The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-15
GUN AND DOG.
Grassing Pigeons at Oakland Track.
Eleven Black Pointers.

Eleven Black Pointers.
The season when doves can be shot will
commence on July l and will END on
February Is. The birds are very plentiful
this year in several parts of Alameda
County, and especially between Sunol and
Pleasanton.
The deer season will open on July Is,
and though does and fawns cannot law
fully be killed at any time of the year,
the shooting of mule deer will continue
until October Is, giving sportsmen three
months of an open season.
As the Supervisors of any county in the
State are no longer empowered to change
the dates of the opening of the season for
the killing of game birds or animals the
season for the killing of mountain quail
and grouse will open on August Is and
close on February 10.
The San Francisco Gun Club will have a
llve-blrd shoot to-day at the Oakland
track and the Recreation Gun Club will
shoot at live pigeons tomorrow at the
same place.
At Sacramento a bluerock tournament
will commence to-day and will close to-
morrow. Among the sportsmen who will
represent this City in the race are Tanning,
Webb and Robertson. Further particulars
are given in the letter from the CALLS
Sacramento sporting correspondent.
Entries for the Derby of the Pacific
Coast field trials which will be held at
Bakersfield on January 20 will close on
July l.
The following story regarding cure for
cataract is credited to Mr.. Labouchere by
the British Fancier: Some ten years ago
(more or less) valuable English setter re-
ceived an injury to one eye. Asa personal
favor the owners doctor examined the eye
and reported that, as far as he could tell,
the sight had quite gone. Nevertheless,
the man in charge of the dog regularly
once day chewed up some ordinary ivy
leaves and spat them in the dogs eye. In
entirely disappeared, the dogs eye looked
as well as ever and his sight was perfect.
Soon after that small dog owned by an
other man had cataract (from the scratch
of cat, | believe), when the same treat
ment was followed with like good result.
Jack Sammi, a breeder of thorough bred
Irish water spaniels, is puzzled over lit
ter of youngsters his liver and white col
ored pointer bitch is at the present time
nursing. The puppies are as black as the
blacklist of their Pape pointer stock, and
Dave Thorn, who by the way is great ad-
mirer of the blacks, has been looking over
the pages of Blackstone" for days past in
the hope of finding some chapter which
may treat on freaks of nature in dogdom.
dogs cannot understand where the black
coloring has come from as he has traced
the stock back to several generations and
finds that there have been no black
pointers connected with the breed. James
MARYLAND, the owner of a prize-winner at
the recent bench show, is of the opinion
that there must have been black sheep in
the family somewhere,
The California Turf, paper devoted to
kennel and horse news, has changed
ownership. 1t is now managed by d. L.
Hackett and j. R. Dickson, and with those
gentlemen at the helm it should travel in a
smooth course to prosperity.
At a recent meeting of the American
Kennel Club it was stated that rule will
be made debarring all dogs from compe-
ton at shows held under A. <. @. rules
that have been cropped after a certain
date.
D. c. Braden, the one-armed wing shot
who lives at Beaver Falls, Pa, will be
matched to shoot a second time against
W. S. Cannon of Newark, N. J. The con-
sideration will be $500.