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EMERALD GUN CLUB, New Dorp, S. I.-Mateh at pigeon* Ei 

 club medal. The trophy, which is a Sold representation of the Sim- 

 burst of Ireland, was won by Mr. William Glaeeuin, who killed 8 buds 

 straight at 23yds. rise. The president, Dr. George T. Hudson; killed 

 Ins S birds at 21yds. rise, but one of them fell out of bounds, and lie 

 captured the second prize. $10 in gold. Following is the scores Wm; 

 Glaceum 8. L. A'iemnstct- 4. Win. Turner G. M. W. Miu-phv 8, Dr. Hud- 

 son 7, J. Glaceum 5, J. M. Watt ,'t. J ,1. Ryan 4. )t, Cherry 4. K. Regau 

 i. J. W, Godfrey a. C. M, O.amgor 6, H. Yeidt 8. J. FitZpatricJt 3, Aus- 

 ten McHale 8, P. Kecnan 3, J. Howard 8, 3. Mease] 5, 8. Thrader 4. N. 

 Measel4, 0. Meaeel 6. H, Macklu 8. Counsellor Cody fi, ,T. Mackiu 2, 

 J.Tanel. H Otten 6. Alter the snoot President Hudson invited the 

 membera of the club to an excellent dinner, The club mec* at No. 

 55 Henry street the first Thursday in the month, and holds lis pigeon 

 Shootings every two mouths at New Dorp. It is the only InShgUn 

 Blhb in the country , It is in excellent financial condition and pro- 

 poses to rent commodious quarters for club purposes, The following 

 &re the officers forlhe next year'' Dr. (Icon:? V. Hudson. President ; 

 John Glaceum. Isi Hi | Jdhn Measeb 3d Vice-President; 



M. W. Murphy, Treasurer : John Guilfoyle, Setreiiiry. 



SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.— The fourth annual meeting and totmnv 



bieut of the Southern Illinois Sportsmen s Association will be held ai 



Garboudale, lib, Tuesday and Wednesday, May G and 7, The toiiraa- 



.•.ill be held on the grounds of the Carboiidale District. Fair As- 



■, ttii pnr-.e of S75 in gold, the association medal, and 



other valuable prices I" be contested for. The prise list is extensive 



and it is anticipated that, as usual, the tournament Ml! be a most 



enjoyable affair. Full programmes may be had upon application to 



lejajetary: Mr P. Kiehards. 



UNION CITY, Ind.— The Dh'iou City Gun Club holds its first, rifle 

 and pigeon tournament for i he sca-ou on Timr.-day. April 24. Three 

 premiums to he awarded: One live deer, a Marpn Mae for the best 

 live shots, distance 100 and 150yds., a double-barrel, breech 

 shotgun for best average at clay-pigeons.— Thomas Jones, Presiden 



ST. CLAIR, Pa. -The" St. Clair Sportsmen's Club held its sixth 

 monthly contest for club medal to-day. Clay-pigeons, 2 Ligowsky 

 traps, screened, Tyds. apart, third noteli, 18yds. rise, angle 30°, direc- 

 tion of flight changed for each shot: 



Sproats.. ..'... , 10 1110 110 1—7 



Lutle 1110 10 1 1—6 



Evans , u i 1 1 0—3 



Daddow 111100011 0—6 



I'^rnc.: . _ I '1 ii nil 1 j ll 0-8 



Sproats having won medal fur third time it bgOWneB his property, 



: I I -day, at Fred Erl/s Shooting Park, 



'-■■'■ Sewark, M. U, thee was a live pigeon match tte- 



■■•■ Messrs. Miles Johnson and Biegler, 29 birds' find; trap, handle 



and pnfl y air own string, for $100 a side: Johnson.- 21ydfc ; /iegler. 



v is B little rattled at the start, missing' his first a«d 



second birds, so that bets of $100 fo $20 were offered lliat 1,6 would 



not wiu. At this juncture a Philadelphia delegation, headed by 



Messrs; Robinson, Kleinz and Greenwood, arrived on the ground, and 



the tide turned in favor of the veteran, the betting changing to $100 



to $40 against Ziegler. and finally 8100 re $5 that Johnson would win. 



M Johnson omn tiiiiiiooiiniiiot— is 



Ziegler 11111001000111001111010-14 



A 90-bird race for $50 a side, trap and handle, was afterward shot, 

 between Messrs. Ryan and Bun u, the latter winning by killing I) to 

 his opponent's 6, 



PHILADELPHIA, April 10. -The double-bird clay -pigeon shoot 

 'i up by Mr. C. Bragg, manager of the Globe Shot Company, 

 in imitation of field shooting, came off at Pastime Park this after- 

 noon. The actual rise from thescoreto the live traps was IMrds. 

