Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, much faster in water. In the U. S., otter hunting has never become a formalized sport. If it did, it would probably be acclimatized into something different, as was indicated last week at Manhattan's Fourth Annual National Sportsmen's Show. There Emil Liers, Minnesota trapper, proudly exhibited his pack of twelve otters, only ones ever bred, raised and trained in captivity. He has taught them to do practically anything otter-hunting dogs can do. The heavy (average: 24 Ibs.), healthy animals perform tricks, follow a scent, retrieve pheasants and ducks with the speed of a prize...
...Pilot Sheldon Loucke's eye was caught by an unusual tangle of tracks in the snow near an isolated cabin. Circling down, he saw that they spelled out HELP. Pilot Loucke picked a spot, brought his ski-shod airplane down near the cabin. The anxious wife of a trapper laid low by blood poisoning had tramped out the words. A few hours later the trapper was in the hospital at White Horse, last week was reported recovering...
...what Carr describes as "educated feet and scientific handling of the ball," and it is his left flank which is the mainstay of the forward line. On the other side Captain Johanson leads a fast running attack. Besides being second in scoring ability, he is the team's best trapper and header...
...center-forward post is commanded by Art Page, a shifty runner but a poor trapper, who has improved rapidly since his Freshman year. Perhaps the weakest part of the first line is in the inside positions which bear the brunt of passing and defense work midfield. Harden and Witkin, two Seniors, are average, experienced men. Carr finds it worthwhile to substitute Rousmaniers and Willets for about 25 minutes of each game to relieve the pressure of these posts...
Died. Grey Owl, 50, self-educated Canadian Indian trapper who turned naturalist and conservationist (TIME, Jan. 3); of pneumonia; in Prince Albert, Sask. Returning a month ago from a tour of the U. S. and England, where he gave a command performance before King George and Queen Elizabeth, he told Ontario newshawks that "another month of this lecturing will kill...