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PROMINENT SPORTSMEN OF NATION SENT INVITATIONS TO TARPON TOURNEY HEREAlthough the plans for staging the first annual tarpon tournament held in Florida at Venice the latter part of this month have only been in the making a comparatively short time and are yet to be completed, the big sporting event is being heralded in the sporting columns of the nation’s papers as one of the leading dishes on the sport menu for June. Gordon Rice head of the Venice Tarpon Club and the Venice Company publicity staff are keeping the A. P. wires of the country hot with developments on the tourney, to the end that a large entry list appears certain even at this early date.The tournament is open to amateur sport fishermen of the nation and in addition to the general news stories being sent into every state special invitations have been sent to many of the country’s foremost game fishermen. A special feature story will be broadcasted at an early date by the N. E. A. news service, which reaches a reading public of 16,000,-000 persons. Quite a number of entries have already been received, Mr. Rice announces. Ocala has written that a bus load of entrants will come to Venice to participate in the tourney. From Fort Myers, St. Petersburg and Tampa entries have come in.Among the renowned sportsmen of the nation who have received special invitations to take part in this big sporting event are: Gilbert Grosvenor, editor,National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C.; Bob Dunbar, Boston Post; James O’Hara, Boston Post; Joseph Williams, N. E. A. Syndicate, Cleveland, O.; John B. Foster, Lawrence Perry and “Fair Play,” Consolidated Press, Washington, D. C.; Bob Becker, ChicagoTribune; George Daley, New YorkWorld, the sporting editor of the NewYork Times, New York Herald-Trib-une and the Philadelphia Evening Bui- jletin; Zane Grey, Altadena, Cal., one of America’s foremost authors; El Co- ■ mancho, Seattle, Wash.; James Oliver C-urwood, renowned writer, Owosso, Mch. George Creel, Collier’s Weekly; Jimmy Dykes, Sportsmen, St. Petersburg; Grantland Rice, American Golfer; Charles W. Folds, president, Isaak Walton League, Chicago; Hal G. Evarts and T. B. Costain, Saturday Evening Post; Edward G. Taylor, Chicago Daily News; Emerson Dickenson, Grand Rapid Herald.June 21 to July 2 have been chosen as the dates for the tournament, entries for which must be in not later than June 12. The Venice Company will provide skiffs and in the case of entrants who do not have their own rod and reel, tackle will be furnished. Guides will be provided at cost. It is the plan in this tournament to make the event a real sporting proposition by using skiffs instead of the larger boats. Kickers will be mounted on the skiffs.Under the plans for the staging of tournament competition, entrants will be assigned to definite days upon which they will try their skill in what is considered by many the most exciting sport in the world. Competition will take place on both the morning and afternoon tides. Although the prizes have not yet been selected, Mr. Rice is authority for the statement that the winners will be very handsomely awarded. There will be prizes for the first and second largest tarpon landed and also a prize for the smallest tarpon caught.
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This Week In Venice
Venice, Florida, US
Sat, Jun 05, 1926
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