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FOREST AND STREAM 
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEEK. 
Friday, July 12. — 1 Trotting at Hartford, Conn. ^Columbus, O.; Sharon, 
Pa.; Watertown, N. Y. 
Saturday, July 18.— Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron Race. Halifax, N. S. 
Creedmoor : national Guardsman's Match ; Skirmishers’ Badge Match. 
Trotting : Sharon, Pa.; Watertown, N. Y. 
Monday, July 15.— Louisiana Amateur Rowing Association Annual 
Regatta. 
Tuesday, July 10.— Louisiana Amateur Rowing Association Annual 
Regatta. Trotting : Belmont Park, Phlla.; Plalnvllle, Conn.; Toledo, O. 
Wednesday, July 17.— Harvard vs. Cornell, at Owasco Lake. Creed- 
moor : Soldiers’ Match ; Competition for GUdersleeve Medal. Trotting 
as above. 
Thursday, July 18.— Havre Regatta (France) ; open to the world. 
Trotting aa above. 
ABOLISH SUMMER SHOOTING. 
VyiTH the openiDg days of July the thoughts of most 
* V sportsmen turn to the summer cock shooting. Years 
ago, when Fobest and Stheam was young, we devoted no 
little space to the subject of woodcock shooting in July, and 
expended many a quillful of ink in endeavoring to show that 
to kill these birds in July was unwise and productive of in- 
calculable injury to general shooting. In these endeavors we 
were not without able coadjutors, who lent us the aid of both 
voice and pen. That our efforts were not wholly unsuccess- 
ful is indicated by the fact that, since the arguments which 
we then used were brought to the notice of the general public, 
three States— New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts- 
all of them noted for their large representation of the best 
class of sportsmen— have so amended their game laws that 
July shooting is no longer permitted. Long Island is, it is 
true, exempted from the force of the New York law, a fact 
over which those of the fraternity who shoot in Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey should lament, for it will be likely to more 
or less injure their fall shooting. The objection to, and sup- 
posed advantages of, summer shooting have been so often 
stated in these columns that it is scarcely necessary to repeat 
them at any great length. The whole matter is succinctly 
discussed in the “ Sportsman's Gazetteer,” from which we 
may be allowed to quote a paragraph or two, as follows : “ It 
is with pleasure that we notice the efforts made by gentle- 
men sportsmen of the country at large, in the direction of 
woodcock protection and the prohibition of summer shoot- 
ing. Their efforts have been attended with success in some 
parts of the country, but until the law becomes universal a 
great deal of its usefulness is rendered nil. * * * * Granting 
that woodcock four years out of five are In condition to be 
shot in July, how much better, how much more sportsman- 
like, would it be to allow them to remain unmolested until 
autumn, when no doubt can exist of their being in full 
plumage, strong and vigorous on the wing, and without the 
care of a family ?” 
We cannot, however, admit, that woodcock are usually in a 
condition to bo shot in July, for they are usually occupied at 
that time with their second brood. There is no doubt that 
whenever it is possible this species hatches twice. An in- 
stance clearly showing this has this year come under our own 
observation. A brace of cock hatched last April, and by 
the last of that month the young were quite well able to take 
care of themselves. They confined themselves wholly to a 
small patch of ground, and were started two or three times a 
week, always in the same piece and always the same in num- 
bers ; about June 24th the patch of swamp was visited, the 
usual number of birds were started, and in addition three 
younger birds, still in the down and hardly able to fly more 
than thirty feet. If the spring had been a little more back- 
ward (and it must be remembered that it has been an un- 
usually early one), these last birds would have been still in 
(no, and, when the July shooting had killed the parents, 
would of course have perished. 
There is one reason why the killing of woodcock in the 
summer should be prohibited which has had but little atten- 
tion paid to it in the past, although deserving a great deal. 
