San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-21
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prize shoot of the San Antonio Gun
club will take place on their grounds
at Lakeview today.
Among the new members who will
face the traps for the first time at
! Lakeview today will be Henry S.
Half and John Brady.
The reeds, tuli and water lilies that
have almost damned up the lake near
the club house are soon to be dredged
out. This will be quite an improve
ment and will do much toward puri-
flying the water in Lake Elmendorf.
The directors of the San Antonio
Gun club have decided to change the
rules regarding the size of the fish to
be caught by members from six to
nine inches, the coming season. Each
member will be required to carry
rule or tape measure in order to carry
out the provisions of this law.
All old-timers will be there for the
opening shoot. Piety and Simpson,
of the insurance staff Shields,
Smith, Newton and Vernon, for the
legal lights; Epstein and Volbrecht;
will be "cashiered;;" Ballinger, Cha
bot. France, Thiele, Tendick, Stone
anu thC hiNlNuh
tile interests; Mccormack the rail
road syndicates! GrOssmann, Scott and
Davidson, the manufacturers, and now
and then a newspaper man will dob
up serenely from below" or a has
been" assume a sweepstake walk.
Doves and quail are beginning to
pair off, and if the March hunters will
observe closely, they will find eggs in
nearly every female quail killed.
Detectives for the Game Protective
association of Baltimore captured a
big gun at Hogg Point, about a mile
below Gunpowder bridge. The gun is
certainly a cannon" and was used for
Strengthening ducks illegally. 1t was a
single barrel affair and over nine feet
long. The stock at the trigger had a
circumference of fourteen inches. The
inside diameter Of the barrel is an
inch and a half and the gun weighs
about $50 pounds.
SportSmen around Baltimore are de-
termined to have good cunning in that
vicinity and the Game and Fish Pro
tective association ordered several
hundred quail to be released at va
rious points in Talbot county. The
VI AhIC al
more and Queen Anne county have
also released several hundred quail,
and next season expect good sport
around that section.
The report that Tom Kelley and
Harvey McMurchy would lose some
of their fingers and toes which it is
claimed were frozen during their re-
cent trip south, is a base falsehood,
and only calculated to brighten their
many friends in the north who are
unable to reach them in time of suf-
fering. We saw Tom Keller last week
and he said that Macs toes would
soon be all right and that he would
be able to walk without limping if he
wore canvas shoes. Tee Kay" said
that his fingers had only been frost
bitten and the story that he had to
have them thawed loose from the
trigger guard was cold blooded lie
and probably instigated by Oscar
Guessaz, of Santone.-Sportihg Elk
change.
Peter Murphy, the champion one
barrel shot, of Philadelphia, was honor
ed by having cunning stand named
after him in Texas. 1t seems that Pete
Ter It'll III 1eAdS. II InlI CIC
was induced to sit in the wind and
cold for over three hours dressed in
black suit Of clothing expecting to
get a shot at some sand hill cranes.
Frank Parmalee managed the scheme,
and said that it was a desperate
remedy, but said it had to be done, as
it was a desperate case. They sooth-
ed Murphy's lacerated sensibility by
naming the place after him. 1t is a
neck of mud which splits crack in
the pond at Gum Hollow and is a ia
vorite stand for duck shooters. The
spot is now called Murphy's Point.
The following Letter from ex-As-
sistant Attorney Genearl r. r. Lock
EFT was received by Mr.. A. Mcdonald
and shows the immediate necessity of
action on the part of San Antonio
sportsmen anent the game laws that
are now before the Legislature. Mr..
LOckett has certainly done his share
of the work and should the game laws
as amended, pass both houses, much
praise will be due this gentleman and
sportsman, for his indefatigable eff
forts in behalf of the spOrtsmen of
the state of Texas and the preServa-
ton of the fast disappearing game:
Mr.. A. Mcdonald, San Antonio, Tex:
Dear Sir:-Your letter of the 18th
has been received and in response
thereto l beg to say that 1 regret that
the part of the game bill relating to
the close season for deer, does not
meet with your approval. You must
remember that Texas is very large
state and that it is winter in some
portions of the state while it is COM
lparative summer in other portions.
Yesterday senator Informed me
that he would oppose the bill because
it permitted the killing of deer during
the months of December and January.
A member of the House Informed
me that he would fight the bill be,
cause he believed that deer should
only be killed during the months of
August and September. Another
member said he would oppose the bill
because he did not want deer killed
during August arguing that the does