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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 11, 
1884. 
{ VOL. XX1IT.—No. 7. 
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CONTENTS. 
| Tom KENNEL, 
The Phantom Showman, 
Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Range and Gallery. 
New Jersey State 1 ‘Tournament, 
The Canadian Wimbledon. 
Bellaire Schuetzen Society, 
The Trap 
Pr ease New York Club. 
New York State Tournament. 
CANOEING. 
Amateur Canoe Building.—xty. 
American Canoe Association. 
Lights on Small Boats. 
Sailing Courses at Grindstone 
EDITORIAL, 
Wyoming Game and Fish. 
National Breeders’ Show, 
THE Sportsman Tourist. 
The Log of the Bucktail. 
NaturaAu History. 
Antidote for Serpent’s Venom. 
Small Bird Destruction. 
Gamer BAG AND Gun. 
Bullet versus Buckshot. 
Opening Day at Worcester. 
Illinois Shooting Grounds, 
New York Game Laws, 
Game Law Jurisdiction. 
The Season Opens in Michigan, 
Notes from Boston, 
CAMP-FIRD FLICKERINGS. Tsland. 
SEA AND RIVER FISHING. Amendments to the Sailing 
On the Mooselucmaguntic, Rules 
Tim and Seven Ponds. The Dre owning of Mr, Allen. 
The Monster Black Bass, Some A. C, A. Rules. 
Trouting in New Hampshire. The Galley Fire. 
Skinning the Trout Streams, Vegetables, 
FISHCULTURE. YACHTING. 
The New York Fish Commission Oe Boat Bees on the Bay. 
Shellfisheries of Connecticut. Hull Y. C., b. 6. 
THE KENNEL. Larchmont renee Races, 
English Kennel Notes.—xu1, San Fr sae Y. C,, Aug, 30. 
The National Association, | Beverly Y. 
Lancaster Bench Show. Hastern Y. o. Sloops and Outter 
Great Danes. Races, 
Philadelphia K. C. Show. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
WYOMING GAME AND FISH. 
\O far as talk and legislative enactments go, Wyoming is 
far ahead of the other Territories on all questions per- 
taining to game protection and fishculture. It has a game 
protective association, whose headquarters are in Cheyenne, 
and this association has originated much of the excellent 
legislation upon this subject. We have never been able to 
_ learn, however, that this body has done anything to enforce 
the laws which it has fathered. That the matter is one 
which presents many difficulties we are quite prepared to 
admit. Without funds to pay officers it is manifestly im- 
possible to efficiently police a great and sparsely settled coun- 
try; and if such necessary funds are not to be had in the 
thickly settled and wealthier districts of the Bast, as they 
are not, it is searcely to he expected that they would be con- 
tributed by the busy settlers of a comparatively new coun- 
try. One plan, however, might be adopted by this society, 
and ata merely nominal cost might prove very effective. 
Prominent among the officers and directors of the Wyoming 
Game Protective Association are a number of the leading 
stock men of the country, individuals who own thousands 
of head of cattle, or who represent corporations which own 
tens of thousands. Many of these men are officers, or are 
prominent in the councils, of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ 
Association, a body which largely controls the most impor- 
tant interests of the Territory. If the men who are mem- 
bers both of the stock association and the game protective 
association could be induced to move actively in the matter, 
the stock detectives, employed by the former association, 
could be appointed deputy sheriffs with power to arrest all 
violators of the game laws as well as other offenders, These 
stock detectives are constantly traveling through the Terri- 
tory, and in every direction, and would be the men of all 
others the most likely to run across parties of game butchers. 
What is needed in the wilder sections of the West more 
than anything else—if our game is to be protected—is some 
one to frighten away the wholesale butchers. Something 
should be done to create an impression that the game is being 
looked after. If it were generally believed by the skin- 
‘The latter will be under the auspices of the Philadelphia 
-refer to people in this way, we always prefer first to know 
hunter and the English, Eastern and Western slaughtering 
parties, who now make annual trips to the mountains for 
game, that the Territorial statutes were rigidly enforced, 
there would he a general migration of such people to other 
regions where there were more lenient laws less stringently 
carried into effect. 
