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The Hunter's Horn
June, 1962
Page ten & Eleven
The Texas Open Fox Hunters Association's annual trials were held on May 6th through 10th at Waterman's Front near Carthage, Tex. This campsite is located on a 20,000 acre tract belonging to the International paper Company.
There were 75 hounds from five states answering the roll call of Master of Hounds W. N. Buckner, from Sterrett, Ala. We had judges from five states.
Not one of the 75 hounds entered finished the 28 hours of running over the four-day period. The membership is already planning on having the 1963 hunt the first full week of May and hopes that it can find a winner at that time.
There was some good running on the first two days of the hunt, but the last two days were rather spotty. The association is going to put out more fox and feed them for better hunts in the future.
The association is already in the process of making the Texas Open, bigger and better for the 1963 hunt. We raised $330.00 to buy fox, and five major dog feed companies are going to furnish feed for the fox. Tom Bridges and Chic Pipes are going to build feeders and keep feed out for the fox all of the time.
At the election the evening before the last cast, all officers were reelected for another year--Gent Hutchison of Summit, miss., president; Tom Bridges of Henderson, Tex., 1st vice-president; Dr. N. G. Ferrell of Silsbee, Tex., 2nd vice-president and Jack Rayford, Henderson, Tex., secretary.
The score sheets for the four day trial are pictured on the opposite page, showing all hounds eliminated. Reasons for being disqualified are written in by the master of hounds, and they include 58 loafing, 6 withdrawn or failed to cast or answer, and the rest eliminated for babbling, running rabbits or coon, or being tied in the woods or crated.
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