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FOREST AND STREAM, 
Washington Territory.— Spokane. Falk, W. T., Oct. 
8th. —.1 wetit out for a couple ol hours the other afternoon 
and caught, eighteen trout that weighed thirty pounds, 
but took no one of extra size until yesterday, when a 
beauty of 45 pounds graced a string of five. A party of 
us went to Lake Cooiir D’Alene last week, hut l'ouud that 
the fishing there at this season was not as good as in the 
river, although the fish were larger, one of fourteen 
pounds being reported, and others of 1 1 f and 10 
pounds respectively had been taken some time previous. 
In about a month the sport wilt he excellent at that point. 
The lake has been described in your columns before, aud 
it is certainly one of the most beautiful and attractive 
sheets of water iu the world. In my last I said that the 
soldiers made the drive by which so many deer were 
killed; X was slightly in error; it was made by the soldiers 
and Indians together. Salmon are putting in an appear¬ 
ance in large numbers below the falls at this place, and 
the Indians are very busy spearing and curing them for 
their winter’s food’; some large ones have been taken — 
one, I believe, weighed fifty odd pounds. 
Multonmaju. 
Lady Anglers. — The London Standard has this pleas¬ 
ant bit of angling chat about the gentle art: 
There are no records to tell ns whether ladiesangled in 
patriarchal times, but we know that they did so in the 
days of old Greek and Roman civilization. Plutarch in¬ 
forms us that uo less celebrated a lady than Cleopatra was 
a votary of the angle, aud that she and Antony spent no 
inconsiderable portion of their time in fishing matches. 
So keen at last did their rivalry become that recourse was 
had to artifice in order to insure victory, at least by the 
mean spirited Antony. Vexed a t the superiority of the 
Queen in the art, he instructed divera to take live fish and 
place them ou his hook. They effected this so cleverly 
that he pulled up fish after fish, and completely turned 
the tables on his mistress. She pretended to congratulate 
him on his good fortune, and to admire his dexterity, 
but by some means had gained knowledge of the 
trick he had practiced and determined to have her re¬ 
venge. Another match was arranged, and in presence of 
a large company of friends specially invited to witness it 
the fishing commenced, Antony soon had a bite, stmck, 
aud pulled up a large salted fish, to bis great disgust aud 
the intense amusement of all present. The murder was 
out ; Antony’s trick was exploded : for on this occasion a 
diver, specially instructed by the Queen, bad anticipated 
the one employed by Antony, and had fixed the salt fish 
on his hook. But though we cannot claim for this coun¬ 
try the first lady angler, we can claim a lady as the au¬ 
thor of the first book ever printed on angling; for within 
the years of Caxton issuing from his press at Westminster 
the “ Dictos and Sayings of the Philosophers,'’ in 1477 ; 
Wynkon de Worde published the famous “Booke of St, 
Alban’s,” wherein Dame Juliana Berners, the good and 
accomplished Prioress of Sopwell, discourses on “tliedys- 
porte of fyashyng. She was probably a lady angler her¬ 
self, as the very full instructions she gives in reference to 
the art indicate that she must have had practical experi¬ 
ence of it ; but, however this may be, she strongly com¬ 
mends the pastime “ to all that be virtuous, gentle, and 
freeborn. ” That angling was a pursuit followed by ladies 
after her time, and yet a considerable number of years 
ago, may be gathered from a book ou fishing published in 
1675, under the title of the “Accomplisht Lady’s De¬ 
light.” Edmund Waller, the most charming song writer 
in the English language, aud forever to be remembered 
as the author of the ode, " On a Lady’s Girdle,” and him¬ 
self, as Isaak Walton tells us, “ a lover of the angle,” sang 
in praise of lady anglers two centuries ago. But whether 
lady anglers in past times were few or many, skilful or 
or unskilful, enthusiastic or the contrary, certain it is 
that now they muster strongly. Many of them are very 
successful performers, and the majority as keen sports¬ 
women as can well be imagined ; indeed, when a lady 
takes thoroughly to angling she generally becomes as 
ardently devoted to it as the most inveterate Waltonian 
of the other sex. Lady salmon fishers are now to be 
found on most of our English, Scotch and Irish salmon 
rivers, lochs and lakes, and Norway is visited by them ; 
while in America they whip freely the well stocked 
waters of various districts. Our trout streams in all di¬ 
rections receive their attention; they try conclusions 
with the tenants of the pike preserves, and the humbler 
denizens of our fresh waters have to succumb to their 
skill and perseverance. True that lady anglers have dif¬ 
ficulties to contend with which men make but light of, 
but these are overcome by various devices, or lessened by 
their having some one of the other sex in attendance 
upon them. Salmon fishing is very hard work with the 
heavy double-handed rods generally used, but for ladies 
lighter ones are specially made, and, the weekly records 
of good fish taken iu various wators show that with such 
tackle they get quite their share. It was all very well for 
the late Public Orator of Cambridge to have launched the 
followingyett d'esprit apropos of an announcement in the 
Field that the beautiful Miss - had caught a salmon of 
seventeen pounds: — 
Not artificial files my fancy took; 
Nature's own magic lured me to your hook ; 
Play me no more—no thought to 'scape have I, 
But land me, land me, at your foot to die. 
