Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-27
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Juniata and their tributaries. the
various creeks that empty into these
two rivers, have not been in good
fishing condition more than once or
TWICE this summer. There has not
been full week of good fishing
weather since the bass and Susoue-
mamma salmon season opened and IN
disgust large number of local an
elers have taken to the seashoke for
their sport, with the result that soma
tall fishing stories have been told
and more are to follow the return of
such veterans of the rod as Rob- 4
ert Lyons and Edison j. Hockenbury.
the former from Atlantic City and
the nearby fishing resorts and the lat
ter from Wildwood Crest, where I1o
has a cottage. Lyons is due to ar
rive home this week after several
weeks of sport and has a number of
channel bass, or drumfish, to his al
ready long list. Hockenbury is the
latest HarrisbArger to catch one OF
these big fish, which are the most
sought for game fish along the At
lantic coast at this season and by
Iar the best lighters. Hockenbury
caught three of these big fellows III
tne SURF at Wildwood Crest earlier
III the season, the largest weighing
tnlrty-seVen and one-half pounds,
ana last week, while fishing for
Weakllsh IN Delaware bay just across
country from the Crest, hooked one
that weighed twenty-six pounds. He
performed the difficult task of land
ing this young whale on Weakfish
| nook and tackle after twenty-min-
| ute fight.
Hockenbury has been instrument
tai IN the organization of the Wild
wood Crest Fishing Club, which al
ready has 145 members and which
has erected a fine pier and clubhouse
Just opposite the amusement pier at
| that resort and where weakfsh.
klnghsh, crokers, Cape May goodies
| and an occasional small shark and
large drumtish are the prizes that
come daily to the hooks of those
fortunate enough to have the privi-
lege of the pier. Night fishing is
most popular at this resort and some
of the best catches are made be-
tween and IL o'clock in the even
ing.
Wildwood Crest has become quite
popular among Harrisburg fisher
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Mr.. Hockenbury, who has had as
his guests from time to time men,
bers of the Rotary Club, of which he
is an active member. Among those
now at the resort, guests at the Al
lanta Hotel, are John S. Musser and
family, of Washington Heights, who
motored down Saturday and who
will be there for the week. Others
| who have had good luck fishing at
| Wildwood this summer are Howard
! Z. Fry, Paxtang; Robert Lyons and
| Frank b. Musser, all of them hav-
ing hne catches to report on their
return home.
Other Rotarians at the shore are
Ed. Black, the well-known artist,
| who is painting pictures at Atlantic
City, and DR.. Frank B. Kann and
family who have been spending
some time at Ocean Grove and AS
bury Park, having motored to the
shore last Friday. Both Black and
DR.. kann have had adventures in the
! surf. Mr.. Black got beyond his
depth while bathing and it required
the efforts of four men to get him
safely to shore and about barrel or
salt water out of his system. For a
| time it was thought he would be
| drowned. DR.. Kann's was more,
amusing than. serious. Saturday
morning he called up a friend in
Harrisburg with the information that
he had met with a serious misfor-
| tune while bathing" said misfor-
tune consisting of the loss of a plate
on which he wore several back teeth
! Being an expert swimmer he went
| out where the storm that ragged along
the coast Friday night had kicked
! UP heavy waves and when he spat
| out a mouthful of salt water the
| plate with the back molars came
out with the water. Searching for
several false teeth in the ocean has
the famous old puzzle OF finding q
needle in a haystack beaten to q
| dizzy fraZZle, so DIR. Kann did the
only thing possible and telegraphed
| back for another plate that he had
| stored away against any such emer-
gency. 1t was rushed forward to
him by special delivery. He conf
| dentiaily Informed his Harrisburg
| friend that he had serious objections
| to paying for first class hotel fare
| and being able to eat nothing much
more substantial than soup. This
is not DR.. Kann's first vacation mis-
| hap this year. The other week while
| enroute with his family to Pittsburgh
to attend the state osteopathic con-
vention, his automobile had a punc-
! ture at Chambersburg and the doctor
suddenly awoke to the fact that the
KEYS to his tire irons and tool boxes
were reposing in a cupboard at
home. He was stranded. A tele-
phone message brought DR.. Kann's
! good friend Harry Hershey to the
rescue, Mr.. Hershey turning over the
keys to a Cumberland Valley rail-
road passenger conductor who in
! turn delivered them several hours
| later to the doctor at the Chambers
! burg station.
But fishing and seaside bathing are
not the only sports that are proving
attractive to Harrisburgers. More
| and more the shotgun and the rifle
are coming into their own. Yester-
day Fred a. Godcharles, deputy sec
retary of the Commonwealth, left
for Toronto, Canada, where he Will
represent Harrisburg and Milton
Sportsmens Associations, at the
grand international target handicap,
the prizes of which run up as high
as $2.500 and it is for the big one
that Godcharles will try. The Mil
ton man is one of the best shots in
the state and has taken prizes all
the way from Canada to Florida and
from Maine to California. His ia
vorite is the shotgun, but he is also
q good hand with the rifle.
In a short time the shooting con-
tingent of town will be greatly in
creased by members of the Harris
burg reserves who Will be armed
with late model high-powered rifles.
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