The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-01


from three to twelve pounds"
II wish you were here to view the beauties of
Fl. Mcintosh" writes Gen. Harmar to friend.
''What think you of pike of twenty-five pounds
perch of fifteen TO twenty-five pounds, catfish
of forty pounds, bass. pickerel, sturgeon. ETC..
etc?"
Independence day was celebrated at Marietta
while Col. May was there, and after the Grafton
the settlers and the soldiers sat down 10 a
handsome dinner" at which, according to
Hildreth's history, "they had venison, bear and
buffalo meat and pike lspeared IN the Mus
kingum by Judge Devall and his son Gilbert),
which weighed 100 pounds"
The age of big fish in the Ohio river lasted
till long after Col Mays visit. In 1892, ac'
cording TO Sol Smith actor OF the last gem
Grafton, the Chapman family" established and
carried into operation floating theater," in
which they descended the Ohio, playing at the
towns along shore. The players were all very
fond of fishing and members of the company
would sometimes pursue this fascinating pas
time during performance. "On one occasion"
says the writer while playing the stranger"
TACT Nv, scene ~ there was long wait for
Francis, the servant Of the misanthropic Count
Francis! Francisp called the Stranger No
reply.
Francis, Francisp Ia pause) 'FrancisP rather
angrily called the Stranger again A very dis
tant voice Coming sirp Ia considerable pause,
during which the Stranger walks upand down,
a Ia Macready, in a great rage-)
Franeisv"
Francis (entering )-"Here l am, sir"
Stranger-"Why did you not come when /
called?"
Francis-"Why, sir, was just hauling in one
of the d-est big catfish you ever sawW
1t was several minutes before the play could
proceed.
But the big fish were not confined TO the
Ohio. In 1916 David Thomas made a tour to
the western country, passing through Indiana
over what was then known as the "Cincin-
natl trace" to the Wabash, and in his book
of travels he gives a list of the most notable
hsh in that river and also the sizes to which
some Of them attained.
Three kinds OF catfish he notes: the Missis-
sippi eat the mud cat and the bullhead. The
first attains to a weight of 100 pounds, and the
second to 100. The sturgeon was Also he says,
found in the Wabash and weighed from TWEEN
ty 70 sixty pounds.
The drum or white perch" (Col. Nays
perchl weighs from one TO thirty pounds, while
the BLACK perch or bass" (bl8ck bass is excel
lent and weighs from one 10 seven pounds.
The buffalo FISH weighs from one TO thirty
pounds and the rock mullet ten to fifteen. The
red horse tips the beam at from five to fifteen.
the river pike is larger but scarce, and the Jack
pike lwalleyed pike runs from six TO twenty
pounds.
It will thus be there was apparently no
difference in weight between the Ohio river
and the Wabash fish nor could there have
been much, if any, between the Wabash and
the White river fish. Mississippi cat weighing
from 80 TO 100 pounds doubtless assembled the
west fork rs high as Broad Ripple and the east
fork TO the mouth of Blue river There were
sturgeon yard long and drum and red horse
and butlalO-plenty of them weighing no less
than twenty-five pounds, and pike perch wall
eyed pike and black bass galore
The summer drOuths following the deforest-
ing of the country has driven off the big fish,
but the black bass and some other and minor
I 2 chance
will stay 10 bless mankind in all time to come.
Stop the unlawful killing of fish and the unhOly
catching of the mother bass during the spawn
ing season and no true fisherman will ever want
for good fishing in Indiana. ID. ID. BANTA.
General Sporting Notes.
DIR. G. c. Bates of Lowell, Mass, broke ff-
teen pairs Of blackbirds In succession and
forty-eight out of fifty.
McAulifie has accepted Carney's challenge to
fight for England's club purse OF $500, stake
goo, Police Gazette diamond belt.
The Manchester England jubilee handicap
hurdle race for 5000, two miles, YVES won
Tuesday by Sir C. HartOpp's fve-year-old, The
Tyke
CALIFORNIA; big thoroughbred Goliah, that
New Workers lost bundles of money on, is now
handicapped with sulky. His losing days are
over.
A dispatch from Memphis says that George
Hankins has offered 81, 800 for Proctor Knott,
but Sam Bryant is holding out his hands for
$4,000.
George Lavine of East Saginaw and George
Siddons, the famous western lightweight are
matched for $500 and gate money at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
One thousand people saw the tifty.bird shoot
ing match between John Riggott and Annie
Oakley at Rockaway, \. Y, Saturday. Each
made fOrty-three birds.
Charles Budd has challenged Dr. Carver to
shoot $500 side at 100 living birds, and is
willing TO meet Carver either at Kansas City,
Cincinnati, Chicago OF st. Louis.
A dispatch from Kentucky says that the
Louisville jockey club will run the betting at
the coming meeting, and that President Green
of st. Louis will handle the betting at his track.
There is considerable disparity in the weights
of Joe McAuliffe and Tom Lees, who are
matched to fight on May %. Both are in active
training, the former tipping the beam at DDS
pounds, while Lees is but $50.
A catch as catch can wrestling match for
800 a side, between William Shepard Of Phla-
delphia and William Wild of Oldham En-
gland, took place Saturday az Newark, \. j.,
the former winning in fourteen minutes.
A rising star OF the New York athletic club
is Fred Babcock, short distance runner and
Jumper. He has made 100 yards in 10 Is
seconds. In the broad jump he has cleared
p feet 90 inches. He stands feet So
inches in hight and weighs, trained, 135
pounds.
The efforts TO secure the annual regatta of the
Mississippi valley rowing association for ST.
Louis have failed, and the regatta will be held
on Lake Calumet, at Pullman, Ill. The NATIONAL
regatta will be held at the same point so the
pretty suburb of Chicago promises 10 have no
end of sport this summer.
The following cablegram from London has
been received by Richard K. Fox from Jake
kilTain: "My match with Sullivan creates
considerable talk here. If Sullivan party want
to bet any money that won't win they can
put out $4,000 here. Arthur Cooper John
O'Neill, Jack Percival, and Charley White will
bet that amount on my chances"
A dispatch from New Orleans was received
by Richard X. Fox, New York, last week, no.
tifying him that the match between Sullivan
and Jake kilTain for the diamond belt and
10000 can be fought at Herwig's Bluff twenty
two miles from New Orleans, with the assur-
ance that there will be police interference
There is railway transportation for 1900 spec
tators if needed.
1t is not often that Chicago and ST. Louis
unite in anything, and il will be rather a novel
sight this season to see two St. LOuisans work
ing in boat with two Windy City chaps for
the championship of the West. Such will be
the case, however. The champion pair, NAL
colin and Gastrich, have made arrangements TO
row in fOurs with Messrs. Wienan and Korf of
the Delawares of Chicago.
George Atkinson of the Sporting Life cables
as follows: Admirers of Jake Kilrain. the
American champion, intend to form a syndi-
cate and raise pool OF 5000 to put out on
commission kilrain's chances of beating
Sullivan. Among the syndicate will he Mr.