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Issue Number 45 An International Boomerang Newsletter January 1998

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1997 Turkey Toss in Michigan For the first time in U.S. history, a single competition in-cluded events for both returning boomerangs and non-returning kylies (hunting sticks). The 22 contestants fea-tured throwers from both coasts with Will Herlan repre-senting Washington State, and Paul Sprague representingConnecticut. As always there was a strong contingent ofthrowers (Broadbents and friends) from Ohio. Last year'schamp Jeff Heinrichs faithfully returned the traveling Tur-key trophy to see who would take it home for the next year.This year's trophy arsenal was enlarged to include a travel-ing trophy for the 12 and under Junior division. The windswere low but the mist made things interesting. The returning boomerang events, run according to theUSBA Super Novice rules, were fast throw and trick catch.Fast throw had Ted Bailey, Gary Broadbent Sr., JeffHeinrichs, and Will Herlan under 30 seconds. Trick catchfeatured Gary Broadbent Sr. making 7 foot catches and abehind the back for 75 points. Jeff Heinrichs, PaulSprague and Tim Davis all scored over 40 points. The kylie events were Waki-Klak featuring a finely craft-ed turkey target built by the Sprague brothers and You-Miss-You-Out, using a new flexible target build by TomLuczycki. Last year Norm's PVC pipe target took such abeating, Tom took mercy and engineering a much betterone. Norm Kern jumped to an early lead in Waki-Klakwhich he held by hitting the turkey on the first 2 rounds andscoring in 6 frames. Jeff Heinrichs was pointless untilround 7 of 10 but he came on strong with 2 turkey hits and3 strong accuracy results. Third place went to young NateHarbowy with 2 turkey hits and accuracy points in 3frames. Ted Bailey took 4th with 2 turkey strikes and acouple of accuracy points. In You-Miss-You-Out, only 12throwers hit the 4 x 5 target at 20 meters. Of these, only 5hit at 30 meters, and only Norm Kern hit at 40 meters.Both kylie events included the extra drama of tie breakers. Although he did not win any events, Jeff Heinrichs wonthe tournament with consistent high placing. Gary Broad-bent Sr. took second with his first and second in the return-ing events. Norm Kern took third based on his wins in bothkylie events. The Junior champ was Jeremiah Davis with2nd places in the returning events, Waki-Klak and a win inYMYO. Second place went to Nate Harbowy with only asingle point difference behind Jeremiah. Third through fifthwent to Matt Solomon, Logan Broadbent, and KentSprague. As the final scores were being totaled many of thethrowers enjoyed an unofficial distance event, and Jim Gil-ligan demonstrated his Atlatl (Woomera, spear thrower).Even with 4 events, we started at 10:30 and were off thefield by 1:30.

Norm Kern

Jim Gilliganwith Atlatl

Gary BroadbentWinds Up for

the Throw

Jim Sprague

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The Snouffers have new tele-phone area codes, effective imme-diately. Chet Snouffer’s newphone number is (740)-363-8332.Gregg Snouffer’s new phonenumber is: (740)-363-4414. Carl Morris had his 35th birth-day this past December. His wifemade him a cake shaped shapedlike a small traditional boomerangwith a 12" span. She even carvedleft-handed airfoils into it. For theblank, she used carrot cake andfinished it with a coconut/walnutglaze finish. Yumm!! Yet another American basedcatalog has surfaced selling Aus-tralian products. This catalog iscalled “Australian Products” andfeatures lots of food goods, cloth-ing, jewelry, music, art and Abo-riginal items like boomerangs ($6- $99) and didjeridoos ($10 -$260). There is a small boome-rang book for $6. For more info,call (408)-244-6104 or write:

Australian Products3080 Neal Avenue

San Jose, CA 95128

News From The:

he Fall Auction is nowhistory. A total of $1,851 wascollected and sent to Tom Fitz-gerald to benefit the followingteams: The Scandinavian Teamreceives $1,167. All three USAteams will split $253. TeamUSA Red will receive an addi-tional $287. The UK Team willreceive $50. Various teams willsplit $94. Many thanx to thosewho donated booms to help outthe World Cup Teams and tothose organizations and individu-als who helped advertise the auc-tion and/or donated time and webspace to post the web pages. Another auction will takeplace in the Spring. Boomerangshave already arrived and are be-ing logged in. Items include anearly Janetzki “Skippy”, the cov-eted undulating “U” that the Ja-netzki brothers are credited withdesigning. In addition, there isan extensive library of boome-rang books, most of which areout of print and in high demand.A complete list will be availableshortly. More information aboutthe Spring auction can be foundat the following web page URL:http://users.aol.com/tbrang2/auction.html Alternately, youcan contact Ted Bailey at the ad-dress at the end of this issue for acomplete list of auction items andbidding information. Peter J Toenjes is a newname to Boomerang News. Peteris another Michigan boomerangerwho makes and sells cross stickswith a circular path diameter of30 feet and a price of $10, (in-cludes shipping). Contact:

Peter Toenjes412 McKinley Ave.

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236

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Mark Horstmeier saw an epi-sode of Xena - Warrior Princesson 15 December where the pri-mary bad guy made himself aboomerang to fight ol' Xena's'Chackrum. Since it was Xena'sshow, she won out, but we knowwhat would have really happened. Tom Risher heard on thenews that Circuit City is nowcharging a 15% restocking fee onreturned items to discourage“boomerang buyers”. These arecustomers who buy big ticketitems, use them for a few days,and then return them to the store. Rawling’s Sporting Goods Co.has a new battery operated base-ball product with an integratedmicrochip processor that displaysthe speed at which the baseball isthrown on a LED. The baseballcosts about $40. Anyone want tobuy one and put the electronicsinto a boomerang? Alan Scott Craig was featuredon a 6 minute segment of theHome and Family Show hosted byChristine Ferrara and Mike Bur-ger. The show, which includedAlan throwing and had a largedisplay of Alan’s art boomerangswas aired in late October. Doug Walters loaned his book“All About Boomerangs” to afriend who spilled coffee on it.His friend decided to write toLorin Hawes for a replacement.Lorin not only sent a replacementbook, but visited with Doug (andMark Weary & Dwaine Morris)recently in Arizona. The grouphad a good throw and dinner.They plan to make it an annual af-fair as Lorin visits his brother inArizona each year. John Weigel is planning an in-formal get together and throw inthe San Diego area on 10 January.Several out of town visitors, in-cluding John Flynn, ColoradoBoomerangs, Stevie Kavanaughand Eric Darnell will be in thearea for a kite show. If you canattend, give SouthBay Johnny acall at (619)-462-4379 or emailJohn at: dbl-bull@pacbell.net

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Doug DuFresne has beenquite busy with his new Engi-neering position. He is catchingup on his production and plans toissue a new catalog in early 1998.Doug also has lots of the Mi-chael Siems books, “The Ulti-mate Boomerang Book” for sale.If you are a retailer, you maywish to add this popular item toyour inventory. You can contactDoug by calling (503)-292-4316or by writing to:

Doug DuFresneOutback Boomerangs

P. O. Box 25577Portland, OR 97225

Colorado Boomerangs has is-sued a new catalog with 17boomerang models, a Windicator,carrying case, bike carrier and T-shirt. There are also some com-bination packages that will saveyou hard cash. If you are unfa-miliar with Colorado Boome-rangs, they make the DelicateArch and other high qualityAmerican made boomerang prod-ucts. To get your own catalog,call (800)-35RANGS or write to:

Colorado Boomerangs407 W. Tomichi Avenue

Gunnison, CO 81230

Kendall Davis has issued theWinter edition of his “Master De-signs” catalog featuring 11 quali-ty models priced from $6 to $18.The Klingon and Tomahawkmodels were prominently fea-tured in the Fall 1997 boomerangauction. To receive your owncatalog or to find out about Ken-dall’s boomerang products,email: davisks@cris.com , call(309)-793-9885 or write to thefollowing address:

Kendall Davis932 21st Street

Rock Island, IL 61201

these when you write to request acatalog. For more information,email: grahamrang@hotmail.comcall (918)-333-0730 or write to:

Graham’s Boomerangs924 Yale Drive

Bartlesville, OK 74006

Kelly Milner Halls is a free-lance writer who has written acharming story about Adam Ruhffor People for Teens magazine.More stories about boomerangersare planned for a later date. Lookfor more information about the

publication of this article in afuture issue of Boomerang

News.Congratulations to Mi-chael Girvin for win-ning the “MHRBoomeranger of theYear” award. Mi-

chael Gabrielwon “Rookie of

the Year”.

