NOTES FROM CANADA. 





NOTES FROM CANADA. 



A meeting was held at Waterloo to organ- 

 ize a gun club. Mr. John E. Macfarlane 

 was elected president and Mr. R. F. Shaw 

 secretary. The membership fee was placed 

 at$i. It is the intention to have regular 

 trap shoots during the autumn. 



Arthur Irwin, manager of the Philadelphia 

 team, has declared his intention to go to 

 Toronto as manager of the Eastern League 

 club of that city. 



Mr. W. S. Burgess, of Three Rivers, has 

 been to Springfield, Mass., where he made 

 arrangements to have his winter bicycle 

 manufactured. The manufacturers predict 

 a grand success for this Canadian patent. 



The last finals in the fall races of the Ar- 

 gonaut Club were rowed at the latter end of 

 the month. A. J. Boyd's crew won their 

 heat in the semi-final fours and E. A. 

 Thompson's crew also won. The starters in 

 the final were E. A. Thompson's, F. H. 

 Thompson's, H. W. A. Dixon's and A. J. 

 Boyd's crews. F. H. Thompson's crew won 

 after an excellent race, by about 4 feet. 



A subject of much curiosity was lately seen 

 at one of the Montreal railway stations. It 

 was a young moose, which occupied a sep- 

 arate baggage car in the yard. The animal, 

 which was captured in the Algoma District, 

 was on its way to Dr. Seward Webb's park, 

 in the Adirondacks. 



An inter-school association has lately been 

 formed in Montreal, for the purpose of ad- 

 vancing and improving athletic sports 

 among boys, and for establishing and main- 

 taining in the schools a uniform test of 

 standing in athletic sports. The name of 

 the association will be the "Canadian School 

 Athletic Association." 



The prospects for a professional baseball 

 league in Canada next year are excellent. 



When Sir Henry Irving, the great English 

 actor, was in Toronto this month, Ned Han- 

 Ian, at the actor's request, presented him 

 with a section of the shell in which Toronto's 

 oarsman defeated Trinckett on the Thames 

 in 1880, and again out-rowed Laycock in 

 1881 for the world's championship. The 

 shell weighed 26^ pounds and was built by 

 Warin, of Toronto, from Canadian white 

 cedar. It will be added to the actor's col- 

 lection. 



The organization of a Dominion Quoiting 



Club was perfected at the com lusion ol the 

 Heather Club tournament at Toronto. 

 forts will be made to induce the club 

 Quebec and the lower provini 

 at present playing under the rules of the 

 North American Caledonian A- >n, to 



join the newly formed organization. 



William Watt, of Montreal, won - 

 prize in the second series of the tournai 

 of the Heather Quoiting Club 

 The winner up was William Ch< 

 Toronto, but Watt disposed 0! him in a 

 capital game by a score of \\ to 



( . S. Win 1 



A BOOK FOR SPORTSMEN. 



The intelligent sportsman, when I 

 hunting, likes to become still more intelli- 

 gent. He likes to learn of th< 

 topography, geology, history, and all the 

 physical characters of the country, 1 

 Dr. S. T Davis, of Lain aster. this 



kind of a sportsman, and has written for his 

 own kind. His book is called, " Caribou 

 Shooting in Newfoundland; with a Hisl 

 of England's Oldest Colony, from iooi to 

 1895." 



Much the greater part of the book ifl de- 

 voted to a study of the island and its people, 

 as will be seen from the following chapter 

 headings : 



Introduction; Physical Features of N 

 foundland; Fauna and Flora of the Island; 

 The Fisheries; Agriculture in Newfound- 

 land; Mineral Resources; Government and 

 Finances; Education; Transportal 

 Aborigines; Preparations tor the Trip; 

 From New York to St. Johns ; The Capital 

 and Its Sights; Off for the Hunt. I 

 of the Hunt. The author has handled all 

 these topics in a most interesti 

 and racy manner, and while 

 readers may wish he had given moi 

 to the alwavs absorbing theme ol the hunt, 

 yet all will find, before closing th< 

 that he has made the stoi\ 10 full 

 complete that you can shut your e; 

 see the whole panorama, from the fin< 

 of the first "sign" to the loading of the 

 heads and skins on the Steam< I 

 ago home. 



There is no doubt that N< • 

 more caribou than any oil,. 

 equal si/.e. The great obje< tioi l< 

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 This will, no doubt, be repealed 

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 hunt caribou an\ w\ 



( ),. if you would like to 

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ing this delightful j 



author. 