 A slip was drawn by the refere» and handed to the puller, which con- 

 id the number' Of yards Of steps thai the shooter was to advance 

 before the traps were to be pulled, the shooter not knowing how far 

 or how short a distance he had to go. The new style rather upset 

 some of the shooters, but under the circumstances, the average was 

 good, while D. Clew, of the Keystone Club, distinguished himself by 

 breaking 9 birds out of bis five pair. 



Sweepstake, $1 entrance. 



Sei age Henderson. 00 00 io 00 00—1 



William Greenwood.. 00 11 10 10 11—6 



J L Brewer , 10 00 10 11 10-5 



"Level's 10 01 00 01 00—3 



SO LoUtll 00 10 11 10 00—4 



ALMaddock To 11 10 00 10—5 



R Wood _ 00 01 11 It 10— 6 



W Alley... ,„*, 10 01 00 00 10-3 



HFox 10 00 00 00 11-3 



First, Go per cent.; second, 35 per cent. 



Bwespsfnke, $1 entrance; 



Geo Henderson 10 10 10 01 ]i— 6 



Wm Greenwood , : 0(1 01 li 11 01— 6 



J L Brewer 00 10 01 10 10—4 



PA Meyers 10 01 00 00 10-3 



BC Louth -00 10 10 00 00-2 



ALMaddock -...11 00 10 00 00—3 



R Wood , ; 10 00 11 00 00—3 



WAlley... :.. 10 10 H 00 01-5 



D Clew ,. 11 ll 11 01 11—9 



first, G5 per cent.; second, 35 per cent, 



BOSTON TOURNAMENT- The Boston Gun Clvb has decided to 

 continue a tournament April 18 and 30, and Mav 1 and 14. and the 

 New England clay-pigeon team badge, match will be continued on 

 those dates; The highest scores made so far have been by the Massa 

 ehuse'ts Ride Association. As The dares have been arranged, it will 

 be seen that April 30 and May 1 will give shooters from a distance a 

 chance to fill the match for the gold medal offered by the club. The 

 team match will be conducted precisely as the great Chicago shoot is 

 to be. 



WELLINGTON. Mass., Apiil 12.— The leading feature of the Maiden 

 Gun Club shoot to-day were the badge and silver cup contests, rhe 

 winners in the former being J. Bufl'um, J. Nichols and F. J, Suott. 

 The silver cup was taken by J. Buffum. There are four other days' 

 shooting in this contest. 



CINCINNATI.- Cosmopolitan Gun Club is the name o£ a new Cin- 

 cinnati gun club. The officers elected for the ensuiug year are: Mr. 

 John H. Laws. President; Mr. F. W. Moore, Vice-President: Mr. J. E. 

 Miller, Secretary; Mr. W. H. Campbell, Treasurer. 



"ROD AND LINE IN COLORADO WATERS." 



A CHARMING little book with this title has been published by 

 Chain, Hardy & Co., Denver. No author's name appears on the 

 title page, but before we had read many chapters in it, we thought 

 we knew the style, and on turning to the end we found the signature 

 "Bourgeois," and immediately imnpec at the conclusion that the 

 chapter entitled "'The Lure," in "fishing With the Fly," was by the 

 same facile pen. The seventeen chapters of the book make no pre- 

 tense to being a continued story, but each one is complete in itself. 

 and each includes a mixture of fishing incidents, philosophy and 

 humor, which makes it most easy and interesting reading, yet "there 

 is such a variety of incident that the stories bear little resemblance 

 to each other. A little picture that mirrors us all is given in these 

 words. "Did you never go fishing when a boy, and come home at the 

 close of a Saturday without so much as a single chub on a string to 

 oonsole you for the anticipated dressing because of your interdicted 

 absence? I have. Put the chagrin of the ten-year-old is nothing in 

 comparison to tbn mortification of the middle-aged boy under simi- 

 lar circumstnnc s." Speaking of trout-hogs, he says: "There is no 

 genuine enjoyrae.it in the easy achievement of any purpose; there is 

 no bread so sweet as the hard-earned loaf of the man who works for 

 it. The rule holds good in the school of the sportsman. The fellows 

 I have been writing of, had they their way, would become mere en- 

 gines of destruction ; they would catch, not for the pleasure of catch- 

 ing, but because they could, and a universe of trout would not satiate 

 them. " The book is neatly printed and has a map of Northwestern 

 Colorado, and is illustrated with initial letters and vignettes. Price, 

 one dollar. 



