FOREST AND STREAM 



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Fishing for speckled trout and salmon ceased on the 15th 

 in st. — Germanioion Telegraph. 



Laws of New Jeksey.— The law prohibits the killing, 

 exposing for sale or having unlawfully in possession the 

 following kinds of game at the time mentioned:— Grey, 

 black or'fox squirrels, during the year from January 1 to 

 July 1; hare or rabbits, from January 1 to November 1; 

 woodcock from January 1 to July 4; quail, January 1 to 

 November 1; ruffed grouse, December 15 to October 1; and 

 pinnated grouse until January 1, 1880. The penalties are 

 respectively: five, five, ten, fifteen and fifty dollars 

 for every offense. The law further prohibits the killing, 

 trapping, exposing for sale or having in possession any in- 

 sectivorous birds under a penalty of five dollars for each 

 bird. The robbing or destroying of the nests or eggs of 

 any birds is also forbidden under $10 penalty. 



Laws of New Hampshire. — The late session of the 

 Legislature made some changes in the game laws which 

 sportsmen should make a note of. 



Moose are now protected from the first of day of Feb- 

 ruary until the first day of October, the penalty for killing 

 them being $100. 



A bounty of ten dollars for each bear killed is payable 

 by the selectmen of the town in whicli it is killed. 



The penalty for killing song or insectivorous birds, or 

 taking from their nests their eggs or young, was fixed at 

 five dollars for each offense. 



Partridges are protected until the first of September, 

 instead of tlie first of August, as has been heretofore 

 stated. 



N arts ac-ansett Gun Club — This organization comprises 

 some fifty members, principally New York, Boston, and 

 Philadelphia gentlemen, who arc in the habit of spending 

 the Summers at Newport, R. I. Its officers for the current 

 year are: President, James G-. Bennett; Treasurer, Frank 

 B. Porter; Secretary, Russell Forsyth; Governing Commit- 

 tee, James G. Bennett, Frank B. Porter, Russell Forsyth, 

 August Belmont,, John G. Ileckscher, Frank W. Anderson 

 and Carroll Livingston. Its annual meetings are held at 

 the club house, on Bellevue avenue, Newport, but it has 

 private club grounds in the adjacent town of Middletou, 

 where it has frequent exciting matches during the season. 

 One of these occurred on the 9th instant, and our corres- 

 pondent has kindly sent us the score:— 



Newport, R. I., August 11th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



Inclosed find score of handicap of Narrngansett Gun Club for sil\%r 

 cup, $10 entrance, August 9th, Mr. Robbing, referee, tea birds each, 

 which resulted in a tie between II. Bloodgood and E. W. Davis. The tie 

 was then shot off, Mr. Bloodgood missing his second bird, which fell one 

 font out of bounds. This was Mr. Davis 1 first match, and lie surprised 

 himself as well as bis friends by bis skill at the trap. Mr. Ira Paine, the 

 professional pigeon shooter, was on the ground, and remarked the score 

 as being excellent. The birds were very good amj strong on the wing 

 with a few exceptions: — 



Name. 



Yards 



Score. 



Total. 



M. Van Buren 



89 



110 10 1110 dr. 



6 



T Van Buren 



30 



1111*1 : 1 ■ 1 



8 



J. G. Heeksher 



.... 28 



1110 1 110 10 



( 



p. Livingston.. 



30 



1110011*0 dr. 



5 



S. 8. Uowiand 



2"j 



1110 11111 



8 



JI. Bloodgood 



27 



1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 



9 



F. P. Sands 



25 



1 1 1 1 1 1 dr. 



6 



E. W. Davis.... 



25 



1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 



9 



C. A. Heckscher 



26 



1 1 1 dr. 



3 



E. St^phen^on 



2? 



1 1 1 1 1 dr. 



5 



R Redmond . . . s 



26 



1 1 1 1 dr. 

 10 10 1 dr. 



4 



W. S. Thornton 



27 



3 



L. Curtis 



2? 



1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 dr. 



8 



C. Allan 



23 



TIES. 



withdraw n. 







