Evening star., 1914-11-14

r. SODoTtk ou0 JAuneh AlaIk
were invited on a Notwithstanding trip
to Q nursery in q nearby state. They ac-.
cepted tho invitation and made the
journey Tuesday afternoon.
toid "a Of IT the s lmmen.e s amount Of damas.
that rabbits had done. and the owner.
was anxious to reduce the number Of,
them. It was 2 case OF reducing the
his shrubbery.. he said. and he pre-
fsrred to get rid Of the rabbits.
The two guests managed to XII
tempy 70 Kin any Birds hheS 0'e not
''The nearby country has been pretty
well combed by gunners.' said one
OF the more enthusiastic OF the local
Almost every man and boy who
owns gun," he added. has been gun
ming this season, and rabbits and birds
other month"
II is reported that party Of gun
ners, with a pack Of twenty-eigIs
between the District line and a point
some distance beyond Berwyn one day
this week. They got only five rabbits.
ut may be that the dry weather Will
Sportsman sport M n ds''' esiS. 70 Inc game ''e
A number OF anglers who were at
that the s Clear . water s made fishing p poor.
They enjoyed oyster roasts, however.
and spent some time looeing at the
large numbers Of ducks on the river.
river resort" said one Of the sports
fishing tackle"
/, J Many ID. ducks ,,,nS and much m upland gam.
Rock point this week. Among the re-
cent visitors there were F. 3. Duryes,
New York city; .. J. Murphy. w; D.
bert. William Shields. John K. Heyl,
Charles w. King, jr., and W. H. Par
sons.
R. T. Doyle. jr., and Fl. J. Doyle tried
their luck at Dickersons, Nd. last Sun
day. They went to Capt. George Wal
ter's place at the mouth OF the Nonocacy.
where r. K. Doyle, ST., on his FIRST fish-
"You know it was big one" said the
alder Doyle. when It furnished a dinner
for six"
The boys did as well as their father
pound fish, That was only ons of sew
eral hsh the brothers caught.
Milton e. Allies and George Vass went
to the Monocacy on a weekend outing.
The water was exceptionally clear and
low. they reported. and the fsh refused
| to take their bait. 1t is thought the large
quantities Of small fish in the river pre-
vented them from making a good catch,
| Jim Crupper Dan Sullivan and Charlie
Mullen. members of the Greenleaf Fish
ing Club, made a run to Piscataway creek
Sunday morning and tried their luck for
hThe creek is filled with bass. yellow
perch and pike" said Mullen but high
| tide Is the time to catch them. We were
| not fortunate enough to get such a tide
Sunday and had to be satisfied with .
! The trio caueht seyen large hasa tvo
rockfish that weighed about two and one
half pounds apiece. and string Of ysl-
low perch.
A. J. sahdala en1oyed a days sport
on the river at Millville. W. Va, on n
weekend outing. landing fourteen
smali-mouth bass and managing to get
| most of them home alive.
'I had such good luck fishing" said
| the sportsman, that I accepted an In
vitation to stay over night and 90
cunning in the mountains. A forest
fire was started in the mountains that
bird to be found"
Sahdala expects to try his luck At
Milivi1Ie one day next week.
Fishing from the sea wall along Po-
tomac Park is furnishing splendid
sport to scores of anglers every night
Jesse Veihmeyer and Gus Kneessi are
among those who have experienced the
greatest luck at the night fishing.
II was on the wall one night this
week looking them over. said oiiver
Atlas, "and unfortunately did not have
my rod along"
| 'yeihmeyer and Kneessi had about az
many bass as they could carry. veih,
meyer had twenty-six and Kneessi had
twenty three"
Frank H. Finley and James La Fon-
| taine were near Clinton, Prince Georges
county. Nd. one ..,aar day this week as
"And." said Finley. Il never saw so
many birds on any other trip. We
hunted over q farm Of 500 acres. ran
across seven covies OF piros ana scareo
up scores of rabbits.
h was nothing UNUSUAL for the gun
ners to start three or four rabbits In q
| field.
to kill were fifteen birds and seven
rabbits"
Gus Brahler. A. w. Richards. Thomas
Brooke: Mr. Tryi,iman. Wi,iIna W Cart, Wissm InhSa
Warren Wright and Emil Brahler were
members of a cunning party that spent
two days In Maryland early this week.
The sportsmen are members OF she
ed the launch Beth r. and went as far
as Neabsco creek. about thfrty-fve
miles down the river, and had two en-
joyable days in the country.
Three dozen rabbits and more than
two dozen birds were killed. Gus
Brahler saw a wild turkey. his COM
panions reported. but nothing was said
about his having killed 1t.
W. p. Bowie and Harry Milstead
strolled through the woods from
fayetteville to Berwyn one afternoon
this week to get an idea OF the pros
Ia
Incidentally" said Bowie. I'VE took
along our guns and would have shot
abbits or birds had any come our
way. The only thing In the game line
that came our way was a woodcock
Bowie says he thinks the early gun
ners killed or most Of the game near
the District.
Charles r. Holman and Edward A.
Strachan were on the water at Aqua
creek last Sunday and good catches
Of bass and pike were made by them
The immense flock OF wild ducks were
more attractive than the fish, however,
but the law does not permit shooting
between sundown Saturday and sun
rise Monday morning, and the sports
men had to be satisfied with strings Of
6sh.
]. r. Sturgis. who made such q good
catch at Aqua creek two weeks ago,
was also on hand last Sunday. He
landed six large bass and number Of
smaller fish.
Ward Savage and John w Hurley