The morning call., 1891-07-26
GUN AND DOG.
Good Dove and Rabbit Shooting to Be
Had in Alameda County.

Good Dove and Rabbit Shooting to Be
Had in Alameda County.
Reports from local sportsmen who have
returned from the rural districts state that
dove-shooting has been first-class this year
and that the birds are quite plentiful. In
the vicinity OF Liyermore several large bags
have been made, and within a few miles of
Brentwood, Contra Costa County, the most
fiattering news comes. A gentleman who
resides at Los Gatos writes that doves are
very plentiful within few miles of the
town and that local nimrods are enjoying
splendid evening shooting.
Cotton-tail rabbits have become very plen-
tiful along the hills east of Berkeley. Last
Sunday two hunters shot thirty-eight rab-
bits on the Harrison ranch. Mike Leahy,
brother of the well-knOwn OarSman, bagged
twenty cOtton-tails in San Pablo Valley.
John Boyle, Tom Garrett and 2. Grace
returned from Walnut Creek last Monday
laden down with game. Sportsmen who
at present devoting their leisure time to
trap-sh0oting, sport which has become
very popular in this city among the devotees
of field paStime.
Those who desire a copy of the game
laws, as amended by the last Legislature,
can have the same by writing to any of the
Commissioners 1t Is misdemeanor to
take or destroy any quails, partridges. rails,
grouse, or any species of ducks between
March LIST and October 1st. The law also
protects doves between January 1st and
July LIST in each and every year. 1t is un-
lawful to kill female deer, elks, antelope or
mountain sheep at any time, or the males of
the above-named animals for Two years
from the date of the passage of the act.
Market hunters who have been killing
deer for mouths past and secreting their
hides in the back woods may have good rea-
son, in the near future. to regret having
transgreSSed the law. The Commissioners
have been informed of the whereabouts of
several hides which will be cOnfiscated when
the opportunity offers.
Speaking Of the qualities Of the famous
Chesapeake Bay dog used solely for duck
shooting purposes, the American Field says:
Bush River is well-known to those sports
men of Maryland who enjoy the sport of
duck shooting. aud many more, not to the
manner born" have an Intimate acquaint-
ance with one or other of the celebrated
points and shores along its course. 1t is also
well known to the initiated as one of the
homes sacred TO the Chesapeake Bay dog,
the grand retriever whose past Is wrapped
In almost the same Obscurity as the striker
OF Billy Patterson, the breed supposed by
many wlseacres to have originated from the
union of an amOrouS otter with Newfound-
land bitch, more generally believed to have
been the results of a cross between the Irish
water spaniel and Newfoundland How
brought two puppies of this peculiar type
TO Baltimore in 1907, one of which, the dog
Sailor, was bought by Governor Lloyd; the
other. bitch by the name of Canton. be-
came the property of DR.. j. Stewart of Spar
rows Point, Nd.
From these two sprung the numerous de-
scendantS which have become famous along
with canyaSback and redhead, the oyster
and terrapln, as indigenous to the locality.
AS the years went by little was done to pre-
serve the purity of the blood, only fe W
ducking shores jealousy guarding their
own individual strains. which had come
down to them undiluted by admixture from
the originals. In 1877 a standard was
adopted, and the breed came up out of the
obscurlty and sprang into immediate popu-
larity. The professional QUICKER seized at
once upon a dog which could endure the
viciSsitudeS of the sport unaffected by the
severesJ weather. The amateur saw in this
dog an ideal retriever which could be an
intelligent companion in his blind or boat,
taking the place of the setter and pointer,
whose ability was equally good perhaps, but
whose physique could not stand the arduous
duties of retrieving ducks from the water
with the fh,.rn0marpr pl0sp IN