
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Sea and River SHishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 
Coast Fisn. LAKES. 
Bluefish, Skipjack. Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Mic) opterus nig 
(Temnodon saitator.) and archiqan.) (two species. 
Spanish Mackerel,( Cero maculatum.) Pickerel, (Hsow reticulatus.) 
on Squetaug (Trout) Ofoli- Pike perch,(Lucioperca Americana.) 
Us. 


t Bays AND EsTUARIES. 
Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax luneatus.) 
ee 5h 
—There is positively no striped bass fishing or any other 
fishing down the Bay, and all the boats come in “‘clean.” 
On Saturday, Messrs. Clerk and Abbey took seven small 
bass after a most persistent trial of the Jersey flats and 
lower bay; but ‘“‘what are these few among so many.” At 
Hell Gate and the Little Gate business has fallen off, and 
squids glitter in the surging tidein vain. At Pelham bridge 
Henry Harbeck has beaten the game, we think, having 
made a very fair score the past week. 
—Thomas §S. Steele, an expert angler of Hartford, Ct. 
to whom we owe many favors, sends us the ‘‘paper pat- 
terns” of seven of the monster trout of Maine which were 
caught last summer and the year before in Mooselucma- 
guntic Lake and the Rangely river. Their captors were 
R. G. Allerton, Dr. G. A. Mills, L. B. Reed, and Mr. 
Steele, and their weights in avoirdupoise were respectively 
as follows: 5 pounds, 2 ounces; 6, 7, 74, 82, and 10 pounds. 
As we shall have little more to report respecting trout fish- 
ing until the advent of spring, we can bring the subject to 
ano more graceful conclusion, especially as regards the 
wonderful waters of Maine, than by printing the following 
letter from C. Pennock, a guide well known to anglers on 
Rangely waters, and whose veracity is undoubted: 
RANGELY, October 14th. 
Eprror Forest AND STREAM:— 
On Lake Mooselucmaguntic there has been dull fishing the last of this 
season. Kennebago Lake and the outlet at the foot of Rangely Lake 
have beaten everything for numbers and size. This fall I went up the 
stream Kennebago October 3d, with a gentleman from Boston and he 
caught thirty trout in two hours’ time. They weighed 59 pounds. We 
meta party on the stream who caught twenty trout, one of them 
weighed 9} pounds. October 6th I went up again with another party and 
caught a fine string, two of four pounds among them. J oseph Lamb, an- 
other guide, went up the nextday with a stranger, and the two of them 
caught 75 pounds in just one hour; one of them weighed eight pounds. 
On the 10th I went up with a party and we caught twenty trout which 
would average two pounds each. The water was the highest that it has 
been this season. At the outlet and dam they have caught a great many 
trout and most of them large. They have caught twenty a day on an av- 
erage, that would weigh four pounds each, for the past few days. Sammy 
Clark, another guide, caught in one day what fish he sold for $10, and he 
sold them very low at that. Fishermen are plenty and will be until the. 
season closes. Respectfully yours, C. PENNOCE. 
—From the South we have received a pleasant letter. 
Our correspondent goes fishing from Savannah to Thunder- 
bolt, and through Ossabaw Sound, ‘and plies the line 
through many of the estuaries and water courses which 
interlace Southern Georgia below Savannah. Fish he gets 
in plenty, the sheeps-head, the whiting and the croaker, and 
not only did the fish bite, but also did the mosquitoes, re- 
presented as singing of nights like ‘a full brass band.” 
Turtle too, did our correspondent find, a lordly aldermanic 
fellow of 175 pounds having been captured. No such ex- 
citing sport can be found as that the turtle affords. You 
spy him from afar off floating in the undulating surface of 
the water sometimes miles from the shore. Slowly, 
cautiously your boatman rows the skiff to the turtle; the 
least clumsy splash of an oar would disturb his siesta. At 
last you get behind him, and inch by inch you approach 
him. Then you stoop well over the bow, and turn your 
turtle. Ahem! Turn him? It seems easy enough to say 
“turn him,” but how do you do it? You bend down, 
leaning far over the bow of the boat, make both hands meet 
under his belly in the water and you lift Mr. Turtle clean 
out of the sea and tumble him backwards into your boat. 
It is surprising how light a turtle isin the water and what 
a dead weight he is when out of his element. No matter 
if he does struggle a little and dash his flippers at you, the 
only thing really to be afraid of is the barnacles which 
almost always grow on his sides and cut like knives into 
the arms and wrists when you hold him in your embrace. 
Of famous turtle catchers in the approved method, one who 
can turn a monster of any size and land him with such a 
clatter in the boat that you would think the frail bottom 
would come out, we give the palm to Captain Buckley of 
the steamer ‘‘ Virgo.” People fish in and around Savannah 
all the year round, and there is a certain bank, off Tybee 
Light, near the Light Ship, where bass are captured in 
quantity. There may be found in Savannah not only good 
fish but excellent company. 
—Professor Uhler, chairman of the committee appointed 
to investigate the causes of the disappearance of fish from 
Maryland waters, reports that all the rivers in the State are 
gradually filling with mud and sediment, carried into them 
from the cultivated soil by the rain and freshets. Rivers 
and mouths of rivers which less than fifteen years ago were 
navigable by large ships, can now barely accommodate 
small boats. TIM only remedy, according to Professor 
Uhler, is to require the farmers whose lands border on the 
rivers to plant grass and vines alongside the shore to pre- 
vent the freshets from washing away the soil. 
The following extract of a letter from Dr. Wm. F. Clerk, 
the artist, will be read with especial interest by the numer- 
ous friends of himself and his genial brother, Andrew 
Clerk, of Maiden Lane. It is written from the river Esk, 
in England, Sepember 29th: 
“J am still at Metal Bridge. While the river was in condition I was 
tolerably successful in salmon fishing, having landed ten salmon, two of 
which weighed twenty pounds each; this for a short time on an English 
river is considered great fishing. The Esk, however, is a small stream, 
frequently out of condition either in flood or when low, avitisnow. In 























