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SPORTSMAN. 

HE recurrence of another ‘Second October’ recalls the 
remote days when the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire 
were unknown names, and when even the Two Thousand 
and One Thousand Guineas Stakes did not exist. Few will 
remember that it is little more than a century since the dis- 
tinctive names of the various Newmarket meetings were 
invented by the Jockey Club when in its feeble infancy. Stu- 
dents of Builey’s Racing Register will discover that the First 
and second Spring, or the First and Second October, were 
unknown titles to the sportsmen of the first two Georges, 
and that ‘the Houghton’ appears tor the first time in the 
calendar of 1777. Unconsciously our modern frequenters 
of Newmarket are celebrating the memory of a Lord of 
Houghton who was one of the most eccentric characters 
that the Heath ever saw. No man, said the Sportsmen’s 
Cubdinet, in an article that appeared shortly after his death, 
ever sacrificed so much time or so much property to prac- 
tical and speculative sporting as the late Earl of Orford. 
Incessantly engaged in the pursuit of sport, and of new in- 
ventions, he introduced more whimsicalities, more experi- 
mental genius and enthusiastic zeal than any man before 
him, or than any will ever employ again. It isindeed hard 
to disguise that George, the third Earl of Orford, although 
grandson to the great Sir Robert Walpole, was little better 
than a madman. His chief mania was for greyhounds, of 
which he had often 100 couples in training, and which he 
crossed with every variety of dog. But the freak with 
which his memory was identified long after he had passed 
away was his habit of driving a four-in-hand team of red 
deer-stags, which he reduced to such perfect discipline in 
his own park that he was at last tempted to make an excur- 
sion with them to Newmarket. The incident that befell 
him is well known to sporting antiquarians, and excited no 
slight degree of amusement among the then Prince of 
Wales’s set, of which Lord Orford was an haditué. 
As the pheton, with its strange team, approached New- 
market, the cry of a pack of stag-hounds was suddenly 
heard in the rear. The huntsman of the pack had been 
exercising his hounds in the neighborhood of the heath, 
and was astonished, on crossing the road, to see his dogs 
put their noses to the ground and give tongue in full chorus 
as they set off in pursuit. The scent left by four stags was 
naturally breast high: nor was it long before the deep-voiced 
music of the eager pack smote upon the sensitive ears of 
Lord Orford’s team. Fear prevailed over discipline, and, 
in spite of all the efforts of the noble charioteer, the stags 
dashed off at lightning speed, and whirled the light pheton 
after them with the celerity of a whirlwind. In vain did 
the trained grooms on horseback take part in the head-long 
race. The stays rushed along the main street of the little 
town, and never stopped until they turned at full speed into 
the open portals of the Ram Inn. The doors were slammed 
just in time to exclude the foremost hounds, and this singu- 
jar circumstance, adds a contemporary writer, although 
attended with no accident, effectually cured his lordship’s 
passion for deer driving.”—London Telegraph. 

A Hiennanp Fox.—A tremendous traveller, and always 
in’ prime wind and condition, with a ravenous appetite 
that never tails, he will cover almost any distances of a 
night with that long, easy, slinsing canter of his. As you 
catch a glimpse of him as he goes by in the gloaming you 
might easily enough mistake him fora wolf. He preys on 
everything, and delights in variety just as much as you 
yourself do. He snaps up the little blue leverets while 
looking out for a more serious feeding on their full grown 
relatives, scatters death wholesale through a brood of 
young grouse or ducklings after he has sprung upon the 
setting mother and made her ready for plucking. When 
you have been out for along day with your gun he will 
take note of your beat, and then make acast round the 
ground in the evening, picking up the wounded game that 
may have escaped your retriever. He thins down the 
youn® roe-deer too; and roe are not very plentiful in your 
birch woods. No wonder the sportsman regards him as 
his natural enemy; yet the feelings of the sportsman are 
mild compared to those of the shepherd. For with the ex- 
ception of the eagle, who will occasionally swoop on the 
new-dropped lambs, the fox is the only animal that takes 
serious liberties with the flocks. Everyone’s hand is against 
the fox; but when he is full grown and fairly launched on 
his career of crime he is as hard to corner as a Greek bri- 
gand. The best chance is to follow the vixens to their 
strongholds, where they have their litters of cubs early in 
the season; and then you often have grand Highland field- 
days that remind one of the immortal fox-hunt in Guy 
Mannering. 