Yards, Score. 



Total. I 



Yards. Sco 



re. Total. 



H. Bloodgood.. .27 1 * 



1 |E. 



W.Davis ?5 1 



1 2 



*DeaI out of bounds. 



There will be another match next Monday between Pemberton Grund 

 and J. G. Heeksher for $2,500 a side, twenty-five birds, which I vvill re- 

 port for you. Shot. 



In the match referred to, which came off according to 

 announcement, Mr. Grund was the victor; distance, 

 thirty yards, fifty birds each, five traps. After shooting at 

 forty birds J. P. Grund was declared the winner, he having 

 killed thirty out of that number, and Heckscher nineteen. 

 Keferee, S. Hamilton Robbins, and Seorer, Russel Forsyth. 

 The scores were: — 



Grund— 11110, m;o, 11110. 11011, 10111. 11100, 1101 1, 00111. 



Hecksher-10110, 01111, 10010, 01001,00101, OOOLII, 10001, 10101. 



— Below 1 give you the score of the first trap shooting 

 ever done in this part of Georgia. The match was at five 

 single and two double birds each, 21 yards rise and 80 

 yards boundary : — 



E. Speer 1 1 1 1 1 '0 00— 6 J. IT. Bucker. ...1 1 1 1 1 00 10—6 



W. B. Thomas... 1 111 10 00-5 J. H. Bearing.... 1 1 1 1 1 10 11-8 

 W. W. Thomas.. 1 1 1 1 1 01 11 — 81 



We consider this very fair shooting, when it it is known 

 that not a man present had ever shot from a trap before, 

 and some had never seen one. Can you show a first trial 

 to beat it? Trap. 



Athens, Aug, 13. 



Minneapolis, Minn., August 9th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest akd Stream: — 



1 send you inclosed a slip from the Minneapolis Tribune of 8th inst. 

 giving an account of the contest for the badge in the Trap and Field 

 Club, recently organized in this city. This organization embraces a 

 membership of about fifty of the most respectable of our business men, 

 some of whom, allow me to state, are better men than shots, as there is 

 room to infer by the score I send you. This was our first shoot :— 

 L. B. Babcock 710. M. Humphrey 7 



F.L.Morse. .. , 7 



George A. Camp. 9 



B. Brown 5 



G. W. Tinsley 6 



E. Grimshavv 7 



Chas. Cyphers. 10 



G. S . Tuckerman 7 



L . Shepley 6 



Chas . Morrison 9 



John Harvey 8 



Chas. Hipp ; 6 



R. S . Pease 5 



R. B. Langdon withdrew 



H. r H . Carpenter ,3 



K. T. Smith .5 



George Purmort 6 



Geo. Felt \\',4. 



A. W. Riekman 7 



Geo. A. Bracket!.... ."^3 



VV . Mc Nair 6 



Robt. McMnllen ..'"s 



R. J. Baldwin 7 



The badge was presented to Mr. Cyphers by Major George A. Camp, 

 the President of the club. ** 



—The Thompson gun recently completed at the South 

 Boston Iron Company's works, is one of the largest ever 

 built in the world. Its weight is $2,280 pounds, while 

 the famous Krupp gun exhibited at Vienna only weighed 

 80,000 pounds. J s 



—Notice is given of the formation of the Northwest 

 Trading Company, (Canadian) for the purpose of trading in 

 furs, skins, etc. 



WHERE TO GO FOR GROUSE. 



Redfield, Dallas County, Iowa, August 9th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



As many of your readers are intending to go West for pinnated grouse 

 this season, a few hints from a "native 1 ' will not be out of place In 

 the first place decide what point to go to. If you go without any fixed 

 point i i view you may spend a week of time before you find a good 

 place. In Iowa this game is abundant over most of the western half of 

 the State. From Desmoines northwest stop at Grand Junction or Gow- 

 rie, north of there, or at almost any station west of Grand Junction. 