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 La., April fy.—Adv. 



gnnoting. 



Secretaries Hi 6'anCte clubs are recmesited to send to Forest asd 



Stream their addresses, with name, membership signals, etc, of 

 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest ami Sikka-ji their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local water's, 

 drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 

 to the sport. 



FIXTURES. 



May 30 and 31.— Spring Meet at Newburg. 



May 30 and 31. -Spring Meet on Connecticut River. 



WHITEHALL C. C. 



WHITEHALL C. C. -Organized April 16, 188§. Commodore, R. E. 

 Bascom; Vice-Commodore, E. P. Newcomb; Secretary and 

 Treasurer, W. .W, Cooke. Jr.; .Measurer. W. C. Blodgett; Cook, 

 Francis E, Cooke. Eleven active members; canoes, 1 cutter, 1 yawl, 

 1 eatboat. Signal, blue with while stripe two inches wide, wiHi red 

 letters. 



THE SPRING JWEET ON THE HUDSON. 



,' V : " ' n 'iday last, Messrs. Smith, of Newburgh, and Stephens, of the 

 \) N. v. C (.'..visited the spot on the west shore of the Hudson 

 where it is proposed h i hold the spring meet, in order to 1< icate a camp 

 ground. The Yir'int *e letted is about three miles below Newburgh 

 near the MOodna Rfver, The ground rises abruptly from the beach 

 to a height of 20 or 30ft., at which point are the remains of an old earth- 

 work occupied by the Continentals in the Devolution. Just back of 

 the embankment is a level piece, of ground admirably lifted for a 

 camp, and from the rear of it rises a steep kill which isolates the 

 camp ground completely. 



At the lower end of the fortification is a road leading to the beach, 

 and on the latter a short distance above is a spring of fine water. The 

 beach itself shelves gradually, and is composed of small stones,- but a 

 canoe run easily be beached and carried up. The rise and fall of the 

 tide is three feet. 



Canoeists from Up the river can send their boats by the steamer 

 Eagle to Newburgh, where they will be stored in the boathouse, their 

 owners coming down by train on Thursday evening and paddling to 

 the camp, The steamer Melzingah leaves New York every morning 

 at 10 A.M.. from the foot of West Tenth street, arriving at 3 P. M., 

 and returning leaves Newburgh at 7 P. M., reaching New York about 

 4 A. M. She will carry canoes for §1 each way. 



Arrangements will be made for net to stop at 153d street, near the 

 K. C. C. house, for the boats on Thursday. May 39, dropping them, if 

 the tide permits, at the camp ground, and on returning, to pick up 

 the boats at the camp, and leave them at 153d street. 



It is proposed to have the camp ready by Thursday, several canoe- 

 ists going "in advance to make the necessary preparations, the others 

 coming by train or boat in the evening. Friday and Saturday will be 

 devoted to a series of impromptu races, and those who are compelled 

 to return to business by Monday will take the boat or train on Sunday 

 evening. 



General Oliver, of the Mohican C. C, also visited Newburgh on 

 Friday evening, and discussed the details of the. meet with Messrs. 

 Smith and Stephens. It is desirable to know as soon as possible about 

 llovv. many will be present, and canoeists intending to do so will 

 please send their names to the Forest and Stream as soon as possi- 

 ble. Further information will be given in our columns, and inquiries 

 from canoeists will be answered as far as possible. 



CANOE VS. SNEAKBOX. 



Editor Forest and Stream! 



This "Canoe vs. Sneakbox" controversy has assumed a different 



: , :, j-s lily, asmy files show me, it was as to their respective 



merits in rough water as sea boats. The question of speed came up 

 then, and now, thai being dropped, it is carried on by the dragging in 

 of an outside question— that of stability. 



No canoe owner disputes with "Bcrjum," Mr. Wild or "Seagull" on 

 that point. Any boat 3 to 5ft. wide, on the same or less length, must 

 be stiffer than one of 30 to 31}$n, But here, and for a party of more 

 than one, gunning in shallow waters, the superior merits of the sneak- 

 box ceases. I maintain that the modern sailing canoe will sail faster, 

 go better to windward, and live in as rough a sea as any sneakbox of 

 an approximate size. For the general cruiser alone, or in company 

 with other boats, on the sneakbox's own water, viz., open bays, the 

 modern sailing canoe is a more comf citable and handier all-round 

 boat. 