the latter condition the pools are full of salmon. In many of them they 
are lying as numerous as they ever were in the Grand pool at Grand river 
in Canada, and not confined to one pool, but everywhere they abound. 
I have seen over two hundred salmon leap in one pool during part of an 
afternoon. Mr. Parton, the artist, is now with me, but he is getting 
tired of this quiet place, and I suppose will leave for London. I think 
T shall wait a little for the fishing, which is said to be best during Octo- 
ber. This house is exceedingly comfortable. I have an excellent bed- 
room and parlor, well furnished, and the tuble is everything I could wish 
for; the people are very attentive and get whatever I wish for, and the 
expense is very moderate indeed—less than I have paid anywhere during 
my wanderings in Scotland. Mr. Parton and I visited Gretna Green yes- 
terday. There is uothing remarxcable about the locality; the small brook 
or river Sark there divides Scotland from England. There is no village— 
only a farm house, which was formerly in stage coach days an inn, and a 
toll-gate. The weather here is at present very fine, and exactly like 
the Indian summer in America, There is fhe same hazy atmosphere and 
the same spider webs floating in the air. The popular sports here are 
otter hunting and coursing hares. , 
Athletic Pastimes. 
The cricket field, foot of North street, Hoboken, last 
week was rendered lively by a couple of interesting con- 
tests, in which the players from our metropolitan clubs 
took part. On Thursday, October 16th, a one inning game 
was played between an eleven of the Manhattan Cricket 
Club and a mixed fifteen representing the Knickerbocker 
Base Ball Club, and on Saturday the 18th a one inning 
match was played for the benefit of Smith and Brewster, 
the two professionals of the St. George and Staten Island 
Clubs, in which an eleven of the St. George Club were op- 
posed to an eleven including players of the Manhattan, 
Staten Island, Prospect Park, and Jersey City Clubs, those 
of the latter organization having nearly all joined the Man- 
hattan Club. 
The game on Thursday was quite an enjoyable affair and 
to the surprise of the cricketers it resulted in favor of the 
base ball players’ side, the Manhattan eleven evidently tak- 
ing things too easy, not a safe thing to do ina cricket 
match. It was the intention ¢o play eighteen of the ball 
players, inciuding Mr. Chadwick, who has always played 
in the cricket games of the Knickerbocker Club, against 
an eleven of the Manhattans, but as the ball players did 
not muster in force the Manhattans allowed them to have 
the assistance of Brewster, Hayward and Talbot to the bat. 
These three only added ten runs to the save, and as they 
did not arrest in the fiefd the credit of the victory as really 
chiefly due to the ball players. The latter went to the bat 
first at 2:30 p.m., and they availed themselves of the 
rather loose fielding and easy bowling of the Manhattans to 
the extent of serving fifty-three for ten wickets. After- 
wards the three cricketers went in to assist them and when 
the 14th wicket fell seventy-seven runs had been scored, of 
which Heyward made seven and Brewster three only. Of 
the ball players Ben Kirkland battled well for twelve 
marked by a four hit, and Goodspeed ran up eleven in short 
order.. Van Nest and Fryatt contributed eight each, 
Hecksher getting an average seven and Chubb six. Of the 
bowling Tucker took the majority of wickets, several 
catches being missed off Ronaldson’s bowling. Rutty took 
four wickets and then was taken off, the ball players be- 
ginning to take liberties with him. At 4, p. m., the Man- 
hattans went in to run off that seventy-seven, a task they 
regarded as quite easy; and the way they began to hit the 
bowling of Fryatt and Bucklin looked as if they would lead 
their opponents score with the loss of about four or five 
wickets. After Marsh had got eleven and the score had 
been run up to twenty-eight Fryatt got in on his stumps, 
and just at this time Chadwick took Bucklin’s place in the 
bowling, and he and Fryatt got in together so well in the 
bowling that the wickets began to fall in a very rapid man- 
ner. In fact after Ronaldson’s retirement for twenty-six— 
he having had two lives given him by dropped fly balls—not 
a man could get even an average score, the final result 
being the fall of the tenth wicket for fifty run, three less 
than the ten ball players of the other side had scored, 
Fryatt taking four wickets and Chadwick six. The victory 
was fully enjoyed by the Knickerbockers, and they propose 
duplicating it on Saturday next, provided the weather is 




