Feb. 29, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
34 ' 
Sportsmen’s Show Tournament. 
The fly- and bait-casting tournament held in 
connection with the Motor Boat and Sportsmen s 
show in Madison Square Garden has been well 
attended and hotly contested from the start. 
The arrangements are good under the circum¬ 
stances. It is extremely difficult to install a cast¬ 
ing tank in a hall like Madison Square Garden, 
for it must be nearly 200 feet long and ten feet 
wide to give sufficient space for all fly and bait 
events, and it is impossible to so arrange it that 
contestants will have sufficient space and light 
and still allow the crowds of deeply interested 
spectators to approach close enough to see what 
is going on. The present tank is next to the wide 
aisle on the Twenty-seventh street side of the 
Garden, with a low fence to prevent visitors 
from getting too close, but not high enough to 
keep them from leaning over to watch the cast¬ 
ing. The result has inevitably been a frequent 
wrecking of winter millinery and the decoration 
OPENING EVENT—NOVICES. 
Single hand fly-casting for distance; 6o-foot 
class: 
A. 
Tav Martsh. 
Ft.ln. 
.. 72 0 
A. 
Ik Humphrey. 
Ft.ln. 
.. 68 3 
E. 
ll. Fitch. 
.. 70 7 
K. 
Jacobus . 
W. 
L. Hodgkins.. 
.. 68 5 
W. 
15. Young. 
..60 0 
EVENT 2 —QUARTER-OUNCE BAIT. 
Five casts for distance, quarter-ounce weights, 
ioo-foot class: 
Ft.ln. Ft.In. 
C. J. McCarthy.114 10 E. F. Todd. 98 8 
L. S. Darling.110 3 Charles Stepath.93 0 
A. Jay Marsh.104 11 
EVENT 3—NOVICE FLY-CASTING. 
Single-hand fly-casting for distance, 75-foot 
class: 
F’t.In. Ft.ln. 
J. G. Knowlton. 78 8 Walter McGuckin-72 1 
A. J. Marsh. 76 3 A. Barends . 65 3 
Fred. T. Mapes. 73 7 M. H. Smith. Go 2 
EVENT 4—DRY FLY. 
Single-hand dry-fly casting for accuracy, one 
Manager Jacobus to call off the event for the 
present and substitute instead an event for five- 
ounce rods, with handicaps. The allowances 
were three-fourths of the difference in feet, be¬ 
tween scratch men and each contestant’s record 
score. The results: 
Cast. 
Allowance. 
Score. 
Ft. In. 
Ft. In. 
Ft.ln. 
I.. S. Darling. 
. 89 8 
0 8 
90 5 
E. 1. Mills. 
. 87 (1 
0 0 
87 0 
W. J. Ehrich. 
. 78 0 
8 8 
86 8 
(i. Mitchell . 
. 84 7 
0 0 
84 7 
Perry I). Frazer. 
. 73 1 
5 3 
78 4 
Walter McGuckin .... 
. 61 8 
14 3 
75 11 
The grilse event will be held early on a morn¬ 
ing to be agreed upon later. 
EVENT 6—ACCURACY FLY. 
This was cast off the afternoon of Feb. 24, 
five trials and five scoring casts at a target placed 
under a bush, distant 30 feet. Three-foot lead ■ 
ers and any fly-rods desired were admitted. 
Luck and skill combined were the necessary 
qualifications to wdn, for if a fly fell on the 
THE ILLINOIS BAIT-CASTING CLUB’S LAGOON IN WASHINGTON PARK, CHICAGO. 
Where the forthcoming National fly- and bait-casting tournament will be held. 
of leaders with such fancy feathers and tinsel 
as never were found on any artificial bass or 
salmon lure. Owners of headgear thus despoiled 
have always taken matters philosophically, how¬ 
ever, but casters have gone on record with the 
assertion that it is easier to climb a tree to re¬ 
cover a fly than to detach it from the top ham¬ 
per of some fair spectator. 
The light in the Garden is good enough, as a 
rule, but in the casting it is difficult to see line, 
fly or lure, particularly at night, and many 
errors are made that would never occur out¬ 
doors. The warm, dry air indoors is another 
handicap, too, but in the distance events very 
creditable scores have been made, particularly 
that of Louis Darling, who cast 89 feet 8 inches 
with a five-ounce fly-rod on Saturday night; E. 
J. Mills’ 87 feet in the same event; Call J. Mc¬ 
Carthy’s 114 feet 10 inches with quarter-ounce 
bait on Friday, and R. C. Leonard’s superb score 
D of 99 1-5 cent, in the dry-fly event on Satur¬ 
day afternoon. 
cast at a 30-inch target placed at each distance, 
20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 feet, the fly to be dried and 
extended in the air between targets; perfect 
casts scored o, one foot away 1, etc.; loss of fly 
or touching water with line or fly in retrieving 
to disqualify contestant; total demerits divided 
by 5 and deducted from 100 to count as per¬ 
centage. The results: 
R. C. Leonard. 0 
G. Mitchell. 0 
Perry D. Frazer. 1 
E. J. Mills... 2 
Walter McGuckin. 1 
C. J. McCarthy. 3 
L. S. Darling. 0 
Wm. J. Ehrich. 2 
John L. Kirk. 0 
Total Per 
Demerits. Cent. 
9 1 2 1 4 99 1-5 
1 2 1 3 7 98 3-5 
0 2 3 5 11 97 4-5 
1 0 1 9 13 97 2-5 
3 3 2 23 32 93 3-5 
1 0 Disqualified. 
2 6 4 Disqualified. 
0 5 Disqualified. 
2 2 3 Disqualified. 
EVENT 5 —DISTANCE FLY. 
This event was to have been for two-hand 
grilse rods, distance fly-casting, but the danger 
of injuring visitors passing through one of the 
aisles over which the back cast must pass in 
order to have room for the forward cast caused 
bush and dropped off on the target, 
The results: 
R. C. Leonard... 
R. J. Held. 
A. J. Marsh. 
G. Mitchell . 
J. E. Kirk. 
Walter McGuckin 
W. J. Ehrich. 
L. S. Darling ... 
C. J. McCarty- 
Perry D. Frazer 
E. J. Mills. 
Tie: 
R. C. Leonard... 
R. J. Held . 
0 8 7 
7 8 7 
9 0 0 
0 8 9 
0 7 9 
0 0 8 
5 0 0 
0 0 8 
0 7 0 
6 0 0 
0 0 0 
5 0 0 
5 0 6 
it counted. 
Total. 
7 
6 
28 
6 
0 
28 
5 
5 
19 
0 
0 
17 
0 
0 
16 
5 
0 
13 
6 
0 
11 
0 
0 
8 
0 
0 
7 
0 
0 
6 
0 
0 
0 
6 
G 
17 
0 
0 
11 
National Rules. 
The constitution, rules, regulations and events 
of the National Association of Scientific Angling 
Clubs have been issued in pamphlet form. They 
embody all the changes passed upon at the last 
annual meeting, in Racine, and agreed to later 
by the executive committee. Copies may be had 
free of charge by all anglers who will write to 
Secretary II. E. Rice, 225 South Peoria street, 
Chicago. 
