Oxford and Cambridge Hare and Hounds Championship.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 347, 2 March 1889, Page 5

Oxford and Cambridge Hare and Hounds Championship.

The intci-Uimei*ity Htue and lLoundb Championship was contested at Oxford in miserable weather. From shut to finish lain fell incessantly, and although theie wab luckily an enfciio absence of wind it wa-s very cold, and us lain liad also fallen in touents dunng the night the state of the coui-o may be bettor imagined than desuibed. The haies — A]e&si«. 11. !•] Soper (Tiimty) and JL Muclin (St. John k) foi Cambiidgc ; and K. M. Jones (New) and \V. 2kJ. IMOI timer (Balliol) for CKfoid— left bhoitly after thice o'clock, and weie allowed twenty minutes' grace ere the hounds wcic sent in puiciut. The com so feL lay acioss the Holt Links? and tluongh the hollow at the foot oi the Banacks, thence up Shoto\er Hill, and aftei going towauls Wheat ley for some distance a detovn was made to the left, the London loud being 1 cached ju.-t abo\e the lane leading to Uolton. Lea \ ing the load a semi chclc was dc-cubed o\cv some hea\y plough, and, after icsivring the load, a cut \ia.^ made across Shoto\er Lane, and limning down the hill leading to Battlema^ farm, they finished with a inn in along the load of a little o\cr 150 yairis a distance of fully eight milc^. On the -vgnal being gi\en Andiew?! took the lead, but aft ei leaclniig the (li<lf Lmkt he lCHgnod in fa\om ot I'oUotk £1 ill md Fowlcv, who kept neck and neck, Knight, .Smith, mm\ Yavasom following in the older named. At> they approached Shoto\er, Vava»oui in turn [)as6ecl the two Can tab-* , and followed up the hill 3CO jauls in the real of the leadeis. l>eai in the meantime (hew up to hia eomiades, and soon aftei fchowed the way to them, but fiom this point little altoiation ofcuned. Pollock Hill ian \\itli Foulct until cntei ing the la>.t when hoilieu U'di awa>, and li uslnng with a -pkndid bin -t kui home a gallant wmnci b\ about 150 Viiidt?. The only clo-ic lace was between (. ookeandClaike toi hfthplar-e, which the Light B'ue becuicd by live yuidi I'ullock-Ihll ian splendidly Ihioughout, notwithstanding that ho had the mi-sfoi tune to bieak a lace on t!ie top of Shoto\ci. Fowlev al&o ian well, and ib esidently much better aero?-, counti^ than on the path Both he and Pollock-Hill ian against Cam bin-'iro last year. Tiie time wa& veiy fast, consvdeiing the unfa\ out able conditions undei which tlie rare was mn. O\foul supplied the tlnee hist men, and won the match by 21 point-, to 34, tae oulei at the fuiMi beiug-\\, I'olloJv-ndl (Kcble, Osfoid), 47min 52-?oc ; A. J. I'owlei \Coipu^, Oxfuid), /ISmiu I2sec; H. 8 J. A'avasour (Wovcestcr, 0\foul), 49min 4-uc ; C. W. ]'. Deai (Emmanuel, Cambudge), 49min 20sec ; E. Colbac h - Claikc (Emmanuel, CamSnidge), l9min 23=ec ; A. Cooke (Nowi 0 Joid) ) 4!)miu24-ec; H. Knight ( lOmmanuel, Cambridge), 50min lT^ec ; A. B. Smith (rSt. -lohnV, Cambrijgc), ."iOmin ">3^cc ; W . A. Andicus (Magdalen, O\foid) and W . 71. Moi eland (Tiinifcy, Cambridge).