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Fishermen Shy from .Sent Pin at Sportsmen's ShowNEW YORK (yip) — If you ihink things haven’t changed in the fishing and hunting business since the last time you took a bam- j boo pole and a bent pin and brought j home a mess of our finny friends, ; you’d better take a look at the i sportsmen’s show.The show is a paradise for the j well-trained — and well hee’ecl— 1 hunter or fisherman. In addition ! to the glittering' exhibits there is j enough local color to make the | most city-broke New Yorker sing a torch song for the “wide open ; spaces where etc.There are enough Indians to stock a movie lot and a sizable and frag- j rant collection of anima’s. The latter all are bored stiff except the mountain lion, who gets a belt out of scaring the spectators knock-kneed with his yowling.Just to show you how the cost of fishing has gone up we talked to one of the fellows shilling for a cd and reel outfit. He pointed to a chair that looked remarkably like the old hot spot up at Sing-Sing and remarked you sat in it and i took big game fish 'nd tuna and thatlike blue marlin it cost a mereThere was a rod and reel stuck in a socket in front of the chair. The reel would set you back $445 nnd the rod $15C. The reel has two speeds and we pity the marlin hooked by a fisherman who can’t figure out which speed she wants.The whole thing including a linen line wiil cost, you about $1,000. said the salesman. He emphasized the you so we went away from there.Upstairs near the retrieving otters — cunning little fellows who don’t smell bad at all — one of the Indians was advertising a fishing camp up in Maine.His name is Henry Red Eagle and he is an Algonquin. He mentioned he lived in New York for 30 years and that lie has written and sold about 300 short stories and articles in his time. His summer job of showing city sportsmen where the big ones are is just a time-filler.That James Fenimore Cooper 1 started all this. He said sadly. We’re supposed to hop around and yell or we’re not the real stuff. It I makes me sick.”The chief said one young lady came into his booth the other nightand talked for about half an hour. When she left she complimented him on his English. The chief complimented her on her English.Well,” she said “I’m an American I was born in Boston.“I was born in the Maine woods, said the Chief, what do you think that makes me? A moose?” .Oh, yes. One of the booths that wasn’t getting much oi a play last night was the women's swimming association exhibit. There was a stout pleasant faced gal doing her bit but none of the customers gave her a second glance. She was Gertrude Ederle. Back in 1926 she 'performed the most gallant sports feai of that c'aoy decade: She swan the English Channel.Alpha Dells Defeat Cadets, Lead LeagueTho Alpha Delts rolled into first place in -he City Y League with Hires wins and no k -es by virtue r. 33 to 21 victory over the Cadets cn the Y. M. C. A With a number under the basket, tallied 10 points to pace the victors Eob Craugh and. Giant Ardell scored six points for the losers: Summary:Alpha Delis Cadetsfloor last night, qf shots scored Prank DarlingDarling rf Moore If Lynaugh c Raines rg McEl'ee lg Tuppin lgGFT6 6 10Ardell rf1 21 0o4 Craugh If 2 Colgrove c 7 Ryan rg 2 Webster 0HrGF1 4 3 00 32 01 0Total 111133 Total 7 7 21 Score at hali time. Alpha Delts22. Cadets 8; referee, Brahm.(By the Associated Press) Tcdav a Year A' o — Harry Coo- j per won New Orleans $5,000 open t golf tourney with 285, leading Jug McSpaden by four strokes.Three Years Ago — Sonja Henie won world figure skating title for tenth straight time.Five Years Ago — Brooklyn Dodgers released Max Carey as manager; Casev Stengel considered probable successor.
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Daily Messenger
Canandaigua, New York, US
Tue, Feb 21, 1939
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