210 



RECREATION 



April i— Light Van Trials. A. C. of G. B. & I. 



April 2-16 — 'Monaco Motor Boat Fortnight. 



April 18 — Mfeyan Cup and Auto Boat Races at 



Nice. 

 April 20 — Burton Cup Race at Cannes, France. 

 April 30 — Preliminary races for Motor-Cycle Club 



of France Cup. 

 May 1-15 — Mediterranean Motor Boat Cup Race. 

 May 14 — Motor-Cycle Club of France Cup Race. 

 May 7-31 — Buda Pesth (Austria) Auto Show. 



Hungarian Auto Club. 

 May 15 — Autoboat Races at Juvisy, on Seine, near 



Paris. 

 June 1-15 — Automobile Club of Rhone District 



Meeting. 

 June 1-7 — The Liedekerke Cup Race. 

 June 1 1 -18 — Meeting of the Automobile Club of 



the North of France. 

 June 20-30 — Gordon Bennett Race. 

 June 22-30 — Auto Boat Races at Kiel. 

 July 2-10 — Exhibition and Boat Races at Rouen, 



France. 

 July 8-9— Mont Ventoux (France) Hill Climbing 



Contest. 

 July 11-16 — Mont Cenis (France) Hill Climbing 



Contest. 

 July 15 — Motorboat Contest from Calais to Lon- 

 don. 

 July 15-25 — Auto Races at Ostend, Belgium. 

 July — Ardennes Circuit. Herkimer Cup. 

 August 1-7— Rouen to Trouville Autoboat Races. 



Trouville Cup. Vichy Meeting. 

 August 6-8 — Paris to the Sea Motorboat Race. 

 August 11 — Drexel Trophy Race, Trouville 



(France). 

 September 3-10 — Royan Meeting (Boats and Motor 



Cars). 

 September 11 — Harmsworth Motorboat Cup Race. 

 October — Chateau-Thierry Hill Climb (France). 

 October — Gaillon Hill Test (France). 



HUNTING BEARS WITH A MOTOR 



CAR. 



One of the first people in this country 

 to use the automobile for hunting purposes 

 is John B. Condon, proprietor of the Hotel 

 Savoy, at Williamsport, Pa., says the Motor 

 Car, and that he will not be the last to em- 

 ploy the automobile on such expeditions 

 was demonstrated by the fact that many 

 other persons throughout the state of Penn- 

 sylvania at once followed the example set 

 by the Williamsporter and used their motor 

 cars on such trips. As Mr. Condon puts it, 

 "automobile hunting has all other kinds of 

 hunting trips 'skinned to death.' " Frequently 

 owners of automobiles living in the north- 

 ern part of Pennsylvania employ thqir 

 machines on such trips. It has been ob- 

 served that they have been more success- 

 ful than hunters who have used the trains 



to carry them to their hunting grounds, 

 and their outings have not taxed the phy- 

 sical strength of the hunter so much as 

 the man who walks from morning till night. 



In a letter from Mr. Condon, he states 

 "that the idea of using the automobile came 

 to me while I was out enjoying a pleasure 

 ride in the machine with Charles Gibson, 

 one of the city's greatest 'auto' enthusiasts, 

 and I at once proposed to Mr. Gibson that 

 we spend the following day in the woods 

 in search of bears. I knew of a place where 

 bears were numerous, and the reason that 

 they were plentiful was due to the fact that 

 the railroad did not get within ten miles of 

 the place, and, consequently, few hunters 

 from the city visited the particular section. 

 Mr. Gibson agreed with me that the auto- 

 mobile idea was the proper one, and bright 

 and early the next morning _we started out 

 on the trip. Within a comparatively short 

 time we had reached our destination, and 

 within the next two hours, while climb- 

 ing one of the mountain roads, it was my 

 good fortune to discover a bear just ahead 

 of us. Without getting out of the machine 

 I sent three bullets into the body of a 250- 

 pound bruin. It was just as easy as if the 

 bear had walked into my hotel in Williams- 

 port. We simply ran the machine up to 

 where the dead bear lay, and without the 

 slightest trouble loaded the animal into the 

 machine, and proceeded after other game. 

 You see, the automobile saved us the trouble 

 of walking six or eight miles to get a horse 

 and wagon, and it also saved us the work 

 of lugging the animal ten miles to the 

 railway station. 



"Through the aid of the machine we were 

 able to cover more ground than we could 

 have done otherwise. Several times we 

 placed the automobile in a safe place and 

 hunted through the woods. When we found 

 that we could not get any game there we 

 returned to the machine, and in a short time 

 were many miles away from the unfavor- 

 able spot. 



"Without going into every little detail, 

 I will state that, when we returned to Wil- 

 liamsport on the night of our first hunting 

 trip in an automobile, we had fifteen pheas- 

 ants, eight squirrels, and two bears. The 

 second bear was killed by Mr. Gibson just 

 at dusk. 



Not a Pebble in Sight. 



