The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1921, Page 7

BROADBILL AND BLACK DUCK APPEAR IN THOUSANDS A laine ascii chitin, Flight of-Geese at Shinnecock, and Even Brant, an Unheard Of Event for This Time of Year, Are Coming In. By Bozeman Bulger. IRE duck shooting season, which got a bad start ten days ago due to perfect bluebi weather and water as smooth as a lake, got news with a Kick in it last night and perked up. To-day hundreds of gunners are making their way down the coast of Long Island to be ready for a fresh at: shooting rig in commission have been er art. Every guide and every duck ngaged. ‘West cf Bay Shore and Fire Island they are praying for a southerly or southeast wind. East of there they are gambling on the breeze coming from the southwest. If it comes from t he north or northwest everybody's | out of juch. A duck, you know, has its vagaries—its temperament—and the geese and brant string along with it. The fresh excitement started with a luncheon of Yuck shooters in Up- per Fifih Avenue yesterday, and with th’ © news from the Biological Survey in Washington that we are about to have the biggest wild duck migration of the past ten years. ne of the party called up a hunt-¢@ ing club near Sayville. Vt e main purpose of killing broadbill. “Anything flying?” he asked. Then| These fast-flying birds come to the ‘his eyes grew large and his ears began|open water outfits by the hundreds. to wiggle. ie “Yes, I know duck: and broadbill? *em’’—— he was heard to say. “Lis- ten, fellows.” He turned. “One min- te,” he said back to the phone. “Fel- | he lows, a big flight of geese is on at ba Shinnecock and strings of brant—yes, | 4, he broadbill feeds in deep water, ; while the black duck is only a tipper -thousands? Black)and has to feed in water less than yes, full of|two feet deep. He cannot diye, only eding as deep as he can reach by upping over and stretching his neck. | On the eelgrass flats black duck have en seen b: st few days. Brant often come to the batteries. ready dozens of them have been the thousands in ‘the ‘brant—are coming through the inlets; {jilled, The brant is popularly be- at Fire Island!" lieved to be a cross between a goose Everybody jumped up from the ta-|@nd a duck because of his extraor- ble. For the uninitiated it might be! ¢ nary size and appearance—his | points of resemblance to both. This | said that brant at this time of year|{s not true, but it's always good for | is an almost unheard of event, Usu- |@iscussion. ally the brant filght begins in De-|,, The wild goose occastonally comes | a battery, but more often drops in| cember, Also it ts rare for geese to! on the point shooters, because he, the arrive this far south in big numbers | oose, also is a shallow-water feeder. for a rfionth yet. of The best point shooting is had west Fire Island, all the way to Long There is some kind, of telepathy be-| Beach. Off Amityville and Seaford tween duck shooters like what is| th ere are twenty-n'r4 small marsh called “moccasin telepathy” among! ‘slands. | This i: .atural feeding ground for the bla.« duck and that's the Northern Indians. In two hours| where the gunners are going for him evi ry eal gunner in New York—there | th are hundreds of them—had he: broadbill and brant shooting in that | pard the| section of the Great South Bay, but | not enough to brag about until very news. Sporting stores were besieged | »c is morning. There is also some with orders for ammunition. This| cold weather sets in. morning the migration of gunners to Long Island had begun. Some went last night for to-day’s shooting, but the wind and the water was calm, For to. at yey as jorrow, though, there is hope. | Of his comes as a great balm to the| sore hearts of the opening day. Doz- | Sayv. Good battery shooting can be had a dozen places below Amityville, en to the tip of the island. A very popular port for the embarkation of ere out of luck, ‘There was no| battery shooters is Babylon, Equally popular is Bay Shore, Then comes | le, Blue Point, Patchogue and| hers. Shinnecock Bay is