NSLM Newsletter - Winter 2003

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The National Sporting Library
NEWSLETTER
A RESEARCH CENTER FOR HORSE AND FIELD SPORTS MIDDLEBURG, VIRGINIA
NUMBER 67 WINTER 2003
Going to a Fight!
By Robert K. Weber
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ondon-based film director So Coldstream turned to the images here in London where they
Robert Coldstream was running Internet where he discovered the were first produced, and they h1m
out of options. His research for a National Sporting Library. To his up on the other side of the Atlantic."
television documentary on bare- surprise and delight, the NSL A 14-foot long panorama, Going to
knuckled boxing in Georgian possesses an immaculate and a Fight, is one of the true gems in the
England had led him to a print reproducible copy of the item in Library's collection and is just the
executed in 1819. But his search for a question: I. R. Cruickshank's etching sort of illustrative material
usable copy at the most prestigious Picture of the Fancy Going to a Fight at Coldstream needed. It accurately
institutions in Britain - The Tate Mousley Hurst. depicts a social and sporting
Gallery, The British Museum, and "How ironic," remarked phenomenon of Georgian England,
The British Library - had proven Coldstream. "I've spent weeks bare-knuckled boxing.
unsuccessful. searching to no avail for these Boxing, an ancient sport, found
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The Real Charlotte Found After Thirty Years
By Lisa Campbell
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fter sporting book collector Daniels, an NSL director, had sent not been available anywhere for
John H. Daniels read a his list to many rare book dealers in years," said Cummins, also an NSL
description of The Real Charlotte in A a relentless search. In Affectionately H director.
Bibliography of E. CE. Somerville & (1999) he includes his 1978 letter to "I had forgotten about it," said
Martin Ross by Elizabeth Hudson, he bookseller Helen Hennessey of Daniels. "But Jim has the kind of
added the three-volume novel to his Vermont to keep a sharp eye out for mentality to remember that sort of
desiderata list. Thirty years went by the first edition. thing. He got fired up when he saw
before he scored a hit. Then in December 2002, rare book it in the catalog."
This rare edition, published by dealer James Cummins of New York Cummins was the successful
Ward and Downey, Ltd. (London, finally spotted it in a Sotheby's bidder for the book, much to
1894) was the third novel by the catalog for a London auction. "It was Daniels' s delight. And soon after
famous Irish cousins and was by far the triple-decker, the rarest of the receiving the rare prize, Daniels
the most popular. Somerville and Ross books. It had donated it to the NSL.
Continued on page 3
Going to a Fight!
Continued from page 1
fertile ground in England becoming match, which forced a last-minute The Library's copy is one of
an immensely popular pastime for change of venue. several of its kind in the Daniels
gamblers and spectators alike by the Cruikshank faithfully captures Collection, donated in 1995. John
mid-18th century. English this atmosphere in splendid color in Daniels, a learned and once-avid
champions like Figg, Broughton, Going to a Fight. A charming piece of book collector, recalls how he
Gully, and Cribb were revered as ephemera, its true value is only discovered sporting panoramas: "I
national heroes. So popular was the realized when paired with the key had no idea they existed," he says. "I
sport that publications such as The describing each scene, which was stumbled across the first one and
Sporting Magazine covered matches published as a companion to the went bananas! I was charmed, and
blow-by-blow and reported vividly etching. Together, panorama and once I knew of their existence, I
on the atmosphere surrounding each key provide a rare and insightful sought them out eagerly."
fight. visual record of an important aspect He acquired the panorama from
Two factors combined to create of Georgian English society. Indeed, bookseller Helen Hennessey~ but
that rather remarkable and The Sporting Magazine of December didn't learn of the accompanying
historically significant atmosphere. 1819 says of Going to a Fight: "We key until a few years later. "I was
The glory days of boxing in Georgian find real life, originality of character, bowled over by the key. It was a
England, the late 18th and early 19th and the peculiar traits of a certain research breakthrough; it completes
century, were a period of social class in society of the present day, the story told by the panorama."
