Sept. 27. 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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GOOD HUNTING 
Moose and deer more numerous than 
for many years. Plenty of bear. 
Finest of partridge and duck shooting. 
Take a hunting trip THIS SEASON in the 
MAINE WOODS 
Nothing approaches it east of the Rockies. 
Nearly 15,000 square miles of wild, beautiful 
hunting country. 
Permanent camps as comfortable as your 
own home. 
Glorious air, glorious appetites, glorious sport. 
Three days of it will make you over. 
Open season on deer, Oct. 1 to Dec. 15 
Open season on moose, Nov. 1 to Nov. 30 
You can leave New York at night and be in 
camp next day. 
Send for full information—where and how to go, and 
list of guides. 
Address 
VACATION BUREAU 
Room 1301 , South Station, Boston, Mass. 
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New National Tournament Casting Ass’n. 
For some time it has been very evident that 
the small but none the less dangerous injection 
of professionalism and its coincident commer¬ 
cialism into the sport of tournament casting, 
more particularly so far as national meets are 
concerned, would inevitably lead to drastic 
measures on the part of the great number of 
strictly amateur casters who stand solidly for 
the maintenance of a strictly amateur standard. 
It was also apparent that something radical 
must be done to prevent the rapidly declining 
interest in the sport from a national standpoint 
as evidenced by the great falling off in the 
attendance at annual tournaments of recent 
years, more particularly since professionalism 
gained a foothold in the sport. It was also be¬ 
lieved in many quarters that the welfare of the 
sport nationally could be better conserved by a 
more popular form of government than has pre¬ 
vailed heretofore. 
It was thought that every contestant in any 
national event should have a voice in matters 
relating to the control of such events. The 
National Association of Scientific Angling Clubs 
at its last annual meeting, decided to depart 
from its standard of amateur status for con¬ 
testants in tourneys, a standard built up to pure 
amateur principles through a series of some six 
years of effort, and to admit, in a financially 
restrictive way, the commercial interests, thus 
recognizing the commercial motive in the sport. 
A large group of former contestants in this 
sport, and believers in the amateur status in the 
national meets, have gathered up the discarded 
amateur banner and built a permanent edifice 
from whose flagstaff the banner of pure amateur¬ 
ism in the sport is again unfurled, to serve as a 
rallying sport around which all amateur casters 
of the lure and fly in the country can again 
gather and play the game solely for the love 
of the sport. There was a large attendance at 
a meeting of amateur casters Tuesday evening, 
Sept. 17, at the Great Northern Hotel and the 
National Amateur Casting Association was 
formed with a fine charter membership roll. 
A provisional constitution was adopted and 
officers and directors elected as follows: T. A. 
Forsyth, President; Dr. C. J. Spruce. Vice- 
President; O. C. Wahle, Secretary; F. E. 
Church, Treasurer; I. H. Bellows, R. C. Nichol¬ 
son, D. R. Linder, Directors. 
A committee on permanent constitution was 
provided for, and the charter membership left 
open till February to enable amateurs in sym¬ 
pathy with the movement to become charter 
members. 
This national amateur movement is built 
around the idea of individual memberships, thus 
avoiding the local club contentions and leaving 
to the local casting clubs their rights of home 
rule. 
Anyone who is an amateur may become a 
member by signing a declaration of faith and 
application for membership, the same to be ap¬ 
proved by the directors. The amateur definition 
in this application provides that an amateur is 
one who has no commercial or trade connection 
either as principal, agent or employee with the 
making or selling of the tools of the sport or 
of angling, or derives in any way either directly 
or indirectly any pecuniary benefits from any 
phase of angling or tournament casting, thus ad¬ 
mitting those only who play the game solely 
for the love of the sport. 
The status of any member of the N. A. 
C. A. in his home club is not disturbed, as any 
amateur may cast in any strictly club contest, 
which other than amateurs may enter, without 
affecting his standing as an amateur in the asso¬ 
ciation. 
The membership fee is one dollar per an¬ 
num. The events and regulations governing same 
are the same as those which have heretofore 
prevailed. 
The national tournament will be held Oct. 
3 and 4 at the North Shore Casting grounds, 
Lincoln Park, Chicago, and consists of the fol¬ 
lowing events: Half-ounce distance bait; light 
tackle distance fly; light tackle accuracy fly, the 
new game, 524 -ounce rods at 40, 45 and 50 feet; 
salmon fly; quarter-ounce accuracy bait; half¬ 
ounce accuracy bait; light tackle dry-fly accuracy. 
This National Amateur Casting Association 
invites all amateur casters, or those in sympathy 
with amateur casting as a sport to become asso¬ 
ciated with this movement, have a voice in its 
affairs, and participate in its purely amateur 
national tournaments. 
C. J. Spruce, M.D., 
Chairman Publicity Committee. 
