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FOREST AND STREAM. 



seen in myriads on the sea shore. Our contemporary will 

 also allow us to correct him regarding a bird having been 

 killed for every shot in the gun.- Supposing that Mr. Vie's 

 gun was loaded with only one ounce of No. 9 shot, the 

 charge would contain 596 pellets of the shot manufactured 

 by the Chicago Shot Tower Company. Of No. 8 shot 

 there would have been 434 pellets, or about four for each 

 bird. 



Massachusetts— Sahm, Oct. 30£A.~ Woodcock, quail and 

 partridge are now in good order; snipe grounds are splen- 

 did, but birds scarce; geese are flying, and a few brant are 

 about. A. nice bunch of grass birds were sent to a gentle- 

 men in this city from Scarbpro, Me., and Rowley gunners 

 report some of their best shooting on shore birds the past 

 week; so shore birds are not all gone, as I last week stated. 

 Weather the past three days easterly and dry, later, raining 

 hard, wind southeast. I should say that politics are now 

 more thought of in " Massachusetts than birds. There is 

 considerable discussion just now about chilled shot, and 

 the arguments seem to be in its favor. Teal. 



Cohassett, Nov. 1st. — For the past week the shooting has 

 been very line. Brant and geese have been quite plenty 

 for so early in the season, and quite a number have b een 

 shot. Plover not all gone yet, and the smelt fishing still 

 holds good. S. K., Jr. 



New Berlfrrdj, Oct. 27. 1 am glad to report rhe'shooting 



season now in its zenith in this region. Quail, partridges 

 (grouse.) and woodcock are plenty. Shore birds scarce. 

 Sea fowl afford good shooting at the islands across the bay. 



Concha."- 



Connecticut. — Duck shooting along Long Island Sound 

 and the inlets from it is remarkably successful. Most of 

 1he birds, however, are coots, with an occasional black 

 back, and now and then a broad bill duck. They are said 

 to be of very rauk flavor as a general thing. 



E, iode Island — Newport, Nov. 1. — Our shooting season 

 is at its hcighr. We have coot shooting from three points 

 and in hoa,t< within one hour's ride from the city; black 

 deck, w ikeoD, etc., two hours' sail up the bay; a good 

 show of Wilson snipe and "winters." A party came down 

 the bay from a three days' cruise, and the yacht was some- 

 what crowded with black ducks, coots, shelldrakes, and 

 oic stranger — a mallard — the only one seen this way for 

 years. Shot. 



New York— Syracuse, Oct. 2Wi. — Ducks have made 

 their appearance on Onondaga Lake in quite large numbers 

 for this vicinity, but there are about five shooters to every 

 duck. Hundreds of poachers with wap nets are said to 

 i/ifest Oneida Lake, undisturbed by the sportsmen's clubs, 

 that ought, to bring them to punishment. Seneca. 



New Jersey— Forked River, Nov. 1st. — Quail shooting 

 opened to day und r the most favorable auspices. They 

 are very plenty and easily got at. and good bags are the or- 

 der of the day. Ducks are plenty and gunning very good. 

 Some few geese and a number of brant have made their 

 appearance. Black duck and widgeon are plenty on the 

 meadows, and can be killed in the ponds over decoys any 

 stormy day in goodly numbers. Mr. Frame has closed the 

 Carman House, and may be found at the LaFayette 

 House, where lie will take good care of sportsmen visiting 

 this place * 



Pennsylvania— Hamburg, (Berks county) Pa,, Nov. 1st"— 

 QjEkma of all kinds is scarce; cotton tails are mainly caught 

 from under corn shocks by farmer boys. Reading market 

 was stocked wilh a fair" supply of rabbits of an inferior 

 quality.— small and lean. Birds are extrordinarily scarce, 

 and but few flocks are seen; wild oigeons, turkeys, pheas- 

 ants, etc., have been shot, but owing to the great number 

 of sportsmen on the mountains, they have no opportunity 

 to settle down on a tree or the ground. As soon as they 

 give any evidence of coming, sportsmen are on the terri- 

 tory selected For landing. Pere Nixon. 



Canvas Backs on the LEnion. — A. number of canvas 

 hacks have recently been shot at Chain Dam, on the Le- 

 hteh, near Easion, the first ever known in that vicinity. 

 Other ducks are plentiful in the same locality. 



