Show SPORTS AFIELD By Ted Keating Kesling Heres Here's good news for bin bini hunters The partridge after many long ong and In Ing experiments tow now suddenly looms as a great white hope over ovet Immense stretches of ot ou out our western land much Is worthless for tot everything ex except except hunting There Is even a mild hope that h he hp may eventually ally come through In tn a gooc good part rt of the United States and southern Canada according to outdoor writer Byron Dalrym Dalrymple le The chu ar was first Introduced Intro Intro- introduced In California in do n the late then Oregon tried them Washington Nevada Nebraska and North Dakota came In with some success The eastern states heard icard bf of these eX experiments and they started raising liaising Before long practically every state In the Union was working with the bird But early hopes and successes were swiftly dashed The chu chu- kar began vanishing about as fast last as liS game men could raise and stock him Outdoor writers began to clamor for an end to such nonsense as rals rals- Ing ng It was a foolish waste of funds And then when new hunting books were mentioning the with little more than thana a line dine saying it had tailed Jailed mis and arid expensively a most embarrassing thing happened The did an face about and put everyone on a hot spot Washington woke up one fineday fine fineday fineday day to discover that she had bad an estimated several hundred t thousand housand living In rug rug- ged jed back country back country canyons and increasIng crazily In Nye county coun ty Nevada which I probably has the largest population of any comparable area In n the country today the Ithe state game commission was able to trap for far replanting over a thousand birds bids from a single rugged canyon can can- yon In parts of the West the thin vanished birds were back In force Nobody knew Just why or how but there they were Other states have bave also been do doing doing 1 ing a double take i What That appears to be happening is that a new race of American has slowly b ben been en building build ing itself up in the West a race forged In the hard had going of a anew anew anew new I land Jand an l which all but did In s s stocked ancestors This seems especially evident when c current stocking methods are considered Pen reared Pen reared stock E. E lill 11 used to some extent exten t is not er very successful in planting But when the native birds are trapped and transplanted they do fine I The is now being talked of In to so many sports sports- t circles as possibly being ole uie savior of deteriorating wing shooting hootIng Game men wont won't go far but they are mighty nappy and quietly optimistic the same sac |