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irom rural kettledrums and teafights are the croquet tour¬ 
naments at Wimbledon. Here the ground is smoothed and 
bevelled till the turf is like a billiard cloth, and the hoops 
are almost as small as the balls. The players have their 
own terms, and talk about giving “bisques,” and other tech¬ 
nicalities unintelligible to the ear of the uninitiated. They 
have made their play quite a science, and it is as difficult 
every bit to make certain strokes as to be certain of a kiss 
cannon or to take W. G. Grace’s bails off. The champion 
player of England is Mr. Walsh, the editor of the best 
sporting paper, “The Field,” and I have heard that one of 
his greatest opponents is no one else but that radical Bar¬ 
onet, who is trying to upset “our Vendome Column,” 
namely Sir. Charles Dilke, M. P. Idstone, Junior. 
THE OSWEGO PIGEON SHOOT. 
We append herewith the scores of the pigeon shooting 
matches that took place at the late State Convention,which 
may prove serviceable to many of our readers for reference. 
Fifth day—shooting at double birds : 
SCORE. 
Eighteen yards—10 double rises each. 
Name. Killed.\ Name. 
Barnum.'-18 Roberts. 
Witmer. 15 Shimer. 
Nichols.14'Pitz. 
Jones.13 
Babcock.13 
Hinsdale.16 
Morse.14 
Hoag.12 
Hooker. 18 
Peer.15 
Abbey. ..11 
Burroughs.16 
Fisher T.14 
Brown. 15 
Lamberton.18 
Seymour.10 
Murray .14 
Stevenson..17 
Ely.16 
Nnttiflg 
Higham 
Killed. 
.15 
.14 
.12 
Stein.14 
Garrison. 3 
Lobb.19 
Sargent.12 
Dr/Kennedy.17 
Heintz. 14 
Kimber. 17 
Couch.18 
Dorr.13 
Hambleton..19 
G. 'Smith_•..19 
Weiss.14 
Newell.18 
Truman.17 
Babcock.16 
Lansing.16 
16|Gale....13 
12iGreen Smith.13 
Walzer.14 Gerber.]6 
P. Tompkins.18 H. Smith.14 
Hudson.Ill 
E. B. Hambleton and Geo. Smith, both of the Forester 
Club, of Buffalo, had killed nineteen birds each and as 
they concluded not to shoot off the tie, the first prize, one 
of Remington’s best breech-loaders, was awarded to them 
jointly to dispose of as they might think proper. 
Ties of 18—21 yards, 5 double rises. 
Brown. 51 Couch. 5 
Walzer. llNewell. S 
The second prize, the Turf, Field and Farm cup, was 
awarded to R. He well, of the Forester Club, of Buffalo. 
Ties of 17—21 yards, 5 double birds. 
Barnum. 4 Kimber. 4 
Murray. 2jTruman. 9 
Kennedy ruled out. ! 
Tli; third prize, a case (24 pounds) of Oriental Falcon 
ducking powder, was awarded to F. Truman of the Ilion 
Sportsmen’s Club. 
Ties of 16—21 yards, 5 double birds. 
Himsdale. . 1; Babcock.5 
Abbey, ruled out. lLansing. .8 
Stevenson. 0|Gerber, Jr. 0 
The fourth prize, Parker’s belt, was awarded to W. S. 
Lansing, of the Forester Club, of Buffalo. 
Immediately after the conlusion of the double bird 
shoot, the single trap shoot was commenced ; 59 entries ; 
E. Garrison and S. T. Johnson, judges, S. H. Turrill, 
referee. 
SCORE. 
Long . 8 Lusk. 
Hoag.10 
Barnum. 8 
Waterman. 8 
Estes. 7 
Porter__-. 51Hudson.10 
Hambleton. t .lOjHooker. . 7 
Burroughs. 8 
Lawrence. 9 
Lucas. 9 
Stevenson.10 
Trowbridge. 8 
G. Loder_ 
Bex. 
R. Tompkins 
Page. 
Couch. 
Witmer. 
Higham. 10 
Geo. Smith. 9 
Laverack. 6 
Walzer. 7 
Hinsdale. 
