San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-16
ROD AND GUN NOTES.
What the Sportsmen are Doing to Pass
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for several hours last Sunday
morning at Lakeview without
success.
Next Thursday Rolo o. Hikes
will shoot match with the pres
ent inanimate target champion at
Watson park, Chicago. The match
will be 30 singles known traps and
unknown . traps and unknown
angles and % pairs; in all $50
targets per man.
j. l.. s. Hunt and Chas. j..
Chabot took fifty shells apiec
last Tuesday afternoon and bag
ged fifty per cent in doves.
Mrs. George Chabot and Miss
Powers are still sojourning at the
Carson hotel on Mustang Island.
Mr.. NJ. l.. Oppenheimer, of Eagle
Pass, accompanied by his wife and
children, passed through San An
tonic on their way home after q
pleasant visit to the coast country
in and around Rockport.
Mr.. Willsrd,L. Simpson, secre-
tary of the San Antonio Gun club,
took in the North Texas league
shoot and entered in all the events
throughout the program. Mr..
Simpsons visit there was to ANAL.
gamate the North Texas league
with all organized clubs in South
ern Texas, whereby an annual
tournament for amateurs will be
given every year, alternating one
year in North and the next in
South Texas.
Messrs. Gus Critzer and August
Thiele killed about 40 doves We'd
nesday afternoon.
One of our well.to-do farmers
living about eight miles from
town, and who gave permission to
four so-called wing-shots from San
Antonio, to shoot doves at his tank,
tells how he retired, and from am
bush watched the Thorough sports
men" shoot the doves from limb
and land, and now and then, ON the
wing.
Two enthusiastic young sports.
men of this city struck a hornets
nest last Sunday afternoon un-
known to them. They got into a
preachers premises and began
shooting doves at his tank. The
minister Of the gospel appeared
on the scene and an unexpected
sermon ensued. The young men
and advanced to the
bench. A kind invita-
ton was afterward extended by the
good preacher to the young men
TO come any day in the week and
shoot to their hearts content, but
never to disturb his premises on
the Sabbath day with the report
IF gun.
Messre. s. Veith and Geo. Chabot
oagged fifty doves last Wednesday
afternoon.
ABOUT DOGS.
Mr.. Albert Mcdonald, the dog
enthusiast, is daily expecting an
wolf hound direct from
Russia.
A great many Of our bird dog
owners complain of their dogs
or crushing birds when
them. This "hard to
correct fault" is attributed to their
masters, who, when the dogs are
mere puppies, allow them to re-
trieve doves. Any dog owner may
have noticed that when a dog
fetches a dove, the loose feathers
peculiar to this tender bird adhere
to the dogs tongue, and in their
anxiety to get rid of them they
will invariably crush the bird.
The LIGHTS sportsman has made
this study and has always prac-
ticed what he breaches; namely,
never use quail dog the first sea-
son on doves, or until you have
worked them on quail. Then,
when you do use them for retriev-
ing doves, take out the loose feath-
ers that adhere to the tongue and
roof of the dogs mouth. In future
try II, and you will have no further
Trouble.
More dogs contract disease from
lack OF exercise than any other
cause.
No city in Texas can show better
bred bird dogs than are owned in
San Antonio.
Thousands of plover passed over
the city last Thursday night. They
are evidently migrating toward
the coast, where considerable rain
fell on Tuesday.
Messrs. Geo. George and A. HI.
Piety left last night for Monroe,
La, where they will take part In
the big trap tournament to be held
there this week. San Antonio will,
no-doubt, be heard from, with two
representatives as above.
Doves are again plentiful where
ever water tanks can be found in
this vicinity.