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The Racine Tournament. 
Durtinc the International fly- and bait-casting 
tournament held in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Aug. 
3 and 4, 1906, the National Association of 
Scientific Angling Clubs was formed, the ob- 
jects of which are, primarily, to perfect uni- 
versal rules under which to conduct national or 
international tournaments, to promote interest 
in scientific angling through tournament or con- 
test casting, to guard against any evils of pro- 
fessionalism that may possibly arise, to assist 
H, WHEELER PERCE, 
of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club. President of the 
National Association. 
in the propagation and protection of game fishes 
and influence legislation toward this end, to 
promote the appreciation of true amateur 
sportsmanship among anglers and lend normal 
support to all moves toward true sportsmanship 
in all sports, and to promote such social con- 
ditions as are incident to the sport of angling. 
Officers for one year were then elected, as 
follows: President, H. Wheeler Perce, of the 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club; First Vice-President, 
B. L. Shutts, of the Kalamazoo Bait- and Fly- 
Casting Club; Second Vice-President, J. W. 
Bramhall, of the Kansas City Bait- and Fly- 
Casting Club; Third Vice-President, Fred J. 
Wells, of the Fox River Valley Bait-Casting 
Club; Fourth Vice-President, Walter B. Mans- 
field, of the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club; 
Secretary, H. E. Rice, of the Illinois Bait-Cast- 
ing Club; Treasurer, Dr. C. F. Bowne, of the 
Racing Fly-Casting Club. 
The management of the association is vested 
in an executive committee made up of the 
national officers elected and one representative 
from each club which already has or may here- 
after affiliate. 
At this meeting eight clubs became affiliated 
with the national association. They are the 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club, the Fox River 
Valley Bait-Casting Club, the Grand Rapids 
Fly-Casting Club, the Illinois Bait-Casting 
Club, the Kalamazoo Bait- and Fly-Casting 
Club, the Kansas City Bait- and Fly-Casting 
Club, the Racine Fly-Casting Club, the San 
Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
A cordial invitation was extended to all 
angling clubs and anglers, to correspond with 
the president or secretary relative to their join- 
ing the association as a club, or forming clubs 
eligible to membership, and the Anglers’ Club 
of New York immediately made application for 
and was elected to membership. Other clubs 
have joined since then, and the angling clubs 
from coast to coast conduct their contests under 
national rules. 
At this meeting the Racine Fly-Casting Club 
asked that the tournament for 1907 be held in 
Racine, and this was agreed to. 
During the past winter the executive com- 
mittee and the club delegates formulated a set 
of rules, and these will be followed at the big 
tournament now being held in Racine, the dates 
Aug. 15-17 inclusive. 
The Racine Fly-Casting Club’s officers and 
the committees in charge of the tournament, 
follow: 
Officers.—President, Chas. H. Washburn; 
Vice-President, Allen H. Barnes; Secretary- 
Treasurer, Dr. Chas. F. Browne; Captain, John 
R. Dishington. 
Directors—Allen B. Northrup, Chas. M. 
Phelps, Elbert B. Hand. 
Finance Committee—Chas. H. Washburn, 
Chairman; B. Hinrichs, A. J. Horlick. 
Tournament and Grounds Committee.—John 
R. Dishington, Chairman and Captain; O. F. 
Botstond a Chases ie ws Washburn, « Dr iC. — PB: 
Browne, A. H. Barnes, Dr. P. T. Van Ornum, 
F. W. McAnanny, B. F. Flegel. 
Programme Committee.—Dr. Chas. F, 

Browne, = Chairman; (8; Pe \Kastler; Ey HH. 
Smieding, Dr. P. T. Van Ornum, F. W. Mc- 
Ananny, O. F. Botsford. 
Publicity Committee.—Allen H. Barnes, 
Chairman; Judge E. B. Belden, F. W. Mc- 
Ananny. 
Entertainment Committee——Allen B. North- 
rup, Chairman; James E. Bush, H. F. Johnson, 
A. J. Horlick, C. M. Phelps, A. Arthur Guilbert. 
Reception Committee—E. B. Hand, Chair- 
mau je ceckund.) (Revas Ay GC. (Grier; Ware. 
England, J. D. Rowland, G. N. Fratt. 
Trophies Committee.—O. F. Botsford, Chair- 
man; A, C. Frank, J. Hocking. 
The programme of events: 
First Day, Aug. 15.—8:30 A. M., accuracy 
bait %-ounce, professional; 10:30 A. M., deli- 
cacy and accuracy fly, professional; 1 P. M., ac- 
curacy bait, %4-ounce, professional; 3:30 P. M., 
distance fly, amateur. Special Feature.—5 P. 
M., distance salmon fly, for record, professional. 
Second Day, Aug. 16.—8:30 A. M., delicacy 
and accuracy fly, amateur; 10:30 A. M., distance 
and accuracy fly, amateur; 1 P. M., accuracy 
bait ™%4-ounce, amateur. 
Third Day, Aug. 17.—8:30 A. M., accuracy 
bait %-ounce, amateur; 4 P. M., distance bait 
Y%4-ounce, amateur. : 
The prize list is very large, all indications 
point to an attendance that will be a record 
breaker, and judging from the practice of the 
most skilled fly- and bait-casters, the scores will 
be high. 
A full report of the tournament will be pub- 
lished in Forest AND STREAM, together with 
appropriate illustrations. 
Low Water. 
Mr. H. B. ZABRISKIE, who was fishing in the 
streams flowing into the East Branch of the 
Delaware last week, writes that many of the trout 
streams are almost dried up and that few trout 
are rising. Similar information comes from 
dozens of streams in New York State. 
The Sea Angler Ashore.—I. 
A STRANGE and persistent frenzy of unrest 
drifts in perhaps from the sea in spring. It is 
of the things dreams are made of; perhaps it 
does not come from breaking waves, but it is 
a part of the fragrance of spring flowers, a part 
of that springing into life that pervades all dor- 
mant nature in spring. Be this as it may, it 
fastens itself upon the imagination of the angler 
in early spring when the snow is still to be 
seen in secluded corners and grows in intensity 
until May or June, when the victim, completely 
in the toils, throws restraint to the winds, seizes 
his rod and fly-book and hies himself to some 
one of Van Dyke’s little rivers, where with per- 

HE. 
3ait-Casting Club. 
RICE, 
of the Illinois Secretary of the 
National Association, 
fect abandon he gives himself over to the charms 
and allurements of nature. 
No one has ever suggested a cure for this 
malady of the angler, and no one ever will, as 
it is the one contagion that man delights in and 
welcomes year by year, the one epidemic that 
is looked forward to in dreams and awake, the 
only disturbance of men that can be promptly 
cured, stopped and eradicated by merely going 
a-fishing. Philosophers from the earliest days 
have pondered over and written about the charms 
of fishing; churchmen and housewives have de- 
nounced it, but the streams run on, their music 
is unabated, trout and bass still rise to flies, dry 
and wet, and always will, is the consolation of 
the devout and philosophical angler. 
With unabating force and intensity this fish- 
ing fever comes as the days roll on and the buds 
swell, while the song of birds fills the air, telling 
of the open season soon to come. 
How the ardent angler strolls through the 
woods and fields days before, studying the con- 
ditions which are to make or unmake his ang- 
ling joys; wonders if the water is too high or 
too low, if the season has been too cold, and if 
some enemy of man and trout has, despite the 
laws, been fishing all winter. 
But in time the day of days comes, and the 
angler is away; all the expectations of a long 
winter, the longings for spring days, filling his 

