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son, Jr., offered to substitute for Corey. This match 
was also at 50 targets, in two events of 25 each, and 
Anderson was the winner with 37. 
In the challenge contest for the President’s cup for 
lneligtbles T. W. Baker successfully defended his title 
against the challenger, E. R. Galvin. This match was 
at 50 targets per man and shot from the 16 yard mark; 
winner broke 48. Late war news reports Teddy Dore- 
mus as having challenged Baker. Date cut out bv 
censor. 
The total scores for the day follow: 
d. s: SSr 00 
w. g. wood . 1 ° 
A. M. Lindsay . 3 0 
J. W. Anderson, Jr. . -4 
J. B. McHugh .!..60—75 
C. E. Springer . rg 
S. J. Newman ... A7 
W. R. Townsley .I'..”'.'.'. 46 
Frank Tihatcher" . . 4? 
Frank Turner . 45 
Henry Winchester . ' ” ,q_ , 0 
T. W. Baker .. % 5 
E. R. Galvin . ,,- 
Ike Turner . ,, 
C. Leedom .. ’" 4, 
E. R. Jenks ..42 
T. E. Doremus . 40 
D. Moore ." , 0 
W. G. Robelen . 38 
W. Coyne . 36 
F. FI. Simonton . 32 
A. Hayden . 26 
L. T. McCloskey .. 25 
W. H. Downs ...'. 25 
E. Clauser . 24 
T. H. Stadleman . 18 
E. E. Handy . 24— 25 
Ed. Banks . 24 
J. T. Magaheran . 25 
H. P. Carlon . 23 
W. Tomlinson . 22 
J. H. Minnick . 22 
S. Tuchton . 21 
FT. T. Reed . 21 
FI. W. Bush . 20 
L. L. Tarrell .■„. 20 
W. J. Highfield . 20 
J. A. McMullen . 20 
T. W. Mathewson . 18 
C. E. Ewing . 18 
N. F. Ford . 17 
Mrs. C. E. Springer . 13 
F. L. Mathewson . 13 
T . Davidson . 12 
C. E. Rittenhouse ..... 11 
J. Lowther . 9 
Ben Demio . 4 
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Tale of Other Days that Should Please Sportsmen 
By Sandy Griswold. 
T HERE was a day, and it was no longer than 
a year ago, when the upland plover was 
our one incomparable summer game bird, 
although the open season was cotemporaneous 
with that for turtle doves, but the little green- 
legged sandpiper was so far superior to the dove, 
both as a game bird, to test the capabilities of 
the gunner, and for gastronomic purposes, that 
the sportsman seldom molested the latter while 
the former was on his annual brief sojourn here. 
He realized, too, possibly, that the dove season 
continues till in the drear November days, while 
that on upland plover, only lasted from July 15 
to August 30, but even that period is now denied 
us, under the new Federal migratory game law. 
What a farce, in a good many particulars, anyway, 
and how plain is the unconstitutionality of .this 
law, as commendable as its general spirit is. The 
fact is, we sportsmen, here in Nebraska, have 
been grossly discriminated against, and we have 
plenty of grounds for action. By prohibiting the 
pursuit of upland plover, in this latitude, during 
the months of July and August virtually shuts 
us out of all the grandest upland shooting, as 
the plover only drop here en route to the plateaus 
of Texas and New Mexico, about the middle of 
July, for a six weeks’ stay, or, at the most, eight 
weeks. With the first tang of chill in the morn¬ 
ing and evening air, in late August, these lovely 
game birds are up and gone for the south, where 
the open season continues all fall and well into 
the winter. The birds never stop here for more 
than a few hours on their northern flight in the 
spring, and were never hunted in that season. 
But now that the only time they do visit this re¬ 
gion has been closed to us by men ignorant of 
the true habits of the bird, we get no upland 
plover shooting at all. It is because the bird is 
only here in July and August, why we designate 
it as our one incomparable summer game "bird, 
and right now we should be right in the midst 
of the delight of their pursuit, but must content 
ourselves with the lowly mourning dove. 
As I remarked, when the upland plover comes 
here in the early spring, for he does come for a 
few days’ stay long in the latter part of March, 
it is most commonly seen isolated or in pairs, but 
never in considerable flocks, as is the case with 
the golden plover, or used to be when the bird 
came here in great numbers, every fall and 
spring. In the spring, the sportsman, who has no 
scruples about shooting all the jacksnipe and 
yellow-legs he can, seldom molests the upland; in 
fact, his opportunities to do so are meager, in¬ 
deed. But it is not wholly from a lack of chance 
that influences the hunter to restrain his desire 
to shoot when he does encounter an upland. 
Many a time I have been afield with a compan¬ 
ion, and not infrequently have flushed one or 
more upland plover. But when we heard that 
liquid, tinkling tur-wheet-wheetle, and recognized 
the bird, neither had cause to urge the other to 
let him go. 
“It is an upland,” was the general observation, 
“we’ll let him go until July.” 
It may be, perhaps, that the sportsman con¬ 
ceives a sort of a sacred regard for this sweet- 
noted visitor of our spring meadows, and passes 
him by, though he offers every temptation for a 
shot. 
Even if one cared to bag the upland plover at 
this time, there would be no chance of making 
anything like a creditable bag of them, and it is 
not often that even a single bird can be brought 
to grass. But we have no open spring season or 
open season now at all on these fine birds. But 
recalling the old days. 
At firse report of one of those good old Peters’ 
shells, this gentle wayfarer develops a wariness 
which taxes the gunner’s ingenuity to the limit 
■to get within range of him, even where the stand¬ 
ing stalks of last year’s crop of mullin and rag¬ 
weed afford the best of cover. And on the open 
olowed fields, where he does all his feeding dur¬ 
ing this brief vernal visit, it is impossible to ap¬ 
proach him anywhere, within even long gunshot 
Of course, there are no grasshoppers in the spring 
and the birds resort to the newly broken fields, 
where they can pick up worms, the various kinds 
of hibernating insects, bits of seed and other 
particles, which satisfy their appetites, but do 
not put much fat on their graceful bones. 
It is much different in the summer, when the 
cut hay fields, the reaped wheat, rye and oats, 
and fallow stretches by way of variety, offer a 
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