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RECREA TION. 



zation would stop some of the game hogs 

 and law breakers. 



Recreation is all right, only I wish it 

 would come oftener. 



John A. Tumwall, Lynn Centre, 111. 



I heartily indorse your scheme for L. A. 

 S. and hope it may be established at once. 

 F. B. Guion, New York City. 



Regarding the suggestion of a L. A. S., 

 I think it is about time something of the 

 kind was done to protect the fish and game. 

 I do not see how the laws of the states can 

 be enforced without some such organiza- 

 tion. I heartily indorse the proposition 

 and if a league is formed count me a mem- 

 ber. Robert C. Fletcher, 



382 Elmwood Avenue, 



Providence, R. I. 



Editor Recreation: I have read Mr. 

 Lydecker's suggestion as to the formation 

 of a National League for the protection of 

 fish and game. The idea is an excellent 

 one and I am confident will receive the sup- 

 port it deserves. It is the most effective 

 thing that has been suggested yet. 



J. C. P. Leek, Sec. Marysville Fish and 

 Game Protective Assn., Marysville, Mont. 



I am in favor of forming a L. A. S. and 

 hope the movement may be successful. I 

 spent my vacation on a wild goose 

 (chicken) chase in Northwestern Iowa last 

 fall, and such an association as Mr. Ly- 

 decker outlines could do much good in that 

 section as well as elsewhere. 



O. B. Johnson, Orion, 111. 



I have read with great interest the letter 

 from Mr. Ralph D. Lydecker in October 

 number of Recreation in behalf of the 

 protection and propagation of game and 

 think his idea a good one. I am willing 

 to take it up and help push the good work 

 along. 



W. S. Mead, Woodstock, N. Y. 



That is a good idea of Mr. Lydecker's. 

 The L. A. S. would be a great power for 

 the protection of our game; and if every 

 reader of Recreation would join, it would 

 certainly take no longer to effect the needed 

 reforms than it took the L. A. W. to get 

 its demands recognized. I hope you will 

 continue to roast the game hogs. 



F. A. Musser, Witmer, Pa. 



I have read the article of Mr. R. D. Ly- 

 decker, and am pleased with it. I heartily 

 agree with him in every particular. What 

 the L. A. S. wants is some good live men 

 to push it along, and who will never rest 

 until it is a sure go. 



Dr. A. J. Marling, Greenville, O. 



The L. A. S. is the proper thing. I 

 heartily indorse the idea and will be one 

 of the first to join. 



M. L. Miner, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The foregoing are only a few of the hun- 

 dreds of letters I have received, speaking 

 in the same general terms as these. As 

 may be readily inferred from the pre- 

 ceding letters, all good sportsmen are in 

 favor of the L. A. S., and none are against 

 it. I have received but one negative re- 

 sponse to the proposition, and the gentle- 

 man who wrote it, after hearing further 

 as to the proposed plans of the L. A. S., 

 cordially indorsed it and says he will be 

 one of the first to join. 



Among the many other prominent 

 sportsmen who have written me approving, 

 in unmeasured terms, the proposition for 

 the L. A. S., are: 



Col. C. W. Dimick, Gen. Mngr., New England Sports- 

 men's Exposition, Boston. 



A. F. Crossman, No. Clarendon, Pa. 



Dr. J. N. Hall, 1517 Stout St., Denver, Colo. 



Ralph H. Hendrick, Wolcott, N. Y. 



Meriden S. Hill, Sec'y, Ferry Museum, Tacoma, Wash. 



F. S. Hyatt, Cashier, Clinton Bank, New York City. 



J. Elmer Pratt, Adv. Mngr., Grand Rapids Cycle Co., 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Dr. R. D. Pratt, Shelbyville, Ky. 



W. L. Simpson, Jackson. Wyo. 



Clinton A. Smith, East Albany, N. Y. 



F. J. Huntley, Oneida, N. Y. / 



T. G. Bredington, Cranford, N. J. / 



Samuel Lowry, Johnstown, Pa. 



W. W. Coleman, Carson City, Nev. 



W. Scott Jones, Akron, O. 



Dr. M. L. Tyler, Chebanse, 111. ) 



Fred W. Moffett, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



M. M. Elliott, Detroit, Mich. 



D. H. Eastman, Little Falls, N. Y. 

 Otto C. Rottsted, Cattatonk, N. Y. 

 Paul W. Gardner, Honesdale, Pa. 

 C. E. Butler, Salina, Kans. 



W. S. Bates, Chicago, 111. 



J. C. Young, Sec'y-, Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City. 



E. J. Breeze, Forestport, N. Y. 



F. B. Guion, New York City. 

 M. L. Miner, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



R. Newton Finck, 32 Nassau St., New York City. 

 Ernest Seton Thompson, N. Y. City. 



A. Clinton Wilmerding, N. Y. C''ty. 

 Hon. L. A. Huffman, Miles City. Mont. 



B. C Broome, Jersey City, N. J. 



A. W. Dimmock. 66 B'way, N. Y. City. 



J. H. Seymour, 35 Wall St., N. Y. City. 



L. W. Walker, Pasadena, Cal. 



L. C. Whiton, Tmes Building, N. Y. 



F. A. Musser, Witmar, Pa. 



Dr. A. J. Marling, Greenville, O, 



A call for a national convention to or- 

 ganize a League of American Sportsmen, 

 to elect officers and to frame a constitution 

 and by-laws will be published in' January 

 Recreation. The meeting will be held in 

 the latter part of January or the early part 

 of February, and it is hoped that every 

 sportsman who can possibly arrange to 

 come to New York at that time will be on 

 hand. I should like to see 1,000 men at the 

 initial meeting, and to see at least 20 States 

 and territories represented. All decent and 

 respectable sportsmen will be eligible to 

 membership in that convention, as dele- 

 gates and as voters. Will you be one of 

 them? Let me hear from you. 



