forest and stream. 
. California.— San Francuca, -2. ArieLkncr Cal* 
four-oared boats bas been arranged ^ tv '^ e “ ^ .^rc al l r ^ 
ifomia Iheitre boat clubs, of tins city, to take place at IF. m. 
onTbc 24tb inst. The crews selected are as 
» ItivtMN i stroke!. L. Stevenson (bow ,, K. Planners ana 
F. Smith. California.— Tom Grossman (stroke), J. Harring- 
ton (bow), J. Roman and J. Winters. 
Belt* Lift savs that probably neither Higgins uor Trick- 
ett will visit America this snmmer. 
—The Boston Y. M. C. A. gymnasium bas a rowing crew 
of six. 
-Mr. Eugene Smart, of Dover, N. H.,- is building a new 
steam propeller yacht, 52 feet long and 14 feet beam, whum 
will accommodate one hundred persons in the cabin, it is to 
take the place of the yacht sold last year by bun to Messrs. 
O. & 0. Laighton, of the Appledore and Oceanic Houses at 
the Shoals, and is expected to be ready to be launched about 
the middle of March. She is to be finely appointed in all 
' respects, and will be a first-class boat in every way. Air. J. 
H. Dyer, of Portland, Me., is the builder. 
0HZS8 IB MICHIGAN. 
Game No. 21. -SICILIAN OPENING. 
Played by telegraph between Ihe Ann Arbor and Jackson, Mtch. 
Chess Clubs : 
White. 
Ann Arbor. 
I- P-K4 
8-P-Q4 
8— S K B3 
4-K-B 114 
6 — P-B3 
6— Q-S3 
7— PtkaP 
8 — B-K3 (b) 
9— ILSfl t 
10— B Iks B t 
II- Q-B8 (c) 
is — v tks P 
13- Q-Q3 
14— P-Q S3 
10— S tks S 
Black. 
Jackson. 
I — P-Q B1 
8— P tko P 
8 — P-K4 
4-P-K R3 (u) 
6- Q-B8 
c — P-QS 
7— «Q B3 
8 — S-H4 . 
9- B-Q8 
10— Q tks B 
II— P-Q 83 
18-R-B1 (d) 
13— S-B5 
14— S Iks K P 
15— P tks S 
White. 
Ann Arbor. 
16 — Q tks Q t 
17— castles (e) 
IS — S-Q'l 
19-S-Bi 
80— P-K B3 
31— S tks S 
83-8- QO 
83— Q-H Q1 
84— P-QR4 
85— P tks P 
29-R-S7 
Black. 
Jackron. 
10— K tks Q 
IT — S-K B3 
^-a-85 
19 — P-Q 81 
20— S tks B 
21— B-QU4 
22— K-K8 
23— R-Q B3 
24 — P tks P 
26-K-R OBI (1) 
26- lt-QSl 
27— R tka R 
VS — B QS 
29— B- 114 
Drawn game. 
NOTES. 
Sfhe §3ine of §liess. 
Notioe.— Chess exchanges, communications ami solutions should be 
addressed - Chess Editor Forest and Stream. P. O. box 54, Wolcott- 
vllle, Conn." 
Problem No. 8. 
Toorney set. No. 0. Motto-S-lr Q-ulokly U-ndcrstand. A-nd 
R-emember E-ver C-hess I-s R — oyal. C— hess L-ivea E-ternally. 
(а) An unusnal move, but a good one, we think. 
(б) Much preferable Is S-P-Q5. blooklng up the Black King's side for 
a long time. Els replying by S- Kt-R4 would have been harmless : 8- 
P-Q5, S— Kt-R4 ; 9-B-K15, 9-B-Q2; 10-Q-B3, with the hetter game 
(e) Why not 11— Q-Q5? ., 
nr) Well played. Black now gets the advantage aud ought to keep it. 
(«) A mistake. The Klug will be wanted as a flghtlng-plece, and 
shonld have gone at once to K2. 
if) Better have played P-K B3. 
