The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-03
EXPECT TO HAVE A GUN MATCH
FOREST CITY CLUB Is ANXIOUS TO
ARRANGE A BIG ONE.

Expected That Contestants Womb
Come From Jacksonville, Brun-
swicIx, Macon, Charleston and At
Iantn Match VIII Probably he
Held in April or May-Dr. Wilson
and Capt. Martin Expects to Go 20
New York for the Big Handicap.
Game Season Closes March IL.
Game Has Been Plentiful - Par
trdges Have Been Found Within
Easy Reach of the City.
The members of the Forest City Gun
Club, as the end of the game season APP
proaches, are beginning 20 think about
ma tches al the traps II is very prob
able that a big contest will be arranged
for the latter part of April or the first of
May. The leading members of the club
are anxious for one, and it is believed the
interest generally is such as to insure
success.
IL is proposed TO have visitors from
jacksonville, Brunswick, Macon and AT
lanta. Charleston, TOO, may send over
one or two contestants. Enough of the
a three-days' contest, and the club would
then be able TO put up something like $3.50
a day TO be shot for. The targets would
be inanimate and also i've birds, thereby
affording opportunity for lovers of both
forms of the sport.
The gun club members have been busy
for some weeks in practice. once a week
there is a party az the traps, and some
very good shooting is done. 1t is the in
tention of two or three of the members
to go on 20 New York in April to compete
in The American Handicap. DIR. f. c.
Wilson and Capt. Thomas Martin of Beau
fort are among those who will probably
take the trip. Both have been doing some
excellent work with live birds of late.
This weekly practice has made the club
members DESTROYS of having a match. 1t
was thought one might be arranged I'M
der the auspices of the Interstate Asso-
citation, but it has developed that that
will be impossible, as the association viii
undertake the management of no shoots
south Of Richmond this year. This news
was conveyed by means of a letter from
an agent of the association to Mr.. Charles
LaMotte.
l5 After that date game cannot be legal
ly killed Sportsmen have the satisfaction
of having lad a splendid season, however,
and there will be no regrets over its close
Birds have been very plentiful, especially
cartridges.
An enthusiastic sportsman said yester-
day that the season has been the best
this vicinity has had for years. The
months during which the young broods
were being brought up were rather dry,
a circumstance that always faVors the
partridge crop. That is because the little
birds are often drowned out by heavy
rains. They escaped this peril, and
sportsmen have been able to find many
coveys when out on their jaunts.
1t has been particularly noticeable that
coveys might be found much nearer the
city Than usual a sure indica lion of
plentiful supply of pariridges. Frequent
ly parties have driven out two or three
miles and brought back good bags Small
boys, who are never able 90 get off any
distance on the trains to hunt, have been
fortunate in finding partrdges near the
city, and some of the youthful sportsmen
have made their first kin of game birds,
having in the past confined their efforts
10 rice birds, robins. blackbirds, field
larks, English sparrows and such birds
as oder shots care nothing about
Doves, it is reported, have not been so
plentiful as partridges. That was on ac-
count of the big freeze of last February.
Many doves died in the severe weather
being unable 10 stand ii. One farmer not
far distant from Savannah reported that
he picked up $50 dead doves about one fod-
der stack in his yard. the birds having
gone into it for shelter. Such wholesale
destruction left but comparatively few
of the birds for breeding.
cartridges are better able 10 Withstand
severe weather. They have "a way of
budding that brings warmth, and they
know how TO find the shelter of some
fallen fog or heap of brush, Burrowing
down in the snow. they escape the suffer-
ing that means dea TN for doves.