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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 26, 1910. 
big fellows. It’s along the rocky ledges that 
they lurk. We’ll try good old-fashioned still- 
fishing with frogs in fifteen feet of water. You 
won’t find many that will run under two pounds 
and I have taken one or two weighing close to 
six. Bradley’s Pond contains the biggest, 
gamiest little-mouth bass I ever fished for.” 
He poured a pitcher of maple syrup from a 
can and announced breakfast. While we ate 
he kept up an incessant stream of conversation, 
skillfully guiding it so as to leave no opening 
for reference to his own life or ours. The 
dishes washed, he led the way to the boat. 
“Now,” he said, “I’ll take you to my favorite 
fishing spot and show you what good sport is 
like.” A mile up the pond we dropped anchor 
and baited up. “Cast up toward the lilypads,” 
he directed, “they float directly over the ledges.” 
My Lady sent a frog spinning over the water 
and a bass leaped , and snatched it. Her cast 
marked the beginning of the best fishing we 
experienced during the season. For nearly 
three hours the tip of one of our rods was 
dancing almost continuously and the struggle 
to land the bass was in full sway. Newt had 
fulfilled his promises, made earlier in the ,day, 
and when we stopped we had an extremely fine 
catch of bass ranging in weight from two to 
four pounds. We returned to Newt’s cabin, 
and after a good dinner, packed up for the 
long tramp homeward. 
Newt rowed us to the opposite shore and 
pointed out a short cut through the woods to 
the railway station. His manner had been so 
reticent at the slightest reference to anything 
personal that we had avoided any mention of 
ourselves, but on the way over he showed a 
lively interest in our camping experiences and 
asked questions, seemingly more for the pur¬ 
pose of preventing us from thanking him than 
from a desire for knowledge, hence at parting 
we were without knowledge of each others’ 
names. 
I extended my hand and gave him a still 
readable card. He looked it over carefully and 
thrust it into his pocket. “Everybody around 
here calls me ‘Daffy Newt,’ he laughed, step¬ 
ping into the boat, “although if I should chance 
to meet you in town I should answer to the 
name of Terrill.” Carl Schurz Shafer. 
Illinois Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 15 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: At a recent meeting of the executive 
committee of our club the following resolution 
was presented and adopted: 
“That the thanks of our committee, as well 
as the entire membership of our club, are due 
to Forest and Stream for the courtesy shown 
us in publishing so generously and with so much 
care and promptness the scores of our club for 
the past season, and that not only are our 
thanks due to its able editor, but also that its 
excellent publication be brought to the attention 
of our membership ‘early and often.’ ” 
Expressing kindest regards on behalf of our 
committee as well as from myself I beg to re¬ 
main, fraternally yours, 
A. D. Whitby, Sec’y-Treas. 
[Thank you. The columns of Forest and 
Stream are always open "to the angling and 
casting clubs, the reports of whose doings are 
read carefully by a large number of men who, 
for reasons too numerous to mention, are not 
themselves free to fish or cast. Many of these 
readers are surprisingly familiar with the cast¬ 
ing records and follow the performances of the 
experts with enthusiasm. Club members of 
course read the reports each week, and in this 
way keep posted on what other clubs are doing 
throughout the season, many of them keeping 
records of all creditable performances. Through 
the National Association’s efforts all casting is 
done under uniform rules, so that scores made 
everywhere may be compared if due allowances 
are given to varying weather conditions. And 
now that casting is practiced in France, Eng¬ 
land, Australia and America under rules that 
are nearly uniform, our casters and those in 
other countries know, on reading the published 
reports, just how much credit should be given 
one who makes a good score; in other words, 
“international record” is no longer an empty 
term as applied to casting the fly or the bait in 
open tournaments. 
Although the casting season is closed and the 
fishing season is nearly over, the interest of 
anglers in matters of importance to them is by 
no means at an end, hence we invite comments 
on any and all subjects that are freely discussed 
among club members. It is around the camp¬ 
fire, after the day’s work or play is over, that 
the best and brightest thoughts are discussed.— 
Editor.] 
