FOREST AND STREAM 
1167 
SUCCESSFUL A. C. A. MEET AT SUGAR 
ISLAND. 
HE National Meet of the American Canoe 
Association held at Sugar Island this year, 
the organization’s thirty-seventh gathering, 
was perhaps the best that has been held since 
1912, even considering the eleventh hour resigna¬ 
tion of Commodore Spaulding, Secretary McClel¬ 
land, the camp caterer and the extraordinarily 
delayed appearance of the “Year Book” leaving 
practically nothing done toward the start of the 
Meet. Too much praise can not be given to Act¬ 
ing Commodore A. F. Saunders and the compe¬ 
tent staff, quickly gotten together, that gave the 
Association such a bully good regatta and gath¬ 
ering. In point of numbers, it surpassed every 
Meet since 1912. Entertainments were fewer 
and less pretentious, however, possibly due to the 
lack of preparations by the head of the Commit¬ 
tee for Entertainment. The racing program was 
held well to schedule and competition was the 
keenest seen in many a year. Representations 
from New York, Washington, D. C.; Syracuse, 
Toronto, Buffalo, Boston, Schenectady and Roch¬ 
ester kept things busy for the Regatta Commit¬ 
tee whose program was so ably planned and han¬ 
dled by Commodore Saunders. 
The Trophy Races for the big silver bowls are 
always of the most interest. Mr. Leo Friede suc¬ 
cessfully defended and won for the third con¬ 
secutive time the Decked Sailing Trophy, win¬ 
ning the first heat, losing the second to Ginn, of 
Boston, and winning the third. Aubrey Ireland, 
the wonderful Canadian paddler again won the 
Paddling Trophy for one mile straight-a-way. He 
was pressed closely by Grant, of Yonkers Canoe 
Club, who put up a hot fight for the honors and 
who in turn was followed closely by Marshall, 
Neumann and Rutherford in the order named. 
The race was paddled close to record time. The 
Open Sailing Trophy went to George Denhart, 
of the Knickerbocker Canoe Club, who obtained 
two seconds and one third in the heats. Payne 
Kretzmer did the best sailing for this trophy, 
winning two firsts in the heats but lost out 
through having committed a foul in the first heat. 
In a similar manner Jule Marshall was deprived 
of the Record Race, having won the open sailing 
heat, the sailing and paddling combined and then 
losing out by 7-10 of a point to Douglas Cum¬ 
mings through having started behind all the oth¬ 
ers in the paddling race. The Manhattan Tro¬ 
phy, tandem double blades one-half mile was won 
handily by Wagner and Knight, of Washington 
Canoe Club, from a large field. The Gardiner 
Trophy for open sailing canoes went to Dudley 
Cashmore and the Mab Trophy for decked sail¬ 
ing canoes was captured by the consistent sailing 
of Mr. Edwin Ginn, of the Winchester Boat Club. 
The sailing race around Sugar Island for open 
canoes was once more a procession with Mr. 
George Douglas winning. No one can remem¬ 
ber any one else ever having won this race. 
Perhaps the most closely contested paddling 
race was in the Racing Class Tandem Single 
Blades. Four crews representing New York, Sy¬ 
racuse, Washington and Toronto swept down the 
half mile course all within the same boat’s length. 
It looked to be anybody’s race when within a 
hundred yards of the finish the break came. Haw- 
good paddling with Ireland, fainted and fell 
overboard, putting Toronto out. The Washing¬ 
ton crew also fell back a length leaving the New 
York and Syracuse crews to fight it out, both be¬ 
ing on even terms. Every bit of reserve muscle 
and form was seen brought into play as the re¬ 
mainder of the race was paddled and brought 
home Marshall and Grant three feet ahead of 
Kratz and Merz, the Syracuse boys, leaving 
Washington a close third. Aubrey Ireland won 
the Single-Single Blade race with Kratz a close 
second. Ireland and Grant romped in winners in 
the Tandem Double Blades with Marshall and 
Neumann second and Rutherford and Knight third. 