 Going west from Desmoines, stop at Stuurt and take stage line to Fonta- 

 nels, twelve miles out. Excellent shooting conveniences, and extends 

 for twelve miles further. Twelve miles west from Stuart is Casey. Take 

 stage from there to Fontanelle, twenty-four miles. Every foot almost 

 abounds with chickens, and at almost any station west of Casey good 

 sport can be had. In most cases it will be necessary to go from four 1o 

 ten mi'es from the railroad, as the birds are kept "cleaned out" near the 

 town*;, but in most places a mail route, which carries passengers, extends 

 to some country post office. On the route northwest from Desmoines 

 good sport is to be had after ducks about the numerous' ponds, wading 

 in the shallow water and "jumping them up." About August 20th they 

 begin to r?sort to the stubble fields morning and evening, and make good 

 shooting there. Sand hill and white cranes are also there, but very shy. 

 The other route abounds in high, rolling ground, affording splendid 

 views, and is absolutely free from malaria, and in almost every hollow 

 clear pure water is found. No game there but "hens" and rattlesnakes. 

 There are hundreds of other places just as good as those mentioned 

 above, but I have only mentioned those of whicli I had personal knowl- 

 edge. The best shooting is from August 15th to September 15th. As to 

 dogs, it is uncertain about getting them here. If yon have a good one, 

 bring him. A dog that has only hunted quail and cock will frequently Hush 

 chickens, as they do not lie very well. A good ruffed grouse dog is just 

 the thing if he will only range far enough. Breech loaders should bring 

 full supplies of everything except powder and shot, say 1,000 rounds for 

 ,i three weeks 1 shoot. 



Now, supposing you arc snngly quartered at some farm house. After 

 an e rly breakfast you take thirty or forty cartridges and start for a wheat, 

 .stubble that is bordered by the open prairie. Walk about thirty yards 

 from the edge and keep jour gun ready for instant action. If the dog is 

 not used to "chickens" "steady" him as soon as he scents Ihe game, 

 The probability is that a number of the birds have been running in all 

 directions through the si ubblc, and if the dog is a novice he j/ets con- 

 fused, and will put them up. A good chicken dog always sto r .s at the 

 first scent and wails for the gunner to come up. If the birds are somt- 

 what scattered thev will frequently get up gradually, and by the rapid 

 use of a breech loader most of the pack, from six to twenty, may be 

 bagged. If they get up all at once, try to mark them down on the open 

 prairie, and when you see them down be sure yon mark the spot by some 

 bunch of weeds or other object; for if you do not the grass is all so near 

 alike that you can never find the spot arter once taking your eyes off it. If 

 ther-j be a slough with grass in it running through the stubble you may 

 be almost sure of a find along its sides, particularly in the evening. The 

 birds always seem to prefer the. low ground in a field. By ten o'clock the 

 birds have mostly filled their crops and gone to the grass and cornfields, 

 where thcy.reniain till three P. M. During the middle of the day they 

 are hard to find, as they do not move about much. At this time of day 

 hunt in the grass along the ed«e of the stubble, not more than eighty 

 rods from the edge, and along the hill sides, and on windy days always 

 on the leeward slope. Many may be shot in the cornfields by keeping 

 the dog well in and taking a snap shot as the bird tops the tall corn. 

 When a large number go down in the grass they run off in every .direc- 

 tion, and make fine trailing for the dog. They always try to alight oil 

 some spot out of sight from where they rise. They generally lly over 

 one rise of the prairie, and stop two thirds of the way up the next, or fly 

 round one point and stop on the next. After a little expeiienee one can 

 generally tell from the lay of the land about where they stopped. 



In conclusion, I will say that those who come for sport, and are wil ing 

 to work for it, will not be disappointed. Very few farmers object to 

 shooting on their grounds, and if they did our laws make no special pro- 

 tection for them, but, of course, no gentleman will invade the farmer's 

 or any one's rights merely because he can do so with impunity, and in 

 return for this generous privilege given bj the farmer the sportsman 

 should not fortret to divide bis game with them sometimes, and thus ce- 

 ment the friendly feeling that now exists. Any one wishing further in- 

 formation may address the writer. 0. H. Hampton. 



