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22nd.—Bostons vs. Walthams, at Waltham, (Cricket).—New 
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Calendar of Events for the Current Week. 
Aveust 2ist.—The Manhattan Cricket Club vs. Walthams, at Waltham, 
Mass. 
York Yacht Squadron at Newport—Extra meeting at Monmouth Park, 
Long Branch.—The Park Association, Wilkesbarre, Penn. 
river.—Extra meeting at Monmouth Park, Long Branch. 
Aveusu 26th.—EKarl Park Association, Earlville, Il. 
Park Association Earlville, Ill.—Middletown Association, N. Y. 
Avaust 28th.—EKarl Park Association.—John Biglln and George Brown 
Herdic Park, Williamsport, Penn. 
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IY by any method it could be possible to get at this fact, 
birth, outside of military organizations, were or were not 
proficient in the use of arms, we feel certain that the pro- 
in the majority. Taking Prussia, with her all-absorbing 
military element, as a comparison, we think that it would 
their first introduction to the routine of arms, nine-tenths 
of them, when the gun was placed in their hands for the 
that exact distinction, sometimes overlooked even by mili- 
tary authorities, between men “able to bear arms” and men 
How long this general acquaintance with the use of fire- 
arms in the United States would have lasted is, however, 
experience, notwithstanding the late terrible appeal to arms, 
we are inclined to think that this familiarity would have 
quite plain. The first school of arms with us would never 
have been acquired in the camp, but as heretofore would 
hunting. As day by day our country is getting more thickly 
settled and game scarcer, these opportunities, once indulged 
think that already this change is somewhat noticeable. In 
our younger days, even in the large cities, every youth of 
exceptionable. Other occupations, tendencies towards a 
sedentary life, disparity of fortune, less time for recreation, 
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Aveust 23rd.—Meeting of the Athletic club foot of 138rd street, East 
Aveust 27th.—Herdic Park Associttion, Williamsport, Penn.—EKar 1 
sculle’s race, Halifax Harbor, N. §.—Middletown Association, N. Y.— 
CREEDMORE. 
I as t how many men in the United States of American 
portion familiar with the shot gun or rifle would be foand 
not be unsafe to assert that in a squad of ten Germans, on 
first time, would be utterly ignorant of its use. This is 
knowing how to use them. 
a question much more difficult to answer. From our own 
gone on decreasing. ‘The reasons for our thinking so are 
have been obtained by the use of the shot gun and rifle in 
in by all classes, would have become more rare. We even 
sixteen almost, had his fowling piece—to-day it is getting 
with the scarceness of game, have all caused this change. 

Though Englishmen were our superiors in athletic sports 
they certainly were not our equals in the general use of fire- 
arms, for the very reason that in England game was not so 
abundant, the hunting ground was limited, and even the 
right to use arms was placed under certain restrictions. 
It is exactly for this reason—the possible decline in the 
knowledge of how to use fire-arms—that we hail with plea- 
sure the introduction of rifle shooting, and the most laud- 
able efforts to give it every encouragement. Thanks to the 
exertions of some half dozen gentlemen, among whom a 
merited prominence must be accorded to Colonel W. C. 
Church, of the Army and Navy Journal, and to Captain J. 
W. Wingate, the National Rifle Association was formed ; 
and the fine rifle range at Creedmore, now open to the pub- 
lic, is the crowning result of their labors. Creedmore, 
though not so large as Wimbledon, has many advantages 
over it, being as flat as a billiard table, and having extent 
sufficient to allow numerous parties to try their weapons at 
all possible ranges. Every advantage has been taken of the 
experience acquired by riflemen at Hythe and Wimbledon, 
and the targets are the same as are used in England. 
Of course there has been, as there always is, in the ini- 
tial movement of such an important subject, a certain 
amount of apathy, but our military organizations and 
sportsmen are rapidly becoming cognizant of the fact that 
although they might be the possessors of the best guns in 
the world, they might be surpassed by foreigners in the use 
their arm of predilection—the rifle. 
Perhaps a field for rifle practice never was opened at a 
more opportune time. We doubtif in any country so much 
ingenuity has been directed towards fire-arms, or with such 
brilliant success, as in the United States, and, with all 
respect to ordnance officers, we are inclined to think that it 
is just on such a ground as Creedmore that the merits of the 
gun of the future will be proclaimed. It will be at Creed- 
more that the rifle which shoots the hardest and closest, loads 
and repeats the quickest, stands the hardest usage, will by 
popular acclamation be adopted as the gun of the soldier 
or the sportsman. We are no prophets, but the time will 
come when twenty thousand people will stand on the pleas- 
ant grounds of Creedmore to witness some future rifle 
contest. 

