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Preacher Bradley, 48, drinks lemon juice before breakfast, walks an hour a day, spends his vacations piloting his 30-ft. cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans...
Disciples of Izaak Walton report that fishing in the muddy River Charles is no better this spring than it has been in years past, especially that sector which flows by the University. But the rod, worm, and fly boys are not utterly downcast, for Widener is close enough for all students. And Widener, strangely enough, has become a fisher's heaven, at least until a month from today...
...Chicago last fortnight Conservation Director Samuel Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results...
...Chicago, at the annual meeting of the Izaak Walton League, the liars' division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14-story downtown skyscraper to empty and clean the water tank. He opened the outlet valve and out flopped a six-inch striped, small-mouthed bass...
...knowing that his 96 helped his Waltham Gun Club to win the Great Eastern team championship with 466, but most of the skeeters at Lordship last week felt a little less chipper about their scores when the results of the National Telegraphic Championship began to come in. The Izaak Walton League of Los Angeles had won the Telegraphic Team Championship with 473. Two Westerners-E. S. Neusch-wander of Los Angeles and George Debes of Houston-shooting under better weather conditions, had bettered Watts' 98 by one target each and Thomas Mairs of Utica had tied...