favorable. Tbe full score below gives the details: 
KNICKERBOCKER. MANHATTAN. 
Wan Nest, b. Henry... ..1....-:. 8|Ronaldson, c. Chubb, b Fryatt.. 26 
Brisbane, run out...........-.+. 2\Marsh; b. Fryatt......0..:0.. ape al 
Hecksher, c. Henry, b. Ronald- H. Tucker, b. Chadwick 0 
MONG eth wat auscael ie ees Ruthers,c. B. Kirkland, b Chad- 
7 
Fryatt, b. Hemry...........-.-.- Bi AWIC Hen repramorgn sate to celeteerea cise 0 
B. Kirkland, b. Tucker......... 12)Greig, b. Chadwick 3 
Buckland, b. Ronaldson....+.... 0| Lewis, b. Chadwick aa 
Kirkland, b. Henry,..«........+ Ol Beattie) b., Bryatt.:..\¢:se.-e a. 
Rogers, c. Tucker, b. Greig..... 3|Meares, c. Rodgers, b. Chad- 



(Gio vorainy (Saat de eeeeouco spn WGN aia ech cet arle cons atarenx asd 
Ollwelb br G@reigey.' tac. case sae 0|Rishop, c. A. Kirkland, b. Chad- 
Chadwick, b. Tucker............ Site wViCk i apy poet stand Stdshe« cated «iste 
Goodspeed, b. Tucker.......-... 1L\ Perryman, not out. -2.6.. 5.4. .0a.s 0 
Talbot bee LUCK -Je,- ao sie osatercts OlNvane.. b. Rryatt.. f.20. ce ween ene 0 
Brewster, not out..,........s+-+5 3/ Byes, 2; wide, 1; no balls, 2...... 5 
Heyward, run out...:........... 7 
Byes, 3; leg byes, 1; wides, 2: no fel 
Dalley Uyseeida nacre aes fi 

