FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Massachusetts— Salem, Aug. 21st. — Up to Wednesday 

 night the gunning at Ipswich was poor,but Wednesday night 

 and Thursday morning it was pretty good. I saw 1 sickle- 

 bill, 2 black- breasters, 10 summers, 1 robin snipe, and 68 

 peeps and ringnecks in one lot that weie brought from 

 * 'Eagle Hill." Was out on Gallows Hill pastures Thurs- 

 day with a friend; we each got an upland, 2 summers and a 

 snipe. Shot in Powder House Cove last Wednesday morning 

 11 black"- breasters upDanvers river Thursday evening, and 

 a bunch of about 40 summers alighted in Collins's Cove the 

 same afternoon. Took a walk Sunday forenoon; saw 4 

 summers, 4 winters, 3 grass birds, 2 robin snipe and about 

 a dozen peeps; called them all within easy range, but 

 owinsj to the day and other folks' feelings I left my gun at 

 homel Quail numerous; partridges about as usual; wood- 

 cock scarce and swamps dry. No uplands on the neck as 

 yet. Teeters quite plenty. Some blue-winged teal are 

 seen. 



Advices from Ipswich, Rowley and Essex, give birds 

 scarce. I was in at the killing of some 30 odd "Summers" 

 and "Winters," grass birds and robins, snipe, peeps, etc., 

 near this place on Saturday last. Shot a sora rail on last 

 Monday— first this season—and the first English snipe on 

 Wednesday last. A small bundle of "fowl" reported off 

 Magnolia lately— species not ascertained. Woodcock 

 scarce. Other shooting matters quiet. Teal. 



New Bedford, August 26th .—Birds are not plenty as yet 

 in this vicinity. G. A. White, one of our best marksmen, 

 shot 23 black -breasted plover and some few yellow-legs, 

 &c, one day this week. Concha. 



New York— Niagara Falls, August 25th. — There will be 

 good quail shooting here this tail, and good shooting is 

 promised in Canada. The quail season in Canada begins 

 October 1st; here November 1st, as per Supervisors law, 

 and October 20th, as per State law, (take your choice). 

 There are no ducks here of any account before October or 

 November. Woodcock are plenty I understand, although 

 1 have not been out after them. They are offered in the 

 Buffalo market at 50 cents per pair. 



Hiram E. Griffith. 



Pennsylvania — Ghambersburg, Aug. 24th. —Wild tur- 

 keys are reported plenty on the North Mountain near Ship- 

 pensburg. Several flocks of young turkeys have been 

 seen by the farmers along the mountain. 



Virginia— Leesburg A itg. 25th.— A few bull-bats (birds 

 like whippoorwillb), doves and plovers have been killed 

 here, the plo\er so fat as to burst on falling to the ground. 

 On August 25th two guns killed eight plover and six doves; 

 August 26th 14 plover, 4 doves, 1 pigeon. No fishing 

 worth mentioning. T. W. 



Wisconsin— Moniello, A ugust2Ath. — No very large bags 

 of game reported by sportsmen in this section. Consider- 

 able complaints were made of scattered and partially 

 destroyed broods at the opening of the season, and it ap- 

 pears that despite the precaution taken, many birds were 

 kihed during the close season. This is indeed vexatious to 

 true law-abiding sportsmen, and illustrates forcibly the 

 want of game constables in each township where game 

 abounds. The prospect for duck shooting still holds good; 

 the rice and water vegetation is abundant, and the wood 

 ducks are even, now quite plentiful. Fred. 



Kansas— St. Louis, Mo , Aug 23d. — Have just returned 

 with a friend from Southeast Kansas near the Indian Na- 

 tion, alter shooting five afternoons from 4 o'clock until 

 dusk. Bagged, or rather "wagoned" 207 grouse. The new 

 Kansas law prohibits shipping game out of the Sate. I 

 never saw birds so plentiful. I must have seen a thousand 

 quail in the five days I was out, and most of them good of 

 size. J. W. M. 



NOTES FROM VIRGINIA. 



