The sun., 1919-08-14

Frank 2. Hilton says that there is good
oiuenshlng now for those who desire to 70
ior these game fighters in Lower New York
bay. The best results have been obtained
oy trolling with wood squids. A popular
pace has been the waters between Convey
Al. night of late bluehsh have been seen
breaking in Jamaica and Sheepshead bays.
lxsak Walton Celebration Tonight.
an LEAK walton birthday CELEBRATION to-
night at their meeting room in the World
Building.
Ocean City Wins Cup Classic.
The great event of the surf castihs
world, the annual tournament OF the Assoc
ciation OF Surf Angling Clubs, took place
Al rSSse e can city; N; d. on saturday last last
Asbury Park second and Long Island third.
The score was: Ocean City, SOTO feet ~
and Long Island, $3.50 feet II inches.
The principal event of this tournament
IL the Ocean City cup contest In which the
from the different clubs of the association.
In this contest each man Is allowed hys
casts, IN making a total OF twenty-hve casts
obtain an advantage or disadvantage
through a change in the direction of the
wind. the contestants are divided into
squads, each squad being made up OF one
representative from each team.
The order Of casting is for each squad
give way to the following squad. This
system Is followed until every contestant
has made one cast when the same se
rounds.
Three clubs entered the contest. The
Asbury Park Club sent a team of seasoned
as individual casters and as teams. Three
Of their team had held the worlds cham
pionship for the longest Individual cast.
The Long Island Casting club, a newer
organization, but one which had sent ltt
team out for practice once a week ssnt rssS ana
which numbered in its personnel such men
as the present record holder, shaw and
the phenomenon, Berger, presented a team
which seemed invincible.
The Ocean City Fishing Club had the
same team that won the cup iast year
with one exception, that exception belng
the admission of a sixteen-year-old boy
Kay Riday.
event, the average OF I'VE casts in open
field, open to all. Most OF the Asbury
Park team entered this to warm up, the
Long Island club not having reached ocean
willy captain of the Ocean City team, kept
his men out. The wind soon hauled across
suit, DR.. Carleton Simon winning the
event with an average of 1872 feet 8 inches'
Ocean City and Asbury Close Rivals:
Then came the cup event. Mucn Lort
OF the association takes charge OF the heid
and stations hiss officers at various points
to inspect the casting line me lines anu
armed with a megaphone announces the
name, of each caster and his club as ne
steps to the casting line, ana also gives
the distances cast as the measurers bring
them in. These features Insure absence OF
errors or fouls, and add much TO the in
terest of the many spectators VINO usually
attend in very considerable numbers.
Everything in order and the field ofncers
in their respective positions. the president
Of the association, DR.. F. c. Raynor, de,
clared the contest open. The hrst squad
Of three men stepped to the line and cast,
Asbury Park and Ocean CITY tying az S4s
f,.. c faaI.-a and !nnE ICl~ nd dFOnnlnS n
little behind.
The second squad put Asbury Park nifty
feet ahead and Long Island registered a
Park only ten feet ahead Of Ocean City;
The next two squads, with both Shaw and
Berger up, saw a valiant attempt on Long
stoned by the broken line and the round
closed with totals of 1.5t4 feet 3 inches for
Island and 1888 feet IL inches for Ocean
City.
In the second round every squad scored
without break or backlash and Ocean City
led Asbury Park at its close by less than
ten feet. The scores for the two rounds
now. stood at s.224 feet I inches for Asbury
Park, ass feet s inches for Long Island
and S.2s4 feet 5 inches for ocean City:
During the third round Long Island
m wSetvs another shs1co O6 of w,nn ahus It e" had. and
Asbury Park reached Ocean City and at
one time led by twenty-five feet. but lost
It's lead before the close Of the round. due
Of the phenomenal casting of the boy
Rlday. The total scores for the three
rounds were Asbury Park. 4,Sl9 feet 8
inches; Long Island. i.o72 feet s inches,
and ocean City, 1850 feet 2 inches. Surely
a wonderfully close contest between Asovry
Park and Ocean City.
Best Score Made by Boy.
But In the fourth round the Asbury Park
club met its fate. The pace set by Ocean
City was too severe even for such export
enced casters as they, and a broken line
set them FAR behind Ocean City. Their
hope now lay in extending themselves 10
the uttermost limit or in the chance that
Ocean City might score a break.
But the Ocean City team went through
to the end without break or backlash
making the final score for the Ocean City
cup event as follows: ocean city Fishing
o AND GUN.
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