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...open water, a strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when...
Vanderbilt, one of the Yale Colleges, will furnish the opposition for the Angler oarsmen in the races which will be run off at Derby, Connecticut; and according to all reports, they are going to prove a tough nut to crack. As champions of the Elis, they cleaned up everything in their regatta held several days...
...Thomas H. Bilodeau, Howe, Robert B. Graves, Philip H. Angler...
Died. Robert William Chambers, 68, novelist, painter, angler, hunter, collector of butterflies, armor and Japanese art; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. Son of a Brooklyn jurist, he studied art in Paris, drew sketches for Life, Vogue, began to write. Critics, impressed by The King in Yellow, his second book, were disappointed when he began turning out two perfumed and aseptic romances a year. (Total production: 60 novels.) "Literature! The word makes me sick!" he snorted. His painstaking historical research was largely lost on his millions of readers (Ashes of Empire, Cardigan). He was the first U. S. author...
Expert fly-fishermen regard dandified little George Michel Lucien LaBranche as their foremost U. S. authority. His Dry Fly and Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder...