

THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN 
marily for the purpose of enforcing the 
game and fish laws. It is my duty to co- 
Operate in every way possible with all 
state authorities to this end. Dr. Tit- 
comb is a member of this League and will 
no doubt be glad to give you any assist- 
ance you may desire. 
My letter to the News Tribune was 
promptly published, and a few days later 
I received this from the manager of the 
Spalding house: 
My attention was called to your letter of 
the 28th in the Duluth News Tribune, and 
I ask as a true sportsman that should you 
intend to make any comment in your mag- 
azine you will also publish this letter. 
I have been a resident of Winnipeg, 
Manitoba, for 19 years. I am known by 
almost every man who hanlles a gun or 
dog in that province. I am a member of 
the Field Trials Club, and of the Dog 
Owners’ association, and have always been 
a strict advocate in seeing that the laws 
were enforced. If you will kindly write 
Mr. E. Hamber, president of the Dog 
Owners’ association, or Mr. G. B. Borri- 
daile, ex-secretary of the “ield Trial Club; 
Mr. George Elliot or Mr. W. R. Baker, all 
of Winnipeg, they will bear out the fol- 
lowing statement: 
ing of the associations I moved that a 
committee be appointed to wait on the 
Provincial Government and ask them to 
make a law prohibiting hotels, restau- 
rants or boarding houses from serving 
prairie chickens or partridges, or having 
in their possession at any time. This reso- 
lution was seconded and passed. The com- 
mittee waited on the government, the 
house being then in session, and it was 
made law. This meeting was held in the 
Manitoba hotel, of whch I was manager 
for 7° years, and which was burned in 
February last. 
I arrived in Duluth May 3d to manage 
the Spalding hotel, and on the 11th a din- 
ner was arranged for the St. Louis County 
Medical association; nothing being said 
by the committee as to what should be 
served, and to my utmost astonishment a 
day or 2 after I was notified that the game 
laws had been violated. I plead absolute 
ignorance, nothing more or less, and I am 
perfectly willing to do what any gentleman 
or sportsman can do in the matter referred 
to by you. Yours truly, 
eerie W. Sprado, Manager Spalding 
n0tel. 
To which I replied: 
I am in receipt of your valued favor of 
29th, and while the circumstance you re- 
cite mitigates the offense in a measure, yet 
you will pardon me for saying they do not 
constitute a legal or even a reasonable ex- 
cuse for violation of the game law. While 
you might not know everything that is 
That at a joint meet- - 
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being done at the hotel so soon after tak- 
ing charge, you certainly would give per- 
sonal attention to the preparation of a 
banquet like that, and would know if your 
steward proposed to serve a course of 
game. 
I trust you will understand I have no 
personal feeling in this matter. I am actu- 
ated entirely by a desire to preserve the 
game, and enforce the game laws. 
The Chief Executive Officer of the 
Minnesota Fish and Game Commission 
heard nothing further from him. The 
League would like to know whether or not 
. he intends to act in this important matter. 

The Executive Agent of the Minne- 
sota Game Commission replied as follows: 
After a careful investigation I beg to reply 
to your letter of June Iogth. 
The members of the Game Protective As- 
sociation at Duluth with whom I have con- 
sulted do not feel like pushing the matter. 
They believe the effect of what has been done 
and the notoriety given the matter will be 
about as salutary as if the case had been 
prosecuted. In view of these facts, although 
Iam at all times ready to push a case for 
any violation of the game law, I believe that 
little more could be accomplished if I at- 
tempted prosecution in this matter. 
The Prosecuting Attorney and I, after a care- 
ful investigation and on a direct promise from 
the manager of the hotel that nothing of the 
kind would occur again, agreed that the 
matter should be dropped. Hoping this dis- 
position of the case will be satisfactory to you, 
Iam, 
JoHN BEUTNER, Executive Agent. 

OBJECTS ARO Vile Pic AN (OF! “PER TAS: 
Editor RECREATION: 
I have yours of the oth. 1 am much in- 
terested in game protection, especially in 
Alabama. Mr. Wallace no doubt advised 
you of the trouble we had in passing a 
suitable game law. I do not see the benefit 
we sportsmen of Alabama would derive 
from an organization whose central office 
and working force is located at such a 
great distance from us, and where the con- 
ditions are so different from ours. Before 
I try to protect the game of the North I 
want to use my money, influence and best 
efforts to protect that at my own door. 
Later I may join you. 
T. T. Ashford, Birmingharn, Ala. 
ANSWER. i 
Yours of the 14th. If you will talk with 
Mr. Wallace he will tell you what he thinks 
of the necessity of Southern sportsmen 
joining the L. A. S. Before he became a 
member of it he wrote me and asked me to 
aid him in getting a bill through your 