I am not crazy on the subject of racing canoes, but I am fond of the 

 excitement of a good race, and never unwilling to take up a challeuge 

 when fair conditions can be made. I would call your attention to the 

 fact that my letter was an acceptance of a challenge made boastfully 

 and containing an implied slur on canoes and canoeists. The gentle- 

 man was hopeless of a race under conditions which he stated to lie 

 so overwhelmingly in his favor, and his lame withdrawal, now that 

 his challeuge is taken up, is not very creditable. 



To my good friend "Bojum" I would say that the conditions he pro- 

 poses a reWf a nature, to make a trial impossible. A reeling breeze 

 from the southwest with au ebb tide are only to be had by "patient 

 waiting." While that would certainly be "no loss" in his pleasant 

 company, my duties to the N. Y. C. C. this year will necessitate my 

 spendiug't he summer on New York Bay. but all discrepancies of size 

 waived, I will be most happy to sail his big sneakbox a friendly race 

 to windward and back when I pass through the Sound, as I hope to 

 do in July. 



I claim, however, that that race will not be a test of the respective 

 speed and merits of the two models, as no advantage of form ought 

 to be able to overcome so enormous an advantage of beam on the 

 same length. I consider a 15ft. canoe a match for any 12ft. sneakbox, 

 and am « illing to go half way to make a match to prove it. In con- 

 clusion I hope that "Bojum," Mr. Wild, "Seagull," and as many 

 others interested m small boats as can, will come to our Newburgh 

 meet on Decoration Day and see what such veterans as the owners of 

 Dot and Snake can get out of their craft. It is, beyond a question, a 

 work of some skill to sail a canoe well, but the possibilities of the 

 boats arc much greater tb.au ignorant scoffers are as yet willing to 

 admit, as several small catboals of 12ft. length have found to their 

 astonishment on more than one occasion. Wm. Whitlock. 



New York. 



TORONTO C. C. 



TORONTO Bay is now (March 39) clear of ice. Mr. M. F. Johnson 

 launched his Peferboro on that date, and had a paddle along 

 the city front. The other members of the T. C. C. are all busy rigging 

 up sails, centerboards, etc., and soon us a pleasant day arrives will 

 be afloat. 



Several new craft will be placed on the Toronto Club list this sea- 

 son. The first will be a 16x30 taudem, on the lines published in For- 

 est And StKEAm last fall. She will be skippered by Mr. Petman, a 

 new member, and is being built by S. R. Heakes. John Cliudinuing, 

 Our leading builder, has just commenced a new model lift. Sin. x31, 

 10i4in. at gunwale and 3in. round of deck. She was laid down by 

 Diehard Jenkins, Clindiuning's foreman, and promises to be a first- 

 class all-round canoe for our-waters. It is likely she will become the 

 property of another new member, and if so will appear in the novice's 

 sailing race at Grindstone Island. Her rudder, hatches, etc.. will be 

 like those on the Isabel and Boreas. Both of the new productions 

 will have Atwood boards. In addition to these aceessious, two or 

 three open Peterboros are likely to be purchased and added to the 

 club's list. 



The Isabel will have a new style of cruising sail this season. It has 

 not been tried mych. but the captain has such confidence in its turn- 

 ing out a success that he has sold his balance lug sail formerly used 

 for cruising. 



The Boreas will be much the same as last season, with the possible 



exception of a larger dandy and the use of tne aft centerboard while- 

 racing. Her owner is determined that even in a light wind the- 

 Isabel must, not be allowed io beat the Boreas. 



The Rush ton Princess, Sadie N., ('apt. F. M. Nicholson, will be- 

 much improved this spring by the addition of seats on deck, a proper 

 deck tiller, and probably an Atwood board in place of the wooden 

 seimitar now used. A large racing sail is also contemplated for the- 



Augttst jneet. 



As already mentioned, Mr. Johnston has ordered from English of 

 Peterboro an open 1G'> 3s . 



Mr. J. L. Kerr will attend the '84 meet in a new craft, at some kind,, 

 as he has advertised his Racine Shadow for sale. 



Mr. K. U". Mason has the VVhimbrel. formerly the Fairy , the prop- 

 erty of ex-Commodore Bridgman, almost, ready for launching. He 

 will also attend the rn^et. 



