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...hitting a baseball and keeping a sharp eye on his bank account, Boston's Ted Williams likes fishing best, is especially proud of his reputation as one of the nation's best tiers of fisherman's flies. Last week he was the star flycaster in the Sportsmen's Show at Boston's Mechanics Building. Said Ted of the $5,000-a-week fee he picked up for the performance: "I tell myself, 'People won't even remember you a few years from now. You'll be nobody, so you'd better...
...legged horde of sportsmen are victims of a series of complications, according to the Dally Princetonian, that started when the horseman who rented out the ponies was accused of mistreating them by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The S.P.C.A. then sparked a run on his stable by patient but unpaid hay, straw, and oasis dealers...
...Local sportsmen give the powerful Holworthy six a two-touchdown edge over Straus, since they shut out Mower, 47 to 0, and Mathews South, 61 to 0. Holworthy is the highest scorer in both leagues, with a total of 161 points scored to their opponents...
...station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...
...rest of the Advocate--and it is, unfortunately, the really literary part--is of negligible value. A poorly developed story by Aristides Stavrolakes, "Sportsmen," contains a certain amount of realistic dialogue, stemming from Hemingway, between a weak personality who owns a barbershop and a couple of sinister characters who want to but it from him as dishonestly as possible...