The Single Blade Fours was run off with five 
crews in the race. The Ka-ne-en-da Canoe Club 
four in a regulation 20 foot racing shell started 
100 feet behind the other four crews in 16 foot 
cruising class canoes. The smooth running and 
beautiful paddling crew from Syracuse easily 
finished first with Washington, Toronto, Atlantics 
and Knickerbocker crews trailing in the order 
named. The Tilting Tournament went to Young 
and McKendrick, Mr. Young putting up a fine 
exhibition of tilting. 
The Forest and Stream Trophy for the Wil¬ 
derness Contest created an interest as keen as the 
competition proved to be. Outfits and the han¬ 
dling of them were so much alike and the re¬ 
quired rules so closely adhered to that it was 
hours before the judges could pick a winner. 
Jule Marshall won the Trophy with a perfect 
score of 55 points, A. P. Gumaer was second with 
54 and Edmund von Steeg, last year’s winner, was 
third with 47 points. The contest is highly edu¬ 
cational in that it instructs the large number of 
spectators how to take care of themselves, the 
outfits and the forests when cruising far away 
from civilization. 
Acting Commodore A. F. Saunders was duly 
rewarded for filling the breach in the organiza¬ 
tion by being re-elected to the commodoreship. 
The Meet next year will be held under the aus¬ 
pices of the Central Division at Sugar Island. 
The Atlantic Division forfeited its turn in elect¬ 
ing the commodore as an available candidate 
could not be found. There has been some talk 
about taking the Meet from Sugar Island and 
having it at Lake George. A general vote was 
taken at the Meet this year on this score and a 
unanimous vote was turned in requesting the gov¬ 
erning body to have all future National Meets 
at Sugar Island, the Canoeing Paradise in the 
Thousand Islands. 
NEW DIVISION A. C. A. 
Buffalo, N. Y., July 27, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Under Article “X” of the Constitution of the 
American Canoe Association, it is possible, after 
certain votes have been taken, that a new divi¬ 
sion of the association may be brought into 
existence, by giving fourteen days’ notice in the 
Official Organ of a meeting of the new division 
at which it shall proceed to elect officers. Will 
you kindly publish in the next issue of Forest 
and Stream this notice: 
That all the provisions of Article “X” of the Con¬ 
stitution of the American Canoe Association have been 
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complied with, and that a majority of the Executive 
Committee have favored, through their votes, the forma¬ 
tion of the Delaware-Chesapeake Division. Mr. W. A. 
Rogers, of the Washington Canoe Club, who has been 
very active in the formation of this Division, has no¬ 
tified me that the Vice-Commodore of the Atlantic 
Division has agreed that the Labor Day meet of the 
Atlantic Division will be held at Baltimore, Md. Mr. 
Rogers, representing the proposed new Division, sug¬ 
gests that the organization meeting of the new Division 
be held at Baltimore, Md., on Labor Day, September 
4, 1916; at which time the new Division will proceed to 
elect officers. I, therefore, under the provisions of the 
Constitution, designate Baltimore as the meeting place 
for the election of' officers of the new Division and 
the date to be September 4, 1916. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Acting Commodore. 
Per C. A. Spaulding, Executive Commodore. 
A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP. 
New Members Proposed. 
Atlantic Division:—William H. Bratton, 4803 Leiper 
St., Philadelphia, Pa., by H. Lansing Quick; Robert 
Atwood, 132 N. 11th St., Newark, N. J., by Martin A. 
Charles. 
Central Division:—C. Dantsizen, 103 Nott Terrace, 
Schenectady, N. Y., by E. S. Dawson, Jr.; S. R. Meaker, 
Auburn, N. Y., by H. M. Schwartz. 
Western Division—L. F. Mayewske, Byron, Ill., by H. 
L. Boynton; O. B. Stavoe, 815 La Trobe Ave., Chicago, 
Ill., and Andrew J. Coward, 867 No. La Salle St., 
Chicago, Ill, both by R. F. Abercrombie; Sherman 
Wickwire, Byron, Ill., by H. L. Boynton; Matthew G. 
Ford, 112 Laken Terrace, Rockford, Ill., by H. F. 
Norris. 
