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RECREATION. 



Water Polo has been taking quite a promi- 

 nent position during the past two months in 

 Canada, especially in the city of Montreal. 

 The M. A. A. A has one of the best teams 

 this year that ever played for the winged 

 wheel. Barry and Laverty claim that the 

 Laurentians will make a big bid for the first 

 place. The Montreal Swimming Club team 

 will be stronger this year than last, and any 

 team that beats them will know they have 

 been playing polo. The Grand Trunks 

 (champions 1894-1895) wi-11 have almost a 

 new team this year. Davis,who played cen- 

 tre, and Bob Wall will not play. However, 

 the Club has a great lot of colts, and with 

 good coaching, the team ought to be near 

 the front when the bell rings. 



Argonauts, was defeated by Blackstaff, by 

 three lengths. He won the third and fourth 

 heats. 



The executive committee of the Canadian 

 Kennel Club met during the past month, when 

 it was decided to leave over until next year the 

 consideration of the clipping system. The 

 Toronto show dates were accepted, namely 

 the week commencing Sept. 19th; the second 

 of the Industrial exhibition. It was also de- 

 cided not to accept the proposition of the 

 American Kennel Club for mutual recogni- 

 tion of suspensions and disqualifications. All 

 wins at shows held under the rules of the 

 Canadian Kennel Club, or American Kennel 

 Club, up to December 31st, 1895, will be 

 recognized. 



Bicyclists are kicking in Toronto at a per- 

 capita tax, and declare for resistance until 

 they get something to be taxed for more than 

 the ordinary person who uses the pavements. 

 A certain modest proportion of them say they 

 will consent to enrich the civic chest only 

 when the boulevards are turned into bicycle 

 paths. A Montrealer in town this week was 

 amazed at the extent of the fad for wheels, 

 and declares there were 20 in Toronto for 

 one in Hochelaga's big suburb. 



The many friends of Mr. Henry P. Mc- 

 Donald, and especially^the members of the 

 Montreal Pastime Athletic Club, which club 

 he has so successfully represented at the va- 

 rious athletic meetings at which he was a 

 competitor, will regret to learn that he will, 

 for a time at least, be unable to continue his 

 athletic career, which at one time promised 

 so well ; his physician having prohibited his 

 doing so as his lungs have been affected. 



Mr. Andrew Donaldson, the popular ex- 

 president of the Argyle Snowshoe Club, Mon- 

 treal, who only lately removed to the city of 

 Buffalo, returned to Montreal a few days ago 

 for the purpose of joining the Benedicts. 

 Recreation wishes you a long life and a 

 happy one, Mr. Donaldson. 



I am sorry to see that in the final heat for 

 the Senior sculls at the Moleseye Regatta, 

 England, E. A. Thompson, of the Toronto 



There is a change in the Canadian part- 

 ridge season this year, which now opens on 

 the 15th of September. No other changes 

 have been made in the shooting laws, all 

 previous statements to the contrary notwith- 

 standing. 



McCracken, the Cobourg player, who 

 played with Lawrence till the disbandment 

 of the New England Association, and who 

 subsequently played with the Augusta team, 

 has been relieved for poor batting. 



F. Barnes, of London, Ont., was suspended 

 until August 24th tor taking his hands off 

 the handles while finishing a race at Gait on 

 July 24th. 



In the new Berlin (Ont.) park there is a 

 tree with two trunks branching out four feet 

 from the ground, one being an elm, the other 

 an oak. 



The Bell-Air Jockey Club has selected 

 Thursday and Saturday, Sept. 12 and 14, as 

 the dates for its fall meeting. 



The Brantford Athletic Club, organized 

 three years ago, has disbanded, but it is said 

 will shortly reorganize. 



A big beaver dam has been discovered on 

 the line of the projected Hudson Bay road, 

 north of Gladstone. 



Jack Player, of London, and H. E. Davis, 

 of Dundas, have signed with the Hamilton 

 Baseball Club. 



C. S. Whiting. 



I have just returned from a trip for snipe 

 and bluefish, to Chatham Beach, Cape Cod. 



We had fair luck with the bluefish, which 

 ran big, and for fighting they were not be- 

 hind the average, as still sore hands will tes- 

 tify. By the way, one needs to take there 

 some strips of thin sheet rubber packing 

 about 2 inches wide, for tips. These beat the 

 ordinary store finger-stall all to pieces. We 

 also had good sport with the bay-birds, mostly 

 yellow-legs, willett, dowitchand creaker, and 

 by the first or middle of September the 

 flight of black-breasted plover, or bull-heads, 

 as they call them there, is on. N. E. Gould, 

 there, will take good care of any one, or cor- 

 respond. Ox Eye, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Have received the Forehand hammerless shotgun 

 which you sent me as a premium for 35 subscribers, 

 and consider it a valuable and handsome gift from 

 you, as $5 would cover all my expenses in getting the 

 subscriptions. Barclay Smith, Van Buren, Ark. 



