COURSING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 680, 19 March 1903, Page 16

COURSING.

(By “ The Judge. ”t) I am sorry to hear that the well-known bitch Falka is amiss. After having an exercise gallop she seemed all to pieces, and was got home with difficulty. It is to be hoped she will soon be right again, so as to be ready to play her part at the meeting next month. # * • The second consignment of hares frofn Sydney, which was expected by the Zealandia on Tuesday, did not come to hand. It appears that Mr Goggin, of Bredbo, had the hares all ready to be shipped, but the Huddart, Parker liner was delayed two days through docking, and the hares had to be disposed of elsewhere. An attempt was made to catch another fifty, but time did not admit of this being done in time to catch the steamer. No doubt the shipment will come forward by the Union steamer Waikare on Sunday next. Messrs Coombes and Sanger have been put to an' immense amount of trouble over the matter, and were mu'ch disappointed that Owing to the steamer’s detention the hares could not be shipped. A writer in the “ Sportsmen’s Review ” hits the nail on the head in the following remarks :—“ lam unalterably opposed to the wholesale slaughter of ; acks in coursing. We, as a fact, breed and laise our greyhounds to promote tb-fir sreed and endurance. There is as much excitement in the sport, and pnore, 1 think, in a course after a. well-trained, healthy jack-, who eventually escapes, than there is in lettine them come as they may from the corral” and having eighty per cent, kills, as is sometimes the case. If this is sport, I do nofi want to look at it, and 1 do not believe that the balance of the American people will look at it or have it. Last year we succeeded in running seven weeks without a single kill; there never were larger crowds in attendance at any outdoor amusement than at those meets, and it increased each Sunday. The odds were two to one that there would not be a kill in thirty-two courses” It is evident that at St. Louis, where the writer of the above hails from, they do not adopt the system of a relief dog, which obtains in Other parts of the States. A relief dog is altogether opposed to our ideas of fair Play.