Identifier: rodguncan11cana (find matches)
Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n. and fishermen. The season approaches when thehunters, both mighty and small, gathertogether their kits and prepare for sportin the woods and bush. The true hunts- Boats equipped with Sterling engineshave secured some fine successes at re-cent regattas. At one held under theauspices of the Royal Hamilton YachtClub, at Hamilton, Ont.. in the middleof August the Expense a 27 foot speedboat, owned by Geo. B. Wood. Jr., andF. H. Sisson of Buffalo, won the firstplace and International Championship,averaging 20.96 miles per hour for thewhole length of the race. Earlier in thesame month the Mavis, owned by C. H.O. Pook, of the Royal Hamilton YachtClub, won firt place and the CanadianSpeed Championship at Cobourg Re-gatta. The Expense was equipped witha four cylinder 18-25 H. P. SterlingEngine, and the Mavis a six cylinder, 33H. P. Sterling Engine. A third successwas won by the Albatross, a 41 footcruising boat, owned by CommodoreJames Thompson, of the Stone Harbor ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 469
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Yacht Club, of Philadelphia, Pa. Thisboat equipped with a 30 H. P. semo-speed Sterling engine won the race forcruising- boats over the Ocean City YachtClubs course at Ocean City, N. J. Thesesuccesses testify to the excellent qualityof the engines. Ihe fall shooting season is now openin many places, and the hunters aresecuring some very fine trophies of bothbirds and animals. Some of the sports-men make a practice of sending theirtrophies to the Taxidermist to be mount-ed; a great many others, however, aredoing their own Taxidermy work. It isa fact that the hunter and trapper whomounts and preserves his own specimensprize them much more highly than those that are sent away to the professionalTaxidermist; in fact it doubles onesinterest in outdoor sports to be able todo his own Taxidermy work. For thepast ten years there has been a first classschool teaching Taxidermy by mail, andthousands of the leading sportsmen allover the country have joined this school,and they are very enthusiasti

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