Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1894. 
[ VOL. XLm.— No. 23. 
! No. 318 Broadway, New York. 
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CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
Control of Trap ShootiDg. 
Centerboard and Keel. 
Snap Shots. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
Love's Eyes. 
After "Little Divin' Fowl." 
The Florida Cowboy. 
Natural History. 
Foxes Climb Florida Pines. 
Lassoed Moose. 
The Lord of the Glen. 
Game Bag and Gun. 
Chicago and the West. 
A Jolly Time in North Carolina. 
In New Jersey Covers. 
Why Heavy Charges ? 
Thanksgiving in the Woods. 
South Dakota Goose Shooting. 
In Maine Woods. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Autumnal Musinps 
"Red Trout," Kennerley's Sal- 
mon. 
Angling Notes. 
Pleasant Pond Landlocked Sal- 
mon. 
Proposed Minnesota Association 
The Kennel. 
Eastern Field Trials. 
National Fox Hunters' Associa- 
tion Meet. 
U. S. F. T. Derby Entries. 
Manitoba Field Trial Club. 
Dog Chat. 
Yachting. 
The Dunraven Letter. 
The Centerboard. 
A FaBt Model Yacht. 
Small British Racing Craft. 
An International Measurement 
System. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Cincinnati Rifles. 
Zettler Rifle Club. 
Gallery Tournament. 
Rifle Notes. 
Trap Shooting. 
Effect of Wadding Material upon 
Performance of Shotguns. 
New Utrecht Gun Club Scores. 
After the Ball. 
Morfey— Batsch. 
The Ioterstate's Review. 
Work Won the Cup. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Answers to Queries. 
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CONTROL OF TRAP-SHOOTING. 
In a report of a shooting match in our trap columns 
last week it was stated that one of the participants had 
purposely missed certain of his birds in order that he 
might make a lower score than he would have made if 
he had shot honestly; and it was alleged that his object in 
resorting to this trickery was to win money from some of 
his friends. The person thus accused sends us a note, 
which is printed elsewhere to-day, in which he resents 
the charge of having betrayed his friends, and ingenu- 
ously asserts that he lowered his score in order to protect 
those friends in their betting. That he did purposely 
miss the birds he acknowledges, but defends this on the 
plea of it having been done with good intent. From all 
of which it appears that when this particular individual 
is engaged in a trap-shooting match the affair is not a 
straight and square competition of skill between sports- 
men, but is an underhanded manipulation of the score for 
the plucking of unsuspecting outsiders. In short, it is 
crookedness, and crookedness of a piece with marked 
cards, loaded dice, fixed rowing races, and such like 
tricks and devices resorted to by schemers and sharpers. 
Now it goes without saying that the honest sportsman 
does not want this sort of business in trap-shooting; and 
what is more, he will not have it. If trap-shooting can- 
not be kept clean, so that one may take part in it without 
feeling that he is participating in an industry of gamblers, 
he will say good-bye to trap-shooting and leave it to the 
professional tricksters. The Forest and Stream pro- 
poses to report upon, expose and denounce every instance 
of crooked work at the trap, when detected among 
shooters who are not known to be manipulators of their 
scores and at trap events where only honest sportsmen 
are supposed to be present. There is of course a certain 
grade of trap-shooting with which we do not concern our- 
selves, for it has no recognized place among decent people 
and does not come within the scope of a sportsman's 
journal. 
This case of the Morfey-Batsch match is one example 
of numerous trap shooting occurrences which should 
come under the notice of some constituted authority 
empowered to deal with them as they deserve. We need 
in trap-shooting some court of appeal or board of review, 
such as controls almost every other branch of amateur 
sport. There is for rowing the National Association of 
Amateur Oarsmen, for trotting the National Trotting 
Associatian, for kennel interests the American Kennel 
Club and for canoeing the American Canoe Association. 
Each of these constitutes a court before whom charges 
may be made respecting the unsportsmanlike conduct of 
individuals or clubs. The court takes the evidence, con- 
siders the case, finds the verdict and imposes the penalty. 
There should be just such a court for trap-shooting, and 
the time has come for its provision. Trap-shooting has 
suffered seriously already from the doings of old offenders 
in this line; the very fact that there has been no recog- 
nized authority to deal with abuses has given immunity 
to men of devious ways, and because not brought up with 
a turn they have grown bolder, until the public patience 
has been exhausted. When one comes to think of it, 
what a commentary it is upon the license of crooked trap- 
shooters when a man comes out, as in this case, and 
defends himself for dropping his birds on the ground that 
it was to help his friends win money. 
Forest and Stream's scheme is something on this 
order: Let an organization be formed by some of the 
leading gun clubs and associations, and the membership 
of all other gun clubs and shooting associations be solic- 
ited. Out of that organization choose a judicial board of 
examiners to whom all complaints shall be referred. The 
membership fee to such an organization might be merely 
nominal; enough to pay the expenses necessarily attend- 
ing the duties of the board and the officers of the associa- 
tion. All good and solid organizations which have the 
interests of trap-shooting at heart would join it. Let the 
board rule off, suspend or permanently disbar from all 
tournaments held by any gun club that is a member of 
that organization, any shooter found guilty of crooked 
work. 
That is the scheme. Why would it not work to the ad- 
vantage and purification and upbuilding of trap-shooting? 
CENTERBOARD AND KEEL. 
Within the past ten days the centerboard, after its 
recent sudden and mysterious disappearance, has, so to 
speak, come to the surface again, and furnished a lively 
topic of discussion. First Mr. Lewis J. Nixon, naval 
constructor of the Cramp Co., has denounced the center- 
board as an unscientific and unjustifiable makeshift; then 
Mr. A. Cary Smith, the noted yacht designer, comes for- 
ward with a tribute to the excellent seagoing powers of 
the new keel-ballast-board type represented by Vigilant 
and Navahoe; and finally comes a report from London 
that Lord Dunraven and Mr. Watson are at serious odds 
as to the question of a centerboard in the next challenger, 
the former contending for the board and the latter for the 
keel alone. 
