THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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the State Fish and Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation is practically completed, I hereby 

 tender my resignation as president. 

 Whether or not the organization shall be 

 kept alive, I most heartily urge that 

 each member of the State organization not 

 now a member of the .League of American 

 Sportsmen, join the latter organization, 

 and I enclose herewith a blank application 

 to Mr. Rice, the secretary of the League. 



FOUR STATES TO THE FORE. 



Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are 

 among the banner States in the matter of 

 game protection. Their Legislatures have 

 enacted important amendments to their 

 game laws, and the 2 latter included in 

 their schedules provisions against spring 

 shooting. 



The pot hunters and market hunters of 

 Wisconsin put in a bill early in the session, 

 to repeal the law which has been in effect 

 in that State several years prohibiting 

 spring shooting. This bill was voted down 

 in both houses by large majorities. 



Chief Warden Pratt, of Michigan; Chief 

 Warden Lange, of Minnesota, and Chief 

 Warden Drought and Secretary-Treasurer 

 Gropper, of Wisconsin, are entitled to the 

 gratitude of all good sportsmen for the 

 heroic and persistent work they did during 

 the past winter in behalf of these advanced 

 laws. Nearly all the members of the 

 League in both States co-operated actively 

 and earnestly with their officers; and, 

 without disparaging the good work of 

 other sportsmen in both States, it is only 

 fair to say the bills in question could not 

 have been passed but for the splendid work 

 of the League. 



It now remains for Illinois, Iowa and 

 the Dakotas to enact laws prohibiting 

 spring shooting. These complete the 

 group of States in which the greatest de- 

 struction to bird life is committed by mar- 

 ket hunters. Since Michigan, Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota have set the example and have 

 broken the backbone of the market hunt- 

 ers and the game dealers; there should be 

 no difficulty in inducing the Legislatures 

 of the other States to deal a death blow to 

 the entire market interests. 



Let every League member go to work 

 now to bring about this result. Let no 

 opportunity be neglected, from this time 

 until the convening of your next Legisla- 

 ture, to make known your demands and to 

 create public sentiment in favor of this 

 needed reform. What has been done in 

 Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota can 

 be done in the other States if League 

 members there will work as hard as those 

 in the other States have worked. 



Connecticut is another of the many 

 States that have recently taken advanced 

 positions in the matter of game protection. 

 The Legislature of that State passed a bill, 



in May last, which was prepared by and 

 introduced at the request of Chief Warden 

 Sherwood, of the Connecticut division of 

 the League, and which prohibits the sale 

 of ruffed grouse, quails and woodcock at 

 all times. 



And the League did it. 



Mr. Sherwood is a thoroughly up-to- 

 date sportsman and a hustler. His neigh- 

 bors should return him to the Legislature 

 at the next election. 



LEAGUE NOTES. 



The Hon. Frank L. Littleton, Chief 

 warden of the Indiana Division, has 

 made another big play. In a letter 

 dated June 3 he enclosed a check for $101 

 in payment of 101 applications for mem- 

 bership. Two of these applications come 

 from members of the Indiana Legislature 

 and a third from an ex-member of the 

 same body. 



Mr. Littleton also reports the organi- 

 zation of a local chapter at New Albany, 

 Ind., making 6 in that State now in work- 

 ing order. 



This is simply another indication of Mr. 

 Littleton's wonderful genius for work. 



Hon. C. M. Morse, of Winona, Minn., 

 is another of the stalwart workers in the 

 League. Within the past few weeks he 

 has sent in applications for membership 

 from the Hon. S. R. Van Sant, Governor 

 of Minnesota; W. P. Hall, D. W. Meeker 

 and H. G. Smith, members of the State 

 Fish and Game Commission; S. F. Fuller- 

 ton, Executive Agent State Fish and Game 

 Commission; James Tawney, member of 

 Congress, and W. B. Anderson, member 

 of the State Legislature. This is another 

 illustration of what a live man can do, in 

 a live town, when he tries. 



I fear I shall not be able to go to Den- 

 ver this summer for the semi-annual meet- 

 ing of the L. A. S. 



By the way, why didn't you select a 

 hotter place? I believe there is one, and 

 there are more game hogs in it than even 

 in Denver. 



A. W. Dimock, 66 B'way, N. Y. 



Yes, that may be true, Brother Dimock, 

 but the devil will never be able to com- 

 plete his staff until "Major" W. C. Daniels 

 and Bryan Haywood get there. — Editor. 



Mr. S. A. Davis, of Guayaquil, Ecua- 

 dor, South America, sends in his applica- 

 tion for 5 years' membership in the 

 League, accompanied by the necessary 

 check., .^It looks as if we might have to 

 change the name of this body after a while 

 and call it the League of Pan-American 

 Sportsmen. 



