FISHING 
visitor was the “whole show,” though he 
did run away from the Yankees in every 
event in which he competed. 
In the accuracy contests, in which the 
club’s ingenious target “demonstrated its 
excellence, the home contingent showed 
up splendidly. In the half-ounce bait- 
casting, 5 casts each at 60, 80 and 100 
feet, Mr. Leonard swept the field, scoring 
a percentage of 97 10-15. Chas. W. Ste- 
path won out in the trout-fly for distance 
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in the open air by experts, outweigh car- 
loads of literature on the subject as an 
educational factor. However, we cannot 
commend the club’s action in not restrict- 
ing the professionals to a class by them- 
selves. 

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at 82 feet, open to those who had not 
made more than 75 feet in any previous 
contest. In the unrestricted trout-fly for 
distance, Leonard once again plainly 
demonstrated his superiority, with a cast 
of 105 feet, winning the event on his 
average of three casts. In event No. 2, 
salmon fly-casting for distance, rods not 
longer than 18 feet, the palm again was 
awarded to Mr. Leonard, best cast 137 
feet, while E. J. -Mills ranked second,— 
125 feet. In the single hand bait- casting 
for distance, open to all, Reuben Leonard 
won with an average of 176 feet, best 
cast 187; second, R. J. Held; third, Chas. 
W. Stepath. Mr. Leonard’s collection of 
silverware was materially augmented by 
his participation in the tournament. 
The real value of such contests, apart 
from the club life, is a true one to all 
Americans who at times use the casting- 
rod. Individual styles, exhibited publicly 
the Northern latitudes. Some adventur- 
ous spirits waylay the wary pickerel 
through elevator shafts cut in the ice on 
ponds, through which the luckless fish find 
themselves “going up” with dishearten- 
ing rapidity. Even in so comparatively 
uninvolved an operation as lowering a 
live minnow through a trapdoor in the 
solidified element there are several little 
hints to be offered that may be found to 
add greatly to the enjoyment of the fisher- 
man. It is a common thing for a party 
to go off for a morning’s jolly sport, with 
a crisp, invigorating bite to the air and 
the half haze veiling the sun that threat- 
ens snow, and to divide into two factions 
which devote their time respectively to 
skating and to fishing. Now, if the ad- 
herents of the hook and line are rather 
indifferent to the question of catching 
pickerel and are out more for the joy of 
being alive on such a fine day, we have no 
