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

i" tHiS country the days have long
passed when great bags of game can be
legally killed. There are only three states
in which bag limits are not in force, and
In TWO or these this condition will soon
be remedied, while in the third (Rhode
lsianO there is no game to be killed.
The only place to burn powder in this
section Of the country is on the marshes
OF the Potomac and other tributaries of
chesapeake bay. where unlimited bags
OF ortolan. reedbrds and blackbirds can
be made by those who crave this kind
or sport. In days gone by, when game
was abundant and game wardens un-
known. enormous bags were. of course.
made In this country, but few records
were kept. On the great landed estates
OF Great Britain and the continent the
game records are as carefully kept as
the rent rolls. In fact, the rental value
OF many estates. particularly in Scot
land, depends largely on the game sup
ply. 1t has been estimated that every
grouse killed on leased moor costs a
pound sterling to the lessee. Game
butcher" is an unknown term over there,
and some astonishing feats are per-
formed. Probably the most remarkable
record ever made by a wing shot in one
DAYS shooting was that of Lord Wal
singham, who in 1888. when shooting over
S,SOV
shire. killed 1.070 grouse. He shot 100
times, and the birds were, Of course,
driven to him and his guns loaded and
handed to him. At Wemmergill, in
season. while at High Force, the adjoin-
Ing moor, over 5000 were bagged. In
1876 the Maharajah Duleep Singh bagged
$50 cartridges in one day, f>at possibly
more difficult than that of Lord Wal
singham.
In ireland Lord Ardilaun and party
bagged 2O5 woodcock in one day, and this
has been exceeded at Muckross near the
lakes of Killarney. 1t was here also that
212 Wilson snipe were killed in days
doubtedly held in this country. Some
years ago Mr.. Pringle, we'll known
sportsman of Charleston, S. c., was ac-
customed to do his shooting in the Bayou
Teche section of Louisiana. and for a
number of years he kept a record OF his
kills. During the twenty seasons that the
record was kept he killed a total of 80 OS7
sn1ps, his high season being 6.616 and his
largest bag in one day being 366 snipe.
In comparing Mr.. Pringles record with
foreign ones it must be borne in mind
that he was a sportsman in the American
sense OF the term, shooting over a brace
OF dogs, using one gun. and doing his
own loading. But for downright butch
the estate OF Count Karolyi. at To-Mey-
ger in Hungary, the count made a record
by killing coo hares in five hours shoot
ing, and 1oCOO partridges were killed by
two guns in ten days shooting, 1000 be-
ing killed in the first five days and 2, 500
In one day. Even these astonishing fig
ures were exceeded on the Bohemian
estates Of Prince Auersperg. where 1900
partridges were killed in single day.
These figures make the English record
Of 1871 cartridges killed in a day at
Halkham. the famous preserve of the
Earl Of Leicester. look small. But, after
all. the shooting of these hand-raised
barnyard birds can in no sense be COM
pared with a fair bag of our elusive
Bob Whites. Field and Kennel would
be glad to hear of record bags made in
this country when game was abundant
and it was no reprOach to make large
bags.
Tub Dickinson has issued a challenge to
run his dog Count against any dog in
Washington and offers to wager that
Count will find more birds than any other.
He stipulates that all quail flushed by a
dog are to be counted. but insists that
points are not to be taken into considera-
ton. Tub says Count is too busy finding
birds to waste his time stopping to point
them.
Howe Totten. John o. Evans and
Charles Watson have been named as a
committee of the Kennel Club to consider
and report on the expediency of holding
dog show in the spring. The last show
Melted a small profit to the club. Charles
Watson was named as a delegate to the
American Kennel Club meeting John. O.
Evans was elected president of the local
club.
Mr.. George L. Nicholson. superintendent
of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and
one of the most prominent citizens of
Washington, has addressed the following
letter to Field and Kennel. It speaks for
itself and sportsmen can accept either his
view of the occurrence or that taken in
these notes and Endorsed by the American
Field. The latter's remarks on the in
cident are too warm for reproduction
here. but Mr.. Nicholson can read them
at leisure. We do not think Mr.. Nichol-
son improves the matter any,
Washington, d. c., January H. 1913
Field and Kennel: In your notice in
Sundays issue you rather criticise a
sportsman for killing SO many wild tur
keys (4O) as mentioned. 1 wish to saw
that / had the privilege of visiting a GER
refer. and want to say that had he killed
100 wild turkeys he would not have en-
dangered the further turkey supply on
his preserve. l feel perfectly safe in
saying that in the preserve owned bv
this gentleman there were from 9O0 to
$50 wild turkeys. There was one block
of over thirty, and number from twelve
to eighteen. Very truly yours.
(Signed) G. L. NICHOLSON.
The Georgia game law limits a DAVIS
bag Of quail to twenty-five birds. A
short time back an Atlanta sportsman
made trip to Douglas. and on his re-
turn had Himself photographed sur
rounded by 165, which had fallen to