OCTOBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
457 
In Center 
Dr. A. W. Flavel (left) 
E. C. Burtis (seated) 
A. J. Sahdala (foot on seat) 
Nelson J. Schoen at table) 
At Extreme Right 
Assada J. Sahdala 
The first Casting Record on officially 
measured courts was held in 1909 by 
Waldo E. Rice, distance 305 feet flat. 
In 1910 this record was beaten by William 
J. Moran, distance 314 feet 10 inches. In 
June, 1914, Dr. Carleton Simon, at Mid¬ 
land Beach, made a new record of 322 
feet 6 inches. On August 1, 1914, John 
E. Clayton passed this mark by throwing 
the lead 348 feet flat. At the Ocean City 
Tournament a few days later Dr. Simon 
again beat all records by laying out 349 
feet 6 inches. At Asbury Park, August 7, 
1915, Simon again broke the world’s rec¬ 
ord with 379 feet 8 inches. 
Dr. Simon’s record was broken no less 
than five times at the tournament of the 
Asbury Park Fishing Club, August 5, 
1916. E. E. Davis was the first with 380 
feet 8 inches; on his next cast Davis did 
384 feet 2 inches. Then Charles Elings- 
hauser of the Midland Beach Fishing 
Club went to the front with 384 feet 
10 inches. In the next event Davis 
came back with 388 feet 11 inches 
and 392 feet 3 inches, the latter being the 
present world’s mark. A remarkable rec¬ 
ord of 383 feet 7 4/5 inches average of 
five casts was made by Charles Elings- 
hauser at the Belmar Fishing Club tour¬ 
nament August 19, 1916. At Ocean City, 
N. J., August 12, 1916, the Asbury Park 
Team, consisting of E. E. Davis, H. Kain, 
A. J. Sahdala, C. H. Wells, and J. E. Clay¬ 
ton, captured the $1,000 Ocean City Cup, 
the classic of the surf-casting world, with¬ 
out having a single broken line. 
These records have been made with rods 
of various makes and most of them with 
Meisselbach and Vom Hofe reels, but it 
is particularly remarkable that all records 
have been made with Ashaway lines. 