unrest and violence. The American from the nobleman to the match-boy, Daniels is immensely proud of his
and French Revolutions, with their so masterly portrayed ... that it might panoramas. He remembers how
cries of equality, threatened the be urged, it is without a competitor." visitors to the Minneapolis Institute
aristocratic class and made the poor Boxing promoter Pierce Egan of Arts received them during an
and disenfranchised begin to commissioned Cruikshank to design exhibition of his collection there in
question their lots in life. Boxing Going to a Fight, one of the earliest 1992: "I would sneak in to watch
brought these conflicting classes panoramas produced. Panoramas people and their reactions," he says.
together and mixed them in a way depicting sporting events were "The panoramas grabbed them."
unheard of in other social arenas. If fashionable in England during the Just as it was in 1819, Going to a
only momentarily, rich and poor early 19th century and were often Fight remains a "curiosity of
shared a conunon interest. In fact, rented for a short period to provide literature" to be enjoyed for its
pugilistic success was one of the few entertainment at home. Their novelty and beauty but also to be
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means by which the underprivileged popularity continues today among studied as a rare glimpse of the
might achieve fame and fortune. bibliophiles and antiquarians. sporting world of long ago.
Second, boxing matches were
illegal. Although fights attracted
crowds as large as 20,000 people, the
location of a match remained secret Rare Tapes to NSL
until the morning of the fight. The
Sporting Magazine of May 1819
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reports: "The Fancy were all upon uthor Mike Helm has donated to the National Sporting Library the
the alert soon after breakfast ... to original taped interviews for his classic book Bred to Run: The Making of a
ascertain the seat of action, and, as Thoroughbred (1993).
soon as the important whisper had The tapes include lengthy interviews with Arthur Hancock of Stone Farm,
gone forth ... the toddlers were off in Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm and legendary Kentucky veterinarian Walter
a twinkling." (Doc) Kaufman.
The "Fancy" - frequent fight- On one tape, Arthur recounts the sometimes heated debates between
goers - made a grand procession to himself and his father, Bull Hancock, over the merits of in-breeding
the site of the action - often several Thoroughbreds versus out-crossing. The elder Hancock was a strong advocate
miles outside of town - traveling in of the hybrid vigor which he believed resulted from out-crossing.
all manner of vehicle, on horseback, Helm also donated tapes used in the writing of A Breed Apart: The Horses and
or on foot. Sometimes local The Players (1991), an account of life on and around Bay Area racel-racks.
magistrates learned of a planned Helm is publisher of City Miner Books in Berkeley, California.
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The Real Charlotte published without illustrations. In
Continued from page 1 Volume II of the triple-decker, they
write: "There was no sound in the
The Real Charlotte ties in gloom except the steady trickle of
magnificently with the Library's rum1ing water and the anxious
complete Somerville and Ross breathing of the photographer.
collection. The NSL' s Daniels Christopher's long hands moved
Collection of 5,000 sporting books mysteriously in the crimson light
consists of all works published by among phials, baths and cases of
the Irish duo plus five autograph negatives, while uncam1y smells of
manuscripts and original drawings various acids and compounds
by Somerville for In the Vine Country thicken the atmosphere."
(1893). Daniels points out that after
Edith Somerville (left) and Martin Ross,
In 1889, Edith CE Somerville authors of The Real Charlotte. Ross's death in 1915, Edith
(1858-1949) and (Violet) Martin Ross continued to use her cousin's name
(1862-1915) published their first Somerville nor Ross married, and the as co-author. She had worked so
book, An Irish Cousin. Like most of publication of their books enabled closely with Ross's way of thinking
their novels, the stories were based the cousins to earn a bit of money for and story development that she felt
on their own lives. themselves. she still communicated with her
They lived during an era of the They didn't live together until spirit.
