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they wait to rest before starting for the next pull across 
the rapids to the other, shore. From this we may infer 
that our Potomac shad differ in some respects from those 
Chalmers catches in-Connecticut river. In about a week I 
shall try the Gt. Flails, beyond which we are told shad 
never pass. » 
The gentleman who fished with me for shad was the 
most skilled angler whom I know in this country, so you 
must not charge failure to want of skill. 
A. G. W. 
—As to shad in the Connecticut River, we must be con¬ 
tent to accept as testimony theTests of past seasons, until we 
gain new light. Its shad do take a fly. But, possibly shad 
are not more singular than the black bass, which take the 
fly in some localities and not in others, so that, after all,the 
Connecticut may give us a game fish fit to satisfy the angler, 
while the Potomac remains but a fruitless field. Here is a 
letter which will be of much service to anglers who pro¬ 
pose to satisfy their curiosity by a visiVto the Connecticut:— 
Hartford, May 17, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The dam at Holyoke, Mass., has been mentioned as a good place for 
fly-fishing for shad, but I think there is as good a place in the Connecticut 
at Enfield Falls. Thtre is a dam across the river here and two miles or 
more of rapids, and last summer there were a number of shad taken with 
a fly. Parties wishing to try the fishing can obtain boats at Thompson- 
ville or at Warehouse Point, where the bridge crosses the river. 
At the time the shad commence to run up the river I have seen hun¬ 
dreds of millers with a grey wing fluttering on the outside and inside of 
the cars. I have noticed them every season for four years. Some call 
them shad flies. Perhaps the shad feed on them, but this is merely con¬ 
jecture on my part. Possibly a fly made in imitation of them might work 
well for a cast. If you like I will capture one and send you for sample. 
Hoping some of the fly-fishermen will come up and try the falls, 
I remain, yours, Frank. Bolles. 
In several previous numbers of this paper we have allud¬ 
ed to this grey fly and recommended it for trial. In the 
latter part of July, they make their appearance on Lake 
Champlain in countless myriads, and are washed up onshore 
in windrows two inches deep. They are called shad-flies 
by the natives, and are taken eagerly by the whitefish, 
coregonus albus, which are also sometimes called “shad.” 
We have known the whitefish, on these occasions, to take a 
hook. 
—Of shad fishing in the Connecticut, the Hartford 
Qourant says the present season is the best known in fifteen 
years. Last year was an especially poor one, the catch be¬ 
ing late and the fish small; a shad weighing four and one- 
lialf pounds was then considered a big one. This year the 
average is from four and a half to five pounds, and one 
weighing six and a quarter pounds has been captured. The 
supply has until recently come from down the river, but on 
Thursday sixty-five nice specimens were taken at Cook’s, 
above the railroad bridge, and fish will continue to be 
caught there and further up until the river falls too low— 
probably for a week. The main supply, however, must 
come from Haddam Island, Say brook and other places be¬ 
low this city. There is an old comparison—“as poor as a 
June shad”—which in these days proves destitute of truth; 
for fishermen aver that June shad are fully as fat and nice 
as any caught earlier. Most of the shad salted are caught 
in June, The season opened April 17th, one week earlier 
than last year, and has been so far a profitable one. At 
one of the two wholesale depots 3,500 were sold in one day. 
The season will end about the 15tli of June. Our readers 
who have purposed testing their flies for shad in the Con¬ 
necticut will perceive that it is quite time they were on the 
ground, and that the period of their endeavors must be 
limited to four weeks. 
—Mr. Norri’s article on fly-tying is deferred one week. 
Intiaml 
Secretaries and friends of Athletic , Base-Ball , Cricket and other out¬ 
door Clubs will kindly mail their contributions not later than Monday in 
each week. 
