Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 108, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 29, 1926 Page: 11 of 65
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HUNTING SEASON FOR NORTH TEXAS TO OPEN WEDNESDAY
many hunting Expeditions Mrs. Corson’s Channel Feat Remarkable in Many Ways
PSPORISMEN "FOK TAS EKE SHE S EL, SECOND Woman CONQUEROR OF
TRUDIE IN LONG SWIM OBSTINATE CHANNEL COVERED
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chicken M the prizes sought, for these are all that may be hunted under net swim t M.cmirtn 19%
T-remuered week, in September comprise the banner period of 529=
the calendar for quite a few Wichita Falls sportsmen, who haven’t for- swim around Manhattan Island 1
gotten the days when prairie chicken hunting was good in this section a $35,000 purse.
of the state. Since this game has been speedily diminishing, a curtailed Dudley
open season is ta effect, limited to the first two weeks in September. Gertrude aded
The Bas Limit. 4-71
The bag limit for prairie chicken
to five in one day or ten for the
season. Despite the fact that chick-
en shooting grounds are far re-
moved from Wichita Falls and •
journey et several hundred miles
faces all those who would enjoy
: ert Me araT Micar ME sound a Jaeksonvine, ~. smira
mandis £r“ of this ““’"’ refused - sake handone S
” * **=: -st are
Monday mornlag In order to be on 5=2 Y----Ache .— hall I amount
hand for the first day’s shooting.
F While doves‘are not yet as scarce
as prairie chicken, this game also is
speedily becoming scarce, and each
2 season finds poorer hunttag in the
■ vicinity of Wichita Falls. In fact,
most of the dove hunters find it it-
ficult to bar the limit.
* Open Two Months.
[ The open season for dovee starts
I Sept. 1 and continues” for two
months, with a daily and weekly
I bag limit in force. Not more than
is doves may be killed in one day’s
I shooting nor more than 45 in one
I . Roe ELANAS
1 Oct. 1* and deer, Nov. 16
I A hunting license is not required
| for shooting in. one’s resident coun-
I ty, but all hunters must have H.
I censes to shoot in counties other
I than that of residence. These 11-
I senses may be obtained for $2 at
| sporting goods and hardware stores
I and from game wardens.
I brief outline of the Texas game
SECOND WOMAN CONQUEROR OF
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, in of the 1926 hunting season. Many hunting expeditions have t
planned for the first week of the season, with doves or prairie I.
e Wichita Falls’ gentry of
Wednesday, with the ush-
HISTORY-OF THE
HEAVYWEIGHTS
walos MARS the
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Corson against any woman swim-
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round at Jacksonville, Pla, Jan And to Bel
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and Manhattan Is-
not later than Oce
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Corson would swim the
to open nos-1 channel he was willing to risk that
iiten before the sound-ot the bell, amount on her. ,--------
The champion’s six seconds, *■• _______
eluding deck Dempsey, the Nonpar-mung COPES ON THEFT
eil. and the refree restored pence TUNA GUE UN 1
25.20294,... curious RAMPAGE IN WESTERN
while lasted but a right to the ... ------
jaw enlied off the atfir in the third. .
After the match Corbett was com- CHICAGO, Aus. *.=HittinEin
pared to Alexander with no more the .350 class. Punk, Oklahoma City
worlds to conquer. .... centerfielder, i further adding spice
The encounter was for $20,000 to the western League pennant
with a $10,000 stake and was wit- chase with some remarkable base
neased by 2,000 cash customers. tr-Be
The combatants fought out their *
IU feeling in the ring and st the
clone ebook hands, Mitchellapolo,
gizing for the insult to Corbett Md
paying tribute tn bin prowess.
teas ,DOY%As 22.-4672-M/Saazon. Ssnmray "A-mee
for waded up the bunch a mile east of Dover, tired but triumphant, for she
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B Pti afternoon, her time being 15 hours and 28 minutes. .
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Land to greet her with cheers for her feat in many ways was anre,
markable as Miss Ederle’s faster swim across the channel three
weeks ago.
“It was glorious! I’ve realised
my life ambition as a swimmer”
said Mrs. Corson to The Associated
Press a little later. "I didn’t lower
Miss Merle'*' time hat 1 swam the
channel and that’s enough, for me.
