The record-union., 1896-05-03
Field, Brook and Gymnasium

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Field, Brook and Gymnasium.
So much has been said about the hard
ship on market hunters imposed by the
State game laws, and the alleged op-
portunities it gives professionals.
or sportsmen, for slaughtering game,
that few figures showing the compare
hunting about Sacramento the past sea-
son may be of interest.
An investigation of the subject shows
that twenty-five of the most successful
CT Sacramento's sportsmen averaged
for the whole season lightweight birds
each, or total of 2,203. In two months
less time three market hunters-mark
you, only three men-sold in the local
markets 5,400 birds.
NO further argument is necessary to
prove to all fair-minded persons the
utter nonsense of the charge occasion
ally made that it is the sportsmen and
not the market shooters who kill the
most game
The sportsman is the latest to employ
electricity aus valuable adjunct to his
paStime, which opens another broad un-
explored field for electricity.
There are unlimited possibilities in
that direction, but the probabilities of
this use of electricity becoming wide
spread are few. If the genuine sports
man could find any good use to which
the light might be put in search
CT game, the fact that the electricity
could be had only from a storage bat
terry would preclude the possibility of its
adoption in this country, at any gate.
There may be so-called hunters who
would like to go out with a boiler, en-
gine and dynamo and shock the game
to death with a high alternating cur
rent, but their numbers are few.
The average sportsman would find no
use for it, though it seems to have come
into favor in hunting big game in the
jungles Of Africa and India.
1t is in tiger hunting that electricity
is now employed in India. A party of
hunters who started from Calcutta for
hunt in the jungle took with them a
storage battery and some lamps of five
candle power.
On the second night out a particularly
fierce tiger was discovered in the jungle.
The electric light was turned on. The
tiger was started. Before his eyes got
accustomed to the light rifle ball ended
his earthly career.
A modern writer says: 1.-THE fact that
sporting dogs refuse to touch the bones
OF game is said to be hereditary. For
centuries past certain kinds of dogs
have been trained to the pursuit Of GER
tain kinds Of birds and animals, and the
chief part of their training has been the
finding and fetching of these birds and
animals, coupled with the prohibition
not to mangle or eat them"
But is it true that sporting (hunting)
dogs refuse to touch the bones of game?
Who has not gone afield at the opening
of the season with a blue blooded pup
that he had spent the whole summer in
yard-breaking, only to find that
youngster chewing up the first bird that
fell to his gun? AS a matter Of fact,
many dog with a pedigree as long as
his tail had to be condemned because
Of his game-crunching proclivities.
The challenge Of the New York Ath-
letic Club for a meeting between it's
crack mile runner, Tommy Connect, and
F. E. Bacon, England's f1eet-footed
runner, for a contest on this side of the
Atlantic promises much if the men are
brought together. Bacon is a cham
pion among champions. He first es-
tablished his reputation by winning the
one-mile national championship of 1893
from a high class field in minutes
IL 10 seconds. He repeated the trick
in 1894 in minutes % 1-5 seconds. hav-
ing SO much up his sleeve that later in
the day he won the four-mile cham
pionship in 10 minutes 4S % seconds.
Up to that time Bacon had been a pri-
vate in her majesty's army But hav-
ing completed his active service term he
blossomed out into an amateur athlete.
He travelled all over the United King
dom, winning everything from a mile
up that was worth winning. Bacon at
last years English championships went
the mile in 4 minutes II seconds.
Members Of the Pacific Coast Field
Trial Club who expect to attend the next
trials in Kern County will be glad to
learn that the sportsmen of Bakersfield
nave reorganized the old Knights of the
Trigger Club there. 1t was a model
gun club few years ago, but after it's
clubrooms were burned out it was al
lowed to go to pieces
The field trial men who visited
Bakersfield the first time the trials were
held there will always recall with pleas
ure the royal treatment they received
at the hands of the Knights of the Trig-
ger. Bakersfield has some first-class
sportsmen, and it was wise in them to
reorganize their club. The club can be
of great aid to the field trial interests in
seeing that the quails are properly pro-
tected in that vicinity.
1t is rather difficult to define the word
sport. Some men think it consists of
breaking each others noses with two
ounce gloves; others think it consists in
walking all day through the woods and
getting torn to pieces on briers in wild
effort to shoot few quail when there