The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-08
League Of Mary
land Sportsmen

Ocean City, Md, June 3-The
League of Maryland Sportsmen open
ed their third annual meeting Satur-
day evening, 1900 O'Clock, in the
Ball Room of the George Washing
ton Hotel with four hundred mem
bers and guests present at a typical
Eastern Shore banquet, plenty of
good food and service.
MIR. P. H. Cavanaugh, master OF
ceremonies for the six Eastern Shore
Clubs sponsoring the meeting, intro
duced Mr.. Glen L. Martin, the presi-
dent, who spoke on the growth of the
club. It is now composed of 40 affil-
lated clubs numbering over 5000
members, all legislation sponsored
by the Club being favorably passed
at Annapolis, the work of Ducks I'm
limited and the U. S. Fish and Wild
life. Following Mr.. Martins talk
was group singing, piano selections
by Mr.. Hammill; address by the Rev.
H. r. McDade; selections by Mills
Quartet, half-hour of magic by VIM.
M. Baxter, awarding of door prizes
and the main prize. BY the way, dele
gate Hawley of Rising Sun, won one
of the door prizes. 1t was in a bottle,
but you couldn't drink it. 1t was
shampoo.
After the banquet, the Resolutions
Committee, composed of Chairman
]. Hammond Brown, President OF the
Outdoor Writers of America, Md.
Fish & Came Protection Association;
Charles Keller, Miltondale Gun CLUB;
A. Lee Amoss, Anne Arundel Fish &
Game; Guy Kidmel, Hagerstown;
John Cochran, Md. Fish & Game;
Charlton Poist, Rising Sun Sports
mems Club, met and favorably pass
ed on the following resolutions
which are briefly described: %
Calling for a redistribution of shot
gun shells by the War Production
Board. There are two million in the
warehouses and material allocated
for the manufacture of another
million. (2) Calling for support OF
the Karl Mundt Bill, House Resolu-
ton SIG. This would give tie U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service the right
to sit in on all meetings for the pro-
posed building of dams and inundat-
ing lands. 90 Since Maryland,
through it's Game Commission, will
not send an official representative
and being the only state of the AZ
not to do so, to the international
meeting in Chicago on the question
of ducking regulations for 1945, that
the League send representative to
present to the U. S. Fish & Wildl1fe
Service these following resolutions
passed by the clubs: (a) LengtEen-
ing the season to ninety days. CD
Supervised area feeding. (c) A limit
ed number of live decoys for hunting
marsh ducks. "a That the League
cooperate with the All Clubs of the
University of Maryland in the educa-
ton and conservation of wildlife.
Today the delegates assembled on
the roof, elected officers, regional Oh
rectors and passed the above resolu-
lions. President MARTIN gave a brief
talk on the soundness of the League
organization and some of the future
projects in further building the
club. Executive Director Wallace Ia
Dor gave a brief resume of the &C
complished work against pollution,
the passage of the Black Bass Bill,
the diverting of the Conowingo Dam
funds into the proper hands for the
restocking of same. The $4,000 fund
each year had been going into the
hands of the Tidewater Fisheries. II
is now divided. The Rising Sun Club
has long fought tkis and now hopes
to see $4,000 worth of black bass
dumped into the Conowingo Lake
each year. Not minnow gudgeons
hulIt large black bass,