The sun., 1909-02-21
REIGN OF THE SPORTSMEN
WILL BEGIN ~ the GARDEN
on NEXT FRIDA1.
With II Il Supposed to Come winters
End and Notice 10 Prepare for Out
OF Doors Events shooting, Fly Cast
Ing and swimming Competitions.

End AMI Notice To Prepare Tor Out
OF Doors Events -ShOoting, Fly Cast
Ing and swimming Competitions.
Madison Square Garden will make one
OF It's quick changes this week. on Tuesday
evening the doors will close Oh the motor
boats. and on Friday everything that has
10 do with motorboats will have disap-
peared. In the place OF these things there
will be a scene from the woods. The an
nual Sportsmen's show viii open on Friday
and will last for eight days. This show
always IA a popular one with New Workers.
and the fifteenth exhibition will. It is said.
be even more popular than its predecessors.
Those who favor this show say that 1t brings
the first signs OF spring and the ending
OF winter and that II creates longing for
the outdoors.
There are many features IN the coming
show which will make II specially attrac-
tive to sportsmen. The Anglers club.
the fly casting and fishing organization o.
New York, will have charge OF the fly cast
ing tournament; sChoolboys are TO tako
part In a rife shooting tournament which
will be conducted under tho auspices OF
the Public Schools Athletic League, and In
big tank in the middle OF the Garden
there will be aquatic sports and swimming
carnival conducted according to the rules
/
More than $50 guides from all the big
hunting resorts Of the country will enter
tain visitors at their different camps. There
will be tho Adirondack hunting camp,
the caribou hunting lodge from New Bruns-
wick. camps from different parts OF Canada,
coon hunters in a camp representing vir-
ginia at which Uncle Jerry will preside,
and from Maine there will be an exhibition
OF more than ! 200 specimens OF fur, fins
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Of trophies from Africa and Of fishermen
from Barnegat. as well as from other parts
Of New Jersey and from Long Island.
A big pool Is to be built at the Madison
avenue end OF the arena which will be 70
feet long by 40 feet vide. On this sheet Of
water VIII be shown all sorts Of wild fowl,
and at the opposite end Of the Garden there
will be a cage $50 feet by ~ feet which will
be tenanted by live game birds.
The swimming tank will bc placed In the
centre Of the Garden. IL will be much
larger than any tank yet used. and tho
entries for the swimming events have been
received In such large numbers that tho
sport promises TO be OF the best. The races
will open with a 100 yard swim TOR the cham
pionship OF the Metropolitan Association.
Among those who Will race are Champion
Daniels. J. p. MentelI. j. II. Riley. J. Auer-
bach. l.. B. Goodwin aud many other cracks
representing !oca. clubs. There are so
many good men swimming now that the
scratch men will have to be wonderfully
fast to win. but to encourage them to keep
going special prizes have been offered In
the handicap events for the best actual
time made; A new feature this year will
be handicap diving contest in which
T. +. 0'Callahgen and Walter X. Lee OF the
New York Athletic Club will take part
There will be special swimming races
for boys Of the high schools and events for
boys OF the public schools. The college
and on March 2 Yale and Columbia men
viii meet. A relay race also. has been
arranged in which teams from Yale, Colum-
bla, PrnCeton and Pennsylvania viii meet.
The schoolboy sub-larget and rife shoot
ing tournament will be conducted In the
basement and more than 900 boys have
boy team matches include a shoot of six
boys for the Winchester cup at a distance
Of sixty feet, he sub-target rife match for
six; and the Union Metallic Cartridge Com
pany's championship match for the highest
win be proclaimed schoolboy indoor rifle
shooting champion for the year and his
school will receive the championship chat
lenge cup; The Du Pont match is open TO
teams OF ilve from the high schools in the
Public Shcools Athletic League.
The New York State Rife Association
teams from public and private high schools
IN New York. The team making the
nlRhest aggregate wins the trophy donated
by the New York state life Association.
JUNIOR marksman's medal will be pre-
sented by the Secretary of War to any school
boy ma king total Of twenty points stand.
ng and twenty-five points prone, or total
score of not less than foTty-two points
,n the rifle range. or forty-aye in ten shots
standing on the sub-target rifle machine.
This contest is only open to schoolboys
rot over IL years old, The Winchester
rophy. another event. 10 for the best ten
lhots stand ng and ten shots prone. for =
Ninder musket, 30 calibre, presented by
he Winchester Arms Company. The Hop
iins Allen trophy is for the best five shots
life is the prize for the hi highest score on one
cket of ten shots standing and ten shots
prone. A New Century rife will go to the
me ticket OF five shots standing aud Ave
,rone. The last event on the programme,
10. ~. the sub-target individual contin-
lous match trophy, is for the sChoolboy
'ilver medal presented by the Sub-Target
iun Company.
Fine ranges have been constructed for
he tournament, The ranges will be, open
he show between and clock and for
ndiv idual shooting every day between 2
md 10 O'Clock The positions allowed are
standing. ofrhand. body free from all sup
Without use of strap. Any ~ calibre rife
With sights in front Of the hammer may be
lsed, and for ammunl'ion any 22 cahbre
participate in. the shooting contest will
eceive free admission 10 the show for the
purpose of actual competition only, The
National Rife Association rules govern all
For the angiers' tournament all the prizes
will be cups. the line being drawn between
Professional fly casters and amateurs.
he fly casting pool is to he 80 by 90 feet.