generally re- ens of Nimrods swore that day they | £a"™ed as best for gecse, though Cen- | would never go out again for the first day's shooting. It was almost a sum- mer's day and the ducks would not! fly, en if they had got a move on there would have been little doing. Every possible point, every battery and even the salt meadows were crowded with noviees. All night long, ar se: prior to the opening and in violation of all ing ethics as well as the | ip w, they banged way at something. | ca It may or may not have been ducks. | gy Tie next morning these as the guides call them, got disgusted tre and East Moriches have their boosters. Gunners who do not shoot regular- ly and who do not know the various | guides and their rigs are going to] have a tough time of it. So certain e the duck shooters of a great ason that the leading guides have been booked up for months in ad-| vance. Some of them have open days the middle of the week, but few | n be engaged for Saturdays or undays up to the end of January, | ty fools, which closes the season. The price of luck shooting has gone| and bexan tossing up clam shells and | up with other luxuies during the their ammunition | As a resnit the ducks were fright-| wi ed off their feeding grounds and] g} even place for man. Wardens gave these! living ated a poss hiding | ac boob shooters a merry chase. A few shooting at them—anything to waste | past year or two. Up until four years ago the average price for a guide ith his thatched skiff for point » and at that says he nes not do so well toward making a A guide who makes a business ot |f of them were caught and fined taking out battery shooters usua!ly| Now the novices have been cleaned | ha out and the aS @ sloop or power biat on whica eal gunners can get down | the gunners can sieep Hesides he has to business, With anything like a|to carry a complete rig of sink. box| favorable wind there should be some | and decoys anda he big bars of Mack duck and broadbil, | ty pick a ca per with a boat) k up the shot birds. Some of even brant and geese one. | them furnish food, but the rule is for While point shooting, that is, shoot- | the gunner to bring his cwn stuff and! ing from « thate and, is better for black duck, “bat- tery ed boat off some| the guides will cook 1 j projecting Dit of marsh land or Isl-| boat ole fan Bie 9B the For a double battery—one in which shooting appears to be the|two gunnera can lic—the average favorite with a majority of gunners.| charge now 1s $% a day. Some of A batter sink box wit tn the open water far from land and anchored, A "st hundred dec merely a long, black are anchored around this to make a geod showing to the | own gun and ammunition. thom, bette i | canvas wings placed | as $30, Feauieped)« RebRe mush Whatever they charge, !t is usually | I" of more than «| worth the money Of course, the gunner furnishes h pass flocks of ducks, The gunner | titled to all the birds Killed, even if jes down flat In the box and arises th to shoot when ducks drop their wings ind come into the decoys, There is uz quite a thrill in thet dropping of the is wings--that one tingling moment gu vorite wary. Batte e guide does some of the shooting. Counting on the possibility of an! cky week-end, © far as weather concerned, a number of New York | wing unners have booked dates and are | ty by the way going to Maryland for canvasback| While the black duck is the fa-| shooting at the openit g of the season bird, tt is rare that he is shot | next week. The shooting season on ittery. He is entirely too) the Chesapeake, under th S are rigged out for! Mi Federal grvatory Bird Law, begins } BY JO Kistic News boiiccx and Gossip Mike McTigue, the Trish middle Panama Joe Gans in a bout, will swap | | Manton of Denver fer twelre ro HN itl Brennam and Horboy Weller of Kamins punches with K. O, Jaffe, the le fight n the main go of twelve | Providence promoter, to clash in the main go of ; <x at tia Commonwanlth Club ot | ian muiide tee aecuicn et she Sia RI Harlem to-night Bud Dempsey | * © © Sor. 11 1 Dave Astey in the other