FOREST AND STREAM 
1157 
ASBURY PARK SURF - CASTING 
TOURNAMENT. 
The scores of the winners in the open events 
at the surf casting tournament of the Asbury 
Park Fishing Club on August 5th are as follows: 
Average of 5 Casts, V Shaped Court, 3 or 4 oz. Lead. 
(Distance in Feet and Inches.) 
Av’g. 
1 . E. E. Davis....368.5 353.8 348.6 348.8 343.8 —354.7 
2. J. E. Clayton...369.1 362.11 309.0 334.0 332.10—341.7 
3. T. G. Young....324.3 287.4 304.4 304.4 326.1 —309.3' 
4. A. H. Newb’rg’r.323.6 300.8 236.1 333.5 326.2 —304.9 
5. J. E. Newman.299.11 321.5 222.3 309.9 293.0 —289.3 
Longest Cast of 5 , Open Field, 3 or 4 oz. Lead. 
(Distance in Feet and Inches.) 
Longest 
Cast 
1 . C. Ellinghauser.356.1 305.6 375.3 384.10 349.1 —384.10 
2. E. E. Davis....371.4 360.3 . 380.8 384.2 —384.2 
.3. J. E. Clayton..356.9 331.9 357.4 351.8 353.3 —357.4 
4. Dr. C. Simon. 337.8 340.5 350.8 309.7 —350.8 
.5. Howard Kain .331.3 339.10 350.1 342.1 332.2 —350.1 
Average of 5 Casts, Open Field, 3 or 4 oz. Lead. 
(Distance in Feet and Inches.) 
Av’g. 
1. J. E. Clayton...378.1 325.0 348.7 338.3 331.9 —344.4 
.2. C. Simon, Jr...345.7 307.5 328.8 278.3 305.4 —315.1 
.3. J. J. Yates.295.7 174.6 300.0 314.2 305.0 —277.10 
4. W. M. M’C’tch’n.264.9 302.1 278.3 249.6 289.0 —276.9 
•' 5 . A. Vogt .304.8 278.7 129.6 291.1 291.0 —258.11 
In this event Davis cast away his first lead and 
thus lost his chance for a place but continued in 
Tope of regaining the world’s record which he 
won from Dr. Simon in the previous event by 
twice exceeding the Doctor’s 1915 record of 379 
ft. 8 in. only to lose to Elinghausen who in the 
second open event made 384 ft. 10 in. Davis’ sec¬ 
ond, third and fourth casts in the third open 
■event were 378 ft. 8 in., 388 ft. 11 in. and 392 ft. 
3 in., the latter becoming the new record. 
The tournament was notable for the distances 
made. A total of 105 casts over the 300 ft. mark 
were scored by eighteen of the contestants in the 
three open events and several others in the club 
events. Two new world’s champions appeared, 
beating the previous record five times. A veteran 
of many years in the surf first won the blue 
ribbon of the casting world only to have it 
snatched from him by the ruthless hand of vigor¬ 
ous youth. Immediately the veteran put forth 
new efforts and came back promptly with a new 
record which eclipsed the youth. Probably the 
■eclipse is but temporary for Elinghausen is a phe¬ 
nomenon. He is under 20, and has been casting 
■only one season yet he is as cool and steady as a 
•tried veteran. 
During the summer of 1912 and 1913 Forest 
<md Stream, in commenting editorially upon surf 
casting weights, said: “Some of the surf fisher¬ 
men of the New Jersey coast have frequently ob¬ 
jected to the 214 oz. weight, claiming that it is not 
■so heavy as the weights they use in the surf, for 
which their rods are adapted, and that the stand¬ 
ard weight should be three ounces or more. 
While there is reason in their claim, it has not 
been deemed wise to change the weight, and 
the records do not show that appreciably better 
averages have been made with the 3 and 4 ounce 
weights, which are employed by the Asbury Park 
Fishing Club in its annual contests.” 
Thanks for those kind words. They have borne 
fruit. The surf fishing clubs of the Eastern sea¬ 
board promptly took up the implied challenge, 
firm in the belief that American rods, reels and 
lines are the best in the world and American 
casters the equals of any. The above records 
represent the study and practice of four short 
years and were made with rods under 9 feet in 
length, four spool reels, linen lines and four ounce 
weights and the sport is only in its infancy. 
Switch Reel. 
MORNING AND LATE AFTERNOON. 
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time of day for bait casting with the top water 
plug, and is there any particular make of top 
water plug that is usually successful? 
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