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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday. July 29. — Racing, Saratoga, Trolling, Corning, N Y - 
Cleveland. Ohio; Beacon Park; Piitefleld, Vt. Base Ball, St. Lonis vs’ 
Hartford, at Hartford. 
Friday. July 30 —Trotting, Saratoga, N Y.; Cleveland, Ohio; Bea- 
con Park; Pittsfield, Vt. 
Saturday. July 31 -Racing, Saratoga. N. Y. Base Ball, SL Louis 
vs. Hartford, at Hartford. 
Monday August 2. -Racing, Saratoga Trotting, Saratoga. N. Y. 
«PWhtdt“phlf b Xaha "‘‘ BaaeBal1 - St ‘ Loots vs Athletics, 
Tuesday. August 3. -Trotting, Saratoga, N. Y ; Buffalo. N. Y • 
Poughkeepsie. N Y.; Richmond. Ind. 
r.iY B D KB8 vf T ' Augnst 4 “Racing, Saratoga. Trotting. Saratoga. Bof- 
t!®’ R.T| ,g ^ ke r P81 < e ’ N ' V; Rlchm,, " d . I,lfl • Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 
/ ,l< i liC3,at Ph,lBdeI l ,l,la - Northwestern As- 
Bociailon Regatta. Toledo, Ohio. Newbnrg Bay Regatta 
POUND NETS AND RUN-AROUNDS. 
T -i the last report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of 
A the State of New Y r ork great stress is laid upon the 
damage to the fisheries of the State, and mure particularly 
those of the Great South Bay, by pound nets; hut there is 
another engine of destruction now in daily use which is 
working far greater harm, and which appears to have en- 
tirely escaped their attention. We allude to the run- 
arounds, or fly nets, which every fisherman who visits 
Babylon or Islip must have seen in operation. Those cer- 
tainly who have followed the now popular sport of chum- 
ming, and been dependent upon these nets for their supply 
of menhaden for bait, must have observed their operations. 
The fly netter, or fly by- night, as he could appropriately be 
termed, generally commences his work either during the 
dark hours, cr just before the dawn. In the shallow waters 
of the bay a school of fish, whether they be menhaden, 
weak fish, or blucfleh, can be readily discerned from the 
masthead of a sloop. Upon such a school being discov 
ered, the small boat, which is lowing astern with the net 
conveniently disposed, is started off, and i„ a few minutes 
the school Is surrounded. Now the fisherman commences 
poundmg on the surface of the water and against the sides 
luin.' il fr ’ I , ?! 8 « ll ‘ e T "' iHC in 1,is P° wer i the object 
bt nt to frighten the fish mio the meshes of the net, where 
be 8 held by the gills until taken into tbo boat. The effect 
tf/UltoflPlwwwwuntonupoaUje that otwpWor 
many do find their way under the lends or over the top of 
the net would naturally bo to cause them to leave a spot 
where they were so much disturbed and uot return to it. 
This mode of fishing, or something akin to it, is in vogue 
among the Chinese, but only on lakes which have no out- 
let, and where the fish are obliged to remain aiul propa. 
gate whether so disposed or not. The traveler approach- 
ing one of the many series of little lakes which run paral- 
lel with the Yung Tsze ICiang, more particularly in the 
Hupeh province, is often startled by this distant pounding, 
rising and falling in regular cadence, that at twilight has a 
most weird and unnatural sound. Reaching the lake he 
finds a fleet of boats, from which proceeds the noise, at 
one end, or perhaps gradually approaching the other, where 
the sluggish carp aie being aroused from the muddy bot- 
tom to he captured in the nets awaiting them. 
Such mode of fishing in the Great South Bay, to which 
fish resort for the purpose of spawning, would most natu- 
rally have the effect of driving them to "fresh fields and 
pastures new," and we believe that the damage done by 
the fly nelters far exceeds that caused by the pounds. 
