points, or, in a descending scale, in proportion to the degree of merit displayed in that kill, which may be of no value. The trip, or unsuccessful effort to kill, or where a greyhound flecks the hare and cannot hold her, one point. There are also penalties for refusing to fence; where a dog, from his own defect, refuses to follow the hare at which he is slipped; and where he stands still. Of course, in dealing with a trial between two greyhounds, very much rests with the judge, and there is no doubt that the two judges of the generation are Mr. G. Warwick, who officiated at Waterloo for thirteen consecutive years, and his successor, Mr. James Hedley, who, since Mr. Warwick's retirement, has done duty at the same meeting for nineteen years without a break. Almost as much depends upon the slipper, and after the celebrated Tom Raper, who was par excellence for a quarter of a century, T. Wilkinson and T. Bootiman are the leading exponents of this arduous and difficult department of greyhound coursing. |