Mr. A- B. Eadie is thinking of putting the imported English 

 lus in commission this season, and being present at the Thousand 

 Islands in August. Properly rigged and with sufficient sail area, she 

 should be fast, but her length— 13ft.— is against her in lumpy water. 



The new vice-commodore of the club, Mr. Stinson, will also be out 

 this season in bis Racine Shadow: other members will have the same 

 craft as last season. 



' It will be seen from the foregoiug' that the T. C. C. is still to the 

 fore, and not likely to decline. 



Some of the members have already had their uniforms made, and 

 it. is possible that at. Grindstone island the JCmcktrbockers and 

 Mohicans may find opposition in the "mashing' 5 business at the 

 ladies' camp. 



CANOEING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



WE reproduce the following resume of canoeing' 86 (-treat Britain' 

 from the London Field, as some of the points Srsnew to our' 

 canoeists, and it also shows the present condition of the sport there 

 While local conditions have encouraged the growth of a line class of 

 sailing canoes, and of match sailing,' cruising has run to the lowest 

 ebb, and as the racing in necessardy more or less exclusive, requiring 

 tim^, money and skill to take and hold a fair place, the numbers- of" 

 racers have dwindled fo a f ew. With our larger wafers, cruising 

 qualities will always be most esteemed, and there isno danger of rac- 

 ing supplanting the more legitima! e form of the sport. We wish our 

 cousins as much success as has attended us in their similar attempt 

 at a yearly meet. The Meld says; 



It is now nearly twenty rears since Mr. Macgregor made his famous 

 tour of the rivers, canals and lakes of Europe in the canoe which 

 bears the name of Rob Roy. It may be said that Mr. ."Macgregor in- 

 vented this particular type of vessel, and indeed, canoeing itself as it 

 is now practiced in England and America. Subsequently the Rob 

 Roy made an expedition to the Baltic, and an account of each voyage, 

 written in a very fascinating manner, inspired many young men with 

 a desire for siindar adventures. Disaster overtook some of these, and' 

 an evening paper of the day, discussing the subject of canoeing audi 

 the formation of the Royal C. C. said that the pursuit, ''unites the 



_. ,-eiy difficult to *et. 

 into and almost impossible to get out of. 



At any rate, a. few mishaps and severe satire did not prevent the 

 nautical proclivities of adventurous youths taking the peculiar form' 

 of development described as canoeing. That canoe traveling t< open- 

 to some kind of criticism appears to have occurred W the mind of 

 Mr. Macgregor himself, as, after describing the many advantages 

 which a canoe has for exploring rivers or hidden nooks 

 says a canoeist may well be asked, "Has he traveled in nthsv ways 

 so as to know their several pleasures? Has he climbed glaciers and- 

 volcanoes, dived into caves and catacombs, trotted in the Norway 

 cai-riofe, ambled on an Arab, and galloped on the Russian stepped 

 Does he know the charms of a Nile boat, or a Trinity eight, or a 

 sail in the .-Egeun. or a mule in Spain? flas he swung upon a camel, 

 or glided in a sleigh, or trundled in a, Rantoone?" Mr. Macgregor 

 answers joyfully that he has done all these things, but the pleasure 

 of canoeing was better than them all. This was something like en- 

 thusiasm, hut any one who reads his delightful books will have no 

 difficulty in realizing the great charm of canoe traveling, 



The Bob Roy. it should be said, could be sailed, and her owner ap- 

 pears to have been very proud of her qualities in tin's respect : indeed, 

 we found in 18ti6 that sturdy old sea dog, the late Sir Edward Belcher, 

 discussing canoe sails, and comparing them with those of the 

 canoes used by the Esquimaux, at the Institution of Naval Archi- 

 tects, Mr. Macgregor having honored that cociety with a descrip- 

 tion of his vessel and her achievements. But the sailing quali- 

 ties of the Rob Roy wet e not quite so good as her owner thought them ; 

 at any rate, when Mr. Baden-Powell, a young naval officer; lookup 

 with canoes in 1867. he thought more of sailing than paddling, and to 

 that end produced the. Nautilus, which was almost as distinct in type 

 as the Rob Roy herself. Mr. Inwards, another canoe enthusiast, and 

 the first "mate" of the Royal i '. C„ ridiculed the idea of a canoe being 

 adapted more for sailing than paddling, and produced the Ringleader, 

 longer and narrower than either the Rob Roy or Nautilus, and of 

 course very much easier to paddle. Both the Ringleader and Nauti- 

 lus were taken on many long expeditions, and the merits of the three 

 types were warmly discussed. In the end the sailing canoe prove 1 I 

 be the more popular, and it can very well be understood that sailing 

 afjords a greater variety of incident's than paddling, from a capsize to 

 a successful thrash to windward, 



At first the sailing qualities of canoes were rather irreverently 

 spoken of. and it was not even admitted that they could be made to 

 goto windward at all: but by the aid of heavy metal center plates, 

 lead ballast, and battened sails, they were not only made to ply to 

 windward, hut could do so better than any boat of similar length not, 

 provided with a center plate or lead ballast. The advent of Mr. E. 