Babcock. 6 
Lamberton. 7 
McManus. 1 
Lyman. 6 
Cozer. 6 
9 i Carter. 6 
9 i Truman. 8 
Burroughs . 7 
Sargent.7 
Fulton. 7 
Morse . 7 
McKinley. 9 
Nichols. 7 
Allen. 8 
Poucher. 7 
Harman.. . 9 
Wright.10 Lansing. 7 
FI ewer 
Murray. 9 
Stalbaum.. 4 
Lobb. 4 
Morse. 9 
Gale. 6 
Lockwood. 
Hoyt. 9 
Nutting. 7 
Newell”.10 
Brown. 6 
Smith . 7 
Green Smith. 9 Stroup. 5 
Dorr. .8| 
SIXTH AND LAST DAY—SATURDAY. 
Shooting of ties on the match of the previous day. 
Ties of 10—26 yards. 
Hoag.. 2 Wright. 0 
Lusk. 1 
i Hudson. 5 
ag... 
Hambleton. 1 
Stevenson.3 
Higham. 1 
Newell. 4 
Ed. Hudson, of the Central City Club, of Syracuse, first 
prize, Parker Bro.’s breech loader. 
Ties of 9—26 yards. 
Lawrence.. 2 Morse..0 
Green Smith. 1 
McKinley. 1 
Harmon. 5 
Hoyt. 0 
Lucas. 5 
Loder. 3 
Bex. 0 
George Smith. 2 
Murray. 2 
The second prize, the Forest and Stream vase, was 
awarded to R, B. Harmon, of Central City Club, of Syra¬ 
cuse. 
' Ties of 8—26 yards. 
Long.Withdrew Witmer. 0 
Burroughs. ... 0 Hinsdale.. . 0 
Trowbridge. 2 Dorr.* 
Tompkins.. 5 Waterman. 0 
Page. 11 Truman. 0 
Barnum. OiAllen....■ 3 
Crouch. li 
The third prize, a pocket rifle, was awarded to P. 
Tompkins, of the Dean Richmond Club, of Batavia. 
Ties of 7—26 yards. 
Laverack. 0 
Walzer. 1 
Flower. 3 
Estes. ‘t 
Hooker. 0 
Lamberton. 4 
Burroughs.2 
Sargent. 1 
Fulton. 1 
Morse. 0 
Nichols. 
Poucher.1 
Lansing. 5 
Lockwood... 0 
Nutting..... 0 
Hiram Smith. 00 
The fourth prize, a silver mounted revolver, was award¬ 
ed to W. S. Lansing of the Forester Club, of Buffalo. 
THE DEAN RICHMOND CUP. 
The single trap shoot was concluded at 11 o’clock, and 
the contest for the grand State prize, the Dean Richmond 
Cup, open to all organized clubs of this State, members of 
the State Association, was in order. The cup to be the 
property of the club winning it three times. 
We give below the names of clubs and the representa¬ 
tives from them, with the official score. 
OFFICIAL SCORE. 
Forester Club, Buffalo. 
R. Newell _ 
16 
George Smith . 
18 
F. B. Hambleton. 
. 16 
50 
Central City Club, Syracuse. 
E. Hudson . 
.... 14 
R. B. Harmon _ 
1 
Dean Richmond Club, Batavia. 
47 
P. Tompkins . 
. 11 
O. J. Waterman. . 
. 16 
1 
46 
Niagara Falls Shooting Club. 
S. T. Murray . 
. 14 
J. M. Whitmer. .. 
. 17 
. 
i 
43 
Monroe County Club, Rochester. 
H. G. Lucas . 
. 14 
Hiram Smith . 
. 11 
J. H. Brown . 
. 16 
41 
Audubon Club, Rochester. 
A. B. Lamberton. . 
. 141 
C. C. Morse . 
. 13 
W. J. Babcock _ 
. 11 
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The Foresters won the cup. This being the 
second 
time, they have only to win it next year to retain it. 
jfua and Oliver ffisltiiig. 
FISH IN SEASON IN JULY. 
Salmon, Salmo Solar. Salmon trout. Salmo conjinis. 
Tru , S n> ‘Vrii it'G MichiganGrayling. Thymallus tricolor 
Land-locked Salmon, Salmo gloveri micropterus nigricans. 
Black Bass, micropterus salmoides. Sea trout, Salmo immaculatus. 
Striped Bass, Roccus lineatus. Weakflsh. 
Bluefish, temnodon saltator. 
