The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
CASTING TOURNEY
FOR BOYS SATURDAY
Ocean City Fishing Club to
Stage Biggest Event Ever
Held for Youths.
AGES UNDER 16 AND 10
Ray Riday, Phenomenal Cas-
ter, Led Men in Recent
Turf Classic.
AGES UNDER 16 AND ia

OCEAN CITT, N. j.. Aug. 2s.-Next
Saturday the Ocean City Fishing Club
will hold casting tournament in which
the boys will have an entire day.
GUS Meisselbach has donated a $50
watch for the boys under Is making
the best average Of five casts. and q s25
watch for the boys under 16 making the
best average In fve casta
In addition to this there will be q
large number Of prizes to other con-
testants. This tournament Is open to
all boys from anywhere under IS years
Of age,
The youngsters are out on the beach
all day casting, and there will be some
wonderful work done. Ray Riday and
Churchill Hungsrford, Jr., are putting In
most of their time with their rods, and
II practice will do anything John Shaw's
record Of 452 feet inches will go by the
board.
"Btkgest Casting Event in U. g."
Churchill Hungerford in telling a
SUN correspondent of the tournament
said: 1.-THE magnihcence OF the prizes
offered by Mr., Meisselbach and the en-
thusiasm OF the boys, to say nothing Of
their mothers. will without doubt make
this the biggest casting event of any
description ever held in the United
States. This seems like q big statement
but you haven't any idea what excite
ment and enthusiasm Mr.. Meisselbach's
presents have aroused"
1t will be recalled that Ray Riday
was a member Of the Ocean City team
which won this year the Ocean City cup.
The team of which the 16-year-old boy
was a member made the following score
at the annual tournament held on Au-
gust 8: Ocean City, 5000 feet IA
inches; Asbury Park, 7,07S feet 10h
inches, and Long Island. $685. feet II
inches.
1t will be remembered that In the
third round of the tournament the Long
Islanders broke a line, thus eliminat-
ing whatever chances they had for win
ming. Asbury Park reached Ocean City
and at one time led by twenty-five feet,
but lost its lead before the close of the
round, due to the phenomenal casting of
the boy Riday. The total scores for the
three rounds we're: Asbury Park, 1919
feet inches; Long Island, 4,072 feet
inches. and Ocean City. 1880 feet 2
inches.
Roy Outeasts Men I'm Classic.
But In the fourth round the Asbury
Park club met its fate. The pace set
by Ocean City was too severe even for
such experienced casters as they, and q
broken line set them far behind Ocean
City. Their hope now lay in extending
themselves to 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 baeklash
making the final score quoted.
Analysing these totals, Ocean City's
team averaged for each member of its
team 322 feet 10 inches, Asbury Park
asa feet inches and Long Island 266
feet inches.
The best individual score was made
by Riday, who totalled 1,s45 feet 81
inches, which makes an average of his
five casts. $50 feet q inch.
In the final event-the longest cast in
three In the open field-the casters, worn
by the tension of the previous event and
further handicapped by a change In the
direction of the wind, which again veered
directly across the course, cast below
their usual form and another sixteen
year-oid boy, Churchill Hupgerford, Jr.,
won the event with a cast of $50 feet
inches, +. C. Berger of the Long Island
club being second with 37s feet inches,
and Raymond Riday third with S74 feet
inches.
Another boy wonder of Ocean City is
Charles Vollum. In five casts In tourna-
ment work ne made the following scores
sos feet, 8 inches; 302 feet, 10 inches
3l6 feet, inches sos feet, 10 inches
$40 feet. 10 inches total 1854 feet,
. inches; average, $40 feet IL rs In
ches,
Scores Made by Youngsters.
The Ocean City Fishing\Club has re-
corded the following distances for boys
in the event of an average of five casts
In an open field:
]. G. Clark, ga feet 2 s-5 inehesi C. q
fUTS sG feet sst, % inches C Hunger.
s,is feet ! IS Inches; David Hungerford
iS teet . inches; G. NJ Prior, III feet
f. Bauer, Jr., 2ls feet 0 inches; w. Bow
man, 20l feet s-5 inches; w. W, sibson
ar; 10 feet % inches; W. D. zook, s.
: Is inches: NJ Wiilets Which, is OV fest % rex
inches; Franklin wildman, lOl feet 5 is
inches; James Nelly. 70 feet; c. Bauer. 81
5 Inches Harry Bauer iiS feet Inches
and B. Bauerie, 81 feet inches.
For the longest east in an open field
the scores for boys follow:
Raymond Riday, Sss feet ~ inches; C
Vollum, ss6 feet II inches; j. Clark, 2s5
feet; c, c. Summers, 176 feet; c. Hunger.
ford, Jr., EOS feet Y inch; A. Mckinley
272 feet . inches; David James, 22s feet
inches: David Hungerford, asl feet; VIII
lam Brush, $50 feet 4 inches; George
Bauer, FAC feet 4 inches: Walter sibson
c, NJ. Prior, s2b feet Inches: William
Nettleship, tlS9 feet inches: Harry Gray,
liA feet inches; w. d. zook, 80 feet 6
inches.
These are old scores. What the boys
will do next Saturday. with a years
practice will make these scores obsolete,
say veterans OF turf casting.
FALL CASTING TOURNAMENTS.