Idtional ^n§times. 



— Captain Webb, the English swimmer, has now made 

 twenty miles at sea, from Dover to Ramsgafe, in eight 

 hours and forty-five minutes. 



THE PROFESSIONAL ARENA. 



The contestants in the professional arena will have to 

 make hay while the sun shines if they desire to gather in a 

 full harvest of victories prior to the closing of the season 

 on November 1. Up to August 16, they had played less 

 than a hundred and ninety games, during a period of thr^e 

 months, and in the two months and two weeks yet to come 

 they have 2(52 games to play, as will be seen by the ap- 

 pended table: — 



Yet to Quotas Yet to 

 Play. Played. Play. 



Played. 



Boston 43 



Athletic 41 



Hartford 47 



St. Louis :^8 



M utual 41 



Chicago 33 



Philadelphia 43 



New H aven 33 



Atlantic 32 



Red Stocking if 



Up to August 17, the full record of games won 

 in Ce arena, stand as follows: — 



Won. 



Lost . 



38 



4 



30 



n 



30 



17 



23 



15 



20 



21 



19 



19 



19 



24 



4 



2!) 



2 



30 



1 



13 



48 



4 



49 



4 



43 



3 



52 



4 



46 



4 



hi 



3 



47 



3 



57 



2 



76 





 and 



6 



6 



7 

 6 

 6 

 7 

 7 

 8 

 8 

 10 



lost 



Club. 



w 



Boston 



Athletic | i ] 



Hartford „ o| 



St. Lonis | 1 1 



Mutual j o 



< W 



o 1*3 



« I 33 



Chicaeo. 

 Philadelphia. . . 

 New Haven... 



Atlantic 



Red Stockings. 



Games Lost 4lll 17J16 24[ J9[ 24)301 -SQi 13 



ll 2 

 li 3 

 11 2 



1 2 



1 0; 

 0| 

 



5| 

 l| 

 21 



3| 



"i| 

 II 0i 

 0; 0; 



1 



41 II 

 6| 0| 

 81 3) 

 2 1 2] 

 31 2 

 21 4 

 5, 1 

 Oj 

 .. 



01.. 



38 

 31 

 31 

 23 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 4 

 2 

 1 



—The games played since our last, are as follows :— 



Aug. 9— Philadelphia vs. St. Louis, at Philadelphia 16 to 



Aug. 9— Mutual vs. New Haven, at New Haven. . . 4 to 2 



Aug. 10— Hartford vs. Mutual, at Hartford "" 7 t0 



Aug. 12— Athletic vs. St. Louis, at St Louis ' 8 to 1 



Aug. 12— Hartford vs. Mutual, at Hartford (8 inning) 1 to 



Aug. .3— Mutual vs. New Haven, at New Haven. . 4 to 



Aug. 14— Athletic vs. St. Louis, at St. Louis . 6 to 2 



Aua, 14— Hartford vs. New Haven, at Hartford. . " ' 17 to 3 



Aug. 16 -Hartford vs. New Haven, at New Haven. " " " 5 to 2 

 Aug. 16— Athletic vs . St. Louis, at St, Louis . . *•'■■ 3 t 



The Chicago club averages up to the close of their East- 

 ern tour, are as follows:— 



















t/i 



■^ 











+J 

























& 



•,-< £ 











0J 



8-3 









DO 



S 



pj 



V 



so 



V 



-w 



•o a 







111 



•55 



O 



.:■: 



& 







oe 



u 



05 



<rf 



fe 



-d 



Ed 



Pi 3 



p", 



Devlin 



Hines 



Higham 



Bielaski 



Hastings 



Peters 



Glenn 



Warren 



Golden 



Miller 



Zettlein* 



J&eerl* 



r,0,1.44 

 511.27 



46 1.15 

 25ll.l3 



39 It. 06 

 4&I1.0R 



881 .92 



38! .92 



7 1 .7" 



\)\ .56 



28 1 .Ht 



2| .40 



375 



88 



!:;-> 



19 

 97 

 36 

 96 



6 5 



7| 17 

 261 33 

 41 i 40 



?| 12 



1 ! ISM' 4 12 295 



.92 

 .87 

 .77 

 .72 

 .70 

 .86 

 .88 

 .80 

 .50 

 .76 

 .84 

 .78 



.78 



*Ilesigned. 



