New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-07
WOMEN AND FIELD SPORTS.
THE NEW WOMAN WILL FIND PLENTY 10
ENTERTAIN AND INTEREST HER AT ;
THE COMING sPORTsMEN's
EXPOSITION.

The woman who loves field and aquatic sports
will find that she is very generally considered By
the management Of the Sportsmens Exposition 10
be held from March 10 TO 20 at Madison Square
Garden. The show will have a good deal 10 do
with golf, tennis and other competitive outdoor
sports. and with bowling and nd,o sports, but Il
Is In the hunting apparatus probably, that the
modern Diana will be most interested. Manufact.
urers Of sporting guns, Of camping paraphernalia
and Of boats will show by their exhibits that their
annual Improvements have been made with con-
sideration Of the new woman as a very important
factor. Fly Rod" Miss Cornelia T. Crosby, Of
Phillips. Me-. will be a picturesque figure In the
exposition, with no less picturesque hunters
cabin as her temporary home. Hunting garb for
women will be among the novelties and Is nov
being prepared by well-known ladies' tailors.
One Of the best shots in America Is Annie Oak.
ley, whose performances In shattering glass balls
have made her famous. Miss Oakley Will be at
the sportsmens show, and has written a COM
mandatory letter to the management, in which she
says: ut has always been my ambition TO elevate
all kinds of shooting. and as the Sportsmen's AS
ISOLATION Is trying to do the same thing. wish
the managers and members the fullest measure OF
success"
In the loan and trophy exhibit will be shown
cups medals and other trophies won by Miss OAK
ley in all parts Of the world. The prizes will oc-
cupy q prominent place and will be surrounded
by many other evidences Of the prowess OF Amert
can women in fields Of sport which few yean
ago they would have regarded as too mannish to-
them to enter.
The Wild West and the Wild East typifed with.
In the confines of the United States. will join q
the sportsmen's Exposition. where mounted speei-
mems of big game from the Slerras and the Rock.
les will BIO seen side by side with heads OF the
caribou from the Maine wilderness. and at Madison
Square Garden Annie Oakley Will snake the naha
OF her old acquaintance Fly Rod" the quaint and
courageous exponent OF angling and woodcrstI
Miss Crosby Is easily the most picturesque teatuie
feet in height and straight as the pine from, her
ma tive State but withal cultivated as her fair
exercises wna wonderful fascnatOn over all
women who come 20 see and wonder al nef. ana
are encouraged by her temerity IN racing 'he perm
Miss Crosby is going to preside over Ma x;
be one OF the most Complete log cabins ever built
The logs for 1t were donated e by , Ma R is Ne
George Thomas. OF Andoyer one OF the best known
OF % to ssa e see sas
and 10 tell the sportsmen about Maine resort or;
o Tser made S of a spuS when will
green that it VIII seem part OF the Name woo a.
in the Maine exhibition alone Soo worth .!
mounted fish. birds and big game. Among sns mes
Claimed TO be the largest in the world L was
shot last October in Aroostook County by d.: ..
Yorker n has been given the credit OF the tea, y
newspapers of Gotham. 1t has spread Of o., y
Inches,
inches q prongs on the right horn and Is pronss
on the left horn. 49,
Several crack guides OF Maine will ACCOMPANY
Miss Crosby, ACQUIRED In their picturesque hump
Cummings, OF Caribou Leon circuit, Of Ashlana
Aroostook County. Bert Haynes. OF Katahd.n: 20
Dead River; Granville Gray. Of Moosehesd; GsoF0
Oates and Walter Twombley Of Rangsley.s A.
sporting rifles and shotguns of the very lat sss
models make them especially desirable I'm femininss
eyes and detract from the instructive horror y
shooting which the sight OF the clumsler rms :"
former days inspired in the generality or women
The new woman. however, is more AFRAID Of nys
getting a gun than Of shooting one. and aitnoutts
archery has. after one spasmodc revival, 1851 -
Witchery, the chase has not. The golden statue ~
Diana which tops the tall tower OF the Madls. ~
Square Garden will never seem so particularly ~
home as while the Sportsmens show. wnlcn ~
be so largely occupied In catering 10 the he'
woman.