That the game is going fast is more true now than ever 
before, but it has been repeated so often that people cease to 
heed the warning. The cry is becoming monotonous. It is 
going fast, and ultimately it must all go; but let us try to 
make its decrease as gradual as possible; let us protest 
against all useless slaughter. 
In the matter of fishculture in Wyoming, on the other 
hand, we can see some tangible results. The fact that no 
trout are found in any of the streams flowing into the North 
Platte River, except such as have been planted in them, 
makes the question of fish food an interesting one to a large 
proportion of the inhabitants of the Territory. Among the 
newspapers which have urged the importance of the subject 
on the people, one of the most important is the Laramic 
Sentinel, whose editor, Doctor J. H. Hayford, is well known 
throughout the Territory as one of its most able and enterpris- 
ing citizens, In arecent issue he gives an account of the 
steps recently taken in behalf of fishculture in Wyoming, 
and this account we publish elsewhere. 
THE OREHEDMOOR MEETING. 
i ae fall meeting at the national range opened on Tues- 
day last with a very fair showing for a good time. The 
hot weather made life on the-range rather uncomfortable, but 
competition made it still warmer, and, with the steady wind 
which prevailed, the shooting was above the average. lt 
looks as though the efforts of the board in offering liberal 
prize lists were to be rewarded with an abundant return in 
the way of entrance fees, and if it can be shown that free 
outlay meets a generous response from the marksmen, it is 
likely that our Creedmoor meetings will again become 
events of note. There is a fair representation among the 
several matches of the various shooting elements. The regu- 
lars are there as far as they can be spared, and the militia 
of three States show sufficient interest to put teams in the 
inter-State match. The individual matches seem to be well 
filled, enough in each at least to make a sharp struggle neces- 
sary if any prizes are to be taken. In fact, it is a meeting 
of experts, and it may be well to consider whether it is not 
wise in such gatherings to have a system of classificd 
matches, as is the practice in trap-shooting, and so give the 
marksmen of inferior but growing skill some chance of 
securing a trophy. It seems likely that the five days of the 
meeting will be clear of bad weather. We hope they may, 
that the experiment of the board may have a full and com- 
plete trial. In our next issue a full report of the meetings 
with detailed scores, will be given. 
THE NATIONAL BREEDERS’ SHOW. 
VERY erroneous opinion appears to have obtained in 
3 certain quarters respecting the dog show which will be 
given in Philadelphia next month, A false impression has 
been created by the misinformation so industriously circu- 
lated by those who have for some reason, quite beyond con- 
jecture, assumed an aggressive attitude to ward the proposed 
exhibition. 
The National Breeders’ show will be given a month later 
than the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society’s dog show. 
Kennel Club, That there might be no possible confusion in 
the public mind, the secretary of the October show withheld 
all public mention of that exhibition until such time as the 
entries of the September show should be in. 
But pending the official announcement of the Breeders’ 
show, the Philadelphia Kernel Club sent out circulars broad- 
cast, denouncing it a8 a speculative affair and inimical to 
the kennel interests of the country. This journal was im- 
portuned to take a firm stand against the October show, on 
the ground that it was speculative. We declined to do so 
until we had some proof that it was as represented. We do 
not often have occasion to speak of individuals as parasites 
preying on dog owners; and when we do find it necessary to 
to whom the epithets are to apply. So we wrote to the 
gentleman who was reputed to be the secretury of the October 
show. His explanation of the origin and character of the 
exhibition was printed in the last number of this journal. 
The facts being given, the charge that the show was to be 
speculative was at once seen to be utterly absurd. The 
sponsors are gentlemen of wealth and high standing; to de- 
fend them from the silly charge of preying on dog owners and 
giving a dog show'for speculative purposes would be an affront 
to themselves and to the public. 
