The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
DUCKS PLENTIFUL.
BUT NOT VERY FAT
WebfOofed Wild Fowl Abound
on Marsh Areas and Club
Preserves
By FRANK o'DoNNELL

Duck hunters Jared we'll in some
favored sections last week, the supply
of game being plentiful in places where
there had previously been a scarcity
and the cool weather did much to bet
ter conditions and to insure more sat
isfactory results at shooting resorts
where the webfooted wild fowls were
thickest Owing to the lack of rain
and the shortage of fresh water ponds,
there was not much sport on the open
lands in the interior, and there was not
much doing on the shores of San Pablo
bay, but visitors to the gun club pre-
serves on the marsh areas were, as a
rule, well paid for their trouble. The
weather was ideal for shooting over
the baited ponds on the preserves. and
there was no complaint Of birds spoil
ing in transit, but the thinness Of the
ducks brought to the city, particularly
those forwarded by market hunters.
was freely commented on
Birds were plentiful on the Alvarado
marsh area last Sunday and they were
much in evidence there on Wednesday.
Harry Lampke, A. Shave, H. Hauwaught
and Ben Baum had a fine shoot on their
Jointly owned Alvarado preserve on
Sunday, all of them getting we'll filed
bags in which sprig predominated. Ed
Kerrison was over at the Pastime club
grounds the first Of the week, usual.
and returned with a good string. George
Thomas shot over the Pastime ponds
with satisfactory results on Wednes-
day and Ed Kenney accounted for a
limit at Mount Eden earlier in the
week.
Members Of the Empire gun club had
splendid sport on their Elkhorn pre-
serve in Monterey county on Sunday
and again on Wednesday of last week.
Floyd S. Judah, who confesses to hav-
ing started his career as a hunter when
13 years old, said that never in all his
experience did he see such flight of
ducks as he witnessed at Elkhorn last
Sunday On that day 18 members of
the club bagged as many limits before
10 o'clock in the morning, and those
8vho were so inclined spent the rest of
the day shooting quail. There were IL
guns on the grounds on Wednesday
and all of them obtained limit strings
with ease the bags consisting chiefly
of sprig and widgeon. Among the visit
ors to the Elkhorn preserve were ]. B.
Hauer. J. Peltier, ]. c. Sims, J. Dorsey,
C. D. Laing, DR.. E. K. Hopkins, H. Dut-
ton. w. D. Mansfield. Hugh Collins, o.
NJ D. Goldaracena. Milton Pray, T. c.
Van Ness Jr., w. B. Sanborn and F. F.
Connor.
thick on the Suisun marsh last Sunday
and there were quite few shooters up
for midweek shoot Wednesday. DIR.
o. F. Westerfeld secured a limit on
the Pearce preserve on Joyce island,
and Doctor Reynolds shot over the
Family club ponds. w. Mansfield and
AchilIe Roos got limit assortments at
Roos', Allegro preserve, and the Green
Lodge preserve yielded satisfactory
dividends to w. w. Richards and Doc
tor Sharp. Frank Maskey shot over
his preserve with Doc" Ayers, and
Chief Seymour was UP at his lodge
with ]. Herring and Henry Klevesahl
for one day stay. E. Cuthbert and
two guests had q fine shoot at the
CordeIia preserve, and there was a
| large attendance on the joyce island
and Volante grounds, Sunday Jim
MAYNARD, George Uhl, Harry Blatchley
and Nat Boas of the Volante club put
| in most of the time shooting English
SHINE. which were quite plentiful on
| the Suisun marsh area.
| Ducks were plentiful at nearly all OF
| the resorts in the San Joaquin valley
| the lack of plump birds constitutine
| the only cause for complaint in the
Los Banos region. As usual, Otto
! Feudner was one of the first to bring
| down all that the law allows at New
man, and George Gauld. Victor Wolf