THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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ment of November Recreation that your 

 state warden is with you in this sentiment, 

 and it is a sentiment that will prevail gener- 

 ally 5 years from now. Then it will be some 

 satisfaction to be able to look back to your 

 record of this year, and to say you were one 

 of the first to line up on the right side. 

 Your Legislature will doubtless pass a law, 

 within 3 years, limiting each hunter to 2 

 deer in one season, and prohibiting the sale 

 of venison at all times. If it does not do 

 this, deer will soon be extinct in your state. 

 They can not long stand the drain that is 

 being made on them and something must 

 be done to save them. 



I heartily commend your honorable sen- 

 timents. — Editor. 



dig up your $. 



The League of American Sportsmen has 

 now 1,051 members. While this does not 

 indicate as rapid a growth as we hoped for 

 when it was organized, yet when we recall 

 the tragic events that transpired during the 

 past summer, it is probably all we could 

 have expected. Now that Peace has spread 

 her white wings over the land and the peo- 

 ple have returned to their usual avocations, 

 interest in the subject of game protection 

 is reviving and applications for membership 

 are coming more rapidly than before. We 

 may confidently hope that the present mem- 

 bership may be doubled by April next. In 

 order to accomplish this, however, it is nec- 

 essary for every member of the League to 

 work for its extension. It is necessary 

 for every friend of game protection, who 

 is not already a member, to join. I can- 

 not understand how any man who is at 

 all interested in the preservation of our 

 game birds, our song birds, or our large 

 quadrupeds, should need so much urging to 

 deposit the small sum of $1 in aid of this 

 cause. I frequently get letters from men 

 who claim to be good sportsmen, expressing 

 the hope that the League may prosper and 

 be successful. I look on the membership 

 roll and find they are not members. This 

 always throws me into a brown study. The 

 idea of a man's wishing an enterprise suc- 

 cess and yet not being willing to aid it to 

 the extent of $1 is a conundrum to me. 



Put your hand in your pocket and send in 

 your dollar. Then advise your friends to 

 do likewise. If you are already a member 

 and are not wearing a badge of the League, 

 send in 25 cents, 75 cents or $2.50, as you 

 choose, and get one. 



PROMINENT MEN COMING IN. 



The League has recently had the honor 

 of adding to its list of members the names 

 of many prominent sportsmen, among 

 whom are Dr. Seward Webb, of this city, 

 and Mr. H. N. Higginbotham, of Chicago, 

 President of the World's Fair Association, 

 Bird S. Coler, William Brookfield, Captain 

 J. A. H. Dressel, Secretary-Treasurer of the 



National Sportsmen's Association, and oth- 

 ers. 



The League is steadily winning its way 

 into the favor of the highest type of sports- 

 men. Many people wait before endorsing 

 any new movement to see whether it is go- 

 ing to be successful. The League has suc- 

 ceeded and is now established on a firm 

 and permanent basis. This is why such men 

 as I have mentioned are willing to become 

 members of it. No one should longer hesi- 

 tate to join the League, and it is hoped 

 thousands of solid men will come forward, 

 within the next few months, and give us 

 the support of their names and their money. 



ANOTHER LEAGUE WORKER. 



St. Paul, Minn. 



Editor Recreation: Yours of the 20th 

 received. I think I can get the 10 members, 

 but shall not stop at that. I shall do some 

 good work for the league whenever and 

 wherever I have a chance. I enclose $2 paid 

 in by 2 new members. Please send them 

 their cards and ask them to make a few 

 converts. 



We shall have read from the platform, by 

 some boy in this school, an essay on the 

 protection of game, fish and birds. About 

 1,000 high school pupils will listen to it. 



It would be a good plan to have such 

 papers prepared and read in every high 

 school and normal school of the country. 

 The League could easily furnish some of 

 the material for such papers. I shall furnish 

 our boys with it here. Several of the high 

 school boys have promised to join. 



D. Lange, Teacher Natural Sciences, 

 Central High School. 



This is a most excellent suggestion and I 

 wish teachers all over the land would adopt 

 it. — Editor. 



CHIEF WARDEN LAWTON IN THE FIELD. 



Mr. R. B. Lawton, Chief Warden of the 

 Connecticut Division, has appointed the fol- 

 lowing Local Wardens: Geo. P. Bliss, 2 

 Park Row, Stamford; Harry C. Went, 824 

 North Avenue, Bridgeport, both for Fair- 

 field County; William E. Beach, 818 Chapel 

 Street, New Haven, for New Haven Coun- 

 ty; Dr. H. L. Ross, Canaan, for Litchfield 

 County. 



Mr. Lawton has also appointed Mr. Harry 

 C. Went, of the Bridgeport Board of Edu- 

 cation, as Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. Law- 

 ton is rapidly making a record for himself, 

 and it is safe to say he will soon have Local 

 Wardens in all the counties of his state. 

 His address is given in the directory at the 

 head of this department and friends of the 

 League are requested to give him the names 

 of suitable men for Local Wardens. Also 

 to report to him all cases of game and fish 

 law violations that they may hear of in that 

 State. 



Game law violators in Connecticut are ad- 



