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members thought it could be an easy thing for Dr. D. D. 
Saunders to walk off with it. The Doctor “sorter” felt 
that way himself. ’ But unexpectedly several of the mem¬ 
bers are" rapidly improving and will give the Doctor some 
hard tussles for the pitcher before he gets it. In fact our 
worthy President is about the man, who, I think, will 
carry it off; however, he won it this shoot. The score was 
as follows 
R. W. Lightburne—11, 11, 11, 10, 10—8. 
D D. Saunders—10, 10, 11, 10, 11—7. 
E' D. Wells—10, 01, 00, 11, 11—7. 
j W. Alley—11, 10, 10, 01, 10—6. 
C. F. Leland—00, 10, 00, 11, 11—5. 
P. H. Bryson—10, 11, 00, 11, 11—7. 
D Bryson—10, 11, 00, 11, 10—6. 
J. E. France—00, 10, 00, 10, 00—2. 
Judges—J. Cockull, T. R. Horsefull. Referee—Sam. 
Walker. 
Several sweepstakes took place after the match for the 
pitcher as follows:— 
3 double birds, 18 yards rise, 100 boundary; entrance, 
$5; winner paying for birds. 
P. Bryson—11, 10, 11—5. 
D. D. Saunders—10, 11, 11—5. 
D. Bryson—11, 10, 11—5. 
A. Wheatly—00, 11, 11—4. 
Sam. Walker—10, 11, 10—4. 
R. W. Lightburne—11, 10, 10—4. 
ties—FIRST. 
P. Bryson—10—1. | D. D. Saunders—10—1. 
SECOND TIE. 
P. Bryson—11 —2. 
D. Bryson—10. 
P. Bryson—10—1. 
P. Bryson—10—1. 
P. Bryson—10—1. 
j D. D. Saunders—11—2. 
THIRD TIE. 
| D. D. Saunders—10—1. 
FOURTH TIE. 
| D. Saunders—10—1. 
FIFTH TIE, 
| D. Saunders—10—1. 
SIXTH TIE. 
D. Saunders—11—2. | P. Bryson—10—1. 
D. D. Saunders was declared the winner. 
The remaining sweepstakes I am unable to report, on ac¬ 
count of a rain storm coming up and blowing the scorer’s 
papers away. Arthur. 
[In shooting off ties it is customary to place the shooters 
three yards further back, so as to avoid the excessive ex¬ 
pense of birds.—E d.] 
—The following is the score of a pigeon match which 
came off at Waterloo station, last Saturday, just across the 
Long bridge at Washington, D. C. 
Ferguson—1 10 110 1 0—5. 
Benjamin—1 00001100 1—4. 
Mills-0 11111111 1—9. 
Mayhew—1 10111111 1—9. 
Jensen—1 00111111 1—8. 
Nokes—1 11000110 1—6. 
Stevens—1 1010010o 1—5. 
Barker-0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0—4. 
Williams—1 0 1. 010 101 0—4, 
Benjamin (Smith)—0 11111111 1—9. 
Derrick-1 11011110 1—8. 
Mills-1 1111110 1 1—9 
Ferguson—1 0 111110 0—6. 
Benjamin—0 110 0 10 1 1—5. 
The ties were shot off on the 22d, with the following 
result :— 
E. L. Mills—0 10 10 111 0—5. 
L. E. Mayhew—1 11010111 1—8. 
E. L. Mills—1 10011110 0—6. 
Gr. D. Benjamin—1 10010001 o—4. 
After which a sweepstakes at 5 birds, 21 yards rise, 80 
yards bounds,, the winner to pay all expenses out of the 
pool {i. e. $20). 
J. W. Stevens—0 111 0—3. 
R. W. Barker—1 111 1—5. 
Ed. Derrick—1 011 1—4. 
L. E. Mayhew—1 10 1 1—4. 
G. D. Benjamin—1 111 0—4. 
—There was another shot for the Michigan State Medal 
on May 22d, at Detroit; 15 birds each, ground traps, 21 
yards rise, 80 boundary, at wild birds. The following is 
the score: 
Name. 
Gun. 
Straight. 
Killed. 
H. Hawkins... 
6 
10 
W. C. Colburn. 
_ Wesley-Richards 
7 
11 
JohnE. Long.. 
5 
12 
J. V. Eldridge.. 
4 
8 
E. H. Gilman. 
8 
12 
L. Horn... 
3 
10 
G. Stenton. 
5 
11 
E. Fisher 
4 
10 
W.K. Cristy. 
4 
9 
R- W. Babcock. 
