ADVANCE IN GAME PROTECTION DUE TO 

 LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN x 



Liberal success in the cause of game protection has at- 

 tended the efforts of the League of American Sportsmen, 

 winch held its third annual meeting last week in this city. 

 President Shield's report, read to the delegates, shows 

 the league to have 5,110 members, and working divisions 

 in thirty-five states and in one Canadian province, On- 

 tario. Work is being vigorously pushed in the remain- 

 ing ten states and President Shields made the prediction 

 that before the next annual meeting of the league the or- 

 ganization of state divisions will have been accomplished 

 in all of them. 



The principal object of the league is "to protect the 

 game and game fishes ; the song and other innocent birds ; 

 to enforce the game laws where such exist, and to secure 

 and enforce such laws where not now in existence." 



"We have found moral suasion," says President 

 Shields, "a very important factor in accomplishing what 

 we are after. Often men and boys are guilty of violating 

 the game laws through thoughtlessness or ignorance. 

 Many cases of this kind are brought to my notice, and I 

 write the accused, stating the charge that has been made 

 against him, warning him against repetition of the of- 

 fense and asking him for a pledge that he will stop his 

 illegal work. 



"Although persons so notified generally deny the 

 charges, they also as a rule promise 'not to do it again,' 

 and they don't. 



i New York World, February 17, 1901. 