Norfolk, Virginia, August 12th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



i saw in your last usue a letter from Mr. W. F. Scherff, 

 of SaVannah, in which he speaks of a new invention lately 

 patented by Capt. J. T. White, of that city, for loading 

 paper and metallic shells. I can speak in the highest terms 

 of this new invention of Capt. White's, and with one of 

 his loading machines a sportsman has no need of a choke- 

 bored gun, as he can regulate the snooting of his gun by a 

 little practice to suit himself, and every sportsman should 

 have one, as by its use he would be enabled to kill birds 

 at distances that otherwise would be missed or perhaps 

 but sligh ly wounded. For pigeon shooters they would 

 be invaluable. 



Business calling me to Lancaster, Pa., a short time ago, 

 I had the plea&ure of meeting while there Mr. H. B. 

 Yondertmith, of that city, a keen and thorough sportsman. 

 He has several fine betters in his kennel — black and tans, 

 and red Irish. One of the latter he but recently purchased 

 for a stock dog, from Mr. Chas. H. Turner, of St. Louis. 

 Among the black and tans were his famous old Tom and 

 Jim, fiom, I believe, Jas. T. Tiiley's stock. He informed 

 me more birds had been killed over Tom than over any 

 other dog in that seetiou of the State, and that both he and 

 Jiui were very hard to beat in the field. 



The Norfolk Game Protective Association, of which Mr. 

 J. A. Adkinson is the very efficient Secretary, has been 

 and is doing a great deal of good in enforcing the game 

 laws of this State, especially throughout this and some 

 other sections which have been overrun with market shoot 

 ers from other States. Any gentleman or party of gentle- 

 men, from the JNorth or elsewhere, coming here in search 

 of sport, will be cordially and fraternally icceived by the 

 members of the Association, who will do all they can to 

 make their stay pleasant and afford them the best shooting 

 to be had, but the profestional market shooter had better 

 stay away. Mr. Adkinson, who is a thorough sportsman, 

 and one who can fully appreciate all the beauties of nature 

 "which so vividly present themselves in the forest and stream, 

 is an old typo, and was formerly one of the proprietors of 

 the Daily Virginian, the most prominent paper in .Norfolk, 

 and one of the best by all odds published in the State, and 

 is yet connected with it, and to him, Mr. W. H. Seabury, 

 and others, your correspondent would hereby return thanks 

 for courtesies received. Georgia. 



Milford, Pa., August 20. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Pike county cannot be classified among those which boast of good 

 woodcock ground, her high mountains and rough, rapid streams afford- 

 ing (as a general thing) poor feeding grounds for the birds; but the per 

 centage of birds killed this season in comparison with others convinces 



me that the migratory birds will double in numbers those of any previous 

 season within my recollection. 



On Monday last Halstead Wells, D. A. (better known as "Bub") Wells 

 of this place; Hiram Westbrook of Ridgewood, N. J.; and Ed Bayliss of 

 New York, took a boat and followed down the Delaware river toirteen 

 miles, stopping at the best woodcock grounds along its hanks, calling by 

 the way on Mr. Scott, the geuial brother of GenioC, whose resideuce is 

 on the bank of the Delaware, and bagging in that distance 38 wood 

 cock. They claim they cou'd have killed "any quantity" of quail and 

 partridges had they been in season, and seem to look forward with fond 

 anticipations to the 1st of October, when the season for these birds 

 opens. I have raised, in hunting woodcock thrs year, as many as nine 

 bevies of pheasants or partridges in a day, the broods running from six 

 to twelve; and if there are any sportsmen in New York who can shoot 

 —not on paper, hut in the brush— they can have af fine sport this autumn 

 by visiting Pike county— five hours from New York— as they can by go- 

 ing to Iowa or any of the Western States. Bat first they must under- 

 stand the brush is rough, the country hilly, and when they get a bird it 

 will not be one of the kind they dream of which comes and sits on the 

 end of thirguns. I would advise about the 10th to 25th of October, 

 when they may shoot any and everything. I do not intend this as an ad- 

 vertisement or inducement held out to sportsmen to come to Pike 

 county to shoot, because it does not benefit me; but as a lover of the 

 sport ana a sympathizer with those whose business confines them to the 

 city and who seldom have a day to spend. I assure them that in four 

 hours they can be upon as fine hunting grounds as the country affords. 

 To those who are more fond of fishing I will say the streams and lakes 

 abound in black bass, but as the season with them opens the woodcock 

 season your humble servant preferred "not the bass." As I am going 

 to shoot to-morrow, and as the nights are short, I'll leave my description 

 of partridge shooting until next time, Milfohd. 

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PIGEON MATCHES. 