7 
10 
W ■ J. Mason. 
4 
Withdrawn 
N M. Van Duser. 
.... Mayer 
3 
Withdrawn 
James Caniff.. 
6 
13 
L. Dubois. 
2 
Withdrawn 
J • Norvell.. 
. 7 
10 
J- Berger.. 
' 2 
Withdrawn 
All central fire guns. Colburn holder of medal and Canifi the winner. 
Two sweepstakes of 5 birds each; Long, winner. 
The gun called Long was made for his use and sale, according to his 
directions while in Birmingham this winter. All here say it is the gun.. 
T. 
—The Central City Sportsmen’s Club of Syracuse will 
have a shooting match with the Seneca Falls Club at Cen- 
treville, next week. 
—The Illinois State Sportsmens’ Association will hold 
their annual tournament on June 2d at Chicago on the 
Dexter Park grounds. On June 2d Gen. Webster will call 
the delegates to order and proceed to business. June 3rd. 
W H1 be devoted to pigeon shooting. June 4th, the gun 
trial and bench show of dogs will take place. June 5th, 
the State Champion Pigeon Shot will be decided. 
Our representive Mr. True will attend the convention 
and report to us all maters of interest to the sportsman. 
—A mass convention of sportsmen of thq State of Ohio, 
18 to meet at Cleveland, June 9th, in the Kennard House 
Parlors, for the purpose of organizing a State Sportsmen’s 
Association. 
Montgomery, Ala., May 18,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I send you the score of a shooting match held on the 16th by Montgom¬ 
ery Shooting Club; 7 birds each, 21 yards, 80 yards boundary. First 
prize, club cup, $50; second value, $5; third value, $2.50. 
H. B.Metcalf, 
W. D. Brown, 
L. Wells, 
H. C. Davids on, 
John Clisby, 
L. Tuttle, 
B. Holt, 
J. P. CafEey, 
J. T. McDonald, 
D. Frazer, 
John G.Crommelin, 
William Davidson, 
T. S.Doron, 
H. Orommelin, 
John Gindrot Winter, 
George H. Todd, 
111110 1-6 
000100 1—2 
111111 1-7 
110010 1—4 
110111 0—5 
111110 0—5 
000101 0—2 
100111 1—5 
110011 1—5 
011111 1—6 
1101101-5 
101001 1—4 
011110 1-5 
1 I 1 1 0 1 1—6 
101110 1—5 
0 1 o 1 0 1 0—3 
Winning third prize. 
Winning first prize. 
6 shot off at 24 yds. 
Metcalf, 1 1 0-2 
Frazer, 1 1 0—2 
Crommelin, 1 11—3 
Second tie, 27 yds 
Metcalf, 1 
Frazer, 0 
Winning 2d prize. 
Detroit, Mich., May 19, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Enclosed find score of “Amateur Club” for club medals, third shoot, 
won each time by present winner and now belonging to him. Baker, 10; 
Mather, 3; Phillips, 10; Harris, 8; Humphrey, 7; Howell, 9; Soullier, 8— 
15 birds, ground traps, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary, wild pigeons; 
ties, Baker, 3; Phillips, 2; 26 yards, SO boundary. 
The firm of which Baker is a member have a pigeon coop, qne of the 
largest in the West. Only a few birds on hand at present. C. C. Cad 
man, 21 yards, 80 yards boundary, shot 36 out of 37 birds, in which were 
included five pairs double rises, and Harry Hawkins, conductor Mich. 
Central Railroad, who. never shot from traps before, took 28 out of 31 
both plunge traps, wild birds. J. G. True. 
M** 
FISH IN SEASON IN JUNE. 
Salmon, Salmo Salar. Salmon trout. Salmo confinis. 
Trout, Salmo fontinalis Shad, Alosa. 
Land-locked Salmon, Salmo gloveri Michigan Gray ling, Tliymallus tricolor 
Black Bass, mvcropterus salmoides, micropterus nigricans. 
Striped Bass, Roccus lineatus. Sea trout, Salmo vmmaculatus. 
Bluefish, temnodon saltator. . Weakfish. 
—The anglers’ halcyon days have come at last, and both 
salt water and fresh are alive with the finny tribes of all 
varieties. All our reports indicate a greater abundance of 
fish this year than for many years previous, and we hope 
that the long-threatened dearth of fish and fish food lias been 
wholly averted by the repopulation of our rivers, lakes and 
estuaries. Weak fishing has been good at Barnegat for 
several days. Blue fish are holding back, owing to the 
cold weather. A school struck in on the 20th and left 
again on the 21st. They will soon be here. A letter from 
Dr. Kenworthy who extends a sweeping invitation to all 
readers of Forest and Stream, to come to Barnegat, 
says: 
“I have engaged Capt. Joel Ridgway, and if any of 
your friends should visit Barnegat, say to them that they 
had better secure the services of Jarvis or Joseph Ridgway. 