I take great pride in achieving the
ambition of all distance swimmers
and I'm proud for the sake of my
youngsters in New York and
, their mother has accomplished the
- task she set out to de.”
swimmer In the world," said the
proud husband.
de Against Her.
ALTUS BULLDOGS GET
READY FOR PRACTICE
Glowing in reflected glory at her
side stood her husband, Clemington
Corson who in a dory rowed near
his wits all across the channel, ree
fusing to alow any one else to take
times the finest girl and the heet
pinte sf hot chocolate, four lamps
of sugar and a few crackers. .
Mrs. Corson not only conquered
the channel but defeated two men
swimmers who left the French
shore before she did. The Egyptian,
Helmy, gave up the attempt to cross
after three and a half hours in the
water while the Englishman, Perks,
swam 14) hours before, he wae
farced to admit defeat.
wash from the big Amsterdam
steamer Ulysses, which was getting
so-dangerously near that the se-
companying motor boat was obliged
to sound its siren to warn her away.
bluntly that -the executive, board
can’t dictate te Me where ru take
my employment."
Farrington Flaunts Lewis
laws follows: . ____
You must Mt kill, catch, possess,
or ship. at any time during the yr.
antelope, mountain sheep, woodcock,
wood duck, egret or other plume
bird, non-game water-fowl, song,
bird, insectivorous bird, pheasant
turkey hen, doe deer of spotted
must not hunt from motor-
V Met salbent. airplane, er boat
under tow: and must not hunt at
night with any sort of light or lane
"tern.
You must not buy or sell (or bar-
ter) any game bird or animal ...
/ You may kill at any time, in any
numbers, English sparrows, rice-
i birds and blackbirds, buszarda,
| eeews, owls, hawks (except sparrow
1 1 hawks), woodpeckers “and rabbits.
% Also the following game:
open senson-not conflicting with
either state or federal laws: X 69.
I North zone, north and west ME
‘ a G. N and T. P. railroads running
from Laredo to San Antonio te AuA-
an to Longylew to Texarkana.
South" zone, south and east of L
MA G. N. and T. P. railroads running
from Laredo to San Antonio to Aus-
I tin to Longview to Texarkana.
I Wild bear, north and south zones,
■ Nov. 16 to Dec. *1.
I Much deer, north and south zones,
1 Nov. 16 to Dec. 11.
Mourning doves, north zone, Sep.
tember and October; couth sone,
■ November and December.
B Whitewing doves, both north and
■ mouth sones. August and September.
■ wild ducks of all kinds (except
■ wood ducks), geese, brant, snipe
■ gallinules and mudhens, north zone
I October 16 to January 81; south
” sone, Nov. 1 to Jan. 81. .
■ ' Prairie enickens, both north and
B south zones. Sept. 1 to Sept. 10. *
■ Quail and Mexican pheasants
M north sone, Nov. 1* to Jan. 1; south
I tone, Dec. 1 ta Jan, 16. .1-
■ wild roll (other than coot and
gallinules). Wild black-bellied plow: -
■Mr and solden-wins plover, and vel-
Rwbowlega September and Octoberr,
B ‘both north and south sones:
1 ** SAACONZ ^
1 Cay. June and July and October,
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■ ..eromiemneeent#
■ Ra: ^ wilec "itin"r %
I f "wha tanur "uniers. both nova
■ and mouth sones, Now/16 to Dee, 81.
■ wild turkey season closed until Nov.
■ is. 1930, In Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr.
■ 1 Willacy, Kennedy, Brooke, Kleberg.
■ “and Nueces count Ina.
■ Season closed five years on wood-
• fcock, wood duck, sandhill cranes,
B Lines or ground dove, wild pheasant.
■’ Bag Limit, 1
■ Dear, ens In a season.
Deer, two bucks In ons season.
■ Must have prongs. . . r
■ . Doves, 15 In any one day and not
I more than 45 in one week.
■ ‘ Ducks, snipe, plover, yellow-legs.
■ gallinule or mudhens, 25 in any one
any and not more than 50 in a week,
5 the daily and weekly limit counting
• ede tn brant, four In any one
■ day or 11 in any one week.
■ Prairie chicken or pinnated grouse
10 in any one day or 10 in an open
..--NRs
gin intensive training for the come
ing football season at the fair-
grounds Moaday. With Coach Adam
Esslinger in charge.
