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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. I, 1913 
California Game Associations. 
BY GOLDEN G.^TE. 
Sportsmen throughout California are actively 
preparing, through the medium of their organiza¬ 
tions, for placing before the Solons information 
regarding the changes in the fish and game laws 
desired. During the past year a great central 
State organization has been perfected, and this 
now has a membership of over fifteen thou¬ 
sand. District organizations are now being 
formed, and the needs of sportsmen in the 
various sections of the State will be voiced 
through these. 
Sportsmen in the San Joaquin Valley dis¬ 
trict recently organized at Fresno with J. P. 
Bernhard, President; E. S. Van Meter, \ ice- 
President; Walter M. Flarrell, Secretary, and 
M. W. hluller, Treasurer. Directors—Oro 
Hayward, of Sanger; Fred J. Stone, of Fresno; 
F. W. Kiesker, of Fresno; S. E. Black, of 
Temperance Colony, and Frank Noomart, of 
Fresno. Resolutions were adopted advocating 
many changes in the game laws in District 4- 
The Alameda County Game Protective As¬ 
sociation has been formed with Dr. C. A. Wills, 
of Oakland, President; State Senator E. K. 
Strobridge, Vice-President, and Luther Lund, 
of Pleasanton, Secretary. The Directors are: 
Earl Downing and C. L. Crelling, of Pleasan¬ 
ton; W. P. Taylor, of Berkeley; FI. Carriger, 
of Fruitvale, and W. H. Ellison, of Oakland. 
The Monterey County Fish and Game As¬ 
sociation has been reorganized with R. F. 
Johnson, President; F. A. Treat, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent; W. E Parker, Secretary, and Francis M. 
Hilby, Treasurer. 
The Marin County Game Protective Asso¬ 
ciation, of which Robert Pearson is President, 
and H. C. Hall, Secretary, held its annual meet¬ 
ing at San Rafael recently. During the past 
year this organization has increased its mem¬ 
bership to almost two hundred, has obtained a 
bounty on vermin and has secured the appoint¬ 
ment of a county game warden. Among the 
recommendations that will be made to the State 
I.egislature will be the forbidding of steam 
trawl netting of fish within two miles of the 
shore, the retaining of the hunters’ license tax 
within the county, the local patrol of game 
haunts, the power of the supervisors to shorten 
the open season on game and fish and the es¬ 
tablishment of Marin county as a game dis¬ 
trict in itself. 
Fox Dog and Small Game. 
East Northfield, Mass., Jan. 9. —Editor 
Forest and Stream: Think of men making game 
laws that have been more destructive than the 
hunters to our small game. 
For the past ten to twenty years the fox 
dog has been put to one side on account of the 
deer law. This noble animal is a friend to the 
small game, because it would hunt all kinds of 
vermin that would otherwise destroy the smaller 
game. 
Now they have a closed season on vermin 
in New Hampshire and Vermont. 
The legislators in the States of New Hamp¬ 
shire, Vermont and Massachusetts have done all 
that they could do to decrease the small game, 
and then they wonder why there are no game 
birds. 
Hunters here cannot even find rabbits; they 
have never seen as many fox tracks as there 
are this winter. 
The foxes have destroyed everything in the 
shape of small game, and if there was an open 
season on deer the year round in each county 
joining New Hampshire and Vermont, Vermont 
alone would keep the State of jMassachusetts 
stocked with deer and vermin. How can any 
member of the past Legislature boast of good 
game laws when he has done everything that he 
could do to destroy our game, not only the pres¬ 
ent season, but to root it out forever? 
Vermin has control of all small game. 
Anson Howard. 
Wolves in Ontario, Canada. 
“A YOUNG man named Rodier, employed in 
one of the camps of the G. B. Lumber Co., at 
Loring, Ont., one of the missions of the Peter¬ 
borough Diocese, left the camp at 7 o’clock a 
few evenings ago to visit some traps he had set 
Illinois Casting Club. 
Following are the official scores of the 
Illinois Casting Club for the season of 1912: 
Quarter-ounce Accuracy Bait.—The highest 
single score in this event was made by D. R. 
Linder. On July 13 he made 99.8 per cent., 
equaling his own and Win. Stanley’s record of 
last year. The next two high scores were 
made by E. K. Pierson and W. J. Jamison, 99.5 
per cent each. During the course of the season, 
99 per cent., or better, was made twenty-six 
times. 
Half-ounce Accuracy Bait.—In this event 
casting in our closing fall tournament, Wm. 