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KILLING GAME OUT OF SEASON. 
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OMEWHERE about A. D. 1867, Rev. W.H. H. Mur- 
ray, of Boston, paid a flying visit to the Adirondack re- 
gion of our State, and the result was the production of a 
book, the pecuniary success of which was most satisfactory 
to the author, and a source of astonishment to the many 
accomplished gentlemen who have for more or less of a 
quarter of a century, made our northern wilderness a sum- 
mer camping ground. The publication developed at least 
one important fact, viz., that the mass of our people con- 
fined to our towns and cities, are fond of reading any- 
thing, even of passable merit, if it treats of the backwoods 
and its kindred associations. 
On the first Wednesday of our present month of Au- 
gust, Mr. Murray returned from “‘his annual excursion” to 
the Adirondacks. In this trip he was singularly unfortunate 
of our State. But for his own confession, the world would 
probably remain ignorant of his dereliction; but Mr. Mur- 
ray is not one of the reticent kind, for he recounts his 
“victories” over asa ‘‘brave” returning from the ‘‘ war 
path,” and like a red-handed Indian, shakes his scalps in the 
faces of his tribe, bg they in the highway or around the 
council fires. 
Says the red man, when vaunting of his chivalrous ‘deeds, 
“Thave stolen like acat upon my enemy, and left the 
bones of the squaw and pappoose to whiten on the plains.” 
Says Mr. Murray in the same vein, ‘‘I have deceived 
the finny tribe and killed and eaten a half score of deer 
slain by my own hand;” and we add, did this valorous 
thing in the sickly central month of the summer heats! 
Among all true sportsmen there is a bond of sympathy, 
one touch of which makes the fraternity akin, and within 
this charmed circle, Mr. Murray has not yet been admit- 
ted, and never will be, so long as he continues to slaughter 
game out of season. What apology can he make for being 
ignorant of the natural laws which control the sanitary 
conditions of the gentle deer? Why has he not informed 
himself, that in the month of July, the brave blue coated 
buck of the fall and winter months, is moulting like a sick 
canary? His antlers, half developed, are covered with ‘‘vel- 
vet.” In his nostrils are hidden away great worms that 
seem to feed upon his brain and eyes. His gait is unsteady, 
for like a gouty invalid, he seeks the shallow waters of the 
lake, in the vain endeavor to cool his fevered blood. 
The poor doe, in the sweltering time of July, with all the 
tenderness of a young mother, is*nursing and guarding her 
fawn, keeping it in sequestered nooks, and only when hun- 
ger inpels, she hides it away in the matted thicket, that she 
may browse on the gross vegetation of marsh and hill sides, 
then returning to her charge, half satisfied of food, and 
wholly self-condemned that she has been away so long. 
The great Juno-like eyes of the dying buck speak louder 
than words, ‘‘that Iwas slaughtered in my sick bed.” 
And if we were to attempt to eat this ‘‘ diseased venison,” 
the very touch of the shrunken loin of the stricken doe 
would have recalled the voice of the poor fawn, appealing 
for succor in plaintive cries from its hiding place, pining 
and wasting away until death, more considerate than “in- 
satiate man,” puts an end to its sufferings. 
We confess we cannot understand this desire to kill for 
the.sake of destruction. How noble by contrast is the as- 
sertion of the brave and accomplished sportsman, I kill 




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no bird unless it hasa chance for its life on the wing; 
afid no four-footed game except in its season of health, and 
possessed of all the advantages which God has given it for 
escape.” That was a grand idea of Leather Stocking’s, 
that he would shoot not a single thing more than was 
enough for his present appetite. But take heart, Mr. Mur- 
ray, you are only one of the many who have helped within 
afew years to almost annihilate the game of the forest and 
streams of our north wilderness. We remember well, 
that years ago, at acountry house at the foot of Mt. Tacona, 
that looks out on Great Barrington, there was a book in 
which tourists inscribed their names, and if inclined, their 
deeds. And in this book was written in a bold hand, and 
signed by a well known name, the following memorandum; 
“Our party found an abundance of trout, and caught and 
left 1300 to die upon the banks.” 
