Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-29
TRAP AND FIELD
BY PETER P. CARNEY

BY PETER p. CARNEY
editor National Sports SyndicateD
Sportsmen-no matter what part
of the globe they hail from-now
a central place for the swap
ping" of yarns.
Quite naturally the place is IN New
York. We discovered 1t last week in
the Winfield Building at Fortieth
street and Fifth avenue and IL is
known as "Sportsman's Headquar-
ters." We totted the name down in
our notebook and intend to visit the
place quite often.
The place is most appropriately
named. 1t Is everything that the
name implies. Here the big and
little" game hunters gather and
graphically describe their hunts; the
fishermen even more graphically de-
scribe how the biggest got away and
the trapshooters lament on the one
that got away and cost championship
after championship. So II goes all
the way down the list OF outdoor
sports-sports that real men and
women are interested In.
The next time you visit New York
give the Sportsman's Headquarters
the double 90. You will enjoy II as
much as we did. You can travel all
yer the world in a short time with
men who have travelled and seen and
done things. and you will remember
the incidents the remainder of your
days. It's an education to listen to
people who have done things that
we would like to do and haven't the
time nor the w~herewithal to do It
with.
We listened to several sportsmen
tell about hunting big game in Africa
and to some others about tracking
brown bear in Alaska and to some
others who had hunted grizzlies in
British Columbia and to others who
took great delight in telling their ex-
periences duck hunting and bagging
smaller game nearer home; and they
had just as much excitement In their
expedition as the lion and bear hunt
ers. The fishermen ave 1t all over
the hunters In telling Of catches. No
one can describe things in detail ds
well as a true blue fisherman. He
begins at the beginning and goes
owe everything inch by inch.
The story Of the trapshooters isn't
so long. AS a rule the story of the
clay pigeon devotee hinges on one
target and his story Is ON that one
target-and soon told. But you know
what ono story brings, and they go
on Indefinitely.
A Regular Bear Story
For the fellow who is Interested in
the great outdoors, like we are, 1t Is
q wonderful spot. 1t will prove a
place for the gathering of much in
formation that will interest the
sportsmen OF the world. through tho
interesting columns you are now
perusing. Some of the interesting
things that came to our ears we
will tell in our own way in this story
and others will come along as the
snow falls, for we are writing in a
city thai much snow falls.
DIR. w. Il. Chase, of Nome, Alaska.
the president of the Farthest North
Gun Club, sent in word that he had
bagged the largest brown bear ever
brought down in Alaska. With a
companion Chase won't bear hunting,
soon they came upon a group of
four. One big fellow was in a fine
position and Chase fired. breaking
-four ribs and tearing away a lung.
The pear went to his knees, got up
and rushed a tree when he failed to
see his enemies. He tore down
branches and raked splinters from
the tree to give ven to his rage. AS
he got this out of his system he
caught sight of the hunters and made
for them.
Chase waited until the bear was
within fifteen yards and then fired,
shooting the animal between the
eyes, killing him instantly. The bear
fell between a tree and q huge boul-
der and 1t took two days to cut him
so that the skin could be removed.
The bear weighed 1900 pounds. The
skin weighed $50 pounds and the
head 40 pounds. The skin unstretch-
ed was over 10 feet in length and
living the bear stood 4 feet, 8 inches.
The lace from the ears to the tip Of
the nose measured % inches and
straight cross IS inches.
A real bear, We'll say
Plenty of Game I'm Canada
Frank Galbrenth, Of Telegraph
Creek, British Columbia, came
through with the Information that a
party that he headed bagged twenty
grizzly bears. some mountain sheep
and oos
Jack Learmont, Of Truro. N. s.,
caused word to be brought into the
meeting that Nova Scotia hasn't been
scratched as yet in the hunting OF
game. He said that he had seen 500
deer and moose In the vicinity of
Truro this fall. With this declara-
ton Learmont should get a number
OF visitors o
Then we got nearer home and dis
covered that Fred A. Foshay, of Car
mel. N. Y, killed a white deer, one
Of the curiOsities of the ACKNOWLEDGES
The animal, a doe, is entirely white
with tho exception of a brown spot
on the ton of his head. Foshay re-
tanned the skin. This deer is evident
Iv the one that the hunters about st.
Regis Falls named 'The Phantom Of
he North Woods" Several hunters
had shot the doe but it remained for
Foshay to bring home the skin.