RECREATION. 



XXVI 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



The Listowel (Ont.) Quoit Club has 

 elected the following officers for 1895 : Pres- 

 ident, Frank Tank; vice president, George 

 Ford; secretary-treasurer, W. J. Hay; cap- 

 tain, James Bright; ground committee, A. 

 Robinson, John Stubbs and M. Alexander; 

 match committee, J. Bright, Joseph Ainley 

 and D. Lamont; official referee, William 

 Spears. John Struthers, George Struthers 

 and Alex. Struthers, of Elma, and David 

 Kerr, of Carthage, were elected as honorary 

 members. 



Frank W. Jackson, the famous cross- 

 country winner of the early Toronto Athletic 

 Club days, is back in Toronto, after several 

 years spent in Central and South America, 

 and will once more don the spikes and go 

 into training at Rosedale. Mr. Jackson will 

 endeavor to form a team of four men to com- 

 pete in the Canadian championship, and 

 at the annual run, for the championship of 

 America, in the autumn. 



At the international tennis match at Ni- 

 agara-on-the-Lake, Miss Maud Delano Os- 

 borne, who won the ladies' singles, defeated 

 Mrs. Sidney Smith, the Canadian champion. 



Carl B. Neel and Mrs. Sidney Smith, the 

 Canadian champion, were pitted against E. 

 P. Fischer, of New York, and Miss Maud 

 Osborne. It was a brilliant struggle, the two 

 champions winning finally, 6 — 4, 6 — 2. 



For the first time in nine years a Canadian 

 cricket team has defeated a representative 

 eleven of the United States. Of 21 matches 

 played in the international series, the Can- 

 adians have won only four, and two have 

 been drawn. The Canadian team won at 

 Rosedale, recently, defeating the Americans 

 by 411 to 271. 



Ned Hanlon has accepted an invitation to 

 row in the big regatta at Austin, Texas, on 

 Nov. 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. " Henry Peter- 

 son and I will row in the double scull events," 

 said the ex-champion, "and I may also row 

 in a professional four." There is a purse of 

 $1,000 in the single scull, $1,000 in the double 

 scull and $1,500 in the four-oared race. 



The Ottawa (Ont.) Capitals have notified 

 the Vancouver lacrosse team that if they 

 want agame in Ottawa, during their tour east, 

 and wish to play the Capitals for the cham- 

 pionship of the world, they will have to go 

 to Ottawa first, instead of last, as outlined 

 in their tour programme. 



Chapman says the Toronto ball team for 

 1896 will get a better start. He says ; 

 "With a half-way winning team it would be 

 the best money- making city in our (Eastern) 

 League." 



Angus McLeod, of Saniia, Ont., won the 

 25-mile bicycle championship o' Canada for 

 Class B riders at Sarnia,coverin:, the distance 

 in 1 hour 5 minutes 39 seconds. 



^ The autumnal rush of anglers to the Lake 

 St. John district has already set in and prom- 

 ises to be unusually large this year. A fem 

 prominent people who hadarranged to< 

 have been disappointed, including Mr. 

 Cheney, New \ ork Stat.- fish cultunst no* 

 fishing with Dr. W. H. Drummond north «.f 



Three; Rivers, who has postponed his next 

 tussle with the ouananiehc until 1 1 

 So have Lieut. -Col. Andrew Haggard, who 

 wrote of the ounanichefor Blackwood, and 

 Mr. Alfred Harmsworth, of London. Ameri- 

 cans are flocking, in large numbers, into the 

 ouananiche country at present, the best fishing 

 now being had there at the Fifth hills of the 

 Mistassini and in the lower waters of the 

 Metabetchouan. Mr. II. II. Beemis 

 ton, is about entering on a three \\ 1 

 camping tour north of Lake St. John. Mr. 

 Eugene McCarthy, of Syracuse, has gone to 

 the Triton tract after 'the lai kled 



trout for which it is noted, and will . 

 as great Lake Batiscan. The feanotte, 

 which is the outlet of Lake Edward, has 

 been yielding big trout of late, as usual, at 

 this time of the year. 



A pamphlet containing the Ontario game 

 laws for 1895 has been issued. The 1 

 season for deer is from Nov. 1; to Nov. i, 

 1896, and no moose, elk, caribou or reindeer 

 shall be hunted before October 25, 1900. 

 Hounds found running deer in clos- 

 may be killed by any person <>n sight. N 

 more than two deer shall be taken in one 

 season by one person. Wild turkeys can- 

 not be killed before October 15. 1897, nor 

 can prairie fowl or English or Mongolian 

 pheasants before September i;, 1807. Snipe, 

 woodcock or partridges must not be sold, 

 exposed for sale nor given away 1»< 

 September 15, [897. 



The announcement that Fred Hoey would 

 shoot at Elkwood l'ark for the first tune 

 since his successful tour abroad, attrai t< <l a 

 good crowd to the traps. The match was 

 between Hoey and I G. Murph) on one 

 side, and Al. Vivian, of Red Bai k, 

 Bland Ballard, of Louisville, <>n the other. 

 Stakes #500 a side, 50 yards. The betting 

 was 6 to 4 in favor ol Hoe) and Murphy, but 

 they were defeated l>v a score <>f 185 to 



The Brantford (Ont.) Rei reation A 

 tion is making efforts to secure the fan 

 Dunlop tropin road-ra< e (2 n 



Brantford this fall. It was held in Toronto 

 last year with 100 entri< 



There were more than |oo enti 

 different events in the programme ol the 

 Dominion Rifle Asso< iation met tin] 

 tawa. 



Harley I)a\ idson defeated S*a 

 Boston in the mile ( lass B 1 

 l.i\ 1 \. S.i meet. I im 



I he annual meeting ol tin 1 

 ncl ( lubwas h< Id m I orontoon SepU n 1 



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