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habits, and the Brook and California Rainbow 
will soon have the stream to themselves. 
The Castalia Trout Club now has about 70 
members. John C. Zollinger of Sandusky, O., 
has been president since 1886. Other officers are: 
George J. Johnson, Cleveland, vice-president, and 
E. G. Marshall, Toledo, secretary. These officials 
with H. C. Bowman, Cleveland; Clarence Brown, 
Toledo, and Theo. Rhoades and W. 0 . Hender¬ 
son of Columbus, constitute the board of 
directors. 
The Castalia Sporting Club, which has 25 
active members, has the following officers: Rob¬ 
ert Forsyth, Cleveland, president; George S. Rus¬ 
sell, Cleveland, secretary-treasurer; Charles Bol¬ 
ton and Virgil P. Kline, Cleveland, directors. 
Hon. Philander C. Knox, former secretary of 
state, and H. C. Frick of Pittsburgh, Pa., are 
members. 
While an artificial trout stream, the Castalia 
stream now possesses an abundance of plant and 
other life for the feeding of the trout. The 
cara vita and fundanellis moss, the black crow¬ 
foot and water cress and other water plants are 
numerous. There are plenty of fresh water 
shrimp in hard and soft shell and other species 
too numerous to mention. 
The season, in accordance with state laws, 
opened April 15 and closes September 15. Each 
club allows only fishing with artificial lure. 
Catches average three to the pound. At the Cas¬ 
talia Trout Club, catches are limited to 15 trout 
per fisherman per day. There the record Cali¬ 
fornia Rainbow trout catch is 10% pounds and 
4% pounds is the record brook trout catch. The 
largest German Brown trout ever caught in this 
club’s waters was one weighing 13 pounds. At 
the Sporting Club a German Brown caught last 
year weighed 14 pounds and 2 ounces. 
E. F. WALRATH. 
ARROWHEAD—THE ARCHER’S FLOWER. 
By Robert P. Elmer. 
So far as I know there is no sport whose de¬ 
votees have officially chosen a flower for it in the 
sense that the rose is for England or the sham¬ 
rock for Ireland. In any sport but archery there 
is no particular reason why one flower should 
be selected rather than another. In archery the 
state of affairs is unique. There can be no doubt 
as to what flower is appropriate. All ready to 
hand, beautiful by nature and improved by art, is 
the Sagittaria, or Arrowhead. 
As anyone who remembers the signs of the 
Zodiac knows, Sagittarius means archer. 
My attention was called to this exquisitely 
beautiful plant last August while on a visit to 
the Strafford Flower Farm near Wayne. It is a 
plant that grows along watercourses, where the 
current has been slowed by indentations of the 
bank. 
It owes its name to the shape of the leaves. 
These vary somewhat but, on the whole, bear an 
extraordinary resemblance to an old fashioned 
broadhead arrow of giant size. The flower is 
pure white and, against the rich, dark green of 
the foliage, is very ornamental. 
The principal varieties of Sagittaria are: 
Sagittaria Variabilis. This is the common 
variety and gets its name from the fact that the 
leaves vary greatly in shape while preserving the 
characteristic arrowhead form. 
Sagittaria Montevidiensis (Giant Arrowhead). 
This attains gigantic proportions, growing 4 to 
S feet high with leaves 15 inches long. The 
flowerscape towers above the foliage, bearing 
white flowers with a dark blotch at the base of 
each petal. 
Sagittaria Japonica FI. PI. Double flowered. 
Sagittaria Sinensis. The leaves are dark green, 
broad and strong. It grows freely and may be 
planted in an aquarium. 
Sagittaria Natans. This is raised primarily for 
an aquarium plant. It has long, almost strap¬ 
like leaves that float in the water. 
The varieties shown in the illustrations are the 
Sagittaria Variabilis and the Sagittaria Japonica. 
Most unfortunately the arrowhead shape of the 
leaf does not show very plainly in either photo¬ 
graph. 
At the banquet which is to end the next Na¬ 
tional Tournament at the Merion Cricket Club, 
the chief feature of the floral decorations will be 
the Sagittaria. It is purposed to retain the 
aquatic idea by having several little ponds along 
the table, made of shallow pans, in which the 
plants will be arranged in their natural clump¬ 
like grouping. With pebble bottoms, fern banks 
and swimming gold fish the effect should be a 
happy one. 
At the annual business meeting of the Na¬ 
tional Archery Association it will be formally 
presented for vote that the Arrowhead be nom¬ 
inated the official flower of archery. 