With regard to the pounds, without wishing to say aught 
in their favor, we arc still of the opinion that the informa- 
tion furnished to the Commissioners is erroneous and cal- 
culated to mislead-first, as to their location, and secondly 
as to the amount of fish caught in them. In speaking of 
the nets at the inlets and entrances to the hay the report 
says:— "If a fish creeps up one side of a channel lie runs 
into one uet; if he takes the other side he is met bv an- 
other, and if he follows the very centre of the deepest 
water he is met face to face at the first turn with a third " 
It is probably two miles from Fire Island Inlet to the 
first pound, and along the eastern or principal channel 
there are three or four in all. Not one of these nets is in 
the channel, but only on the extreme edge of it. Were the 
fair way in the least obstructed, the many vessels, some of 
them of considerable size, that ply to Sayville, Patchogue 
Bellport, and points further east, would make but short 
work of them. There is not one lithe of the damage done 
by pounds that is caused by the fly nets, or the fykes which 
are set in every little cove and creek frequented' by striped 
bass along Long Island Sound. The report is correct in 
stating that bluefish are seldom taken in the pounds but 
we believe it to be owing to an instinct which teaches them 
to avoid the danger, not because they do not still frequent 
the bay. On Wednesday of last week six thousand bluefish 
were taken in one fly net, and the many gentlemen who 
have enjoyed chumming at "The Elbow" this Summer will 
certify that a few remain. It is a notorious fact that weuk- 
fish have never before been taken in such numbers in the 
Greut South Bay (in nets) as during this Spring, and when 
they return from the eastward, as they always do about 
the first of August, great sport is anticipated wilh the rod 
Among the people who reside on its shores who derive 
their living from the bay, and who would he the first to 
grumble at any diminution of the supply, no complaints 
are heard. It must be admitted that the fishing so far this 
Summer has not been so good as it was last year, but fish 
are sometimes fickle and dainty in their feediug, and as 
the menhaden is the great attraction which draws them lo 
the bay, the greater scarcity of this food fish may be the 
CaU6e ’ But season is yet young, and the coming months 
may bring a full supply of voracious and larger bluefish 
Our reports from Barnegat and Buzzard’s Bay indicate thai 
the fishing at those points ha9 never been better. We do 
trust that something may be done to queleh the flu-bu-niahti 
and give the fish some chance after they have run the 
gauntlet of pound nets, and the hungry maws of their own 
species. 
A CAPT IOUS C RITIC. 
nPHERE is a class of English newspaper writers who 
are nothing if not cynical, but it is rurely our for- 
tune to meet with such examples as will be found in the 
following paragraphs. For the first, we can only express 
contempt for the literary snob-of all snobs the worst- 
who would willingly malign a party of gentlemen who 
appear to have won golden opinions from all sorts of peo- 
ple. It is difficult to say which excites the most surprise 
the maliciousness or the mendacity which prompted the 
attack. The paragraphs in question are taken from the 
London Sporting Gazette, in the department which bears 
editorial sanction, under the caption of "The Man About 
I 0 .™" ™*. «"“• -Mli lo a recent llZnZ 
refers to the Amencan team in the following manner — 
„ Bl . 11 18 DOt onl y * n religious matters that our cousins 
are giving us ‘wrinkles just now; they offer us also nat 
terns of secular excellence for imitation For examEk 
be Amencan Rifle Team have been carryit.g af h^ S 
them in Ireland, and Lave shown that thew can shoot 
ars i k « « 
ess-like and unpractical motives, for I hear now thai hr! 
tween them they have netted something like £'J0 000 h„„ 
mg backed themselves to any amount with everv o,?/. o 
would bet with them. Possibly the rumw ls faL and m 
that possibility I am sure all true sportsmen will cling 
If .1 were not for the extreme silliness of the above 
statement one could be indignant at the insult; for as the 
winning of tlnrty thousand pounds, or one hind cd and 
fifty thousand dollars, implies a wagering of a similar 
n ”'7"“ '-«•« a* American loam visited 
r K* t "? ia ^•'•possession, for the pur- 
hratn 0 rt f f b f h lllDg i! t ' Jht \ whole statement originated imho 
brftla 0/ tbo writer— probably the only original tUlug tl^t 
ever emanated from It. Wo have rarely seen anythin* m 
equal this, even in an English newspaper. And Lore! 
what the same parly says of Captain Bogardus in th„ 
succeeding paragraph of the same article:— 
" We have to thank Captain Bogardus, too, nuotber so,, 
of Green Columbia.’ for knocking the last nail into thS 
coffin of that moribund pastime, pigeon shooting Ev™ 
those who retained any lingering penchant for that, to niv 
mind, contemptible and odious amusement must have ho™ 
fairly disgusted b V the sickening details of the wholesale 
slaughter, of which Captain Bogardus has been the hero 
I am aware that some sporting men of the present dav 
patronize these tournaments of doves,’ as the Premier 
with withering sarcasm, dubbed them; but as almost cverv 
true sportsman, without exception, whom I have met in 
the course of my life condemns them, I have no hesitation 
in thus plainly and emphatically expressing my own ah- 
horence and contempt for them. Surely no mau with anv 
particle of the instincts of a sportsman in him will rnaiu 
tain that there was any element of sport in Captain Bogar- 
dus' exhibitions.” b 
How hard It is for John Bull to take a beating, or to ad- 
mit excellence in anything which emanates from outside 
of the Island! The oracle has declared pigeon shooting to 
be a "moribund pastime," and as all true sportsmen of his 
acquaintance condemn it, the gentlemen of the ilurling- 
lmtn, and Gun Clubs who apparently do not enjoy the 
honor, must put away their guns, and confine themselves 
to skittles and small beer. 