New York — The Syracuse Tournament. — A grand pig- 

 eon shooting tournament was inaugurated at Syracuse on 

 Wednesday of last week and continued for several days 

 thereafter. The first day's sport was made very interest- 

 ing from the fact that amoDg the participants were several 

 noted pigeon shots, the list including the champion, Capt. 

 Bogardus, who, strange to say, was beaten in both match 

 es;H. Silsby of Seneca Falls; F. Pearson, Cleveland, Ohio; 

 F. A. Abbey, Chicago, 111. ; Greene Smith, Peterboro, N. 

 Y. ; F. Pearson, Cleveland, Ohio; Milton Hoag, Seneca 

 Falls, N. Y. ; T. A. Tucker, Providence, K. I. ; M. M. 

 Mayhew, TJtica, N. Y. ; and C. F. Wheal, Cleveland, Ohio. 

 The first match was a sweepstakes at 10 birds each unuer 

 the usual conditions, which resulted as follows:— 



Name. Toial 



P. A. Abbey 10 



A. H. Bogardus 1U 



William T. Perry 10 



C. F. Wbeal 1Q 



H. Silsby 10 



Name. Total. 



P. Pearson 9 



8. A. Tucker 9 



H. Twist 9 



Ureetie Smith 8 



R. II. Plank 8 



Milt Hoag 10|iVl. M. Mayhew 7 



Ed Hudson 10 : Fred Frazer 7 



J. A. Nichols 9JW. Swaudown 6 



TIES OF TKN— 26 YARDS IU8H . 



Name. Score. Total.; Name, Score. 



Abbey 1 1111 5 Hoag 1 1111 



Bogardus 11111 5 |Perry .110 11' 



Wheal 11111 5 IHudson 01111 



Silsby .11111 5 J 



SECOND TIBS— 31 TARBS. 



Name. Score. Total.' Name Seore. 



Total . 

 5 

 4 

 4 



Total. 



Bogardus 1 1 1 Withdrawn. 



Wheal 1 1 1 Withdrawn. 



Abbey 11111 



Hoag 11111 5 



Silsby 1111 4 



THIRD TIES— 31 YAKDS. 



Name. Score. Total I Name. Score. Total. 



Abbey 11111 5 |Hoag 11110 4 



Mr. Fred Abbey of Chicago, won first money. $28; Mr. 

 F. Pearson won. second, Mr. Plank third, and Mr. Mayhew 

 fourth. 



Following the first sweepstakes another under similar 

 conditions was immediately started, and resulted as fol- 

 lows: — 



Name. Total. I Name. Total. 



A. H. Bogardus 10;H. Twist 8 



C. F Wheal lOlJames Brown 8 



Ed Hudson 10|J. H. Ten S'-H 8 



Milt Hoai; 10 VI. M. Mavnew V 



H Silsby It J Greene Smith y 7 



J. A. Nichols 9 S. A. Tucker. 



VV. Swandovvn 7 



Charles McCommon . . ; 



Major White 6 



iP. Abbey 5 



P. Pearson 9 



R. H. Plank 9 



Charles McKinley 9 



tfred Frazer 8 



William T. Perry fe 



In shooting off the ties of ten, each of the contestants kill- 

 ed five birds, and at 30 yards Messrs. Hudson, Hoag and 

 Silsby did the same again, shutting out the champion. In 

 the final round Mr. Hudson also killed five and took first 

 money, Mr. F. Pearson took second money, Mr. Twist of 

 Seneca Falls third and Mayhew fourth. 



The feature of the second day was a double-bird match 

 between Henry Gale of Syracuse, and M. M. Mayhew of* 

 Utica. They shot at 100 birds each, and made the remark- 

 able score of 178 birds, Mayhew killing «7 and G-aie 86. 

 Another match, a little out of the ordinary, was between 

 Ed Hudson and James Halloway, at ten single rises, 40 

 yards. This match was made to test the relative merits oi 

 guns rather than shooters, and resulted in Holloway's kill- 

 ing eight and Hudson seven. Both shot with guns made 

 by Messrs. Nichols & Lefever of Syracuse, and the scores 

 show that the guns were all right. Our space will not per- 

 mit us to give the scoies of the numerous other matches 

 and sweepstakes, but the tournament was in every respect 

 a decided success. 



