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Show Champions Fishing as Aid to Longevity v , ' J-'' I V. ) ? IS- - U V i , V , f ' ... . -VSF" , ' ANOTHER Methuselah? Tony Accetta (left), five-time winner win-ner of the U. S. professional all-around all-around bait- and fly-casting title, believes the sport of fishing to be a panacea for human ills. He maintains that every month spent in piscatorial pursuit adds a year to one's life. On this basis, Tony, now 45, should live to be more than 200 years old, if he never engages in another day's fishing, for he esti mates that he has spent an average of four full months each year with a rod and reel in his hands since choosing his career at the early age of six, following an unsuccessful unsuccess-ful experiment in the transmutation transmuta-tion of his mother's pet goldfish into gold. Tony concedes that barring bar-ring accidents a person might conceivably con-ceivably attain immortality, if his theory i3 correct. Nevertheless, he was not averse to preserving a record of his skill for posterity when the opportunity was offered him of starring in "Let's Go Fishing", Fish-ing", 2-reel sound motion picture that has been produced and is being be-ing distributed by the Fisher Body division of General Motors. Here, Tony and Art Neu, former champion cham-pion of the National Association of Scientific Anglers, demonstrat one of the more beneficial aspects of the sport. |