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Steven Graham is an Elemen-tary Art Teacher from Bartles-ville, Oklahoma who makes andthrows boomerangs as a hobby.He is totally immersed in thesport and has given talks onboomerangs to many organiza-tions. His boomerangs are fea-tured in Bartlesville’s Smart Toysstore. The editor recently sam-pled the 13" Super Loop omegaboomerang pictured below. Thisboomerang is of top quality con-struction, made with 5 ply FinnishBirch plywood and painted withRC airplane paint, lettered withcalligraphy and double coatedwith high gloss polyurethane.The Super Loop is attractivelypriced at only $16. A Super LoopPro model, made out of 10 ply5mm Birch is also available at aprice of $25. A light version ofthe Super Loop is available at just$8. The editor gave the standardSuper Loop a test throw andfound it to be an incredibly easyboomerang to throw and catch. Ithas a 30± metre range. Thisboomerang is a terrific sportsboomerang for a thrower aged 16or above. Steven has 4 additionalboomerangs in his catalog pricedfrom $16 to $50. Not pictured in Steven’s cata-log is a fun little cross stick thathe teaches his students to makeout of paint sticks which are do-nated by the local Wal-Mart store.Steven carves airfoils intothe upper surface ofeach paint stick andthen joins two to-gether with rub-ber bands. Thesework remarka-ble well andhave a range ofabout 10 me-tres. Askabout

Steven Graham & Daquiri

Steven Graham’s Super Loop Omega Boomerang

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Günter called the company andasked about the story. Günter wastold that the story is about a manwho loves his boomerang and alsoloves the Sheoak tree. He is wor-ried that the tree getting cold inwinter and goes out to search for acoat to cover the tree. He finds acoat in the form of yellow flowersthat blanket the tree. Neat!Günter found out that the storywill be shown on TV and will alsobe available on video. If youwant to find out more about thisvideo, contact Günter at:

Günter WandtkeWarrah Village20 Harris Rd.

Dural NSW 2158Australia

The 18 December 1997 editionof The Wall Street Journal con-tained an advertisement for Amer-ican, Western & Sporting Art forJ. N. Bartfield Galleries. The ad-vertisement included a photo of amarvelous oil painting showingSW Indians on a Rabbit Hunt onhorseback using Rabbit Sticks.These Rabbit Sticks have morecurvature than is typically seem inmuseum collections! If you arefeeling rather wealthy, you canpurchase this original art by call-ing the gallery at (212) 245-8890.

Brad Westervelt (USA) wentto Sydney on a short vacation inDecember. On his visit, he lookedup the word “boomerang” in thewhite pages of the phone book andfound 36 businesses with namesbeginning with the word “Boome-rang”. Other businesses havenames that begin with the words:Boom, Booma, Boomer, etc. Bradalso met Duncan MacLennanand picked up two nice boome-rangs at The Rainbow SerpentGallery in the Sydney Airport.You can email this gallery and in-quire about their stock at:sales@rainbowserpent.com.au Paul Gustafson (USA) foundthe following in the Hartford Ad-vocate newspaper in a column ti-tled: "News of the Wird”:"In October, a justice of the North-ern Territory (Australia) SupremeCourt refused to release AborigineSteven Barnes, 28, for tribal jus-tice, instead holding him underAustralian law for the murder of a23-year-old nephew. Tribal eldershad secured Barnes' consent to thetraditional punishment for hiscrime, including having membersof his own family punch him inthe face, then club him with heavyhunting boomerangs, then slingthe boomerangs at him and finallyspear him in both thighs four orfive times." We really know thatthese are not boomerangs, buthunting/war throwsticks which arenot promoted by most civilized

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boomerang clubs. On 28 September, the Sydneythrowers held their monthly throwand had 10 Japanese visitors astheir guests. After Lunch, PeterLewry, a lefty who throws onlyLH booms, except for a RH BaileyMTA, took his family out to per-form a throwing demonstration.Peter’s daughter, Kellie Lewry,started out her MTA warm up witha 26 second flight, followed by a40 second flight, followed by a 67second flight (Kellie is a strongbaseball thrower)! After a briefrest, she went on to demonstrate aflight of 76.25 seconds! Watchout for Kellie in future Aussiecompetitions. Günter Wandtke and Broth-er Brian Thomas made a TVshow for German audiences in theAsian-Pacific region on 27 Octo-ber. Bruce Carter, with sonsTrent and Craig did a TV show forBush Telegraph with singer JohnWilliamson. Prominently featuredwas their night boomerang show. Günter Wandtke found a se-ries of 4 new stamps. A card ac-companies the $1.80 stamp whichshows an Aborigine holding aboomerang and looking at a tree.The caption on the back of thecard says “Illustration from Tug-gan Tuggan, an animated Dream-time story”, Aboriginal NationsAnimation Studio, Sydney. The Dreaming - Aussie Stamp