The important question of the value of the centerboard, 
whether light or loaded, in a racing yacht of over 80ft. 
has not yet been discussed from a purely technical stand- 
point, and in a broad and unprejudiced manner, the 
parties on either side contenting themselves with super- 
ficial deductions from a few selected facts. 
The positive good qualities of the deep centerboard type 
of recent years, represented by Iroquois, Lasca and Vol- 
unteer, have been established beyond dispute; but where 
racing is the sole consideration, the type must give way 
to modern forms. A moment's consideration will show 
that in the only class in which the type is represented, the 
schooners of 80 to 90ft., a carle blanche order to the 
Herreshoffs for an up-to-date racer would outclass Emerald 
and Ariel in one season. So far as mere speed and racing 
is concerned, the type would disappear as completely in. 
the 80ft. class as it has in the 30, 40 and 46ft. 
When the discussion is limited strictly to speed, the 
chief argument for the centerboard, that advanced by 
Mr. Smith, of the results in all the late Cup races, is a 
most superficial one. In every race from 1885 to last year 
the centerboard representative has been the superior of 
the keel in so many vital points as to destroy the argu- 
ment that its success proves the superiority of the board 
in the face of all evidence to the contrary. In adapta- 
bility of model to American conditions, in superior power 
and sail area, in better opportunities for attaining the 
best racing form, the superiority of Puritan, Mayflower, 
Volunteer and Vigilant over their keel rivals would alone 
account for their victories; and in no way can these rad- 
ical differences be ignored and the sole credit given to 
the centerboard over the keel. 
The fairest test yet made of the two types in the large 
classes was that of Vigilant and Colonia. The two were 
of similar model, designed and built side by side by the 
same man, of similar construction and ballasting, with 
rigs almost identical in size and construction. The same 
equality maintained in skill of skippers and crew and in 
the minor details. The points of inequality were all in 
favor of the centerboard boat, a Tobin bronze instead of 
a steel bottom, a heavier crew further out to windward, 
a special steam tender to carry the '"cruising trim," and 
above all, the careful working up at the hands of the de- 
signer. Added to these was the vital fact that while 
Vigilant, drawing at least 13ft. without her board, was 
an extreme development of her type; Colonia, with no 
centerboard, drew only 18in. more, making her lament- 
ably deficient as compared with such standard keel 
craft as Wasp and Gloriana. 
With all these facts in mind, let those who witnessed 
the bold but hopeless struggle of Colonia say whether it 
proved the incontestable superiority of the centerboard 
over the keel, or whether, on the other hand, it was not 
the best of evidence that Colonia with the depth of keel 
which her length and model demanded would have been 
the equal or superior of Vigilant. 
Without taking up the performance of Valkyrie, or 
even that of Britannia this year, we are content to rest 
the case of the keel type on the positive performances of 
Kathleen, Minerva, Liris, Wasp and ^Gloriana in the 
smaller classes, and in particular on the negative argu- 
ment of Colonia's defeat by Vigilant in 1893. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
In the well-told story of his moose of 1894 Mr. L. C. 
Ivory noted the coincidence that this moose was called 
and shot at on the same day of the week as that of the 
year before, at the same time of the day and on almost 
the same day of the month; that the horns were almost a 
counterpart of those of last year, and that the story of 
1894 was written on the third day of November, the date 
of the writing of the former one. Now to carry further 
these curious details comes a letter which a Harrisburg, 
Pa. , correspondent sends to Mr. Ivory setting forth, in brief : 
"I am not a regular reader of Forest and Stream, but 
about a year ago I dropped into a news stand and bought 
a copy of Nov. 4, '93, in which I found your article, 
'How I Got My First Moose,' which I have read and re- 
read many times, always enjoying it. Last week I hap- 
pened to be passing the same stand, and without knowing 
why, stepped in and bought a copy for Nov. 17, '94, and 
was more than pleased to find 'Another Moose,' which I 
read with fully as much interest as I did the first article. 
I have for nine years been deprived of my usual outing, 
and it is in such admirably written articles as yours that 
I find my greatest pleasure, and again live over the days 
spent in the woods." 
The present Legislature of the Province of Quebec will 
consider the setting apart of a large tract of territory in 
the Laurentian Mountains for a game park. The reserve 
will comprise some 2,531 square miles, embracing most of 
the wild country between the Quebec & Lake St. John 
Railway on the one side, Lake St. John and Saguenay on 
the other, the St. Lawrence River from Quebec to Tadou- 
sac forming the base of the triangle. The object of the 
park is to' be the preservation of the primeval forest, fish 
and game, the maintenance of an even water supply and 
. the study and culture of forest trees. 
MR. J. Keelas Dodge, of Patchogue, L. I., who died the 
other day at the age of 83, was accustomed to make 
much of the fact that he was the only living man on 
Long Island who had entertained Abraham Lincoln as a 
guest; and the incident of Lincoln's visit which appeared 
to have impressed itself most vividly upon his memory 
was in connection with a gun brought by Lincoln as a 
present for his host. The gun was loaded up with a tre- 
mendous charge and Lincoln "fired it off." The result 
was a bruise to Lincoln's right arm that afforded material 
for Mr. Dodge's reminiscent story telling to his dying day. 
The Cuvier Club, of Cincinnati, gave its twenty-first 
annual reception and banquet on Thursday evening of 
last week; and like all that had gone before the occasion 
was notable for gustatory and social success. 