SS 2. 
A Sporting Ecno.—Jean Paul, of the Zridune, is at 
Canandaigua Lake, and tells the story of an echo there: 
“There are famous echoes on the lake. Last evening 
Thompson piloted us to one; resting on our oars in mid- 
channel, he drew his horn fron) its case and sounded the 
various bugle calls. No response from the rocks. Another 
round. The tills were voiceless. Yet again. Not a 
sound from the shores. ‘ Surely this is just where the 
echo should be,” remarked Thompson, and he blew a tre- 
mendous flourish. Never a note came back. ‘* W-h-y 
d-o-n-t y-0-u a-n-s-w-e-r ?” he shouted, putting his hands 
to his lips like a speaking trumpet and hailing the banks. 
‘Cause I’m a laying here for black ducks, and if you 
don’t clear out with that cussed tin horn of yours, [ll slip 
a pint of shot into you!” was the return off the shore, and 
the rushes began to move as though a boat were shoving 
out. We returned to Pine Bank ; but Thompson still in- 
sists that there’s an echo there where he blew, if one can 
only hit the angies right.” 
oe ——_ 
—How many a boy has burned to shoot a bear! How 
many boys have, after a proper preparatory course of read- 
ing, shot bears in the abstract! How many will envy the 
great good fortune of young Ole Jacobsen of Pelican 
Rapids, Minn. This noble youth discovered a larcenous 
bear in his-father’s corn and destroyed him by sending a 
rifle ball into his spinal column. The beast weighed 296 
pounds, dressed, and by the generosity of this thoughtful 
child everybody in the neighborhood has had bear’s meat 
for dinner.— Tribune. 
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—Riflemen—pickpockets. 

Athletic Zlastimes. 
RE Secretaries of University and College Athletic Clubs will please mail 
their reports not later than Monday in each week. 
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—The Base Ball season has terminated, and the result is 
the success of the honorable nine of the Boston Club as the 
champions, the Philadelphia nine being second on the list 
and the Baltimores third. But forthe action of Cummings, 
the pitcher of the Baltimore nine, in leaving his Club in 
August, the Baltimores would probably have been near 
enough to the goal to have from the Bostons a tussle for 
the lead. At any rate they would have come in second. 
Our local club, too, but for the lack of earnest efforts to 
win on the part of one or two of their nine would have been 
close to the winning post. Instead, however, they are fifth 
in the race. The following table shows the number of 
games actually played, won and lost in the championship 
arena during 1873 :— 
















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Maryland... 6 ...-> 0 1/0) 0: 40 OOS ON Oa Oyo 
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Mutuals a Cole Vey asl PE Tan eet 4 }4 /4 | 28/1 
Philadelphia... ..... Beet Ghee Olid 413 | 36/3 
Readlute..si.2.000: FOV kOe 1 1 O10 10 0 | 2/0 
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Games lost.......... | 23 | 87 | 2211615 | 24] 17] 21 | 31 | 196] 16 
Best five lost........ Lael Seely Oy We Bally LA 10 le 285 16 


The record which wil count in the series 
won and lost is as follows :— 
of legal games 

Games Won by Tota! 
