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Show ..) i-s rBy JIM RHODYIT- 'i&Zr L mil itTHG r - 1 Top Sport In the event you've ever engaged in the age-old argument as to what is America's top outdoor sport, here's some information that'll do you good, if you1, say "fishing" is tops: According to a poll recently conducted con-ducted by the American magazine, fishing is absolutely America's top outdoor sport. It is a billion-dollar industry and sportsmen who fished spent 1.35 billion dollars in 1948 in pursuit of their sport. Sportsmen who hunted and fished, both, spent 10 million dollars more than was spent for the combined sports of bowling, golf, skiing and motor boating. Hunting ranked fourth in the number of devotees and expenditures, expendi-tures, the nimrods having spent 750 million dollars. n n Ft |