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to last, toyed with the amateurs as a cat would with a 
mouse. The match was painfully absurd, and to an, 
American humiliating. That eleren amateurs who have 
never had the slightest professional tuition should pit 
themselves on even terms against the very best reoog- 
nized experts in the world, particularly after fifteen of 
Philadelphia's selected players had been woefully defeated 
by them, shows that thore is something else besides 
cricket that the Young America gentlemen have to learn. 
Of the many reasons given for this Quixotic performance 
the chief one we are told is that the Young Americas 
considered it not an exhibition, but a tuition game, and 
that they expected to “learn something” and to be de¬ 
feated ! If this is the case, gate money should not have 
been asked nor the public deluded. We, however, do not 
place any faith in this story, because if instructions had 
been the object it would have been very unjust of an 
immense organization like the Young America not to 
have placed a twenty-two of its members in the field and 
thus give double the number a chance to prolit by the 
match. We therefore fall back on the theory that the 
Stentonians, with Rory O’More, believe in the “luck of 
odd numbers" rather than in playing Mr. Daft on terms 
that might possibly win. 
Paterson vs. New York—Brewster’s Benefit.— The 
closing match of the season of 1870 was played at Hali- 
clon, near Paterson, N. J., on Nov. 5th, the occasion be¬ 
ing the yearly benefit of the well-known professional, 
Win. Brewster. The New Yorkers were the first to go 
to the bat, and with only nine men contributed the good 
score of 74. The ten Patersonians followed and topped 
the visitors' innings by 9 runs, making a total of 83. 
Only two innings were played, as tbe day was cold and 
disagreeable. The following is tbe score :— 
NEW TORE. 
G. Giles, jr., o. G. Hoxsey, b. 
Brewster. 9 
G. Caldwell, b. Himiheliffe... .18 
K. M. Londruin. I. b. w., U. 
lllnebeltffe. 0 
J. U. Freed, c. Gonrley,b. Hill- 
obeli tfo.-. 7 
M. Blaynev, run out. 17 
K. Letts, c. G. Hoxsey, b. 
Brewster.-. 6 
W. Giles, run out.13 
J. Allworth, st. Gutteridge, b. 
Brewster. 2 
J. D. Duy, not out. 0 
It. A. Bacon, absent...-.0 
\V. Baird, absent.0 
Extras. 3 
Total. 74 
PATERSON. 
W. Brewster, b. G. Giles,'’jr..,18 
Rev. G. Gutterfdge, e. Giles, 
Jr., b. Allworth. 
G. Hoxsey, u. Giles, jr,, b. All- 
worth— . ....' 
F. Lougblan, c. Allworth, b. 
Q. Giles, Jr.1 
BLincheliile, run nut. . . 
S. Clough, 1. b. w„ b. Allworth U 
James Hraoheiltte, b, G, Giles, 
Dl Frede, mil nut . . 
J. Gilbert, jr., not out . ... 
W. B. Gourley, li. Ailworth... 
Bui look, absent. 
Extras, . ,. - . J 
TotaL. ! 
ANALYSIS OF BOWLING. 
PATERSON. 
Bails. Mum. Maidens. inefccis. 
.. 94 32 5 
NEW YORK. 
G. Giles, jr.113 
J. B. Freed. 34 
J. All worth.. 84 
Freed, 1 wide. 
ARCHERY. 
New York Archery Club. —On Saturday last the 
club held its regular weekly meeting for practice at 
Eighty-eighth street and Eighth avenue. Miss E. T. 
Morton wou the ladies’ badge, and Mr. George D, Pond 
the gentlemen’s badge. 
It is anticipated that the Park Commissioners will grant 
the privilege of the archery clubs in the city shooting on 
the western lawn in Mount Morris Square, One Hundred 
and Twenty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, and the 
members of the New York Archery Club extend an invi¬ 
tation to their friends to meet them at the above grounds 
ThaksgivingDay, from 10 A. M to 3 1\ M., when it is ex¬ 
pected, if the weather proves favorable, a grand archery 
shoot will take place. 
Hastings ys. Charlotte.— Charlotte, Mich,. Nov. 
nth :— 
HASTINGS. 
,-30 Y(lg.—y .—40 Yd*.-, ^50 Fits. .—Tutill —. 
IMs. Vulva. Hits. Value, mts. Value■. Mils, Value. 
Goodyear.... 4U U1U 35 137 33 112 107 409 
Brown . 48 234 41 203 20 SO 109 517 
Mrs. Brown. 48 251 35 183 10 31 93 451 
Wilkins.. 44 200 29 111 14 4ti 87 357 
Totals.ISO 848 140 014 70 272 390 1,734 
CHARLOTTE. 
*—30 Yds.-, -10 Ftis— —50 Yds.-. r-Tatal.-. 
