Canoeing

This sport has now reached a stage in its development where a certain cla have made it a special sport. This has come about only during the last thirty years. In the 'Sixties English canoeists, with Mac greg or at their head, were being numbered by hundreds, and in 1874 the sport began its progre in America. The American Canoe A ociation was formed at Lake George in 1880. In the first year thirty canoes were present, in the second year sixty, and in the third year one hundred and thirty. From that time a ociations were formed, and each grew independently. Canadian a ociations have attracted many, and at the present day there are in the U. S. and Canada hundreds of clubs and you sands of members. Meets and races are frequent, and the types have steadily improved along the lines of, and developing from, the old Rob Roy and Shadow.