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—The grandest of the dog shows, the 14th annual exhibi 
tion of dogs, held at Birmingham, opened on December the 
ist, and closed on Thursday the 4th. It was an exhibition 
of more than usual excellence, the animals being of the élite, 
numbering 944 in all. The champion classes were confined 
to prior winners of a first prize at the National Dog Show 
of Birmingham. For bloodhounds, Mr. Ray’s Roswell took 
the first prize. In greyhounds, Mr. Schackleton’s Lord 
Derby was first. For large pointers, Mr. Francis’ famous 
dog Chang was awarded the prize. For setters, Mr. R. ies 
Llewellin’s dogs Prince and Countess, were first. For Irish 
setters, Dr. Stones’ dog Dash, was winner, Among the re- 
trievers (curly coated), Mr. J. W. Morris’ True and XL, were 
the champions. For deerhounds, Mr. Fisher’s dog Field- 
man, was declared the best of dogs not adapted to field 
sports. The prizes for mastiffs, St. Bernard dogs, New- 
foundland and Sheepdogs were numerous. It seems as if 
more attention was given and greater pride taken in fine 
dogs in England to-day than ever. 
—An extraordinary run of salmon took place up the river 
Nith in Scotland, the last week of November. A slight 
fresh in the water appears to have set the upward-bound 
fish on the move, and they were seen pushing up the river 
literally in shoals. The sight was witnessed by a large 
crowd of persons on either bank of the river, and from the 
description given in the Dumfries Courier it wes doubtless 
well worth seeing. ‘‘ At one time no fewer than fifty fine 
fish could be seen lying at the foot of the slope between the 
ladder and the Dumfries side of the river, ‘ taking breath’ 
before attempting the run up; on a broad ledge or platform 
of rock on the farther side of the ladder they were seen in 
scores, likewise apparently preparing for the ascent, while 
below on both sides the ladder and water were almost black 
with fish. Great numbers succeeded by leaping in clearing 
the caul; others tried the ladder with a similar satisfactory 
result; and the weaker fish failed for the time in both. We 
trust that the improvement to the increased stock of fish, 
which under ordinary circumstances must accrue from the 
abundant supply of spawning salmon in the river, will not 
be altogether counterbalanced by the depredations of poach- 
ers who we learn have been carrying ona ruinous but lucra- 
tive trade since this great run of salmon set in. It is re- 
ported, for instance, that on one day last week no fewer 
than forty-four ‘“‘gravid” salmon were taken out of the 
“@ullet” Pool, where they were waiting for sufficient water 
to take them over the Dumfries Caul. These fish, which 
are bought for ‘‘kippering” purposes find a ready sale, and 
although they fetch but a few pence a pound are captured 
in such quantities as to make this illegal traffic a profitable 
trade, and affords, moreover, a great temptation to many 
who would never think of engaging in it were there no 
means of reaping pecuniary profits from their ill-gotten 
gains.” 


Rational Zlastimes. 
tS Secretaries of University and College Athletic Clubs will please mail 
heir reports not later than Monday in each week. 
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YALE VS, OLD ETONIANS. 
Our correspondent’s letter arrived too late for our last 
issue. As there are some fresh facts connected with the 
International Foot Ball Match which have not appeared in 
print, we take especial pleasure in publishing his letter :— 
Last Saturday week a foot ball match was played at 
Hamilton Park, New Haven, between eleven players select- 
ed from the ‘‘Yale twenty” and eleven graduates of the 
famous Eton College of England. Among the ‘‘Etonians” 
were Mr. C. W. Benson, celeprated as the stroke oar of 
last year’s victorious Cambridge crew, and the champion 
geull of his college; also Mr. R. M. McKerrell, champion 
swimmer of England,and Mr. R. Russell, finest amateur Eng- 
lish boxer. This eleven was selected from graduates of 
Eton scattered over the country, one coming from Canada, 
one from Philadelphia, but most from this city, (New 
York.) The game was called at half past two, Yale having 
won the toss and taken the wind. The first inning was a 
long and finely contested one, resulting after an hour's hard 
work ina victory for Yale. The second goal was won by 
Eton in fifteen minutes, and the third by Yale in twenty. 
After playing a short time longer, the fourth inning was 
declared a ‘‘draw,” to enable the Etonians to take the 4.45 
train home, the Yale eleven being declared winners of the 
First International Foot Ball Match. 
