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WINNERS OF TROPHIES. 
First, Chas. Emery, 5821 Dorchester avenue, Chicago, 
Ill.; second, J. A. Groves, Chicago, Ill.; third, A. 
Lino, 826 Read Court, Chicago, Ill.; fourth, W. R. 
Carman, 7559 .Rogers avenue, Chicago, Ill.; fifth, R. O. 
Berger, Kenilworth, Ill.; sixth, Harrison Kennicott, 
910 Main street, Evanston, Ill. 
F. M. SCHIEBLE, Secretary and Treasurer. 
ENGLISH ARCHERY SCORES. 
MID-HEREFORDSHIRE ARCHERY 
SOCIETY. 
Aug. 4.—Ladies shot the National Round. 
Gentlemen 4 dozen arrows at 80 yards, and 4 
dozen at 60 yards. 
Ladies 
Gentlemen. 
60 Yards 
50 Yards 
Total 
H. 
S. 
H. 
S. 
H. 
s. 
33 
145 
16 
66 
49 
211 
36 
134 
17 
89 
53 
203 
28 
88 
16 
84 
44 
172 
24 
104 
16 
58 
40 
162 
80 Yards 
60 Yards 
Total 
28 
126 
39 
209 
67 
335 
14 
44 
33 
135 
47 
179 
15 
49 
23 
87 
38 
156 
iERY 
CLUB. 
Aug. 10.—This, the last meeting, was held on 
the Ross cricket ground, owing to the unsettled 
state of affairs nearly thirty archers were pre¬ 
vented from attending. The day was fine 
throughout. 
Ladies 
Mrs. Armitage . 46 244 
Miss Newall . 38 174 
Mrs. Hermitage Day .... 35 
Miss Swayne . 23 
Mrs. Marshall .. 
Gentlemen ^ 
Mr. R. Elton Lee . 26 112 
Mr. K. O’Neill . 
60 Yards 
50 Yards 
H. 
S. 
H. 
S. 
46 
244 
24 
134 
38 
174 
21 
93 
35 
135 
19 
87 
23 
89 
15 
83 
24 
102 
18 
68 
80 Yards 
60 Yards 
26 
112 
19 
79 
II 
39 
9 
29 
L ARCHERS. 
Total 
H. S. 
70 37? 
59 26; 
54 22; 
38 17: 
42 17c 
Total 
45 191 
20 6? 
Aug. 5 -—Flax-Bourton cricket ground. Wind 
high and gusty. 
_ 60 Yards so Yards Total 
Ladies H. S H. S. H. S 
Mrs. Leonard . 31 149 21 91 52 241 
Mrs. Aubrey . 27 133 21 101 48 23. 
Aug. io.-—Flax-Bourton cricket ground; fim 
weather. 
Ladies 
60 Yards 
So Yards 
H. 
s. 
H. S. 
Mrs. Whitelaw . 
22 108 
Miss Miles . 
17 75 
Mrs. Aubrey . 
19 81 
Gentlemen 
80 Yards 
60 Yards 
Mr. H. V. Whitelaw .. 
23 103 
11 ' 91 
Mr. Daubney . 
25 
II 03 
Mr. Hingston . 
24 
7 29 
Total 
H. 
s. 
55 
231 
44 
194 
55 
185 
Total 
34 
144 
17 
78 
11 
53 
BEECHWOOD—BON AIR. 
North Diamond Station, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 7. 
The scores: 
BON AIR ARCHERS 
W. J. Holmes.30 198 
Mr. Douthhitt.30 178 
60 376 
BEECHV 1 EW ARCHERS 
J. S. Jiles.30 176 
Dr. O. L. Hertig.30 154 
There were thirty arrows at forty yards for 
Labor Day Contest at Beechview, Pgh., on the 
street 'before five thousand people. Dr. Hertig 
got crowd-scared so Mr. W. J. Holmes won the 
silver cup trophy easily. 
A HEALTHY APPETITE. 
By Double Barrel. 
There is nothing more important in the world 
than ithe contents of one’s stomach, and, argu¬ 
ing from this premise, the contents of other 
stomachs should also be of interest; hence the 
following account : 
Last Spring we were anchored in a gasoline 
cruiser in the Bay of Honda off the Florida 
Keys engaged in waiting for the weather to turn 
warm enough for tarpon to bite. Meanwhile, 
we amused ourselves by fishing for other fish 
and catching lobsters and stone crabs for the 
table. 