It is well within the bounds of truth to say 
that the Handicap Tournament of the Wayne 
Archers Which was held last Saturday afternoon 
on the grounds of Mr. John Dunlap, Jr. was the 
most successful event of its kind ever held on 
the Main Line. The quality of shooting was not 
as high as that in the tournament of the East¬ 
ern Archery Association, held in Wayne last 
Fourth of July, but the object of this match was 
not the same. This was to bring together in 
pleasant competition those younger or more in¬ 
experienced archers who had never before shot 
in public. Through the medium of handicaps the 
poorest shot had as good a chance as had the 
best. From first to last a delightful uncertainty 
existed as to Who would receive the handsome 
silver cup. Miss Wesson of Bryn Mawr Col¬ 
lege made a net score that would have returned 
her a winner in most of the National Tourna¬ 
ments but her handicap allowance was not great 
enough to give her the prize. Miss L. L. Love 
was the winner and well she deserved to be. Not 
only was her net score of 273 the third best 
handed in but it was more than twice her best 
previous record. The American Round only was 
shot. 
Archer 
Earned 
Hdcp. 
Total 
Miss Lily L. Love - 
273 
395 
668 
Miss Cynthia M. Wesson 
413 
115 
568 
Mrs. E. E. Trout . 
123 
420 
543 
Mrs. M. R. Ward . 
49 
490 
539 
Miss Eckert . 
39 
490 
529 
Colin Studds . 
38 
490 
528 
Mrs. R. P. Elmer . 
136 
390 
526 
J. Mark Mauser . 
296 
220 
5 i 6 
Eastman Studds . 
23 
490 
513 
Mrs. R. W. Emerson .. 
63 
450 
513 
Dr. R. P. Elmer . 
508 
* 
508 
Miss Catherine Green. 
16 
490 
506 
Mrs. H. B. Powell .... 
“o 
435 
505 
Dr. Henry Skinner_ 
67 
435 
502 
Mrs. John Dunlap, Jr.. 
262 
235 
497 
E. E. Trout . 
196 
300 
496 
Miss M. M. Watson ... 
98 
395 
493 
Allen C. Hale . 
272 
220 
492 
Jenkins Powell . 
1 
490 
491 
T. Truxtun Hare . 
118 
300 
418 
^Scratch. 
A PLEA FOR THE BOBOLINK. 
The proposed amendment to the Federal regula¬ 
tions affecting migratory insectivorous birds, 
which offers the bobolink as a victim for the un¬ 
scrupulous market gunner, should be vigorously 
condemned by bird lovers and sportsmen 
throughout the country. Under the misleading 
names of “reedbird” and “ricebird,” the bobolink, 
one of our best beloved upland songsters, is 
already included in the list of “game birds” in 
several southern states. Now it is proposed to 
proclaim a TWO MONTHS open season on 
these little songsters in Delaware, New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania. Such a law would be a seri¬ 
ous set-back to the splendid achievements in wild 
bird protection, which has had such loyal sup¬ 
port in the states mentioned. As the bobolink 
rarely leaves for the south before the first week 
in October, the proposed amendment would give 
the market gunners, for surely no sportsman 
would be guilty, the oppportunity to slaughter 
these song birds on their home grounds for five 
weeks. Just think of shooting a bird the size of 
a bluebird, a bird only a quarter of an inch larg¬ 
er than the familiar phoebe! 
The bobolink belongs to the family Icteridae, 
or oriole family. Who would think of shooting 
for “sport” at migrating Baltimore orioles? Two 
months open season in three additional states 
will be sufficient to destroy hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of these little songsters, for they are the 
easiest of marks, when swaying on the reed- 
stalks and the slender stems of the wild rice. 
To attempt to shoot them on the wing would be 
about as exciting and difficult as shooting chip¬ 
ping sparrows. Why prosecute the rascals who 
kill our song birds, while we enact laws which 
tempt them to commit the outrage? Is it rea¬ 
sonable to expect such men to discriminate be¬ 
tween the bobolink, the bluebird and the thrush? 
And why should there be such a discrimination? 
The robin is not more valuable than the bobo¬ 
link. Because the latter gorges for a week or so 
in the southern rice fields must it be extermi¬ 
nated? 
There are few if any real sportsmen who 
would care to fill their game-bags with the man¬ 
gled remains of little songsters Whose tiny 
bodies, exclusive of head and tail, measure less 
than four inches. It is the market gunners who 
wish to reap an easy slaughter in the marshes 
and fields. They find it a simple task to shoot 
two barrels into a closely bunched flock of feed¬ 
ing bobolinks. Misguided “epicures” are willing 
to pay fancy prices for “reedbirds” at hotel 
tables. Not one in a hundred knows that he is 
eating bobolinks. Perhaps he is not, for a law 
