Oct. 2, 1909. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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EMPIRE 
WESTY HOGAN SHOOT, Atlantic City, N. J , Sept. 16 to 18. 
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tidergrowth where there are no distinctive 
ndmarks so as to bring them up square to 
ie guns—all this requires skill of a very high 
'der. Something more than the poacher’s art 
necessary here. I think! “The subtle beast 
ust be outwitted on his own ground,” and 
takes a good man to do it. 
Why do sportsmen fail to secure tigers by 
fating? The answer is: want of experience, 
ant of a really good shikari, failure to gain the 
mfidence and cheerful help of the natives, and 
ability to think big enough and make big 
lough arrangements. Your field of vision and 
ought must range far beyond the actual 
ngle in which you are operating, and your 
mndobast” must be made on a corresponding 
ale. The whole crux of the argument is really 
the last sentence, for it implies a lavish ex- 
•nditure of money, and makes tiger shooting 
very expensive amusement. Many a sports- 
an, therefore, must perforce get his tigers by 
ting up for them, thereby doing away with 
I the expenses of a beat. 
In parts of Bengal and the Terai, beating with 
long line of elephants is practiced, and is the 
ily way of getting tigers in the long grass 
nere they lie up. This method is, of course, 
applicable to the dense jungles of Central and 
nithern India. But here the aid of a single 
fined elephant may be brought in and the 
(er followed and shot in his midday retreat. 
3 sort of hunting, says Forsyth, requires more 
reful arrangements, greater knowledge of the 
bits of the animal, perseverance and good 
ooting than the pursuit of the tiger by a 
lgle sportsman with a single elephant. Yes, 
must be fine sport! To mark down and track 
je’s own game, corner him and make him 
arge and so end the encounter. Sharp, ex- 
,;ing work this! And truly, when you have 
gued all the different methods of attacking 
e tiger you have touched only the fringe of 
e subject, for in each method there are in- 
imerable variations, every one of which is 
pable of wearing many different aspects in 
•anging circumstances. Take it how you will, 
: is grand sport. 
FOXES AND PHEASANTS. 
One of the most striking signs of the times 
: the great increase in the number of men who 
1 th shoot and hunt and are just as keen on 
’2 one sport as on the other. In such counties 
•i Leicestershire, where the whole country is 
tactically given over to fox hunting, one does 
it find so many of these all-round sportsmen, 
It in Southern England the majority of those 
'to support fox hunting are also shooting men. 
’ere it not for this fact, says the London Globe, 
msiderable difficulty would often be expen¬ 
ded in carrying on the two sports in the same 
tighborhood. But where most of the sporting 
indents of any particular district divide their 
dividual sympathies between foxes and pheas- 
;ts the doctrine of “live and let live” is greatly 
lengthened, and everything possible is done 
i minimize the risks of conflicting interests. 
3 ne has heard so often of the interference to 
Ooting caused by fox hunting that those who 
not behind the scenes hardly realize how 
itquently the boot is on the other leg. But the 
tster or committee responsible for the arrange- 
! :nt of meets knows only too well how shoot- 
fixtures are apt to interfere with their plans, 
bw often, too, early in the season hounds are 
ipped when running because such and such a 
' ert has not yet been shot through. Matters 
o very much simplified, however, when covert 
Jners are as friendly disposed to fox hunting 
: to pheasant shooting, and those little misun- 
( 'standings_ which arise from time to time are 
tlerally adjusted without much difficulty. The 
pd sportsman, whether he lean the more 
t dy toward hunting or shooting, will under¬ 
bid the chagrin that may easily be aroused 
■ en one sport interferes with the other, and 
s equally annoying to be stopped in the mid- 
• ° m rim because somebody’s coverts 
‘ s . * unshot, as it is to have a good day’s 
'otmg spoilt bv the sudden bursting of the 
uho the middle of everything. 
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