Fox Terrier Coursing: Leicestershire Handicap: Second Round: Heath’s Rose beat Betteridge’s Fly; Evans Wasp beat Beaumont’s Wallace; Hubbard’s Catch-me-if-you-can, beat Bollard’s Young Tanner; Heath’s Lady beat Evans Wasp, Heath’s Rose beat Blackman’s Sam; Coleman’s Spring beat Smith’s Spot; Pincent’s Nell beat Ward’s Phil; Hodgkinson’s Punchaway a bye. Rose and Wasp each had two chances. Third Round: Rose beat Wasp, Lady beat Catch-me-if-you-can; Spring beat Rose (second chance), Nell beat Punchaway: Fourth Round: Lady a bye, Ross drawn, Spring beat Nell. Final: — Lady won the first course, Spring the second and Lady the third, thus gaining the first prize of £7 6s. Three the un-decided, in which Spring ran twice and Lady once, were run in consequence of the pistol missing fire.
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