Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1937, Page 24

In the Hunt Country Activities Among the Horse-Lovers of Virginia and Maryland. NTRIES for the Deep Run| Hunt Club race meeting have | closed and Capt. Bayliss, sec- | retary, reports they are the largest they have ever had. There | are eight entries in each of five races and five entries in the Deep Run Cup, feature race of the day. None of !he; previous winners are entered for to- | morrow, but Paul Mellon, who won' it twice, in 1934-35, with Drinmore | Lad, will have a try for the lovely | silver trophy for ‘keeps” tomorrow with his good horse Welbourne Jake. Jack Skinner, trainer of the horse and one of our top riders, will be up. Col. Wyndham Torr's Lassitude, 2d, | with R. G. Woolfe up, is expected to give the first-named horse hot com- | ale Suit with Tuxedo shaw! front of flv. ing squirre Casual coat of fleece with wolf collar. petition; Mill River Farm’s Gigolo will have William Streett up, the en- try having been cabled from a liner at sea. Bill, returning from his try at the Grand National in England, will land just in time to ride Gigolo in Richmond. George Ohrstrom of Connecticut, M. F. H. of Fairfield- Westchester Hunt, has entered Jerico, 2d, which he will ride himself. Mrs. Simon T. Patterson’s Career, with Henry Frost riding, completes the list. It should be a good race to watch as the five horses are evenly matched. Many people are traveling toward Richmond from this part of the country today and tomorrow, for it promises to be a great day of sport. In Maryland the Green Spring Val- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ley Hunt's Junior Cross-country Stee- plechase will be run tomorrow after- noon at 4 o'clock. This is one of the most interesting sporting events in America, where some of our very best steeplechase riders learn the game. The riders are from 14 to 18 years old, many of them riding a race for the first time, and most of them go on in later years to win the best and largest steeplechases in the country. Nearly all of these boys own and train the horses they ride in the race. It was at the Junior Cross-country Steeplechase three years ago that| Dion (Mike) Kerr, jr., rode his first race, and Mike won the Carolina Cup in Camden last Saturday on Fugi- tive. There are 13 entries for the Junior Steeplechase tomorrow, most of them to be ridden by the sons of amateur jockeys we saw ride a few years back! Entries are as follows: (1) Hurray, rider, Jack Bosley, jr.; (2) Zipwich, Walter Wickes, jr.; (3) Baby Bunting, John G. Fenwick; (4) Jacknapes, no boy; (5) Miss Superior, H. Norman Baetjer, jr.; (6) Bright- est, John K. Culver, jr.; (7) Wood~ wind, L. H. Brennan, jr.; (8) Her Excellency, John B. Merryman; (8) Confident, James Clark, jr.; (10) Justa Racket, no boy; (11) Polish, Hugh J. O'Donovan; (12) Decanter, William R. Pfefferkorn; (13) Walter K. W. Congreve Jackson, jr. Every Saturday in April there will be sporting events held in the Green Spring Valley hunting country of Maryland and one_on Wednesday, ———— e SERVICE ROYAL Vacuum Cleaners Free inspection to all Royal users. JCHARDING. 10th below F . NA. 2160 Est. 1917. April 7, where there is an old-fash- ioned point-to-point, starting at Shawan. The program is, Saturday, April 10, My Lady’'s Manor point-to- point; Saturday, May 17, Little Grand National® point-to-point, and Saturday, May 24, America's fore- most steeplechase event, the Maryland Hunt Cup. Near Washington in Maryland there will be held the Junior Hunt Horse Show on April 18 (Sunday afternoon) out at Bradley Farms. run by the junior members of the Riding and Hunt Club, the children arranging their own program and managing all details. On April 24 the Landon 8chool Junior Horse 8how will be held at the Landon Upper 8chool, on Wilson lane. Licensed by the American Horse Show Association of New York, the show is the only open prep school show in the East. Organized to promote horsemanship among boys of prep school age, it promises to become a popular annual affair. The committee is under the chairmanship of Mr. Fenton Fadeley. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Hagner of Broadview Farm, near Warrenton, Va., are being congratulated on the birth of a daughter, born at Gar- field Hospital on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hagner are popular leaders of FUR STORAGE phome wTonL e MERCHANTS TRANSFER-STORAGE CO. 920-922 E STREET N.W. 218 regular $29.75 to $49.75 Spring Coats w Suits -piece suit of Shepherd plaid and s the eolors: Grey Melon Natural Beige Green FASHIONS tried and found WANTED . . . 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Their home is an attractive meeting place and their entertainments many and delightful. The Virginia gold cup race will be run over their Broad- view estate on Saturday, May 1. This is one of the most beautiful courses in the country, where every jump can be seen from the hill side in front of the Hogners’ house. Corn;Il Women’s Club To Give Tea Sunday High school girls who are inter- ested in Cornell University are being The Place for and Mat Convenlent Te: f. A. LINGER 925 G St. N.W. NA. 4711 —Good Springs ses. Alvin C. Detwiler Fine Antiques 509, Discount Sale Furniture, China, Glass, Pictures, Etc. For Cash April 1 - April 15 Come in Today Silver and Sheffield 259% é16 Connecticut Ave. National 7560 FRIDAY, APRIL entertained at a tea on Sunday at| 2 y 1937. the home of Mrs. James A. Coun- cilor, 1701 Kalmia road. Her niece, Miss Gladys Flelding, is assistant hostess. Movies of the Cornell campus will be shown, and Washing- ton girls now at Cornell, who will be home for their Spring vacation, will tell of the student life and the many activities of the campus. They are Mile. Julia Sze, daught>r of the Chinese Ambassador and Mme. Sze; Miss Jean Thompson, daughter of If your hobby is a heorse f Come to Beckenl Paddock Shop and %6 see the new Spring riding apparel, Leather Riding Boots or Jodhpurs Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee Thompson; Miss Helen Rogers, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. F. Elton Rogers, and Miss Cath- | erine Strong, daughter of Mrs. Cath- erine B. Strong. Dr. Margaret Stecker, Dr. Llice Evans, Mrs. F. F. Espenschied and Mrs. Grace O. Savage will assist at the tea table. | ‘The officers of the Cornell Women's | Club are Mrs. Harold Morrison, presi- | dent; Mrs. Horace L. Stevenson, vice | president; Miss Louise Russell, sec- retary, and Miss Bertha Zoeller, treasurer. 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