Captain Hyde, Jackson,. Grider.
Ewing, English, Russell, Johnson.
Rooker aad. Cowan are the letter
men around-whom Coach Esslinger
will try to build another fighting
Bulldog team. — „
Russell, Crane, Solloway, Ernest
Adams, Henry, Stroud, Campbell.
Black, Varnell, Martin, Sutherland,
Kelley and Ford are promising men
from last year’s squad, of the junior
high school, aad now material who
promise to make keen competition
for some of the older members.
The eight games schedule la-
clade five southern conference
games. Two dates remain open for
the Bulldogs. The present schedule
is M follows: 1
September 24, date open; October
1, Anadarko, there: October •.
Chiekasha, there: October 18, Mane
gum, heres October 22, Hobart, here;
October 39, Walters, here; Novem-
ber 1, Marlow, there: November 11,
Hollis, there; November 19, date
open: November 26, Lawton here.
The games with Mangum. Hobart
and Hollis are the only ones sehed-
uled with teams outside of the
southern conference.
__‘sack in each of eight
wanes boosted his season’s total,
Re the past week, to 44, with
both Gorman of Denver and Hughes
of Des Moines tied at •• as his near-
est challengers. Meanwhile, climb-
ins up among the first ten bats-
men. Funk lifted his10th triple, to
even the count with A. Smith of
Otherwise the contest for Indi-
vidual slugging honors was: feas
cured by general slumping among
the old regulars and the climb of
newcomers.
Two circuit drives ran the string
of Sturdy of Tulsa to 43. with
Blakesley rating his nearest rival
by virtue of a total increased by
one to 36. The Nebraskan continues
to hold a good lead as the first
batsman but figures show he lost
10 points on hie batting during the
"Ire pitchers are Lading for
league honors. Moon of Des Moines
hurt his record by losing his one
start to show a season’s slate of
it victories and six games lost.
Slaeholder at Tulsa had similar ex-
perience, chalking up his 26th vie:
tory and hie eight and ninth lost
UIL Hall of Denver fared best,
winning his 15th and 26th while
losing his tenth of the year.
Leading league hitters: Blaker-
ley of Omaha, :386; Henry, Omaha
.380; O’Brien, Denver, 871; Purdy
Lincoln, .368; Patterson, Tulsa, M«:
Ginglardi Of Denver, 863; Sturdy.
Tulsa, .367; Wetzel, Des Moines
.111; Funk of Oklahoma City, 1364;
P. Maley. Wichita,-B4p.
There are more than 3000 animals
in the London zoo. The collection
was started 100 years ago with a
vulture and an eagle.
shifting tides-forced Mrs. Corson
to swim approximately 40 miles
across the channel. Because of the
criticism that followed Miss Ederle’s
swim, Mrs. Corson dispensed • with
an attending tur. The motor boat
which accompanied her hept from
10° to 70 yards away and her husr
band in his row boat likewise WM
careful not to draw too near. No
swimmers entered the water with
Mrs. Corson at any time to pace her
or for company. Mar only nourish-
meat in the whole ewim wae two
Perks started a half aa hour bee
fore the American woman but he
wae two and a half miles te the rear
of her when he quit from exhause
tion.
Mrs. Corson la her swim used a
trudgeon crawl stroking from 16 to
1* a minute with machine like regu-
larity, aa eteady a pace, observers
said, aa ever had been seen in %
channel swim. Z. .
At 5 o’clock Saturday morning
when about is miles from, the
French shore, Mrs. Cerson’s friends
considered she hade very good
chance to beat Miss Ederle’s record,
but the ebb tide being adverse, she
wae carried far eft her course te the
west. All through the night and
morning and the afternoon the
swimmer wM encouraged by her
friends on the meter boat, 16 in
number Louis Timson et Boston, a
channel aspirant, noted as cheer
leader and song director and in a
boomlag base voice led his chorus in
Impromptu ballade such M "Oh,
Millie. Millie, Ohl Millie how you
can swim."
Saturday night Mr. Timson
seemed more exhausted than Mrs.
Corson herself.