decline of the "country gentleman" - 1906, when Ross left her home Daniels notes that Somerville
men who spent their day-to-day hundreds of miles away to live with traveled to South Carolina in 1926 to
lives hunting, fishing and shooting. Edith. For 20 previous years, all of foxhunt with Mrs. Thomas
Women were often home alone their ideas, development of stories Hitchcock, MFH of the Aiken Hunt.
because husbands, fathers and and final drafts were conducted by Subsequently, the Hitchcocks
brothers were elsewhere serving the mail. contacted their friend Eugene
government or military at some Somerville's active life lent Connett of The Derrydale Press to
British Empire outpost or otherwise fascinating details. She attended art publish a special Hitchcock edition
trying to make a living to keep the schools in London and Paris. She of Somerville and Ross books which
family estate running. loved foxhunting and formed her came out in 1927. With a press run of
The Real Charlotte is Edith's two- own hunt, the West Carbery, and only 500, these books are bound in
fold revenge against her older served as master. green cloth with gilt emblems on the
cousin, Emily Herbert. Gifford Ross loved foxhunting too, but spine.
writes: "Their most memorable was the more scholarly of the pair. Daniels also donated to the NSL a
character, Charlotte Mullen, was She was an avid reader and was painting by Somerville of an Irish
based on a cousin ... who by cheating credited with the careful fine-tuning trout stream. This oil on canvas once
Edith of an inheritance gave her the of the prose which inevitably hung in Connett's New York office
impetus to make a career for herself. presented savory reading. and now hangs in the NSL.
What irony lies in Edith's dreadful Their combined talents captured Somerville wrote amusing and
revenge of her casting Emily as the the lives and the language of the insightful comments about the
dark centre of their best novel." Irish. Gifford Lewis writes in The authoring of each book described in
The Real Charlotte presents the Selected Letters of Somerville and Ross Hudson's 1942 bibliography. The
Irish scene brimming with human (1989): "Somerville and Ross specialty of collecting rare books did
emotions and frailty, and the love of excelled in the dramatic use of not interest Somerville very much.
sport. Among the unforgettable recorded speech of all classes of She valued the written word as
characters are Charlotte Mullen, a Ireland ... The Real Charlotte is the opposed to the physical value. She
40-year-old spinster, and her pretty best Irish novel of the 19th century inscribed in Hudson's bibliography
19-year-old cousin Francie who and the best set of comic tales of Irish a tongue-in-cheek note: "You have
comes to live with her. Charlotte life in the last days of the taught me kindly, yet piteously, how
plots to steal Francie's inheritance Ascendancy." insignificant are the words of an
and then uses the money in an Their marvelous choice of words Author as compared with the
attempt to rise in Irish society. color vivid images in the reader's quality of the paper on which they
For most young women, the only mind, appealing to all the senses. are printed."
option was marriage. But neither Thus, The Real Charlotte was
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Collection of Piero Santini Papers
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tudents of horsemanship and its preservation for years to come. The
history now have access to a collection consists of twelve folders
remarkable assortment of material of correspondence, articles,
in the manuscript collection of the typescripts, and photos, as well as
National Sporting Library. two scrapbooks. The letters are
Part of the Lida Fleitmann Santini's personal correspondence,
Bloodgood Collection, these papers much of it between him and
relate directly to Major Fiero Santini equestrians around the world.
(1881-1960), one of the most Santini's letters sought advice on
influential figures in the history of topics such as the fit of a saddle or a
horsemanship. Santini, an Italian problem horse. Copies of his usually
cavalry officer, spent thirty years prompt and thorough responses are
instructing the equestrian world on included. Also among the
the benefits of the forward seat. This documents are copies and
riding style was developed circa typescripts of numerous articles that
1904 by his teacher, Capt. Federico Santini wrote on equitation and
Caprilli (1868-1907) and is the basis other equestrian pursuits.
of modern horsemanship. Anyone interested in the
Donated by Bloodgood to the development of modern
Library in 1978, the Santini papers horsemanship, or the life of Fiero
were recently organized in such a Santini, will find this collection an
manner as to allow easy access for invaluable resource.
researchers, as well as to ensure their Sketch Piero Santini.
