Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

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e q would go cunning. but it's so tire
, some,'' is what many sportsmen say when
asked to take trip TO the country to
shoot game.
and when they say that said John
t w. Hurley. ''they are getting old or
lazy"
> There's nothing tiresome about gun
/ ming if you know the game was the
} remark of John 4. Rupert. I've been
cunning for a number of years, but it
was not until last week that l learned
! how to spend ii day shooting game with
out getting played out"
Rupert and Frank Tibbctt went to
the lower end Of Prince Georges county
for a Thanksgiving outing. They had
, tried their luck in the upper end of the
county without meeting with success,
they stated. and one of the sportsmen
suggested that the birds had gone near
the Patuxent river where the ground was
not dry.
! They visited John Townsend, a mutual
friend, near the river, and started from
the house in Il farm cart. 1t was not I'M
til they had driven some distance that
ins their cunning from the cart.
1T beats tramping over the hills said
the heavyweight sportsman, land when we
finish the days sport we will feel like
enjoying supper.
The sportsmen remained in the cart
and drove from field to field, leaving tue
cart occasionally 10 shoot into flock
OF quail They were not after rabbits
they said. although they did kill enough
. Of them for supper.
shooting rom u cart was a novel eX-
. perience,' said Rupert, and when we
, returned To the house with forty-three
, birds we We're in condition to enjoy our
supper
Sergt. o. c. Ryan Of the fifth police
precinct me of the most enthusiastic
, gunners in the police department, had his
annual outing near Warrenton, Va, and
has returned. DR.. Frank McQuillan, Pri-
vate Jerome Hurst of the fifth precinct
and Private II. NJ Jet of the ninth pre-
, cinct accompanied him.
, The four gunners spent week with
residents of the vicinity of Warrenton.
had an enjoyable time. but did not XIII
, as much game as they had anticipated-
THE long dry spell made the gun
, ming SLOW commented Jett, and the
weather last winter did the birds and
!, ra bbits no good.
During the week the sportsmen killed
, seventy-three rabbits and fifteen birds.
And remarked member of the
l party, IF conditions had been normal
we would have killed more birds than
rabbits.
Lieut.. Charles H. Bremerman of the
fifth precinct, Private r. B. Steele Of
: the ninth precinct and William Jenkins
5 had an exciting experience while or
Burkes Station, Va, one day last week
Game is plentiful and shooting
good" was the message that induced
!, the sportsmen to go to the country
! to try their luck.
Nothing was said in the message
about big cut a railroad company
was making through the country near
the cunning grounds.
Put, remarked steele, lit did not
take us long to find the cut
Starting from the house in carriage,
the sportsmen soon encountered some
thing that frightened the animal draw
ing the vehicle; runaway followed,
and the trio found themselves III u
broken vehicle i'll the mud.
and when we got away, said one of
the trio, I've looked very much like
the laborers working in the cut
The gunners had fairly good luck.
Jerome Hurst and II. NJ. Jett wound
up their vacation with trip to Fair
fax county. Va. 1t was Thanksgiving
gunners who were out that day.
1.-The going was good" said Jett, land
rabbits were plentiful. but birds were
not much in evidence"
| Two dozen rabbits, three birds, one
possum and one squirrel were bagged
by the pair. On their way home a
turkey shoot" attracted their atten-
ton, they stopped and participated in
the contest and Jet won two turkeys
Enough for us to have something
heavy to carry home" remarked Jett.
Aqua creek, said by many sportsmen
to be one of the most attractive places
5 along the lower Potomac. was visited
by number of anglers ON the weekend
= outings.
t Some came home with strings OF
/ fish, said Mack Sparroush, and some
- came without them.
a And he added, Til confess that
$ was one of the unlucky ones.
d Sparrough and Will Wynkoop reached
e the fishing grounds on the early SUNDAY
morning train, but when the tide
: changed and conditions were right fol
: fishing they were away from their ac-
+" customed spot.
z Not far from them William H. Frey
d David Anderson and the latter's father
z occupied Il boat, and. said Sparrough
t they were in the right place. The three
o anglers landed string of twenty bass
II and pike, the largest bass weighing foul
n pounds and the pike averaging more
| than two pounds.
While the anglers were the river
a noise some distance off startled them
and they soon learned that the noise was
made by flock of something like 10(
J. ducks rising from the river when
: motor boat approached.
e But it was Sunday. remarked one OF
the sportsmen, land we could not shoot. >
a Detective Henry Pratt has returned
II from his annual cunning trip to kint
e George county, Virginia. Detective r. T.
u Weldon. who has taken part in sucf
trips during past years. unable &c
join his companion this season. Charles
BevanS and HeZekiah Potts residents O.
King George county, were members OF
a this years party. and Fl. T. Berry.
- friend of Weedon's killed wild goose.
&c And it was certainly fat one" sale
e Weldon. who had 1T for dinner the da!
s he received it.
If Birds We're plentiful in King George.
said Pratt. We managed to find sever