Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-08
SPORT CLUB To
MEET TONIGHT
Sportsman in Letter to News
Urges Big Attendance and
Tells Why

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city. A meeting for which is sched-
uled for tonight in the city council
chambers at the city hall:
Perth Amboy, June s, 1922.
Fellow Sportsmen:
There are a few things 1 would
like to call your attention to with
regards to starting of a Rod and
Gun Club" in this city. As l am IN
a position to come in contact with
many people OF our city and know
from experience that, when anything
new is started the first thing the
people who are somewhat interested
in whatever the cause may be, al
ways try to concoct some mysterious
story about those who take an in
to those they find are interested and
this is about the way they do 1t:
oh! the Perth Amboy Gun Club is
short of money and just want your
dollar, after thai they will have no
use for you, and then another one
will say: Oh! that is just a political
trick someone Is trying to get a lit
tie political prestige, l suppose they
are looking for a big job.
When the whole phase of the mat
ter is that the same persons who
call themselves red-blooded sports
men and want every one to think
the same about them. are so darn
lazy and tight and possess tissue
paper backbones or otherwise they
are too ignorant to wake up to the
fact that conditions in the rod, gum,
and food end of it has been so sad
ly neglected. that while some of us
sportsmen have been asleep, there
have been laws passed which give
the sportsmen a lower rating than
cattle. Some of u fellow sports
men have had their taste of this in
Justice, when on their trout fishing
trips, to the tune of twenty-five dol
lars and costs for t~respassing. while
the rest of us will come in for our
share of the killing this fall when the
game season arrives, unless We are
lucky enough to have some private
place to gun upon. Oh. its a won-
derfui condition of affairs when you
come to think about it, after paying
your good money every year to raise
this game and fish and then when
YOU get a chance to go for 1T you
find out there is a baited trap wait
ing for you if you happen to tres
pass. Now I wish that omeon
would explain to me the meaning Oh
true sportsmanship.
Does it mean to sleep and contin-
ually sleep, Or does it mean TO be
wide-awake and put your shoulder
to the wheel and not be a Stacker
because you are afraid that some
one will get a little prestige. Right
Is might, and when a fellow or EEL
lows are willing to give their money
ana time to a u that they love
and work truly and faithfully, they
will always win in spite OF every.
thing and maybe some day you VIII
feel quite cheap when o come IN
contact with true sportsmen, If they
ask you what you have one to neip
the cause in your district.
so fellow sportsmen come out to
u meeting tonight which will be
held in the council chamber. ana
show your colors because numbers
are what we need to put the thing
across. 1t will benefit you and yours
and give the coming generation a
chance to enjoy what you have been
robbed OF. So listen, fellow sports
men, who knows but what you
might be the one to put the para
mount thing across. Do you know
that one of our local sportsmen was
the man to start the ball arolling
which prevented the commercial
fishermen of Florida putting their
nets in the water during the spawn
ing season and since this unsports-
manlike trick has been stopped
there are millions of more nsh IN
those waters. Why not let us start
the ball arolling in this state by
banding together and light Tor laws
to be legislated that will take the
nets out of the waters of the Jer-
sey coast during the spawning sea-
son. 1t will give the fish a chance
to enter our inlets and bays so they
can spawn, that will make millions
of small fish to return in the fall
to the southern waters to mature
and then come back to these waters
to spawn during the spring months.
Do you really think 1t is fair and
Just for the commercial fishermen
to net up every fish that swims
along our Jersey coas when they
are full of spawn and place them
in cold storage by the Millions OF
pounds and then control the hsh
food of u state, boosting n
price of fish higher than the price
of meat and then in h spring or
the year clean out their cold storage
plants of a million dollars worth
fish, dumping them into some
swamp land t make room for the
next wholesale slaughter of hsh
with spawn, or do you think
that these conditions should be left
to exist so that after awhile a fried
fish dinner will cost you a dollar a
This is a vital thing and
be considered by the house
as well as the persons who love
TO fish and eat fish foods.
81 will admit that our bay is very
much polluted with oils and even
Il a fish did spawn in these waters
oil would prevent 1t from ma
but the inlets and bays along
BUR coast are not so polluted and
The fish could spawn in these waters
the nets were kept out of the
waters during the spring
of fish from the south, this
make it easy to catch a mess
IF fish and also lower the cost of
ish~ and stop the wholesale slaugh-
So come out, fellow sports
men. or anyone who may be inter-
because we want you and need
to help put the thing across,
md maybe you might have some
rood suggestions to make on an in
and proposition that you will give
10 and If so. we will be with you
q every 100 per cent. sportsmanl
'hould be. !
Flyers Win Game