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ENGLISH HUNTING FIELD VETERANS A recent issue of the London Sportsman tells of the death of two veterans of outdoor sport in the old country Hoth are tributes to the life out ill the air the foundation of the wonderful constitu ¬ tions founded among such livers liversCanon Canon J R Armitstead of Crunage Hall Cheshire for more than half a century vicar of Sandbach whose death lias occurred at the age of eightynine belonged to the old school of sporting parsons He was si great believer in the open air life and throughout his life took the keenest interest in all country sports He was a great lover and a good judge of horses and was one of the keenest men in riding to hounds until a few years ago agoThe The death was announced at Langholm September 17 of Arthur Irving in his eightyninth year He commenced hunting when a boy in the border coun ¬ ties taking part with the late Lord John Scott and the Duke of Bucclenchs hounds with the late Dr Ballantyne in Dlddesdale Mr Routledge of Crook Cumberland Bruce Scott and Mr Paterson masters of the Eskdale Hunt Dumfriesshire and he had outlived them all He was possessed of ex ¬ traordinary physical powers Hunting the hounds on foot till he was about sixty years old he often covered many miles in fast time