Florida — St. Awjmtine, Oit. 24. — A. party of five gen- 

 tlemen returned from a few day's hunt south of this city re- 

 centlv, hringhig with them as Hie result of their trip one 

 bear," seventeen deer, thrve raccoons, and quantities of 

 quail, snipe, and ducks. Four rattlesnakes, one measuring 

 7-£ feet, an * several moccasins, were also killed. A very 

 auspicious commencement of the hunting season, although 

 we would rntlur dispense with the "snakes" in ours. 



—Mr. William M. Bulger, an Indiana correspondent, who 

 for thirty five years has been noted in his locality as a deer 

 hunter, says of the English Williams & Powell gun, con- 

 cerning which frequent inquiry is made:— 



"I had one sent me from London for trial with three 

 barrels in (me stock, it being a No. 1 douole barrel shot 

 gun, No. 12 wore, with a 44 calibre, rifle barrel placed in 

 one of the shot barrels, and it proves to be one of the finest 

 shooting guns [ ever fired; cost me here $120. I have been 

 sporting with a rifle more or less ever since I was twelve 

 years old. 1 am now sixty-two, consequently ought to 

 know something about the good qualities of the rifle. I 

 -wonder that some of your sporting correspondents have 

 never mentioned the qualities of this gun." 



Minnesota —White Beaver Lake, Oct. 13.— This lake is 

 situated hi Ramsay county, and has a circumference of 

 about thirty miles. There are three large hotels and a num- 

 ber of privae boarding houses; cost of board from $1.50 

 to pj -30 per day. Bald Eade is a meeting place for trains 

 from lour different duections, viz.: St. Paul, Duluth, Min- 

 neapolis, and Stillwater. The L., 8. and M. li- R. runs 

 daily seven trains from St. Paul, three from Stillwater, and 

 foui from Duluth, and the M. and St. Louis Road three 

 from Minneapolis. The game in the vicinity comprises 

 prairie chickens, ruffed grouse, quail, pigeons, foxes, and 

 deer, and in the lake are pike, pickerel, salmon (walleyed 

 pike,} bass, etc. 



—A man in Greenville, Tenn., has captured twenty-seven 

 hawks by selling a steel trap upon the dead timb of a tree 

 upon which they have been in the habit of alighting. 



—Wild i-ame is abundant in the vicinity of Fort Sanders, 

 Col. Six soldiers went out the other day and killed seven 

 eik, eight black tailed deer, and half a dozen antelope 



A pigeon match, was shot near Montreal last week for a 

 gold medal valued at $75, there being eighteen competi- 

 tors. Capt. Esdaile, Vice President of the Quebec Rifle 

 Association, was the winner, bringing down live birds in 

 fiue style. 



PIGEON 



SHOOTING AT 

 MOND. 



PORT RICH- 



Name. Score 



John Rei in 5 



John Bohling.. 6 



L, Rhiberger ft 



J. Mo ler.... . 5 



H.Miller ..8 



Pokt Richmond, October 26, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I enclose yen scores of a shoot for a "Joseph ClabronehV mnzzle load- 

 ing shot gtm, which came off last Thursday at Sea View Park. Staten 

 Island, and was won by a celebrated rifle shot. Malch at ten birds each, 

 Staten Island Shooting Association rules to govern, twenty chances at 

 $5; value of gun, $S10C. 



Name. Score. 



Capt. G. A 2 



Charles Offeriuan .4 



L. Palmer ..5 



fiv'j Junbecker ' 



Georee Hempstead 8 



L. Lane 7^. Genez 7 



H. Moller ..5|F. Rathyen 7 



A. Lane 3 George Franter 8 



B. Huff 6| Wm H 8 



Lewis Palmer 7jA. Genez 7 



Ties in eight. ■ 



J. Moller 4 Hempstead 2 



Miller. 31 Tranter 4 



Win.H 4 J 



Ties on four. 



Miller 2|Wm. H 3 



Tranter , 1 1 



Mr. H. carried the gun to Newark, N. J. 



I am sorry to have to advise you of a very serious accident that befel 

 Mr. Clarence M. Johnson, the efficient secretary of the association, and 

 which at one time was thought would cause his death. A. week ago last 

 Thursday, while out shooting wild pigeons, he was shot in the back, just 

 below the nape of the neck, by tiie discharge of his friend's gun. He 

 was sitting or squatting down at the time, and the whole charge entered 

 his back, tearing away his coat, vest, and carrying portions of the same, 

 together with the two wads, into his back. The gun was only some five 

 feet away, and contained 3 drachms Lightning powder and 1$- ounces of 

 No. 9 shot. He was picked up for dead, but after returning to conscious- 

 ness walked to a friend's, and bavins procured a hard spring wagon sat 

 on the seat and rode a distance of four miles. Dr. Rogerson, the ex- 

 president of the club, attended his rounds, and it is expected, should he 

 have no drawback, that he will be out in the course of two weeks. It is 

 astonishing how fa^t his flesh heal-, but his ever buoyant spirit has done 

 wonders in his case. I trust it will be a lesson to many to use more care 

 in handling their guns. Mr. J. has always been known as one of the 

 most careful gunners we have among us, and it has caused considerable 

 indignation to have him shot through carelessness. A. B. C. 



