FOREST AND STREAM 
[Sept. 2, 1911. 
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unless he is removed. Tournament casting is 
a beautiful sport which would be eagerly sup¬ 
ported by the fraternity if it is ever placed upon 
a fair and sane basis. 
Let us get rid of Perce and shuffle the cards 
for a new deal all around. 
Charles T. Hopkins. 
Elgin Anglers’ Club. 
Elgin, Ill., Aug. 28 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I inclose scores of Elgin Anglers’ Club 
and visitors at our contest of Aug. 27. This is 
an annual event with us. We hang up no prizes 
nor trophies, but instead give our visitors as 
good a picnic dinner as we are capable of pull¬ 
ing up, which in this case consisted of baked 
beans, cold ham, 
bread, butter, 
cheese, 
olives, 
pickles, home made apple pie, 
doughnuts and 
coffee. Our only 
regret is that 
there were not 
more of our brother anglers present to 
enjoy 
it with us. 
The scores of the Elgin Anglers’ Club 
contest 
of Aug. 27 are as 
follows 
t/i-ounce. 
%-ounce. 
D. & A 
‘Stanley . 
I). & A. 
D. & A. 
Fly. 
99.1 
99 5-15 
*Hokamp . 
98.3 
‘Hartley . 
98.9 
‘Linder . 
98.8 
‘Pierson . 
99.0 
*McFarlin . 
98.4 
‘Lingenfelder . 
. 98.2 
98.2 
‘Perce . 
97.9 
99 5-15 
‘Wiles . 
96.5 
98 2-15 
Hawthorne . 
97.5 
98 14-15 
Elliott . 
95.5 
99 
Bordeau . 
97.6 
Huff . 
97.2 
Newton . 
97.7 
Provost . 
Eggebrecht . 
98.0 
Kadow . 
95.0 
Winteringham . 
98.7 
99 7-15 
‘Visitors. 
R. W. Hawthorne, Sec’y. 
Kansas City Bait- and Fly-Casting Club. 
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 21. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Below are the scores made by 
our club at Spring Valley Lake, Aug. 20: 
Half ounce accuracy: 
W. L. Rock. 
Geo. L. Robirds. 
-E. G. McLean . 
J. C. Kerner. 
E. M. Meier.. 
O. H. Pitkin. 
G. W. Woolworth. 
J. W. Sherlock (visitor)_ 
Chas. Smith (visitor). 
Regular. Re-entry. 
99.0' 
98.2 
98.6 
99.1 
98.4 
97.2 
97.6 
... 97.8 
\\ e have not been able to keep up with our 
schedule this year on account of dry weather. 
Nearly all the lakes in this vicinity are dry, and 
it keeps us pretty busy finding a place to cast. 
We have no platform at all at Spring Valley 
Lake, but were obliged to cast from the shore, 
which was very rough and will probably account 
for some of the poor scores that were made. 
E. G. McLean, Sec’y. 
Great Bass Average. 
Montreal, Canada, Aug. 21. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The water in Lake Superior is so 
warm this year that the fish have gone down into 
deep water; for the same reason the bass fishing 
in Lake Huron is a little better than I have 
ever known it to be. 
At Kensington Point, Desbarats, Ont., forty- 
one bass, averaging two and one-half pounds, 
were caught by three rods in as many hours. 
L. O. Armstrong. 
Yachting Fixtures. 
SEPTEMBER. 
2. Se.iwanhaka Corinthian Y. C., fall. 
2. Marine & Field Club, 10th championship, G.B.Y.R.A. 
2. Bristol Y. C, open. 
2. Larchmont Y. C., interclub class. 
2. Wollaston Y. C., Y. R. A. 
2. Boston Y. C., Hull, catboat championship. 
2. Royal Canadian Y. C., Fisher’s cup. 
4. Larchmont Y. C., fall. 
4. Norwalk Y. C., annual. 
4. Sachem’s Head Y. C., annual. 
4. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
4. Atlantic Y. C., open. 
4. Edgewood Y. C., special. 
4. Fall River Y. C., open. 
4. Boston^ Y. C., club, Hull. 
7. New York Y. C., autumn cups, Glen Cove. 
9. Indian Harbor Y. C., fall. 
9. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
9. Bensonhurst Y. C., 11th championship, G. B. Y. R. A. 
9. Quincy Y. C., club. 
9. Royal Canadian Y. C., Prince of Wales cup. 
16. Manhasset Bay, fall. 
16. Larchmont Y. C., interclub class. 
16. Atlantic Y. C., 12th championship, G. B. Y. R. A. 
16. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 15-footers. 
23. Indian Harbor Y. C., championship race. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
The race week of the Atlantic Y. C. was 
most successful. A large fleet of racing craft 
ranging in size from the 31-raters down to the 
dories took part in the series races, sailing 
three consecutive days, and the contests were 
so close that single points separated the yachts 
in many of the races. Unfortunately the 
weather was not all that was desired. There 
were light winds every day, and in not one 
race were the yachts tested in a fresh wind. 
The yachtsmen had to battle with the tides, too, 
and these often upset their best calculations. 
The most important series were for the 
Thompson and Lipton cups. The Thompson 
cup is for the Q class and is held by the At¬ 
lantic Y. C. until it has been won three times 
by the same yachtsman. The Lipton cup is for 
the S class, and this is held by the Crescent 
Athletic Club under similar conditions. The 
Thompson cup has been won by Eleanor, 
Dorothy and Grayjacket once each, and twice 
now by Princess. The Lipton cup has been 
sailed for twice and has been won by Blue Bill 
and Cyric. 