Hits. Value. Sits. Value. Mils. Value. Mils. ..ue 
He Graff. 48 322 48 300 3S 174 134 “*0 
Church___ 47 239 12 205 30 1(|3 115 540 
Mrs. Green . 47 241 25 105 J 2 21 84 470 
Mrs. Church. 40 204 41 158 22 82 1«9 401 
Totals..188 1,080 150 728 98 382 443 2,170 
Illinois.— Highland Parle, Nov. 13 Ih. —The Highland 
Park archers have done little shooting of late, but a few 
days ago the following scores were made : — 
—80 Yards.-, —CO Fords,- 
1st 48 2ti 48 1st 21 2d 24 Grand Total 
Carver. ..18 74 21 89 19 70 2L 107 79 359 
Hull. 14 62 34 119 18 72 21 99 84 352 
Weston...., . 17 75 18 89 13 67 2-1 114 73 335 
Hammond... 12 38 12 40 14 70 JH 61 50 213 
Goodridxe. 12 32 H 51 9 41 9 34 41 155 
HUNTING WITH THE BOW. 
H AYING been for several years a careful and much 
interested reader of the contributions of Air, Van 
Dyke, upon the theory and practice of hunting with the 
rifle, it was no small gratification to me to read Ids arti¬ 
cle in the Forest and Stream of October 16th, upon 
‘ 1 Archery Marksmanship.” For many years my toother, 
Maurice Thompson, and myself hunted with the bow, 
when we two were the only archers in the United States, 
and before either of ns had ever seen an archer's target. 
We did not, of course, adopt the bow as a weapon supe¬ 
rior, or equal in destructive powers, to the cheapest and 
poorest guns, but solely for the greater pleasure of its 
use in pursuit of game. To me it has always seemed a 
greater feat to stalk a fox to his ruin, as 1 once knew 
Captain H. II, Talbot to do, killin g him at the seventh 
shot, two miles from the point where wo first found him, 
following him through the heavy woods of the Wabash 
bottoms, than to have killed fifty quails without a miss 
as they whirred up in the weed fields, by pouring an 
ounce and a quarter of No. 9 shot out of a big No. 10 gun 
winch destroyed the peace of the world, and racked the 
brain with its intolerable thunder. Now, Captain Talbot 
could easily have killed the fox the first shot, at the mo¬ 
ment we started it from its bed in the bushes, had he 
been armed with a good shot gun loaded with a charge 
of BB shot, and thus have saved the two miles of cun¬ 
ning and toilsome trailng through the thick woods; but 
the dead fox was not valuable, and we wore out for the 
pleasure of the chase, and not for the purpose of obtain¬ 
ing a supply of meat for use or pelts for sale. What gen¬ 
tleman will admit that he abandons his business for a 
week, dons the rough garb of the hunt, toils over hills, 
wades through foul slouglis, defies the clinging tortures 
of thorns and burrs, bears the expense of a three hundred 
dollar breech-loader and its expensive ammunition, for 
the reason that he must have a few quail, or a dozen 
ducks, upon which to regale himself ? Of course, all 
will admit that the tyro, who only kills one quail out of 
ten ghots, sees the same beauties of field and wood as his 
more skilled friend who brings down the luirryinggvou.se 
with almost unerring certainty. What then is the cliief 
pleasure of the hunt ? Is it the. joy of securing a huge 
bag of dead birds? Surely not. If that were the princi¬ 
ple moving the hunter-, he would seek his cowering and 
huddled flocks on the ground and pour the volleyed mur¬ 
der from both barrels into their midst. But it is not the 
mass of dead birds he seeks, but the exciting pleasures of 
the chase. This being admitted, how easy it is to under¬ 
stand the feelingof the true sportman like Mr. Van Dyke, 
when he passes by the little spotted fawn that tamely 
stares at him from the open glade, and sends his bullet 
far flying after the great antlered fellow who goes 
smashing through the tangle of the mountain side ! This 
is the true spirit of the hunter; and though such may he 
the exception to the rifle, yet such are growing in num¬ 
ber ; and the time will come when the men who boast of 
one hundred ducks killed in a single day, will be scorned 
of all good sportsmen and true. For such reasons I have 
loved the bow as a weapon of the chase more than any 
other. I have spent many a long day in pursuit of game 
with bow and arrow, and returned without “fur, fin, or 
feather ” as a trophy, and yet have intensely enjoyed the 
day's sport, for many a close shot at long range had 
thrilled: me with that indescrible flush of exaltation that 
intoxicates like rich old wine. There is something about 
the shooting of game with a how that produces a feeling 
of personal pride in the performance, wliich does not 
come with the same result when the killing is done with 
a gun. I can only account for this by attributing it to 
the fact that a gim is more of a machine than a bow. 