The games with the Westerns are included in the above, 

 but one game with the St. Louis Reds is left out, owing to 

 the loss of the score. In the fielding part there are some 

 six games missing, but they do not affect the standing of, 

 and would cause very little difference in the above figures. 



TIIR AMATEUR AKKN/Y. 



Among the best contests played in the 



amateur 



We give 



arena 

 them 



0-1 



...3 to0 



...y, to2 

 ...3 to 3 



...4 tot) 

 ...4 to 1 

 ... 1 tO 2 

 ...4 to 2 

 ...4 u>)l 

 ...4 to 8 



11 — Boston vs. Efp.yskMie, at I&rie, Pa Siov; 



5- Resolute v< Trenton, at AVavetly, N.J :-; to 6 



o — Red Stockings vs. I.ndlovv, at St. Louis H 10 6 



2— Ludlam v.--. Empire, at St. Loins 9 in 



3 Rochester vs. lavinysion. at Rochester !t 10 7 



7— Live Oak vs Una at Lynn ft to 6 



3— l'avonia vs. Iloliokcn, at lloboken 9 t«> 7 



11— Norfolk vs. Eekrord, at, Easton, Mass 9 to 7 



7-Rose Hill vs. Olympic oP N Y.. at. Watertown. . .9 to 8 

 5— Ionian vs. Western Rock, at Oberlin, 0.,(!1 inn). 9 to 8 



thus far, may be numbered the following: 



in the order of the smallest scores: — 



Aug. 5— Amateur vs. Blue Sfidelci rigs, at Cincinnati (11 in). 2 to 1 



Aug, 4— Resolute vs. Grafton* at Portland, JVIe '. . . 



Any. 10-Sunny^ide vs. AiLryle, atJ-jingSing 



Aug. li— Taunton vs. Fall River, at Pall JEiiw 



Aug. 2- Star vs. Buckeye, at, Covington 



Aug. 5— 'Boston vs. Rhode Hand, at Providence 



Aug. 12— Cincinnati vs. Olympic, at Louisville 



Alio;. 7— Star vs. Ludlow, at, Cincinnati 



Aug. 14-PYontier vs. Ecklord, at Brooklyn 



Aug. 7— Kail River vs. Resolute, a. Kail Rivttf. 



Am;. 5— Keystone vs. Athletic, at Brooklyn 



Au^. H — Confidence vs. Athletic, at New Kochclle 4 to :', 



Aug. 6— Milford vs. Buckeye, at Milford, Ohio 5 to 3 



Aug. 7— Nameless vs. Kly A« ay, at lloboken Moo 



Aug. 10 -Enterprise vs. Suffolk, 'at HuniitiglOn 6to() 



Aug. 4— Henry Ubrr vs p. ,J. Huolies, at Brooklyn to 2 



Aug. 7 -Starr vs. Trenton, at lrvin-t.on ti to 2 



Aui^. 13— F«ll River vs. Rhode Island, at Providence fi to3 



An<j. 8— NarpeJess vs. Oram port, at Oreenport. li to I 



Aug. 1 I— Athletic vs. Neshamock. at iVIanstleld, Ohio H lo I 



Aug. 18— Hughes vs. Oorr, at Brooklyn 5 to 5 



Aug. fi -Lowell vs Grafton, at Lowell (10 innings) li to (3 



Aug. 3— Buckeye vs. Amaieur, at ( ■olumbiis 7 to 4 



Aug. 4 -Chess vs. Checkers, at Hartford 7 to 4 



Aug. 12— Union vs. Neshamock, at Urbana, Ohio 7 to 1 



Aug. 4— Union vs. Athletic, at Urbana. Ohio 7 to fi 



Aug. 11 -Starr vs. Lone Starr, at Herkimer, N. Y., U0 inns. 7 to li 



Autr. 11-Bur ingloii vs. Trenton, at, Trenton' ... .7 to i; 



Aug. 14— Boston vs. Star, at Cincinnati S to 1 



Aug. 13 -Chelsea vs. Olympic; at Brooklyn Blot 



Aug ' 



Aug 



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Au- 



Aug. 



