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FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 



Coast Fish. Lakes. 



Blu-efish, Skipjack. Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Mici opterus nig 

 (Temnodon scdtator.) and archiqan.) (two species. 



Spanish Mackerel, (Cero maculatum.) Pickerel, (Hsox reticiUalus.) 

 Weakfish, Squetaug (Trout) Otoli- Pike perch, {Lvmyperca Am erieana.) 

 thus.) 



Bats and Estuaries. 

 Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax lineatus.) 



— There is positively no striped bass fishing or any other 

 fishing down the Bay, and all the boats come in "clean." 

 On Saturday, Messrs. Clerk and Abbey took seven small 

 bass after a most persistent trial of the Jersey flats and 

 lower bay; but "what are these few among so many. 1 ' At 

 Hell Gate and the Little Gate business has fallen off, and 

 squids glitter in the surging tide in vain. At Pelham bridge 

 Henry Harbeck has beaten the game, we think, having 

 made a very fair score the past week. 



— Thomas S. Steele, an expert angler of Hartford, Ct. 

 to whom we owe many favors, sends us the "paper pat- 

 terns" of seven of the monster trout of Maine which were 

 caught last summer and the year before in Mooselucma- 

 guntic Lake and the Rangely river. Their captors were 

 R. G. Allerton, Dr. G. A. Mills, L. B. Reed, and Mr. 

 Steele, and their weights in avoirdupoise were respectively 

 as follows: 5 pounds, 2 ounces; 6, 7, 7£, 8f, and 10 pounds. 

 As we shall have little more to report respecting trout fish- 

 ing until the advent of spring, we can bring the subject to 

 a no more graceful conclusion, especially as regards the 

 wonderful waters of Maine, than by printing the following 

 letter from C. Pennock, a guide well known to anglers on 

 Rangely waters, and whose veracity is undoubted : 



Rangely, October 14th. 

 Editor Forest and Streabi:— 



On Lake Mooselucmaguntic there has been dull fishing the last of this 

 season . Kennebago Lake and the outlet at the foot of Rangely Lake 

 have beaten everything for numbers and size. This fall I went up the 

 stream Kennebago October 3d, with a gentleman from Boston and he 

 caught thirty trout in two hours' time. They weighed 59 pounds. We 

 met a party on the stream who caught twenty trout, one of them 

 weighed 9J pounds. October 6th I went up again with another party and 

 caught a fine string, two of four pounds among them. Joseph Lamb, an- 

 other guide, went up the next day with a stranger, and the two of them 

 caught 75 pounds in just one hour; one of them weighed eight pounds. 

 On the 10th I went up with a party and we caught twenty trout which 

 would average two pounds each. The water was the highest that it has 

 been this season. At the outlet and dam they have caught a great many 

 trout and most of them large. They have caught twenty a day on an av- 

 erage, that would weigh four pounds each, for the past few days. Sammy 

 Clark, another guide, caught in one day what fish he sold for $10, and he 

 sold them very low at that. Fishermen are plenty and will be until the 

 season closes. Respectfully yours, 0. Pennock. 



— Prom the South we have received a pleasant letter. 

 Our correspondent goes fishing from Savannah to Thunder- 

 bolt, and through Ossabaw Sound, and plies the line 

 through many of the estuaries and water courses which 

 interlace Southern Georgia below Savannah. Pish he gets 

 in plenty, the sheeps-head, the whiting and the croaker, and 

 not only did the fish bite, but also did the mosquitoes, re- 

 presented as singing of nights like "a full brass band." 

 Turtle too, did our correspondent find, a lordly aldermanic 

 fellow of 175 pounds having been captured. No such ex- 

 citing sport can be found as that the turtle affords. You 

 spy him from afar off floating in the undulating surface of 

 the water sometimes miles from the shore. Slowly, 

 cautiously your boatman rows the skiff to the turtle; the 

 least clumsy splash of an oar would disturb his siesta. At 

 last you get behind him, and inch by inch you approach 

 him. Then you stoop well over the bow, and turn your 

 turtle. Ahe~t! Turn him? It seems easy enough to say 

 " turn him," but how do you do it? You bend down, 

 leaning far over the bow of the boat, make both hands meet 

 under his belly in the water and you lift Mr. Turtle clean 

 out of the sea and tumble him backwards into your boat. 

 It is surprising how light a turtle is in the water and what 

 a dead weight he is when out of his element. No matter 

 if he does struggle a little and dash his flippers at you, the 

 only thing really to be afraid of is the barnacles which 

 almost always grow on his sides and cut like knives into 

 the arms and wrists when you hold him in your embrace. 

