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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1905)
THE SUNJJA.Y OREGOXIAX. PORTIiAXD, DECE3IBER 3, 1905. HUNTING DELECTABLE CHINESE PHEASANTS CRAFTINESS OF GAUDY BIRD KEEPS DOWN TO MINIMUM SPORTSMAN'S BAG IS IGURES of speech wherein our friend, J terrific slaughter for awhile until the j the rox, is used to symDonze cram- j enmas learned tne game, wnereupon ia ness and sleekness of manner must fall into the obsolete class. There is an animal abroad In Oregon that could play he shell game on the foxiest fox that cvrr jnvaded a henroost. I say animal, ause it is neither mineral nor vege table: to be more exact, it is a bird. To je xt t more exact. It 1s the Chinese pheas ar.t There is a base libel out against the .aracter of these birds from the Pigtail K ngdom which is going to be refuted JgV.t here and now. The slanderer is r j'hlng less than the last Legislative As sembly. This august assemblage of wjse men from grain fields and metropolis wrought out a law which forbids any one nter from slaughtaring. more than ten Z these birds in one day. It Is jh unfor-gAaok- refleciion on the bird. It carries wltli it the broad inference that the Chl- a man neHls protection from his enemy, Nimrod. Now and thou a man get the limit. Bat jf he will examine lite bag he will I'nd thry are mostly lions. It In Jn the Ina rooster that the greatest craftiness irn'ers, ami the wan who has two or three .f th?o beautifully plumaged birds J lights out, -The bird stoops and runs. talities became few and far between. Shooting this season has been good al though the hitting lias been nothing ex traordinary. On the first of October when the open season was inaugurated, half the population of the state turned out with every kind of a weapon from the latest hammerless to a ilintlock. Of course the Chinas were a Male .out of practice in the art of dodging lead skew ers and some of th hunters brought home the limit. Since then it has been a lucky man and a skillful one, who has secured more than two. tliree or half a dozun per hunt. The average is about two per hunt. Still, It is exciting sport and the -hunters like It. There is always the chance of a good bag. The hunting Is dene wick a good dog. To hunt without a keen nosed dog Is not to hunt at all. A China man will squat in the stubbie and allow a hunter to pas three feet away unlaws there la a dog. Even the best pointer -WW got fooled most of the time. The average Chinaman is so skilled in Ms principal vocation of saving his precious heed that when he discover a dog on the trail he at once The word runs is used but It is not In tense enough; for If a man were allowed to enter a China rooster in one of the great derbies, he would wia by 23 lengths against even such lights as Dan Patch and Lou Dillon. While the winter is pointing his first Impression of a red hot trail. Mr. Rooster id oftentimes male Ing his get-away. The birds know that the closest pattern gun is not much good at a hundred yards and as soon as he passes the danger nne up he gets and once on wing nothing short of a rifle ball could overtake him. Now and then, of course, he miscalculates or Is crim inally careless and the hunter scores one. The Chinaman has lately been a much hunted creature, since the reason closed December 1, and all the sportsmen were anxious ter a parting shot. JOHN Hors That Win Purges. StattMlcs of the season show 1ft than ICO' '-yearokLs have 'won upward of $3X0 and that K have won mure than VX Burgomaster leads with to Sis credit. Other winners of more than X20JGCO are Ormondale. Co.": Mohawk. C3; Perverse. J2M05; Tiptoe. 522.633. and Security. $3X150. Oaklawn. the high est priced 2-year-old sold durlng-the sea son., for whom August Belmont gave $30, CW. won only $I7X Piny Goir With Mem "Girls, play golf with the men if ye want to learn how to play. You don't learn golf right by playing with the other girls, because they don't know how to I play." Thls is the advice given by M las rauitne Mackay. the winsome Oakley girl who won the National golf women's cham pionship at the recent tourney at Morris town, according to an exchange. And her bright eye were proof positive that she has never lacked for men to swlnjr mashles beside her since the day j in 11 po.sfceseion has just cause to feel proud. It allows .that the birds lriwd to grt toj gay with him, not that they were the U Um.s of thir owh -stupidity. The pheasant industry in Oregon Is. car-. rld on by nature wherovur thore