The attendance at the tournament Friday was less nu- 

 merous than on the previous day. In the handicap sweep- 

 stakes, 21 and 20 yards rise, J. W. Schley of Savannan, 

 Ga., took first prize; Wheal of Cleveland, the second; and 

 Mr. Halloway of Syracuse, third prize. Iu the second 

 handicap sweepstakes Mr. Wheal beat Hudson and took 

 first prize, Halloway second, and Pearson third. 



On Saturday, the last day, a match was shot between 

 teams of two from the cities of Cleveland and Syracuse as 

 follows : — 



SYRACUSE TEAM. 



Name. Total. 



James Holloway 49 



Ed Hudson 4^ 



CLEVELAND TEAM. 



Name. Total. 



C. F. Wheal 46 



W. Pearson 40 



Total... 91 Total 86 



A strong gale of wind was blowing across the traps dur- 

 ing this contest, which made the birds quite difficult to 

 kill. The Cleveland team used the Parker gun, and the 

 Syracuse the Lefever; and, by-the-way, the best shooting 

 during the whole tournament was done by those who used 

 the Lefever gun. Seneca. 



Tbap Shooting. — Below will be found the scores shot 

 by members of the Midway Shooting Club of Matewan, 

 K. J., on the 23d last. Sweepstakes, $200 entrance; 1st 



and 2d money $10 to 1st, $6 to 2d; 3 birds each; 21 yards 

 rise, 80 yards boundary, 1£ oz. shot, H & T ground traps. 



Name. Score. } Name. Score. 



H.A. Warne 1 1 11 1W. A. Dunlap... ,...1 1 1 



J. Wilson .0 I J. Vanhrockel... '.. 110 111 



William Beers 10 1 HOW. Clarke 1 1 



Frank Hyer 010 |F. Taylor 010 



First money won by Dunlap, second divided between 

 Warne and Vanhrockel. 



Second Sweepstakes; rules same as above; 7 entries; $3 

 each, $21; $14 1st and $7 second money:— 



Name. Score. 



H. A. Warne.. ..1 11 111 



J. Wilson 1 1 1 



W. Beers 1 11 111 



Frank Hyer 1 







Name. Score. 



W. A. Dunlap. .111 111 1 

 J. Var.brockel.,.1 11 111 1 

 C. H. Warne 1 1 



l 



H. A. Warne, Dunlap and Vanhrockel divided 1st mon- 

 ey; C. H. Warne won 2d money. 



Match for Club badge, 10 birds each:— 

 W. A. Dunlap.. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 OlSteve Lamberton..l 1 01 101 

 Match for $20, 10 birds each:— 

 Name Score. 



Frank Hyer 111 1110 1 



James Wilson... 1 10 10 11110 



Won by Wilson. 



Five. Three. 

 10 10 10 



11 111 



\atioml §JlapimtB. 



BASE BALL— THE PKOFESSIONAL ARENA. 



— Last week's play in the West closed up the series of 

 League Pennant contests between the Western club teams, 

 and the result of the contest leaves the Chicago Club in 

 possession of the local championship honors. St. Louis 

 can boast of winning "by a large majority" in the record 

 of club vs. club, the score being 6 to 6 in their favor. They 

 will play again next week at Rochester in an exhibi- 

 tion game, and will probably make a match of the kind in 

 Brooklyn. It would pay them to do so. The League Pen- 

 nant record shows the clubs occupying the following rela- 

 tive position^: — 





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 7 

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Hartford 



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Boston 



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 8 



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Cincinnati 







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Games lost 



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— The model games since our last record are as follows: — 



