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Show An Umlccirieit Fishing Match. A fishing match recently took place on the lake between Boatkeeper Allen and Dave Johnson, a veteran angler, for a ruJ'ae."ftoS5fe."" The !men,'risnaiuT hour, stopping at noon. Proprietor Rich of the hotel, who acted as referee, found that the collection of bass, pickerel pick-erel and perch In Allen's string numbered num-bered twenty-six and on Johnson's twenty-five. One of the latter was a black bass weighing four pounds nine ounces. When the strings were weighed Allen's tipped the scale at eleven pounds ten ounces, the baby perch and pickerel counting for very little. When Dave's string, big bass and all, were balanced, the scale indicated the same weight exactly, ex-actly, without the variation of a fraction frac-tion of an ounce. Referee Rich declared the match r draw, declaring that he had never before heard of a tied fishing match in Jersey. Budd's Lake (N. J-i Letter. |