Clubs. played. YWvron. Lost. forfeit. won 
BOStOmiy seutetinscstadits sata cts os: ci es 54 39 15 0 39 
Philadel phigtacmsaucte ce. socrctsncc 49 382 ig 4 36 
Baltimore. waecatcay seaeaaee 49 QT 22 5 32 
NAGINIGULG erm tr  retatrrancts aerate ercrer vay 49 26 23 5 31 
Mutual: care Welds stuharete Be baat 49 25 24 3 28 
TGA NAA soe a ciotocaee ey adnan s 50 14 36 4 18 
Washington ysl. cece sects 36 5 31 0 5 
MODAL satraricrz estore tee als a ysis 336 168 168 25 189 
—The last championship game of the season was played 
on Saturday last, the contestants being the Atlantic and 
Philadelphia Clubs. The Atlantic won the first game of 
the series in May last, and the last on this occasion when 
they defeated the Philadelphias by a score of 12 to 1, the 
latter barely escaping being ‘‘ Chicagoed.” The Alantics 
played a fine fielding game, Boyd’s play being especially 
noteworthy. 
—On Thursday next the new game of Base Ball—ten men 
and ten innings—is to be practically illustrated on the 
Unicn Grounds, Brooklyn, in an exhibition game between 
the Atlantic and Mutual tens. The following is the record 
of the champion club with opponents during 1873 :— 
Boston vs. Washington 
Boston vs. Baltimore.............00008+0+ 
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Boston vs. Philadelphia 
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IBOBLOM VAs AN ULC UIC eters me tare aleleissale mas thislaaccinyateva <tadaleievevcle) ais) sjareere )> | 71 to 6s 
OE TOn VR ReEBOMIe He. kame ee als epan se ods paehealatareeie gee. ated 71 to 21 
STOPAIE ed, eR nite fe Fe ANA, Sheen EA oN Di Cah 726 453 
The Bostons defeated the Philadelphias at Boston on 
October 29th by the appended score :— 
150): F0) 7 PENSE AAR AGES EO ae aL aro ACE See Bee OF Be Ss ORS der os 
philadelphia ace seaetcciseaes ase sce a OF ON Os On OO 32.0) 
On the 30th, at Worcester, the ‘‘Reds” again defeated 
the ‘‘Whites,” the score being as follows :— 
1—16 
2— 5 
Boston... 02 eee ecee cee e tee cee ree eee e eee tees 003 6 2 0 1 5—15 
Philadel ph isies saryae ats cae cles ie Weaeierae crores sake ws 004002129 
—The officers of H. M. 8. Practice Ship ‘Royal Alfred,” 
now at Halifax, Nova Scotia, have frequent foot ball 
matches with picked men of the garrison and of the 
citizens. 
—Maurice Daly plays G. I’. Slosson, at Chicago, on Nov- 
ember 8th, a match game of French three ball caroms, 600 
points up, giving his opponent 100 odds. 
—On December 2d Cyrille Dion and Albert Garnier play 
a match of French caroms at Chicago for the championship 
of the world. 
HARVARD .CoLLEGR, Noy. Ist. 
Epiror Forest AND STREAM:— 
The Base Ball field is still frequented with unflagging 
interest. On October 18th the Sophomore nine were beaten 
by the Freshmen with a score of 16 to 4. This is the sec- 
ond defeat from the same source and shows a demoraliza- 
tion of the nine since its victorious contests with Yale last 
year. 
In looking over the just published records of the Univer- 
sity nine of last year I find that they were defeated thrice 
by the Bostons, once by the Princetons and were twice vic- 
torious over the Yale University. 
The accidents on the ball field have been numerous, and 
Captain Perry, of "76, is about to leave college in con- 
sequence of serious injury to his eye, from a swift-flying 
ball at Springfield. 
Cricket and Foot Ball are: popular and supported by or- 
ganized clubs, but space forbids any further mention of 
them here. HOLDEN. 

—Wild pigeons have made their appearance in Canada 
West. A large flock, flying from the eastward, passed over 
London, within easy gunshot, last week. 


Answers Co Correspondents. 