(1) Up to this stage the game was played by telegraph ; the conclusion 
is by postal card . 
SPLIT BAMBOO RODS. 
To our customers and the public In reply to the damag- 
ing reports whiefc have been circulated respecting the quality of 
our split bamboo rods, by “ dealers " who are unable to com- 
pete with us at our reduced prices, we have issued a circular 
which we shall be pleased to mad to any address, proving the 
falsity of their assertions. 
Conroy, Bissett <fc Mallbson,. 
Manufacturers, 65 Fulton Street, N. Y. 
WlUte to play and give mate in three moves. 
CHESS IN AUSTRALIA. 
Game No. 20.-KING’S BISHOP'S GAMBIT. 
A capitally-contested gambit, fought In Adelaide, August 24, 1875: 
White. Black. 
Mr. H. Cbarllck Mr. T.G. RandeU 
(of M annum) 
1- P-K4 
2- P-K B4 
3- B-B4 
4- P-Ql 
5- 0 B tks P 
6- Kt-K2 • 
7- Castles 
M — B-K5 
9— R US Q 
10— P tks P 
11— K-R 
13 — Kt-Qt (c) 
13— Q-K2 
14— F-B3 
15— Kt-Q2 
in— KttKS Kt 
IT— Kt-K6 
IS— B tks B ch 
19 — P-Q Kt4 
20— P-Q R4 
VI— P tCS P 
88 — Q-KtS (d) 
23 — K-Q Kt 
24 — B-Q5 
25— B tks P 
26— B-B3 
27— P-B4 
2S-B-Q6 
1— P-K4 
2— P tks P 
3— P-K R1 (a) 
4— P-Q3 
5— Q-B3 
6— KI-Q2 
7 — P- K Kt3 (b) 
8— P tks B (best) 
9— K Kt tka R 
1 >— B-E4 eh (best) 
11— Kt-Q3 tks P 
18— Kt tks K P 
13— P-B4 
14— B-Q8 
15— Castles' 
16— P tks Kt 
17— B tks Kt 
lS-K-Kt 
19 — B KU 
20 — P-R4 (best) 
SI— B tks P 
22— Kt-B3 (best) 
23- B-Kih (best) 
84— R Q3 
25 — K K-Q 
26— Kt-H4 
27— P-B4 
28— K B-Q3 (e) 
White. Black. 
Mr. H. Char lick Mr. T. G. Randell 
(of MaDnnm) 
J-Kt8 (0 
30— Q-K5 
31— B tks Kt 
32— Q-K4 ch 
33— Q-B4 
34— Q-B3 
29— K-B8 (g) 
30— KI-B3 
31— K tks B 
38- K-B3 
83-P-KM (h) 
34- P- KI5 
85 — K-Kt 
39 — B-R4 
37— P-Kt3 
38 — P-R5 
39— K B2 
40— QR-Q5 
41 — Q R-Q3 
48— P-KI6 
43 — P tkS P 
44— K-B3 
45— K-B2 
46— K-KW 
47— K-B2 
48— K-Kt2 
49— K-R2 
50— K-Kt8 best(j) 
61— R-Q8 ch 
52 — R-Q7 ch 
63 — K-R3 (k) 
54— fi-Ra 
65— R-Kt2 
56— R-B7 and Black resigns. 
jfi# mid Jf iver fishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN MARCH. 
SOtTTHEBN WATERS. 
Pomoano Trachvrwtu earoliniu. Grouper, Epitiephelptunlrflt*. 
Dr^ (^ospeclM). Family Ssto- Trent ^blaok bass,, CtntroprUtu 
mtSu'h, MtnlMma ruVulotut. Stuped Bksa, or Rockflsh, Roccu, 
Snapper, Lutjanus caxua. U. nigricans. 
(а) A bizarre defence, which has nothing but novelty to recommend 
It. 
(б) Black’s eccentricities end here. They cost him his Q for a R and 
B, and he now sets to work most skillfully to retrieve himself. His play 
is remarkably good and careful. His defence 1 b a model of Its kind. 
