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and finally was discussed more or less sensibly in half a score 

 of city pulpits. The six-dayB' walk was a seven-days' 

 wonder. 



And now that it is all over, the crowds dispersed from the 

 bulletin boards, traffic once more unimpededand business again 

 in its ordinary ruts, we may consider for a moment the utility 

 of all this furore. If we look for any real benefit which has 

 accrued to any one, or w r hich is at all likely to follow, we shall 

 look long in vain. Certainly these feats do not subserve the 

 interests of " physical culture." Anything tending to proper- 

 ly and normally develop the human body deserveB and will re- 

 ceive the hearty approval of every sensible man. But it is 

 the veriest bosh to dignify a six-day's trial of endurance as an 

 incitement to physical culture. Such a contest is solely an 

 artificial exertion under artificial stimulants to surpass the 

 bounds of normal human endurance, and tax to its utmost 

 limit the reserve force which nature has given to every man 

 for the emergencies of disease and calamity. The short his- 

 tory of the belt has already demonstrated that this cannot be 

 done without very serious consequences to those who are so 

 foolish as to undertake it. The sudden collapse of O'Leary, 

 concerning which there have been so many needless specula- 

 tions, was due simply to the fact that the man's vital forces 

 had been exhausted in his previous walks ; and the human 

 machine, like everything else in this world, has its limit of use 

 and abuse. O'Leary is not by any means the first to illustrate 

 this truth, nor will he be the last. Whether four men or 

 forty men are willing to subject themselves to these tests and 

 their possible consequences is of course a question for them- 

 selves to decide. But it behooves those who have more re- 

 spect for a man than for a horse to withhold their sanction 

 and countenance from these feats of endurance. Human en- 

 deavor and pluck are worthy of all praise when put forth for 

 some high or useful end. When expended for money re- 

 ward, cheap notoriety, and as a means of the personal aggrand- 

 izement of gamblers and men who knownotwhat it is to earn 

 an honest dollar, this same pluck and endeavor may not only 

 lose all its merit, but deserves no uncertain condemnation. 

 The hippodroming of human beings at Gilmore's and the atti- 

 tude toward it assumed by the community are not at all 

 creditable to the culture and civilization of the day. 



It is questionable if Sir John Astley deserves the thanks of 

 the better portion of the community for his belt and the per- 

 formances induced by it. Bather shall we say that in so far 

 as many of the surroundings of thecompetitions for its possess- 

 ion have been thoroughly bad, it is to be hoped that all 

 men, who have at heart the interests of manly, healthful recre- 

 ation and physical development, will discourage the repetition 

 of six-days' walks. 



Fish Commissioned' Bepobts. — The reports of the various 

 fish commissions, from Maine to California, are as alike in 

 one respect as peas in a pod, accounts of country fairs, 

 Congressional doings and dog shows. Their history of 

 fish culture in one State is strikingly similar to 

 that of another State. There is in each of them the same 

 abundance of fish food in the early settlement of the country, 

 the same reckless and unreflecting consumption and waste of 

 this abundance, and the same subsequent depletion of fisheries. 

 Then the work of restocking the streams is undertaken, meet 

 ing with exactly similar opposition from certain interested and 

 short-sighted classes, illegal netting, spearing, lack of fish- 

 ways, insufficient appropriations, aDd so on to the end of the 

 chapter. And with all this one cannot but notice the uni 

 formity with which the Commissions of every State cheerfully 

 call for more money. Money here means capital at heavy in- 

 terest. The old tale of the treasure cast into the sea and 

 brought forth again by the; lucky fisherman, who, found it in 

 hiB creel, has its modern parallel in the returns which now 

 come from fish cultural expenditures. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



New Hampshihb. — It is estimated that ten tons of bass and 

 four tons of smelts have been taken from Great Bay and its 

 tributaries this winter. No action is taken to suppress the 

 destruction of the fisheries, and the work goes bravely on. 



Nbw Jebset State Association for the Protection or 

 Fish .an Gams. — This association will meet at the Clarendon 

 Hotel, 95 Broad St., Newark, on Saturday, 1he 29th inst., for 

 the perfection of arrangements for the State Tournament 

 some time in June. Delegates from all authorized clubs as 

 well as other sportsmen throughout the State are cordially in- 

 vited to be present. By order of the President, 



Geo. B. Eaton, Pres. Dn, J, Q, Bird, Cor. Sec. 



