Show NEW SPORT FOR COAST HUNTERS Wild Goat Hunting WillBe Will Vill WillBe Be Resumed Many to Seek New N cw Honors AVALON Santa Catalina Island Calif Sept 8 By 8 By The Associated Press Wild Press Wild goat hunting will be resumed on Santa Catalina Island this fall for the first time since 1906 On September 10 sportsmen again will have pursue increased the as wary their Island a numbers goats to t which h be be- between I tween and anti under an en en- en enforced enforced forced closed season of more than 20 years Tho The Catalina island goats are descendants of the Spanish goat first brought here by the explorers of the Don Juan Cabrillo and Sebastian Viz Viz- caino expedition in the sixteenth and seventeenth se centuries Historians re recount re- re recount recount count that thit the Spaniards stocked the channel islands San Clemente and Santa Catalina with goats to pro pro- provide provide vide against starvation t should navi navi- navigators navigators gators be shipwrecked on their rocky shores The sport of the Catalina goat hunt is the capture of the animal with the widest spread of horns Instead of f the numbers shot record still stand stand- standing standing ing Is that of Jim Gardner who in 1899 bagged a buck with a spread of I Inches |