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Show 1 Fishermen and Blunters Duek huuling has not been what was I expected. AS'hile thousands of ducks j are in the country., there is so mu;) open water that I he hunters cannot get at I hem, ami the i:esult is poor shooting. shoot-ing. Many members of duck clubs havo become disgusted ami aro now offering 'their guns' for. sale. If tho season does not improve before the close, there will be many abates of stock for .sale next spring. Larry Stopbens of Missoula, Monl.. has bona visiting .with .lobti S. Boa, the. Winchester man. aud, with tboir wives, fhev have hud a week's shoot on Ihe Bear river. Tho parly killed many ducks and reporled tho shooting o.lremely good for iho fine weather, which generally makes hunting potfr, Stephens is one of the crack shots in Molilalia, ami is welj known all over Ihe West, lie was also the fivsl man lo box with Stanley Kelehel and taughl Iho middleweight champion many trick? in the trade. Stephens being a clever boxer and alhlcte. "Uncle" .lohn Sliarp and hix 11-yoar-old grandson left, Saturday night for-the ( he'sapcako club. on. tho Bear river, to shoot ducks and to lisli. The boy will make, bis first af tempt, to shoot., using a 20-gauge. gun. Sharp wiH lish for black bass, which are said lo a.houiii! "in all the lakes and sloughs near the club. V t According lo Wallace- Brnnsford, hunting ducks on the Kudv sloughs is a pleasure. The water has "boon backed up to within a few yards of Ihe clubhouse. club-house. Kae.h member of the club has a boal, and When rtie members go out to Ihe blinds in the morning a horse is used lo pull out Iho boats, they being be-ing n( Inched lo each other, sometimes fifteen or twenty in a line. The luuitC ors drop off at the blinds selected for tho shooting aud at noon the horse is used again to bring home the hunters. hunt-ers. "Fat" Sebnler is responsible for the new "Pullman palace team." Dr. George Wcilor and John Groo of this eitv are back home, after spending spend-ing a week, with (ieorgo Gardner of the Pines, in hunting for deer In the vegiou of the Fines, which is in the northern part of Sanpete county. The doctor and Groo'ref urnad Saturday Satur-day night, bringing with thein two deer, each weighing about 175 pounds. Ur. Weiler brought down one of the deer and Groo the oilier. The doctor and Groo both say that game is se:jrce in tho neighborhood of the Pines and that Ihe door wero hard to get. They saw three .bears, but failed fo bring down one. The partv mado Ihe trip .to the Pines over the Denver X: Kio Grande railway. rail-way. From there I bey look tin outfit by wagon to the sceno of tho hunt. Exciting Rugby Contest. BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. G. Tho University Uni-versity of California defeated the University Uni-versity of Nevada today in one of the most exciting rugby games played on California fields this season bV the score of 2(5 to S. A ; protest on tho part of Nevada may lead to tho changing of this scoro to 10 to S. as Nevada, under a misconception of tho rules, ceased playing -when the pislol -was fired and pcrmiitod California to make the Unal try without opposition. "The first score was nlado by California Califor-nia after a long passing rush. Nevada rushed the California plnyers off their feet at the beginning of tho second half und the local collegians were outplayed. At times it looked as if tho visitors would win. but Califronia inaugurated several pressing rushes near the ond of tho game that turucd the tido of victory in their favor. Closo Game. LAFAYETTE. Ind., Nov. G. Wabash defeated Purdue today, IS to 17. Iu the first half Wabash outplaj-cd Purdue. Pur-due. Three spectacular runs were made, two by Starbuck and ono by Hopkins. In one instance Starbuck caiight a forward for-ward pass and ran eighty-five yards for a touchdown. Soon after be made a dash around end and ran seventy yards for a score. Hopkins blocked an on-side kick, and picking tip (he ball ran sixty-five yards for a touchdown. Wolgast Gets Match. M1LWAUICKI3. Wis.. Nov. C Ad Wolgast Wol-gast hn.s been matched with Henri Plot, the Parisian, before the West Side Athletic Ath-letic club of New Orleans. The bout, scheduled for fifteen rounds, will he held November II. The weight will be 133 pounds ringside. Championship Game. , COLUMBUS. O., Nov. G. Case School of Applied Science of Cleveland, Ohio, today put themselves in line for the football championship of Ohio by defeating de-feating tho Ohio State university 11 to .'1. |