—The base ball events in the professional arena since our 
last issue include the first defeats of the new Hartford nine 
by the champions, both in Boston and at Hartford, the re¬ 
markable contest between the Chicago and Athletic nines, 
in Chicago, and the first appearance of the champions in 
Brooklyn this season. The signal defeat of the Connecti¬ 
cut “nutmegs” by the “grater” nine of the Hub on the 12th 
of May was an astonisher to the Clan Douglas. The Hart- 
fords did not anticipate a victory, but they did think that 
they would give the Reds a close contest. But to be 
whipped by 25 to 3, why it was, as Seguin says in Fra Di- 
avalo, “shocking, positively shocking.” The next day on 
their home field, and with Addy at second base, the Hart- 
fords did better, as they kept the champion’s score down to 
ft smaller figure than any other club had done, even if they 
could only get a single run for themselves, the figures of 8 
to 1 showing a finely played game. 
—On May 13th the Athletic nine arrived in Chicago after 
a uiue hundred mile railroad journey, and the same day 
they played their first game this season with the Chicago 
white Stockings, and the contest proved to be the model 
game of the season thus far, as the appended score shows:— 
WHITE STOCKINGS. 
Cuthbert. 1. f 
R. 
B. 
p. 
E. 
ATHLETICS. 
R. 
B. P. 
E. 
0 
2 
0 
McGeary, c. 
.... 0 
1 0 
1 
Force, s. s 
1 
3 
1 
MoRrido p . 
.... 0 
0 0 
0 
Malone, c 
Meyerle, 3d b 
Ireacy, c. f. 
Hevlin, 1st b.... 
Hmes, 2d b."'* 
Clean, r. f. 
Zettlein. n 
1 
7 
3 
Anson, 3d b. 
.... 0 
2 3 
3 
. 0 
0 
4 
2 
Fisler, 1st b. 
.... 0 
1 17 
0 
2 
1 
0 
Sutton, s. s. 
.... 0 
2 0 
0 
.. 1 
1 
6 
1 
Battin, 2d b. 
.... 0 
0 3 
2 
0 
4 
4 
Sensendefer, r. f..... 
.... 0 
0 0 
0 
.. 0 
0 
1 
0 
Gedney, l.f... 
.... 0 
0 3 
0 
1 
0 
0 
McMullen, c. f. 
.... 0 
2 1 
0 
•Total.... 
6 27 11 
Total.-.. 
.. . 0 
8 27 
6 
INNINGS. 
Wll ., ., 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. 6th. 7th. 8th. 9th. 
w mte blockings. 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1-4 
AI Jl ,e «ca .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 
•Pirst base on errors—Athletics, 4; White Stockings, 11 
iotal nelding errors—Athletics, 6; White Stockings, 11. 
rr lrne - Same—Two hoars, ten minutes, 
mapire— Al. Reach, of the Athletics. 
Not a run was earned in the game, and but for the errors 
ot Anson and Battin, as above recorded by the; Chicago Post, 
l he nine innings would have closed with the score of :0 to 0. 
—-On May 16th the Athletics redeemed themselves by de¬ 
feating the White Stockings by a score of 7 to 2. Umpire,, 
Mr. Reach. Time, two hours. Earned runs—Athletics, 3; 
Cliicagos, 2. First base hits—Athletic, 11; Chicagos, 9. 
—The defeat of the Philadelphia nine by the champion 
Red Stockings, at Philadelphia on May 18th, leaves the 
Boston club but one nine to defeat out of their seven club 
adversaries in the arena. This is an unprecedented suc¬ 
cess. The championship record is as follows up to May 
1. We give the names in the order of games won:— 
Club. 
Played . 
Won. 
Boston. 
10 . 
10 
Athletic.... 
11 
6 
Hartford. 
4 
Mutual. 
7 
3 
Atl ami c. 
4 
2 
Philadelphia. 
6 
2 
Chicago... 
o 
1 
Baltimore.. 
1 
Total. 
.58 
29 
—The contests in the championship arena since our last 
issue have been as follows:— 
May 11—Hartford vs. Baltimore, at Hartford, 16 to 6. 
May 11—Athletic vs. Philadelphia at Philadelphia, 12 
to 7. 
May 12—Boston vs. Hartford, at Boston, 25 to 3. 
May 12—Mutual vs. Baltimore, at Brooklyn, 17 to 5. 
May 13—Boston vs. Hartford, at Hartford, 8 to 1. 
May 13—Atlantic vs. Baltimore, at Brooklyn, 8 to 2. 
