WOMEN AND BIG GAME SHOOTING.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3376, 2 March 1920, Page 6

WOMEN AND BIG GAME SHOOTING.

DUCHESS OF AOSTA'S EARLY TRAINING-LADY JUNTO'S INDIA RUNTS. Thy Duchess o! Aorta's expedition to Central Africa is not her first ex- ] erieuce of big game shooting She was iii Africa two years ago on the . ame sliest, and there is a picture in ixistence representing her standing ,; eside a large dead aebra, a trophy 11" her gan. It is not surprising. \ hen one considers the real dangers ; nd hardships of this form of sport, lb t ihe number of women who have la en it up seriously should be few. 'ihe Duchess of Aosta, however, has trained herself from childhood in all i.indj of open-air sport. When her i arents, the Cornte and Comtesse de laris, lived at Stowe she hunted with enthusiasm, but unlike her i iother she did not care much for co.ert shooting. She shares to the full her husband's knowledge and love of horses, and she was one of the I i\st adies of rank to take up aeronautics. The Duchess of ConnaUght bagged a large rhinoceros this summer during the Duke's sporting expedition to East Africa, but the Duchess of Ao ta is, we believe, the only princess who has had much experience of big game shooting. J ady Dclamere, has become under her husband's tuition a notable big ga? e shot. Sh! s.ient hr honeymoon in East Africa, v.here Lord Delamere has practically made his home near Nairobi, cnl ivnting suerar am! cotton on n la v g.- scale. Although the equator run; through his estate, yet as it l : es sme 7000 feet abo e ihe sea the c i:nate is deli; htful, as Mr. Qu.rch I!, who stayed there can testifv. I.adv Minio is, however, probably the most d's' inrrb h d hie; game shot among " 'g'ish -;;orL ".omen. In the first yen" of h t husband's Viceroyalty Lady Mint end h"r datirhter Lady Eileen Er'ot. ar'i jot a black buck while on a vi:i' to the Maharajah of Pi' ; n'r. h ■ '(•:■■•• I iter her Fxcell-ncy too 1 : lvr s'are of the shooiirg during ihe Vic real visit to Kashmir ' Imv -.■■*■ n out of the thirty-sly il.ee'; : .. :irs s-c-red by the party. On a -'s iy en- visit to Hi anir I.a'y Eileen FHiot got her first tig j r.--'Times."