{We shall endeavor in this department to impart and hope to receive 
such information as may be of service to amateur and professional sports- 
men. We will cheerfully answer al reasonable questions that fall within 
the scope of this paper, designating locctities for good hunting, fish- 
ing, and trapping, and giving advice and instructions as to outfits, im 
plements, routes, distances, seasons, expenses, remedies, traits species® 
governing rules, etc. . All branches of the sportsman’s craft will receive 
Anonymous communications not noticed. | 
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X., Fulton, N. Y.—Fur, Fin and Feather, 61 Warren street, New 
York. 
E. F., Baltimore.—Much obliged for fish; name undecided; came in 
good order. Write more fully. 
Dor. ForsteEr., 154 Bolton street, Baltimore.—Communicate with Lor- 
ing, Brook & Sons, 438 Broadway, New York. 
X. X., Poughkeepsie.—It is cruel, and we have no faith in your prac- 
tice of plunging birds in cold water in order to tame them. 
N. H., Buffalo,—Some years ago we think we read of a sturgeon caught 
in the Tees in England nine and a half feet long. 
Dusious, Brooklyn.—1. Address R. A. Fitzgerald, Esq., Secretary 
Marylebone Club, London. 2. Would be glad togiveit publicity. 3. 
See the Field of August 10th. 
Ham, Patchogue.—We have heard of brandy used for curing rabbits 
of the rot. A tablespoonful was a dose. 2. Address American Agri- 
culturist. 
DaLEe.—Would not advise your attempting to have your muzzle loader 
converted to a breech loader; cost you more than it is worth, and possi- 
bly be, when finished, unserviceable. 
attention. 
Amster O., Watertown.—We must adhere to our rule. We cannot 
decide on the quality of your gun. No maker, however, stands higher. 
We never heard of his having made rifles. 2. It will cost you $125. 
AnpreEw G., Princeton.—We do not know of any instance of ring 
doves associating with pigeons. We hada pair; they were quite tame. 
One day the cage was opened and they flew away, never to return. Do 
not trust them. 
Miss H.—Your chinchilla suit you say you are preparing for winter, and 
want to know where the fur comesfrom. From an animal, a rodent, a bur- 
rowing animal, living in South America. It digs subterranean homes and 
lives on vegetables. 
Joun Y., Trenton.—Canyas backs are very uncertain. Go down to 
Havre de Grace, and you can ascertain the best point there more reliably 
than we could give you. Be careful not to place too much confidence in 
the market gunners. : 
Bogs’ Boy.—1. Boil carefully your little animal, and then get out 
bones. Do not bleach with chlorate of lime; it eats off the enamel. 
Have found sulphur fumes better, though bleaching under glass alone is 
the best plan. 2. Too late in the season. 
K., Brooklyn.—Diflicult to reply toin our limited space. On making 
any hot or cold impression of vegetable or animal substance, covering it 
all you can to exclude outside spores, animalculz will be formed in time. 
Best authorities--Pouchet, Ebleman, Bennett, Jolly. 
Forp, Norristown, Pa.—These are the principal English gunpowders 
you should experiment on: Pigou & Wilks, Charles Lawrence§}& Son, 
John Hall & Son, Curtis & Herrey. Think all of them can be procured 
here. hiform us about the matter. The idea is quite novel. 
L. H., for Club.—Makes all the difference in the world on gun trial aa 
to the character of the paper targets to be shot at. Best way would be to 
send to Mr. W. W. Greener and get the same paper as was used at the 
English gun trialssand keep 1t as a standard. See last number. 
“Just A Tryine,” Brooklyn.—To make arsenical soap take half pound 
white soap and melt it over a slow fire, having cut in slices; take quarter 
pound white arsenic and one and a quarter ounces of white chalk in 
powder. Melt all together. When cool add a little camphor, keep it 
securely closed, and label POISON. 