When the gun is loaded, all that is necessary to do to 
send its deadly messenger forth, is to simply press the 
trigger. There is no great muscular effort, no strong ar¬ 
raying of the forces of the man against the game, but 
only the mechanical training of the long tube upon the 
game, and the loosening of the imprisoned energy within 
the shell. With the bow you do not say, “ Now that duck 
is swimming this way, and if it reaches yon clump of 
sedge it will be within fifty yards, and my gun is sure of 
it;’’but the excitement of the shot is wonderfully en¬ 
hanced from the fact that you cannot surely depend upon 
killing it at any given distance. One great feature in 
hunting with the bow is denied the votary of the gun, 
which to me has been productive of more intense excite¬ 
ment than any other event of hunting experience, and 
that is in the habit of birds and rabbits squatting close 
to the ground at the sound of the first passing arrow, and 
there remaining until a dozen arrows have hissed about 
them, and cut up the turf and weeds so close as to almost 
dislodge them forcibly. These are moments of exhilara¬ 
tion to the archer. I remember one instance, when I 
found a woodcock near my house, and went to the house 
for my bow and arrows. Returning, I found him by 
careful search squatted by a tuft of sedge, and from a 
distance of thirty yards I discharged seven arrows at 
him—tile wildest shot not missing him five inches. He 
sat perfectly still, with the arrows ringed round him 
deeply driven into the soft earth. Having no more arrows, 
I could do nothing, except walk up and flush him, which 
I did. He flew a short distance and alighted, and I pro¬ 
cured my arrows ahd followed. After a half hour’s search 
I found him again, and the same exciting piece of sport 
was repeated, till at the fifth shot I knocked him over. 
It is safe to say, that I obtaihed more real hunter's joy 
out of the bout after that one woodcock than does the 
sportsman who kills a dozen as fine birds in an afternoon 
with his shot gun, I do not deny the pleasure of wing¬ 
shooting with the shot gun, and I have myself taken a 
selfish pride in some fine bags of birds killed over a fine 
old setter, but I do-maintain that the greater pleasure is 
to be obtained by the less noisy and less destructive bow. 
So far as the question of losing arrows is concerned, the 
expense of keeping a supply is not nearly so great as that 
of satisfying the ravenous maw of a breech-loader. One 
does not loose so many arrows as might be expected. I 
remember one notable instance, when, in the spring of 
the year 1877, Captain H. H. Talbot and the writer went 
upon a ton days’ hunt down the Rock River armed only 
with bows and arrows, and during the expedition neither 
lost a single aroow. Of course, this was bettor fortune 
than generally befalls: but the loss of arrows is never a 
serious matter. Another advantage the archer possesses, 
is in the fact that everything is game for him. He follo ws 
the rabbit with the same joy that the gunner pursues the 
deer; to him the meadow lark is as fine game as the grouse 
to the man with the Greener, and the little wood duck as big 
gameasthecanvasbaek orwildgooseto the fellow with the 
Currituck cannon. Now that the love of target archery 
is possessing the American lovers of out-door pastimes, it 
will not be lohg before there will be many archers with 
bows in hand haunting the sedge fields beloved of the 
rabbit, and following the ways of the little streams where 
the thick grasses, the overshadowing willows, and the 
ripple of the hidden water allure to the domain of the 
heron. There is uo tin-ill of joy which the chase provokes 
so subtly fine and intense, as the tip-toe approach, the 
soft parting of the impeding willows, the eager peering 
for the wary game, the startled flocking of the blood from 
the heart as it is discovered close—so close as almost to 
shock the sight—and then the gently raising of the bow 
hand, the strong drawing of the taut cord, the sudden 
Bottling of the nerves and muscles into utter rigidity, the 
ringing of the loosed string, and the low whisper of the 
flying arrow, and the dull thud of the bow. No tiger 
hunter ih the jungle ever glared with more excitement 
into the eyes of his fierce game, than thus the archer 
upon his less dangerous prey. Will II, Thompson. 
American ys. English bows. 
Editor Forest and Stream 
I confess to a largo share of confidence in Yankee in¬ 
genuity and skill in mechanical constructions, and could 
not and can not accept the opinion so often and so confi¬ 
dently expressed by agents of English manufacturers that 
our people could not possibly compete with the English 
in the manufacture of fine bows and arrows. 