FLY FISHING FOR SHAD IN OCTOBER. 
” A NEW SENSATION IN ANGLING. 
Editor Format and Stream .-—Some yearslsince the angling frater¬ 
nity was considerably exercised over the acoount of taking full- 
grown shad with the fly at Holyoke Dam, Mass. I was much in¬ 
terested on the subject and wrote to Mr. ThomaB Chalmers, whose 
aooounts and scores I had heard and read so much about in the 
Forest and Stream. He wrote me full particulars, and also sent 
me a case of shad files, which I tried according to directions. 1 
never sucoeeded inobtaininga single rise. In the fall of the same 
season I waB fishing for perch on a reef in the middle of the Hudson 
one afternoon in company of a friend, when we succeeded in 
catoking fifteen fish, exactly similar to the shad, averaging three- 
quarters to one pound each. This wns a great surprise to me. 
The natives pronounced them herrings, filp-jacks, skippers and 
various other names. I have taken them regularly every season 
since, end during this present month of October I have had great 
sport with them. I have sent speci mens to Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 
and to Seth Green. They both pronounced them to he the winter 
or salt water shad. I take them ou a light fly rod, with either 
Mve bail or with ft fly, The .most killing fly seems to be a dark- 
brown. Any dark fly, I tlnnk, will do. The best time to flsh is at 
half tide, ebb or flood, aud the best time to catch them is at day¬ 
break or sunset. It is of no use Ashing at mid-day, unless t he day 
be overcast and cloudy. Those flsh seem always, when seen, 
breaking or Jumping from the water, to be feeding on young 
shad, from one to one and a quarter inches in length, and when 
they feed It is just the time to flsh for them. 1 gencvallyga out to 
fish from 5 to tl i*.m., when the tide serves, and have made some 
prelty good scores. Mybestscore wag forty-otie; lowest, seven. 
The ruu is about over lit present. They leave ns soon as the water 
begins to grow cold. Then the feed (young shad) disappear. The 
fishing usually lasts about three weeks, beginning about Oct. 10th 
and lasts nearly to theolose of the month. 
JVWiffamirnrg, N. 1'., Oct.Mh. P. A. M. Van Wyok. 
Fish Poisoning from Chemical Refuse,, —An extraor¬ 
dinary scene was witnessed ou the Dee in England a few 
days ago. A storm washed a quantity of poisonous 
liquids from Pickhill Brook, which drains several lime 
aud lead workB into the Dee, and the fish immediately 
began to sicken and die. They hastened to escafte the 
poisonous water, and came floating down the river in 
thousands. Some were dead, and others were hurriedly 
rushing down stream to escape out to sea, At the cause*- 
way beside the old Dee mill a large crowd had congrega¬ 
ted to see salmon and salmon trout, pike, roaoh, and bream 
frantically endeavoring to throw themselves over. Hun¬ 
dreds of men and boys lined the river, busily engaged in 
killing fish, and several fine salmon were caught. 
Outline of a Western Pleasure Trip.— One of our 
far-western correspondents, who doesn't tliink much of 
long-distance travelling, has cut out the following sum¬ 
mer route for the editor of this paper : 
Let me suggest a good trip for you next summer. Start 
about July 1st to 20tli; go to Bismark, thence to the Yel¬ 
lowstone River, via Northern Pacific Railroad ; then take 
a steamer to Gallatin, Montana (from there, by good 
wagon road, it is only about 400 miles to Cceur De Alene 
Lake); thence tiventy-eight miles to Spokan Falls, where 
you will probably meet the Northern Pacific Railroad 
coming towards you from the west. One hundred and 
forty miles of railroad brings you to the junction of the 
Snake and Columbia rivers, where you wUl find splendid 
steamers to take you to Portland, Oregon. 