Against this waste we shall wage a constant war. Every 
practical law passed for the protection of game we shall 
support to the best of our ability, and we venture the pre- 
diction, that the Rev. Mr. Murray will slay no more deer 
in the Adirondacks again in the hot, sultry month of 
July. 
Then, there are those prominent public officials, Wood- 
son the Governor of Misscuri, an@ his party, who crossed 
the Kansas line and shot grouse out of season. What 
shall be said of this deliberate violation of law by one 
sworn to enforce the law? Is there no grain of principle 
left in men? Are they not satisfied of the justice and 
reasonableness of these prohibitive and protective game 
laws? Toadies treated this more thar venial offense as a 
good joke, because, forsooth, the parties are high in office 
and position; but for us, the larger the mark the more cer 
tain our aim, and for such persons there is the less excuse 
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RECREATION FOR BUSY WORKERS. 
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GOOD deal has been said about the old fashioned con 
ventional rules which govern employers and employees 
in England. Pretty generally our commercial usages have 
been modelled after English principles, and we have found 
ourselves all the better for having followed them. Our 
early-closing movement is decidedly English, and owes ite 
origin in the United States to the Anglo-Saxon element in 
our midst. Not that this most humane measure was one 
entirely advanced by the employed, but in many cases was 
suggested by the heads of the most prominent English firms 
in our midst. This good fashion is then pre-eminently Eng: 
lish, and possibly the granting of certain holidays owes its ori- 
gin to customs of five hundred years ago, when the London 
burghers were obliged by old ordinances to allow their clerks 
and apprentices certain hours of recreation, so that they 
might play at “ bowles,” or shoot their ‘‘bowes” astride of 
London walls. 
Though much might be said deprecatory of the intense, 
all-absorbing character of an American business-life, where 
neither master nor men spare themselves in performing their 
allotted tasks, we must still hail with pleasure the gradual 
diminishing of the working hours, and the granting of addi- 
tional holidays to that very much overtasked class of men, 
the salesmen, clerks and bookkeepers. 
One point that is overlooked, however, is this, that the 
masters do not take sufficient interest in the amusements of. 
those under their employ, and in this there is a wide 
departure from the good old English precedents. Perhaps 
this idea may invoke a rather disdainful smile from the lips 
of amember of some distinguished firm, and he may say, 
‘‘out of office hours we can have nothing to do with our 
clerks. We give them their holidays, and they spend them 
| as they please. It is no business of ours.” We might reply 
to him as follows, drawing a Liverpool paper from our 
pocket: ‘‘ Perhaps you do business with Staple, Yarns & 
Co.’ ‘Of course we do; they are among our oldest and best 
correspondents.” ‘‘ Well, you will see here a gold medal 
valued at £20, offered by this old established firm, to be 
awarded to any one of their clerks who can sun the fastest 
mile.” . f you take an interest in.such matters you would 
notice in addition that all warehousemen have combined to 
make up a series of prizes amounting to over $1,000 to be 
given to any of their employees who may be the most profi- 
cient in some half dozen various athletic sports. You will, 
herefore, notice that these old firms take most decidedly an 
interest in the sports of their clerks, and in an indirect way 
supervise the character of their amusements. They are not 
alone satisfied with giving them a holiday, but what is better 
see that the time given for recreation is properly employed. 
We have in our large cities, establishments employing in 
many cases hundreds of young men, and perhaps the sug- 
gestions we offer to the heads of such concerns, may in time 
bear their fruit. Why should not the employees of the two 
most famous dry-goods houses in the United States, after due 
preparation, engage in a friendly athletic contest? Perhaps 
the time will come when, at Creedmore, a Stewart may 
contest with a Claflin the honor of being the best rifle-shots 
in New York. Once a movement of this character inaugu- 
rated by the employers, the advance of all manly sports in 
the United States would be immense, and the hours of recre- 
ation be not only more liberally given, but more than ever 
usefully employed. If in colleges, why not in stores and 
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—An advertisement of this character would seem strange 
with us, but very rightly in England is. considered as an 
extra distinction: ‘‘ An undergraduate of Oxford of three 
year’s standing, who has rowed stroke of his college boat, 
proposes to take charge of a pupil, etc,, ete.” 