Irving Abb Volunteer of the Year
l""f"1he Library has named and am still looking."
l. Irving Abb as the 2002 Smith (1865-1945) was a
National Sporting Library renowned and somewhat
Volunteer of the Year for his controversial master of
perseverance wading through foxhounds, amateur
and documenting the steeplechase rider and
voluminous Harry Worcester sporting author. Abb, a retired
Smith archives. lawyer and ex-MFH of Big
"Alexander Mackay-Smith's Meadow Hounds (Md.),
bibliography in The American spends a few hours each week
Foxhound (1968) lists the at the NSL examining Smith's
autobiography of Harry collection of letters, news
Worcester Smith in transcript, clippings and photos. He
now in the possession of the began his search through the
National Sporting Library," archives shortly after the new
writes Abb in the Spring 2001 Library building opened in
National Sporting Library 1999. The Smith papers fill 15
Newsletter. "Having been much Librarian Robert Weber presents Irving Abb with large boxes, therefore nearly
Volunteer of the Year certificate.
intrigued by what little I know four years later he still arrives
of the enfant terrible of from Frederick, Maryland on
foxhunting, I called the Library and asked to see the Tuesdays. By now, he is likely the best authority on
document. To shorten the narrative, I came, I looked, Smith.
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Smith Donates California Art Books
J
oan Irvine Smith, an
NSL director, donated
eleven beautiful books
Directors of The National
published by the Irvine
Sporting Library
Museum which she
102 The Plains Road founded in 1992. Each
Post Office Box 1335
volume presents a
Middleburg, Virginia 20118-1335
number of paintings
OFFICERS exhibited in the
George L. Ohrstrom Jr. museum. The collection
Chairman
is dedicated to dis-
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson
playing art of the
President
California Impressionist
Clarke Ohrstrom
Treasurer Period (1890-1930).
Vaqueros Roping a Steer by Charles Christian Nahl
Karen Showalter Some paintings in the from California: This Golden Land
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer books depict the history
of the West Coast. California: The photographs and images of Native
DIRECTORS
Mimi Abel Smith Golden Land of Promise (2001) tells the Americans, vaqueros, ranchers,
Arthur W. Arundel early history of the state with a well- Mexicans, beautiful missions and
William M. Backer written text and many historical landscapes before cities were built.
Donald Calder
John Coles
2003 DUPLICATE BOOK SALE SUMMARY
James Cummins
John H. Daniels Total proceeds: $29,263; Number of bidders: 45; Highest total bid from one
Edward P. Evans bidder:$7,730; Average amount of total bid: $706; Lot receiving highest number of
Diana J. Firestone bids (6): 116. Hewitt, Great Breeders and Their Methods (1982) and Sire Lines (1977);
Helen K. Groves Highest bid on a single lot: $3,000 - 263. Taunton, Portraits of Celebrated
Jacqueline B. Mars Racehorses ... (1887-1888). Total number of lots sold: 167 of 300. Lots sold by
Christopher Ohrstrom (some items counted in multiple subjects): Foxhunting (56), Thoroughbred
F. Turner Reuter Jr. and breeding (39), Art (15), Horses general (12), Steeplechase (11), Coaching
B. Francis Saul II Shooting/Fishing (7), Polo (2), Derrydale (5), Somerville and Ross (5).
Joan Irvine Smith
William C. Steinkraus
John von Stade
Don W. Wilson
Peter Winants
Anna Wells Zakroff
THE NATIONAL SPORTING
LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
(ISSN 1068-2007) Library patrons Magalen 0. Bryant (left) and
Eve Fout were among the Chairman's
Number 67, Winter 2003 Council members who gathered in the
Published by the Founders' Room for the Breeder's Cup
National Sporting Library last fall.
