Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-01
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ONDoN, Sept. 22.-That annual
Wholesale slaughter of game
which in England is regarded MS
- tho highest form Of fashionable
sport is now in full swing. The bloody
harvest of months of careful feeding,
tending and guarding of grouse. pieas-
ants, partridgrs, rabbits and hares is
being reaped on many lordly estates
where wealth permits the owners to put
their land to the least productive use
for the qualification of their own pccu-t
liai. tastes. 1t IS Il function for which
parliament always adjourns that states
men and politicians may participate in
the butchory and acquire renewed
mental and physical vigor for graphing
with poverty and crime. physical de-
terioration and agricultural decadence
and various other problems that need
solving in England. /. 49,. ,.
on the 18th OF August, the opening
day for the slaughter. the Right Hon
orablc James W. LOther. speaker of the
house of commons, was the guest of the
duke of Devonshire at Bolton Hall.
when according to the report IN u So
cicty journal, excellent sport was Sc
cured, over 500 brace Of birds falling to
eight guns" That is l25 to each man
On the same day the marquis OF Ripon's
party Of five had still more excellent
sport averaging nearly 200 birds each
RECORD SLAUGHTERs.
But this is slow work compared with
some records that have been made
IN past years and which will doubtless
be caualcd or surpassed this season.
On Lord Ripon's estate near Dallow-
gill 2.ll2 grouse were killed In one day.
Remington Wilson and asfew friends
killed in the same time 2,626 birds. Al
ERADICATE Park, the seat of Lord STAN
ford. the following bag" was made IN
four days: Phcasants. i.945 woodcock.
So; cartridges, 4: snipe 2: harcs SEQ:
rabbits. 1920. various, 2S--total $500. IN
n single drive" which lasted only %
minutes. Sir Frederick Millbank, Mp,
killed 90 brace which was at the rate
Of eight birds n minute.
This species OF slaughter Is made
| possible by what Is called the bnttue in
! Which the game Is driven to the place
where the shooters are posted each
with two or three double barrolcd guns
| and Il man in attendance upon him to
| lond them. True sport according TO
| American notions should combine
! maximum of cxertion. and even danger.
| with u minimum of destruction. The
battue is designed to provide min
mum of exortion with maximum of
| destruction. 1t involves no more
| knowledge of the art of finding game
than that displayed by the man who
| shoots pigeons released from II trap. To
XIII, and to kill MS many creatures as
nossible, under conditions that give
| them the smallest chance of escaping
| fro shooter, Is the object aimed at
| Much of the game killed In this way
! consists Of handled pheasants which
| nre SO tame that artificial means, such
nv stretching nets across the ground
1 have to be resortcd to to make them
| nv. The men who. under these cir
cumstanccs secure the biggest bags
nra acclaimed as crack sportsmcn'
ana their portraits are reproduced In
tho Illustrated weeklies. accompanied
III mandatory descriptions Of their skill
ana nrowcss. In America they would
i be pilloried as game hogs,
nEPo1NTs WITH PRIDE.
Earl dc Grey Is the leading repre-
sentative of this type of pscudo-sports-
man. More than ten years ago this
record oftwhat he had slain on tmnum-
4 cradle fields OF slaughter was made
| public: Grouse, '47,46S; partrldges. ~,
{ toE phcasants, III, 100; woodcock,y 2.O7I I;
sn,nca 735: wild ducks, 1888; black