I shall keep daily notes of fish caught, with their weight 
and report results. From all that I can glean, I have rea¬ 
son to believe that Barnegat presents the finest opening on 
the coast for bass fishing. I have known over 3,000 lbs. of 
striped bass to be eaught in one hour in surf, fish varying 
from 5 to 60 lbs.-” 
Speaking of blue fishing, there seems to be as much of a 
disposition to test his game qualities with fly, as there is the 
shad’s. An old angler, not unknown to many of our 
readers by his nom deplume, who spent last winter in Florida, 
experimented largely with light tackle and fly ‘while there, 
and tried the blue fish too. In a brief note he kindly gives 
us the result. He says: 
It was at Jupiter inlet, in February last. We fished from 
the beach, throwing against a high wind, and did not 
often get our flies out to the vicinity of the blue fish, but 
we had fine sport nevertheless. We landed many Cavalli 
and “Bone fish,” and three blue fish of about seven pounds 
each in weight. We had many more blue fish booked, but 
lost them, sometimes from want of line to let them run 
and at other times we had our fish taken off by sharks before 
we ccruld land them. 
I think that if “ A1 Fresco” will try at Barnegat, Sal- ■ 
mon tackle and fly he will become less enthusiastic 
about “ squidding.” Yours truly, B. .Hackle, 
—There is first rate black fishing (tautog) on the Black 
Warrior wreck in Canarsie Bay. Some ten day’s since 
Capt. Da\fts, of Yatch Siren, E. H. Madison, and two of* 
their friends, took seventy-eight there in two hours, and 
the fishing should be better now than then. 
—All fish in season are in fair quantity in our markets. 
Some few mackerel are still caught in the immediate 
vicinity of New York, but the bulk of the fish are now 
coming from Massachusetts. King-fish from along the 
coast of Long Island and New Jersey are fine and plentiful. 
Shad continue in good supply and at reasonable figures, 
coming mostly from Connecticut. On Monday last a fair 
run of very prime shad were struck off Coney Island, and 
on the same day there was a remarkably good catch all 
along the North River as far up as Yonkers, These fish 
were finer, in fact, than have been seen for some years past. 
Salmon very scarce, and almost coming entirely, from the 
Provinces. Worth retail sixty cents a pound. Sheepshead 
have put in an appearance, and are coming in notable 
quantity from all along the coast, as far south as Virginia, 
and up to New Jersey. Welcome too are the blue-fish, 
which are now decorating the fish stands, having been 
caught off Barnegat. The halibut fleet are making large 
fares, and the vessels are bringing in from 200 to 300 of 
these fine fish, each trip from the Georges. All hands de¬ 
clare that the halibut are finer than have been seen for the 
last five years. Bass rather scarce. The Potomac catch of 
this king of fish has given out. What is m the market comes 
from the Connecticut River. The difference between a 
northern and southern bass, as to eating, is all in favo r of 
the former. Trout very scarce, worth $1. a pound. 
—We were pleased to have a visit from O. M. Holmes, 
Esq., of Boston, a prominent and active member of the 
inter 
Mass. Anglers Club. Mr. Holmes’ visit had for its end and 
aim, Lobsters, as a paragraph in the Forest and Stream 
had particularly called attention to the fact that lobsters 
coming from the eastward, far below the size allowed to be 
caught, were constantly exposed for sale in our market! 
We are glad to state, that Mr. Llolmes, having called on the 
owners of smacks in the city, was assured by them, of 
their ignorance of the law, and that in future their cap¬ 
tains would be instructed to let the small lobsters severely 
alone, and that they would all most cheerfully co-operate 
with the Mass. Anglers Association, in endeavoring to pre¬ 
vent the catching of lobsters below the limit of size al¬ 
lowed, which is ten and a half inches. 
—The Newport Mercury says that cod fishing has never 
been so good at Block Island within the memory oFtlie 
oldest inhabitant as it is at the present time. The fish 
boats get full hauls of these fish in less than half a day. 