(c) Although having the superior force, White has a very difficult 
game. If Kt-Q2 or B-Q3, Black can effectively reply with Kt-Kt6. The 
text move Is the i esult of careful caleulaUon, and Is a fortunate resource, 
for if Black takes B White plays Kt-Q Kt5 menacing Kt tks P ch, or Q- 
K B attacking both Kts. The play on both sides now becomes animated 
and Interesting. 
(<f) If 28 , 28— B tks P ; 23 — R-Q Kt, 28-P-Q Kt3 ; 84-P-Q R6, 
and wins. 
(c, Mr. Randell has beautlfolly deployed his forces for defence. 
Every point Is guarded. 
If) While being unable to make an Impression, performs the perilous 
military manceovre of a change of front In presence of the enemy. 
( o ) If K tks P White retakes covering with B K B If R then checks. 
(A) Good. If Q tks P Black mates In two mores 
(0 Enticing Black to force an exchange of R’a by R-Q Kt3, because 
after Qhad taken R-QT, While’s position would be Improved. If 38— Q 
tks B, Black would turn the tables by ILQScb. Black's reply Is inge- 
nious, but it leaves one vulnerable point, which White now step by step 
proceeds to assail. The end game is most Instructive, especially as the 
defence Is best under the clrcumstancea. 
(j) If R-Q. White R tks R and then plays Q-KT ch, winning off-hand. 
(*) if 63 . 63-P-KM ; 64 — Q-R8 ch, 54-K-K18 ; 66-R-B6 ch, U 
— K-B2 : 66— Q tks B ch, and wins. 
Time, two and a half hours. 
Fisa in Market— Retail Prices.— Owing to the stormy 
weather fish are scarce and prices naturally advanced. 
Striped bass, 18 to 25 cents; smelts, 18; bluefish, 15; frozen 
salmon 35; green do., §1.50; mackerel, 25 ; Southern shad, 
50 to 90 cents; white perch, 15; Spanish mackerel, 35; 
green turtle, 18; terrapin, $24 per doz. ; halibut, 18; had- 
dock, 8 ; codfish, C to 8 ; blackfish, 15 ; flounders, 6 to 8 ; 
sea bass, 15 ; eels, 18 ; lobsters, 10 ; sheepsheads, 25 ; scal- 
lops, $1.60 per gallon; soft clams, 30 to 00 per 100; white- 
fish, 18 ; pickerel, 15 ; salmon trout, 15 ; frost fish, 6 ; New- 
foundland herring, 6 ; turbot, 20 ; red snapper, 18. 
Movements* of the Fishing Fleet.— The number of fish- 
ing arrivals the past week has been 14. The Bank arrivals 
numbered 4. The number of Georges arrivals for the past 
week has been 5, bringing about 225;000 lbs. round codfish 
aDd 5,000 lbs. halibut. The arrivals will soon be more nu- 
merous, and good fares may be expected to be the rule for a few 
weeks to come. The receipts of herring for the past week 
have been 3 cargoes pickled and 2 cargoes frozen from Grand 
Menan. One of the latter vessels belonged to the Newfou nd- 
land fleet, and failing to secure a cargo at Fortune Bay, pro- 
ceeded to the Bay of Fundy, where the catch has been un- 
usually large. — Cape Ann Advertuer , March 1. 
Menhaden vs. Whalb.— As Professor. G. Brown Goode 
showed to the members of the American Fishcultural Associa- 
tion that it was the menhaden which supplied the oil used in 
large quantities in the United States in lieu of the whale, some 
statistics taken from New Bedford may he of interest. With 
sperm oil at $1.03, and right oil at 50 or 00 cents, any margin 
of profit is impossible. If it was not for the whalebone the 
business would be entirely abandoned. The tendency seems 
to be at present to keep vessels nearer home, thus reducing 
the cost of expeditions, and securing more rapid Bales. There- 
fore the Arctic fishing has been much diminished. In 1856 
some 196 whalers sought the Western Pacific and Sooloo Sea ; 
to-day not more than 20 vessels chase the whale in Arctic 
zones. It looks as if, considering the immense losses met at 
the Northern and Southern Poles, whaling in the ice will be, 
before long, virtually abandoned. If, then, the small menha- 
den takes the plaee of the huge whale, why should we com- 
plain ? Possibly we shall make an artificial whalebone some 
of these fine days. We are pretty near it now. 
