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The raccoon is no longer in the 'simmon tree, but has come out in an entirely new surrounding, namely a wire and metal cage, and the hounds not possums, are on the ground at the starting line as coon hound water races increase in popularity over the country. The impatient yelps of numerous coon hounds notified some 200 spectators who gathered Sunday at the Kline farm located between Amissville and Viewtown that the water races would soon be under way. The races were under the spon sorship of the newly formed Rappahannock Coon Club, with B. A. Cooke of Amissville as its president. The races were run in heats with four dogs participating in each heat. The hounds were lined up at the starting area on the dam of the farm pond and at the signal from a judge the animals dashed into the water to pursue a coon in a metal and wire cage which was reeled up the length of the pond. The course was marked with flags for line competition and the contestants were alsojudgedfor treeing. The first hound to swim past the flag was the winner of that heat in line work, and as they reached shallow water they “dug in" to race to the “tree* where they were judged. The coon rode blithely along in his cage just out of the reach of the hounds and was hoisted up the “tree" which
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