Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallop over a paneled countryside, jumping fences and ditches in breathless pursuit of a pack of hounds that are in breathless pursuit of a fugitive fox. The other is a strictly native procedure, evolved in the mountain country of the south. You sit on a fence, following the unaccompanied chase...
There were two field-trial events: the three-day Chase Futurity, a test for foxhounds under two years old. and the three-day All-Age Stake, considered the national championship...
Left behind on a bluegrass slope were 3,000 to 5,000 spectators who hoped to catch a glimpse of the chase in the ravine beneath...
Each day's hunt lasted five hours. Contestants were scored on hunting (trying to pick up a trail); trailing; speed and driving (racing against one another in the chase); endurance. Misbehaviors which meant disqualification: "babbling" (barking to the extent of interfering with the chase); "loafing"' (showing no inclination to hunt); "running cunning" (failing to work fairly on a trail). Hounds sometimes run over 35 miles in five hours...
...Production Committee is headed by John Barnard '39. Walter Webster '39, is Business Manager, Irving Chase '39, Lights, Robert Woodward '40, Properties, Max Kraus '41, House Manager, John Flower '39, Stage Manager, George Stansfield '40, Costumes, Paul Morgan '39, Carpenter, L. John Profit, Program, and William Hartwell '40, Assistant Stage Manager...