The Eton game is very different from the American 
game as adopted at the convention, October 18. The chief 
points of difference are in the absence in the English game 
of any use of the hands, and the privilege of ‘‘lurking.” 
The Yale eleven gave up lurking, but in other respects 
played her own game, while Eton for the first time tried 
the ‘hand kick” and batting. The playing on both sides 
was unusually fine, spectators asserting that Yale had never 
before played so well, and that the game was the most 
thoroughly satisfactory one ever played in New Haven. 
These are the corrected names of the players: 
YALE. 
“oLD BTONIANS.” 
W. S. Halstead, Captain, 
q@. CG, Allen, Captain, 
P. Allen, E. V. Baker, 
J. W. Balfour, H. D. Bristol, 
CG. W. Benson, C. Deming, 
F. L. Grinnell. 
W. O. Henderson, 
A. Hotchkiss, 
H. T. MeBirney, 
P. A. Porter, 
T. T, Sherman, 
J. L. Scudder. 
E. Chaplin, 
f. S. Handbury, 
R. M. McKerrell, 
H. Romilly, 
Vicount Talbet, 
R. Russel, 
H. M. Thompson, 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 
CRICKET. 
The Manhattan club of New York, during the season of 
1873, played about a dozen matches, and had some very 
lively games at their Saturday practice gatherings. Among 
their most noteworthy triumphs was their victory over the 
St. George, on July 30th, and their success with the Wal- 
tham club, which afterwards won a game from the St. 
George on the Hoboken grounds. Out of the eleven regu- 
lar contests the Manhattan were engaged in in 1873, they 
were successful in six, thus winning a majority of the sea- 
son’s games. The club record for the past season is as fol- 


lows: 
Date Chibs. Place. Score 
June 4,.......+ Manhattan vs, St. George, at Hoboken.........- 62 to 118 
June 26....... se vs. Jersey City, at Prospect Park.... 69 to 109 
June 28....... ee vs. Knickerbocker, at Hoboken 48 to 44 
July 4.4... 2045 EL vs. Prospect Park,at Prospect Park. 88 to 53 
SULA: stoitne f vs. Waltham,at Hoboken.........-.-- 117 to 58 
July 23... ..,. es vs. Staten Island,at Hoboken. . .. 114 to 115 
July 80......- “ vs. St. George, at Hoboken.... . 80 to 7 
August 6...... ii vs, St. George,at Hoboken ...... -107 to 181 
September 5.. se ys. Staten Island,at Stateh Island 111 to 98 
October 11.... ie vs. Prospeet Park, at Hoboken.......141 to 92 
October 16.... ve vs. Knickerbocker,at Hoboken....... 50 to 77 
FROG BSE « ctecsie sip Oe we is alee Tate ade ate forBlehpye aa fepshirim v8 rib SPA 978 to 961 
most highly esteemed member, Mr. George Keller, who be- 
sides being one of the finest fielders in the country, was in 
every respect a tho.ough gentleman and a model cricketer. 
The club suspended play for a month after his death, and 
deferred their Boston tour to next year in consequence. 
Below will be found the analysis of the club play at the 
bat for 1878, given in the form of runs made each inning: 

Players. Innings. Runs. Average. Not Qut. Highest Score. 
Hosford: 3 sn oats 8 116 14-4 0 35 
FETBley th. sag scare = 6 86 14-2 0 22 
Camme]ly..j5. 22-0058 6 7a 12-1 1 28 
Ronaldson.. ...-..-+ 9 86 9-5 0 26 
Rlellet sas oe) cate 4 23 5-3 0 8 
Beatties. sos te cey says 5 27 5-2 1 10 
TAY. WAT. «ticle meni si tii 8 42 @ 52 0 20 
Mratenetoireosteesse 7 4 21 5-1 0 9 
Lannergan.....-....+ ew) 46 5-1 1 24 
HH. THREE. One ose oF 11 55 5-0 1 14 
Rati oc clgsiesees ob: 8 38 4-6 0 15 
McDougall...... ae 6 29 4-5 4) 20 
Moya We: 4 18 42 0 9 
Byron 3 12 4-0 0 5 
Jackson 4 15 3-3 0 12 
Rocke 4 12 3-0 0 eas) 
Oakley 6 13 2-0 1 i 
Tilly. 5 9 1-4 1 5 
GUCISHs cece areemece 2 3 1-1 0 a3 
J. Tucker, Neeves, Chippendale, Glover, Tyler, Perryman, 
Lewis, Mears, and Evans played in single games, Marsh 
taking the lead with a score of 51 in two innings play. Of 
the general play of the principal cricketers of the club, the 
following comments suffice to indicate the cricket strength 
of the Manhattan club. 
