FOR A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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wrought on our fish and game, here in 

 central New York. And this is not being 

 done by market hunters, but by gentle- 

 manly game hogs, who would think it be- 

 neath them to sell a grouse, a rabbit or 

 a squirrel; yet they kill to extermination, 

 simply to appease their appetite for blood. 



Give us a universal game law, and a 

 national association of sportsmen to assist 

 us and to see that the laws are enforced. 



B. F. Bennett, Prest. Fish and Game As- 

 sociation, Maryland, N. Y. 



I am emphatically in favor of the L. A. 

 S. It will meet the hearty approval, and 

 will have the earnest support of all the 

 sportsmen, in this city and vicinity. 



If I can assist, in any way, in this work, 

 I shall be only too glad to do so, and I know 

 several others, who will do all they can to 

 help the cause along. 



Our deputy state game warden, Mr. L. 

 W. Watkins, has been doing splendid 

 work; but he cannot be everywhere at 

 once, and needs just such aid as the L. A. 

 S. could render in ferreting out law break- 

 ers and bringing them to justice. 



All of the members of the Central City 

 Canoe Club, of this city, are in favor of Mr. 

 Lydecker's plan. 



W. S. Allen. 



Please place my name on the list for 

 membership in the L. A. S., with Recrea- 

 tion as the official organ. A ticket in such 

 an organization would be better than a 

 king's passport. With the fee fixed at $2 a 

 year, including the official organ, there 

 would be nothing to lose, as the said organ 

 is fully worth that amount, alone. 



The L. A. S. should enroll every sports- 

 man's organization in the United States, 

 and in co-operation with the L. A. W. 

 would be a power behind the throne, for 

 the common good of both organizations. 

 Jointly they would be capable of adjusting 

 every grievance thrust upon either. 



H. C. Wilcox, Friendship, N. Y. 



I have read Mr. Lydecker's article ad- 

 vocating a L. A. S. It is good and I shall 

 help to push the work. If the sportsmen of 

 the U. S. and Canada don't do something 

 in that line, to check the work of the fish 

 and game hogs, all kinds of game, and 

 game fishes, will soon be extinct. 



The L. A. S. could accomplish as much 

 good in protecting fish and game as the 

 L. A. W. has in behalf of good roads, and 

 Recreation is just the journal for an of- 

 ficial organ, to push the L. A. S. to suc- 

 cess. 



S. M. Perrigo. 



Here is my dollar for another year of 

 Recreation. The cause has become a 

 crusade, and I hope we may all be enrolled 

 in the League of American Sportsmen, 



which strikes me as being the best scheme 

 yet advanced for game protection. I think 

 every gun club could be induced to go into 

 the League, if organized on the plan of the 

 L. A. W. This would give every member 

 a working interest in a national movement, 

 and good must result when sportsmen are 

 gathered under one banner, irrespective of 

 location, or previous condition of servi- 

 tude. 



W. R. Chadwick, Port Huron, Mich. 



I have read with great interest the article 

 by Mr. Lydecker on A League of Ameri- 

 can Sportsmen. It it a most excellent sug- 

 gestion, and one which I should be pleased 

 to see carried out. 



We are in great need of such an organi- 

 zation, in the Northwest, and I am sure if 

 such a movement was started our sports- 

 men would take hold of it with a vim and 

 push it. We need a national organization, 

 and one that will frame laws and see they 

 are enforced. Count me in as a charter 

 member of the L. A. S. 



E. Shelley Morgan, Portland, Ore. 



Enclosed find $1, for one year's subscrip- 

 tion to Recreation, the best sportsman's 

 journal on the earth. Let my subscription 

 go toward swelling the list to 50,000. 



Why can't we have a League of Ameri- 

 can Sportsmen, as Mr. Lydecker suggests? 

 It would be a grand thing. Of course Rec- 

 reation would be the official organ. What 

 other paper could be? 



Give it to the game and fish hogs for all 

 you are worth. They need it bad. 



Earl Barber, Swarthmore, Pa. 



I heartily approve any measure that will 

 result in properly preserving our game, and 

 a L. A. S. would be of undoubted benefit. 

 With a nominal membership fee, as sug- 

 gested, a fund would be established with 

 which to secure common sense legislation 

 in regard to open seasons, etc.; also to 

 handle the question of spring shooting, 

 which is surely a burning one, to every 

 right thinking sportsman. 



Wilmot Townsend, Bay Ridge, N. Y. 



Every thoughtful person realizes the need 

 of some adequate force to act in the line in- 

 dicated by Mr. Lydecker, in your October 

 number, for the protection of game. Every 

 year the demand grows more urgent and 

 imperative. United action on the part of 

 sportsmen, in all sections, is what is re- 

 quired. Keep up the agitation. 

 L. H. Sargent, North Chelmsford, Mass. 



I have read that most excellent sugges- 

 tion made by R. D. Lydecker, in Recrea- 

 tion, am ready to join the L. A. S. at 

 once, and I know of a good many sports- 

 men who will do likewise. Such an organi- 



