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The New York Athletic Club’s 
Amateur Championship 
High Averages for the Tournament 
December 8th—9th 
L. S. GERMAN, 
GEO. L. LYON, 
F. S. HODGMAN, 
CHAS. NEWCOMI 
CHAS. MINK, 
ALL THE ABOVE GENTLEMEN USED 
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Where, When and How to Catcl 
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By Wm. H. Gregg, of St. Louis, Mo., assisted by Capt. 
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THE GAME PRESERVES OF ASSAM. 
It is only within the last five years that any 
attention has been given to the preservation 
of big game in Assam. There are three sanctu¬ 
aries in the Kamrup district, and one each at 
Lukwah and Kasaranga in the Nowgong dis¬ 
trict. The remaining districts are left almost 
unprotected. With the exception of game in 
these sanctuaries, which are reserved for rhino¬ 
breeding, almost everything in the whole 
province is indiscriminately slaughtered. The 
game in Kamrup reserves is increasing, but it 
will take years to undo all the harm done. 
The Asian says it is painful to think that the 
viceroy’s inroad into one special rhino reserve 
resulted in a bag of only one cow rhino, where 
twenty years ago, in and around this same spot, 
fifty could be seen. 
On the south bank of the Brahmaputra there 
are still a few breeding places left, but these 
are inaccessible till about April, after the 
jungle has been burnt off. The government 
reserve forests in these parts can hardly boast 
of a rhino inside the areas. Their homes and 
feeding grounds are between the lower ranges 
at the foot of the Mekir and Garo Hills, in the 
low lying swamps and dollonies, covered with 
dense ekra and kagri, almost as thick as bam¬ 
boos, growing to.a height of from 15 to 20 feet, 
through which it is impossible to drive a 
hathi at the pace a rhino travels through it. 
There are very few shikaries who will attempt 
tracking them on foot through these runs, and 
when they do it invariably ends in disaster. 
The writer has known many good old cautious 
trackers who have had to pay the “extreme 
penalty” for attempting to follow up a rhino in 
these death-traps. Only four months ago 
Major Wood had the misfortune to lose an old 
shikari in one of these attempts, and nearly 
lost his own life in trying to save the man. 
The incident occurred in the Bisnath district 
and was one of the pluckiest attempts to save 
a man’s life that has been heard of for a long 
time. 
The forest officer of Kamrup and Darrang 
districts, who prepared and conducted the shoot 
for the viceroy, is the only man known in the 
whole valley who takes a keen interest and 
strictly enforces the government rules and 
regulations on big game. The man that is do¬ 
ing all the damage and driving rhino and tiger 
from their old breeding places is the Nepali 
and his Kutia. Government allow these Kutias 
to be erected and allow these men to bring in 
their large herds of buffalo who roam about 
at their own sweet will over every well-known' 
breeding spot in Assam—grazing, and hacking 
down the best covers in the province. And 
for this government taxes them Re. 1 per head 
of buffalo. It can be truthfully said where one 
is paid for, fifty get off scot free. Every sports¬ 
man in Assam is aware that more harm has 
been done by these Nepali exterminators with¬ 
in these last eight years than has been done 
by shikar since Tea was first started. Unless 
government keep these outlaws within certain 
bounds there will not be a head of big game 
left in Assam in a short time. The Mungledye 
Sub-Division of Darrang, from Borpeta to 
Tezpur on the north bank, provides excellent 
sport for almost every kind of game, big and 
small; and no hard or fast rules or restrictions 
are made except in three or four small re¬ 
serves where rhino are known to breed. These 
spots are the only places that get any special 
attention paid them to save the game on the 
north bank from extinction. 
Due north from Mungledye to the end of 
North Lakhimpur on the borders of the Arka. 
Duphla and Sarogmiri Hills there is snlendid 
Mithan .shooting up the Karan, Belsiri, Borelli, 
Dekorai, Borgang, Derjoo, Ranganadi, Derpai 
and Subansirj Rivers, the latter being the 
largest feeder in the valley to the Brahmaputra. 
The finest masheer fishing in India can be got 
up the Subansiri from the end of October to 
the end of March. Some of the pools in this 
river, even in the dry season, are nearly 1,000 
yards across, and the fish in these pools run up 
to 80 pounds and over. On or near the banks 
of all these streams herds of Mithan are to be 