Captain Jim had set out a couple of shark 
lines which he attached to some old piling 
which had been laid by the Florida East Coast 
Railroad at the time of its construction, and 
which projeced above the water in certain 
parts of the Bay. These lines were about one 
hundred feet of five-eighths inch manila rope, at 
the end of which was three or four feet of 
chain, baited with three or four pounds of any 
uneatable fish we happened to have. From the 
deck of the boat we could pick up the shark 
lines through a glass and could see whether they 
were entirely free or not. The first day we had 
the lines out we caught a small shark, weighing 
perhaps one hundred pounds, and on the next 
day we were fortunate enough to catch a saw 
fish, fourteen feet over all with a forty-four 
inch saw. On the third day, about three o’clock 
in the afternoon, we saw that the line, which 
was in the middle of the Channel, flowing 
through the Bay, was taut, and four of us got 
into one of the small motor boats and ran over 
to it. I carried with me a thirty-forty rifle and 
when we arrived at the line the rest of them 
gradually hauled in on it until they pulled the 
head of a large shark out of the water. As 
soon as the head came above the surface, I shot 
him twice through the head, which finished his 
career, after which we brought him back to the 
boat and the question was what to do with him. 
Inspection showed that he was a leopard 
shark, which the natives insisted was a man eat¬ 
er, and as his jaws were armed with a very in¬ 
teresting set of teeth, consisting of six rows, one 
inside ithe other, I suggested that I would Ihcc 
to cut out the jaws and keep them. We hauled 
him up on the beach, and measuring him, found 
'he was a little over nine feet long. We had 
tried to weigh him on the davits before landing 
him, but our scales would not accommodate 
more than six hundred pounds, and as he was 
much heavier than this, we were unable to get 
his weight. When we finally succeeded in drag¬ 
ging him on the beach we cut him open at once 
as we were very anxious to see what was in¬ 
side of him. His internal apparatus was sur¬ 
prisingly simple. Apparently he had very little 
to boast of in the way of organs, except his 
stomach and liver. The stomach was like an 
enormous flour sack, on each side of which, 
were two enormous layers of liver, extending 
the whole length of his stomach and about one 
and a half feet broad. When his stomach was 
opened we found the most extraordinary col¬ 
lection imaginable. 
To begin with, there were the remains of a 
dozen lobsters—at least what is known as lob¬ 
sters along the Florida Keys. They were much 
larger than the ones caught in the North, and 
they had two long feelers and no pinchers. 
There were nine of these lobsters entirely undi¬ 
gested and the remains of four or five in dif¬ 
ferent stages of digestion, and in some cases the 
shells were almost totally digested. Beside these 
there was a 'horse-shoe crab, 'about the size of 
a peck measure, and a moray, which is a sort of 
salt water snake about five feet long. There 
was also a number of pelican feathers, the 
heavy wing feathers being entirely intact, al¬ 
though the rest of the bird was totally digested. 
As the pelican rises from the water very slowly, 
I have no doubt that the shark had succeeded 
in seizing the pelican on. the surface, very much 
as the trout does the fly. In addition to these, 
we also found about one hundred pieces of tor¬ 
toise shell, evidently the remains of a very large 
Hawksbill turtle. Of this collection of tortoise 
shell some of the flakes were six inches long by 
four inches broad, and were so digested that 
they had become about as thin as cardboard. A 
number of them I picked out of the miscellane¬ 
ous debris of the shark’s stomach and brought 
home with me, and to vouch for the truth of 
this story, I enclose one of them herewith to 
Forest and Stream. There was no meat or any¬ 
thing of that kind in the stomach of the shark 
and I do not believe that a fish would be swal¬ 
lowed an hour without being digested, bones and 
all. 
After we were through examining the stom¬ 
ach we cut out his jaws and discovered a pe¬ 
culiarity of construction which enabled him to 
swallow almost anything. The jaws were not 
only jointed at the side, but were jointed in the 
center with heavy cartilages so they could be 
spread to any position or shape and could be 
stretched to accommodate any object. The 
jaws were equipped with six rows of teeth, the 
inner five of which were flat, while the upper 