New Yobk— DarutviOe, Feb. 25.— Pickerel fishing through 
the ice at Hoaeoye Lake is now the pastime, and fishermen 
for miles around are flocking thither. This lake is in Ontario 
county, about twenty miles from Dansville. No less than one 
hundred and fifty men have been on the ice fishing every day 
for the last month. The catch has been enormous, a ton a clay 
being a light estimate, and yet there seems to be no diminution 
in the quantity and appetite of the fish. In fact it lias devel- 
oped into quite an industry, aud sleigh loads are being sold out 
here and in neighboring towus at eight cents a pound. 1 here 
are some doubts as to the legality of taking pickerel at this 
season of the year from Howcoyo. But fishermen have taken 
the benefit of the doubt, and are turning it to good account. 
There is no fear of molestation from people living in the vicin- 
ity of the lake, even though it bo proven against tho law to 
fish there, for, owing to tho shallowness aud warmth of the 
water, the pickerel breed In such vast quantities that, It is 
claimed, the lake becomes overstocked, and during the sum- 
mer, unless thinned out by catching, thousands of fish die, are 
washed upon the beach, decay and emit an intolerable stench 
perceptible miles away. That tho fish die in great numbers 
oftentimes I know from personal observation. But whether 
it is owing to the causes claimed by the inhabitants, I am not 
enough of an ichthyologist to determine. H. W. De L. 
Tennessee — Columbia, March 2. — River in fine condition 
for fishing; mullets and suckers being taken in quantities. 
Trout (bass) arc wary, and few caught. Some fine Reelloot 
Lake trout in market. VAL - 
momow-Belding, March l.-Asa Fuller of Beldiug 
Ionia county, returned from Crooked Like last week, with 
twenty-two of the finny tribe, ten of which averaged 10 pounds 
apiece ; and one weighed 17 pounds. 
Onto.— A .Youngstown correspondent writes of a pleasant 
fishing excursion on the Mahoning River, where the pike trol- 
ling affords plenty of amusement for the angler. A fish meas- 
uring three feet in length fell to his lot, while his companion 
after a stubborn combat, safely landed one of twenty-six and 
a half pounds weight. Two more, equally plucky, completed 
the string for the day. 
The Orvis Rod by Mail.— A ccording to the decision of the 
Acting Assistant Postmaster General, packages of first or 
third class matter, of lour pounds, arc to be considered as 
mailable matter, irrespective of the shape of mail hags. Mr. 
Charles F. Orvis’ rods come under this provision. Postage, 
then, on the Orvis rods is 35 cents for his Nos. 1, 2, 6, 6 and 7 
rod ; 40 cents for his No. 3, and 55 cents for the No. 4. Mr. 
Orvi 9 is then prepared to send his rods in wood cases through 
the mails. 
Mb. Kilbournb’s Piotdbes. — T ho walls of the room where 
the fish cultural meeting was held were graced by pictures of 
fish painted by Mr. S. A. Kilbournc. A striped bass and a 
land-locked salmon were exceedingly well executed, not only 
truthful in a scientific way, but painted with great strength 
and power of coloring. Mr. Kilbourno is the special artist in 
fish, devoting his time and talent to these special subjects. 
ANGLING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
Taunton, Feb. fl, 1878. 
Editor Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun : 
During the past three months I have carefully noted what your cor- 
respondent “ Splasher" aad others have said about bass fishing. Per- 
haps you would like the account ol my experience. The method Invent- 
ed by “ O'Verlcus” is practiced about here with success and alBO In New 
Hampshire. 