The ruffed grouse, by all odds the finest game bird known to 
the sportsman in the East, usually hatches its brood late in 
May, and by the 1st of July the young birds are about the 
size of quails. At this age they are very gentle, and will lie 
so close before the dog that we have more than once seen a 
young puppy catch them in his mouth. They are at this time 
slow fliers, and are so easily shot that a boy of twelve ought 
to be able to kill them three times out of five. Now we all 
know that in every community there are plenty of men who 
are just weak enough to be tempted by these fledglings, and 
who, knowing perfectly well what they are shooting, and that 
they are violating the laws of God and man, will, when they 
come upon a brood of young grouse during the July shoot- 
ing, follow them up until not one of them is left. Any one 
who has lived in a good ruffed grouse country, where sum- 
mer shooting is allowed, must have observed that the num- 
ber of grouse seen in autumn is always very much less than 
was promised by the broods and old birds observed in early 
summer. 
Summer woodcock shooting having been abolished in Borne 
States and not in others, let us see what effect the prohibition 
has had , and, if the general result has been a beneficial one, 
we may fairly call upon the residents of States where no such 
law is in force to show cause why similar provisions shall not 
be enacted, so that there may be at least one game law uni- 
form throughout the land. 
It is of course a difficult matter, if not an impossibility, to 
arrive at any definite and exact conclusions in a matter of this 
kind. Opinions will differ, and a man’s judgment will be 
likely to be influenced by his prepossessions in favor of or 
against the law ; but we may take the general opinion of the 
sportsmen of a single State, say Connecticut ; one where the 
law has been in force only a year, and one in which the preju- 
dice against the amendment was originally very strong. In 
fact this feeling was so strong that there was at first a vigorous 
effort to secure at once the repeal of the bill ; but the counsels 
of the conservative prevailed, and the law was put upon its 
trial. Owing in part to the vigorous action of the Hartford 
Sportsman’s Association, and to the Individual exertions of 
the other workers for the cause in different parts of the State, 
diere were comparatively few violations of the act, and when 
the fall shopting was over, public opinion in regard to its 
wisdom had completely changed, and it was universally ap- 
proved. The testimony of the oldest and most successful 
shooters of our acquaintance is unanimous that fall woodcock 
were much more plenty than they had been before for eight 
or ten years, and that ruffed grouse, which -nobody had thought 
of -protecting, had never, within the memory of the oldest 
gunners, been bo abundant. It was a veritable case of firing 
at the pigeon and hitting the crow. This, of course, only 
shows how the matter has worked in one State; but we ven- 
ture to say that it is a typical example. And just think 
what a superb addition to the ordinary fall shooting the 
woodcock is. Suppose that there were no birds at all shot 
during the summer, would not a charm be supplied to the au- 
tumn days in the woods and fields which they now too often 
lack? 
There are other birds which need summer protection, but 
we cannot discuss them now. That it is utterly useless to 
protect woodcock in our State when there is a market for 
them just over the border in the next, is perfectly obvious, 
and we look forward to a time when lawmakers shall have 
enough knowledge on the subject to legislate intelligently 
with regard to all our wild game. 
—Professor Charles Linden, of Buffalo, N. Y., is off for 
labrador with the Boston party of fifteen voyagewt. 
HENLEY. 
T O say that the victory of the Columbia crew over the 
best men of Old England's colleges at Henley was un- 
expected is to say what nine out of ten would aver if ques- 
tioned. That a crew selected from hardly fifty haphazard 
candidates should have been able to give their wash to the 
, men of an older country — men picked not from a mere hand- 
ful, as with us, but chosen with care and deliberation from a 
thousand or more of able candidates at the oar ; from men 
who were not green barely a year or two ago, but who had 
been brought up to the oar long before they entered on their 
college course, redounds immeasurably to the honor of those 
concerned and to the boating fraternity of our country. If 
the Columbias can thus easily vanquish the very best men of 
Europe, what could not a more powerful crew, selected from 
a greater field than one college affords, effect in competition 
with the oarsmen of England ? Columbia left them over two 
lengths astern. Then, is it too much to say that a picked 
crew, chosen with the discriminating preference shown in 
England, could have left Hertford six lengths in their wake 
instead of two? The Columbias aquitted themselves bravely 
and return covered with honors of an enviable sort, but no 
one for a moment would claim the fortunate four to be invin- 
cible in our own country. A boatful formed of the best 
there is in Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Columbia would in 
very short time make victory over England at the oar as 
thoroughly monotonous as America has already made compe- 
tition in shooting, yachting and pedestrianism. When, in 
addition to this great feat, wo bear in mind that among the 
single-scullers as well America went to the fore and virtually 
won the race, though the prize goes, to the Englishman on 
mere technicality, the superiority of American amateurs be- 
comes all the more conspicuous. It seems incredible that Mr. 
