Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26

A correspondent asks If a puppy by a |
registered pointer out of registered /
setter can be registered. Our impress |
sion is that 1T can be. But why waste |
the registration fee on the mongrel?
Brooks tombstone Wingard of South |
Carolina. clerk of the House committee |
on education. Is an enthusiastic sports |
man and loves a good bird dog. He is |
a pointer man, and has several good ones |
at his home. He says there is no scarcity |
of quail i'm his section. and on MORN |
ing's hunt some time since he found nine |
fine coveys. |
Several readers have taken the writer to |
task for saying there We're only three
Llewellin settlers in Washington, and
have named several dogs. all Of which |
on investigation were shown to have out |
crosses in their pedigrees. Field and
Kennel" in the note referred to. said |
only that he knew of three and there |
were probably many more in the city. II
is question easily solved. as all Level |
lin settlers are registered under that head |
The state game commission OF Pennsyl- |
vania has issued a statement showing the !
amount of game killed in 1912. and also |
the casualties among hunters. With
few counties to hear from, Ii shows that
twenty-seven hunters were killed and 126
during the year. or game there
were killed 721 bucks. GA does. 13S bears,
40 woodcock, TO- 40 quail 80. 100 grouse.
713 wild turkeys. S.OO2 raccOons, $3.50
squirrels and 340.SjO rabbits. If these
numbers were reported the unreported list
would undoubtedly very greatly increase
the numbers killed.
James D. Rowan of the Treasury De-
partment informed Field and Kennel
that few days since he heard wild geese
honking and, looking up. he saw large
flock flying due north. Mr.. Rowan is
from Iowa should be familiar with their
fallible sign Of an early spring. man
from Iowa should be familiar with their
habits.
The settlers had everything their way at
the All-America trials held last week at
Rogers Springs. Tenn, none OF the six
pointers being placed. The al'-age stake
furnished what. is generally pronounced
the most sensational race OF the year be-
tween Sport Count Whitestone. handled
by w. III. Martin, and Momoney, the
great Llewellin, owned and handled by j.
NJ. Avent. The handling of the two dogs
was perfect and Sport forced Momoney to
do his best before the latter won the final
heat and race. In the Derby the consist
ent young Llewellin bitch. Naomi Jane,
by Free Lance ex Marse Ben's Julia. ran
two splendid heats and won hrS..sInoney-
Charley p, another Llewellin, ia aing sec
ond, and BabblebrOok Bob third. The
last-named dog ran at Laurel last year
and is one of the sensational Babble-
brook youngsters owned by Louis Nc
Grew. 1t was most successful meeting
in every way.
With the running of the national cham
pionship at Grand Junction. Tenn, begin
ming Monday, January %. the field
trials for. the season come to an end. This
is the great race Of the year ;-Ld tests
the qualities Of dog as no other race
does. Only dogs that have won a place
in recognized field trial are eligible to
start and the heats are of three hours
[N<.
manche Frank are the favorites. but Mel
rose Mohawk and Sport Count White
stone on present form should give good
accounts of themselves.
Harry Utz of East Washington counts
that Sunday as lost when he fails to
cross the Eastern branch with his good
pointer and work him on a few coveys.
Birds, migratory and insectivorous had
field day in the Senate last Tuesday,
when Senator Mclean of Connecticut
made an eloquent plea for federal pro-
lection of insectivorOus birds, claiming
that the government had power to do
this under the general welfare clause of
the Constitution, and intimated that 1t
might be done under the interstate COM
merce law. At the conclusion of Senator
McI.ean's speech Senator Root of New
York introduced resolution providing
for an international agreement for the
pTOlcCllOu VI otOIy AS tiliS
novel suggestion came from Mr.. Root,
there must, of course. be some principle
of law by which it can be effected. but
1t would be source Of great surprise to
many If the people Of the several states
should consent to relinquish the rights
they have so long exercised Of enacting
their own game laws, and delegate to
of Saskatchewan or Tim |
buctoo the power to fix seasons in which |
their citizens can shoot wild fowl which |
were mostly bred within our own Dor
ders. If neither the legislatures of the
states nor the Congress of the United |
States are competent to cope with the |
problem. it would prove very difficult
and delicate one for foreign diplomats
to NEEDLE with.
Authority for national supervision of
migratory birds might possibly be found |
in the post Office and post roads clause. |
There were formerly immense numbers
of carrier" pigeons and as they are
now out of commission their title might |
be transferred to other migratory species l
1t is claimed that less is known about /
the sora or ortolan that are found i'm |
such large numbers on the marshes OF /
the Potomac and other tributaries Of the /
bay in the fall than of any
other game bird in the world In fact, it |
was once a question whether it was a
bird an old superstition i'm the tidewater
frost came they turned to frogs and
burrowed in the mud until the next fall.
Many years ago Capt George III. Ven
able, then editor of the Petersburg, Va,
Index, wrote of this mysterious bird(D: /
1.-The sora is mysterious bird, and has
been at once the puzzle and opprobrium
of spOrtsmen and ornithologists. Nobody
knows where they come from. nobody
knows where they go to, and nobody
knows where they breed. They make
their appearance in immense numbers i'm
our tidewater marshes in September and
October. and remain until the first decided
frost, when they suddenly disappear"
There are plenty of sportsmen i'm this
city who have killed thousands of these
delicious little birds, and among them
there may be one who can give some ac-
count of them, their origin. habits and
abiding places after they leave here. The
writer once killed one on a prairie in
Oklahoma, but it was undoubtedly mi
grating, making short flights. What it
was doing so far from salt water. or any
kind of water. for that matter, is an
other mystery that is hard to solve. but
there it was. They certainly cannot mi
CRATE very far. for of all game birds they
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