twelve! Dare Shade of California will nook ap wit paun da Welch cf Philadeiphia at the National A, (to . night ey Uettle for elght rounde Boxing Com + eal inior a : Vshtweight title, will be +) Madison Square Hag : if ouh of Brook © Gs n Noy, 18 between Jonny Dundee and reagbay ; Geore Tex Rickanl is offering te Hermie x : 1 4 bout at a show to be Leld| Bobby Michaels meets Joe “Kid” Sullivan bg ten rounds at the Freeport porting Club Sf Long E, vd on Monday night and Harold Farese of po: 3 at, and Frank Berrian | Newark batties Al Ziemer of Cleveland for ten ie Hanae te mana | Mounds et Scranton, Pa., Nor, 10 a lee Non. Frank Carbone, the [alian middleweight, and Vhe Star Sporting Club of Harlem tas finally | Mike MeTigue, the Irish middleweigut, wil] ex teen granted @ license by the State Roxing Com-| change punches in a f round twut to be mission and Will stage a Laven Croe-Young Max-| gaged at the Pillyoury Gardous at New Orleans well tout at the on Nox. 26, ny (i ldman, monage: of Pete Herman, de- Joe Wegner himself is going to mupersise Jack hight, Moore has already jit his vame to ‘ OSE MURR SN AOA 8 wg. Goldman expects to eign fehen the chyo Man's: Salting to-day, and Jor hopes to get the “ popular Italian tn as good shape for this bout ccerts oie Lerune. Pete Hartley teas bean booked to battle Jimny | 040, Be was for the Junmy Wilde fight, two years THE EVENING WORLD SATURDAY, OOTOBER 28, 1921. GUNNERS | INVADE LONG ISLAND FO REDD BARRON ORGIA TECH: L: HALFBACK PENW 6 Sine OF MAMVARe OAT RAGE TRACK LAVERS DEAL Joov HARLAN SAR TAIN POLLBACK SEORGIA TECH. oP cameathy Semen te. once R DUCK SHOOTING SEASON “SHELLS” AS SEASON shes pale ee Three Choices Held at Pro- hibitive Odds, Which Pub- lic Must Take. the shape of hick would Interfere with| nothing did.| Smotion, but a bumping or} a bumping OF) iv University of Virginia's football engages Princeton to-day in the first these instit Tiger eleven won The Virginia squar players arrived accompanied by f they spent an hour 1g accustomed to their general surroundings of Kicking along signal drill occupied the visitors’ attention for vy being attempted. By Vincent reearar racing season ned to her, and tho, nded out again| usual, had all the better of it finan- {cially in the season's long battle over They will go into unblushing winners. the race winners. previous winners methods of the public might kill the sport field where almost igh the dope something ¢ wagering the | The public has nothi hooting was $4 a day, Now he[pire three winners were at odds on y of decoys, anything that! charges $6 or $ old running against an The se circumstances and § centr halves, much better than that of any Princet Sulely but here she was going a Oe aindea vevenabian| ld go that far. ade her a 3 to whether or not she wo The generous layers 1 to show they anything awa) Three to five Houper Stinaon Pate Giiror Cleaves nuct«r’ O'HEARN STARTS Sune, “AT QUARTER TO-DAY FOR OLD ELI TEAM it was, and It Emotion won the race un |much nourishment i James Butler's was served up as the as Emotion. He !s en- | R bineatens 1s the golden opportunity like mising one Licck 'Cecil Leitch Defeat Alexa Stirling * ThenIs Badly Beaten b y Jim Barne Open Champion Plays Recor! ade ae the Pioneer | weighty who has bested Champion | Sorting Club on the night of Nor. 16 ?-elham Club. eated Miss|t place and Miller Barnes, | tenth, titut re, went and 1 to pla casy course ‘for a distance of Barnes practica On one or two greens where this year, & 68 yesterday, PRINCETON ENTERS VIRGINIA BATTLE WITH FIRE IN EYE) Tigers Hope to Get Raven Day for Two Successive Foothall Defeats. ION. Ns ng he: it was secret. seton enters with its back to the wall, as two suc- cessive defeats in preliminary coupled with an unusually sev of injuries, has kept stock away below k the work of the Princeton varsity has been exception found necessary ep the men from going atal ond eleven from which Ro, recrult, his substitutes dup against the varsity nds, Meld and Scott; Kent and ‘Ta Griffin; quarter, Alford and’Smith; ‘The