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play of lines at the Panama Exposition. Now 
that the Atlantic coast fishermen are taking up 
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tional records will be made on these. But while 
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A NEW DEER LAW FOR LOUISIANA. 
After a consultation with the leading sports¬ 
men and conservationists of the state, President 
M. L. Alexander, of the Conservation Commis¬ 
sion of Louisiana, has announced the new regula¬ 
tions just passed by his board in respect to the 
killing of deer. 
The open season is set from September 15 to 
January 5 of each year. Does are protected 
until October 15. Still hunting for bucks 
only, and without the use of dogs, is allowed be¬ 
tween the 15th of September and the 15th of 
October. Bucks and does are allowed to be 
taken and killed and hunted with dogs from the 
15th of October until the 5th of January. The 
new law provides that no deer shall be killed for 
sale, offered for sale, or had in possession for 
sale at any time. It allows one person to take 
five such wild deer in an open season and to pos¬ 
sess but two carcasses or parts thereof at one 
time. 
The new law does not affect the previous laws 
that prohibit the killing of wild deer between 
the hours of sunset and sunrise: or when in 
the water; or when driven to high land by high 
water or overflow; or the use of guns that have 
any device for deadening the sound of the ex¬ 
plosion, commonly known as a “silencer.” The 
snaring or trapping of wild deer is also pro¬ 
hibited, and fawns are not allowed to be killed 
at any time. 
“There has been such a difference of opinion as 
to the season in which deer should be permitted 
to be killed that the question of adjusting the 
season so as to protect the deer has been one 
of the hard problems for the commission to de¬ 
cide,” said President Alexander. 
•'Our experience of last year in permitting the 
season to open August 15, forcibly demon¬ 
strated to the commission that no deer should be 
permitted to be killed at so early a date. We 
found in many sections of the state that the 
fawns were not weaned or able to take care of 
themselves until as late as October, that the does 
were poor and the weather so hot that to permit 
them to be hunted with dogs simply brought 
about a useless destruction of this species we are 
so anxious to protect. 
“The commission believes that no deer should 
be permitted to be hunted in the state before the 
first of October but, in a desire to meet the 
wishes of certain sportsmen in the state, we de¬ 
cided to permit still hunting from September 
15 to October 15, and general hunting with 
dogs from October 15 to January 5. The 
first five days in January were allowed so as to 
permit sportsmen to engage in a New Year’s Day 
hunt. 
“To succeed in bringing about an increase of 
the deer of Louisiana in any appreciable way, 
the Conservation Commission realizes that it will 
be necessary to put such restrictions on their 
hunting so as to make it hard rather than easy 
to kill them.” 
McLaughlin s own book. 
It would seem almost that the writing of a 
book on Tennis these days would be another case 
of bringing in the proverbial coals to Newcastle 
for the tennis enthusiast of to-day has so many 
books to call upon for help and suggestions writ¬ 
ten by such past masters of the game as the 
Doherty’s, Dewhurst, Alexander, Vaile, and 
many others. Yet, “Tennis As I Play It,” by 
Maurice E. McLaughlin, is not at all like its 
predecessors, inasmuch as it lays down no def¬ 
inite rules or regulations for the playing of the 
game. It is not a theoretical discussion on what 
ought to be done but a clear and concise, 
interesting telling of what the author him¬ 
self does. As Norris Williams, National 
Singles Champion, so aptly puts it in his 
preface to the book, “it is really like having 
a friendly conversation with him after a match.” 
Theories in tennis, like in many other things, 
are often impracticable, and Mr. McLaughlin’s 
advice is to be natural—never artificial. To 
quote him, “When one has mastered the essen¬ 
tials-of the game he should then fall easily and 
gracefully into the style that comes most natu¬ 
rally to him. Many a beginner with bright 
prospects has been spoiled by a desire to pursue 
methods which certain authorities have advised 
rather than those in which he, personally, would 
be more likqly to become proficient.” 
As National Singles Champion in 1912, 1913, 
and National Doubles Champion with T. C. 
Bundy in 1912, 1913 and 1914, and the mainstay 
of America’s Davis Cup Team, the author may 
undeniably be considered the world’s best tennis 
player. This goal has been reached only through 
the longest and hardest experience in the stiffest 
practice and most exacting tournament play and 
from this wealth of material McLaughlin has 
told us what he has learned in one of the most 
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“Tennis As I Play It” is of some 300 pages, 
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very interesting chapters on “Doubles,” and on 
“Ladies’ Tennis,” and his final chapter tells of 
“Tennis Travels,” of which no one is more com¬ 
petent to write than the author. 
Mr. McLaughlin’s book is a valuable asset to 
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terest in this game will surely benefit by know¬ 
ing how the “California Whirlwind” has suc¬ 
ceeded, and upon laying aside the book will feel 
that he has had an extremely enjoyable, as well 
as instructive, chat with an extremely interesting 
personality. (George H. Doran Co.) 
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