W. R. Leigh (1866-1955) Rabbit Hunt, oil, 16 x 26 inches

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Congratulations to: Br. BrianThomas for winning AussieRound (47 pts.); Terry Pattersonfor winning Accuracy (30 pts.);Br. Rod Shoebridge for winningSame Boomerang (26 pts); andPeter Lewry for winning MTA(25.43 sec.) at the 2nd AnnualBlacktown Competition which washeld on 16 August 1997.

John Cryderman has finallyissued the price listing for boome-rangs shown in his new 40 pagecatalog. The 8 page list has morethan 100 plywood and S/L boome-rangs with categories that include:Spyder; Hammer Hooks; Gerh-ards; Smiths; Throwsticks; etc.Prices range from $25 to $220. A sum of $1 will be donated tothe 1998 World Cup with the pur-chase of each catalog. John isconstructing a plaque with thenames of everyone who has pur-chased a catalog. This plaque,shown below, will be raffled at the1998 World Cup as a fund raiser.There is room for at least 50 morenames. If you want to purchase aCryderman catalog and add yourname to the plaque, you can send$5 to the following address:

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Team III13 Georg Bauerschmidt

18 Dennis Bittner21 Torsten Gründel

23 Lothar Haase24 Rolf Schlayer

25 Hans-Georg Hoffmann

Günter Möller, editor of theDBC Info, has new email at:MoellerU@uni-duesseldorf.de HaGü Nikolayczyk has is-sued the second edition of hisfabulous Boomerang Plans”“BUmerang PLAn SAmmlung”.This is the world’s greatest col-lection of boomerang plans intwo editions!Issue No.1 contains all the plansfrom the newsletter of the Ger-man DBC from 1979 - 1995(about 100 pages!!!). Issue No. 2contains all the 'foreign' plansfrom other newsletters, privateplans from throwers like GeorgiDimantchev, new plans from theDBC newsletter and others...(also about 100 pages!!!) IssueNo. 1 and No. 2 cost $15 USDeach (incl. p&p) or buy the pairfor $28 USD. Issue No. 3 will beavailable in Summer/Fall 1998!!!If you live overseas and want air-mail delivery, please include anextra $5/book. Write to:

HaGü NikolayczykRingstraße 21

D - 539191 WeilerswistGermany

Erik Leferink was recently in-terviewed by a journalist of a na-tional Dutch newspaper called"Algemeen Dagblad". This ispart of a series about championsfrom 4 uncommon sports. Theothers sports include: "Nintendo"computer-games and Solex(moped)-riding. The article willwas published on 27- 31 Decem-ber 1997 and issued throughoutEurope.

John Cryderman136 Thames Street

Chatham, Ontario N7L 2Y8Canada

Congratulations to Yves Cazèfor taking first place overall in theDijon tournament of 4/5 October.Of special note is his time of17.53 seconds in the Fast Catchevent. Christophe Dautriche andSebastien Giheux came in secondand third respectively.

All qualified German throwershad a meeting on 20/21 Decemberat Axel Heckner´s home inGießen. The three teams were ful-ly defined at that time. Someshuffling of rated throwers oc-cured. Heinz-Willi Dammerswill not participate on a team. Flo-rian König (place 24) moves intoDammer’s place. Two of the teamnames have yet to be defined butcould become “Young Guns II”and “Old Bones II”. Günter Moller provided thenames of throwers who will beon the three German teams withtheir 1997 rankings in the tablebelow:

"Young Guns"1 Harald Steck2 Fridolin Frost

3 Oliver Thienhaus5 Gerrit Lemkau6 Günter Möller

11 Torsten Fredrich

Team II4 Axel Heckner

7 Oliver Rau9 Michael Siems

12 Thomas Szartowicz14 Alexander Opri

22 Paul Gajski

World Cup Supporters Plaque

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Aivars Brengulis is a Latvianboomerang manufacturer who isreaching out to other boomerangthrowers through his presence onthe World Wide Web with thehelp of his boomeranging friend,Martins Ierags. You can viewAivars’ boomerangs at the URL:http://www.open.lv/home/aivars