 Of famous turtle catchers in the approved method, one who 

 can turn a monster of any size and land him with such a 

 clatter in the boat that you would think the frail bottom 

 would come out, we give the palm to Captain Buckley of 

 the steamer " Virgo." People fish in and around Savannah 

 all the year round, and there is a certain bank, off Tybee 

 Light, near the Light Ship, where bass are captured in 

 quantity. There may be found in Savannah not only good 

 fish but excellent company. 



— Professor Uhler, chairman of the committee appointed 

 to investigate the causes of the disappearance of fish from 

 Maryland waters, reports that all the rivers in the State are 

 gradually filling with mud and sediment, carried into them 

 from the cultivated soil by the rain and freshets. Rivers 

 and mouths of rivers which less than fifteen years ago were 

 navigable by large ships, can now barely accommodate 

 small boats. The only remedy, according to Professor 

 Uhler, is to require the farmers whose lands border on the 

 rivers to plant grass and vines alongside the shore to pre- 

 vent the freshets from washing away the soil. 



The following extract of a letter from Dr. Wm. F. Clerk, 

 the artist, will be read with especial interest by the numer- 

 ous friends of himself and his genial brother, Andrew 

 Clerk, of Maiden Lane. It is written from the river Esk, 

 in England. Sepember 29th: 



"I am still at Metal Bridge. While the river was in condition I was 

 tolerably successful in salmon fishing, having landed ten salmon, two of 

 which weighed twenty pounds each; this for a short time on an English 

 river is considered great fishing. The Esk, however, is a small stream, 

 frequently out of condition either in flood or when low, ae it is now. In 



the latter condition the pools are full of salmon. In many of them they 

 are lying as numerous as they ever were in the Grand pool at Grand river 

 in Canada, and not confined to one pool, but everywhere they abound . 

 I have seen over two hundred salmon leap in one pool during part of an 

 afternoon. Mr. Parton, the artist, is now with me, but he is getting 

 tired of this quiet place, and I suppose will leave for London. I think 

 I shall wait a little for the fishing, which is said to be best during Octo- 

 ber. This house is exceedingly comfortable. I have an excellent bed- 

 room and parlor, well furnished, and the table is everything I could wish 

 for; the people are very attentive and get whatever I wish for, and the 

 expense is very moderate indeed— less than I have paid anywhere during 

 my wanderings in Scotland. Mr. Parton and I visited Gretna Green yes- 

 terday. There is nothing remancable about the locality; the small brook 

 or river Sark there divides Scotland from England. There is no village— 

 only a farm house, which was formerly in stage coach days an inn, aud a 

 toll-gate. The weather here is at present very fine, and exactly like 

 the Indian summer in America. There is the same hazy atmosphere and 

 the same spider webs floating in the air. The popular sports here are 

 otter hunting and-coursing hares. 



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The cricket field, foot of North street. Hoboken, last 

 week was rendered lively by a couple of interesting con- 

 tests, in which the players from our metropolitan clubs 

 took part. On Thursday, October 16th, a one inning game 

 was played between an eleven of the Manhattan Cricket 

 Club and a mixed fifteen representing the Knickerbocker 

 Base Ball Club, and on Saturday the 18th a one inning- 

 match was played for the benefit of Smith and Brewster, 

 the two professionals of the St. George and Staten Island 

 Clubs, in which an eleven of the St. George Club were op- 

 posed to an eleven including players of the Manhattan, 

 Staten Island, Prospect Park, and Jersey City Clubs, those 

 of the latter organization having nearly all joined the Man- 

 hattan Club. 



The game on Thursday was quite an enjoyable affair and 

 to the surprise of the cricketers it resulted in favor of the 

 base ball players' side, the Manhattan eleven evidently tak- 

 ing things too 1 easy, not a safe thing to do in a cricket 

 match. It was the intention to play eighteen of the ball 

 players, including Mr. Chadwick, who has always played 

 in the cricket games of the Knickerbocker Club, against 

 an eleven of the Manhattans, but as the ball players did 

 not muster in force the Manhattans allowed them to have 

 the assistance of Brewster, Hay ward and Talbot to the bat. 

