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...downed Brooks House relay quartet splashed out a hard win over their Adams House opponents to convert a tied swimming meet into a 36-26 triumph for themselves yesterday afternoon. By virtue of their victory, the exultant Angler natators will face Yale's inter-College tank champions next Saturday...
...Howell is still unimpressed, have him read Zane Grey's Tales of the Angler's Eldorado...
...clock the third night, after the sea had calmed down a little, it seemed to Angler Howell that something was amiss. The tuna was pulling at his line a little less sturdily and his runs were shorter. By midnight, the boat, which had been towed approximately 200 miles in two and a half days, was 60 mi. off Liverpool and Angler Howell realized that it was practically standing still. He reeled in his tuna slowly until it was close enough to gaff. Then began a battle to rope the tuna's tail...
...time this was accomplished it was early morning of the fourth day and the fight that had ended was the longest (by 42 hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...
...Angler Howell's tuna had taken the pains to examine who had caught it last week, it, too, might have been amazed. Thomas Montgomery Howell is a tiny (5 ft. 4 in., 130 lb.) man of 51, with dainty little hands and feet, round shoulders and a small, sad face. Long famed as a speculator on the Chicago Board of Trade, he is accustomed to grappling with titans. Three years ago he cornered 70% of the visible U. S. corn supply, "squeezed" shorts, made himself...