We are much grieved at hearing of the accident which 

 has befallen Mr. Johnson, and rejoice at the prospect of 

 his speedy recovery. — Ed. 



-♦♦♦- 



SHOOTING AT TWIN LAKES, CT. 



4 



Twin Lakes, Conn., October 18th, 1875. 

 Editor Forkst asd Stream:— 



The ducking season has opened with a splash, on these otherwise 

 placid waters. While I write — Monday P. M.— a barrow load of red 

 heads, shelldrakes. black ducks and coots have been wheel d past my 

 window, the net gdn of a couple of guns that have been blazing away 

 since morning, and it is now about dinner time. There are eighteen of 

 them, ten shot by E. Sherman Pease and eight by Wm Miles, Jr. , ^oth 

 lesidents on the lake skor s. '1 he same parties have done good shoot- 

 ing on the Housatonic and the coves and small ponds along its scores, 

 where wild rice and ducks and geese do abound: and, by the way, there 

 is to be an effort made to plant the margins of the '•Twins,'" Mount. Riga, 

 and other of our mountain lak^s with this favorite duck forage, aiid 

 from which a great, increase of migratory aquatic* may be expected some 

 day. Partridtre (grouse) shooting has ben unusually good this season, 

 and a few woodcock m iy yet be found in their usual haunts. Quail are 

 not numerous, and real sportsmen will spate what few bevies are found., 

 in the hope of better chances by and by; and, by the way, the owners of 

 the Bashbish region, Messrs. Arthur and Malcom Douglass, turned out 

 some thirty brace of these cho ce birds a year ago in their well sheltered 

 dell, and already the pleasant, call for "bob white 11 may be heard at the 

 charming Sumim r house that has sprung up like magio (with graperies, 

 conservatories, etc.) not far from the picturesque "Falls 11 that artists 

 so love to make turu {if not a mill wheel) an honest penny. The Doug- 

 lass' have al-o let loose a number of deer in their spacious u oods, aud now, 

 if they will lioerate a few turkeys to gobble up arid down the more than 

 Adirondack wilderness of this Taconic rang i, the hundreds of Sum- 

 mer boarders that frequent its high altitude will have at least something 

 to look at besides farm bouses and poultry pens. J. J. P. 



— . -•*-•-«- 



CHOKE BORES AND CHILLED SHOT. 



Boston, October 23d, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I have had the privilege this Fall of using both— the first I condemn, 

 but the second I think n great, improvement. A man armed with a choke 

 bore tiying to shoot snipe, quail, partridges, or any bird hard to hit will, 

 nine times out of t«m, miss single one= unless he be a champion shot. 

 For such only are choke bores of any service for field shooting. And I 

 would say to any one thinking of buying such a gun 10 first try it. 

 When 'hey return they won't want it, or will wait, as they will be cheap. 

 I think it nonsense to talk about close shooting breech loaders when it 

 is almust impossible to make Old gunners give up their muzzle loaders 

 for breach loaders for the only reason that the latter shoot too closely. 

 All that the majority of sportsmen want is a breech loader which will 

 shoot as well as their old guns, with the advantage of being breech oad- 

 ing. No more is expected. I, for one, never expect to get a gun to shoot 

 any better than my old Greener muzzle loader, although I have a breech 

 loader which thoots as well, though made by another maker. It has been 

 rebored to shoot more openly, the same as the old gun, and no one can 

 tell by targets made which gun did the work, and it does not tear a board 

 all to pieces at thirty yard*, and miss entirely at ten or fifteen; for how 

 many men can shoot a bird on the wing with a ride ball. I saw a duck 

 killed by a choke bore gun at fifteen yards that had a hole as big as your 

 finger right through him. I would like to see a company of' twenty 

 men at a pigeon shoot, twenty one yards rise, all having something up, 

 and see how many would shoot choke bores from choice. The English 

 chilled shot is one eighth smaller than the American, is so hard that it 

 can be driven into a board with a hammer without flattening, and will 

 give the same penetration ten yards farther than the American; it will 

 not lead the barrel at all, and will go more evenly and make a better tar- 

 get than can possibly be made with the American. With a ten pound 

 gun, five drachms powder, and one ounce No. 5 shot I can kill ducks at 

 eighty yards, which is good enough. S. K., Jr. 



