Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-27 | Page 10 | Backseat Driving

Heads Delegation I ' ' ' ' .;: W'Wy . at C N. Fehr . .. win attend - gain unf ir -, (Story In Bochseot column.) FRANK K.BAKER I . TCLtOKAM SPOUTt I0ITOIX InterYrwuntiirTduckunterT'willwat great . interest the reaction to this state's petition for a 60-day ; staggered season in 19)7 instead of a continuous 30-day season, which will be laid before the American Wildlife council at St. Louis next week by C N. Fehr of Salt Lake City, Earl Smoot of Provo, Claude Armstrong of Ogden and Lee Kay. A lot of conditions make the straight 30-day season unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. In the first place it is so short that the average hunter with the opportunity of hunting limited usually to the week-ends does not get much shooting. And if weather conditions cause the southern flight to be earlier or later than usual, the ducks may not be so plentiful during the open season as they would be dur-. dur-. lng part of a 60-day season. On the other side of the duck situation is the argument that ' the curtailed season was a conservation necessity, and the heavy ' week-end shooting for eight successive week-ends in contrast to four succesive Saturdays and Sundays will take a heavier toll n the wild fowl. And while this may be true to a certain extent, thoae In favor of the (0-day season can point out that In banning shooting at least half of each week the government would ' let birds got through which would bo killed during an unbroken un-broken season. And there Is no denying that th average i 1 n ' got Titer hnntlnr than he does during a brief-" soaaoa in which the public shooter does get out only two or three time compared to twice or throe timet that often for the private club member. American sportsmen are going after their duck hunt-tng hunt-tng problems in a big way and the Utah delegation will probably hear a great deal about the "Ducks Unlimited" program in which United States nimrods arc going into Canada in an attempt to help preserve the sport and finance the restoration and preservation of the last remaining, re-maining, most important duck breeding grounds in Al-beta, Al-beta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The bulk of the wild ducks hunted thoughout the v United States come from the aforementioned territory. . A nonprofit corporation has been chartered for the pur- pose at Washington and Ottawa, and it is proposed to raise several hundred thousand dollars annually among the wild fowl hunters during the next five years. The money t" is to be used in setting aside and placing under supervision : possibly a million acres of waterfowl refuges. . e e One of the most traveled men in baseball is William (Buddy) Lewis, catcher for Indianapolis in the American association, who has caught for 17 different teams in 12 different leagues in 1J years of professional baseballing. Lewis started in 1924, working for Vicksburg and Hattles- burg of the Cotton States league. In 182S, he played for Blythe- rille and Corinth In the Trl-State loop. The next year he deserted - the sun-baked diamonds of the southland for Blackwell, Okla., of th Southwestern league and Lincoln of the Western. He ' started the 1927 season playing for Laredo of the Texas Valley . loop and finished the year with Wichita Falls of the Texas league. After staying out of baseball in 1928, he got back Into the " game the following year with Springfield, Mo., of the Western association. The next year he moved again and divided his time between Augusta in the Sally league and Independence, Kan., in the Western association. e e Settling down for two years, Lewis spent the next two . seaaona with th Greensboro, N. C, club, which told hint to ; the St Louis Cardinals, with whom he stayed throughout the 1113 campaign. In 1134 bo was with the Rochester Inter-.. Inter-.. national loaguo clubs In 193S with the Boston Braves and With Montreal of the International league, and in 1939 he was again with the Boston National league club.