Hosford is a steady bat, strong in defence, and just the 
man to keep his end up against good bowling; besides which 
he is a very active and efficient fielder. Kersley is a fine 
batsman, a good fielder, and a very effective round-arm 
bowler, always good for a score and for his share of the 
wickets. Cammell is a very sharp fielder and a good bat. 
Ronaldson is a good batter, a fair round-arm bowler, and 
effective in the field. McDougall is a good wicket keeper, 
a very active fielder, and a good bat. Greig is a free hitter, 
a good bowler, and a fair fielder. Marsh isa strong bat 
and a good fielder. Byron is a good batter, a sharp fielder, 
anda fair bowler. Lewis isa good fielder and batsman. 
Jackson is a steady batsman, and an excellent fielder, and 
Hayward and H. Tucker are useful men both in the field 
and at the bat or in the bowler’s position. Next season the 
Jersey City Club will amalgamate with the Manhattans and 
a strong team will be the result. 
—The consolidation of the N. Y. Athletic Club and the 
N. Y. Rowing Club is only arumor. No definite action 
has been taken by either club as yet; in fact, all that has 
been said is that some members thought it would be an ad- 
vantage to all concerned. R. W. H: 
_—'There will be a large gathering of gentlemen interested 
in athletic pastimes at Wood’s Museum on Dec. 29. 
—Edward Mullen, of Boston, has challenged W. BE. Har- 
ding, of this city, to walk from one to ten miles for $1,000 
and the championship of America. Harding has accepted 
this challenge, andthe match will most likely take place on 
New Year's eve in this city. 
—The Jersey City Curling Club have elected the following 
named gentlemen officers for the ensuing year: President, 
Robert A. McKnight; Wm. H. Bradt, Vice President; 
James ©. Clark, Secretary, and William W. Edwards, 
Treasurer. 
—Leon Leotard, the French gymnast, was seriously, if 
not fatally, hurt by a fall from a tight-rope, at Sait Lake 
City, on the 13th inst. i 
—James Smith walked one hundred miles in 22 hours 
and 33 minutes at Racine, Wisconsin, November 28th‘ 
which was a remarkable feat after a hearty Thanksgiving 
dinner. 
Untversiry oF Vrrerta, Deer. 15, 1873. 
Ep1ror FOREST AND STREAM :— 
We have just organized a foot ball club, and practice 
regularly every evening. As yet we have adopted no 
‘special rules, put have those of the Foot Ball Association 
under consideration. We shalk play a game! with some 
Englishmen who have: settled: round here-some time this 
a ee a ae Gea aaa 
month, with fifteen men to a side, they not being able to 
raise a larger number. I will send you the account in my 
next letter. J. C. McK. 
—At the race track of the Cape Fear Agricultural Asso- 
ciation, at Wilmington, North Carolina last week a pedes- 
trian named O’Hara walked five miles in 49 min. 263 sec., 
a half mile and six yards of this distance being walked 
backwards, 











































—(Cuampion Enciisa Pornter, ‘‘BELLe.”—The portrait 
of this remarkable dog, the champion of England, the win- 
ner of the great Rhiwlas Balla Field trials, elegantly en- 
graved by the Photo-lithographic Co., with pedigree and 
points, will be for sale at the Forest AND SrreaAmM Office, 
on and after Wednesday next, December 24th. Price $1,00, 
sent by mail. 
Sea and River Hishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN DECEMBER. 
SOUTHERN WATERS. 


Pompano, Trout, (Black Bass.) Sheepshead, 
Snapper. Drum, (two species.) Tailorfish . 
Grouper. Kingfish. Sea Bass. 