Lehigh Association — Jlkntown, March 15. — At a stated 

 meeting of the Lehigh Game and Fish Protective Association, 

 held last evening, the following officers were elected :Pres.,- 

 "Wm. H. Kramer; Vice-Pres., Bev. A.J. G. Dubbs, Dr. Her 

 man of Benningsville, and Dr. Arnold Stub of Brooklyn, N. 

 y.j Treas., Mr. Henry Bitting; Sec'y, Mr. H. Bleckley; 

 Ass't Sec'y, C. H. Bitting j Cor. Sec'y, P. W. H. Deshler ; 

 Board of Directors— Mr. W. H. Kramer, Mr. Ephram Bitter, 

 Mr. Henry Bitting, Mr. 0. Lewis Huber, Mr. B, D. Leizer- 

 ing, Mr. Edwin Fink, Dr. Laroche and Mr. C. Foster : Com. on 

 Printing— Mr. Edwin Fink, Bev. A. J. G. Dubbs and our at- 

 torney, Mr. Morris L. Kaufman. The Board of Directors 

 will hold their meeting on March 15, when they will appoint 

 committees on fish and committees on game. C. n. B. 



*( Fish Protection in Tennessee.— Thanks to the zeal and 

 untiring efforts of Col. Geo. Akers, the proposition to protect 

 and propagate fish in the waters of Tennessee has nearly be- 

 come a law. It has been presented ro the legislature and 

 meets with general approval by all those who have read the 

 bill or even heard of it. Of course there are a number of 

 persons bitterly opposed to the bill, but they are ignorant of 

 the good the State and individuals will derive from it. In a 



few years the increase will be so large that fish in the greatest 

 abundance can be obtained by all classes and at exceedingly 

 low rates. Besides, once the feet gets abroad that our beauti- 

 ful State is noted for its fine fishing grounds, every year we 

 will have a large influx of sportsmen from the North among 

 us. We will all get better acquainted, and as a natural con- 

 sequence get to like each other better. Fancy a month spent 

 on the Cumberland or Tennessee Bivers, with occasional ex- 

 cursions up their many tributaries, after they are. again as 

 they once were, stocked with Jack, bass, perch, stripped bass 

 and the channel cat ; with a lovely country on all sidesstocked 

 with quail, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, deer and bear, to say 

 nothing of the endless amount of water-fowl, cheap living 

 and a hospitable people to meet on your road. Once the sport 

 can be assured there need be no fear about the lovers of it not 

 coming to enjoy it. Col. Akers thinks that three or four 

 years close preserving the streams will see them so abundantly 

 stocked as to allow of legitimate angliDg for fish strictly in 

 season. J. D. H. 



Nashville, Feb. 27, 1879. 



Minnesota.— The bill introduced into the Minnesota Legis- 

 lature to prevent the exportation of game from the State 

 failed to pass. The need of such a law, however, should 

 be apparent to all. 



The winter spearing on Lake Minnetonka threatens to ex- 

 terminate the fish there. The method of capture is thus 

 described by a correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Free 

 Press : 



"The time the ice is strong enough to bear until the warm 

 days and rains of March have completely honey-combed it, 

 the detestable "fish-house" is a common sight upon Lake Min- 

 netonka. It consists of a box-like house of about four feet 

 square, with a slightly slanted roof, no floor, a little door, a 

 little stove on a shelf in a corner, and a board seat on one side. 

 On this seat sits, day after day, a man or boy, loo lazy for active 

 work, dangling a decoy minnow through a hole in the ice, and 

 murdering the fish with a spear as they stop motionless directly 

 under the fish-house, astonished at the sudden withdrawal of 

 the decoy that has attracted them. No ray of light enters 

 the fish-house, except through the ice below, and the bottom, 

 under twenty feet or more of water, is as distinct as if seen 

 through the air. Absolutely invisible himself, the occupant 

 has every motion of the doomed fish iu perfect light. Of these 

 fish-houses there are probably a hundred or more on the lake, 

 and at least twenty-five daily in use, Sundays not excepted. 

 Some of them are even large enough to contain a bunk 

 or two, and are inhabited day and night throughout the 

 winter." 



The estimated catch of one man per month is 1,200 pounds, 

 48,000 pounds for the four months' work, or total work for the 

 daily average of twenty-five men, 120,000, or sixty tons. The 

 depletion consequent upon this yearly drain is" already ap- 

 patent, and as the plunder is on the increase, the fishing in 

 Minnetonka must in time be wholly destroyed. 



The English Sea Bird Act.— The English law providing 

 for the protection of sea birds is having its natural result with 

 a vengeance, and English fishermen are finding themselves in 

 something of the predicament of the good people of old 

 with their St. Anthony's pigs. Tne birds have doubled and 

 trebled and quadrupled and grown more voracious than ever 

 before. They swarm the estuaries, bays and river mouths 

 and destroy the fish by wholesale. And now the English 

 law-makers arc called upon to repeal the protective law and 

 give the fish and the fishermen a turn. 