Lee should have erred through mere oversight on his part as 
to the true finish. Is it not probable that he was mislead in 
some manner ? That any one should go three thousand miles 
to pull in an international event, should practice for three 
weeks and then not know where to find the finish line does 
not seem probable. We await with some interest further de- 
tails concerning this peculiar mistake of Mr. Lee. However, 
as we understand he is to meet Mr. Moss again on the 17th 
or 18th inst., he will have an opportunity of righting the un- 
natural result of July 4 at Henley. The Shoe-wae-cae-mettes 
gave our cousins a lesson in the physical prowess of America, 
for, winning in one heat against no mean adversaries, their 
victory was certainly not to be laid at the door of superiority 
in style, training, science or finish, but they carried their 
colors to the fore purely on the strength of their muscle and 
wonderful stay. A pity that the latter failed them 
in the final heat at the critical moment, or 
Englishmen might have beheld the lamentable spectacle (to 
them) of a clean sweep at Henley by their only rivals in the 
world. The last beat can only be looked upon by them, at 
best, as a race either “ off ” or else won by a fluke, on account 
of an accident to the Monroe crew, through the chronic sick- 
ness of one of them, wrongfully withheld from his brethren. 
What the Shoe-wae-cae-mettes might have done with a sub- 
stitute in the place of Jos. Nadeau no one can say, but it is 
certainly true that his crew were well able to hold their own 
with the famous London four, and had No. 3 responded to the 
regular call for a spurt, their chances of landing the Stewards 
Challenge Cup for their country were excellent. In summing 
up the results of Henley, Americans may congratulate them- 
selves that in four events out of five our oarsmen showed un- 
doubted superiority to the British, and that the fifth race was 
lost through an accident, Englishmen barely saving them- 
selves from a clean sweep on their own waters of all prizes by 
men from foreign shores. Full of pride at our great victories 
on the Thames, our crews may well look forward with more 
than hope to similar events in the future, and to fresh addi- 
tions to the laurel wreaths of victory wrested from the 
hitherto invincible champions of the world. When Ameri- 
cans again go forth to hoist the Stars and Stripes above the 
Union Jack, we trust that England will buy a decent sized 
river and not pull on a mud creek, and that she may teach her 
oarsmen to guard against any imputation of unfair and un- 
gentlemanly conduct in their rivalry with others. American 
amateurs are not given to the desplay of envious passion, and 
would never stoop so low as did their English brethren in 
their vain attempts to snatch from their rivals at Henley well- 
earned victory. May our cousins across the sea take a lesson, 
then, from us for once. They can certainly do so to advant- 
age. 
CONCERNING THE HOSPITALITY OF 
THE WOODS. 
T N another column a correspondent tells us of the kind wel- 
come he received at some of the fishing grounds of Cana- 
da. Such expressions of grateful guests have often been a 
pleasant and characteristic feature of our sportsmen’s corres- 
pondence. 
“Gentle hospitality," saith the Sanskrit sage, “dtvelleth not 
in palaces. Rather, seeking, shall ye find her in the tent of 
the desert and had he lived in our day, he might have 
added as well “ in the log cabin of the frontier." For far 
apart as they are in other traits — one the exponent of roaming 
thriftlessncss, the other of enterprise and energy — the nomad 
of the plains and the pioneer of the forest are alike in one 
thing— their simple, whole-souled hospitality. The conven- 
tionalities of town and city close the door to the stranger 
