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the small fishing and all of the tournament 

 reels are geared thus. No properly made quad- 

 ruple reel has four times as many teeth in the 

 gear as in the pinion. Generally there are three 

 or four teeth less in the gear, the number de- 

 pending largely on the diameter decided on for 

 that wheel as the best when the diameter of 

 plates, length of spool and handle, and general 

 purpose of reel are taken into consideration. 

 One good reason for the odd number of teeth 

 in the large gear is that every tooth in the pinion 

 bears on every one in the gear, always chang- 

 ing, and in this way the wear is equalized and 

 the meshing is perfect at all points in every 

 revolution. 



Every tooth added to the large gear de- 

 creases the strength and winding power of the 

 mechanism, and the logical conclusion is that 

 the double multiplier is best for reels of large 

 size, where power is preferred to speed in de- 

 livering and recovering line. This is illustrated 

 in eighty-yard quadruple reels used for bass 

 fishing and tournament casting. The spool of 

 the fishing reel may be i^ inches in length and 

 I ^s inches in diameter, with a balance handle 

 2^4 or iy 2 inches in length. The spool of the 

 tournament reel may be i4 inches long, i^ 

 inches in diameter, very thin and light, and the 



