international duck calling champion touched off a controversy when he criticized

that neighboring Arkansas-style calling was “strictly a contest call, a judge’s

call, not a duck’s call. It definitely is not for the birds,” contended Raleigh

Newman, 29, of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

reporter for the Associated Press, Raleigh Newman’s remarks came prior to the November

27, 1959 opening of the 24th World’s Duck Calling Championship.

the reporter who calls the best, Newman replied, “Only Ducks Can Be Real

Judges. Take your better Arkansas and your top Louisiana callers and put them

in the swamps where ducks should be the judge of the best quacker or put them

in a blind. Then, let them call at the same flight, or a little behind the

other. That would settle the question, once and for all. Yes sir, the boys down

here would welcome that kind of contest.”