Aug. 



Aug. 



Aug. 



Aug 



Aug. 



— A new elub has been organized at Greenpoint, L. I., 

 and the new men bave already played noteworthy games. 

 At the last meeting of the Greenpoint club ihe following 

 otlieers were elected by ballut: President, John T. Gallup; 

 Vice- Preside-] t, J. Madison Wells; Secretary, Edwin S. 

 Havens; Treasurer, H. A. Reeves, it was voted that the 

 Board of Directors consist of rive members, and the fol- 

 lowing were thereupon elected by ballot: Geo. fi. Cleaves, 

 Theo. P. Clark, Caleb Dawson, Dr. B. D. Skinner, H. A. 

 Reeves. Their best game thus far was that played Aug. 14, 

 with the crack Nameless club, of Brooklyn, the latter find- 

 ing it difficult to win by to 4. 



— The best amateur game of this month was the fol- 

 lowing, played Aug. 11, at Fort Hamilton, L. I. :— 



Frontier o G 2-2 



Star o 0-0 



Philadelphia, August .10 —News is slightly scarce. 

 The cricketers are as active as they can be, with a goodly 

 proportion, if not a large majority, out of town. They 

 have selected nine members of the team, and I hey will play a 

 practice game to select the rest. They play a practice 

 game at Germantowu on Saturday next. Sculls. 



—A foot-race took place on Saturday on the New York 

 Athletic club grounds between Richard McBride and 

 Stephen Drumraond. They ran one mile for $300 a side. 

 The race was well contested and was won by Drummond. 

 Time, 5 minutes 5| seconds. 



Swimming Matches.— On Saturday last John Fitzgerald 

 and Richard Manning swam a race at Glen Cove °for a 

 stake of $200, the distance being one mile, straightaway. 

 Manning was the favorite 5 to 4. Fitzgerald, however, 

 proved the better man and won the race by fifty yards; 

 time; 19 minutes 25£ seconds. 



—In the match between S. H. Brown and Chas. A. Mil- 

 ler on the Harlem river last week, for a stake of $200 a 

 side and a gold medal, Miller was the winner, his time was 

 18 minutes 25 seconds; distance, one mile. 



EriTKAORDiNAitY Jumping-.— A jumping match between 

 James W. Freeman, of Chicago, and Robert H. Ryan, of 

 this city, for $200 a side, was decided at lloboken on the 

 11th inst. The conditions of the match were, one single 

 jump, six trials each, spring shoes barred. On the first 

 trial Ryan, using fifteen-pound dumb bells, jumped 12 feet 

 2£. Freeman followed with 12 fee', 2f inches. Ryan then 

 made 12 feet 4£ inches, which was beaten by Freeman's W> 

 feet 6£. Ryan then exerted himself and scored 12 feet 8f 

 inches, but Freeman saw him and went him one inch better. 

 Ryan's next jump was 12 feet 11^ inches and Freeman's 

 13 feet i inch. On the fifth trial Ryan jumped 13 feet f 

 inch; Freeman slipped and his jump was not scored. Free- 

 man now had to jump first and cleared 13 feet 2f inches, 

 when Ryan jumped 13 feet 3£ inches and won the match'. 

 The best jump on the record, at least in this country, is 

 that of Searles, of Utica, 13 feet 5f inches. 



—Why don't the Salisbury Club, of Connecticut, put a 

 stop to netting trout from the Macedonia stream? 

 - ^« » . __ 



Champion Gunners: Shooting Stars. This is the time 

 of the year to look, for them. 



Unprofitable Pedestrianism :— Professional Tramps, 