J list think of it: only 400 miles of wagoning, by the 
best of roads, in the finest of weather, amidst the grand¬ 
est scenery on the continent, along beautiful mountain 
streams, and through the wild passes of the'Cteur De’ 
Alone Mountains. 
There is no use of telling youof the fishand game. You 
know it by heart. 
As to the danger of your scalp adorning some wigwam, 
it is nil. I would consider it just as safe to take my wife 
over the route to-day as to drive down Broadway, and I 
think for me it would be safer. W. B. B. 
New Tacoma, W. T.. Oct 6th. 
A Florida Cruise. —Iu another column will be found 
the advertisement of Capt. Thomas J. Miller, of Brook¬ 
lyn, a competent sailor, who proposes to navigate Florida 
waters this winter. 
—Geo. Rockwell of Pulton, Oswego Co., N. Y,, pub¬ 
lishes a map of the Thousand Islands which will be found 
both correct aud up with the times. 
BASE-BALL. 
THE LEAGUE SEASON OF 1879. 
THE PROVIDENCE NINE THE CHAMPIONS—THE STATISTICS 
OF THE CAMPAIGN. 
The League championship campaign of 1879 has ended, 
and the close of the race for the League C'kampiouship 
Pennant leaves the laurels of victory iu the hands of the 
Providence Club, the Bostons (who won the pennant in 
1878) taking second place this year, and the Buffaloes 
(the international champions of 1878) third position, the 
Chicagoes occupying fourth place, owing to their having 
sustained more defeats than the Buffaloes had. Never 
before in the brief history of the League championship 
contests has there been a season in which the struggle 
for the pennant was so close as it was this year. Not 
until the very last week of the campaign was it at all 
sura as to which would be the winning team. The result 
Of the first month’s contests in the arena gave such a lead 
to the Chicago team that it began to be regarded as al¬ 
most a sure tiling that that nine were “ the coming 
champions,” and they began to be heralded as such by the 
League organ of Chicago. But after the end of May had 
seen the Chicago Club team in the van with a record of 
fourteen victories out of fifteen games played that month, 
the innate strength of some of the clubs then in the back¬ 
ground, and the undeveloped weakness of those which 
had started with a lead, began to be manifested. Gradu- 
ually but surely the Boston Club's team began to take up 
its position nearer the leading teams, and just in propor¬ 
tion the Chicago Club commenced losing tbe vantage 
ground, while the Providence team, which had been re¬ 
garded as secondary in playing strength to the Cincinnati 
nine, gradually worked its way up to a position close to 
the leading team. The record of games won and lost 
each month of the season shows that in May the dubs 
leading in the race were as follows:— 
Clubs. Games won. Games lost. Position. 
Chicago. 14 1 First. 
enoe. .. 10 5 Second. 
Cincinnati....8 7 Third. 
By the end of June a change had been made in the posi¬ 
tion of the three leading nines. Though Chicago still led 
in per cent, of victories, with Providence second, Buffalo 
had supplanted Cincinnati, the latter having been obliged 
to give way to Buffalo, as will he seen by the appended 
figures of the June contests :— 
Clubs. Games won, Games lost. Position. 
Chicago. » 3 First. 
Providence. 9 5 Second. 
Buffalo.., . 8 5 Third. 
The end of July saw a still further change in the rec¬ 
ord of the months' games, for during July Buffalo held 
the lead, being first in won games during July, Boston 
second, and Cincinnati third, Providence and Chicago 
having both lost ground during the mouth, as the ap¬ 
pended record shows:— 
Clubs. Games won. Games lost. Position. 
fef- m 4 First. 
By August the two eastern nines began to exhibit their 
innate strength to advantage, and it was in this month 
that the Chicago nine lost its position as leading the van 
in the pennant race. In the record of the month's games 
the three successful teams were as follows :— 
Clubs. Games won. Games lost. Position. 
Providence . . 16 3 First. 
Boston.16 3 Second. 
Buffalo. 8 6 Third. 
