The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-12
THE CHAMPION OF THE
4 BOOMERANG CLUB.
Peace Rcign:ng There Now Again
After Somewhat Agitating
Episode, Caus:J by Envy.

The Boomerang Club, as you might infe-
from its title. Is devoted primarily to the
fascinating diversion of casting the boom
erang. twice a week its members meet
on large tract of land which the club owns.
at little distance from the city, there to
throw boomerangs.
But. while they get from this sport
whole lot of exercise, it cannot be said that
the members have acquired much skill at IT,.
They have sowed boomerangs in lnrge
numbers all over the adjacent and sur
rounding territory but rarely has one
come back to "A point anywhere near the
thrower.
And so the members of the club naturally
were all the more deeply Interested -they
became in fact. actually excited-when
at last one Of their number, who for a long
time had been throwing neither better nor
worse than the rest suddenly developed
skill that was nothing less than phenomenal.
| This was the engaging Herbert Won Stop
/ pington, a young man Of considerable
means and of agreeable manners, whom
/ everybody liked, and whose success gave,
| therefore, to everybody doubly great salts
faction.
y if'Ti Nbptl was lithoth llldN any lhNhi
Der should finally have achieved success in
the difficult sport which the club had chosen.
and all were glad that this somebody should
be the popular young Herbert Won Stopping
ton But pretty soon feeling arose that
Won Sloppngton was having too much
success; his boomerangs came back every
time he threw and this they couldn't under
stand
II no haTl r,,oIn IA ~ ia tbro,v nrca IN htla
they wouldn't have thought so much about
it; but lie never did. No matter in what
direction he cast his boomerangs, nor how
far he threw them they each and every one
came back with quite unfailing certainty;
and finally the club got stirred UP over il.
Somebody noticed that now there
always to be seen tied around each of Won
Sloppington's bcomerangs. enveloping
short section Of H. thin wrapping of paper;
whereas those ne had thrown before his
phenomenal success began had never had
anything tied around them This was
mysterious. and finally the whole business
became 50 disturbing that action was taken
upon it by the club. Won Sloppington was
called upon to explain, and then the whole
story came out
1t seems that the Young man was en-
gagged in literary pursuits, fact not gen
orally known in the club, for the simple
reason that he had mover had anything
printed
He had been devotng himself to author
ship for some years, but no matter what he
wrote or where he sent it his offerings
had always come back to him And at
last in this state Of affairs young Won |
Sloppington had bethought him of tying |
prp pf his mn around hrOr,-
erang and sending it out IN that way And !
this without any idea Of taking advantage /
Of the club-far from il
What he had thought was that az he had |
never yet succeeded in getting a boomerang
back, perhaps he might in this way get rid |
Of one of his manuscripts When his turn
came in the casting on the day on which .
he made that first phenomenal throw. and
he stood up and launched that boomerang
with the thin wrapping Of paper around it
of into space, smiling inwardy as he did
SO. he was simply thinking to himself thar
now at last he was going to get manu-
script accepted somewhere If it was only
by the crows in some distant cornfeld
But then. a little later. came that astonish-
ing surprise. when to the amazement of the
group Of cluhmen gathered around him
young Won Sloppngton himself there was
observed coming straight toward them
out Of space what was Enthusiastically a
boomerang a boomerang that came di-
rectly toward and actually settled at last
fair al young Won Sloppington's feet And
then had come that rejoicing by the club.
and it was then that young Won Sloppington
had his fall
He had never dreamed that that first
manuscript would come back "a it did.
but from that on until the grand denoue-
ment every boomerang that Young Herbert
Won Sloppiugtou launched NJ the semi /
weekly meetings Of the Boomerang Club /
had tied around It one OF his manuscripts,
And every one came back
Now YOU understand that technically.
Won Sloppington had done nothing wrong.
For it was set forth clearly and explicitly
in the brief rules Of the club governing it's
contests that there should be no restric-
tons whatever a. 10 the bocmcrangs thrown
excepting only as 10 their length-there I
should be used no boomerang exceeding
,iI feet in length. measuring along the ,
-urve But that was the only restric-
ton and Won Sloppington's hoomerangs
were all well within the prescribed meas
irement
So that technically he was all right; and I
his was freely conceded But there was .
strong underCurrent Of feeling against Z
him in the club nevertheless; for II was
'elt that Won SloppinRton knew after that +
inst trial that no was playing a sure thing
IN them: that he knew that Ak long as he
jed the manuscript on securely, so that
I and the boomerang couldn't get sep =,
rated the boomerang must come back,
md so he had the whole club AT his mercy
Won Soppington offered TO resign nj once. P,
md for "A time there was connection in the I
hub. some Of the younger members were ;
n favor Of eXpellinG him But after v
ghile things Gained down and finally the o
whole matter was Just simply dropped: d
With the understanding though. OF course. q
hat young Won Sloppington should not
wrap any morn Of his manuscripts around I
liz boomerangs. And from that on his
hrowing had az the worst and now 4,
'eace reigns once more in the Boomerang !
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