Umpires—Messrs. Talbot and Rocke. Time of game, two hours and 
fifty minutes. 
FALL OF WICKETS. 
Knickerbocker—7 12 27 27 28 33 44 46 46 53 59 59 67 77. 
Manhattan—28 31 35 40 49 49 50 50 50 50. 
The following is the bowling score:— 
Balis. Runs. Maidens. Wickets. 
MANHATTAN. 
ROnAlGsOn ee oa cerg sie haere sieve aisle 36 6 2 2 
Rutty sere sce daae see arias sa oi 36 81 0 4 
Gielp reassert. eur. etes stearate 14 20 0 5 
MncKers t . haces ev gen de anys eases fl 24 16 0 4 
KNICKERBOCKER. 
Bucklin vite cease lea tentraye cases 18 11 0 0 
Space Sabor ceacdt act ont aerie . 56 23 1 4 
Chadwicks gran eea- ac dean teens: - 35 10 2 6 
Gooa catches were made .by the brothers Kirkland, Rodgers, and 
Chubb, and by Rutty and Tucker. 
On Saturday, the day of the benefit match, the weather 

proved very inauspicious, heavy clouds threatening rain 
every hour. In consequence the attendance of spectators on 
the occasion was very small, and the pecuniary results un- 
satisfactory. The game began shortly after noon, the St. 
George eleven going to the bat, Smith and Bance being 
their first representatives, the latter having but recently re- 
turned from a trip to Europe. Before these two were 
parted the score had been run up to twenty-one, of which 
Smith put on ten marked by a three and a two, Harcombe 
being his successor. Ronaldson and Hosford opened the 
bowling and they were both well on the wickets at first, 
but when Harcombe got in the bowling had to be changed, 
Brewster and Greig going on. JBefore Bance left he 
had run up a good eighteen, in which two threes and 
three twos were prominent, his wicket falling for forty. 
Moeran joined Harcombe, and together they ran the score 
up to sixty-four, Harcombe contributed twenty-five in 
handsome style, marked by two beauties for four each, and 
a three and atwo. Moeran added sixteen, in which a three 
and three twos were noteworthy, and afterwards Grainger 
added ten, a three and a two being a good share of it. The 
fifth wicket fell for seventy-eight, but as the others did not 
add average scores the last wicket went down for eighty-six, 
eight additional runs only for the last five wickets. The 
bowling score of the innings showed the appended result: 
Balls. Runs. Maidens. Wickets 
TLORL OG teee ce ncleantao oem e seer 24 5 2 3 
FROMBIGHON 2. hae ens aeesoley vi 19 2 2 
GICIS ge ee nate naa ieiel sateen 66 22 3 1 
PPOWS0CI Ov oa ots ce olsen ef ciaieee 142 38 he 4 
The Field team went to the bat at 2, p. m., Hosford and 
Lewis going in to the bowling of Smith and Jones. Eight 
runs were scored before the first wicket fell, but afterwards 
wicket after wicket fell for small additions to the score, 
Kersley being the only player who made an average score, 
his eleven being the score of the innings. This gave the 
game to the St. George eleven. As there was no time to play 
the game out the St. George went in again but did not com- 
plete half their second innings, the play undersuch circum- 
stances being of no account. The bowling score of the in- 
nings were as follows: 
Balls. Runs. Maidens. Wickets. 
Gana bee creceeneh oetelatel erate tenis oatecstekets V4 11 4 4 
SONRCR IIIA) did waaiodseseciaate nee 66 15 4 4 
WMOCLAN.. Faciriststice sated we cakes 12 4 0 1 
A fine catch was made by Talbot off Outerbridge’s bat, 
and good catches were made in the same by Greig, Marsh, 
Outerbridge, Smith, Grainger, and Jones. The score of 
the innings, which decided the game was as follows: 
ST GEORGE. FIELD ELEVEN. 