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Aivars makes a large variety oftwo bladed and multi-bladedboomerangs out of plywood. Healso makes boomerangs out ofLatvian natural elbow materials.These boomerangs sell for only $7(USD). This includes shipping toanywhere in the world! Theseboomerangs are a real bargain. Collectors would be wise tobuy at least one before they all dis-

appear at this remarka-ble low price. The edi-tor sampled one of theplywood models thatAivars graciously sentfor a review. Thisboomerang appears tobe made out of 4mm 4ply Latvian Birch. Thetraditional boomerang

has good airfoiling and comeswith a glossy finish. The V85 de-sign flies well, but is not particu-larly well suited to any particularcompetition event. It is still anexcellent product for a low priceof only $7. Boomerangs and throwstickswere popular in pre-historic Lat-via. In previous issues of BN,you read about prehistoricboomerangs from Germany,France, Holland, Switzerland, Po-land and Scandinavia. Now youcan add Latvia to the list. Maybeit would be prudent to list Euro-pean countries that don't have aprehistoric record of boomerangtype devices instead of countriesthat do. The list would be moremanageable.

Prehistoric Latvian Boomerangs!Drawings are from scientific re-ports (1938-1959) about archaeo-logical expeditions at 25 peat bogsin Latvia near the Baltic sea. Arti-facts are 4,000 to 5,000 years old.

Miscellaneous Boomerangs by Aivars Brengulis

Natural Elbows by Latvia’s Aivars Brengulis

Latvia’s Aivars Brengulis and Martins Ierags

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If you want to find out moreabout Latvian boomerangs, youcan contact Aivars through email:sd50086@lanet.lv or write to:

Aivars BrengulisL. Paegles 14-23Sigulda LV 2150Latvia, Europe

Brian Kemp has faithfully re-ported on boomerang activities inSingapore for the past severalyears. Brian has decided to returnto his native country of Australiaat the start of the new year.Brian’s new address will be:

Brian KempKoyama Pottery

1160 Bellarine HighwayWallington, Victoria, 3221

AUSTRALIA

Chicago Bob has provided thefollowing information regardingthe 1998 World Cup. The dormswhere everyone will be stayingwill sleep just over 500. Teammembers and families have priori-ty, but there's little chance thatthey'll fill it up. So, people canpretty much plan on staying withthe teams in the dorms, which willbe very cool, having so manythrowers under one roof! The costis $50 for a room with two bedsper night. As for activities, the IndividualWorld Championships will beopen to all, though there may be acut-off for the total number of en-trants (125-150) to prevent eventsfrom taking too long. The cost forthe Individual Championships is$75 in advance, $125 after July1st. That will get you into thetwo-day Championships and a T-shirt. Plans are underway to holda Long Distance World Champi-onship, which will be open to all,though there may be a qualifier in

the morning. The main part of thefield is around 250 m by 250 m,which is minimal for Long Dis-tance. There will also be a day ofgeneral fun, Head-2-Head or GelGames or whatever. These detailsare coming along now and will be-come final in the next couple ofmonths. Chicago Bob has createda comprehensive web page witheverything relating to the WorldCup at http://www.htc.net/~chibob/worldcup.html Addition-al details can be found on the webpages: http://users.aol.com/tbrang2/World_Cup98.html andhttp://users.aol.com/tbrang2/World_Cup98_2.html All team organizers need tocommunicate with Tom Fitzge-rald directly. Tom has email at:Fitzreturn@aol.com You can alsocall (314) 839-1604 or write to:

Tom Fitzgerald1159 Holly River Dr.