—It rarely happens that salmon retail in the market at 
twenty cents, but this is about the price to-day of the bulk 
of the fish coming from the Miramichi River. Maine 
salmon are scarce in Hew York. It is not to be supposed 
from the fact that we do not see them on the slabs in 
Fulton Market that they are not caught. Boston takes all 
that is offered, and pays from thirty to thirty-five cents for 
them. Just*now the heavy demand for the Saratoga hotels 
commences. The Grand Union’s fish consumption is about 
200 pounds ox salmon per diem; multiply this by six or 
seven and you get some 1,400 pounds of salmon to be eaten 
up per diem at Saratoga alone, not counting the trout, bass 
and fresh mackerel. Spanish mackerel coming in nearer 
home. Some fine fellows were caught early this week off 
Long Island and Hew Jersey and brought seventy-five cents 
a pound. The bulk still coming from the south and selling 
at thirty-five cents. Pompanoes in good supply from Hortli 
Carolina and down to forty cents. The epicures now are 
not alone in the market for this delicate fish; the first class 
restaurant keepers now add them to their bills of fare. 
Bass coming in plenty from Rhode Island. On Monday 
last some 3,000 pounds arrived in one fishing smack, 
averaging thirty pounds, worth fifteen cents for big ones 
and eighteen cents for the smaller ones. Sheep’s heads 
rather scarce, the rush being over; worth twenty cents. 
Blue fish in quantity, coming from everywhere from the 
Delaware coasts, away up to Cape Cod; worth eight cents. 
Halibut from the Georges plentiful, and selling at fifteen 
cents. There never was such a mass of turtle on the 
market. The big city is not alone the exclusive green 
turtle soup maker and consumer. Country towu restau¬ 
rateurs purchase turtle, and rural populations glory in 
him. Absent or scarce are the soft crabs just now, but 
they are off and on, (we mean the crabs and their shells,) 
and we may have them again in plenty, as the soft crab 
harvest lasts until October. Good handsome lobsters are 
arriving from the Jersey coast. Fishermen are now mak 
ing a business of catching them, and perhaps 800 pounds a 
day are coming in. How if Jerseymen will only be careful 
to let the little ones alone, it may become a good business. 
Fish dealers, restaurant keepers and canners ought to re¬ 
fuse all small lobsters, so as to preserve the species. 
—A good fishing ground for black fish at Barnegat is 
near the boiler of the wreck Idaho. 
—A Rhode Island correspondent speaks of having taken 
a fifty-eight pound bass last week, but does not tell where. 
—The Fall River JSews is responsible for whatever there 
is fishy about the following story:—One day last week the 
fishing tug A. W. Hathaway, Captain Hickerson, belong¬ 
ing to Joseph Curch & Co., of Little Compton, pursed up 
about 3,000 barrels of menhaden, and when they supposed 
they had them secure, the fish in a mass started off shore, 
towing the steamer after them some ten miles, when the 
fishermen cut the seine clear and let them go. It is a good 
story for warm weather. 
—By buying a ticket to Tuckerton Southern Railroad of 
Jersey, and going to Capt. Bond’s Long Beach House, the 
best sheepshead fishing can be enjoyed. They have been 
averaging twelve pounds apiece. 
Canarsie Bay at present is bare of fish, and an attempt 
off Sandy Hook last Monday to take blue fish resulted in 
total failure. 
—Our Shrewsbury correspondent, “Check Cord,” writes 
us a doleful letter deploring the great waste of weak fish, 
bass and other valuable food fish on Raritan Bay and river, 
where they are caught by cart loads and used by the 
farmers for manure. If there is no other law to prevent or 
punish this prodigality, we surmise that those who spread 
these fish upon their land might be indicted for an intoler¬ 
able nuisance. Surely, fish ought to be cheap in the 
markets of Hew York City, with such abundance at its 
doors, and prices could be kept at such a figure as to make 
it more remunerative to fishermen to bring them to market 
than to sell them for manure, and still not be burdensome 
to the poor. 
—Our correspondent M. M. B., who has recently visited 
Cape May and Atlantic City, reports the season late, with 
but few visitors at the hotels. Blue fish were abundant. 
—Ashland House, Atlantic City, H. J., by Rodgers & 
Wilkins, is open for the season. 
—Last week Mr. B. F. Howard, of Wareham, Mass., 
caught seventjr-six striped bass with hook and line, above 
the bridge and within five hundred yards of the railroad 
depot at Wareham, in about two hours. Other parties 
were equally successful. 