Davpy, Brooklyn.—Dr. Boate is the authority for the size of the horns 
of the ancient Irish Elk. ‘‘From the tip of the right horn to the tip of 
the left, 10 feet 10 inches. From tip to root of horn, 5 feet 2 inches.” 
The head, from such fossil remains as have been found, was not an- 
larger than that of the present elk. 
SETTER AND PornTeER, Fall River, Mass.—A brace of setters, thor- 
oughly broken, and about four years old, will cost from $100 up; a 
pointer dog from $75. We will import them for you at a much less rate 
from reliable kennels, or put you in the way of securing them here. 
T. S. S., Hartford, Conn.—Certainly not. The only fair way to kill 
wild geese is over stools and call them; stalk them if youcan. Another 
plan is to send a man out on the lake or bay in a small coffin-shaped boat, 
the gunwales covered with brush, and so drive them in on the stools, 
this method requiring great practice and patience. One and a quarter 
ounce of shot. The charge of powder is right. 
H. M., Eve. Mail.—While the varieties of game found in Eastern 
Florida during winter are excessively numerous; the list for spring is 
very meagre. The season really closes at the end of February. The 
only game really in season during March and April are several varieties 
of plover, namely:—Black belly plover, squartarola helvetica; golden 
plover, charadrius Virginicus; Wilson plover, 4gialitis Wilsonius; and 
piping plover, do. melodius. 
G. T. U., Andover.—We copy from Holden’s Book on Birds, Reiche & 
Brothers, which is the best practical authority. ‘“Bird’s claws grow very 
long, and require cutting.. This is a particular operation, and care should 
be taken not to cut up into the blood vessels, which can be easily seen by 
holding the bird’s claws in front of a strong light, and then not cutting 
within a sixteenth of an inch of the red vein.” 
W. L. P., Brooklyn, N. Y.—Four drams and a half of powder, and 
one ounce and a half of No. 1, or Bshot. All kinds of duck and snipe. 
Take railroad to Tom’s River, then stage. It will cost about $6 a day, 
including gunner. Latter end of March, according to weather and tem- 
perature. Youcan try Bay View House. Good ground. Long Island 
now. : 
M. W. D.--If the water of the Bronx is good trout water, and your 
land 1s so situated that you can tap it, and, after letting it flow through 
your ponds, turn it back into the river again, then you have a fine place 
for trout breeding. As to your other question, “How trout may be 
raised,”’ that cannot be answered within the limits of a letter. In the 
course of a week or two we will commence a scries of articles on prac- 
tical trout culture in FoREST AND STREAM. bincwsistadl 
S.R. B., Baltimore.—The story of all that remains of the Dodo in the 
Ashmollan Museum at Oxford, is worth recording. Almost the whole 
skeleton was there in 1755, .but because it wasin bad order, it was de-~ 
stroyed, all of it except the foot and the skull. The former is 94 inches 
long 2, inches across the joint, and 2% inches at the spread of the toes. The 
skull is 83 inches long by 44 inches wide. There is another skull at Co- 
penhagen. Other remains of the Dodo, thongh imperfect ones, have 
been found by Clark at Mauritius. 
Karsru, Wsashington.—Certainly the “American brook trout?’ (salmo 
Jontinalis) have scales, and you can see them without ‘‘specs.”” After a 
day’s fishing, when you have been handling trout, examine your fingers 
when dry, and before you wash them, and see the minute scales adher- 
ing to them; look into your basket when dry and observe them there. 
On large specimens they ure of considerable size. We have just exam- 
ined a specimen in the glass case of G. Shepard Page, President of the 
“American Fish Culturists’ Association.” It weighed ten and a half 
pounds when caught. Its scales are as large as those on a black bass. 
We have known persons who would not cook a large trout unless it was 
scaled. On flngerlings, when wet, the scales are not perceptible, but they 
are wiped off with the slime. Scrape afresh trout with a knife, let the 
slime dry, and then with a microscope see what you will see. 
