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FOREST_ ANDj^ STRKAM, 
[Aug.. 25, 1900. 
line is much quicker and more impetuous, not requiring 
the time which is used by such casters as Kelsey, Waddell 
or Lippincott. The latter gentleman was favorite for 
this contest in many minds, and surely made a grand 
showing, his retrieve being especially good. Hascall also 
did fine work. Mr. Ainsworth is a new member of the 
Chicago Club, and did creditably indeed. The third of 
the Coast men, Mr. Mocker, was in the very first flight 
in the delicacy part of the contest, but fell away a bit 
on the accuracy. Mr. Babcock, one of the judges, scored 
the following demerits on his sheet, which tallied pretty 
closely with those given by Mr. Lctterman : Lippincott, 
6 off; Lovett, 8 off; Mocker, 6 off; Kelsey, 6 off; Hascall, 
8 off; Dr. Brown, 20 off; Mansfield, 8 off; Peet, 12 off; 
Smith, 6 off ; Bellows, 4 off ; Perce, 32 off ; Waddell, 2, 
off; Ainsworth, 12 off; Stewart, 28 off. Mr. Waddell's 
score for delicacy was the best made in the lot, only 2 
points from perfect. So much for fishing rainbows in a 
quiet pool. Space lacks to present in full the scoring of 
the other judges. Totals follow : 
Third Event.— Dry fly-casting for delicacy and accuracy, at i-ings 
25 inches in diameter, 35, 40 and 45 feet. Rod not to exceed 5 3-4 
ounces. There shall be made five casts at each ring. Contestant 
allowed 30 seconds to extend his line by dry fly casting to 35-foot 
ring. Scoring shall begin the first time fly strikes water. When 
contestant has made five casts judges will announce "Next buoy." 
Contestant must then lift, liis line, and in not less than one nor 
more than five dry casts, feaeh the 40-foot buoy, scoring to begin 
first time fly strikes the water. A like procedure shall be fol- 
lowed between 40 and 45 foot rings. If fly falls inside of rmg it 
shall be scored perfect; for each foot or fraction of a foot from 
ring a demerit of 1 shall be scored. Fly striking ring will be 
scored outside. The sum total of such demerits divided by 3 
shall be considered the demerit per cent. ; the demerit per cent, de- 
ducted from 100 shall be the accuracy per cent. Each contestant, if 
he so desires, can make not to exceed five dry casts between each 
score cast. In addition, there shall be kept an account of delicacy; 
100 per cent, being considered perfect. The delicacy percentage 
shall be determined by the two judges and referee; if necessary 
in this event more judges shall be appointed, each of whom shall 
mark the per cent, in which, in his opinion, the contestant is 
entitled. 1 he sum total of such percentage as so marked, divided 
by 3, shall be the delicacy per cent. The delicacy per cent, and 
accuracy per cent, shall be added together and divided by 2, and 
the result shall be the percentage. 
A perfect cast is: (1) Fly to fall by its own weight without a 
splash, (2) On first cast fly must float. (3) Leader to fall on the 
water with no apparent disturbance of surface. (4) Retrieve must 
be made without cutting the water by leader or fly. Demerits 
are: (1) Splash of fly, 2 to 10 off. (2) Failure to float fly on first 
cast, 2 off. (3) Splash by leader, 2 to 10 off. (4) Bad retrieves, 
2 to 10 off. (5) If fly strikes water on first cast between buovs, 
10 off. (6) Failure to retrieve on last cast, 10 off. Two or more 
demerit charges may be added together on each cast to obtain 
total demerit. Loose line on platform or coil or line in hand is 
not permitted in this event. Contestant may begin with fly ex- 
tended from tip the length of rod. Each retrieve must be made 
•with rod, excepting that contestant may grasp line and make 
partial retrieve by stripping line once only. 
I, H. Bellows 97, C. F. Brown 89 1-3, H. G. Hascall 96 1-6, C A. 
Lippincott 961-2, F. N. Peet 941-6, H. W. Perce S9 1-3, A. C 
Smith 961-6, A. E. Lovett 951-2, E. A. Mocker 95 2-3, C B 
Kelsey 94 1-6, W. D. Mansfield 95 1-2, Douglas Stewart 9i 1-2." H 
H. Ainsworth 96, John Waddell 94 2-3. 
First prize, diamond medal, Chicago Fly-Casting Club: L H. 
