Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-16
FOREST AND STREAM.
THE QUESTION AND METHOD OF GAME
PRoTEc ZION.
The World Champion Wing sho,-The
Coming International Rife Match
az Wimbledon-Miscellan

ter OF our own and other States complaints
are heard Of the want of proper game-a
demand for the enforcement of those exist.
ing, and the declaration is made that vio-
lation of the close season is diminishing
game to such extent as to approach ami
hilation. When it is considered that game
laws have been enacted to protect game
during breeding season, aud we are COM
PEELED to believe these continuous reports
when from every quarter we hear de-
cided sentiment expressed by sportsmen
against these acts when we are unable to
ind among lovers Of the gun and sports of
the field, single expression of opposition
to game protection when we md sports
mems associations existing everywhere,
and new ones forming; when we hear of
existing game protective associations In
every part Of our land of State sports
mans associations and conventions of
sportsmen with representatives from every
district when we consider that the senti-
ment of game protection is so universal
and unanimous, it is almost impossible to
comprehend why SO many violations are
committed, or that it is possible that they
can be committed without detection. But
greatest of all is the wonder as to who the
perpetrators are. Every candid, unselfish
sportsman should pause and consider
whether, with this sentiment so universe
againstiviolations it can be possible for re.
negade sportsmen " to destroy game enough
during the breeding season to lead to ex-
termination, unless the renegade class
includes far more than sportsmen are gen.
orally willing to admit that it does.
While there is no doubt that the effect
of destruction during the breeding season
is visible, yet it is difficult to decide that
the true cause of diminution has been
truly and fully considered. 1t Is vain
glorious boast that he is not sportsman
who viii take game during the close of the
season." when the party go asserting will,
by every means of which he is capable,
seek to take game to any extent whatever
in his power, simply for sake of the sport
of slaughter. That there exists such an
element among sportsmen there ia no
doubt-an element that no laws will deter
or opposing sentiment of society entirely
hold in check whose desire for recreation
goes beyond their Judgment or feelings of
humanity whose qualification is greater
in committing an unlawful and unneces-
sary act than the pleasure afforded in
privilege granted them.
The second element found among sports.
men is one which, while he advocates the
close season, never loses an opportunity for
shot when the chance of exposure is not
great. The third is the man who owns
pot.metsl gun and mongrel dog. His
love for field sports when the season opens,
and for want of something to do, never
allows Sunday or idle day to pass that he
does not devote to the slaughter of every
game bird he can find or decoy within his
ability to kill, and for which he has no
proper use.
The number of birds killed during the
close season, excepting doves, are very
few-for the reasons, frat, that there is too
great risk and, second, because the
birds do not congregate in sufficient num-
bers to make the sport interesting. Yet
the number is far too great. If, however,
it was one hundred times greater, the eff
feet would not equal that of the supertiu-
GUS slaughter beyond the wants of those
who kill as an accomplishment, or for am
bitten to excel, and the delusion of pleas
ure. The killing of inferior animals by
man is justified so far as his wants extend.
The pursuit of game and its killing is JUS
titled to this same extent, and so far as, in
its pursuit man can find health and recrea-
ton, it is proper but beyond this it be-
comes unjustifable, unmanly and degrad.
ing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
As has been seen by dispatches, the in
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place at Wimbledon. The English team
got down from their high horse,
and adopted permission for the
use of the screw adjusting
wind gauge, probably having discovered
how utterly untenabe and unreasonable
was its position, not to say that it savOred
strongly of a disreputable effort to gain an
advantage in conditions, without which it
was refusing to meet its adversary. The
shooting of the American team at final
practice at Creedmoor, as given in dis
patches yesterday, shows record at 500,
900 and 900 yards Of 81 II out of pos.
sible 100, surprising British record of last
year by five points. The twelve selected
to constitute the American team are, in
order of merit at last practice shoot
Dolan, S. J. Scott Rabbeth, Kainer, Butt,
POLAND. Walter Scott, Paulding, CIsh,
Van Heusen, Smith and Stewart. Their
practice record is, from best information
obtsinable, "a points in the lead of the
record practice Of the British team which
they are to meet at Wimbledon.
The recent contests between DR.. Carver
and Captain Bogardus has raised the ques-
ton as to who is in reality entitled to the
name of champion wing shot OF the world.
There can be no question that good marks
manship with gun of small caliber is evil
denoe Of better skill than the same results
attained with a gun of larger caliber. Cap
tain Bogardus, after being defeated by Dr.
Carver, both using small caliber guns in
accordance with established rules, claims
that his defeat was owing to having to
comply with this rule, and that il allowed
to use gun of larger size he can turn the
tables upon his successful competitor.
While this is doubtful proposition as to
fact, it is also an Ineffective method of
holding himself upon a level with Carver,
in the minds of sportsmen, as to their re-
lative skill.
An instance of the rapid increase and
profit of carp was recently witnessed on
the premises of Peters & Milco, near At
water, in MERGED county. Their pond,
which is about one hundred and twenty
feet square and six feet deep, was con.
structed about year and half ago, and
was stocked with FIVE carp in the spring of
1882, for which five dollars each was paid
Upon the water being drawn off this spring
1t was found that there was nearly 1000
carp in the pond, and the smallest OF them
was from seven to eight inches in length.
Tnis is a remarkable increase from plant
OF only FIVE in single year.
Everything seems to be getting along
very well, says the Grass Valley Tidings,
at the experimental fish hatchery at Sheb:
ley's. Spawn from Alodoc county trout
viii be tried in this hatchery. This re-
minds US to remark that when the picnic
takes place near there, on Wednesday, the
18Th instant, it will be interesting for
voung and old who 90 to the picnic to look