Evening star., 1915-12-18

| fish in large yellow perch that were
taken from nets indicated that the fish
were running.
DAILY and a few friends were at the
clubhouse over night to prepare the
! feast. most of the guests going on a
morning train. Fishing and cunning
stories were told by the asse bled
guests. and at noon the party enjoyed
a fish fry, roast turkey and pig knuckle
dinner.
Among the guests were William
Keane, William A. Hettinger. Thomas
: Brooke. Lloyd Brooke, Russell Baker,
Schroth. Chat Towers, Frederick Bau-
mann. Frederick Brown, Joseph Mills
and Frederick Hartig.
mo wonder John w. Hurley and 9TH
er SportSmen come back without catch
ing any bass when the pothunters are
allowed free range to get them any
way they please" said F. P. Boushee
on his return from a trip to the vicin-
| ity of Weyerton.
| Being fond of the sport, Mr.. Boushee's
attention was attracted to a string of
gamesters carried by a passenger on a
Baltimore and Ohio train. The man
carrying the fish boarded the train at
Weverton and went to Hagerstown
1t was such an attractive string of
| fish. said Boushee, that the possessor
| of them was asked where he caught
| them and, much to the surprise of the
caught with hook and line, but with
dipnet.
And" said Boushee, "the fish would
have brought several dollars in any
market. There must have been twenty
of them. ranging from one to four
| pounds"
Gus Herrler last week enjoyed an
/ outing on his farm near Mathidg point
Va: where two weeks ago an accident
arf l.
depriving him of an opportunity to kill
game.
Gus enjoyed the sport of shooting
fifteen rabbits and a dozen squirrels,
he said. but the best of his sport was
when he went ducking.
The best time for duckins," he said,
rs early in the morning, when the
birds come about the shore to feed"
three mallards and, he stated, he prob
ably would have killed a large num-
Der had he gone to the blinds.
S. ]. Kubel, his son Robert, Robert
Otterback and Mr.. and Mrs oscar
outing on the farm of Guss Herrler.
Matthias point, shortly after Christmas
They will go to the farm opposite
Lower Cedar point three days after
Christmas, and remain one week
Mr.. Otterback and the two members
or the kubei family are enthusiasts
| with the gun, their friends say, and it
| is expected that they will kill a quan-
! tity Of game.
F. G. Stang sold his motor boat be-
fore the cold weather set in
And now l wish I hadn't" he re-
marked when he took his vacation last
week, and was unable to get boat in
| Unable to go fishing, Stang visited
some of his piscatorial friends and dis
cussed tips ne took earlier in the
season. He told of what great sport
| he had at Chappawamsic. the country
| place of DR.. Charles Barnwell Robin
| son. last season.
"Nhy." he said, Il fshed there one
| .,hy with dead minnow. the only bait
! i had, and caught ten white perch.'
"On one dead mnnow?" asked John
| w. Hurley, one of his listeners.
That's what" responded Stang, and
| bystanders. declare that Hurley had to
be resuscitated.
Herbert Bohnke ras not abandoned
cunning for the season. Early in the
season he killed many woodcock, rab-
| bits and quail on trips to Maryland.
and recently he shifted his sport across
| the river into Virginia.
II failed to find game very Plentiful"
he said, "but the few covies of birds
| put up seemed as If they had not been
disturbed by gunners..
| And" he hadded, L tailed to fnd
many rabbits"
He shot fourteen quail, one woodcock
| and three ra bbits.
Two members of the fire department
| have returned from cunning trips en-
joyed in nearby states. Lieut.. G. E.
Rowe of No. 20 engine company was
pne of them. He visited the Nomini.
| Va section and participated in the
sport with two cousins.
And" said friend. was fortunate
enough to get 12s quail. one of the
| most successful trips indulged in by
any of the sportsmen this season"
Other game was shot by the sports
| men.
| Lieut.. E. G. Decker of No. chemical
company was the other successful gun
cunning In west Virginia, not more
than sixty miles es;. from this lis, city. and
| squirrels. He also killed deer.
| James b, Bland and JulesNHenderson
went on a cunning trip in the neigh
borhood Of Newburg and Rock Point,