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felter (July 30) who cast 209 2/5 feet (average 
of five casts). The record for the longest single 
cast is still held by L. N. Place, 221 feet, while 
O. E. Becker (of the Chicago Fly Club) has a 
record of 230 feet for the longest single cast. 
These scores (previously world records) were 
exceded on Sept. 10, by Reuben Leonard, who 
(casting for the Newark Casting Club) scored 
an average of 218 4/5 feet with the longest single 
cast of 237 feet. 
In the accuracy fly the club record held by 
N. C. Heston was equalled during the past sea¬ 
son by both Messrs. Heston and De Garmo 
with scores of 99 9 /i 5 per cent. These scores 
were exceeded by T. A. Forsyth who at the 
National Tournament of 1910 scored 99 13/15 
per cent. The world’s record for the event is 
held by I. H. Bellows who, casting for the 
North Shore Casting Club, made a perfect 
score, the first in the history of the game. 
In the delicacy and accuracy fly, L. E. De 
Garmo exceeded the previous club record (held 
by him) and raised the club record (on Aug. 6) 
to 99 2/30 per cent. Previously the record was 
exceeded by F. C. KierulfY who (on Aug. 20) 
casting for the San Francisco Fly Casting Club, 
raised the record to 99 24-30 per cent. 
Light tackle dry fly accuracy. This event, 
(using five-ounce rod) was played for the first 
time during the past season, and there is there¬ 
fore no record. On Aug. 13, L. E. De Garmo 
made two scores of 99 8/15 per cent... and on the 
same date, N. C. Heston scored 99 9/(5 per 
cent., which establishes a club record. The rec¬ 
ord for this event (so far as our data indicates) 
is held by I. H. Bellows, who, casting for the 
North Shore Casting Club, scored 99 11/15 per 
cent. 
Distance fly. Our previous club record (toi 
feet made by W. FI. Ball) was this year broken 
and is now held by H. D. Willis, who, on Sept. 
10 cast 103 feet. This score has, however, been 
exceeded several times, notably by W. D. Mans¬ 
field, L. S. Darling and F. N. Peet, the latter 
casting 117 feet at the National Tournament of 
1910. The world’s record for this event is 140 
feet, held by Mr. Golcher, of San Francisco. 
Distance fly light tackle. This event was 
played by our club for the first time during 
the past season and our record is W. H. Ball 
(July 9) 99 feet. This cast was exceeded by F. 
N. Peet at the National Tournament of 1910, 
who won the first place with 102 feet. The 
world’s record is held by W. D. Mansfield with 
a cast of 120F2 feet. 
Salmon fly. Our record of last year, 120 feet 
made by L. E. De Garmo, was broken several 
times the past season, L. E. De Garmo casting 
(in club contest) 133 and 135 feet, and W. H. 
Ball, 138^4 feet, which latter distance is our 
club record. In the National Tournament of 
1910, W. H. Ball established a new world’s rec¬ 
ord by casting 140F2 feet with a regulation (15 
feet) rod, slightly exceeding E. J. Mills’ cast of 
140 feet made in 1908. 
At the National Tournament held at Gar¬ 
field Park the past season our club won the 
much coveted honor for carrying off the pen¬ 
nant with thirty points to our credit. 
In the “all around,” W. H. Ball and L. E. De 
Garmo, of our club, carried off the first and 
second cups respectively, against a representa¬ 
tion from 13 other clubs. 
In the accuracy events (two each in bait and 
fly) wherein it was necessary to have an aver¬ 
age of 98 per cent, to qualify, there were seven 
casters who qualified, of which number our club 
stood 1, 2 and 3, namely, W. H. Ball, N. C. 
Heston and L. E. De Garmo, N. C. Fleston 
casting for the Chicago Fly as well as our club. 
In the inter-club contest held on July 17 be¬ 
tween the Illinois and Chicago Fly Clubs, our 
club won out with a general average of 98.40 
per cent., thus winning four of the series against 
the Chicago Fly, three out of five necessary to 
possess ownership of the cup. The second 
series of the season was not played, the Chicago 
Fly team failing to come to time. 
A season’s average in the accuracy bait events 
entitling a member to the degree of Artist was 
awarded for the first time in our own or any 
other club of which we have record, to W. H. 