In Bristol and Plymouth counties, Mass., there are a vast number of 
little trout streams and small ponds almost unknown to metropolitan 
anglers w hlch, with a little perseverance, woud yield Immense numbers 
of Qsli. Natives of tho latter county assure me that It contains 865 flsh- 
produclng pounds. About eleven miles eas‘ of this city are situated the 
Mlddleboro ponds, the larges* group of fresh-water lakelets In thlBStato. 
They are connected by brooks, the three piinclpal being Assawampsett, 
Qulttacus and Long, which eventually empty Into the Taunton River. 
They were early stooked with while perch and with black bass In 1866 
or i860 In consequence of as accident to a shipment Intended for some 
other waters. 
One morning last summer I received an Invitation to go a Ashing, and 
at four a. m. was awakened, and In half an hour three of os were on the 
road eastward for our Ashing ground. 
The view approaching the pond is charming. As yon pass over the 
brow of a bill you look down upon a little lake abont threo miles lODg 
and half as wide with densely wooded shores In part, and here and there 
a high bluff. Along the shores are neat, comfortable farm houses and 
country residences. We set sail with an easterly breeze and made our 
way to the southeasterly end of the pond to a brook where halt was sure 
to be found. A belter habitation for black boss I never beheld ; well 
wooded banks, rocky shore and bottom and good clean water. We 
landed on a sandy beach where we stripped and drew the mosquito net 
seine for young herrlnga. On oar left was a long point on which was a 
little cabin and a skillfully-constructed blind, where the owner of the 
boat told us he had great sport in winter shooting wild fowl. Last sea- 
son he bagged seven wild geese In one morning. 
The sun came out very hot and the wind died away and loft us la a 
dead calm for the rest of the day. We had poor luck with the Ash, and 
I will not state how lew we brought home, but the purpose or my visit 
was accomplished. 1 became convinced that there were plenty of bass 
and perch In the grounds, and resolved to return to the places which our 
reconnolssauce showed us to be good on a favorable day. 
Accordingly, at about two p. m., r few days later, we started again 
for a somewhat nearer pond and were gladcncd by BaccesB. Wo carried 
as bait the common gardou worms and added a lot of small minnows ou 
arrival at the outlet. I had Ashed this pond before and taken twenty- 
one bass in an afternoon and felt sore of the supply, but was to learn a 
lesson about white perch that was as amuBlng as Instructive. 
The gentlemen with me all carried rods about twelve feet long, with 
about the same length of line, and a stout perch hook with sluker and 
bob. No reels. I had tho best of boss rods, with reel and Ales and aril- 
Aclal minnows and spoons. In short the best Bradford Anthony's tackle. 
While the rest walked off along the shore I volunteered with a compan- 
ion to hunt up a row boat about a mile off. I trolled with small artlAclal 
minnows and two Ales, getting only only one strike. As wo neared the 
Bhore where onr companions' rods woro seen busily castlDg I noticed 
great splashes in the water In front of them. On closer approach I 
found them alternately casting out their hooks and throwing large atonos 
Into the water. I supposed, naiurally, that bites were wanting and that 
they were plaguing each other. My astonishment was simply Indes- 
cribable, when our bow grated on the shore beside them to And that 
they were as serlons as deacons and were pulling out white perch by 
the dozen. On asking tho reason of this extraordinary performance! 
was answered, “ It’s to make peroh bite." I thought they were trying 
to make a fool of me. I noticed that besides “ rooking” the perch they 
would splash and agitate tho water violently with the points of their 
rods. Pretty soon one of them landed a Ano bass and another a second 
one. 
I began to believe. Taking a row of an hour la tho boat, trolling 
without much success— owing to the boat, not the want of Ash— I ro- 
torned to tho same ground whence the others had departed and care- 
fully tested tho " rocking" theory by practice. As I had never read or 
heard of anything of (he kind before you may Imagine my amaz> 
went at Andlng that It worked well. Almost every tlmo a large stone 
splashed Into the water our hooks were Immediately fast to a white 
perch. Only one red peroh waa taken and no sanAah, though tho w%tor 
is fall of them 