We were inclined to censure Captain UogurduH for giv- 
iug exhibitions of his skill before shooting the matches 
which would bring him profit as well ns honor; for there 
is no secret as to his profession, or the object of his visit. 
Ilis purpose in giving these exhibitions would probably be 
inexplicable to our trans atlantie cousins; but we recog- 
nize in it the inherent honesty of the man— the openness 
bom of his Western life, and which distinguishes the 
sportsman from the sporting man. It was an outcome of 
the same cliivalric sentiment which lost the Harvard crew 
their race on the Thames, where, through an implied un- 
derstanding, they declined, when leading, to take their op- 
ponent’s water. 
It is pleasant to turn from such twaddle as is contained 
in the above paragraphs, and which does so much towards 
counteracting the good feeling which springs from inter- 
national amenities, and a better knowledge of each other, 
to the kindly sentiments contained in the following, which 
we clip from the Volunteer Service Gazette , a high-toned 
journal, and the exponent of rifle shooting in Great Brit- 
ain- The Gazette takes blame to itself for not having 
sooner moved in the matter of a match between the Eng- 
lish, Scotch, Irish, and American eights, which, having 
been left to the last moment, and being everybody’s busi- 
ness, became nobody’s business, and fluully impracticable. 
"The visit of the American team to Ireland has been iu 
all respects successful, and Mnjor Leech, who, we regret 
to learn, has retired from the chairmanship of the Irish 
Ivlfle Association, must be heartily congratulated on tin* 
results of the happy auducity which led him to organize the 
first of these very pleasant und legitimate International 
visits. 
"There is no manner of doubt that everybody who 
has any connection with rifle shooting would lmvo been 
ready to exert himself to the utmost, not only to make the 
visit of the Americans pleasant lo them, hut to get „„ .. 
contest which should be worthy of the victors of Creed 
moor aud now of the "North hull." We all knew long 
ago that the members of the American team, after fighting 
the Irishmen at Dollvmount, intended to come lo Wimble- 
don, and we knew also that we could not allow them lo 
come to Wimbledon without finding them a big thing to 
shoot in, besides giving them as warm a welcome if that 
be possible, as they gave to the Irish team best year and 
as Americans always give to their trans atlantic cousins " 
Interpreters. — A Chinese Commission is now visiling 
dock yards at Portsmouth, and other English naval estab- 
lishments, wilh the object of deciding upon the most per- 
fect type of an iron clad for the Chinese navy. They are 
accompanied by a French naval lieutenant as interpreter. 
The last sentence contains u commentary upon our own 
system of civil service abroad, which could not he better 
expressed in volumes. Here we have a simple French 
lieutenant able to interpret for a party of Chinese officials. 
No man in the French Consulur service in China but who 
is similarly qualified. In the English service the men are 
equally proficient, aud besides a regular staff of interpre- 
ters are always at hand. Under our miserable system we 
have no interpreters, and are dependent upon stray mis- 
sionaries or English speaking Chinamen, the latter coloring 
his transactions to suit Lis own views, and the former, at 
tunes, "mixing" things most lamentably. No wonder 
that, although we stand second ou the trade list, wo are at 
tlio bottom in the respect of the natives. 
Says La Nature, the fisheries in France furnish occu- 
pation for more than 100.000 sailors. Of this number (he 
coastwise fishery employs more than 70,000 men. In 1820 
these coastwise fisheries only employed ubout 85,000 men; 
in 1880, 50,000, and nearly 60,000 ten years luter. The 
maritime fisheries produce to Franco to-day about 68,000,- 
000 francs per annum, of which sum 24,000,000 to 25,000,- 
000 francs are the products of the oysters, mussels, and 
Crustacea generally, the balance being derived from I lie 
cupture of migratory fishes, such as cod, herring, mackerel, 
anchovies, sardines, etc. This increased revenue is attrib- 
uted largely to the increased forwarding facilities furnished 
by the rail ways. 
—The Staten Island Shooting Association of Port Rich- 
mond, arc trying to procure a site for a 1,000 yards riflo 
range, and there are several Now York rogiinouta Unit will 
Join Ilium, la etwe the site oaa bo obtaiuod. 