Ball, whose season’s average was 99.14 per cent. 
H. D. Willis, Sec’y. 
Kansas Lakes. 
Two years ago the Kansas Legislature failed 
to appropriate money for the maintenance of 
the game department. Since then Governor 
Stubbs has been paying the department’s ex¬ 
penses out of his own personal contingent fund, 
the amount expended for this purpose being 
more than $7,000. Shooting license fees are 
turned into the State Treasury and credited to 
the fish and game department and there is now 
in this fund $64,750 awaiting action by the Leg¬ 
islature. In a short message the Governor has 
urged the Legislature to appropriate this 
amount for the fish and game department. 
At the same tinme the Governor praised very 
highly the work that has been done by State 
Warden Lewis L. Dyche, and recommended 
that this office be taken out of politics, as has 
already been done in the Kansas Agricultural 
Department. Prof. Dyche not long ago urged 
every farmer in the State to build a pond and 
raise game or food fish, both for his own use 
and for the market. The subject has been com¬ 
mented on a great deal by the Kansas press, 
which has not taken the matter very seriously. 
It is not impractical, but the idea of “making 
Kansas a State of lakes” is evidently a diffi¬ 
cult matter for some of the old time editors to 
digest. Greater changes than this have been 
brought about, and it may be that in time cer¬ 
tain portions of the one-time desert waste will 
be covered with water. 
Ice Fishing in Newfoundland. 
St. Johns, N. F„ Jan. 30 —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The trouting season opened on Jan. 
15, and although the ice was not very strong on 
the lakes, many eager anglers were out the first 
day, and some very good catches were reported. 
Two ardent fishermen who tried in Pennies 
River, which is almost in the town, were re¬ 
ported for twenty dozen fine Loch Leven trout. 
Good catches were also made in other ponds in 
the suburbs. W. J. Carroll. 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
There is every likelihood of the challenge of 
the Rochester Y. C. for a race for the Fisher 
cup, now held by the Royal Canadian Y. C., be¬ 
ing accepted, although there are same members 
of the Canadian organization who do not like 
the wording of the Rochester challenge. One 
Canadian is quoted as saying: “It looks to me 
as if the Rochester people were asking too 
much. As defenders we have the right to name 
the class in which the race is to be sailed. 
They not only ask us to accept the Canada 
cup boats of 1907 as the class, but they fix the 
time for the race for the Exhibition for the first 
week in September. I understand Addison G. 
Hanan, who won the Canada cup for them in 
1907, will be sailing a schooner until Aug. 30. 
Their choice of a September date may be a co¬ 
incidence or it may not.” 
This yachtsman voiced the sentiments of 
many members of the Canadian Club, but it is 
probable that this is only telling that the word¬ 
ing of the challenge was not quite to their lik¬ 
ing, and that it will be accepted and a race 
arranged. Another member said: 
“Oh, give them a race anyway! Seneca has 
been beaten by our Crusader before now, and 
even with Hanan at the helm, we’ll give them a 
wrestle.” 
It is not at all likely that Addison G. Hanan 
will take part in this race. In fact, the Rochester 
men have almost decided that one of their home 
sailors shall handle the Seneca. 
There seems to be some doubt as to the 
origin of the Fisher cup. According to the 
Rochester Y. C., the trophy was presented to 
the Chicago Y. C. in 1882 by A. J. Fisher as a 
challenge cup, and has been won as follows: 
1882, Cora; 1883, Atlanta; 1884, Norah; 1892, 
Onward; 1900, Genesee; 1906, Zoraya. 
According to the Canadian Club the cup was 
won on the Atlantic Coast in 1874, or about 
that time, by the yacht Cora. Cora was a 60- 
foot waterline sloop and was purchased by 
Commodore J. K. Barker, of Detroit, and taken 
to the lakes. Commodore Barker was drowned 
while going ashore in Cora’s dinghy with a 
load of ballast while the yacht was being 
stripped. 
When Cora went to the lakes she was one 
of the crack American yachts and the Canadians 
were anxious to have a brush with her with 
the Annie Cuthbert, owned by Alexander Cuth- 
bert, of Cobourg, who was responsible for the 
America’s Cup challengers Countess of Dufferin 
and Atalanta. The Annie Cuthbert and Cora 