Florissant, MO 63031

Richard Pollock-Nelson hasgraciously invested a ton of timeinto hosting the complete text ofback issues of Boomerang Newson his web site. Here, you canread all of the news from previousissues of Boomerang News. Whenyou find a name, there is a link tocontact information (address,email, etc.) for that individual.This is a great way to find outwhere you can subscribe to othernewsletters, buy boomerangs thatare reviewed, etc. Soon, there willbe an extensive cross index so youcan search by topic. This is an ex-tremely valuable resource. Youcan find a link to the BoomerangNews archive on Richard’s homepage at: http://members.aol.com/pollocknel/index.htm Chicago Bob has been busychurning out data and posting webpages over the past couple ofmonths. You can visit his interpre-tation of the 1997 World Cup

Ranking at: http://www.htc.net/~chibob/newlist.html Also of in-terest is his new home page forthe 1998 World Championshipsat: http://www.htc.net/~chibob/worldcup.html LMI-Fox has a new web pageaddress. Set your browser URLto: http://www.frenchcom.com/lmifox.htm Their email addressremains: lmifox@pratique.fr Tom Conally found a greatweb page for wood workers at:http://theoak.com/ Herc Fede, the multicolorswirl artist, has updated his webpage. He will paint your boome-rangs with fantastic swirling artfor only $5 a boom (minimum or-der of 12). Set your browser to:http://www.fedecustomshop.com/ John Koehler of Koehler Stu-dios has a new web page at:http://www.koehlerstudios.com/ Have you ever forgotten thewords to the song “My Boome-rang Won’t Come Back”? If so,you can find it at: http://www.lyrics.ch/query/get?s=54797 IBM (Big Blue) claims thatthe boomerang is an importantlink in the evolution of the per-sonal computer at: http://www.ibm.com/ipc/boomer.html Peter Toenjes has posted hisYardstick Boomerang Companyweb page with a X-stick for only$10. Good graphics and has alink to an instruction page: http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/yardstickboomerang/yardstickboomerang.html Arnaud Amiel has posted apage with Jim Nieberding’s in-structions for making a boome-rang out of those scrap AOL CDsthat come in the mail. Visit:http://www.etud.insa-tlse.fr/~aamiel/boom/cd.html Dietmar Reinig has posted aweb page with a "BoomerangTournament Viewer”. This is anExcel spreadsheet that allows youto see how you are doing as thetournament progresses. You candownload an English version of

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Again I have failed to includeeverything that Boomerang Newsreaders have sent for publication.I will try to get the February issueout early and include reviews forseveral boomerang products thatwere submitted 1-3 months ago. The Spring 1998 Auction iscurrently underway. A total of100 fabulous boomerangs andbooks have been selected for auc-tion. All selected auction boome-rangs must be received by 31 Jan-uary 1998 in order to be listed onthe bid sheet which will be mailedout after 28 February 1998. TheFinal Auction Bid Sheets must bereturned before 15 April 1998.Notification of Winning Bids willtake place on 1 May 1998. Toview the Auction Web Page, setyour web browser to: http://users.aol.com/tbrang2/auction.html

This publication is producedmonthly. Every issue is packedwith 8 pages containing all the in-formation you need to know tokeep current with the ever chang-ing world of boomeranging. Thedistribution of BN currentlystands at 163 USA and 68 over-seas subscribers. Eight issues of“Boomerang News” costs only$10 in the USA; $12 in Canadaand $20 overseas. You can sub-scribe by sending payment (makecheck or M.O. out to Ted Bailey)with your name, address & phonenumber to:

Ted E. BaileyP. O. Box 6076

Ann Arbor, MI 48106

email: tbailey@ic.nethttp://ic.net/~tbailey/Boomerang.html

the spreadsheet at: http://members.aol.com/dbcclub2/pages/btv_eng.htm Dan Neelands found severalnot-so-boomerang-related webpages which are located at: http://www.boomerangmusic.com/(electronic music thing with aboomerang logo); http://www.lakecompounce.com/rides.html (a picture of a rollercoaster called "The Boomerang");http://www.cris.com/~Gabrielc/Mcdloose.htm (Here you can buya McDonald’s character namedBoomerang); http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pinmarketplace/sydney1.htm (Several differentOlympics 2000 pins featuringboomerangs); and http://www.folktoy.com/products.htm(Advertises skill toys boomerang). Ben Pressley has posted a webpage with info about rabbit sticks:http://www.perigee.net/~benjamin/throwstick.htm

Boomerang News Calendar of EventsNorth America16 May 1998 Toss Across America Betsylew Miale-Gix 425-485-1672 3351 236th St. S.W.; Brier, WA 98036-842124 May 1998 Gateway Classic Tom Fitzgerald 314-839-1604 1159 Holly River Dr.; Florissant, MO 6303126 Jul-2 Aug ‘98 World Cup Championships Tom Fitzgerald 314-839-1604 1159 Holly River Dr.; Florissant, MO 630316 Sept. 1998 4th Illinios Classic Comp. Tony Brazelton 217-352-6184 2405 Lawndale Drive; Champaign, IL 6182112/13 Sept. ‘98 2nd Outer Banks Comp. John Koehler 757-437-1185 210 60th St.; Virginia Beach, VA 23451

