Jackie Coogan 
Enters the 
Sonny Boy 
Fishing Contest 
HE forest glade, the sparkling 
trout pool, the salty depths of 
the broad Pacific are Jackie 
Coogan’s playgrounds. Just as the 
famous starlet comes by his mimetic 
talents by direct descent, so does he 
acquire his love for the out of doors 
from the pater, who has long been 
a devotee of rod and gun. The inspired 
youngster whose inimitable pantomime 
and histrionic genius is unique in the 
history of theatricals, when not en- 
gaged in developing his joyous photo- 
plays is on the trail to “somewhere” 
with his devoted Daddy. 
Jack Coogan, senior, is a member of 
the American Amateur Trap Shooters 
Association, and of the Catalina Island 
Tuna Club, where the few cherished 
memberships are for those who land a 
tuna of one hundred pounds or over. 
Mr. Coogan’s name was added to the 

Kid 
The 
roster when he landed a “chicken of 
the sea” weighing 114 pounds in the 
short time of 56 minutes. The Coogan 
fish and game trophies are famous in 
filmland sport circles. 
UNS of all sizes and calibres from 
.22 rifles to eight millimeter 
Mausers adorn the walls of the Coogan 
cabin at Manter Creek. Rods, reels, 
hooks, lines and flies (patterns for 

% : . & 
Jacky aboard “Dicky Bird,’ his trusty steed 
This Diminutive Star 
of Filmdom 
Is Already an 
Enthusiastic Sportsman 
every local condition) have been in the 
process of collection since the elder 
Coogan’s boyhood, and Jackie is heir 
to them all, and what’s more is already 
expert with them despite his tender 
youth. 
RR ECENTLY the Coogans acquired 
for their famous son an eighty- 
acre ranch of virgin woodland, high 
in the California Sierras. Situated on 
Manter Creek at the fork of the Kern 
River, fifty-five hundred feet above sea 
level, the only trail to this enchanted 
realm starts from Brown, California, 
the last outpost to Death Valley. This 
particular private reserve was un- 
known even to old-time forest rangers 
until the advent of the Coogans. 
Jackie’s daily routine at the ranch 
include an early morning dip in 
the swift running mountain stream, 

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