RECREA TION. 



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The members of the cycling division of the 

 new Manhattan Athletic Club have notified Chief 

 Consul Potter, of the New York state division of 

 the L. of A. W. that they have decided to join 

 the League. There are 150 riders in the cherry 

 diamond organization. 



Chief Consul Potter, of the New York state 

 division of the L. A. W., has appointed the fol- 

 lowing consuls : E. J. Muller and James Thomp- 

 son, Brooklyn ; Bernard Schmidt, Jr. , Howard 

 Watson and John D. Chisin, Jr., Albany, N. Y., 

 and E. F. Roy, West Troy. 



Carl Hess, the German rider who was seen 

 here a few years ago, languishes in prison. He 

 never became a citizen of this country and on re- 

 turning home for a visit was seized and impris- 

 oned for not having served a term in the German 

 army, as required by law. 



A southern circuit is talked of, to comprise 

 Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Augusta, 

 Macon, Columbus, Montgomery, Birmingham, 

 Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville 

 and Louisville. 



AMONG THE PINES. 



The world's cycling championship races will be 

 run this year at Cologne, Germany. France ex- 

 pected to have the meeting, but will be compen- 

 sated by having it in 1896. 



The New England circuit includes Waltham, 

 Worcester, Providence, Rockville, Hartford, New 

 Haven, Bridgeport, Willimantic, Norwich, Brat- 

 tleborough, Barre, Keene and Portland. 



The officials of the L. A. W. are talking of in- 

 stituting proceedings against the owners of the 

 Indiana pike roads, who are imposing excessive 

 charges on bicycle riders. 



Waller is training for an attempt to lower the 

 outdoor 24 hour record. He already holds the 

 indoor record. 



Fred. Titus says he will not do much sprinting 

 next season, but will confine his work on the 

 track to long distance racing. 



John S. Johnson has decided not to go abroad. 

 He will remain in this country and compete in 

 class B events. 



Titus intends to start for all long distance 

 records early in April. 



George Banker is said to have made more than 

 ),ooo last summer in Europe. 



Hurst rode 100 miles in Paris, in4h., 7m., 

 47 3-5s. 



"If bread is the first necessity of life, Re- 

 creation is a close second." 



Will some one who has a January Recre- 

 ation in good condition, send it to me. I will send 

 him a large lot of sportsmen's reading in ex- 

 change. Blinn Smith, Woo Sung, Ogle Co. , 111. 



Editor Recreation 



Trout Lake, Wis. 



" I hear the musical drip 



Of the rain from the cabin eaves." 



I intended, when I took up my pen, to make a 

 little rhyme on the October rain and the falling 

 leaves, but there were such unmistakable signs 

 of disapproval of the weather, on the part of the 

 sportsmen and guides lingering about the office 

 of this woodland "inn," that I find it best to 

 postpone the poem, put on a cheerful but sympa- 

 thetic face, go in and condole with my guests 

 and promise sunshine for the morrow. If any 

 one who reads this has ever visited a sportsmen's 

 inn, he will remember how the proprietor was, 

 by some of the guests, held responsible for the 

 weather, the shooting and the fishing, as well as 

 for sweet bread, juicy steaks, neatly broiled fish 

 and mealy potatoes. 



But, after all, it is only good folks who go 

 fishing, and grumbling is rare. If the logs in 

 these rugged walls could only speak, many a 

 good story of rod and gun, days a-field and 

 afloat, would find its way to Recreation. 



For in the glow and warmth of these great, 

 open fires, gray haired bankers and dignified 

 judges forget the burdens and restrictions of city 

 life, and tell such wonderful tales of the day's 

 sport with the gamy bass, the wolfish muscal- 

 longe, or the beautiful land-locked salmon, that 

 they must needs call on Billy or Jack to corrobo- 

 rate their statements. They are loyal, these 

 sturdy guides, and it is only occasionally — in the 

 long winter, when they come in to smoke a pipe 

 and chat over old times with their chiefs — that 

 the real facts come out. Even then they never 

 really betray a trust. They simply hint at some 

 slight lack of skill, or at too great excitement on; 

 the part of a sportsman in some trying moment. 



But " into each life some rain must fall," and! 

 sometimes it comes when people are taking their 

 outing, as it did to-day. Yet I like this sad, 

 sweet autumn weather, and so do innumerable 

 little, busy, gray birds, that are flitting about 

 among the fallen leaves outside my window, dis- 

 turbed, now and then, by the frantic rush of an 

 industrious squirrel, intent on storing up a plen- 

 tiful supply of acorns in his winter home. 



There are other good things here besides 

 acorns and cones, for a noble stag was brought 

 in yesterday, shot over in the " windfall," by a 

 guide, who was coming in for fresh supplies for 

 his party ; and I saw a fine string of wood ducks 

 last night, the reward of a day's spcrt on the 

 river. Occasionally a bear is met in the deep 

 woods ; there are beavers, otters, mink and fish- 

 ers about the lakes and on the streams. Heads, 

 horns and skins resting on the log walls suggest 

 many a pleasant reminiscence of the great forest. 

 All around me, as I write, are trophies gathered 

 in days of "recreation." 



" The pine trees cast their shadows, 

 On the cabin roof as of yore. 

 And the waves are softly lapping 

 The waiting boats on the shore " 



Mary Reid Mann. 



