The morning call., 1890-12-24
QUAIL AND DUCK.
Sportsmen Who Scatter Shot on
Marsh and Hill.
Wile-Fowl Shooting in Fair Wsa,hsr-Ths
Pts;ifsrous Notwithstanding and
Eliot Will No. Shoot.

There is no getting around the fact that it
requires boisterous and stormy weather to
insure good duck-shooting 1t matters not
in the least how many birds may be congre-
gated at any place or resort frequented by
waterfowl, spOrtsmen need never hope for
good sport unless the birds are disturbed
and, as previously stated. driven from the
bays and wide lagoons into the sloughs and
ponds of the marshes where the hunters are
secreted and on the lookout for incoming
ducks.
Last Sunday the available points on the
marshes of Sonoma and Alviso were taken
by sportsmen, who expected a good days
shooting. owing to the fiattering news of the
previous week received from men who hap
rened to visit these quarters when the
weather just answered the purpose.
BIRDS such as canvasback. Elallard,
wldgeon, sprig and spoonbills were quite
plentiful on the bay. but of course they
could not very well be got at, and as con-
sequence the blind shooters and athleti-
casly inclined "scullers'' who secured the
sloughs in the hope of getting an occasional
shot at flushed birds returned home disap-
pointed if not disguised with their luck.
ON THE HILLS.
Sportsmen who faced the hills in quest OF
California cartridges Jared much better than
the swamp hunters. Tie day was exactly
fitted for quail-shooting and from all ac-
counts birds were found plentiful, although
fairiy well scattered along the sunny slopes.
Charley Lang. AL Higgins, E. PlumDier and
NJ w. Stackpool had very nice shoot on
the hills of Mission San Jose. Lang got 81
birds. Higgins IA, Piummer A. Stackpool 10.
Clarence Haight and Dave Thorn tried
their luck near Livermore. The former
bagsed . and the latter 10 birds.
charley Cate, who is a frst-class shot,
visited Mowreys and wound up days shoot
with 30 birds, which included duck and
Snipe.
Jim Chesley, the musical nimrod, and Ed
Briggs, the champion hill-cllnber of the
Golden West, carted 13qaail from San Pedro
valley. They reported that the birds on
tne coast Range are very speedy on the
wing and that IL requires chilled shot and
scattering gun to stop them effectively.
Harry Golcher and a friend are credited
with having scored good bags of feathers on
some preserve where quail have been STALL
led and well cared for.
HIS OWN sNIPE-PATCH.
Ex-senator Pindar was seen last Sunday
morning on the cars en- route to Santa
Rosa. Mr. Pndar is the owner of nice
bit Of snipe-patch near the town of Santa
Rosa, which affords him much pleasure
when the day is fine and the birds are not
wild.
DR.. Knowles and Mr.. Pollock, of the
Alameda Gun Club. shot over the preserves
near McGllrs, on the Sonoma marshes, last
Saturday and Sunday and met with very
poor success. The weather was altogether
too fine for duck shooting
VIII Patched returned from Byron, ON the
Sacramento River, yesterday with nice
n N n nd a ~ Al. Il
Charley Ohm and his bosom companion,
Charley Precht, alias the kid-gloved sports
man, visited their camps at Shellville last
Saturday and returned the following day
with more water than fish. They state that
the slough, which has afforded such excellent
grilse and salmon fishing, is at present
destroyed, so far as the fishing is concerned,
by the enormous quantities Of mud that is
being emptied into it by a dredger that is
being employed in tie work of constructing
levec Precht shot few English snipe
over his dog, ground siuiced.
John Stack took down $50 cartridges to
tile Bridges" last Saturday and managed
TO get back with three ducks and 200 loaded
shells.
FINE BRACE OF IRISH Settlers.
Charley Campbell and friend had most
enjoyable quali-shoot last Sunday on MIR.
BELLS handsome brace of Irish settlers
Belle and Josie-did excellent work both
OF the dogs showed high quality. Their
styles OF ranging and pointing were very
merltorious, notwithstanding the fact that
the birds were very unsteady and did not
lie well. The young dog Josie gives every
promise OF becoming great field dog; the
beautiful manner In which she backed up
her mother on some occasions was we'll
worthy OF special notice. Belle mouths her
game rather sharply, which fault can, how
ever, be femedled with proper care. The
dogs were much annoyed by wOOd-ticks, a
pestiterous insect, which at this season of
the year causes much suffering and annoy
ance to animals that frequent the hills.
CELEBRATED TRAP SHOTS.
Spor.smen who take an interest in trap
shooting east of the big mountains have been
looking forward for some time to meeting
between the celebrated trap shots Charley
Manchester and j.. A. K Elliot. The latter
visited Chicago few days ago, and as he
was about to start for New York to arrange
match for $1,000 a SIDE, a friend of his re-
ceived note from Philadelphia which read I:
Although great zeal OF newspaper talk has
been had regarding a match between Mr..
Charles Manchester and Mr.. j. A. Il. Elliot, can
confidently say that they will not come together
Mr.. Manchester, after his return from his Cali
iornia tip, departed Tor the South on shoot.
lug Ifip. He intends remaining there some
weeks. Early next year he conten lplates Euro
mean trip oil some duration. During his stay
abroad, u Is his intention take part In the trap
contests in Belgium, London, Paris and Monte
NdIiu. Win Tue great skill possessed by MI
Manchester, II is safe 10 say that he VIII hold his
own in those contests, even when In competition
with the very best marksmen that all Europe
may call together.
A Chicago paper of the 18th inst. says:
Mr.. Robbins OF the Robbins & Palmer Co. of
Chicago was in Philadelphia Saturday for the
purpose OF making a match Tor Elliot with Maeai
ester, but failed 10 lind The latter. Mr.. Elliot
VIII therefore have 10 content himself with lesser
game. john l.. Brewer Oilers to shoot pigeon
match against Elliot for $4,000 side.
Several dogs from this city and Sacra-
meDto have been sent 20 Bakersfield to train
for the January field trials.
DIVIDED THE FEATHERS.
Bill Renwick, Bill Murdoch and Henry
Casey signed articles last Sunday morning
that they would divide their game equally
after the days shoot had ended. They met
on the train coming to this city and the en-
tire bag amounted to two spoonb dill duck.
When last seen they were figuring on how
the birds could be divided equally without a
Quarre! arising.
Abont 5 o'clock last Sunday morning a
son OF Captain Cleary rescued three young
hunters from drowning The Youngsters
procured boat at The Bridges" near AL
visO. and being inexpert boatmen, they had
not gone far from the landing when their
craft upset and all three took an involuntary
bath. Mr.: Cleary happened TO reach them
in the nick of time, otherwise they might
have persisted, as the morning was bitterly
cold. They were clinging to the bottom of
the skif when discovered.