Identifier: huntingfieldwith01peer (find matches)
Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hunted and these establishments are not hunt clubs as inEngland and America, where anyone is at liberty to join; butare private packs, under the exclusive management of certainwealthy, or titled gentlemen, who own the hounds and every-thing pertaining to the establishment; and who only welcomesuch people to the chase as the Master delights to honour. It was, therefore, with good old fashioned schoolboy delightthat the writer received an invitation from the Baron de Dor-lodot to spend a week with himself and his family at his beauti-ful hunting retreat, in the heart of the great forest of Se-nouches. The Baron de Dorlodot is easily first among the greatsportsmen of France. His name is everywhere known on thecontinent, and in England and America, as the championpigeon shot of Europe. Among the prominent events thathave fallen to his gun in pigeon shooting is the great Parisprize of 1868, offered by the Emperor Napoleon. At Monaco,in 1885, he won the twenty thousand franc prize and a cup
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Hunting in France 281 valued at five thousand francs. He has also won many inter-national events at Monte Carlo, and other places in France.His crowning achievement was the winning of the grand prizeand cup, the best prize in England, in 1899. He has also metmany of our best American shots, in our own country andabroad. An idea of liis skill may be had from a single incident.On the opening days shoot, in the Chateau de Vieusart, Bel-gium, he killed one hundred and two out of one hundred andthree live partridges. At pistol shooting the Baron de Dor-lodot is considered invincible. He is sure, says Le SportUniversal, to hit a five cent piece, three times out of four, atthirt)^ paces, while at fencing he is so clever, supple and rapidof execution that even the professional swordsmen of Francestand very much in awe of him. He is much devoted to yacht-ing. At one time he kept a racing stud, but a few unsports-manHke acts on the part of competitors disgusted him with thegame and although he

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