—Buzzard’s Bay and its estuaries continue to furnish an 
abundance of sport to its visitors. We are continually in 
receipt of good reports from that vicinity. Blue fish, 
striped and rock bass, tortog, scup and squeteague are its 
inhabitants. 
—D. L. D., of St. Louis, who is a member of the Mur¬ 
dock Lake Fishing Club, informs us that club is still in a 
flourishing condition, though its membership is limited to 
a small number. Another club recently formed has a club 
house and resident superintendent at King’s Lake. D. L. 
D. has just returned from a short excursion to tlie lakes 
around Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where he captured some 
splendid bass and pickerel. He says:—“I know of no point 
so convenient in this section of country where one can go 
and enjoy a few days’fishing with such prospects of suc¬ 
cess as Oconomowoc, about thirty miles north-west of Mil¬ 
waukee.” 
—Trout fishing exceptionally good in Hortliern Hew 
Hampshire at present. 
—There is a law now on its passage through the Hew 
Hampshire Legislature which protects black bass during 
the months of May and June. This restriction ought to 
pass, and apply to other States as well. 
—Corbin’s Union Hotel at Canaan, Connecticut, affords 
first rate accommodations at very reasonable rates; is the 
centre of a large sporting region, and can be reached by 
the Hew Haven & ILousatonic roads at 8 A. M. and 3 P. 
M. from Grand Central, (for $3.00) or by Harlem & Conn. 
Western railroad, at 9.30 A. M. or 3 (?) P. M., fare the 
sarnie. Boats, baits and tackle to be had at Twin Lakes. 
—Our correspondent S. C. Clarke, whose winter sketches 
of Florida so frequently entertained our readers, is booked 
for the Hepigon. Ho less than twenty subscribers of 
Forest and Stream will visit that grand fishing ground 
this season, and we have respectfully solicited for them 
every attention from the Hudson Bay Company’s agent at 
Red Rock, Robert Crawford, Esq. 
—A friend who visited the fish stall of F. H. Johnson, 
Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, last Friday, found a 331b. 
salmon from the St. Lawrence River, near Quebec. Can¬ 
adian salmon are running unusually large this year. 
—John Wilkinson, of Chicago, with a party of three, 
started for the Hepigon River, July 8 tli. 
—We tender our thanks to Messrs. Thomas & Co., pro¬ 
prietors of the Manitou House, at Manitou, Colorado, for 
courtesies and invitation extended. Manitou is in one of 
the best trout fishing centres of the Rocky Mountain 
region, and the season extends through July and August. 
—One of the best trout regions within . striking distance 
of Hew York lies on the borders of Sullivan and Ulster 
counties, and includes "the famous Beaverkill and the Wil- 
lewemoc rivers. Frank Forester years ago sang the praises 
of the Willewemoc, and although its trout are not so abun¬ 
dant now as then, they are nevertheless numerous and 
often large, thanks to the efforts of a number of Pough¬ 
keepsie gentlemen to protect the river. At the head of the 
Willewemoc is the beautiful lake of that name, set in a 
basin formed by hills, on the borders of which stand the 
snug quarters of the Willewemoc Club, composed of the 
gentlemen named. From this lake to where the river 
flows into the Deleware the distance is about fourteen miles, 
and the lower six miles of stream is free to all, and affords 
really excellent fishing. The bed of the river is broken into 
rapids and pools, the water is clear as crystal, and the 
width of stream ample for comfortable fiy-casting. By 
taking the 6 o’clock morning train of the Oswego Midland 
Railroad the angler can reach Morrstown at noon, distance 
one hundred and seventeen miles, enjoy the afternoon fish¬ 
ing, and fish all the next day until 3-£- o’clock, when the train 
will bear him back to this city and land him at Courtland 
or Desbrosses street at 10i o’clock with his fish fresh and 
ready for the morning breakfast. We give this informa¬ 
tion for the especial benefit of gentlemen who have no op¬ 
portunity for long vacations. Mr. Davis keeps a snug 
hostelry at Morrston, and will show the readers of Forest 
and Stream every attention, at most moderate charges— 
$1.50 per day we believe. Railroad fares say $3.50 each 
way. 
Eight miles from Morrston by wagon road is Murdock s 
celebrated summer boarding house on the Beaverkill. His 
guests are afforded every facility for trout fishing. 
