San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-18
THE SUNDAY LIGHT.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1896
SPORTING NOTES.

where Our Sportsmen Went and What
They Bagged the Past Week.
Ask Of the beer bottles, which far
around,
On every creek and prairie strew
the ground,
Like photographs their glancing
rays betray
The precincts OF the camp, and eve
ry weaving way.
Local hunters report the killing
OF great many rsttlesnakes on
their hunts.
Mr.. Robert Tendick and party
bagged upward Of 100 birds, doves
and quail, last Sunday.
Messrs. Geo. A. and Chas. Chabot
and Victor Hugo go down the Sap
this morning after his quailship.
A. Grosenbscher and A. A. Mar
tin killed a nice mess OF quail and
one rattlesnake last Sunday near
Falls City.
Chas. Hummel, Capt. E. Bosch
and Charles France will hunt quail
along the line Of the Sap road to-
day.
Messrs. w. L. Gardner, Of Ohio,
and w. H. Fields, treasurer of the
s. A. & A. P, left for Floresville
yesterday on an extended quail
hunt.
E. P. Tschirhart, Alex. Half, the
two Henrys and Pete Hone formed
a party that made game take to
the thickets on the Medina last
Sunday.
w. l.. Gardner and wife, Of Ohio,
are here to spend the winter
months. Mr.. Gardner brings with
him his fine hunting dogs and will
devote a great deal of his time to
field shooting.
The true sportsman OF this time
and generation frowns upon the
tale.oi slaughter, the pictorial evi.
dence of wanton destruction, the
display of quantity rather than
the gentility of skill.
Quail shooting will be unsstis-
factory to both sportsman and his
dog until after a good frost. The
underground OF weeds and bramble
are thicker than for several years,
caused by the heavy rains.
Judge w. w. King is said to
have had a RATHER hanging to his
trouser legs on his last hunt.
Judge Peter Shields tells it but
didn't give the particular brand of
snake medicine the party were
using.
The late rains have filled Ran
don lake to OVERLOOKING. This
means thousands Of ducks and
geese that yearly migrate south,
will winter on these prairies. Ran
don is on the Southern Pacific
near Rosenberg.
Isaac Mcclellan, born in Port
land, Maine, May q, 1906, there
fore 80 years old, recently gave out
a book of 800 pages for publication
entitled: "Haunts of Wild Game"
Mr.. Mcclellan Is still enjoying good
health and out door sports with
rod and gun.
The sportsmen of San Antonio
unanimously express their appre-
citation and fraternal feeling to-
ward Ed Stoves, who, after living
in Mexico for several years, has
again moved back with his in
teresting family to our midst to
make this his future home. Ed is
sportsman right and of the every
day kind.
Sportsmen ought always carry
with them on their trips a small
bottle of ammonia in case of snake
bite. A bottle with large mouth
is best, as it can be opened and ap-
piled directly to the wound. A
small vial of witchhazel will also
be found handy in case of powder
getting into the eyes. Diluted
about one half aud used as an es-
tringent it gives instant relief.
Ardent sportsmen need no slim
illus, or stimulant. They never
allow business to interfere with
JuelT SuOOVluS' IA uny On uelps
business. Would that some good
impulse would inspire the hordes
OF indefatigable spectators who
squeeze values, upset the markets,
and set the mercantile and polite
al world agog, to take day of in
the field, and give US all rest.
Let me submit for consideration of
those who are in the impetuous
football rush for dollars, that there
is a beneficent influence in this 60
ing apart to commune with nature,
as the poets term it, which simpli.
fies our tastes, banishes sordid de-
sires, and makes US forget the
struggles and troubles of life. We
of the "green CLOTH" as the Ger
mans call US, find enjoyment where
we seek it. This free enjoyment
in the woods, with heavens canopy
oyar M the crisn and fa1Ien laaUas