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...Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey's 1,040-lb. marlin. But the mako...
...beat for any more than a quarter of a mile. The race was over the Henley distance. They decided to row at a comparatively low stroke for the first mile. Then a quarter of a mile from home, the crew was to throw it in high and let her rip. In other words they were banking on a final roaring spurt down the last stretches...
Shark-hunters have no luck with guns or dynamite. A dead shark sinks at once. In his Hawaiian days Sharkman Young used to rip open a dead horse, trail it behind his boat, harpoon the sharks as they swarmed to tear at the flesh. When he went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark...
...Buckler who has the opposition baffled. He has turned into a rip-snorting, tearing, slippery half-back, not content with his power on the run, but also must be able to pass at full speed. It is this last ability that has amazed the critics and should be one of the highlights today. Harvard's pass defence has improved fast in the Dartmouth and Leigh games, or rather, the latter teams have been unable to complete passes. Shoat was a dominating factor in hurrying the passers, and his absence will be keenly felt. He has a capable successor in White...
...well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma. A series of operations restored her sight, but her eyes have always troubled her. Born Annie Sullivan, the daughter of poor Irish immigrants in Massachusetts, she and her rip-roaring father never got along, and after her mother died she was put in the state poorhouse. Ambitious for schooling, she got herself placed in Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind. Shortly after her graduation she was offered the job of being nurse and governess to a little blind deaf...