Telephone [phone]
http:/ /www.nsl.org
Lisa Campbell, Editor
Sam Huff Honored
Rebecca M. Tomlinson,
Acting Director Acting Director Rebecca Tomlinson
presented pro-football Hall of
Robert Weber, Librarian
Farner Sam Huff vvith a distin-
Walta Warren, guished service award for ti.is
Assistant Director/Curator support of the NSL at a recent meet-
Kate Shipley, Ontario, Meggie Elledge, ing of the Board of Directors. A
Karen Halver,
Washington, and Melinda Sadler, Missouri, Middleburg Thoroughbred owner
Assistant to the Director
participated in the International Pony Club and breeder, Huff was one of the
Peter Winants, Director Emeritus 2002 Foxhunting Exchange and visited the first members of the Chairman's
NSL in October. Council.
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Book Reviews
A Breed .Apart: The Art Collections of Henry Osthaus, Alexander Pope, and a rare canine
the American Kennel Club and the painting by American Impressionist J. Alden Weir,
American Kennel Club Museum of the "Words of Comfort, 1887," so realistically depicting a
Dog by William Secord.Wappinger's tender relationship between two dogs.
Falls, NY: Antique Collector's Club. Secord included a number of plates of fine sporting
2001. 325pp. Illustrations. Index. dogs. Foxhounds, staghounds, beagles, bassets and bird
$68.00. dogs are beautifully displayed. Artist Jean Bowman
(1917-1994), a Middleburg resident for 50 years, is
William Secord has chosen to deal with "the most
represented by a lovely painting of Fox Terriers
comprehensive collection of canine art in the world" belonging to Mrs. William W. Brainard Jr.
from a historical art perspective in A Breed Apart. The
-Deborah Pritchard
reader is rewarded by the depth of his research on the
social forces influencing the development and
importance of the dog as a primary subject matter in fine The Wild Host: The History and
art. Tite 17 pages of artists' biographies on their own Meaning of the Hunt by Rupert
suggest this study. Isaacson. (Lanham, Md. & New York:
Some 400 color plates are lavished throughout in this The Derrydale Press, 2002). 280pp.,
handsome, scholarly book, and they are not only illus., biblio., glossary, index. $47.50.
paintings. We are treated to porcelain dogs and inkwells,
French bronzes, 19th-century dog collars, and silver Anyone who has ever ridden to
tankards and h·ophies interspersed among Northern hounds or is an ardent opponent of the
European, French, English and American paintings. The sport will want to read Rupert Isaacson's The Wild Host:
reader will find favorites which speak to his or her visual The History and Meaning of the Hunt. Not only is this book
sensibilities, and nuggets of fresh information, for the an enlightening and entertaining exploration of the
scope of Secord's research is impressive. history of hunting with hounds, but it is also an honest,
Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) brought an insightful, and relevant examination of the morality of
understanding of dog anatomy and behavior to his art, hunting, the motives for hunting, and the place of
brilliantly painting dogs in landscapes and human hunting in the modern world. Whether or not one agrees
situations. The axi.imal painter to Queen Victoria made with all of Isaacson's views, interpretations, or the way
his first contribution to the Royal Academy at the age of in which he presents them, one cannot read Wild Host
13. Secord writes extensively about Landseer's artistic without gaining a broader and deeper understanding of
life and style. The artist was closely associated with the hunting, its supporters, and its detractors.