arc Babble fields. You chii scare up nn ooua si nal bird behind the City Park. The gr'utcst number, however, nre to be U und up the Willamette Valley, especial ly in the vicinity or Albany. There is something about Albany the birds soem to like -it's hard to say what. Noxt lo the dutk. It Is the favorite game of the Ore son huntsman. The pheasant is not a native of Oregon: a least, the Chinese variety Is not. A frw pairs of the birds were importod some ears ago and turned loose. They did not Jon ;n the general movomont for the re duction of the birth-rate, but pursued an rposfe course. It was not long before t v farmers coinplalned. The birds had -c'lee4 them, thoy said, of the problem c celling their wheat crops. The bird. It fpw is as fond of wheat as a pro m jnf x d brunette of watermelon and pos si r Then the Legislature lifted the law t.a had preloeled the birds. There was E tv. - ...ama , ;sasnsnsnsnsnnsF nsv? " " ., v.'-. .r ',nsnr -"isnsr - ' that more iHSr'tllHBIsKV ,flBl3 Tj tits' green, eight years ago. She never took a lessou in the game, yet sho defeated women, who have stpeat small fortunes to learn golf. "I think golf must be a sixth sense with me. I love it so." she said, "but I do thoroughly belief no woman can be come a proiicient playor without taking: enre of her honllh. Men arc better pluy ers than women, and I think the spirit of competition a woman feels in piaying with men is a grcSx aid In strengthoning her came. WRITKS OF INTENDED SCRAP Cnlirornian Tells; or Projected Jlcct- in or Dritt and Nolan. A Californian now In New York writes an interesting letter to Ms. homo town regarding a scrap between Brttt and Billy Xotan. which runs as follows: "Here's a funny one. Probably you have she made her first drive on a Nantucket . heard rumors, but thts fe the real dopo. .Noun got to town the other day. and In Interviews stated that he would not al low Xeltten to meet Britt again until soma old debts were pant He also stated that Gardner might get the next show, and also gave McGovern a chance. All tho New York papers had this sort of stuff. In. and when WilMe came down from Bwtton yesterday he was daffy. You know how nutty he gets. He saw Coff roth. and told him that as soon as ha i met Nolan he would hani; one on his cy that wouldn't come off. Coffroth bet ! that Willie wouldn't start, and that if ' he did bin number wouldn't bo hung tip. . Willi really bet the money and was ' waiting in the Metropoie whn I saw him. I Barney Oldneld. Corbet t. foffroth. Tuthill. Tim Hurst. Charley Mitchell. Willie Iw i is and Weeden wer there talking fight. ' Willie told mo on the quiet that he was -. going to plug Nolan, but not to tip it. I ' ' saw Nolan at the other end of tho bar. j He. jtwt earao Ih. spoke to a 3un man a minute ami walked out the side door. I j tohi Willie, ami as Nolan got to th i street, with Tim Hurst as a bodyguard. started to beat It up Broadway to the Cadillac to head Nolan off and' stick him. The whole bunch bnt it outsJde to watch the scrap, hnt Willie lout Nolan In the crowd of cabs ami people and then took up a position in front of the Cadillac waiting for the Butte man, "There's more jollying over the proposed . fight than anything I ever aff. Willie is daffy and there's goim; to bo a fight, sure: He missed Nolan last night, but it will come off. I think Willie is nutty to got home Ho's homemek. "Corfeett also wants to go out there n light, but might stick here, in hopes of getting James Bdwnrd for six rounds." Pay or Football Players. The football professional in KHgland is not a highly paid individual, according to American standards. The football as- r vjLw-r t mmSBmm 1 L.1 socfcttlon adopted a rule some time ago fixing the maximum salary at CO per week, and no player is allowed to re ceive more than $h6 during the year. 'Not much more than some baseball play-' ers receive for one month's service. Many nrst-ektss football players receive a beno nt match, but not until they have see' many years' service. Matched in London. Gcdfrey Thome, who recently returned front AmrraMH. and South Africa, and Jack Palmer, the South African hoavy walght champion. Have boon matched to bwc ! rawm before the1 leaden Na ttomd Sjiortlng Club for the International haavTH-eJeht title. Boxers in Vaudeville. Jim Moraa and Jnnez White. th Eng lish boxers, are now fHMng- engagements in Barfs vaudeville house. Joe Bowker is also with tho coraMnuthMi. raiH1!. it hw FAaB 4k ftmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmBmuBmKi