. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. The Fly-OaBters. The San Francisco Fly-Casting Club on Tuesday evening held its annual meeting and election of officers. Reports submitted and read show that the roll of club membership, one hundred, is filled and that a number of applications are on file on the watting list. The club treasury is plethoric. A synopsis of the plan of contests for 1900 was submitted by the executive committee and adopted. Twelve contests are provided for, the first series of seven contests will be for classification; the Eecond series of five conteetB will be class competition. T
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. The Fly-OaBters. The San Francisco Fly-Casting Club on Tuesday evening held its annual meeting and election of officers. Reports submitted and read show that the roll of club membership, one hundred, is filled and that a number of applications are on file on the watting list. The club treasury is plethoric. A synopsis of the plan of contests for 1900 was submitted by the executive committee and adopted. Twelve contests are provided for, the first series of seven contests will be for classification; the Eecond series of five conteetB will be class competition. The first meeting for the Beason will take place at Stow lake, on Saturday, February 17, at 2:20 P. M., Saturday and Sunday meetings following thereafter as ap. pears in the schedule below, the final contest taking place on Sunday morning, September 30tb. Three medals are offered in distance, championship, first and second classes, two medals in accuracy, one champion ship and one first cUsf; also two in delicacy, one champion ship and one first class and one championship medal in lure casting. A present medal bolder will bave to win three limes before be may finally retain the trophy. Those who have never won a medal before will have to win only once to retain the trophy. The former club rules governing events were adopted, wilh seme slight cbarjgeB in the distance con- tests, no time allowance being now given for replacing a lost fly. The champion class in distance was raised to 102£ feet average; accuracy championship clasB to 90 per cent. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year PreBident, Walter D Mansfield; Vice-President, F. H. Reed; Secretary, Horace Smyth; Treasurer, Herman F. Muller Executive Committee, Colonel George C. Ewwards, John P. Babcock, C. G. Youog, J. S. Turner, Ed*ard Everett; cap- tains, A E Lovett and T. W. Brotherton. The dates for the season's contests and re-entries have been fixed as follows: Sundays, 10 a. m. February 18 Contests, Sa
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