May 13—Chicago vs. Athletic, at Chicago,"4 to 0. 
May 14—Boston vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn, 20 to 14. 
May 15—Boston vs. Atlantic, at Brooklyn, 8 to 2. 
—The Columbia College Athletic Association will hold 
their postponed meeting on the grounds of the St. George’s 
Cricket Club at Hoboken, on Saturday, May 23d. The 
pastimes will begin at half-past ten, A. M. 
—The Philadelphia and Germantown Cricket Clubs 
played a match at Philadelphia on Saturday, 16th instant, 
resulting in favor of the former club on the first innings by 
a score of 62 to 32. This cannot be considered, however, a 
fair test of their relative playing strength from the fact that 
the threatening weather on Saturday led many to suppose 
that the match would not be played, and several of the best 
players on Doth sides were deterred from making their ap¬ 
pearance. 
—The Germantown cricket field presented a lively 
appearance every fine day last week; three practice 
wickets being required to accommodate the members of the 
three clubs who now occupy the ground in common. 
—The Young America Cricket Club will make their re¬ 
appearance on the tented field, (after a retirement of several 
years,) at the cricket/ete at Philadelphia on the 28th inst., 
on which occasion they will match strength with their 
quondam adversaries the Philadelphia Club. 
—The veteran St. George cricket club opened play for 
the forty-sixth season since their organization on May 13tli, 
1874, and the weather being favorable, and the grounds in 
fair condition, a good opening game was played, the mem¬ 
bers mustering quite numerously. Mow that they have but 
two days to practice in, the chances are that more will turn 
out on the regular days. On this occasion sides were cho¬ 
sen at two P. M., and a dozen young Bachelors took the 
field against a field team of Benedicts, and though the for¬ 
mer made a good score of eighty for eleven wickets down, 
the married men overtopped that score at the fall of their 
sixth wicket, and when play terminated they had obtained 
109 for seven wickets. 
—In Brooklyn, on May 14tli, about 3,000 people were 
gathered inside the Union grounds, and half as many out¬ 
side, to see the Boston nine play their first game with the 
Mutual nine, a close contest and a fine disply of ball-play¬ 
ing being fully anticipated, but the score showed how 
r>oorly the game was played, the figures being 20 to 14. 
The next day the Bostons played their first game with the 
Atlantics—a close contest and an exciting match. The 
Atlantics, though having two men disabled, played a very 
fine fielding game, but they were obliged to succumb to the 
superior skill of the champions. Atlantic, 2; Boston. 8. 
—Mr. Weston has failed to accomplish the greatest of 
all feats, that is to walk 500 miles in 144 hours, of one 
week. However, he did walk 430 miles in the specified 
time. Did not Mr. Weston attempt too much in trying to 
perform two extraordinary feats in one week? In our 
opinion, if he had omitted the first, of walking 115 miles in 
twenty-four hours, he would, in all probability, have suc¬ 
ceeded in completing the 500-mile walk, or what is thought 
to have been the display of the greatest physical endurance 
known to man. The first day Mr. Weston only rested one 
hour, one minute and one second, and achieved the feat of 
walking 115 miles in twenty-four hours, but the next day 
it seemed to be necessary for him to rest ten hours, fifty 
minutes and five seconds, in order in some measure to re¬ 
cuperate from the fearful fatigue of the day before. Sup¬ 
posing he had divided his rest, &c., more evenly all through, 
and not started off at a racing pace to finish an unparalleled 
feat, there is no doubt that he would have accomplished it; 
in fact, in the latter part of the walk, Mr. Weston was ab¬ 
solutely struggling against his own exhaustion. 
