Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-02

planning that ono Of the eunnem be.
came excited when two rabbits appear-
| ed about the same time and shot noon
Jack.
For time. IT is stated. the identity
OF the slayer of the hunting dog was
questioned 1t was soon settled. how
not to divulge it,
Capt. kreamer said the fact that only
eleven rabbits were basged was'due to
! the killing of the dog. The captain
killed Sin quail.
J. A, Conrad and W. H. Gapb, mem
bers of Capt. Harrison's police COM
mand. the past week rsmepb ered their
trends in the precinct with a box Of ,
| three dozen rabbits
Ihey We're at Somerset Va" said!
Desk Sergt. Sylvester Murphy. "a secl
ton in which game is plentiful. af,df
where the size of the gamebag Is pulyY
question of the sportsmen's ability
to handle guns" Conrad and Garth.
participate in a trip to that section
every cunning season.
D4ck shooting on the wicoudco river
never was better than it was this week.,
according to reports from Rack PoinfJ
Rufus Day, who makes no Particular
claim to marksma nship. shot,. overVa
decoy and killed nineteen ducks.
MI, ~ so ua n Duianx. jr. Leroy + Beee-
the water at Rock Point. The weather
was too warm for decoyinR. howeyeE.
and they killed anly fifteen ducks. They
said the ducks were very plentiful
| Hugo Fritsch was at AQUA creek for
the week end. He has not missed many
week end trips this fall and has made
many splendid catches.
Not a strike,"'is what he told Charles
r. Holman when he reached shore and
gave up the sport for the day ~
Fritsch tried his luck on the open
in ha IL
not with him, however. ana Ne Wis
forced to return without fish.
J. NJ. Beall and w W. wheeler, tho
latter owning fine hunting dogs. wSre
n near Seat Pleasant. Nd, for days
They started ten rabbits and got
nine of them" said Charlie Batenan.
Rather good showing"
The sportsmen saw no quail.
Fred II. C;eyer and Douglass E. Wat
son were handicapped in the fishing
game the past season, each having
| been deprived of his fishing paraphsr-
MALTA. Geyer lost his outfit in Patux-
ont river at Benedict about the middle
of the seas son and only recently ii was
fshed from the river by an oyster
man and returned to its owner.
Watson was less fortunate. He had
his tackle in locker in the basement
of the apartment house in which he
| resided and il was stolen. TWO rods
were included in his outfit and they
have not been recovered.
Phil Arth. member of the-Chapayan-
sic Club, has been at Chapawanscssev-
eral times this season and killed a num-
Der of ducks. his last trip resulting in
his bagging fifteen mallards. He paid
a license tax of $40 for the privilege
of shooting
Game wardens are strictly on the
job about Chapa wanrsic,' said the
! sportsman. and the states interest in
! the profession of game has accomplish
ed wonders. 1t has resulted in in
creasing the game on the lower river"
In spite OF the efforts of game war
dens in nearby Virginia to try to en-
! force the game laws, it is stated. gun
ners We're in evidence on the watsr at
i Four Mile run last Sunday.
! They were banging away at ducks
at a lively rate" said sportsman who
| was on the river in a motor boat, and
| it seemed as if they bagged many
| ducks"
E. W. Boyle. member OF Inspector
GRANTS corps of detectives. and George
/ German have arranged a cunning trip
| on Wicomico early next week. They
that ducks We're plentiful but that the
warm weather haN interfered with the
sport. The .sunners. think they W.
have no troubae filling then ganeba3s
| if they encounter little cold or
| blustery weather.
| Detective James f. Armstrong and
| Ringgod Hart recently had day N
the country at Armstrong; former
home in Maryland. They had no good
dogs to aid tn h in flushing birds and
! ia bbits the w0o Their was bad and they
had poor luck.
Armstrong shot three quail His COM
panion refused to discuss the results OF
his efforts.
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