There is no more practical difficulty in tho construc¬ 
tion of a good bow than in the making of a good rod, and 
I think that your readers will readily concede that 
our ivd makers, to say the least, hold their own against 
our British cousins. There is no such subtle nicety 1 1 i th e 
lines of a bow as to require mauy years of practical ex¬ 
perience in order to make a good one. If it were so. mod¬ 
ern bow-makers ought to have greatly improved over 
their ancestors ; yet, as a matter of fact, if history is to 
be believed, the modem bow is neither as enduring or 
powerful as those of olden times. The difference lies, I 
take it, not so much in the make as hi the material. In 
ancient times, owing to tho constant demand for bows 
for war and the chase, bow material was carefully culti¬ 
vated and preserved. Since tbe bow gave way to gun¬ 
powder, comparatively little effort has been made to;get 
or preserve the best material. 
When the present interest hi archery first began to 
manifest itself in this country (may it never grow less !) 
the best bow materials were but little known here, and 
less used, The lover of the bow was forced to look to 
England for his supplies. But the prevalent and increasing 
interest now felt in this most delightful of recreations has 
set our Yankee manufacturers to work with their char¬ 
acteristic energy and enterprise, and to-day it may be 
safely said, that, taking the same materials, thev make 
as good bows as are made in “merry old England.” No 
better chance can be found for comparing different 
makers than is offered at the meetings of the large 
archery associations. The tournament of tho Eastern 
Archery Association just held in Boston, where upwards 
of seventy-five archers, ladies and gentlemen, entered 
into friendly competition, afforded just such an oppor¬ 
tunity. Nearly every kind of bow, and from about every 
known maker, was to be be seen on the field, of weight 
ranging frem twenty-four to sixty pounds. From 
our English friends, Aldred’s, Highfield’s and Felthain’s 
makes were their yews, snake and lancewood; while 
the American makers were principally represented by 
the split bamboo, snake and lancewood. 
In tills competition the American bows not only held 
their own, but noticeably surpassed their rivals in many 
important respects. 
Conspicious for its smooth action and tremendous 
driving power was the split-baraboo-00-lb.-bow shot by 
Air. R. Lawrence, of Flushing, L. I. Although there 
were several bows of greater weight in the field (among 
others a Highfield 60-lb. snake), yet no bow there sent 
its arrows so swiftly and with so flat a trajectory. 
Its superiority in these respects was very marked at sixty 
and still more noticeable at eighty yards, when in spite 
of a very trying cross wind it sent its arrow far below 
tile line of flight of its competitors, and yet at times over¬ 
shot the target. Air. Lawrence won the first prize at 
eighty yards against all comers. 
Two other bamboo bows were used at this tournament 
—a 421b. , shot by Air. W. Holberton, of New York, and 
a 551b., shot by Air. AY. Beecher, of Brooklyn. This latter- 
bow has the reputation of having ,shot nearly 8,000 80- 
inch arrows during the past summer, and is, in spite of 
so much hard work, still a very hard-hitting bow, having 
the smooth pull and great driving power which charac¬ 
terizes these bows, in common with tbe Spanish yew. 
The snake and lancewood bows manufactured by Mr. 
Horsman, of New York, shot fully as well in every re¬ 
spect as the same woods of English make, and rendered 
a good account of themselves in prizes taken. 
The tournament lasted two days, at all distances from 
thirty to eighty yards, in addition to part of another day 
devoted to independent sweepstake shooting at an out¬ 
side range. Yet so far as I could learn not a bow was 
broken. 
At the national tournament held last August iu Chi¬ 
cago quite a number of fine English-made yew bows 
went to pieces in their owners’ hands. As the yew bows, 
which are imported to this country, range in price from 
$35 to $150, and yet not infrequently break in a few 
weeks’ shooting, it is difficult to see of what the English 
superiority consists—unless it be the price. The uncon¬ 
vinced advocate of English superiority is respectfully re¬ 
commended to inquire of Messrs. Will and Maurice 
Thompson as to how many English-made bows they 
have broken during the last two seasons. Judging from the 
unqualified recommendation given by the Thompsons and 
other expert archers respecting the arrows made by Con¬ 
roy or by Horsman, our manufacturers are competing- 
with the English as successfully in the making of fine 
arrows as in fine bows. The smooth and even flight of 
those makers’arrows used in Boston fully warrants tho 
recommendations they have received. 
Facts are more convincing than arguments, and after 
the fine performance of the American bows and arrows 
which I have witnessed during the past summer, when in 
competition with those of foreign make, it wifi take 
something stronger than argument to sli-iko my con¬ 
fidence in our own makers. America. 
A Remarkable Relic.— A very remarkable double 
battle-axe of copper has recently been found by a fisher¬ 
man near the ancient lake dwelling of Loeras in the Lake 
of Brienz. It is forty-two centimetres long, weighs three 
kilogrammes, and the copper of which it is made is pure. 
Each cutting edge is twelve centimetres in width and veiy 
thin; but the middle is massive and heavy. Similar 
weapons have heretofore been discovered in Denmark, 
but tfliis is, so far as known, the first of the kind fotind in 
Switzerland, 
