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...Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...
Izaak Walton's definitive work on 17th-Century fishing, The Compleat Angler, is now a literary curiosity rather than a manual. A treatise published this week borrowed from its title but not its style. The Compleat Goggler* introduced a new sport, told the best ways of indulging...
...John Stuart Martin, vacationing TIME editor: the New York Rod & Gun Editors' annual award for the No. 1 angling exploit of 1937. Angler Martin's feat: bringing to gaff an 821-lb. tuna (new North American record), after a 4¾-hour struggle during which his efforts at times seemed as discouraging as trying to "tickle a locomotive in the tender...
...Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 22, of the tobacco dynasty, and Priscilla St. George Duke, 18, married last January; a son. As the child was born, pretty Grandmother Mrs. George B. St. George, granddaughter of late Banker George F. Baker and first cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was romping to a blue ribbon on three-gaited Silver Fox in Manhattan's National Horse Show...
This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...