' - THE VVAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER ss (wood Hunters Known I ? And Wide For Their Kert Marksmanship j 1MEDFORD Note: Hunting is sports known ancient history. U very much in the it is still perhaps ar of sports, as this so? id hunting. something that to be cultivated in iked nor to be en a pastime and laid neither is it just a , Hunting is more an all these; because lrUe hunter is one -and will be so un ion says; ie hunter, home from lay me down with a OaJNTERS AND IIST1NG bear dog," Nick Med i, of course, the Plott hief Stringfield, who ir best known living says he prefers the ids for foxes; but he e other breeds equally aps. such as the Hud souri dogt, the Good : says that the Walk ?en bred a little too fed to suit him, at the mouth and tongue", t do you mean. Chief, nd tongue', I asked, be able to open up or n the trail, have plen th and tongue?that's for. to listen to them the trail." 1 to get good dogs he said, out of the old Pot-lickers,'i mixed up n some of the old Red good, "Not so fast, but mouth," said he. of our well known fox i ho have passed away are: awn, Rufe Edwards, Lebo Mark Killian, Tom Ed ,?? Medford Boone Sen j Dave Noland. Most of ed in the Waynesville )o Medford lived in Iron : Medford at Canton and Noland on Fines Creek. NG FOX HUNTERS af these are: Chief String ) Killian, Joe Davis, Carl I Frazier, Hardy Medford, avis. Sam Plott (now in Devoe McElroy, Frank :on Duff', Tommy Davis, i Plott. Also Bob Samanth ored. John Plott was also (inter. }mU~ 3S* PtrBottl* ant rust because i r# \ \ gj| (^s?^) onvenlent Kudgrt Pavments ONE automatic water that doesn't need to be id every few years. Its urfaced iteel tank keep* ?>t water sparkling clean ?r after year. It'a mada, a lifetime! HAYWOOD ?CTR1C SERVICE 15 Haselwnod Some of these are about "knock ed out." as Chief put it. for hunt ing any more, the oldest being Medford, Killian, the Chief and Bob Love. It is said that Hardy Medford still insists on being tak en to the chase sometimes, al though he cannot hear the hounds, you see now what I mean by the "hunter born". A RECORD CHASE Chief Stringfield recalled one of the best hunts he has ever had; it was back in the days of the old Haywood County Fair he said. He. Will Frazier and Bob Samanth Love, with twenty-five dogs climb ed to the top of the Pinnacle early one night, arriving at 8:00 o'clock when, and near where, the chase began. He said the round over which the dogs travelled ? and sometimes re-travelled in places, cris-crossing at times (as the sly fox tried to throw them off the the trail) was. roughly, a circle bounded by the Pinnacle, the Old Bald and Cabin Flats on the Jack son County side. Often the voices of the dogs would be lost as they travelled beyond hearing-range or followed the trail into deep coves?then out again, and the hunters could hear them again in hot pursuit! This kept up until nearly 11:00 o'clock next day, when the three men left their listening-station atop Pin nacle Mountain and hurried in the direction of Cabin Flats, as the dogs were last heard going in that direction. There they found the fox, a large red male, had just been killed by the dogs; but it had been taken from them by a Mr. Ashe, who was working in cord wood nearby. This chase necessitated taking out exhausted dogs and putting in fresh ones (held in reserve) two times, Chief explained. FOX RACE ? IN ACTION The dogs?half a dozen of them, have been turned loose on a high ridge of the Balsams above Waynesville, and as soon as loos ened they were off. It is near a well-known "run," as Old Lead, the oldest of the pack, knows. CbMf- String?eid: WHl FrartMy Joe Davis ' Lead and my Sinda that 1 lost, better never follered a fox".? Now the dogs are getting faster ? "Listen!"; they all jump up from the fire, and Carl Ray lets out a loud, "Whoo-pee! go it, boys!" The dogs are bearing across the ridge?soon we'll not be able to hear them well; all are now "opening up" in this running con cert around the mountainside ? the pup's tenor, the soprano's and baratones and Ol' Lead's deep base, oh. it's wonderful? ?"And the music of hounds in the still of night Make cares and troubles take their flight." The chase can be heard through out all upper Richland valley ly ing below; and perchance some nimrod. now too old for the hunt, turns on his pillow and says, "'Lis ten! Marthy, do you hear that? Wiab'J- llaughton. 29-year old ex-farmhand from Ktutonville, N. Y? is the nation's leading money-winning harness horse driv er for 1952. Billy is the youngest reinsman ever to win the title. According to official U. S. 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