* MM*- 



THE FOREST AND STREAM TOUR- 

 NAMENT. 



The second Forest and Stkeaji and Rod and Gun Tour- 

 nament was a complete success in the interest excited, in the 

 number of competitions, and in the excellent scoring sIiowd. 

 The conditions had been so carefully drawn that there was 

 little room for discussion, and from the opening shot on the 

 evening of the 10th inst. through the entire five days of the 

 contest there was nothing but the best of feeling manifested. 

 The referees and umpires became mere spectators of the ex- 

 cellent marksmanship displayed, and the object of the F. and 

 8. in instituting the contest was fully gained in the impetus 

 given to the sport of off-hand shooting and the development 

 of a high degree of expertness in this most popular form of 

 rifle practice. 



With the preliminary arrangements of the match all readers 

 of these columns are familiar. In brief, it was to be the only 

 test which can conveniently be made, within doors, of allowing 

 the men to shoot with .22 cal. rifles at reduced targets. Each 

 team consisted of ten men and each man was given ten scor- 

 ing, with a privilege of two sighting, shots. The utmost care 

 and deliberation was taken with every detail ; nothing was 

 left to chance. It is safe to say that, with a few such set- 

 backs as doubtful cartridges, the men shot fully up to their 

 average, though in some of the clubs it was claimed that the 

 practice had been better. 



For the purposes of comparison and to showthe progress 

 made in the year the following figures are taken from the re- 

 port of the Tournament in March of 1878 i 



Zettler Ctab Team 45* Csppenfeldt Cub Team 427 



New YorfcClab Team 4-13 Cemen- :.i ] Rifle Club Team . 423 



Hellwig Club Team ui Irish- American Team 430 



Scottish-American Team 431 Yorkville Team '419 



Is ewark Amateur Clnb Team. ..428 



These averages were good, but all felt that better work was 

 to be done, and it came with a vengeance on the first night 

 when the New York Club, first team, opened work with J.' 

 H, Meeker as referee. The close way in which the bull's eye 

 was hugged showed the wisdom of Mr. Conlin when he ar- 

 ranged that clever sliding sheet to go behind the target and 

 there to catch a second record of the work done. So that, in 

 addition to the puncied-out bull's-eye there was a line-drawing 

 of the work on the second sheet. S. W. Sibley began the per- 

 formance with a centre, then a second and a third, while the 

 crowd of close watchers at the target-end of the galley began 

 to wonder when he was going to get to work and into the 

 bull's eye. It came on the next shot, and then, with the ball 

 regularly opened, it was hot, close work to the end. Of course 

 there was not a shot of lower grade than a centre in the whole 

 team and the men felt pretty confident as they sat down with 

 their total of 468. 



New York Rifle Club, 1st Team-L, v. Sone, Captain. 



o^S,°^ lett 5 S5456646 5-48 



SPWolls S t S 4 5 5 4 5 5-48 



^S 0U , ak 'f 0n V i 4 5. 565565 4— rf 



J B Blydenburgn 4 55655450 4-47 



kir 8 ?'^ * 6 4 5 4 S 5 5 5 5-47 



?r^ S 1 , hl , ejr V-V 4 4 4 5 6 5 6 4 5 5-4M 



H D BlydenbWgb. 4 5 4 6 5 4 4 5 5 5-45 



FradConlfn 4 5 4 5 6 4 5 5 5 4-40 



1'ADavia 4 4 54545465 45-468 



Average, 46 4.6ths. 



The Zettler first team came to their work with a bad look in 

 the eye. They one and all meant business. Mr. H. E. Oehl 

 was, the referee and Dr. M. M. Maltby, the umpire of the even 

 ing looked on in Idleness. C. G. Zettler led off for his men, 

 but got only a forty-seven, when Farrow, the champion of the 

 Fast, stepped forward and put in, not the fifty that was ex- 

 pected of him, but a magnificent forty-nine. Then followed 

 other equally excellent scores, until a total of 478 put the 

 team in first place, beyond any possibility of defeat. The 

 wise decision to keep old men in the team helped much to 

 bring about the Zettler victory. In one case a glass on the 

 stock called out a seeming show of opposition, but it was de- 

 cided that there was too much of an appearance of telescopic 

 sight about it, and Col. Biggs contented himself with the t^e 

 of eye-glasses. The full Zettler score stood ; 



Zettler Rifle Otab, 1st Team— B. Zettler, CaDtain. 