The American swimmer was much
inconvenienced tar a time by the
SPRINGFIELD, III., Aus. ••- (
Frank Farrington’s answer, to
charges of International President
JohnL. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers was received here from
Paris this morning. Without deny-
ing that be had signed a contract
to work for the Peabody Coal Com-
pany, the state president cabled
offeers Nab Pelfee Des
Police officers picked up a Ger-
man police pup on Twelfth street
Saturday night aad are keeping ths
dog at the eity ball until the owner
calle for it. The dog had “601 S H°
written on its collar._______
Special! Tomorrow Ladies Day.
• txl» portraits, $3.00 at Grand Stu-
dio.—Adv.
Dove Season
Opens
Wednesday
So be ready to go out the first day and
get your share of the sport Our stock of
guns and ammunition is complete. Come
in Monday.
Quan and Mexican pheasants. 13
“many one day or $6 in any one
week, counting all varieties.
Squirrel, 10 in MV one day.
Turkey gobblers, three in one neat
‘"T derat low forbids the huntlag
et migatory birds between sunset
andIone-halt hour before sunrise
"state law forbids hunting of all
protected birds end animals between
one-half hour after sunset Md one*
half hour before sunrise.
VETERAN GIANT CATCHER.
TO CARDS ON WAIVERS
w If vn—Frans
seder, claimed on waivers by the
Louts Cardinals from the New
“Kor" giants, returns to his first
major league love. He went from
BARAT in the Central League
to th. Cardinals in 1514. remaining
with St. Louis until traded to the
dent. 1919, A native of San
1 Antonio Te..., Bnyder is *» rear I
the announcement" that" Catener
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HUNTERS!
’ Be Ready for a Big Day-Sept. 1st
DOVE SEASON OPENS
We have guns and ammunition galore for you to select your equipment from.
Hunting togs, shells and game bags, caps, etc. are here to make you comfortable.
the Crosman Pneumatic 22 Calibre Is Here
No powder, no noise, no cleaning, low shooting cost. Don’t confuse the Crosman
Pneumatic with the ordinary air gun using BB shot. There is no comparison.
The Crosman is not a toy—not a gun for boys but a real .22 caliber pneumatic
rifle-man sized in weight, balance, finish, sights, trigger-pull and shooting
qualities. SEE I TOMORROW
: Wichita Hardware Company
714-16 Ohio Ave. Phone 5347
GUNS
REMINGTON
WINCHESTER
MARLIN
All are here, in single, double barrel,
pumps and automatic models.
SHELLS
A complete line to select
from. We have just the load
for you.
Hunting Togs
We Issue Hunting Licenses
BAILEY-MOLINE
V Hardw are Company
808-12 Ohio Ave.
Phone 4104
GET READY NOW—BOYS!
THE DOVE SEASON OPENS
Wednesday, September 1
i The dove hunting season opens Wednesday, September the First How about a new gun, a gun
case, or shells? You are sure to find just what you want in our complete sporting goods department.
_ Experience has taught us your hunting needs.
*We carry' a complete line of loads for every hunting requirement Special equipment for
i , . fall shooting days." All priced very reasonably and sure to give you absolute satisfaction.
Guns
HU
CAMPING
GOODS
Comfortable Hunting Togs
A full-line of Sylvanin-and Dry Bak hunting tors .
are here for your first hunt of ths season. Shall
vests, hunting coats, jackets, in all sizes and
_ styles. Hunting costs, ,
- S. priced from—
‘G
$3.00 Up
A good gun is a good friend and an:
agreeable companion. Be sure of
the best by selecting a standard
make. We have a full line of Win-
■ chesters and Remington models ir
automatic, pump, double barrel and •
single barrel styles. All priced at -
standard nationally advertised
prices. *- ,‘
r — IF YOU’RE SHY ON EQUIPMENT—DROP IN MONDAY
For the over-night hunting trip we have an *
tional dieplay of outing equipment to select from.
Cot, stools, tents, gasoline lanterns, etc., all priced
__, _ , gasoline lanterns, etc., all priced
at moderate figures.
Peters and U. M.C. Ammunition 5
Paanm u. x.c. sumumpes, ***0223=7= % 5 musses
RE Meieeen == =- *
shooting. .‘. . 4
: NOBLE-LITTLE HARDWARE co.
37 Phone 5364
713-15 Indiana Ave.
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