royal family and the Scottish Highlands, first traveling to A frequent fo:xhunter himself, Isaacson wrestles with
Scotland to visit Sir Walter Scott. Plates 64 and 65 are fine the ambiguities concerning the morality of hunting:
examples of Landseer's anthropomorphic dog paintings, "Despite my life-long defence of hunting .. .! am
and are only two of a number of splendid Landseer becoming less and less comfortable with the idea of
paintings in the book. hunting for sport at all. .. Am I in fact defending
The collection of seven George Earl (1824-1905) plates something, doing something, that is indefensible?" This
is superb. Although he also produced purebred dog uncertainty colors Isaacson' s writing. While the bulk of
portraits, Earl was closely associated with field trial the book is an impressively comprehensive study of the
and the two collections are fortunate to be able to history and evolution of hunting in various cultures
represent this geme so well. In this same chapter on around the world (complemented by beautiful color
Landseer and 19th-century English dog painting, the photographs), Isaacson's primary contribution is his
browser should not miss looking at Plate 104 "Lady with honest attempt to answer this question.
a i/Vhippet" by F. R. deLeub and Plate 125 "A Domestic Isaacson engages the reader in a frank discussion,
Scene, 1888" William Hamilton Troud. Read Secord's providing an objective and sympathetic look at the
accompanying text which describes the royal kennels at arguments against fo:xhunting, while providing just as
Windsor Castle and Queen Victoria's influence on and many arguments in its defense. His internal conflict is at
appreciation of dog paintings. times frustrating. The reader finds himself wishing that
There is a wealth of fine art reproduced in wonderful Isaacson would pick a position and defend it. Yet this is
color :in this book with many lovely sporting dog scenes not his purpose in writing: "It's the big grey area in
by artists such as Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Edmund between (the] moral 'wrongs' that concerns me, and that,
Continued on page 7
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Wallace Nall Retrospective
I for him to get established here, but
n November, the National
we're a very chatty community. One
Sporting Library opened a two-
person would have a painting by
week exhibit honoring popular
him and tell their friends."
sporting artist Wallace Nall of
When his reputation was
Middleburg. His portraits of people
established, he was in great demand
and favorite horses and dogs grace
to paint favorite animals and field
many homes in the Piedmont.
sports. His paintings have appeared
"W. Nall, A Retrospective," was
on the cover of The Chronicle of the
the initiative of Nicole Hawes Perry,
Horse 15 times. His works have also
an NSL Chairman's Council
First Whip (1997), owned by Leffert
been on exhibit at the Museum of
member and close friend of Nall. Lefferts, an oil on canvas by Wallace
His many friends in the area Nall of Jim Boyle of Piedmont Fox Hounds and Hunting in Leesburg.
Hounds. Nall originally came from
generously loaned portraits and
Piedmont, California. During World
paintings of beloved hunters, in execution. Visitors repeatedly
War II, he served in the Army's First
racehorses and dogs. NSL Curator commented on having known a
Cavalry. After the war he studied at
Walta Warren arranged the 27 works particular horse and how precisely
the College of Arts and Crafts in
in the NSL' s Forrest E. Mars Sr. Mr. Nall had captured the essence of
Oakland, California. He soon found
Exhibit Hall. the personality of the animal, as well
steady work as a commercial artist
"When Nicky Perry and Margaret as of the rider," she said.
Littleton first posed the idea of an "I think he is a wonderful person but his love remained with horses. In
addition to riding in and judging
exhibition of Wally Nall's work, and deserves credit for all the work
none of us had any idea of the he has done," said Perry. 1'I hunted horse shows, he founded the Los
Altos Hunt in Woodside and served
overwhelming response that such an with Piedmont Hunt, and Wally
exhibit would generate," said followed the hounds. He's always at as the first master. In later years, he
moved east to New Jersey,
Warren. "Within a few weeks, well the Upperville Horse Show. When
foxhunting near his home and
over 100 paintings from private visiting homes of friends, I would
working out of a studio in New York
collections had been offered for see work he had done for them. In
City.
hanging. Unfortunately, we were 1989, my Paint horse was hunter
The beauty of Virginia's
forced to narrow that number champion and my husband
renowned hunt country lured him
drastically due to the amount of commissioned Wally to paint a
south to Middleburg, the land of
available hanging space which we portrait."