probable line-up follows: iyder; guards, Post CHOPIN'S. | ry BAairanrre ys 1 Schilling La) i < Centra: Lipscom’ sell Murphy Also Like #Tried in Brown University Game. NEW HAVEN, Conn |Charlie O'Hearn, last juarterback game for the greater part will start the game a the bowl to-day clied to use him b ury to George Reck uarter so started the game Point: Blair and Deaver and Diller, tackles juernsey, guards; LAndis, rich, left halfback ; buck; Mallory, fullback. Pmergon Qualle, who weeks wit fir ‘ough sign guard on a third 3 shifted to guard he took McKay's who has been a sub- of this team , halfbacks pack Haas > Ble Field tor Ro George Baker FORMER STUDENT GIVES LABORATORY \ Victor G. Bloede, Baltimore Chem. | Amboy: Frneat Krauss, ment—Was Friend of Founder. t@ Cooper Union ‘of a completely equipped Victor | in Palmer Stadium ore and ten, tions since 1898, by a score of 12 to 0. of the early gr which he entered aa a Cooper the viene carly students was this young graduate| Prof. Joseph W. Roe of the Depart currents and entered at| na pho-/in the American Enginee ng his living f His intense {ine Federated American Engin 8 intense | Societies in Washington, | Bi acted the attention of Peter | « for knowledge a evering efforts, of the founder and friendship began. the Tiger's foot- The Cooper team is practising atthe pool on 28d Street | ly coach | There | e ten candidates for the sophomores. | hes is the tempora for games with Columbia, New York shman and sophomore activitles » school tual > ad ' OPERA AND BAZAAR PLAN OF STUDENTS AT HUNTER COLLEGE) was erected varsity to Jacobs wrote orda and Miss Marion who has the | Dhe perils s injury, which t serious enough to prev im from playing If iny necessity for it fiussell Murphy wi!!! The Wneup will pr to the class pte FALL RIVER, yest bantama develop@d in this country York at the Garden, won may 44 around t ng left to do but give tackles Quaille, 2 Suggs's own sarda M centre Norris, quarterback MecHugh’s next the trip over the road by automobile, HALL OF FAME SITE OF BIG HALLOWE'EN “DUCKING PARTY” Sophomores and Freshmen in Unique Ceremony Monday Evening, An annual event at University Heights is the ducking of New Yor University freshmen by the sophomores at Hallowe'en in the Hall of Fame foun- tain, Tire freshmen appear in thelr pa- Jamas and submit to the process, the ‘king being supposed to Wash away gome of thelr fresh sins. The festivities begin at 8 o'clock Monday evening, ‘The James Stokes Foundatlor. lecture on the early history of America will be Dr. Austin B, Fletcher, The jnitial lec- ture was delivered last December by Darwin P, Kingsley. The will of the late James Stokes, an alumnus of New York University, provided for two lecture- ships, one on early American history to be called the Anson G. Phelps lecture- ship in honor of Mr. Stokes’s maternal grandfather, who was one of the found- ers of New York University, and the other to be called the James #tokes political lectutes was delivered Jast spring by Chief Justice Tate New York University Schoot of Com merce have formed the New Jersey As- soetation and hold regular weekly meetings. ‘The association wulzed with the following officers: Irving Mi- |nion, Newark, President; Dave Ros«in, Newark, Vice President; Daniel 1. & nowitz, Jersey City, Secretary; Samuel 8. Waile, Newark, ‘Treasurer. ‘The other Berkowitz, Ira Bressman, Israel Po- gash, Samuel Harrison, Dave Sliver, | Leonard Post, Sidney Roth, all of New- Sullivan, East Orange; jark; John: J \John Horn, Paterson; Irving Cohen | maxwill 8. Ramer, Isador Mersky, all of Passaic; H. Landy, Jersey City; Natnan | | R. Denemark,, Trenton; Daniel Uled- | | veaty, Woodridge; Joseph A. Jackty: ewark; Irving R. ey Samuel Chalet, Jet M. Rosenthal, Trento k An Intercollegiate alumni investi oldest college graduate. Mr. Reed/« *| brated hin ninety aity in 1843, his elas than ten years old. ment of Industrial Engineering of York University, has been sident of the lety of Indus' Ingineers. Ho will repr ring Cot ploetall 0 hese FINLEY TO ATTEND vito | DANTE