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Show GROUSE rapped; King George Bags 102 Birds In a Single Drive LONDON. Oct. 2. King George IH13 l. r?U' 'I iio l.l.i ,iii-iwus iviuiua as a shot on the moors Tor thr.fi and a half days on the Moy Hall moors there fell to hi .run 4.7 brat e of grouso . In a single- dric his ta ij sty had 1 02 blrda Thr- sport enjoyed by the kinp and his guests at Balmoral, according to the correspondent who sends this news to London, Is of a very different differ-ent order from that found at Windsor Wind-sor by an earlier inonarcb In 1 T L I when George I the king of that day, went shoiUinp in Windsor park his bag totalled five pheasajits and one partridge. Seven years earlier Georgi I. after r-n.loylng a run vlth the hounds, is reported to have "walked about tbrro miles with his fowling, piece., killing several brace of partridge part-ridge flying." "Which proves," writes an o! 1 sportsman, "how vastly Ideas of what constitutes sport differ with different differ-ent generations of sportsmen The ma.1 l.v Ccorgo V at Moy Ha. I pr.i-.cs him to be an excellent -win.; shot, and nobody can doubt that In all res,-.-' ts he Is a thorough sportsman sports-man And ret there are men living today and there am not a tew Americans among them. I think, to whom tho picture of Kln: iori,-c I .,ilklnr through Windsor park car-rytnp- and loadlrp his own gun and shooting at such birds as came his Will appeal far more strongly than that of King George V. stationed behind a screen far more strnnglv than that of King George V, stationed behind a screen of some sort so that the birds cannot see him. with somebody some-body close at hand to load his gun for him. and a lot of gamekeepers doing do-ing their beat to make tho birds fly towards him so that ho can "ba?" them with a minimum of exertion. Out west, even now-a-days. bringing down 102 birds In one drive und. r such conditions would hardly bo regarded re-garded as sport at all. Some western west-ern sportsmen might even call 11 slaughter. King Qeorga I at least the birds be bagged u ponin-chance ponin-chance for their lives. So did .v.-rtiman who shot grouse or pheasants pheas-ants in those old days." |