The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-09
zoes without saving that most enioyable

goes without saying that most enjoyable
outing will result.
AS a large percentage of the mem bers
are benedicts, the directors decided at
recent meeting to give ladies night"
on the evening of February 2. The wives,
daughters and sisters OF members are
very anxious to see the new clubrooms,
ana if report can be relied upon they Will
receive most pleasant surprise, as the
apartments are magnificently fitted up.
In fact the Olympic Gun Club can well
afford to congratulate, itself on having as
neat and comfortable q rendezvous as any
sportsman could desire, and doubtless the
ladies will appreciate the very excellent
work that has been accomplished by The
house committee looking toward the COM
fort of the members. Within year the
club will have first class demesne, where
quail. duck aud deer will abound. A
grand bench show under its auspices will
be held in this City in May or June.
The Tamalpais Gun Clubs new officers
are: Otto Muser, president; John Berger,
vice. president; Major Cobb, secretary
treasurer; directors-John Siebe, A. VIE
land, William Berg, ]. Osborne, A. Roose,
f. Curtain and A. Diftol.
The club has stocked its lagoon with
the fry of rainbow, cutthroat and steel
head trout, and in the course of a year
the mem bers who are fond of angling ex-
pect to enjoy some royal sport. Deer and
quail are plentiful in the preserve and
some frst-class shooting is had during the
months when it is Law full to shoot at fur
or feather Mr.. Diftoi is the acknowledged
cham pion angler, ana SO far as quail and
deer shooting ls concerned the members
are unable to say who is the champion
shot. Both Curtain and Roose are good
on deer.
V. Cagl;eri and his guest, Carl Bund-
schu, had most enjoyable shoot on the
Tamalpais Gun Club demesne, near Will
low Camp, last Sunday. They bagged
fortv-six quail, thanks to the unerring N
of Bundschu, who killed all his birds on
the wing.
1t said that the new Elkwood shoot
ing grounds, at Long Island, are the most
complete in the world, and of the new
trap system an exchange says: After much
investigation the Mott style OF iron trap,
invented by that veteran sport, Jordan L.
Mott was adopted. 1t is said to be far
and away ahead of any trap yet used.
There are three sets Of traps, each located
forty feet from the clubhouse. The bound
airy line is Iocaled at fifty yards and the
dead line at thirty three yards. There are
five traps on each range, set the usual
distance apart, and all OF the m are fastened
over an under round cresce nt-shaped tun-
mel that is six feet high and SIX wide. The
trappcr, walking i'll the tunnel, has
basket OF birds close to each of the traps.
AS soon as any trap ls sprung he opens its
sliding bottom and puts bird in. Neither
the trapper, the man who springs the trap
nor the shooter can tell which trap is to
be sprung.
The traps are sprung by another in
genius device. In line with the shooters,
IN a little house half buried in the
ground, stands the man who pulls the
lever that springs the traps. Locked
| in a desk, breast high as he stands, is
the mechanism. 1t is shor: steel cyl
| inder, set horizontally in the desk. 1t has
steel pegs in it that look like those of q
musical-box. When the lever is pulled
one OF the pegs engages the end of a steel
bar having the underground wire attached
to it that springs the trap. The machine
has 1000 combinations and it can be altered
in moment by changing q peg to an
| other com bjnatiou.
| There recently appeared in an English
paper the following report of how game is
| slaught red in 1.-The old country: Eni-
peror William of Germany is credited
W 18th killing aurochs, elk, 1873 red stays,
| So kinds, 957 fallow bucks, Al faliow does,
reindeer, 1705 large and small wild boar,
469 roebucks III chamois, IL 466 hares,
63S rabbits. whale, 81 capercaizie (cocks)
81 wild ducks, 3 bears, II foxes, sos herons
and cormorants and $50 various. The total
number is II. 576 and is the mperor's bag
for one calendar year.
In England one party of six killed 1000
rabbits and pheasants in four days. An
other party of eight killed 5000 head of
game in four days; still another shot 1000;
one OF five men In two days killed 2500 ana
another composed of six persons killed
1000 rabbits and pheasants in a single day.
With all the complaints one hears in re-
! gard to pothunting in America, when all
! is considered one cannot but believe we
regard game and game laws and the I'M
written but strict rules of the sportsman
! in better light than do our cousins on
! the other side of the Atlantic. w en- also
| it is taken into consideration that all of
these game birds and animals are pro-
tected in preserves or raised in captivity
| the Tree woods and fields of this country
| seem better than ever.
The sportsmen of this City will be
pleased to learn of the success Crittenden
Robinson achieved in Monte Carlo re-
Gently. a special cable to the New York
Herald dated Monte Carlo, january 5, says:
A return match of 100 pigeons at thirty
yards for 21O0 francs side between the
California shot, Robinson, and the we'll
known English marksman, RICHARDSON,
took place This afternoon at Mont Boren
and ended in favor of the Pacific Coast
cham pion by the score of 90 to a.
There Is a movement on foot at Balti-
more, Md, to hold a mammoth carnival
in that city in 1898, at which time all sorts
of athletic and aquatic games can be held,
trap-shooting being one OF the principal
features so far announced. 1t is proposed
to build an enormous amphitheater at one
of several places mentioned, in which
could be seated thousands of spectators.
The plans have been Endorsed by promi.
nent Baltimoreans, and more of the prop
osition may be known in the near future.
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