Evening star., 1915-11-20

| Norman Pruitt probably was the hap
piest sportsman in this city last week.
| Hundreds of gunners had been in
Maryland and Virginia and killed rab-
bits, quail and ducks, and, while quail
shooting appeals to the crack shot, he
much prefers woodcock shooting. a
| sport that is looked upon as being out
| of the ordinary.
IT'S the greatest sport in the world
commented w. P. Bowie, "and when "a
| man can go out and get a half dozen
| birds in day he's having fine sport.
! But. he added, ''it requires a man
\ to be a good shot to get the choicest
birds in this section. There was a
| time when woodcock were fairly plen-
| tiful and when a real sportsman could
kill many of them, but such is not the
| case now.
And another thing to delay the
sport and interfere with it," he said,
was changing the shooting season
from summer until fall
Sportsman Pruitt was able to display
a bag of eighteen woodcock as re-
suit of an outing with Howard
Brooke, his son-in-law, on the farm
of William Jenkins, not far from ely
mont. The sportsmen also had num-
Der Of quail and rabbits.
They left here one afternoon and
motored to the home of their host,
| taking along the necessities for such
a trip, and early the next morning
host and guests were in quest of game
| Pruitt going in one direction to en-
| JOY woodcock shooting. while the
| others vent after rabbits and quail.
| A second day in the country was
| enjoyed. and the Washington sports
men returned home by way of White
| Plains, where they connected with the
I state road, reaching here early in the
| evening.
| And" commented Bowie, eighteen
| woodcock indicated the great sport
Pruitt had. 1t was something re-
| markable.''
Washington sportsmen who go gun
ming in nearby states probably do not
| stop to make inquiries as to the bag
| limit fixed by law in the several states.
| TOO little attention is paid to state
laws by Washingtonians." said a Wash
ington victim of a Maryland game
warden. 1T Is possible for gunner
to get along without trouble.
| And" he added. "it is highly prob
able that if he transgresses the law he
will know it when it is too late
Under the laws of Maryland. as pub
1ished in the farmers bulletin of the
| DepaStment of Agriculture, the bag limit
for quail is fifteen days, while the law
permits the killing of a dozen rabbits,
a dozen squirrels, six pheasants, three
English pheasants, twelve woodcock.
Twelve snipe and twenty-five doves. A
| local law in Calvert county limits the
killing to six rabbits and twelve quail.
| In North Carolina the bag limit va
ries from fifteen to twenty-five quail a
day, and in some counties the law per-
| mits the killing of only one wild
pheasant or turkey a day. In Virginia,
| it is stated. the chief danger of trouble
is in the shipment of game outside the
state, and trespassing on land is an
other danger.
| Game wardens are on duty in all the
states and, it is stated, very few of
them show nonresident violators of the
law any favor
| Charles G. Simons last week missed
great opportunity to make a kill
ing" He was scheduled to accompany
| Tom Brown and Dick Peed on bass
fishing trip to Catoctin, where members
| of the Sharp Shin Fishing Club go on
their annual outings, but something
happened at the last minute to cause
him to cancel his engagement
| 1t was not until his friends returned
with catch of fifty-one bass that he
realized what he had missed. He quick
ly arranged to go to Catoctin and make
an effort to get a string of the
Tom Brown, Who several years ago
cIes, has earned an enviable reputation
as a bass fisherman, and Dick Peed. who
laccompanied him, has many long strings
of the gamesters to his credit.
| II was a few days after the muddy
water disappeared from the river that
the two sportsmen went to Catoctin to
| try their luck. Dean Davis was on
| hand to welcome them and see to their
| wants. $3.50
mented one of their friends. Bait and
bass satisfied them, and they caught
the latter with the former"
Dick Peed led the game with a fsh
that weighed five pounds and eleven
ounces, Brown being close second
| with one that weighed considerably
more than four pounds MOST OF tne
Ash were alive when the anglers re-
turned. and Ward Savage was remem-
bered with the largest OF the catch
| q w weaver one of the successful
Southeast Washington sportsmen. has
enioyed a number of short cunning
trins since the season in the nearby
| states opened He has the reputation
| Of getting the game If there Is any to
| get and each time ne was IN the nelds
| +. TT. B. Swain and E. q. A. Gaffield
accompanied Weaver on trip to
| Ryan's farm and the three Sunners re-
| tnrned with nineteen birds, and a few
DAYS later Weaver and H. c. Leapley
went to the farm
eve didn't leave here until 2 o'clock
in the afternoon" said Leapley, 'and
when we returned shortly after dark
we had seventeen birds"
| ON a trip to the vicinity of Potomac
Mills. where he was a guest of H. r.
| Morris, he bagged forty birds and ten
! rabbits.
w. E. Dulin and John w. Hurley par
ticipated in a disastrous weekend trip
to Harpers Ferry. Con Murphy of the
| mountain town was their companion.
Hurley and Murphy fshed all day Sat-
urday and managed to get three fish.
| "Why they were so scarce" said Hur-
lev. 1--WE could not imagine. There was
| nothing the matter with the water and
the weather was all that could be de-
sired, but the fish were not there, and
when we retired we felt certain that
| luck. g.
"And then, too." he added. I'VE were
expecting Will Dulin to be our mascot"