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C. A. or any other recognized Canoe As- 
sociation”. 
Rule XII, Sec. 1. Resolution of the 
Racing Board, Oct. 25th, 1919, amended 
to permit Sailing Canoes to enter the 
Record without restrictions. 
Rule XII, Sec. 2. After the word 
“Race”, take out the words “shall be 
contested first, and”; and insert them 
after the words “The Record Paddling 
Race”. 
Rule XIV, Sec. ,1. Take out the words 
“asking are you ready? On receiving 
no answer he shall”, and in place of the 
word “say” insert “saying”. After the 
words “Finish line” in second paragraph 
add the words “which shall be definite 
marks between which the contestants 
must finish”. Revise Sec. 6 or leave it 
out entirely. 
Rule XVI. Revise to provide for more 
definite rights and restrictions of canoes 
about to start a race. 
Rule XXIV, Sec. 1. At the end of the 
Section add the words “But should a 
canoe unintentionally foul a mark, it 
may reinstate itself by rounding the 
mark again, keeping clear of all other 
competitors.” 
Rule XXV, Sec. 5. After the words 
“against his adversary” add the words 
“above the belt”. 
George P. Douglass, 
Chairman Racing Board, A. C. A. 
TO LURE THE 
CUNNING WILD-FOWL 
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swing over a bunch of puddle ducks — 
yes, and even light among mudhens. So 
why should they not come to decoys of 
any kind? Of course in any sort of wild- 
fowl shooting, some white decoys are de- 
sirable, for they set off the flock and at- 
tract attention, but they are not as nec- 
essary — particularly in these days of 
small limit bags — as many writers try 
to make out. All required is that the 
shooter should have enough. 
How many are enough? Now, a hun- 
dred — possibly seventy-five — will answer. 
In the old days, when there were ducks 
everywhere and those flying always came 
to the largest body of birds, I was never 
satisfied with less than 175. 
If it is so that those killed can be 
set up and used as decoys, it is better to 
add them to the flock. In deep water, 
good results are often obtained by tying 
a dead duck at the end of ten or fifteen 
feet of line, back up, breast down, to an 
anchored decoy, head on and letting it 
float. At a short distance, one placed in 
this manner has every appearance of a 
duck feeding; but a change of wind or 
tide will get the decoys into a fine tangle. 
The weather, though, must be cool, for 
on a hot day — such as often comes in 
the South during the winter — a duck left 
floating breast down will turn green and 
spoil in a few hours. 
I once lost twenty cans in this man- 
ner, which made the experiment rather 
a costly one. 
When shooting bay ducks the blind 
should always be to windward of the de- 
coys, and the reverse in pond-hole and 
marsh shooting. The deep-water varie- 
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