 These three only added ten runs to the save, and as they 

 did not arrest in the field the credit of the victory as really 

 chiefly due to the ball players. The latter went to the bat 

 first at 2:30 p. m., and they availed themselves of the 

 rather loose fielding and easy bowling of the Manhattans to 

 the extent of serving fifty-three for ten wickets. After- 

 wards the three cricketers went in to assist them and when 

 the 14th wicket fell seventy-seven runs had been scored, of 

 which Heyward made seven and Brewster three only. Of 

 the ball players Ben Kirkland battled well for twelve 

 marked by a four hit, and Goodspeed ran up eleven in short 

 order. Van Nest and Pryatt contributed eight each, 

 Hecksher getting an average seven and Chubb six. Of the 

 bowling Tucker took the majority of wickets, several 

 catches being missed off Ronaldson's bowling. Rutty took 

 four wickets and then was taken off, the ball players be- 

 ginning to take liberties with him. At 4, p. m., the Man- 

 hattans went in to run off that seventy-seven, a task they 

 regarded as quite eas}^; and the way they began to hit the 

 bowling of Fryatt and Bucklin looked as if they would lead 

 their opponents score with the loss of about four or five 

 wickets. After Marsh had got eleven and the score had 

 been run up to twenty-eight Fryatt got in on his stumps, 

 and just at this time Chadwick took Bucklin's place in the 

 bowiing, and he and Fryatt got in together so well in the 

 bowling that the wickets began to fall in a very rapid man- 

 ner. In fact after Ronaldson's retirement for twenty-six — 

 he having had two lives given him by dropped fly balls —not 

 a man could get even an average score, the final result 

 being the fall of the tenth wicket for fifty run, three less 

 than the ten ball players of the other side had scored, 

 Fryatt taking four wickets and Chadwick six. The victory 

 was fully enjoyed by the Knickerbockers, and they propose 

 duplicating it on Saturday next, provided the weather is 

 favorable. The full score below gives the details : 



KNICKERBOCKER. 



Van Nest, b . Henry 



Brisbane, run out 2 



Hecksher, c. Henry, b. Ronald- 

 son 



Fryatt, b. Henry 



MANHATTAN. 



Ronaldson, c. Chubb, b Fryatt.. 26 



Marsh, b . Fryatt 11 



H. Tucker, b. Chadwick 



Ruthers, c. B. Kirkland, b Chad- 

 wick 



B. Kirkland, b . Tucker 12 Greig, b. Chadwick 3 



Buckland, b . Ronaldson 



Kirkland, b. Henry 



Rogers, c. Tucker, b. Greig 3 



Chubb, b. Greig 6 



Ollwell, b. Greig 



Chadwick, b. Tucker 3 



Goodspeed, b . Tucker 11 



Talbot, b. Tucker 



Brewster, not out. . , 3 



Hevward, run out 



Byes, 3; leg byes, 1; wides, 2: no 

 balls, 1 



Lewis, b. Chadwick 4 



Beattie, b. Fryatt 



Meares, c. Rodgers, b. Chad- 

 wick 1 



Rishop, c. A. Kirkland, b. Chad- 

 wick 



Perrvman, not out 



Evans, b. Fryatt 



Byes, 2; wide, 1; no balls, 2 5 



Total 50 



Total 



Umpires — Messrs. Talbot and Rocke. Time of game, two hours and 

 fifty minutes. 



FALL OP WICKETS. 



Knickerbocker— 7 12 27 27 28 33 44 46 46 53 59 59 67 77. 

 Manhattan— 23 31 35 40 49 49 50 50 50 50. 

 The following is the bowling score: — 



Balls. 



MANHATTAN . 



Ronaldson 36 



Rutty 86 



Greig 27 



Tucker 24 



KNICKERBOCKER. 



Bucklin 18 



Fryatt 56 



Chadwick 35 



Good catches were made by the brothers Kirkland, Rodgers, and 

 Chubb, and by Rutty and Tucker. 



On Saturday, the day of the benefit match, the weather 



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proved very inauspicious, heavy clouds threatening rain 

 every hour. " In consequence the attendance of spectators on 

 the occasion was very small, and the pecuniary results un- 

 satisfactory. The game began shortly after noon, the St. 

 George eleven going to the bat, Smith and Bance being 

 their, first representatives, the latter having but recently re- 

 turned from a trip to Europe. Before these two were 

 parted the score had been run up to twenty-one, of which 

 Smith put on ten marked by a three and a two, Harcombe 

 being his successor. Ronaldson and Hosford opened the 

 bowling and they were both well on the wickets at first, 

 but when Harcombe got in the bowling had to be changed, 

 Brewster and Greig. going on. Before Bance left he 

 had run up a good eighteen, in which two threes and 

 three twos were prominent, his wicket falling for forty. 

 Moeran joined Harcombe, and together they ran the score 

 up to sixty-four, Harcombe contributed twenty-five in 

 handsome style, marked by two beauties for four each, and 

 a three and a two. Moeran added sixteen, in which a three 

 and three twos were noteworthy, and afterwards Grainger 

 added ten, a three and a two being a good share of it. The 

 fifth wicket fell for seventy-eight, but as the others did not 

 add average scores the last wicket went down for eighty-six, 

 eight additional runs only for the last five wickets. The 

 bowling score of the innings showed the appended result: 



Balls. Runs. Maidens. Wiclcels 



Hosford 24 5 2 3 



Ronaldson 73 19 2 2 



Greig 66 22 3 1 



Brewster 142 38 7 4 



The Field team went to the bat at 2, p. m., Hosford and 

 Lewis .troing in to the bowling of Smith and Jones. Eight 

 runs were scored before the first wicket fell, but afterwards 

 wicket after wicket fell for small additions to the score, 

 Kersley being the only player who made an average score, 

 his eleven being the score of the innings. This gave the 

 game to the St. George eleven. As there was no time to play 

 the game out the St. George went in again but did not com- 

 plete half their second innings, the play under such circum- 

 stances being of no account. The bowling score of the in- 

 nings were as follows : 



Balis. Burn. Maidens. Wickets. 



