Big Gamester

Ducks and turkeys didn't satisfy Denver Wright's killer instincts. The St. Louis billfold manufacturer was determined to go after Big Game.

His first attempt was a lion hunt on a nearby island in the Mississippi. He knew that there were lions on the island, because he had bought two from a circus and turned them loose there. A fearless Star-Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their cages.

Last week Wright went after big game in its natural habitat. With a party of 21, eight bear-dogs and an observation plane, he ventured to Bemidji, Minn, for the first organized bear hunt in Minnesota history. Result of a week's hunting: one 400-lb. black bear, one 90-lb. cub, one wolf, 50 porcupine quills in one of the dogs. The Bemidji Chamber of Commerce gave the visiting hunters a bear-steak dinner, slyly provided them with sleeping quarters in a Boy Scout camp.

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