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...take the cartilage of the fish's nose in your teeth, squeeze his body to make it smaller, and yank him out of the meshes. All the time the hands must be kept under the water. The Eskimo method is to dangle a small ivory fish with a hook on it. By this means they catch four or five fish a day at the ice hole. We hope to show them that by our methods they can catch 50 in an evening...
...whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening for his solid left hook. Levinsky forced the fighting. In the fourth round, confident, unhurt, he made a gesture which Chicago fight spectators last saw after Dempsey knocked down Gene Tunney in 1927, a scornful wave of one glove which meant "Come on and fight." There was no official decision, but of 24 sportswriters 18 agreed...
...thought then all was up. I tried frantically to keep my head above the surface. I thought crazily it was all up. And then I struck some sort of a hook in the stream with my hands. I clung...
...Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert, then lost him. Others grappled him up, put him on display. Indignant Portland police confiscated Ethelbert's remains, arrested the Lessards. An indignant Portland judge fined them $200 each for "killing a fish" with weapons other than hook & line. Last week Ethelbert was only a skeleton and a memory, but the Lessards were still trying to escape payment of their $400 fines. With one stroke Circuit Judge Hall S. Lusk, to whom they appealed, erased the blot from Ethelbert's escutcheon, wiped out the Lessard fines. Like almost everybody else...
Anniversary. Of the first transatlantic wireless signal, picked up by Guglielmo Marconi at St. John's, Newfoundland, 30 years ago; celebrated-with the greatest world-round radio hook-up ever effected. Recalling the event, Senator Marconi said that for six days, while "S" signals were being sent regularly from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, he and his assistants sent up kites and a balloon with aerial wires attached. A wild December storm raged, carried the balloon and most of the kites away. Finally a kite was flown successfully and on Dec. 12, above the electrical disturbances, three faint clicks came through...