—The Chatham, (Mass.) Moulton tells how Capt. David 
Kent, was quietly engaged in fishing for cod the other day 
from his dory on the ground known as Pollock Rip, wait¬ 
ing patiently for a nibble, when suddenly without the 
smallest intimation of what was to happen, he felt his dory 
dart through the water at a miraculous rate of speed and 
with such velocity as to throw him off his balance to the 
bottom of the boat. He held on for dear life while the. 
unseen power beneath the sea dragged him mercilessly for¬ 
ward as though urged by Neptune’s pitch-fork in the hands 
of the briny sea-god himself. Matters beginning to look 
serious, he crept cautiously forward, fearful of overturning 
the boat, and with knife-in.hand, cut the anchor rope by 
which the boat was drawn. Soon afterwards the spout of 
a whale explained to the astonished spectators the source 
of the motive power. A monster of this' species had be¬ 
come entangled with the anchor and rope by which the 
dory was moored. The boat was carried about two hun¬ 
dred yards. 
—The first salmon of the season made his appearance 
somewhat earlier than usual this year in the St. Croix 
River, Me. He was captured Tuesday morning, May 12th, 
in the weir of Mr. Luther Barber. 
—The Hartford Times records the ca pture, the other day 
of the first good sized salmon taken in the Connecticut 
River in modern times, and hails it as the beginning of the 
fruits of stocking the upper waters. It was taken in 
Keeney’s Cove two miles below Hartford, by Frank Smith 
of that city, and weighed six and a half pounds. 
—The fishing season has opened in Lake Champlain, and 
those who now take occasion to “drop a line,” are likely 
to take a very good catch of black bass, pike-perch, and 
pickerel, to say nothing of cusk, “and such.” 
—A letter from our correspondent at Meacham Lake 
(Adirondack district) dated May 21st, says:— 
Our season is very late. The ice did not go out until 
May 13th, but the fishing begins to be verj^ fine. We have 
two Brooklyn boys here who caught sixty-five trout yester¬ 
day. The salmon trout trolling will be in its prime next 
week, I caught three salmon-trout yesterday, the first of the 
season: they are in fine condition. I will send a small box of 
fish to Brooklyn soon, will try to show you how they look. 
Fly-fishing will begin in about ten days. Then all those 
over anxious fishermen can work as hard as they please. 
The trout run large this season. A. R. F. 
—A party of three gentlemen, Messrs. C. E. Graves and 
J. W. Davis, Special Agents U. S. Treasury Department, 
Boston, and Geo. F. Leonard, U. S. Mail Agent of Ver¬ 
mont, returned from a short visit to Nova Scotia Monday 
morning with a splendid show of trout, to the quality of 
which one of our corps testifies; they captured upwards of 
500, weighing from L to 2$ pounds each, all in the east 
branch of the Tusket River, Yarmouth county. One of 
the party caught in the main stream a Salmon weighing 
10i pounds. The small Salem fly with blue jay wings and 
the large Montreal fly were the most taking. They recom¬ 
mend anglers who want good fishing at a reasonable ex¬ 
pense, to take the steamer Linda which leaves Boston 
Thursday noons for Yarmouth, N. S., and then by team to 
the river, where they may be almost certain of success. 
Good sport may be expected' through the month of June. 
—Our friend Maxfield, of Wyoming Co., Pennsylvania, 
says that a boy brought in a small string of sixty trout last 
week, but pleads that the fish don’t bite very well yet ! If 
those of our anglers who wish to go to Pennsylvania this sea¬ 
son will take train for Lovelton, they will find Maxfield 
ready to post them upon some of the finest wilderness 
streams in the State. Maxfield is an old hunter who has 
knocked about that country for fifty years. 
—“ A clam at high water” is regarded as.emblematic of 
perfect happiness, but when this symbolic clam is placed 
in juxtaposition with divine music, what a climax of 
supreme delight it may be supposed is attained! It is 
seldom that practical, plodding man aspires to this associa¬ 
tion of ideas, but when he does, it is easy to conceive the 
results that must follow. Clams and music! Ecstatic— 
robust—invigorating! It has been left to Mr. N. R. Waring, 
the proprietor of the Newark Valley Trout Ponds to com¬ 
bine the two, and it is advertised that on the 4th day of 
June next ho will open his establishment with a “ bank of 
clams ” and a band of music. The grounds comprise six 
acres of land, containing thirteen ponds and twenty-four 
buildiugs and are located in the beautiful village of Newark 
Valley, ten milSs north of Owego, and fifty-eight miles 
south of Auburn, on the line of the Southern Central 
Railroad. 
We thankfully acknowledge season tickets from the 
proprietor. 
—W. C. Prime is fly-fishing the Connecticut for shad, 