To defend the judges from 
the abuse with which journalistic ignorance or malignity 
has already greeted them would be another affront to the in- 
telligence and fair-mindedness of the public. 
Having learned the facts, instead of denouncing the Octo- 
ber show as a speculative venture, we said last week that 
the names of those connected with it were a sufficient guar- 
antee of its good standing, and we added that we thought it 
would have the cordial support of owners, breeders and ex- 
hibitors. It surely deserves this, all the more now that it 
has weathered the thunderstorm of ill-advised opposition. 
We take pleasure in indulging the belief that those who have 
misconstrued its character, now that they are better informed, 
will gracefully change their attitude and give the gentlemen 
who are at the back of the National Breeders’ Show their 
hearty co-operation. 
Boy MarksMEN,—This heading may appear somewhat of 
a bull, but a bull in a china shop does not create half the 
commotion that some of these boy shooters have made 
among the old crack shots. The lad Whitney has been 
creating something of a furore in the shoots about his 
Central New York home. He has been filling in his 
vacation by dropping in at shooting tournaments and scoop 
ing up the major prizes, while the grizzled old mug-hunters 
who have been calculating on a ‘‘sure thing” have been 
left badly out. He, the boy, will have a superabundance 
of small change for sweets and toys, while they, the 
M. Hs., will be sadly short on their tobacco fallowance. 
It will become a serious question, if this thing is to go on, 
whether it will not be wise to get up a handicapping rule on 
an age allowance with an inverse ratio factor so that the 
veterans will stand in to the trap while the infant shooters 
will be back by the grand stand. The question will natur- 
ally arise, how is it that. mere youths, who have had no 
training as shots, can pick up a gun, often an inferior one, 
and do much uniformly good work. There is in snap- 
shooting a certain knack, or instinct or trick, or whatever 
else it may be called which marks the good shot. It is 
that interaction of the brain, eye and hand, which must be 
brought into play if the shot is to be anything more than 
the wildest chance. This may be acquired by training and 
effort, and is so secured in the majority of cases. Occas- 
lonally it seems to exist naturally, and then the phenomenal 
shot appears conspicious when he is a boy, not so much so 
when the ability is suddenly discovered by a full grown 
man. As this knack can he acquired so it can be lost, and 
it would not be surprising to see these wonderful marksmen 
of one season, prove very commonplace ones the next. 
ANOTHER ‘‘Don’?.”—Our list of cautionary ‘‘Don’ts,” it 
appears, was not complete. We must add to it ‘Don’t hang 
your loaded gun up on the wall.” Here is an illustration 
of what happened to one man who did it: “Lightning 
struck the house of John Qucen, of Jacob’s Creek, Pa., 
knocked from the wall his loaded gun, and at the same 
instant his daughter Nancy dropped dead. The gun was 
discharged, and the contents struck her in the breast. 
Whether she met her death by theilightning or the shot will 
never be known.” 
Tun SurroLk County Prorector.—We notice in the 
papers a report that some of the Suffolk county sports- 
men are moving to secure the withdrawal of the present 
occupant from the office of game protector, on the ground 
that he has not succeeded in breaking up the netting of wild 
fowl in Long Island waters. On the other hand, the game 
protector avers that he is not responsible for what is only an 
apparent dereliction on his part, and requests a suspension 
of judgment until the facts are known. 
PHILADHLPHIA Doe Sxow Entrms.—We have received 
a dispatch from Mr. Chas, Lincoln stating that the entries 
for the bench show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club num- 
ber nearly six hundred, and that among them are very many 
fine animals. 
Tue YELLOWSTONE PARK.—One of the staff of this jour- 
nal is visiting the National Yellowstone Park, a region with 
which former visits haye made him familiar. The results 
of his present investigations there will be given in these 
columns, 
Hatr-Cockep.—A gun that goes off at half cock rarely 
hits any game. More often it is liable to wound the person 
holding it. 