Xdtionnl §la§timt&. 



BASE BALL— THE PROFESSIONAL ARENA. 



—Though the amateur class of the fraternity will con- 

 tinue their play through November up to Thanksgiving 

 Day—the regular closing day of the bate ball season— the 

 professional season for 1875 terminated on Saturday, Octo- 

 ber 30th, the last game of the season, as was the first, being 

 marked by a victory for the naled Red Stockings of Bos- 

 ton, a club which for the fourth time in succession bore off 

 the'emblem of the season's championship, and this by a 

 record of honorably earned victories unprecedented in the 

 history of the Professional Base Ball Association, as will 



be seen by the appended table giving the number of games 

 played, victories won, and defeats sustained this season 

 exclusive of forfeited games: — 



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Games won 



8: 9| 7 



6j 8 10 



51 li 51 5i 6 



V. 7 



Games lost 



2! ll 2 



0! 2 







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The Bostons lost two exhibition games at Troy, thus 

 making ten defeats for the entire season against over sev- 

 enty victories — a record unequaled in tiie history of the 

 championship contests. 



— The close of the professional championship season 

 leaves the regular contestants, whose games will be counted 

 by the Championship Committee, occupying the following 

 relative positions: — 



Club. 



1 





1 -1 









1-S 





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Boston |..| 8| 9J 71 6J 



Athletic I 8u-j 3, 6| 8| 



Hartford j 11 41.. 6j 41 



St. Louis I 8j l| 5i .| 5| 



Philadelphia... ....I 0| 2i 4j 5|.. 



Chicaec J »»| li 4\ 5; 3, 



Mutual i 0! 3 2| 1 51 



SJlOj 



7| 6J 

 6! 8! 

 5] 8 

 7| 2| 

 ,. 3| 



48 

 32 

 ?8 

 26 

 20 



13' 



Games Lost I 7!19l27l28lSl!36i3t| 185 



The above table does not include forfeited games, two of 

 which are claimed by the Bostons with Philadelphia, two 

 by Athletic with St. Louis, and one by Boston with St. 

 Louis. 



By the above record it will be seen that the Boston Club 

 leads by sixteen games; the Athletics lead the Hartfords 

 for second position by four games, aud the Hartfords the 

 St. Louis for third place by two games. 



— The record of the best played games in the profes- 

 sional arena for October is as follows: — 



Octobpr 19— Chicago vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia, (8 innings) 1 to 1 



October 2— Boston vs. Hartford, at Boston 3 to 2 



Octoher 1— Mutual vs. Athletic, at Pailaeldphia 4 to i 



October 22— St. Louis vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn, (10 innings) ..4 to 3 



Ociober 8— Sr. Louis vs. Chicfipo, at St Louis 4 to 3 



October 18— H irtford vs. St. Lonis, at Hartford . 5to0 



October 25— Hartford vs. Chicago, at Hartford ...5to3 



October 29-- Muuiai vs. St. Louis, at Brooklyn 5 to 5 



October 15— Athl. tic vs. Chieag », at Philadelphia.. 6 to 2 



October 23— St.. Louis vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn ,.6 to 2 



Octoher 4— Mutual vs. Boston, at Troy, (exhibition) 6 to 3 



O toher 7— St. Louis vs. Chicago, at St. Louis 6 to 4 



October 9— Chicago vs. St. Louis, at St. Louis, (exhibition) 7 to 1 



( >ct^ber 19— Boston vs. Hartford, at Hat ford 7 to 3 



October- 5— Athletic vs. Hartford, at Philadelphia 7 to 4 



October 30 — I'oston vs. Hit tford, at Boston .7 to 4 



October 7— Boston vs. Philadelphia, at Philadelphia 8 to 7 



October 13— AtluVtii vs. Hatfont, &r Hartlord 8 to 7 



October 27— Hartford vs. Chicago at Hartford 9 to 2 



October 28 -Athletic vs. St. Louis, at J hiladelphia 9 to 3 



October 23— Philadelphia vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia 9 f.o 6 