Bellows, 97 per cent. 
Second prize, split bamboo rod, value 1^30, Von Lengerke & 
Antoine: C. A. Lippincott, 961-2 per cent. 
Third prize, Martin automatic reel, engraved, value $20, Martin 
Aovelty Works: Divided by A. C Smith and H. G. Hascall, 96 1-16 
per cent 
Fourth prize, fly-book and three dozen flies, value $7. Mont- 
gomery Ward & Co.: tourist repair case, value' $7, Wm. Miffs & 
Son; total value fourth prize, 114: H. W. .\ins\vorth, 96 per cent. 
Fifth prize, four dozen flies, value $4; artificial minnows value 
$1; total value fifth prize, 15: E. A. Mocker, 95 2-8 per cent. 
Sixth prize, two alligator bait lines, value $2, L L Van Uxem ■ 
Divided by A. E. Lovett and W. D. Mansfield, 95 1-2 per cent 
Visitors. 
There were several ladies who attended to-day, among 
them Mesdames Mansfield and Mocker, of San Francisco ; 
Mesdames Bellows, Peet, Russell, Murrell, Perce, Letter- 
man, with others. 
A prominent guest was Mr. W. H. Talbot, the maker 
of the well-known Talbot casting reel, who was in evi- 
dence upon the grounds in person, as well as in the form 
of his popular product. He brought with him as a special 
gift to Mr. F. N. Peet, the handsomest reel the latter 
ever saw, a pure silver, gold-mounted, diamond-set reel 
with spindle running in bored agates, a handle of red 
agate and an exquisite ornamentation. The work on 
this reel is of the very finest. Mr. Talbot says he would 
not like to duplicate it for $ioo. Three years ago he 
promised to make Mr. Peet a fine reel if he would win the 
club medal for bait-casting with a Talbot reel. This is 
how the promise was kept — certainly very handsomely. 
Members of the club very generously offered to enter a 
sweepstakes for it if Mr. Peet would put it up, but he 
had to decline. 
Gear. 
Mr. Mansfield used an English fly-reel and line in his 
work, with an American rod. Most of the bait rods are 
of the short, 7-foot pattern which was originated in 
Chicago. The long-distance fly-rods are, of course, of 
the clumsy, powerful, ii-foot type, more forceful than 
elegant of look. The display of fine angling goods is a 
notable one, for every man here is an expert, which 
means something of a crank, and each with a half-dozen 
outfits of the finest sort. 
Looks. 
Mr. Mansfield, as earlier mentioned in these columns, is 
a man of medium height, stocky, strong, sanguine of 
temperament, with sandy moustache and blue eyes. Mr. 
Lovett is an older man, taller, a bit gray, with nowerful 
form. Mr. Mocker is younger than either of his com- 
panions from the Coast, in the middle weight class, and 
of heavy, muscular build. John Waddell is a sporting 
figure as he stands at score, lean, angular and active, and 
he turns away with a good strong walk which he got on 
the Pere Marquette. Mr. Kelsey is a bit lighter than 
Mr. Waddell, and Mr. Stewart is older, grown a bit gray 
in good works. Harry Hascall and his friend, Ashley 
Smith, of the local forces, are much alike — ^youngish 
looking, slim, dark and active. Mr. Bellows is hea\'y 
and powerful of build. Mr. Perce, the Club President, is 
very slender and tall. Mr, Lippincott is a spare and 
muscular man, who would be a hard one on a trail if 
trained to it. And so it goes. It is hard to pick a type 
for a fly-caster. The good ones come in all sorts of 
packages. We have the best packages here that the coun- 
try can scare up to-day. 
Satarday, Scconcf Day, Aug. J8. 
To-day ended the tournament, and it was a day to be 
remembered. The weather was awful. The fickle Chi- 
cago climate made one of its kaleidoscopic changes. 
Yesterday we had rain all day. To day we had a heat — a 
terrible, dense, moist, sweltering heat — the worst which 
any of us have felt in Chicago this summer, which has 
been the worst summer ever known here in the opinion 
of many citizens. At the top of the Auditorium tower 
down town, where the cooler breezes from the lake had 
sway, the thermometer stood at 92 degrees. What it 
was in the hot little valley near the lagoon, surronded 
by trees and houses and large buildings of the car barns, 
exposed to the full rays oi the sun, and cut off from 
every breath of air, is something which must be left to 
guesswork, since there was no thermometer on the 
grounds. It was no doubt 98 or 100 degrees, probably 
more in the sun. This, and this alone, prevented the 
tournament from being a very satisfactory meet in every 
Avay. It did not stop the jollity, but it left Chicago under 
a deep cloud in the minds of all the visitors who have 
come so far to attend this meeting. It would seem 
unwise to chance another meet in August, though it rs 
much a matter of chance in this climate at any date, 
Californiaus Sick. 
