THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



GENERAL OFFICERS 



President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., New 

 York. 



1st Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West 

 40th St., New York. 



2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969 

 Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y. 



3d Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, Dept. of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 West 

 40th St., New York. 



5th Vice-President, Hon. W.A.Richards, Gen- 

 eral Land Office, Washington, D. C. 



Secretary, A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington Ave., 

 Passaic, N. J. 



Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin Bank- 

 ing Co., 192 Broadway, New York City. 



OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE .5TH ANNUAL 

 MEETING. 

 The 5th Annual Meeting of the League 



of American Sportsmen was held at the 



rooms of the Commercial Club, St. Paul, 



Minn., February n, 1903. 



In the absence of Secretary Rice, Mr. A. 



C. Thatcher, of Urbana, O., was elected 



Secretary pro tern. 

 The following delegates answered to the 



roll call : 



W. R. Blocksom, Chief Warden, Arkansas ; 



Hon. Geo. A. Lincoln, State Game War- 

 den, Iowa; 



Harry E. Lee, lay delegate, Illinois ; 



E. M. Marvin, lay delegate, Idaho ; 

 Charles Payne, lay delegate, Kansas; 

 George C. Long, Chief Warden, Kentucky; 

 R. L. Brashear, Secretary-Treasurer, Ken- 

 tucky ; 



Dr. H. E. Houston and 



W. H. Meade, lay delegates, Montana; 



F. E. Mockett, Chief Warden, Nebraska; 

 Hon. G. B. Simpkins, State Game Commis- 

 sioner, Nebraska; 



A. C. Thatcher, Vice- Warden, Ohio ; 

 Hon. J. C. Porterfield, State Game War- 

 den, Ohio; 



Dr. F. S. Dewey, lay delegate, Oklahoma; 

 C. H. Pond and 



B. A. Ovenshire, lay delegates, Pennsyl- 

 vania; 



C. F. Dill, Chief Warden, South Carolina; 

 Hon. L. M. McCoy, lay delegate, South 



Dakota ; 

 Dr. A. M. Gropper, Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Wisconsin ; 



D. Lange, Chief Warden, Minnesota; 

 Hon. H. A. Morgan, Vice- Warden, Minne- 

 sota; 



A. R. Bixby, Secretary-Treasurer, Minne- 

 sota ; 



Hon. Samuel Fullerton, State Game War- 

 den, Minnesota, 



These gentlemen all made interesting re- 

 ports of the progress of League work and 

 of the cause of game protection in general 

 in their respective States, which brought 

 out a great deal of instructive and enter- 

 taining discussion on the part of other dele- 

 gates. 



The following telegram was received 

 from President Roosevelt in answer to one 

 sent him by Chief Warden Lange: 



White House, Washington, D. C. 

 February 11. 

 D. Lange, Chief Warden, Commercial 

 Club, St. Paul: 



I am always glad to know of efforts for 

 the proper protection of game, and am 

 particularly glad to know of the increased 

 interest of the League of American Sports- 

 men in this subject. I send cordial good 

 wishes for the success of the meeting to- 

 day and wish I could be with you. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



Mr. G. C. Hoyt, of the Minnesota Hu- 

 mane Society, presented the following offi- 

 cial communication from that body: 



To the League of American Sportsmen: 



Anomalous as it may seem, humane 

 workers look on the League of American. 

 Sportsmen as a friend and an ally. This is 

 due to your splendid work throughout the 

 country in enforcing game laws and in pro- 

 tecting song birds. 



The hunter is inherently a lover of na- 

 ture. This passion more than any other 

 influence lures sportsmen to the woods and 

 the field. Dreary, indeed, would be these 

 hunting excursions if no note of nature's 

 music ever broke on the ear, if no vision of 

 woodgirt hill or valley ever greeted the 

 eye. This love of nature indicates a 

 breadth of sympathy which should extend 

 to the wild things that dwell in these wood- 

 lands which men visit in quest of pleasure 

 and strength. 



The sportsman is pre-eminently a lover 

 of fair play. We ask you, therefore, to co- 

 operate with us in our efforts to suppress 

 the shooting of live birds from traps. If a 

 bird is instantly killed, of course the cru- 

 elty is reduced to the minimum ; but if only 

 wounded, and he escape, to flutter away 

 to some lonely place to die, after long suf- 

 fering, we hold that it is cruel, and feel 

 that we may justly look to your organiza- 

 tion for aid in the suppression of a practice 

 which is clearly contrary to the ethics of a 

 true huntsman. 



We congratulate your organization on the 

 stand you have taken in behalf of deer pro- 

 tection. Among the wooded haunts of these 

 beautiful creatures the game hog is ever 



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