Some News and a Little Gossip. 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. held its semi¬ 
annual meeting at Toronto last week. There 
were about 200 members present. This shows 
somewhat of the interest the Canadians take in 
their club. Around here it is often hard work 
to get a quorum. Commodore C. G. Marlatt 
complimented the members on the interest 
they took in all matters pertaining to sailing 
and in the success of the club generally. He 
announced that the next Lake Yacht Racing 
Association regatta would be held in Toronto 
the last of next August, and he hoped it would 
be off Exhibition Park, in connection with the 
National Exhibition which would be held there. 
Commodore Marlatt said he expected that 
there would be challenges for the George and 
possibly the Fisher cups, which would, no 
doubt, keep the club members busy. The sail¬ 
ing committee chosen for next year is C. W. 
Allen, G. M. Alexander, Hal Brent, N. R. 
Gooderham, H. A. Moore, J. S. McMurray and 
E. K. M. Wedd. 
The Hart cup, presented to the Hartford Y. 
C. a year ago by Gerald Waldo Hart for com¬ 
petition and to be won three times by the same 
yachtsman in the annual regattas of the East¬ 
ern Connecticut Y. R. A. before it becomes 
his personal property, was won last season by 
Frederick D. Trapp with his Seawanhaka 
knockabout Keewaydin III. This cup is valued 
at $200. The names engraved on the cup are: 
Opitsah II., owner George N. Gregory, won 
July 2, 1909; Red Jacket, Marcus A. Potter, 
owner, won July 4, 1909; Keewaydin III., 
Frederick D. Trapp, won July 2, 1910; July 9, 
1910, and Sept. 5, 1910. 
The Flanders Y. C., a new organization at 
Flanders, L. I., has built a comfortable house 
which is nicely furnished, on the. shores of 
Flanders Harbor. The membership is quite 
large. The officers are: Commodore, Herman 
Vosnack, of Long Island City; Treasurer, John 
H. Hangan, of Brooklyn; Secretary, Max P. 
Miller, of New York; Steward, Capt. Nathan 
B. Hallock, of Flanders. 
The nominating committee of the Beverly Y. 
C. has reported the following list of officers 
for the season of 1911: Commodore, W. E. 
Eustis; Vice-Commodore, David Rice; Secre¬ 
tary, F. A. Eustis; Treasurer, Walter S. Crane; 
Measurer, John H. Ellis; Council-at-Large, E. 
M. Farnsworth and Franklin W. Hobbs; Re¬ 
gatta Committee—Charles Whittemore, Howard 
Stockton, Jr., David Rice, Henry E. Warner, 
F. A. Eustis, John Paine and Sidney Hosmer; 
House Committee—Frederick B. Cutler, Walter 
S. Crane, Robert H. Hallowell, C. E. Heller 
and Henry E. Warner; Admission Committee— 
A. H. Eustis, Robert Winsor, Jr., Franklin W. 
Hobbs, Frank W. Sargent, Jr., and J. L. Stack- 
pole. 
The Yachtsman says: “It may be taken as an 
absolute certainty that there will be no chal¬ 
lenge for an American cup race next year. Sir 
Thomas Lipton’s polite request to the New 
York Y. G. that they might, as it were, take 
their pluck in both hands and try their luck with 
a yacht instead of a nondescript next time has 
left them cold. Flis suggestion that it was im¬ 
possible to build a racing freak this side that 
could cross the pond without damage has 
failed to melt the icyness of that frigid body. 
Apparently, too, American public opinion has 
not reared itself upon its hind legs and howled 
at the N. Y. Y. C. to any extent likely to make 
any impression. So October has passed with 
no challenge being forthcoming, and Sir 
Thomas is on his way to Ceylon. There may 
be another contest for the cup some day, but 
it is more than likely that the trophy will re¬ 
main as a permanent adornment of the New 
York Y. C. premises.” 
The Yachtsmen’s Club, of Philadelphia, has 
arranged for classes on navigation this winter, 
and William H. Sullivan, a graduate of the 
Naval Academy at Annapolis, and at present 
civil engineer at Brill’s car shops, was ap¬ 
pointed instructor of these classes. He is to suc¬ 
ceed B. D. Reese. Captain Reese will give four 
special lectures in higher nautical astronomy 
at the club. Mr. Sullivan’s class meets every 
Thursday night. The Yachtsmen’s Club ap¬ 
pointed as a committee, Vice-Commodore 
