April 22, 1876. Omaha Daily Republican 18(259): 4.

The Spring Hunt.

Result of the Count of the Game Killed on Thursday by the Omaha Sportsmen's Club.

The Satisfaction Taken by Our Sportsmen in Beating the Council Bluffs Hunters.

The annual spring hunt of the Omaha Sportsmen's club took place on Thursday, the 20th instant, and the game was counted yesterday at 3 p.m., at the store of D.C. Sutphen.

Messrs. W.H.S. Hughes and Z. Taylor were the captains of the respective sides. There were seventeen men on Capt. Hughes' side and sixteen on Capt. Taylor's. Eleven men on each side went out. The match was man against man, the loser to pay $2 into the club treasury for the purchase of books for the library or full-blooded hunting dogs to be the property of the club. The usual club supper was abandoned on that account.

Of the men who went our, Messrs. Taylor, R.N. and John Withnell, Dr. Peabody, Yates, Thrall, and Van Orman, hunted at Bartlett; Cooper, Hughes, and Preston, at Elkhorn; Petty and Jones at Herman; Kennedy and Barriger, below Council Bluffs; Phillips and Sutphen, on Shell creek; Kimball, at Columbus; Furay, at Mondamin, on the Sioux City and Pacific railroad; Lake, below Gilmore; Dr. Coffman and Al. Patrick, at Fremont; and Donahue, corner Sixteenth and Douglas streets.

The following is the result of the count, which we publish in detail by request of the members of the club:

Capt. W.H.S. Hughes.
1 8 2 6 2 1 1 1	Canada goose Gadwall Mallards Baldpate Pintail Bluewing Teal Shoveler Killdeer	12 16 6 12 4 1 1 1 53
George Thrall.
2 1 1	Redheads Killdeer Hawk	4 1 5 10
J.B. Furay.
5 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 1	Gadwall Baldpate Wood duck Scaup Hooded merganser Bluewing teal Greenwing teal Wilson snipe Hawk	10 2 2 2 1 4 2 2 5 30
D.S. Barriger.
10 1	Wilson snipe Sickle-bill curlew	20 5 25
John Withnell.
1 2 1 10 3 5	Gadwall Baldpate Redhead Wilson snipe Killdeer Sandpipers	2 4 2 20 3 5 36
John Petty.
4 3 1 4 1 8	White-front geese Hutchins geese Mallard Blue-wing teal Virginia rail Wilson snipe	32 24 4 4 2 16
William Preston.
1 1 2 1 2 2 2 21 1 2 3 1	Sand-hill crane Mallard Gadwall Bald-pate Shovelers Blue-wing teal Greenwing teal Wilson snipe Yellow-leg Killdeer Sandpipers Hawk	15 3 4 2 2 2 2 42 1 2 3 5 83
A. Donaghue.
1 1	Hawk Killdeer	5 1 6
J.D. Jones.
1 1 2 5 2 1	Hutchins goose Pintail Shovelers Bluewing teal Wilson snipe Killdeer	8 2 2 5 4 2 22
C.H. Phillips.
6 4 3 1 4 2 1 6 4 1 3 4	Sandhill cranes Hutchins geese Gadwall Ruddy duck Sickle-bill curlew Esquimaux curlew Hawk Bluewing teal Greenwing teal Wilson snipe Killdeer Yellow drake	90 32 6 2 5 2 5 6 4 2 3 4 116
D.C. Sutphen.
1 1 1 3 4 2 1 4 1 4 1 3 2	Mallard Gadwall Shoveler Ruddy ducks Bluewing teal Greenwing teal Buffle-head duck Esquimaux curlew Yellowshank Wilson snipe Hawk Hutchins geese Sand-hill crane	5 2 1 6 4 2 1 4 1 8 5 24 30 93
Capt. Z. Taylor.
2 2 1 3 3 2 2	Gadwall Widgeon Pintail Bluewing teal Greenwing teal Wilson snipe Killdeer	4 4 2 3 3 4 3 23
J.H. Peabody.
4 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1	Gadwall Pintail Bald Pate Redhead Bluewing teal Shoveler Wilson snipe Yellow leg Clapper rail Hawk Rabbit	8 4 4 2 2 1 4 1 3 5 1 35
F.D. Cooper.
3 1 1 2 2 3 1	Bald Pate Gadwall Pintail Bluewing teal Greenwing teal Golden plover Wilson snipe	6 2 2 2 2 3 2 19
R.N. Withnell.
2 2 1 4 1 1 8 1 2 2	Gadwall Bald pate Red head Blue-wing teal Wood duck Shoveler Killdeer Yellow leg Least sandpiper Hawks	4 4 2 4 2 1 8 1 2 10 38
J. Van Orman.
2 2 1 1 1 2	Gadwall Shoveler Bluewing teal Wilson snipe Killdeer Sandpipers	6 2 1 2 1 2 14
A.S. Patrick.
2 3 3 2 4 1 1 3 1 1	Hutchins geese Bald pate Gadwall Canvass back Bluewing teal Shoveler Godwit Wilson snipe Killdeer White crane	16 6 6 10 8 1 1 6 1 15 66
Geo. B. Lake.
15 1 1 8	Wilson snipe Bluewing teal Killdeer Sandpipers	30 1 1 8 40
B.E.B. Kennedy.
5 1 1	Wilson snipe shoveler clapperrail	10 1 3 14
H.W. Yates.
1 5 2 2 2	gadwall blue wing teal green wing teal bald pate killdeer	2 5 2 4 2 15
V.H. Coffman.
1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1	canvas back scaup gadwall bald pate bluewing teal shoveler sickle-bill curlew Wilson snipe crane	5 2 2 2 1 1 10 2 15 40
T.L. Kimball.
1 1 2 2 1 2 1	Hutchins goose jack rabbit hawks killdeer ruddy duck bluewing teal greenwing teal	8 3 10 2 2 2 1 28