Mr. Weston’s dress on the occasion was scarcely ortho¬ 
dox for a pedestrian who had undertaken to endure more 
than humanity could bear. Velveteen is very pretty to 
look at, and delight an audience, but it is certainly not so 
porous, nor does it give , as it were, to the muscles and joints 
like flannel. Were not the boots too heavy and the leggings 
too tight round the calves of his legs? A pair of solid moc¬ 
casins is the boot to walk all day and night in, broad sole, 
short large heel, and the feet ought to be encased in a pair 
of lamb’s wool socks, not woolen; the sleeves of his shirt 
were too wide, which impeded his progress, and should 
have fitted closer from the elbow downwards; the belt was 
also too narrow. Mr. Weston undoubtedly knows the best 
what dress and boots to walk in, but at the same time we 
would suggest a white flannel suit, not Ganton flannel, to 
be made like the velveteen suit he walked in, with one ex¬ 
ception, that the vest should be made with arms to it, and 
the coat without arm.s, so that'he could take off the coat at 
pleasure, still his arms would be covered, and give them all 
the play necessary. Castile sqap and palm oil is the proper 
liniment to use to the feet, to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Advice is undoubtedly very clieap, now that he has failed 
to accomplish the task lie set himself. If Mr. Weston ever 
attempts a similar feat,* we,trust he will confine himself to 
one marvellous, exhibition of his walking powers, and not 
attempt to do two unheard of feats at the same time. We 
have every confidence in Mr. Weston that he can walk 500 
miles in 144 hours, if hi's friends and himself will act with 
discretion and judgment. 
—In a game of fifteen ball pool played last Saturday 
night “at the Jeffersonian Billiard Parlors, 17 Chatham 
street, Forest and Stream building, the Superintendent 
of the rooms pocketed the whole fifteen balls in thirteen 
shots, a feat so unusual as to be worthy of record. 
ew ifiiiblicafwnz. 
The Four Civilizations of the World. Lippincott. 
Lippincott & Co. have just published a, work under this title, written 
by the Chevalier Wikoff, whose love episodes while travelling in Europe 
a few years ago were the topic of the times. This brief historical retro¬ 
spection, written at this late day, has many commendable and interest¬ 
ing traits to recommend it to the perusal of candid readers. lie notices 
the progrrss of civilization from its early dawn in Asia’ its progress 
throughout Europe, and finally in the United States. It is a far better 
book than we could have imagined would have emanated from the brain 
of the mercurial, “Chevalier,” and we are pleased, as a reviewer, to be 
able to say that we think this volume will command the earnest attention 
of the highly educated classes. We understand that this is a prefatory 
or pioneer volume to one yet unfinished, in which he will talk about 
himself and his own times, or 1830 to 1870. 
Frank Forester’s Quorndon Hounds. By H. W. Her¬ 
bert. N. Y. T. B. Peterson & Bro. 
This is an interesting little work on English fox hunting and other 
sports, and is treated in the usual spicy, humorous manner of our racy 
author. In Col. Fairfax, a Virginian and a true gentleman, whose ready 
adaptation and true knowledge of the chase, the frequenters of not the 
Melton Mov'bray, as it was of old, were not a little astonished. The 
good old Melton Mowbray of the days of George IV are no more, but yet 
there remain to-day many good club houses, the resort of choice spirits 
who are an hoporto English society. There were also equivocal charac¬ 
ters; also snobs in those times, who of course could not tolerate anything 
or anybody who was not decidedly English. A pleasant, racy story of 
the days of fox hunting on English grounds, giving a glowing, animated 
picture of this exhilarating sport. 
Deer Stalkers. By Frank Forester. Philadelphia. T. 
B. Peterson & Co. 
This is a little lively sketch, something after the style of “Quorndon 
Hounds,” but has a sort of tragic ending. The story is well told, and our 
sporting friends will not unfrequently recollect many of their back-woods 
friends, guides, pioneers in the chase after the deer, that forcibly call to 
mind many of the life-drawn characters of this racy sketch, particularly 
“Dolph,” “Archer” and “Pierson.” 
Earnest Wemer. A Novel of Good Luck; or Mo. 39 of 
Osgood & Co.’s Library of Novels. Boston. J. R. Osgood & Co. 
This is a very fair translation from the German by F. A. Shaw. The 
characters, as a whole, are complete in delineation, of much dramatic in¬ 
terest, and exhibit a remarkable power of construction. It could be 
dramatized, we think, and made quite an effective, lively drama. “The 
strike of the German miners” will be found an episode of itself not soon 
forgotten. 
Annie Mason; or, The Temple of Shells. M. Y. A. D. 
