The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-28
Miscella-
neous Sports.

s. The management of courSing affairs
at Los Angeles contemplates holding,
next July, the biggest meeting, finan-
cially ever held in America. AS de-
signed it will be limited to 100 dogs
at $25 entrance and $500 added-a
total of $4,000. The garanteed first
money will be $1,000
The movement lookingto the organ
izing of a state #coursing board in Cal
ifornia may and may not reach sue.
cessful issue. 1t is the opinion of many
of the coast leashmen that the Ameri-
can coursing board is best located just
where it is and unless the proposed
organization takes the form of sort
of subsidiary board it will meet with
strong opposition on its own hearth
stone.
Ben D. Sheffield of Livings on Mont,
a guide well known in that section,
paid me a visit this week, says writer
in Forest and Stream. Mr.. Sheffield
is in and about the park much of the
time and is familiar with the game
of that region. He tells me that the
buffalo of the park appear doomed 10
extinction. Every once in a while one
is seen otsde the park to the south
or west and after that it does not last
long. The soldiers tell him that to the
best of their knowledge there are about
only % buffalo left in the park.
A Greek sportsman who has had con-
siderable experience in recent years
hunting all kinds of big game in his
country. writes as follows:
) within a few hours journey of
Athens. on Mount Parnps, at the foot
of which lies 'Deerlie.' the property CT
4.
and fallow deer and wild boar abound
During the winter, owing to the cold
weather and an absence of food, they
descend into the valleys. In the grape
season they make, during the small
hours of the night considerable havoc
in the vineyards and pleasant gardens
situate at the foot of the mountains,
the amount of the damage being fire.
quently very considerable
AT Rafna and Pikermi, at the foot
of Mount Penliqup, and we'll known
to all who so in quest of wOOdcOCks,
the tracks of a considerable number
of wild boarS are often diScernible.
Near Thebes, on Mount Citheron, are
large numbers of stays, kinds and wild
boarS, and quite recently, at a hunt
organized by the Athens CynegetiQue
club, more than 20 stays We're includ-
ed in a, drive. In consequence, how
ever of the mountainous character OF
the country and the impossible nature
of many of the forests, this kind of hunt
can rarely be INDUCED in.
big game exists also on the noun
tains of Pcloponnesus and Thessaly
but the proper country for this kline
of sport is the province of Phtiotis, anC
especially that of EtOfie and Acarnie
where a 10-pointed stag is often found
Roebuck may be met with on all thu
mountain ranges Of Greece where large
forests exist. Many of the Greek noun
tains also harhOr wild goats
Mount Parnassus in Phti0tis, Acarn
ane. the neighbOrhO0ds Of karpenis
and of Nonitza. Thessaly and the noun
1 tains Of Agrafa being especially re
nowned for this kind of game. Wild
goats are also found on nearly all tbs
isles of the archipelago, and in large
numbers at GrouVa. a small island neal
Syria. and AntimlOs.
His majesty King George has eX
perimented with great success on the in
PRODUCTION of this animal into his prop
erty at Petalii, small isle near Pr
aIeus. To-day they are numerous anC
are shot by members of the royal fam
lily and a few privileged persons. A:
these animals prefer the rock coast
and it is impossible to get near then
by land, spOrtSlnen shoot them from