MEMORIAL AT CITY COLLEGE Dr. John H. Finley, former President of the college and now Commisstoner of Education of the State of New Ydrk, will speak at the Dante celebration in team COM-) the Great Hall of City College, Tuesday. Prof. Charles F. Downer, President of rancaise, will preside. A 1 Alilance bust of Dante will be presented to ©. a society of Italian students, ret sing | oe | A variety players’ club has been or nized at C. CG. N, Y. by @ group of udents interested In vaudevill The club wi acting, }lege on Nov. 1%, in the gymnastaum, ‘|The programme will include varied of- Li] forings, from a jazz band to a one-act play. The players expect to appear out- grow, |alde of the college. Performances will iim look dig. | first be given in other colleges and fyi high schools in the city, Later thay inay appear on a regular Hroadway cireuit (Atay hot 4 |. James Flynn, ‘22, and Jas. D. Mayer, 24, represented ©, U.N. Y. at the Inter- oliegiate Disarmainent Conference at Princeton University os 8. At n meeting of the Atbletle Associa tion ‘Thursday., Milton Greenberg, ‘23 heer leader. orge K. Hinds, Prohibition candi- neh of the C. C. N. Y. evening ses sion. phe nd adventures of a three Darkest Africa’ wer. ear trip tn the college ‘Thursday Mercury, the’ co! just issued its first the inauguration of its forty-third year, r ue is rather more usual and contains two et tes, two es says and five DIMINUTIVE SOPH AT FORDHAM BEATS HUSKY FRESHMA Students to Present Play—Debating Team Will Meet Holy Cross 1 Pennsyly 4 ania of a Night,” will be performed Noy. 1 Fo: University Audito rum by the Fordham Dramatic Asso th- | 8, J. with Holy Cross and University” of members of last year's team are back. Judge Learned Hand will address the Game [op iting society before the fight but began. It \oo’s three rounds to lay the freshman naeless, COLUMBIA OPENS delivered Dec. 14 at the Town Hall by | preferen Lectureship on Politics. The first of the mak Thirty-one New Jersey students In | members are William Levey, Saniuel Passate; Harold Burke, Westfield; tc a, K er, Hi TO COOPER UNION | Perit! vant Oranges A. Lyons, Sack ~ hee | Polkowitz, Samuel Kelsey, all of Perth st Oranwe! ty; Benjainin ; H. Sasiow, New- tion completed a year ago gave Lo Lewin hora- | Benedict Reed, now Uying 1n Los A goles, the distinction of being America’s le- eventh birthday July ‘ was one | 11, He was graduated from New Yori duates of Cooper Union, | Univ \entered when the institution now celp- brating its ninetieth birthday was less K ent the society {lor CON, Y, by the Clreolo Dante Alighieri, open its activities by a reception and entertainment to the col- +awake throughout a discussion. for Major, is giving a ‘course of tures on accounting in the commerce iphitally described by Herbert Lang the Museum of Natural History ad magazine, nas ver. This macks STRAW VOTE FOR MAYOR MONDAY “Spectator” to Carry On Cane vass of Students and Faculty —Polls Open Evenings. The Columbia Spectator, Columbia's daily student newspaper, will come |}duct @ straw vote on the campus Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to see what the sentiment of the stue dents. is on the coming municipad elections. Booths witli be located im @ number of the university buildings, and the polis will be open both day and evening to allow students in the university extenston to indicate their . eee Varsity, the literary magazine, its initial appearance of the year to-day at the Columbia-Williams foot- ‘ball game. A number of new isp in the book Include several pai rotogravyre, the first of a seriés of interviews, with prominent "men on campus topics and a rebuttal to Irvin Cobb's recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, on * Younger Generation.” oe .Plans are under way for a great cutdour military spectacle on the Columbia Campus, Nev. 19, whem Marsha! Foch will receive an honor- ary degree. Arrangements stmilar to those made when Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani received degrees, are be- ing formulated. The degree will be presented