F. Randolph & Co. 
This story is one of greater interest than we usually find in a simple 
narration. It is an illustration of the power of principle, and is a very 
pleasant illustration of the virtues of patience, charity, courage and faith. 
It is destined, we believe, to have an extensive circulation, for it is a 
very valuable as well as artractive book. We find within its pages noth¬ 
ing to censure, much to commend. 
The same publishers have placed before us a very pleasant work, en¬ 
titled “Signal Lights,” which any one can read with improvement. Mak¬ 
ing no pretensions to religious teaching, it is a bright lesson of the re¬ 
wards of living a true life and upright manhood. There is a charming 
simplicity, as well as natural refinement about this little work, that 
makes it a fitting and proper volume to place upon the shelves of our 
Sunday School libraries. It is a far more desirable volume than many 
we find there whose title pages proclaim them to be religious works. 
Stories about Animals. By Tliomas Jackson, M. A. 
London and N. Y. Cassel, Petter & Galpin. 
This is a fine quarto edition of 254 pages and upwards of 250 illustra¬ 
tions of a very high order of English wood cuts. This work, although 
written by the good Rector of Newington for the express use of his 
“eleven grandchildren,” to whom he dedicates it, will afford both amuse¬ 
ment and instruction to everybody else’s grandchildren, if they can ob¬ 
tain it. This large collection of stories about animals is told in a plain, 
simple, old English style, without a single technicality throughout the 
book. There is indeed something far more wonderful and romantic in 
this book about curious animals, than the most racy fiction of the 
times. It is time the minds of our young boys and girls were filled with 
a more wholesome kind of stories th$u “Jack and the Bean Stalk” or the 
“Old Ogre,” and we are pleased to welcome as one of the reformers of 
youthful literature the author of these stories of fact, and not of fancy. 
Ninety-Three. Yictor Hugo’s new book. The version 
by Frank Lee Benedict. 1 vol. pp. 356. N. Y. Harper & Bros. 
This is a story of the Reign of Terror, or the days called the times of 
the French Revolution, in which the trials of the Holy Inquisition added 
such deep and significant as well as terrible interest. We have not read 
such an exciting work for a long period of time. When we note the 
stirring events of which this work treats and the abundant materials 
from which the great novelist wrought out this wonderful romance, we 
feel that a failure to make one of the greatest romances of the day could 
not fall to the lot of Victor Hugo. Of this work it will truly be said it 
will have a hundred thousand readers. We have only to say within its 
fascinating pages a full account of those terrific days and startling inci¬ 
dents will pass truly before the reader, and if he feels that, critically 
speaking, there may be an exaggeration of facts in a strictly historical 
point of view, we can readily pardon them, as ttie best of authors some¬ 
times do slightly exaggerate. This work is brought out in Harper’s best 
style. 
The Aquatic Monthly continues to do good work and pre¬ 
sents much valuable matter with each issue to its readers. With the 
May number, now before us, it completes its second year, and entering 
on its third year we can only hope that it will be as successful in the fu¬ 
ture as it has been in the past. The Aquatic Monthly is devoted exclu¬ 
sively to promoting our yachting and rowing pastimes, and has supplied 
a want longfeltin giving a medium for controversies on mooted points rel¬ 
ative to the design, construction, rig and handling of our yachts. A m ono- 
the various letters of its able corps of editors and contributors we have 
frequently noticed the articles of a gentleman writing under the nom de 
plume of “Big Topmast,” and we can thoroughly endorse and recom¬ 
mend them. He is working in a good cause, as is the Aquatic in giving 
spread to his views on the scientific designing of what may be termed a 
new class of yachts with us. The magazine is edited by Mr. Charles A. 
Peverelly, long known in aquatic circles, is published by Mr. August 
Brentano of 33 Union Square, and is issued m a most attractive form. 
—Thousands of sportsmen use Kimball & Co.’s tobacco because it is 
the best. 
—Ask your dealer for Kimball & Co.’s tobacco, or send to them for a 
supply. 
—Grand Medal of Merit, Vienna, 1873, awarded W. S. Kimball & C®- - ; 
Rochester, N. Y., for their tebaceo. 