Ootobir (J— Cincinnati vs. St.. Louis, at Cincinnati 9 to 7 



Octoher 29— Hartford vs. Boston, at Hartford, (7 innings) 8 to 8 



— The sames played since our last issue were as follows: — 



October 25- Ha 'trord vs Chicago, at Hartford 5 to 3 



October 25— Philadelphia v?. St, Louis, at Philadelphia 17 to 2 



October 26— Hart ora vs Chicago, at Hartford 9 to 2 



« 'ctober 26— Philadelphia vs. Athletic. at Philadelphia, (exhibition) 8 to 4 



October 27— Hartford vs. Chicago, at Hertford ' 17 to 6 



October 28- Boston vs. New Haven, at New Haven 10 to 7 



October 28- Athletic vs. St. Louis, at Philadelphia 9 to S 



October 29 -Hartford vs. Boston, at Hartford. (7 innings) 9 to 8 



October 29 -Mutual vs St. Louis, at Brooklyn, (7 innings) 5 to 5 



October 30—Boston vs. Hartford, at Boston 7 to 4 



THE AMATEUR AliENA. 



There can never be any champion amateur nine of the 

 United States, for the simple reason that in order to attain 

 such supremacy as would be necessary to give a clear title 

 a club would have to incur such expenses as none but a 

 professional organization could very well defray. But 

 there can readily be amateur champion clubs of towns, 

 cities, and counties of States, and perhaps of a single State, 

 under certain circumstances. Thus far the close of No- 

 vember leaves the Chelsea Club the amateur champions of 

 Brooklyn and Long Island, and the 'Ply a ways the cham- 

 pions of New York city, the Staten Island Club being 

 champions of Richmond county, and the Paterson Club of 

 Northern New Jersey, if not of the whole State. Of 

 Western New York, the Stars of Syracuse are the cham- 

 pions, while in the Eastern States the Live Oaks of Lynn 

 and the Lowell club divide the honors. The champion of 

 the legitimate amateur clubs in the metropolis is the old 

 Knickerbocker Club, the only existing organization of the 

 kind in the State. 



—The following is the record of the best amateur gameg 

 played since our last: — 



October 19 -Concord vs. Chelsea, at Brooklyn J J<> § 



October 21— Taunton vs. Live Oak, at Taunt.m » 10 



Octoher 17-Stocks vs. Red Stockinet*, at St. Louis, 7 w» » 



October 16- Downer vs. Meller, at Pittsonrg ° "> * 



October 16— Bed Caps vs Clipper, at Winona, Minn » ™ ' 



October 22 -Hartford vs. Yale, at Hartford J» "> * 



October 2S-*Standard vs. Buckeye, at Wheeling, Va. ...... ■■-■■■•% ™ £ 



October 23-La Belle vs. S'andard, at Whee.iiiEr. Va.. (5 innings). .3 to u 



Octoher 22-Frauklin vs. Bluff City, at Elgin, 111., (7 innings) « to a 



Octoher 19— Live Oak vs. Lowell, at Lynn * q *« 2 



Ocober 21-Downer vs. Sevvickley, at Alleghany » pjj n 



October 18— Lowell vs. Live Oak, at Lowell ""i*nt 



Octoher 19— Kandolph vs. Olympic, at Dover. N. J h)n% 



Octoher 20— Philadelphia vs. Q dekstep, at Wilmington » J" ? 



October 22- Quickstep vs. Flyaway, at Wilmington "j . 



October 28— Bates College vs. Bowdoin, at Brunswick ° lu 



—The finest amateur game of the season, and the best 

 on record, was that played at Lowell, Mass., on;Oct. is, 

 the score of which was as follows :- 



LOWELL. 



Pike. 1. 1 



Woodhead, 3d b 1 1 3 



Brown, c 4 3 



White,r. f 1 



Crane, s. 8 3 3 



Cook, c. f 1 



McKennon, 1st b 10 



Morriil, 2d b 15 2 



* 3 



B -*o P o°'o' B 6 



Shattnck, r. f 



l| Whitney, 1. f 



0,Madden,3db 



OiMcGlynn, c 



4|Adams, c. f ° 



llKina, 1st b 



OHawkes, 2d b ..0 





 1 1 



010 





 1 11 



1 1 



1 



3' 

 



Dorgan, s. s ..0 £ rt 



White, p J? _ 



Totals "0 3 27 12 * 



0-1 

 0-0 



Foley, p J) 1 _ 



Totals 1 2 27 12 7 



Score by innings. 



Lowell 1 



LiveOak 



Umpire, Otis Tilden, Brockton. Time, lh. 30m. 



_ 4M~»» 



—At the Waco, Texas, fair, recently, R A. Ford rode 

 sixty miles in two hours and fortv-nine minutes, the lasi 

 est time on record by five minutes. After dismounting ior 

 ty two horses, he made his last mile in two minutes an" 

 seventeen seconds. He rode common Texan horses. 