Smith, b. Ronaldson..:......... 10|Hosford, c. Grainger, b. Jones... 6 
Bance, c. Greig, b. Ronaldson... 18!Lewis, b. Smith..............-... 
Harcombe, b. Brewster.......... 25|Ronaldson, b. Jones........ pee pe 
Moeran, c. Outerbridge, b. Dexter, c. Smith, b. Jones....... 0 
Brewstergtiascdeccce acer ceca Kernsley by J ONG8. 125 sees cena ee ui! 
Jones, b. Greig...... Greig pbs mithy occas eee 3 
Grainger, b. Hosford Di Mier shee ra OUGie <<a ee everereteret ete 0 
Lenman, c. Marsh, b. Hosford... 0|Meakin, not out.................. 
Bowman, | b. w. b. Brewster.... 0|Outerbridge,c. Taibot, b. More- 
Gordon. b. Hosford...:-......... Gio TOMS Sanaa sie ere ose tee tee 
Sleigh, b. Brewster.............. 2\McDougall, b. Smith............. 
Malbot, NOUOWG catch Wetsceteem « 2\Brewster, c. Jones, b. Smith. ... 2 
NVR OR SSeS eee eae Pies DYER 7 J. Me shoe Soeelo teens 3 
HOtal s seerte aa tec poate yeeros SGlTotakiniocensd eos d scorers 33 
Palio wicketsexenaeten Wi) 22) 3h SO Git 28 cou ato 
St Georges wince acces 21| 40 |64 | 65) 78) 82 | 82| 82) +2) 86—86 

Bielde:s:chata.ceesaeene 8| 10 |10 | 13} 20 
Umpires—Messrs. McKean and Heyward. 
Time of game—3:10. 
The base ball championship for 1873 may be said to have 
been settled, as it is almost a certainty now that the Boston 
Club will win. They have but to win two more games to 
render it impossible that the Philadelphia Club can win, 
and as in the five games named to be played this week, two 
more with the Washington and one with the Baltimores, 
their ultimate success is assured. The second, up to Oct. 
20th, is as follows: 
23 | 27) 28) 31 | 383—383 
Games Yet to 
Clubs Played. Won. Lost. Play. 
BOSOM ic wins ayes sg tr atereera eee oe 49 36 13 5 
PHU adel pig... fea: cle nore ae tates te 48 33 16 6 
In order that the Philadelphians may win they will have 
to win all the games they yet have to play and the Bostons 
to lose all but one of all they have to play. The struggle 
for the third position is between the Baltimore, Mutual and 
Athletic Clubs, the record up to Oct. 21st, standing as fol- 
lows: 


Games Yet to 
Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. Play. 
IBAliMOresecse fake . 48 27 21 6 
Mutial eg 3 comcast a 48 24 24 6 
AUIGGIGs Sees oii. toners steastons 45 23 22 9 
The Baltimores have a winning lead for the third position, 
but as the Athletics have the most games to play, they may 
pull up; at present it looks as if the Mutuals would be fifth. 
In the amateur arena the Chelseas won the Island cham- 
pionship last week, they having defeated the Nassaus, 
Nameless, Amity Union, &c., of Brooklyn, in two games 
out of three. 
6 The Silver Stars are the amateur champions of New York 
ity. 


at and Drama. 
So 
HE ruin that has overwhelmed Wall street these last 
weeks is gradually affecting every department of busi- 
ness. Generally, financial depressions are met with in- 
creased theatrical patronage, ‘‘but this time” forms an ex- 
ception to the rule. From all quarters the “revolving 
stars” that rotate in their professional tours back to our 
metropolis, speak gloomily of the difficulty of getting to- 
gether paying houses in ear country towns. That is, 
well regulated and established routines are making fair re- 
muneration, but the ‘‘side shows,” however deserving of 
patronage, are almost totally neglected. There must be 
something deeper than appears on the surface for this 
strange phenomenon. People discouraged and desperate, 
rush to places of amusement formomentary excitement. In 
the panic ’of 87 the playhouses in New York were constant- 
ly crowded. In’57 the same thing was the case. In revo- 
lutionary times, in its darkest days, dramatic representa- 
tions seem to relieve the people of sad thoughts, and divert 
them at least for the hour. But under our present 
anomalous monetary derangement, it is not severe to the 
extent of making the masses hopeless; enough is left to en- 
courange the ‘‘most ruined” that with economy fortune may 