Under these oppressive weather conditions the San 
Francisco men suttered very much, Mr. Mansfield worse 
than any ol his friends. He tried to do some work in 
the morning events, but by 2 o'clock collapsed under the 
ailment which has nearly brought him down for the past 
few days since leaving home. He was forced to retire 
from the accuracy bait contest and did not enter for the 
long distance fly-casting event, his own specialty, and 
lhat for which he came all the way to Chicago. He 
hoped to make a new record. No man could make a 
record here to-day with the fly. The air was dull and 
heavy and the best of the visitors said it was like casting 
against a brick wall to try to get a line out. There was not 
a breath of air to aid. In tliese trying conditions John 
Waddell, of Grand Rapids, failed of doing half what 
was his due. Mr. Mocker, of the Coast, made a nice show- 
ing with the long fly, but was not at lus customary gait 
at all. The hardy, active, well-seasoned athlete from 
'Frisco, A, E, Lovett, quite captured the honors at the 
long fly, being alone in his rank at 105 feet, though dis- 
gusted at what he called a poor showing, Mr. Lovett 
has made a good record here both days. He takes back 
to San Francisco the handsome special trophy offered 
by his club for best average 111 accuracy at bait and fly, 
the beautiful matchbox mentioned in the list of prizes. 
The Chicago boys wanted this very much, but they could 
not reach it. 
In the long distance bait-casting (distance and ac- 
curacy combined, properly speaking), whicli was held on 
the green, nothing of interest turned up, unless it might 
be termed interesting to see a lot of the best bait casters 
in the country go all to pieces in a contest like ^ lot of 
beginners. Everybody went wild. This event has not 
been popular with the Chicago boys for three years and 
the visitors were not partial to it. Mr. Salter's wan was 
on a better average adherence to the line, though he did 
no very long work with the frog, Others had a bit of 
hard luck here and there from a bouncing frog, which 
.'icored off from a cast otherwise much better. Nearly all 
kept safe in the gourtj hut the best pf the experts made 
iluke after fluke. 
Records Broken in Bait Accuracy. 
One event of to-day was worth going far to see and 
gave a distinguishing quality to this tournament. This 
was, the accuracy bait contest, which brought all the tal- 
ent on hand. All the records of the country, and indeed 
of the world, were broken to pieces. No club record 
has ever approached those of to-day in open tournament. 
Every man seemed at his best, and for some occult rea- 
son the conditions seemed as good for bait casting as 
hey were poor for fly-catsing. Time and again the 
uoys were hit plump with the frog at 60, 70 and 90 feet 
from the score. It would have been a hardy bass that 
would have lingered near the marks in this contest. It 
was inore like pistol shooting than casting. Especially 
gratifying was it to see that Mr. Kelsej^, of Grand 
Rapids, w^ho had such hard luck yesterday at bait work, 
to-day made one of the best scores and went ahead of 
some of the best men in America. So marked an im- 
provement is as much a source of felicitation as though 
he had really won first-, and it is not all of the game to 
win all the time. Mr. Kelsey's score of 97 would have 
been easily top score two years ago on these very 
grounds, and might be again at any future time, for the 
entire entry seemed to be outclassing themselves. Smith, 
Peet and Hascall, of the locals, took all the premier 
honors, but they put up so hot a game that there was 
no getting a look in, The Coast came in here after 
Grand Rapids, Mr. Lovett putting up 96 4-5, certainly 
enough to win at any ordinary gait. 
Teani Contest Falls. 
The team contest was decided on a two-thirds basis, 
only two of its features being worked out, the long dis- 
tance fly being discarded, since Mr. Mansfield could not 
cast, and his team was therefore unqualified. Grand 
Rapids withdrew. _ and Messrs. Peet and Hascall, the 
Chicago team, having won in the first two features— deli- 
cacy and accuracy fly and accuracy bait — were left un- 
opposed and were declared winners. 