to Marshal Foch at @ special university convocation. eee “Modern Journalism, Its Aims and Methods," will be the subject of an address by Frank I. Cobb, editor of The World, at the meeting of the Alumni Association of the Graduate Schools of Columbia University to be held at the Columbia University Club next Tuesday evening. Mr. Cobb's | address will follow a dinner of thé aesociation. oe “Its the men who go out for the extra-curricula activities at ollege who make the better students,” said Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Colum- bia College at a university assembly uring the week. He based his 81 ate ment or a recent investigation which Included statistics covering the work of more than 700 students. In pimere every case, he said, the scholarship of the student was materially in= reased by participation in athletics wr some other form of college activity. Faculty, alumni and students of the Columbia Law School have joined in. movement to make the library of the school unsurpassed. To further this the Columbia University Law Library Association ‘has been formed. Fred: erick C. Hicks, law librarian, was chosen President and Lawrence H. Schmehi of New York City, Secretary and Treasurer. Harold R. Median has been named alumni member of the Executive Committee. Dean Hariea F. Stone, who is at the head of the movement, stated: “Our library now ranks fourth in size among the great law libraries of the world, being sur- passed in this respect only by the law Itbraries of Congress, the Harvard Law School and the New York City Bar Association.” The library now hag a total of 96,581 volumes. During the past year 12,000 yolumes have been added to the collection. ae |STUDENTS TO VOTE ON CONTINUATION OF HONOR : SYSTEM Girls at Teachers’ College to Ex- press Their Choice—Activi- ties at Barnard. The French have more brains, more active working Intelligence thah any other race which I have ever fr contact,” sald Dean. Virginia. ile dersieeve in_an address to the Boia and Social Discussion Club of College. “Even in the peasant glass the inteleict does not lapse but is ‘i he are, however, less idealistic than Unglish and Americans, and, having an enemy across the river, wio has twise come over to do their harm, they t leas stock in vague internationalism. the Engi on the other hand, are much ¢ in temperament ‘than vither the French or Ourselves. Byen juring the war they felt less hatred oward the Germans. ‘The Graduate Club of Teachers’ Cole lege, to which all graduates and under- graduates who have had two Wayne of cctual teaching are eligible, t# haying an active season. Las Saturday they took a trip to Oyster Bay. To-day they have gone to Tarrytown, Every Tues- |new members. It wi ernment Mistakes | was held Wednesday. On Thuraday thi the dramatic organization was ‘or the sophomore day they serve tea to the members slaborate than | th® college, and Sunday night suppers Jare becoming a feature of thelr enver- (ainment. Pelee ‘ The ‘first assembly of the year at Teachers’ College was addressed Tues jay by Dean Russell, following which the various clubs of the institution ere pregented and described to also annom that the honor system of etudent gov- which bas been in effect at T. c ye years, would soon be re oted upon by the members of the cole cee. The alternative to tne honor sys~ em is the pupgrvigion gf proctor Barnard has ‘iad an active week of ocial events. The weekly college tea panish Club gave @ tire college body." to the freshmen yesterday, iy evening H @ we'en parties were ‘piven in two of So Miss Theresa Tromp, the young wo: an who had walked 3,000 miles Srom | Vactfle Coast alone’ and w @ by the rifle on her shou or and gun at her hip, has been enrolled it Columbla as candidate for the Doc- tor of Philosophy degree. Miss anest who. is a graduate of the University Washington, left. her home early spriug in order to arrive in the Sty 7 ook th time for the opening of the sd vss . . . The junior class of Teachers’ Collége earsing the play “The Blue to be presented the firat Nayember. 4 y