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Show MT1E1 GATHER TO SWAP STORIES Have Club Rooms in New York Where They Tell Their Yarns. Sportsmen, no matter what part ot the globe they hail from, now have a central place for the "swapping" of yarns. Quite naturally, the place is in New York, in the Winfiold building, at Fortieth street and Fifth avenue, and it is known as "Sportsman's Headquarters." The place is most appropriately named. It Is everything that the name implies. Hero the "big" and "little" game hunters gather and graphically describe haw the biggest got away, and the trap shooters lament on the one that cost championship champion-ship atter championship. The next time you visit New York go to the Sportsman's Headquarters. You can travel all over the world in a short time with men who have traveled and seen and done things, and you will remember re-member the incidents the remainder ol your days. Wo listened to several sportsmen tell about hunting big game in Africa and to some others about tracking down brown bear in Alaska and to some others who had hunted grizzlies in British Columbia, Co-lumbia, and to others who took great delight de-light in tellini? of their experiences duck hunting and bagging smaller game nearer home, and they had just as much excite ment in their expedition as the non anu bear hunters had. And the fishermen have It all over the hunters in telling of catches. No one can describe things in detail as well as a true blue fisherman. He begins at the beginning and goes over everything Inch by inch. . The story of the trap shooter is not so long. As a rule the story of the day pigeon devotee binges on one target, and his storv is on that one target and soon told. But von know what one story brings, and they go on indefinitely. Dr W. H. Chase of Nome, Alaska, the president of the Farthest North Gun club, sent in word that he bad bagged tho largest brown bear ever brought down in Alaska. With a companion. Chase went bear hunting and soon came upon a group of four. One big fellow was i i a fine position and Chase fired. Tne loir went to his knees and then got up and rushed at a tree when ho tailed to see his enemies, lie tore down branches and raked splinters from the tree to give vent to his rage, and when he got this out of his system he caught sight of the hunters hunt-ers and made for them. Chase waited until the bear was fifteen yards from him and then fired, shooting the animal between the eyes, killing him instantly. The bear weighed 1800 pounds. The skin weighed 15ft pounds and the bead forty oounds. The skin unstretehed was thirteen feel in length, and. living, 1 tho bear stood 4 feet 6 inches. The fae from the cars lo the tip of the nose measured twenty-eight inches ' and straight eighteen inches. Frank Galbreath of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, came through with the Information that a party that he headed bagged twenty grizzly bears, some mountain moun-tain sheep and mose. .lack Leormont of Truro. N. K.. 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 personally seen 500 deer and moose in the vicinity of Truro this fall. Then we got nearer home p.nd discovered discov-ered that Fred A. Foshay of Carmel. X. V.. killed a white deer, one of the curiosities curi-osities of the Adirondack. The animal, a doe. is entirely white, with the exception excep-tion of a brown spot on the top of hfs head. Foshay retained the skin. This deer is evidently the one that the hunters about St. Regis Falls named the "i'tinn-tom "i'tinn-tom of the North Woods." Several hunters hunt-ers had shot the doe. but it remained for Foshay to bring home" the skin. |