WM Farrow 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5-49 



«'»*' 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4? 5-49 



"»f1 5 5 5 f, 5 5 4 5 5-49 



g-S 111 "* « 5 5 6 5 5 5 4 5 4-4S 



^nntog 5 5 5 6 5 4 5 5 4 5-48 



SfSSK? 1 6 4 u 5 4 4 5 5 5-47 



g? e " ltr 4 5 5 6 5 5 6 5 4 4-47 



MLKiggS 4 4 5 5 6 5 4 5 5 5-47 



MEngel 4 5 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5-47-478 



Average, 47 8-lutha. 



The second night brought together two German clubs, with 

 G. C. Walters as referee for the Seppenfeldt Team, B. Faber 

 for the Hellwigs, and Col. Gilon as umpire of the evening 

 Capt. Seppenfeldt led off with a good score, but there were 

 too many centres, and with four inners the score was brought 

 down to an average of 43 4-5ths per man, the score standing : 

 Seppenfeldt Rifle Club— W. Seppenfeldt, Captain. 



fHolzmann 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4-47 



■Mm Matter 4 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 4-47 



Wm Seppenfeldt 5 4 4 6 5 5 4 4 6 4^5 



JoSttBetn .4 6 4 3 5 4 4 5 5 5-44 



K™ J 4 5 4 4 4 4 5 6 5-43 



MKern 4 45445544 4—48 



OTOzpatrlck 5 54344355 £3a 



'1' Garrison 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 5-42 



JWAdams 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4-5-42 



HWJaehne 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6-42-436 



The Hellwig Club team had many strong men in its ranks 

 and, with a single " inner," an excellent average was main- 

 tained : 



Hellwig Rifle Club— F. Keeslgr, Captain. 



iVn»!!"l g 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5-48 



» 1 ! « • • < 1 1 1 -3 



i^nnc^n. % I 4 4 5 5 6 1 I tS 



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f x C „ K 7 D0lds 5 * 5 4 4 4 5 4 i 5-44 



KS8g « 5**34 5 5 .1 L4I 



ir -"- ,er + 54454444 5-43-464 



The second team from the New York Club, under Capt J 

 h , ™ T rth ' and theteam fr om the South Brooklyn Rifle 

 Club filled out the third night of the match. It seemed to be 

 an " off " night, for the two lowest aggregates of the meet in z 

 were made, and South Brooklyn, with a record well 6ver cen 

 tres found its team at the bottom. Fred Alder, for the New 

 Yorkers, and John A. Henry, for the Brooklynites acted 

 as referees, but the shooting passed off without a ripple and 

 the scores were accepted with the philosophic, if but slichtiv 

 comforting, remark that somebody must fill the bottom 

 places on the list. The New York men scored first, as follows^ 

 New York Rifle Club, 2d Team-J. F. Duckworth, Captain. 



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The teams were so evenly matched that only a sinsle point 

 separated them, the scores standing : ' g point 



South Brooklyn Rifle Club-J. A. Roche, Captain. 



WHMcKune 4 4 4 4. t S ± s a.' , .„ 



3 F Barns 4 srwS?? 4 J-42 



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JBHazeiton 4 slilS!? 4 *-*> 



J Norton ." 7.. "!!".7s 



3*446454 5-44-435 



— .^„.„ 6 „„ c owning ttutmy 01 tne two teams whs 



very close again. A team from the Catholic InstituteNeT 

 ark, and the team representing the Empire Club doing their 

 share of the contest. The visitors from the distance shot 

 first in order to get back to their homes. The scoring was 

 creditable, and did not reduce the average of the tournf m^f 

 to any material extent. The figures stood : lournam ent 



Catholic Institute Team of Newark-R. p. oonlon, Captam 



EDennin 5 5 s H s . , ' >"* m - 



RP Oonlon .5 °'SS5*SJ *~'~ 



M Walsh 4 1s!???? 5 *— «> 



hs$&7.7".v. :::.v:; \ 5 * « « « ; * * *-£ 



CCorilon .7.7..;. 5 4 f ? * ° * f 4 4-44 



* 04404555 5-46—441 



The Empires, next on the target, were responsible for th« 



only outer ,n he match, yet the score held well u , nZ the 



team shot well together, as follows, with Capt Miller as 



referee for them and Jas. 8. Conlin, Jf the gallery, af umpire 



Empire Rifle Club-Dr. S. T. G. Dudley, Captain. 



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Mil Maltby .... 4 « 4 S 5-46 



DADavuls. 7 1 ? ? t i ? 5 * * 5-45 



HWaonrley...... J » « 



FHHoiton.. J 5 i •; i * * = 5 »-*; 



AHeoi.b 1 I i S J * ! « J 4-^3 



J H Brown 1 4 , 6 , i 4 « » 4 * 6— Jl 



J E Irwin.. . ... ....... i 3 4 * s 5 2 * '. * « *->« 



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