Stanley startled the casting world by making a 
score of 100 per cent. In our regular season’s 
work, Wm. Stanley, E. K. Pierson and R. C. 
Nicholson were tied for the individual high 
score, with 99.6 per cent each. Following closely 
are A. D. Whitby, L. E. DeGarmo, W. J. Jami¬ 
son and E. R. Kerr, with 99.5 per cent each. 
The score of 99 per cent, or better was made 
forty times during the course of the regular 
season. 
Quarter-ounce and Half-ounce Accuracy 
Bait Combined Scores.—Wm. Stanley, 9922 per 
cent.; E. K. Pierson, 99.19 per cent.; D. R. 
Linder, 99.18 per cent. 
Quarter-ounce Distance Bait.—Average of 
five casts, won by W. J. Jamison, average 109 
feet; longest single cast of the year by Wm. 
Stanley, 150 feet. 
Half-ounce Distance Bait.—Average of five 
casts, won by Wm. Stanley, average 150 feet; 
longest single cast, won by Wm. Stanley, 226 
feet. 
Delicacy FI}'.—Single high score, L. E. De 
Garmo, 98 20/30 per cent.; best average scores, 
L. E. DeGarmo, 98 13/30 per cent.; N. C. Hes¬ 
ton, 98 7/30 per cent. 
Light Tackle Dry Fly Accuracy.—Best sin¬ 
gle high score. Wm. Stanley, 99 10/15 per cent. 
in the woods. He was gone only a few minutes 
when he was set upon by a pack of eight or ten 
wolves. Rodier was armed with a revolver, and 
the report of the weapon, together with his cries 
for help, attracted the attention of another lum¬ 
berman, Honore Auger, who seized his rifle and 
hastened in the direction of the cries. He 
reached the scene just as Rodier dropped ex¬ 
hausted. He fired and killed one of the wolves. 
Thereupon the pack abandoned the fallen man 
and attacked the newcomer. Auger emptied the 
magazine of his rifle into the pack, killing three 
more. Then, armed only with a pocket knife 
he succeeded, after a desperate struggle, in dis¬ 
patching the three that remained Both men 
had to be carried into the camp by companions 
who arrived on the scene a few minutes later. 
“Rodier escaped with but a few scratches, 
while Auger, who had risked his life to save 
that of his companion, was severely wounded 
in the shoulder and thigh.’’—From Peterborough, 
Ont., Examiner. 
This score, made July 20, is our club record, ex¬ 
ceeding the former record of 99 9/15 per cent., 
held by N. C. Heston. 
Season’s average, best three scores, L. E. 
DeGarmo, 99 29/100 per cent.; Wm. Stanley, 
99 29/100 per cent.; N. C. Heston, 99 22/100 
per cent. 
Accuracy Fly.—A new record for our club 
was established in this event by W. H. Ball, who, 
on iMay 18, cast a score of 99 12/15 per cent., 
exceeding his own record of 99 10/15 per cent., 
made in 1911. 
Season’s average, best three scores, L. E. 
DeGarmo, 99 44/100 per cent.; N. C. Heston, 
99 41/100 per cent.; E. K. Pierson, 99 31/100 
per cent. 
Combined Fly Average.—Three events, viz., 
delicacy and accuracy fly, light tackle dry fly 
accuracy and accuracy fly, L. E. DeGarmo, 
99 21/100 per cent.; N. C. Heston, 99 14/100 
per cent.; Wm. Stanley, 99 3/100 per cent. 
Light Tackle Distance Fly.—The longest 
single cast during the past season was made by 
Wm. Stanley, 95 feet. The season’s best aver¬ 
age, by L. E. DeGarmo, 83 1/3 feet. The club’s 
records are, longest single cast, 99 feet; the 
season’s average, 89 1/3 feet. Both held by 
W. H. Ball. 
Distance Fly.—A new record was made for 
our club in distance fly. J. E. Amman, on Aug. 
3, made the splendid cast of in feet. The previ¬ 
ous record, held by H. D. Willis, was 103 feet. 
The best average for the season was also made 
by ]\Ir. Amman and is our club record, 105 feet. 
Salmon Fly.—L. E. DeGarmo, although his 
high score of 133 feet is lower than his best of 
1911, has slightly increased his average, making 
i3oR> feet for the season. 
Friendship Cup.—In the accuracy competi¬ 
tion for the first place on the friendship cup, 
embracing four events—quarter-ounce and half¬ 
ounce bait and light tackle dry fly and accuracy 