September, the last month of the season, saw the bad 
management of the Chicago Club, leave its mark on the 
pennant race, the “ coming champions” of the previous 
May having returned to a rear position a badly demoral¬ 
ized n i n e, The record of the month’s games was as fol¬ 
lows ; — 
Ctubs. Games won. 
Providence. 14 
Cincinnati.13 
Boston. . 11 
Games lost. 
Position. 
First. 
Second. 
Third. 
The above records very plainly show what the respec¬ 
tive teams might have done under proper management. 
As it was, the two best managed teams went to the front 
irrespective of their reliable strength as estimated by the 
batting and fielding averages of the previous season’s 
play, Thorough discipline, harmony in working together 
as a team, temperate habits, and honest efforts to “play 
for the side,” outside of pool-room influences, met with 
their just reward ; while the teams with players well up 
in the batting and fielding departments of the game, but, 
having members who were either addicted to drink or 
were subjected to the temptations of pool ring gamblers, 
necessarily went to the rear. Other teams who escaped 
these two drawbacks suffered so muck from incompe¬ 
tent field captains and the lack of harmony that all then- 
real strength was more than offset. By the middle of 
Sept, not only had the question of winning the pennant 
been narrowed down to two competitors, but one prom¬ 
ising team, through bad management, had been forced 
to go into bankruptcy, the Syracuse nine being disbanded 
on the lOtli of Sept. Though this favored the record of 
the Chicago Club, it did not prevent the Providence and 
Boston clubs from retaining first and second positions, 
and when the season ended, on Oct. 1st, the relative posi¬ 
tion of the clubs placed Providence the victor in the race, 
followed by Boston as a good second, Buffalo third, Chi¬ 
cago fourth, Cincinnati fifth, and Cleveland sixth, with 
the Syracuse team bringing up the rear, owing to dis¬ 
bandment. 
The full record of the season showing the games won 
and lost, as well as the victories and defeats which count 
in awarding the pennant, is as follows : The names of 
the clubs are given in the order of victories counting, ex¬ 
cept in the case of the Buffalo and Chicago clubs, for 
though they tie in legal victories and defeats, the fewer 
defeats sustained by the Buffalo Club in actual play gives 
them the precedence. 
Providence... 
Boston. 
Buffalo. 
Chicago. 
Cincinnati.... 
Cleveland.... 
Troy. 
Syracuse. 
Games lost.. 
316 
|| 
The record of aeries won, lost and tied in the contest for the 
pennant, is as follows:— 
Series Won. Series Tied. Sen'les Lost. 
idence.. 6 1 8 
Boston.& p 
Chicago. .4 1 * 
i Undiuoati.4 0 J 
Buffalo. 3 2 H 
Syracuse. 1 0 fa 
TYo; 
0 
I 
Cleveland.. 
The total runs scored by each club were as follows 
Club. 
Providence. 
Boston. 
Cincinnati.. 
Chicago... 
Buffalo. 
Cleveland.. 
Synicusc... 
The general average of the eight clubs is as fol¬ 
lows :— 
Fieldinfl -4 wage. First Fielding 
Club. Average. Base lilts ^non. 
Boston. 895 267 421 
j§ | 
Tray^ 0 :::::::::: Is* m m 
Cleveland.844 282 645 
Si m S3 
On another page will be found the complete record of 
the League championship games giving the data and score 
of every match game played as well as the total figures, 
as published yearly exclusively in the Forest and 
Stream. 
—The postponed contest of the Williams College, 
(Mass.) Athletic Association took place as follows f 
Saturday, Oct. 18th.—Throwing base-hall, won by Fish, 
of '82; distance 346 ft, 8 in.; tug of war, class team of 
eight, Only’81 and’82 enlisted ; prize won by the’81 team, 
who pulled their opponents over the line twice in succes¬ 
sion. 
Saturday, Oct. 25th.—Mile walk between Matz and 
Davis, both of ’82; won by Matz ; time, 8m. 45s. 
_ ^ _ _C. K. Olin. 
—Cocoa is known the world over for its great nourish¬ 
ing and strengthening properties. The Chocolates and 
Cocoas of Walter Baker & Co., having stood the test of a 
hundred years, are highly recommended for their ex¬ 
cellence and purity,'and are for sale everywhere by gro- 
cers,— [Adv, 
