wicket in 200 minutes. They were playing for the 
Gentlemen v. Players of the South, and Bransby Cooper's 
contribution was loi — as faultless as and f)nl\' a little less 
masterly than the Doctor's iSo. Nor was that the only 
occasion upon which he helped to put on over 200 nms for 
the first wicket ; in partnership with Mr. " Jimmy " Slight 
(another fine hitter of former days) at Melbourne in the 
'seventies,, he scored 117 against the best bowling of the 
time in Australia, while Slight rattled up 124. A few seasons 
later, by the way, the last named (279) and J. Rossen (192) 
made 593 for the first wicket, phuing for South Melbourne 
against Kilda. 
The Australian Tattersall 
"Lj*R()M Sydney also has come news of the death of Mr. J. T- 
■*• Inglis, whose eldest son, Mr. Gordon Inglis, on the staff 
of Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, is well 
known in I,ondon sporting and social circles. Head of the 
famous Australian bloodstock firm of William Inglis & Son, 
Mr. J. T. Inglis was often spoken of as the " Tattersall of 
Australia," and at " Xewmarket," a place celebrated in 
.Australian sporting annals, he used to preside over sales of 
bloodstock second only in importance and scale to the dis- 
persals conducted by Mr. Somerville Tattersall at Doncaster 
and Newmarket at home. The Australian Newmarket, by 
the way, is a wonderfully well-adapted property to serve the 
dual purpose of training establishment and centre of sale 
activity. No one was regarded as a higher authority on 
horse-breeding in Australia than the late Mr. Inglis, who was 
a fine type of sportsman, and in his younger days an athlete 
and Rugby football player much above the average. Mr. 
Gordon Inglis has distinguished himself in lawn tennis among 
other pastimes, and his younger brothers. Dr. Keith Inglis 
and Mr. Clive Inglis, were rowing Blues at Sydney University. 
The death of their father will be greatly regretted, not only 
in Australia, but in this country, for he was known and 
highly respected by bloodstock breeders the whole world over. 
Hunting in Ireland 
IV/fAY be said to have ])ro]H'rly begun wilb the advent of 
•'■'-'■ Mi(-haelmas, when the weather, (hanging for the better, 
gave the necessary stimulus to cross-country sjxjrt. There 
was a welcome fall in the temperature, and with unproved 
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