Rocktish. Striped Bass, Rockfish. 
ges 
—Tt has now been decided by the Chief Fish Commis- 
sioner, Professor Baird, to place the Sacramento salmon 
fry, that have been assigned for the Hudson River, into 
waters in the vicinity of Fort Edward. There are numer: 
ous cold feeders of the Hudson at that point very well 
adapted to the purposes required; besides, an association is 
being organized under the auspices of Messrs. C. E. and 8. 
S. Bennett, of Fort Edward, for the express purpoce of 
nursing and protecting these fish, and preventing their be? 
ing hooked out by anglers, for they bite voraciously, and 
can hardly be distinguished from brook trout by the novice. 
We think that under the fostering care of the association 
this effort at propagation will prove successful. <A letter 
from Professor Baird, dated Washington, December 10th, 
says:— 
q Wasuineron, December 10th, 1878. 
Eprror Forest AND STREAM :— 
I have just telegraphed Seth Green to know if he will 
undertake to introduce the salmon into the Fort Edward 
waters. If not, I will send Mr. Milner, my assistant, on to 
attend te it. The head waters of the Hudson, and some 
tributaries of Lake Ontario, will be supplied fror. Seth 
Green’s stock, and I shail request Dr. Slack, who has about 
550,000 of the young fish at Bloomsbury, to introduce a 
portion of them into the waters of Long Island and the 
Sound. Seth Green recommends Smithstown River. Last 
year I introduced a considerable number of young. Penob- 
scot salmon into the ponds of the Long Island Southside 
Club at Islip, and shall send to the same place a number of 
the Sacramento fish. Mr. Green is to place 50,000 young 
fish near Fort Edward, and a quantity in the Conshocton 
River, an upper tributary of the Chemung, which empties 
into a northern branch of the Susquehanna. He will place 
some also in Oswego and Salmon rivers, and possibly in the 
Genesee. SPENCER F, Barren. 
_The following letter from Fish Commissioner Worrall, 
of Pennsylvania, was received one day too late for our last 
issue, and had to lie over until this week :— 
HarrispurG, December 7th, 1873. 
My Duar Sut:—I received here yesterday, on the part of 
the Fishery Commissioners of this State, five large cans of 
water, of the capacity of twelve to fifteen gallons, contain- 
ing the fry of California salmon, which Professor Cope de- 
dominates S. quinnat. They had been shipped at Blooms- 
bury, New Jersey, the night before, and arrived here at 
19:30 A. M. At8 A. M. we placed them on a wagon, and 
drove over rough roads, say eight miles, to Bryson’s Mill, on 
the Connadaguinnet, probably about fifteen miles above its - 
mouth, where Silver Spring freshens that stream. We dis- 
tributed them in clear and favorable places for about a mile 
below the mill. 
On entering the water they seemed a little dazed at first, 
but soon selected themselves into little groups of from ten 
to fifty, and in less than half an hour were all behaving 
like natural minnows of the stream. We brought them in 
water of forty degrees Fahrenheit. The Connadaguinnet 
water was from thirty-nine to forty-one degrees. 
One half the invoice was thus left in the Connadaguin- 
net. We then drove about eight miles further, to Nautilly, 
Mr. Wm. Watt's place, on the Yellow Breeches, and there 
on a spring run we left the other half of our load, and they 
behaved in the same manner; indeed, seemed to like the 
last water the better of the two, for they disappeared more 
suddenly, most of them making for the main stream. 
The cans or small tanks were estimated to contain from 
ten to fifteen thousand small fish, of which we actually lost 
but one, and he was more probably crushed by some move- 
ment of the cans than by suffocation. ; 
The Connadaguinnet lot were in the tanks sixteen hours 
without change of water, and the Yellow Breeches lot were 
so confined for over nineteen hours. 
I attribute this to Creveling’s admirable method of erat- 
ing the water. He plunges a hollow cylinder of tin, about 
four inches in diameter, closed at the top, and having a 
grasping handle; but this cylinder is perforated very gener- 
ally with holes, scarcely larger than what’a common house- 
hold pin would fit in. The length of the cylinder is about 
equal to the depth of the-water in the can, This thing, 
plunged up and down mouth downwards works a mixture 
of air and water which I cannot imagine any device to sur- 
pass, and is indeed, in my opinion, an ingenious contriv- 
ance. Let it suffice, however, to say, that we lost not an. 
‘indiridial of the thousands’ transported ‘ from thecwant of | 
air or the change of water. eee 