Smith 74 11 4 4 



Jones 66 15 4 4 



Moeran 12 4 1 



A fine catch was made by Talbot off Outerbridge's bat, 

 and good catches were made in the same by Greig, Marsh, 

 Outerbridge, Smith, Grainger, and Jone*s. The score of 

 the innings, which decided the game was as follows: 



ST GEORGE. 



Smith, b. Ronaldson 10 



Bance, c. Greig, b. Ronaldson... 18 



Harcombe, b. Brewster 25 



Moeran, c. Outerbridge, b. 



Brewster 16 



Jones, b. Greig 1 



Grainger, b . Hosford 10 



Lcnman, c. Marsh, b. Hosford ... 



Bowman, 1 b. w. b. Brewster 



Gordon, b. Hosford 



Sleigh, b. Brewster 2 



Talbot, not out 2 



Wides. 2 



FIELD ELEVEN. 



Hosford, c. Grainger, b . Jones. . . 6 



Lewis, b. Smith 2 



Ronaldson, b. Jones 2 



Dexter, c. Smith, b. Jones 



Kersley, b. Jones 11 



Greig, b. Smith 3 



Marsh, run out 



Meakin, not out 1 



Outerbridge, c. Talbot, b. More- 

 ran 



McDougall, b. Smith 3 



Brewster, c. Jones, b. Smith. ... 2 



Leg byes 3 



Total 



Fall of wickets . 



.. 86 Total 33 



2 1 31 4 | 51 61 7 1 8 1 9 1 10 



St. George 211 40 164 I 651 781 82 i 821 82j t2 \ 86—86 



Field. . . : 8| 10 |l0 | 18| 20| 23 J Z7\ 28J 31 | 33—33 



Umpires— Messrs. McKean and Heyward. 



Time of game— 3:10. 



The base ball championship for 1873 may be said to have 

 been settled, as it is almost a certainty now that the Boston 

 Club will win. They have but to win two more games to 

 render it impossible that the Phi}adelphia Club can win, 

 and as in the five games named to be played this week, two 

 more with the Washington and one with the Baltimores, 

 their ultimate success is assured. The second, up to Oct. 

 20th, is as follows : 



Games Yet to 



Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. Play. 



Boston 49 36 13 5 



Philadelphia 48 33 16 6 



In order that the Philadelphians may win they will have 

 to win all the games they yet have to play and the Bostons 

 to lose all but one of all they have to play. The struggle 

 for the third position is between the Baltimore, Mutual and 

 Athletic Clubs, the record up to Oct. 21st, standing as fol- 

 lows : 



Games 

 Clubs. Blayecl. 



Baltimore 48 



Mutual 48 



Athletic 45 



The Baltimores have a winning lead for the third position, 

 but as the Athletics have the most games to play, they may 

 pull up; at present it looks as if the Mutuals would be fifth. 



In the amateur arena the Chelseas won the Island cham- 

 pionship last week, they having defeated the Nassaus, 

 Nameless, Amity Union, &c. , of Brooklyn, in two games 

 out of three. 



The Silver Stars are the amateur champions of New York 

 City. 







Yet to 



Won . 



Lost. 



Play. 



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21 



6 



24 



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23 



22 



9 



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THE ruin that has overwhelmed Wall street these last 

 weeks is gradually affecting every department of busi- 

 ness. Generally, financial depressions are met with in- 

 creased theatrical patronage, ' 'but this time" forms an ex- 

 ception to the rule. From all quarters the "revolving 

 stars" that rotate in their piofessional tours back to our 

 metropolis, speak gloomily of the difficulty of getting to- 

 gether paying houses in **r country towns. That is, 

 well regulated and established routines are making fair re- 

 muneration, but the "side shows," however deserving of 

 patronage, are almost totally neglected. There must be 

 something deeper than appears on the surface for this 

 strange phenomenon. People discouraged and desperate, 

 rush to places of amusement for momentary excitement. In 

 the panic 'of 37 the playhouses in New York were constant- 

 ly crowded. In '57 the same thing was the case. In revo- 

 lutionary times, in its darkest days, dramatic representa- 

 tions seem to relieve the people of sad thoughts, and divert 

 them at least for the hour. But under our present 

 anomalous monetary derangement, it is not severe to the 

 extent of making the masses hopeless; enough is left to en- 

 courange the "most ruined" that with economy fortune may 