 B. Tredwen, with his Pearl canoe, did much to show the capabilities 

 of canoes under sail, although it was not in the nature of things that 

 she cotdd be so .'distinct in type as the Rob Roy, Nautilus or Ring- 

 leader, each of which had, in a more or less complete manner, ful- 

 filled the three possible missions of canoes. Then there came Clyde 

 canoes, Humber canoes, and Mersey canoes, each noted for some 

 peculiar "kink or knot," by which the type is claimed. The Mer- 

 sey, however, is nothing more nor less than a double-ended boat,, 

 with a turtle-back deck, and ought to be placed' out of the category 

 of canoes. This everlasting "typing" of canoes has undergone even 

 greater extension in the United States of America, where, the British, 

 form of canoeing has been adopted with much vigor, and although 

 it may be open to much ridicule, there cannot be a doubt that it tends 

 to keep alive the stimulus for canoe building. Old hands, who have 

 been through all the variations of satiable-paddling, or paddleaole- 

 Bafling, or paddUng-sailing canoes, as defined by Mr. Baden-Powell., 

 smile when they hear of a new type; but in eanoeing, as in other 

 matters, there is nothing else to do but re-invent. 



The great success of the sailing canoes and the excitement of 

 match sailing made mere paddling appear to be a very insignificant 

 affair, and the superiority of sailing as an amusement was considered 

 demonstrated, because any one could learn to sit in a canoe and 

 paddle in five minutes, whereas it required weeks of patient practice. 

 to learn to sail a Nautilus or a Pearl by the wind. The originators 

 of the pastime acquired great excellence in canoe sailing, and two 

 or three others attained almost equal skill; but this excessive 

 cleverness disheartened many other beginners, who had not equal 

 patience or that intuitive kind of aptitude for the art which no 

 amount of practice will supply. At any rate, there is no doubt now 

 that, as the old hands in the natural course of events appear to be 

 retiring from the sport, there are no younger men coming on who 

 seem to care about mastering all the elaborate details of match 

 sailing in canoes. The gatherings on Hendon Lake last season 

 showed great falling off, and excited very little interest, even among 

 members of the Royal C. C, and with the Nautilus, Pear], Lurhne 

 and Merlin out of the. way, the contests would inevitably collapse. 

 Under these circumstances, it is not surprising to find that the mem- 

 bers of the Royal C. C. are striving to arouse a new interest in canoe 

 life, and one which seems to be more in accord with the spirit of 

 canoeing which existed wheu the club was founded in 1866. The pro- 

 gramme issued by the elub for the coming season is much the same 

 as in oast years so far as racing canoes go, but the committee have 

 set a project on foot for having a grand meet of canoes on the Nor- 

 folk Broads in August. We comiot avoid agreeing that this is a 

 movement in the right direction, and the many successful gatherings 

 which American canoeists have every year — and, indeed, many such 

 have taken place in Scotland— make one think that such meetings 

 ought to be popular in this country. A more delightful region than 

 the Norfolk Broads could not have been chosen for a canoe meet, and 

 one that is fairly accessible for all members of the club. 



Such a project as that which we have just referred to would be 

 well worthy of attent ion, even assuming that the interest in racing 

 canoes under sail is not dying out. Something required to be done to 

 bring the many members of the elub together, which match-sailing 

 quite failed to do, and we think there is hot a doubt that a fortnight 

 of adventure on the Broads will prove more popular than four sailing 

 matches on Hendon Lake. Of course it can be said that sailing would 

 be more popular were it not for the elaborated gear of a racing canoe. 

 This may be true enough so far as sailing goes, but when it comes to 

 racing, a competitor is bound to use the most effective meaus for 

 achieving success. If a man is really fond of racing, and has the 

 apuiess and patience to master the art. he will not care whether it 

 takes two minutes or two hours to get underway ; but the case is very 

 different when a man wants a canoe to sail about by himself for idle 

 amusement. He wjants something he can jump into and be off at 