August 15— Meta vs. Alert, at Boston 5 to 1 



August 15— Active vs. Aspen, at Taunton 5 to 3 



August 15— Hemlock vs. Delaware, at Monticello, N.Y. ..5 to 3 



August 15— /Etna vs. St. Louis Ked, at Detroit 5 to 4 



August 1(5 -Fall River vs. Rhode Island, at Providence 3 to 1 



August 16— New Haven vs. Hartford, at New Haven (13 



innings) 5 to 5 



August 17— St. Louis vs. Chicago, at St. Louis 3 to 



August 17- St. Louis Rede, vs. .Jackson Mutuals at Ionia.. 3 to 



August 17— Praiiie City vs. Bluff City, at Polo, 111... 5 to 4 



August 18— Indianapolis vs. Buckeye, at Indianapolis,... 2 to 1 



August 18— Witoka vs. Mutual at Brooklyn 3 to 2 



August 18 -Louisville vs Cincinnati, at Cincinnati 4 to 1 



August IS— Chelsea vs. Irving at Honesdale ; 4 to 2 



Auii'ast 18 — Ka stern vs. Athletic, at Columbus 4 to 2 



August 18— Bloom field vs. Springfield at Springfield -5 to 3 



August 18 — Hartfoid vs. Bo.^ton, at Boston 5 to 4 



August 19— St. Louis Reds vs. /Etna, at Ionia 4 to 2 



August 19— New Haven vs. Bridgeport, at New Haven 5 to 1 



August 19 -Rhode Island vs. Fall Kiver at Fall River 5 to 3 



August 19 -Tecumseh vs. Standard, at Hamilton 5 to 4 



August 20— Aleit vs Andon, at St. Louis 5 to 4 



August. 22— Buckeye vs Alleahany, at Columbus 4 to 4 



Auijust 2^— Alpha vs. Albion, at Brooklyn 5 to 2 



August 24— Louisville vs. Buckeye, at Columbus 4 to 3 



August 21— Somerset vs. Locust, at Boston (11 innings).. 4 to 3 



August i!5 -Cincinnati vs. Louisville, at Cincinnati 8 to 1 



August 24— Fall River vs. Lowell, at Fall River (10 in- 

 nings) 3 to 2 



Augnst 26 — Louisville vs Cincinnati, at Cincinnati 3 to 2 



August 28— Star vtf Boston, at Syracuse 4 to 1 



CRICKET . 



— A match between the Manhattan and Staten Island 

 Clubs en August 24tk ended in a rather acrimonious dis- 

 pute over a decision of the umpire. The contest ended 

 with the appended score: — 



STATEN ISLAND. 



FIRST INNING. 



C W. Bance. G eig 9 



W. M Donald, b Ronald on.... 1 



C. S.Saulsbury.c Hooper b Greig 3 



W. Brewster, c Giles, Jr., b Ro- 

 naldsou 1 



J. W. B. Wketham, b Ronald- 

 son 10 



J. Spr gue, b Greig 1 



E. W. Stevens, not out 6 



J. E. Hoberts, run out 



W. Williams, c McDougall, b Ro- 

 naldson 



E.J. Adam.-*, b Ronaldson 2 



J. Powers, c Jenkins, b Ronald- 

 eon 2 



Byes 8 



SECOND INNING. 



c Field, b Greig 



c Hooper, b Ronaldf on 10 



b Ronaluson 7 



c Field b Ronaldson 2 



b Bonaldson, b Greig 23 



c Edmunds 



run out 8 



b Ronaldson 1 



c Jenkins, b Edmunds 13 



b Edmunds 3 



not out 4 



B^es,3, leg byes, 2; wides, 1 6 



Total 38 Total.... 73 



MANHATTAN. 



FIRST INNING. SECOND INNING. 



S.Edmunds, b Brewster 10b Brewster 3 



B. Jenkins, c Sprague, b Brew- 

 ster 1 run out 6 



E. B. Field, b Sprague 9 c Salisbury, b Stevens 23 



R. Greig, b Brewster b Sprague... 6 



G.Giles, Jr., b Sprague 2 c Bauce, b Sprague, 5 



P. Honaldson, c Brewster, b 



Sprague b Brewster , 2 



S. Makm, c Brewster, b Sprague 2 run out.... 2 



D. v cDougall, b Sprague lOstWhetham, b Brewster 4 



R. Hooper, b Brewster 10 b Brewster 1 



W. C. Longmire, b Sprague run out .......... 



J. 8mith, not out not out 



Byes, 6; leg byes, 3; wides 1 10 Bves 2 



Total 54 Total . 



.54 



A Lighthouse in the Wilderness. — Mr. Verplanck 

 Colvin, who is now engaged in his survey of the Adiron- 

 dacks, has a station on top of Blue Mountain from which 

 a brilliant light is flashed every night at 9 o'clock precise- 

 ly. It is seen at a great distance, and although intended 

 solely for the use of the surveyors at other stations, is of 

 great benefit to sportsmen and summer excursionists. At 

 first they used to dodge the flash, thinking it a streak of 

 lightning; but now they find it very useful -to correct th§k 

 tim®, ■ 



