Aug. 22, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
799 
Hot Weather Fishermen. 
1 * Whenever the weather is scorching, we three— 
j Myself and my rod and my shadow and me— 
Know how to go fishing without any heat, 
As cool and contented and happy and sweet 
i As ever a person could wish for—we seek 
j A spot where the breeze blows a bit by the creek, 
And there in the shade by the side of the stream 
We lie with our arms ’neath our heads and fish-dream! 
Oh, often we’ve caught mighty monsters that way, 
And perch by the dozen, with never a ray 
Of heat to oppress or sunbeam to burn; 
Just keeping the breeze, when it chooses to turn, 
And finding a sweet, place to rest in the grass 
• Where the eyes may look up to the clouds as they pass, 
And the fancy may follow, and lips life in song 
For ioy of the beauty that’s drifting along! 
Myself and my rod and my shadow and me 
Are fishers of dream ’neath the shade of a tree; 
And never have men caught such beautiful things, 
Such fancies and visions and phantoms with wings; 
Nor felt such a friendly delight with the way 
God manages matters from day unto day; 
Home in the twilight, with song on the tongue, 
Cheery and rested and sprightly and young, 
Tender and loving and gentle and sweet, 
With never a touch o’ the sun or the heat! 
Anglers’ National Tournament. 
The third annual tournament of the National 
Association of Scientific Angling Clubs was held 
j Aug. 14 and 15. 
The Illinois Bait-Casting Club of Chicago, un¬ 
der whose auspices the affair took place, ar¬ 
ranged all details, and the casting was done on 
1 its lagoon in Washington Park. 
In every way the tournament was a success. 
; The attendance was very large, more clubs were 
j represented, the entry lists were all longer than 
! in other years, and enthusiasm ran high. While 
no records were broken, the averages were high, 
and increase in skill in all forms of fly and bait - 
casting was more noticeable, showing that, 
| despite adverse conditions, the contestants had 
; practiced faithfully and are growing more and 
more skillful as each year passes. 
A complete report of the tournament will be 
j printed in next week’s Forest and Stream, but 
! in the brief summary that follows some idea of 
what was done in the contests and at the execu- 
1 tive committee and business meetings may be had 
this week. 
I The old board of officers was re-elected with 
the exception of Secretary H. E. Rice, who re¬ 
tired and was succeeded by C. P. Clifford of the 
Illinois Bait-Casting Club. Reports showed that 
ij fifteen clubs are now affiliated with the National 
j Association, and that its affairs are in first-class 
condition. 
Two important matters which were disposed 
of by the executive committee are (t) that in 
future national tournaments merchandise prizes 
will be eliminated; and (2) that the rules in re¬ 
lation to professionals and amateurs are to be 
' made more strict, 
The committee on protection, propagation and 
legislation has outlined work which, when prose- 
cuted by the association, will result in much 
benefit to all anglers, while the committee on 
1 standard of sportsmanship has begun a cam¬ 
paign which cannot but produce results. These 
1 committee reports will be printed in Forest and 
Stream in the near future. 
A more picturesque place for the holding of 
a tournament of this sort it would be difficult to 
I find; but while the arrangements for the accur- 
) acy fly and bait-casting events were faultless, 
those for the distance fly-casting were abomin¬ 
able. As a result the anglers cast the two dis¬ 
tance events under severe handicaps, and the 
scores were of course low. 
In the dry-fly event I. FI. Bellows of the Chi¬ 
cago Fly-Casting Club won the diamond trophy 
with 99 per cent. Fred N. Peet of the same club 
won first prize and John Waddell of Grand 
Rapids was second, both with 98 4-5 per cent. 
Third was N. Cr Heston, 98 1-5; fourth, Dr. C. 
F. Brown of Chicago, 98; fifth, Perry Frazer, 
07 2-5. Entries numbered sixteen. 
In the accuracy fly event, twenty-two entries, 
L. E. DeGarmo of the Illinois Bait-Casting Club 
won the tropy with 99 9-15 per cent. E. P. 
Sperry of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club won first 
prize, 99 3-15; third, H. W. Perce, 99 2-15; 
fourth, I. H. Bellows, 99 1-15; fifth, F. N. Pest, 
99 I-I 5 - 
Fred N. Peet of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club 
won the trophy in the single-hand distance i. y 
casting, with no feet. First prize was won by 
Perry Frazer of the Anglers’ Club of New York, 
10414 feet. There were sixteen entries and all 
scores were low because of the direction cast 
and the wind, which eddied under the nearby 
trees and prevented leaders from being straight¬ 
ened. 
D. F. Beatty of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club 
won the trophy in the quarter-ounce bait-casting 
for accuracy, with 99 per cent., after defeating 
William Stanley (99) in the cast-off. O. E. 
Becker won second prize, and John Hohman 
won the special prize, both with 98 7-15 per cent. 
There were many ties, and these were cast off. 
Sixty-four entries. 
There were seventy-eight entries in the half¬ 
ounce accuracy bait event, which was won by L. 
E. DeGarmo, 98.8 per cent. W. L. Rock of Kan¬ 
sas City won first prize, 98.7second, F. N. Peet, 
98.6; third, D. F. Beatty, 98.3. 
Dr. R. Johnson Held, vice-president of the 
“myself and my rod and my shadow.” 
From a photograph by N. E, Spaulding. 