Princess won the Thompson cup this year. 
She is now in her fifth year and since she last 
raced has been lengthened 2L2 feet forward. 
This extra length enables her to sail well in 
light weather, and while others are bobbing 
about in a seaway, Princess will forge ahead. 
She won the first race in very light, fluky winds, 
with Soya second and Suelew third. The sec¬ 
ond race was won by Grayjacket. with Spider 
second and Soya third, and then Soya was 
leading for the cup with 13 points and Gray¬ 
jacket and Princess were tied for second place 
with 12 points each. In the third race Suelew 
won, but Princess succeeded in finishing second 
and Grayjacket third. This gave Princess the 
cup with a score of 19 points, Grayjacket was 
second with 18, Suelew third with 17, Soya 16, 
Spider 15 and Alice 14. There were eight 
starters in this series, and the winner also re¬ 
ceived the Commodore W. H. Barnard silver 
bowl. 
For the Lipton cup there were nine starters, 
and of these. Wink, a Herreshoff boat owned 
by D. G. Whitlock, and Cyric, a Gardner boat 
owned by Dr. C. L. Atkinson, were built for 
this series. Wink won the first race with Cyric 
second. The second race went to Cyric, and 
Wink was fourth. The third race went to 
Wink, but Cyric finished second, and having 
scored the most points, was the winner. Three 
of the Manhasset Bay yachts sailed in this 
series, and Scylla won third prize. The three 
Manhasset Bay boats raced in a special series, 
which was won by Scylla. The S boats sailed 
another series and in this Wink and Cyric tied. 
The tie was sailed off in the Bensonhurst Y. C. 
regatta and Wink won. 
The 31-raters sailed two races for the W. A. 
Barstow prize, which was won by Windward. 
Nautilus and Crescent competed for the 
Gherardi Davis prize and Nautilus won. The 
handicap yachts sailed for the Rear-Commo¬ 
dore Wilson cup, and this was won by Joy. An¬ 
other Wilson prize for the Cedarhurst yachts 
was won by Posey. The Star class sailed for 
the Hendon Chubb prize, and this was won bv 
Tille Dipper. 
TUESDAY, AUG. 22. 
There were fifty-five yachts at the starting 
line, and the wind was very light from the east, 
southeast. It fell very light during the after¬ 
noon and the yachts had difficulty stemming 
the flood tide. 
The course selected for the'Q class and the 
handicap yachts was from the starting line to 
Bensonhurst. then to Craven Shoal, then to 
Ambrose Channel buoy No. T4 and then home 
to Sea Gate. They had a reach to Bensonhurst, 
where they gybed and reached the Craven 
Shoal, from there it was windward work 
against a strong flood tide to buoy No. 14 and 
then a reach home. I he Q class was sent 
away at 1:20 o’clock, with Spider in the weather 
position, Alice, Soya, Suelew, Grayjacket, More 
Joy, Essex and Princess in the order named. 
The first four were almost in a line, one cover¬ 
ing up the next. Princess made a poor start. 
They crossed on the starboard tack and 
Grayjacket at once went to the front. She had 
a comfortable lead when they hauled their 
wind at Craven Shoal, and although others 
closed up on her, she was still the leading yacht 
at buoy No. 14. Then there was trouble. 
Grayjacket tried to fetch the buoy closely and 
was set back by the tide, so she had to tack. 
Soya was the second boat, but she could not 
fetch by, and Princess, which had done well in 
the light airs on the wind, was able by a little 
favoring puff to skin round the buoy and start 
off for home. She turned at 3:15. Soya got by 
2m. later. Suelew was third at 3:25:10, Gray¬ 
jacket turned at 3:28:25, Alice at 3:29:30, Spider 
at 3:31:15, and More Joy at 3:32:40. Reaching 
home, Alice passed Grayjacket, but the yachts 
were so separated that it was a procession. 
In the handicap class, Joy did well and over¬ 
took some of the Q boats, which started five 
minutes ahead, while on the windward leg. She 
finished far in the lead and won. Nautilus and 
Crescent sailed a special race. Crescent out¬ 
sailed Nautilus until the fatal buoy No. 14 was 
reached, and then Nautilus succeeded in passing 
her and eventually winning the race by 24s. 
The other classes, with the exception of the 
dories and bugs, sailed twice around a course 
of six miles, going to Bensonhurst, Craven 
Shoal, buoy No. 24 and home. The S yachts 
made a pretty start, getting away well bunched, 
with Scylla and Ardette leading. Wink had a 
good position to windward of the others and 
she did well. The race was very close until 
the yachts began the winward leg to buoy No. 
24, and Wink and Cyric drew ahead. At the 
end of the first round Wink led, with Cyric a 
close second. On the second round Wink 
drew further ahead and won the race by 8m. 
58s. This shows how very fluky the wind was,, 
as under even conditions Wink and Cyric are 
very evenly matched. 
In the small classes several of the yachts had 
the misfortune to catch two head tides. They 
bucked a flood tide to the buoy No. 24 and then 
were caught with the tide changing and had to- 
sail home against an ebb tide. 
The summaries: 
Sloops—Mixed Class—Course, 11 Miles. 
Nautilus . 2 32 04 Crescent . 2 32 28: 
Sloops—Class Q—Course, 11 Miles. 
Princess . 2 31 52 Gravjacket . 2 47 01 
Soya . 2 33 38 Spider . 2 43 53: 
