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...sportsman of the United States to say whether or not Alaska shall pass certain laws? Since when have we elected men to office on their reputation as sportsmen. . . . Why should human lives be endangered to save a handful of the most ferocious mammals living in North America today...
...Political punsters and cartoonists opened their birdbooks to amplify their knowledge of the bird (Philohela Minor) whose name Commissioner Woodcock bears. An upland species of snipe, highly prized by sportsmen and epicures, the woodcock has a long, long bill and practically no tail at all. Its plumage is heavily mottled- brown, black, buff, grey-protective coloration for thickety ground. It can thrive only in wet (or at least moist) places, where it can probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near...
...American sportsmen deplore Alaska's action. Famed Stewart Edward White has categorically denied the charges against the Kadiak bear or ''brownie." Of the death of John Thayer, an assistant in the Forest Service, whose death precipitated the legislative action, Mr. White wrote in the Saturday Evening Post: ''The victim was green to the beasts and turned loose on the first one he saw, wounded it just sufficiently to make it pugnacious. Then when the bear charged, the poor fellow stood stockstill and unresisting, until the bear pounced upon...
...Harold Delf Gillies, sometimes performed 30 separate operations on a single case. He, 48 last week, born at Dunedin, N. Z., is now plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland in 1908, 1925, 1926, as winning St. George's Grand Challenge...
...final was almost pure formality, but very pleasant. Lanky Roger Wethered, champion in 1923, is one of those easygoing, impersonal British sportsmen who consider it bad form to show their desire to win. His sister Joyce, British women's champion, who trounced her brother in a practice foursome with Jones before the tournament, followed the play as though it were just a rather specially jolly match, with an inevitable conclusion, between her brother and a friend. After a good first nine, Brother Roger went, as usual, erratic. Jones stayed at top form. Four up at lunch...