The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ALANO, FROM THE AZORES. 25. THE HOUND TRAIL: THE START.{Photo : C G Mason. Ambleside.) FELL=HEAD SPORTS. By WILLIAM T. PALMER THE guide race, or more correctly, since theguides as a class have vanished, the fell-race, is an adaptation ot cross-counIn-running to the boulder-strewn bluffs of the LakeDistrict of Westmorland, Cumberland, andFurness. Fell-races are picturesque as well asreally meritorious contests, and may be witnessedin varying degrees ol excellence at many galasheld in mountain villages, though the most w
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ALANO, FROM THE AZORES. 25. THE HOUND TRAIL: THE START.{Photo : C G Mason. Ambleside.) FELL=HEAD SPORTS. By WILLIAM T. PALMER THE guide race, or more correctly, since theguides as a class have vanished, the fell-race, is an adaptation ot cross-counIn-running to the boulder-strewn bluffs of the LakeDistrict of Westmorland, Cumberland, andFurness. Fell-races are picturesque as well asreally meritorious contests, and may be witnessedin varying degrees ol excellence at many galasheld in mountain villages, though the most widelyknown race is at Grasmere Sports, where thechampionship is settled. The Pavement Endground presents a lively appearance on the Spooarts dav, when people flock to it fromevery part of the dales country. In front risesfar-famed Silver Howe, fifteen hundred feet ofboulder, scree, heather, bracken, crag, and course is to a cairn marked with a flag andback again, a distance of some two and a halfmiles, but presenting, owing to severe slope andrough ground, as hard a task as six miles on t
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