Overseas1 Feb 1998 NSW State Titles. Br. Brian M. Thomas (02) 9369 0675 131 Birrell St; Waverley NSW 2024; Australia1 Feb 1998 Victorian Seamist Champs Bruce Carter (3) 93 00 23 74 21 Fran St.; Glenroy Melb. 3046; Victoria; Australia1 March ‘98 Central Coast Champs Br. Brian M. Thomas (02) 9369 0675 131 Birrell St; Waverley NSW 2024; Australia7/8 March ‘98 Long Distance Comp. Markus Peissard Tannenweg 3, 1734 Tentlingen, Switzerland29 March ‘98 Eastern Suburbs Champs Br. Brian M. Thomas (02) 9369 0675 131 Birrell St; Waverley NSW 2024; Australia2/3 May 1998 2nd Bielefelder Maitreff Lothar Haase 49 (5221) 85 50 70 Kattenschling 24; 32049 Herford; Germany2/3 May 1998 Aussie National Comps. Br. Brian M. Thomas (02) 9369 0675 131 Birrell St; Waverley NSW 2024; Australia9/10 May 1998 North Germany Comp Jürgen Küster +49 (5741) 12414 Linkestraße 3; 32312 Lübbecke; Germany23 May 1998 Over 40 Competition Bruno Müller +49 (6232) 70494 Winterheimer Straße 27; 67346 Speyer; Germany30/31 May 1998 Torneo Nazionale Roma B Maurizio Saba +31 (6) 653 8053 Via del trullo 122; 00148 Roma; Italy30 M/1 Jun ‘98 22.nd Amstelveen Comp Erik Leferink +31 (70) 329 7857 Remmersteinstraat 157; NL-2532 AZ Den Haag; Holland30 M/1 Jun ‘98 Rennes Team Comp F. Resmond-Richard ??? 99 84 61 48 17, Square A. Fergent, Appt. 93; 35000 Rennes; France7/8 June 1998 Travemünde Beach Cup Eckhard Mawick +49 (451) 70 51 81 Wakenitzmauer 64; D-23552 Lübeck; Germany19/21 June ‘98 1998 AMSBC Heikki Niskanen +358 17 2633211 Tasavallankatu 10 a 1, 70620 KUOPI; Finland27/28 June ‘98 5.th Kiel Week B. Cup Eckhard Mawick +49 (451) 70 51 81 Wakenitzmauer 64; D-23552 Lübeck; Germany11/12 July 1998 1st Aalen Competition Peter Dürr +49 (7963) 1311 Eichenstraße 33; 73486 Adelmannsfelden; Germany15/16 Aug 1998 6th Bielefelder B. Meet Lothar Haase 49 (5221) 85 50 70 Kattenschling 24; 32049 Herford; Germany29/30 Aug 1998 DBC Birthday Party Eckhard Mawick +49 (451) 70 51 81 Wakenitzmauer 64; D-23552 Lübeck; GermanyXX Sept. 1998 7th Berlin Championships Gerhard Bertling +49 (30) 215 3008 Potsdamer Str. 150; 10783 Berlin; Germany19/20 Sept. ‘98 12th Swiss Nationals Ruedi Salzmann +41 (3441) 11708 Bernstraße 28; 3324 Hindelbank; Switzerland Aug/Sep 1998 Blacktown Championships Peter Lewry +61 (2) 96 22 29 27 ???; Australia15 Nov. 1998 Blue Mtn. Championships Br. Brian M. Thomas (02) 9369 0675 131 Birrell St; Waverley NSW 2024; Australia24/25 July '99 Boomerang Cup Eckhard Mawick +49 (451) 70 51 81 Wakenitzmauer 64; D-23552 Lübeck; GermanyDecember ‘99 Int’l Millenium Throw Earl Tutty +64 3 384 5405 17 Truscotts Rd.; Heathcote Valley; Christchurch 2; NZ2000 World Cup Championships Rob Croll (03) 9887-5085 5 Tyson Ct.; Wantirna South; Victoria 3152; Australia