Recapitulation.
Capt. Hughes' Side.	Capt. Taylor's Side.
W.S.H. Hughes John Petty Wm. Preston C.H. Phillips Byron Reed D.S. Barriger D.C. Sutphen John D. Jones W.J. Hahn J.S. Furay John Withnell E.B. Chandler Geo. Thrall A. Donahue Ed. Johnston H.B. Sackett S.S. Caldwell Total	53 31 83 161 Not out 25 93 72 Not out 50 36 Not out 10 6 Not out Not out Not out 600	Z. Taylor A.S. Patrick B.E.B. Kennedy G.A. Hoagland G.B. Lake F.D. Cooper R.N. Withnell J. Budd Dr. V.H. Coffman Dr. J.H. Peabody T.L. Kimball H.W. Yates J. Van Orman W.W. Lowe G.T. Mills P. Windheim Total	23 66 14 Not out 40 19 38 Not out 40 35 28 15 14 Not out Not out Not out 382

Getting Satisfaction.

The above result is most satisfactory to the Omaha sportsmen, especially in comparison with the spring hunt of the Council Bluffs Sportsmen's club, which took place last week. The total count made by that club was 633, and the Omaha hunters say that the basis of counting by the Council Bluffs men is at least fifty per cent in favor of the latter. For instance, in some kinds of game, where the Omaha men count one the Council Bluffers count two, and where our men count two, they count three. Therefore the Omaha club are certain they beat the Council Bluffs sportsmen two to one.

All this, in view of the fact that the Council Bluffs papers, of course at the instance of the members of the Sportsmen's club of that city, have openly made ungentlemanly charges against the Omaha club, is peculiarly satisfactory to our sportsmen. The following from the Council Bluffs Nonpariel of April 14th, is a sample of the charges to which we refer:

We hope the Omaha Sportsmen's club is satisfied with yesterday's storm. For years it has happened that when the Council Bluffs Sportsmen's club announced as in honor bound, that their spring hunt would occur on a certain day, that the Omaha club would meet and somehow decide upon a date covering forty-eight hours preceding. The Omaha sports would then cross to Iowa soil and pretty effectually scare away the birds our boys had captured-in anticipation. This game was another of the famous ones with which Omaha has for some time flushed her hand, and this season, for the first time in several years, found herself playing at a game she had educated others to play. The Council Bluffs club appointed-you know-April 21st as their day, and the Omaha club, being posted, decided that April 20th was the best day. Sub rosa the Council Bluffs club had decided upon April 14th, and the brave boys yesterday scattered themselves over the country. Omaha can now come along on the 20th, and take her chances in cleaning Iowa bottoms, sloughs and lakes of the "pesky" ducks and jack-snipes. We welcome you to a-

The Council Bluffs club hunted on Friday, the 14th. The Omaha club hunted on Thursday, the 20th. And yet our sportsmen beat them two to one. Perhaps, next fall or next spring, they will try the other leg, and hunt a week after the Omaha club.

The members of our club inform us that game is not near as planty as it was ten days ago.