pristine foxhunting country and fine
had at the time of the exhibit. Nall first came to Middleburg in
horse shows. "He fell in love with
"It was difficult to turn away so the early 1970s. His good friend,
this country and made it here," said
many paintings of such beloved and Mrs. Reginald Vickers, of
Mrs. Vickers.
honored animals painted with Wally Middleburg, said, "He's a very
Nall' s very particular eye for detail unassuming person. It took awhile
Book Reviews Continued from page 6
I guess, is why I'm writing this book ... I don't expect to history and our nature.
convince anyone about anything. But I can at least ... add Isaacson has done the hunting world a favor with
something to the debate." Wild Host. With style and elegance, he has given both
Wild Host does contribute to the debate. It is a call for supporters and detractors great food for thought and a
open dialogue and increased understanding between timely invitation to constructively present their
those on opposing sides. Isaacson believes quite strongly differences. He even ventures to propose how hunting
that hunting would be better for it. While he is unable to might change and thus survive, but he doesn't pretend
defend hunting purely for sport, remarking a number of to have the answer. He doesn't even pretend that there is
times that "hunting is cruel," he passionately defends an answer that will please everyone. He does suggest,
hunting (and shooting and fishing) as providing direct however, that through the many grey areas surrounding
or indirect benefit to animal welfare, wildlife the debate, there just might be room for compromise.
conservation, and - significantly - as a vehicle And that seems a good enough reason to listen.
by which we humans stay in contact with our - Robert Weber
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The Chairman"s Council
These friends of the National Sporting Library have taken a leadership role in their support of the
Library by joining the Chairman's Council:
Mr. and Mrs. William Abel Smith Benjamin H. Hardaway III Mr. and Mrs. Robin D. Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Arundel James L. Hatcher Jr. David and Catherine Rochester
Mr. and Mrs. William Backer Mrs. George A Horkan Jr. Ali N. Safyurtlu
Thomas M. Beach Jr. Sam Huff B. Francis Saul II
Mr. and Mrs. Zohar Ben-Dov Mr. and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin III Mildred Fletcher Slater
Magalen 0. Bryant Mr. and Mrs. Manuel H. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. S. Bruce Smart Jr.
Elizabeth Busch Burke Sheila C. Johnson Joan Irvine Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Calder Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lyons Robert H. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Rodion Cantacuzene Dr. and Mrs. Edward B. MacMahon T. Garrick Steele
Edgar T. Cato Peter Manigault William C. Steinkraus
George M. Chester Jr. Jacqueline Badger Mars Mead Stone
Citigroup Private Bank Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Matheson George Strawbridge Jr.
Jane Forbes Clark Joel McCleary Mr. and Mrs. Phillip S. Thomas
Seymour Cohn Mr. and Mrs. John K. Medica Dr. Mary Finlay Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. John Kent Cooke Mrs. Paul Mellon Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Y. Tomlinson
Mr. and Mrs. W. Carey Crane III Col. and Mrs. Robert W. Newton Peter S. Tsimortos
Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Cronin Mr. and Mrs. Francis Q. O'Neill Laura van Roijen
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Daniels Roberta Odell John von Stade
Paul L. Davies Jr. Barnaby A Ohrstrom Virginia S. Warner
Lawrence S. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ohrstrom Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Duke Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Ohrstrom Margaret R. White
Edward P. Evans George F. Ohrstrom Mr. and Mrs. S. Bonsal White
P. Jay Fetner Mrs. George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Mrs. Charles S. Whitehouse
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Firestone Lorian Peralta-Ramos Margaret H. Whitfield
Dielle and Charles Fleischmann Nicole H. Perry & Andrew Stifler Mrs. James Wiley
Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Fout Frederick H. Prince Peter Winants
Helen K. Groves Dr. and Mrs. Jerold J. Principato Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zakroff
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Guarriello Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rathbun John F. Zugschwert
Bill H. Gunn Dr. and Mrs. F. Turner Reuter
Virginia B. Gunnell Mr. and Mrs. F. Turner Reuter Jr.
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