Long Distance Fly Disappointing, 
The long distance fly-casting, the event which was 
watched for with greatest interest by all and which 
brought out the best part of the crowd perhaps, was a 
disappointment, as above indicated. There was not a 
man who felt that he had done his average work in this 
specialty, and both workers and spectators were disap- 
pointed. Many wished to see Mr. Mansfield cast, but 
there is no reason to believe that he would have ap- 
proached his own average records had he competed to- 
day. The weather was a fluke of the worst sort and the 
fly-casters are lucky to get off alive. 
The Pacific Coast party goes on East from here to- 
morrow and will visit points on the Eastern seaboard 
in the hope of striking a decent climate. The Grand 
■Rapids men say there is no place like home. Really, the 
Chicago club must apologize for the weather it put on 
tap. It need apologize for nothing else. 
There w?is a big crowd out to-day, perhaps 400 per- 
sons, forty or fifty of these ladies, relatives of members'^ 
and visitors and all much interested in the work. Iliesev. 
made themselves as comfortable as . possible under th& 
trees and in the tents. Even at sundown the heat had * 
abated but little. , . 
One very well satisfied gentleman was Mr, W. H.^ 
Talbot, the reel maker from Nevada. "I am from Mis- 
souri," said he, "and you will have to show me if any 
reel is better than mine. It won every prize in all the 
bait events, all the winners using it except Bellows,- 
Belasco, Greenwood and Letterman. I am thinking now 
of moving the club to Nevada." _ 
Team Contest, Dry Fly. 
The first event of the day was the second lap of the 
team contest, that at dry fly, delicacy and accuracy. Air 
heavy, wind imperceptible. Messrs, Hascall and Peet 
won by a scant margin over the Coast men. Mr. PeeL 
was perfect three times on the first buoy, lost 8 on the 
second and 7 on the third, his delicacy bringing him lipi 
better. Mr. Hascall lost 6 on his first buoy, 9 on No. 2; 
and 7 on No. 3. 
Mr. Mansfield was perfect five times in all, though he 
lost 7 on No. I, 6 on No. 2 and only 4 on No. 3, the 
furthest buoy. Mr. Lovett was perfect twice, both oni 
No. I, losing 3 on No. i, 9 on No. 2 and 8 on No. 3,. 
His delicacy saved him out. 
Mr. Waddell, of the Grand Rapids team, was perfect: 
once;. and he lost on his accuracy side, falling back 6/ 
on No. I, 9 on No. 2, 13 on No. 3. At delicacy he was; 
better. Mr. Kelsey improved clean through, losing & 
on No. I, 13 on No. 2, and only 2 on No. 3. In delicacy 
he did well. Scores. 
Chicago Team.— F. N. Peet 961-2, H. G. Hascall 95 1-S; totall 
95 11-12. 
San Francisco Team,— W. D. Mansfield 951-6, A. E. LoveW 96:: 
tol.il 95 7-16. 
Grand Rapids Team.— John Waddell 94 1-6, C. B. Kelsey 94 5-6:; 
total 941-6. 
The Chicago team having won also the contest, as re- 
ported yesterday, and the long distance fly contest being 
abandoned, the Chicago team was declared winner of the; 
team contest. The Judges to-day were E. R. Letterman, 
Douglas Berry; referee, E. A. Mocker. 
Event No. 2, Long Distace Bait. 
Judges, L. F, Crosbj', Geo. M. Lee; referee, E. A. 
"Mocker. There were seventeen entries, the best of those 
present. They all cast like a picnic of drunken sailors, 
man after man retiring with a short fluke to think about- 
Sometimes the frog bounced, but more often it was the 
reel. Fred Peet was picked to win this and went out 
after it hard, but caught a crab at the last cast. Bellows, 
Hascall, Smith, Lovett- — all the standbys — fell down oine 
after the other, Mr. Salter was the most consistent per-- 
former and kept to his knitting. His average of I03>^: 
^ feet, it must be remembered, is really not so good in 
figures as on the ground, the demerits for side cast beinj*- 
subtracted. The scores: 
Bait-Castiqg for Distance and Accuracy Combined. — Casting toi 
be on a lawn within a court 30 feet wide, with tape line extending; 
down the center. Five casts shall be made with half-ounce rubber 
frog. Score is made from spot where frog rests. If frog first strikes 
outside of court, cast is lost. If it first strikes inside court and; 
bounds out, cast is counted. Perfect cast is within 1 foot of tape 
line. For each additional foot or fraction thereof from tape line- 
a demerit of 1 shall be scored from the distance indicated by; 
nearest point on tape line. 
