WEST COAST COURSING CLUB

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1906, Page 4

WEST COAST COURSING CLUB

(To the Kditor.) Sir.—-Having been at the game for the last 20 years, having nominated more dogs in Hie colonial chilis than any other man, having the rules of all clubs in the colonies, and die X’ew Zealand Coursing Assnii;iti<hi at heart. I thought that ] knew niy way about just a little hit till I is! Tuesday niglil, die 28lli instant, when t visited Reefton. where I had nominated three classic dogs. The nominating telegram. which cost me 5s 4d. their secretary failed to decipher. I was put to the expense of I ravelling from Ganterbury at a cost of (dogs included) about £ls in addition lo which I was fined Ills ner dog, viz .oOs. in addition to the nomination fee, wl"ch I have paid under protest, and shall place before the New Zealand Coursing Association, showing the absolute ignorance ol the club and all its members of the X.Z.I'.A. rules, as instanced by the following cases, viz- Fannv was nominal

od ns Fanny, and appears on the official programme, which is now before me: as Fanny De Balmy. She is last on the prograiiniie, and has a bye. huf in ignorance and defiance of all Assnciations’. Coursing ( bibs’ or sporting rides, she is brought up to in-el the first dog no the programme. I myst-1 f and other old coursers pointed

" :| l •" members 'if tin l ( lull’s ci>n ll nif)i (in' l:i I lac v nf such conduct, hot we arc told In iniiid our own business ami they \v<iii!<! make their own rules. The jnd-in'g was even worse. My three dues, which have run into positions in all the liiyr meetings of the colony, where we had indues who knew a hare from a ynincapi.; and a greyhound from a hull doe. were put out. In order to establish my hona (ides I am prepared to name the three dot's

-Spongecake, Panama or Achilles—against any dog or dogs run on the Reeflon PliiMiplon yesterday, for anvlhing from £SO to £IOO. The course to he one

course, or two out of three courses, to he rim on the (’hrisiehiireh I’liiinnlon, ■— v. ing the travelliny expenses of (lie acceptors—the match or matches to he indeed hy Mr f.en Rutledge of Dunedin or Mr John Mitchell of Oaiinirn. 1 will hack Simngerake against any do that competed mi their Phnnpfon, 1 yiviny £IOO to 01 0, the match to he rim on (ho ■■ mil’s I Ininnlon, or any yronnd where a man may hope to yet, some degree of a fair go. F ran take a heatiny with any man. if genuine, hut despise the points that have heen shown me at Roefton, feoin which Mr George Mortiu and myself have sidleivd in pocket, and if not in reputation, it is not I heir fault. I should like to see their Plnmnlon go ahead, imt in its present state tile New /cal,and Coursing Association would not affiliate if its nature were known ; it is a. comolele dog trap and behind "round at present. They may yet improve it; more praise to them if they do. 'i esterday’s coursing was pure and simple inhuman cruelly. The club may prosper if they get a few men amongst them who know or will lie taught something—if they will bury swelled heads and listen to reason, there may he some e, hope for their survival—’with time; (ill which? J am, etc— JAMES TROY, Wellington. Oreymonth, 301 h August, 1906.