G. W. Salter 103 1-12, A. E. Lovett 100 2-15, A. C. Smith 96 1-6,. 
F. N. Peet 9317-20, C. A. Lippincott 8613-60, H. G. Hascalll 
76 37-30. 1. H. Bellows 74 5-12, H. VV. Perce 73 59-60, J. Waddell: 
72 5-6, E. R. Letterman 721-60, W. D. Mansfield 69 12-20, C. F.. 
Brown 641-5. N. C. Heston 63 13-60, L. i: Blackman 62 9-60, C. B.. 
Kelsey 52 37-60, D. Berry 53 14-15. 
First prize, diamond medal, Chicago Fly-Casting Club: Geo. W,. 
Salter, 103 1-12 per cent.. 
Second prize, Wilkinson split bamboo bait rod, value $15, L. S.^ 
Willcinson Co.; C. & N. ticket, value ?10, Chicago & Northwestern. 
R. R. Co.: A. E. Lovett, 100 2-15 per cent. 
Third prize, Shakespeare reel, value $15, Wm. Shakespeare, Jr.: 
A. C. Smith,' 96 1-6 per cent. 
Fourth prize, Bristol steel rod, value $6.75, Horton Mfg. Co. ; 
two Burtis baits, value .$2.50, Geo. H. Bijrtis; total valtic fourth 
prize, $9.25: F. N. Peet 93 17-20. 
Fifth prize, four dozen flies, value $4, Montgomery Ward & Co.; 
two artificial minnows, value $1, F. A. Pardee S: Co.; total value 
fifth prize, $5: C. A. Lippincott 86 13-60, 
Sixth prize, Harrimac landing net, value $2.25, A. F. Meissd- 
bach & Brother; one Burtis bait, value $1, Geo. H. JJiirtis; t>vo 
artificial minnows, value $1, F. A. Pardee & Co; total value sixth 
prize, $4.25: H. G. Hascall, 7617-30 per cent. 
Seventh prize, two alligator bait lines, value $2, L L. Van ilxemi; 
one P. & S. ball bearing bait, value 50 cents, P. & S. Ball BVaring 
Bait Co.; one revolution bait, value 50 cents, Wm. Shakesi>care, 
Jr.; total value seventh prize, $3; I. H. Bellows, 74 5-12 per cenf. 
Third Event, Accuracy Bait 
This was the big show and was worth the price of 
admission. Such bait-casting was never before seen in 
the West, and as the West is the originator and perfector 
of this .system it is likely its equal was never seen in aU 
the world. It looked very easy, man after man taking 
the pace and SAvinging in close behind the nearest rival! 
and cast after cast landing against or in and around the 
distant buoys. There were three rounds at the sets of 
five buoys, distances of 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 feet from the 
score, change of distance arbitrary. Each man thus hadl 
fifteen casts and the element , of chance was eliminated. 
Jt was a long and hot contest, but it was eagerly watched 
throughout in spite of the burning sun. At 80 feet 
Harry Hascall hit the buoy plump on top, the frog tak- 
ing a long bounce. At 70 feet he struck against the side 
of the buoj' support. At 100 feet he was time and again 
around the point, and he never had a fluke of the reel. 
Neither did Kelsey, of Grand Rapids, who this morning 
could not have cast downstairs with the windows open, 
At 70 feet he was against the buoy, and at 100 feet he hit 
it plump. After that he could not miss. Peet was never 
far from center at any station and held an even, killing 
gait all through. He struck the yellow buoy, 100 feet 
away, full with his frog on one cast. Smith, wiry and 
lean like his fishing companion Hascall, seemed also 
unable to miss the buoys, and his was the best exhibi- 
tion of accurate bait-casting that has ever been put up 
in any contest, club or open. His control over the bait 
was marvelous. Lovett followed his own system of cast- 
ing beyond and pulling down on the mark. He made 
prettv work, all the more remarkable from the fact that 
he did it with a strange rod — one of the club rods — he 
having broken his own this morning. Salter was doubted 
able to win this event also, and he did not Waddell 
was in hard hick, though his 80-foot work was fine. 
