CHILE 



Glassell, Jr., is the most recent member of this select club, 

 having qualified for membership with his two-in-a-day take 

 off Cabo Blanco— the only time the stunt has been pulled 

 there— in March of 1952. Both of Glassell's fish were caught 

 drifting. Incidentally, he has regained the possession of the 

 presidency of the Thousand-Pound Club, most exclusive club 

 in the world, of which there are only five members— namely, 

 Glassell, P. W. Griffitts, Tom Bates, Lou Matron and the 

 author, 



Mrs. Farrington is the only woman who has accomplished 

 the trick of catching two swordfish in one day. 



The first three anglers to make double-headers off Chile 

 were Tuker, who on July 22, 1934, got a 445-pounder in 

 forty minutes and a 67 2 -pounder in five hours and thirty-five 

 minutes; F. W. Utz, a guest of Tuker, who took a 615- 

 pounder in four hours and five minutes and a 48 7 -pounder 

 in two hours in June, 1938; Lerner, whose pair in Chile were 

 taken on May 10, 1940, and weighed 454 pounds and 658 

 pounds, both taken in thirty-nine minutes. The next three 

 anglers caught theirs in the space of nine days in 1941. On 

 June 8 I got the thrill that I would trade for no other experi- 

 ence in my fishing career when I boated two weighing 617 

 pounds apiece— one in thirty-seven minutes, the other in six 

 hours, eleven minutes. 



On June 12 Mrs. Farrington gained the distinction of 

 being the only woman who has ever taken two in a day by 

 boating a 396-pounder in four minutes, the fastest time in 

 which a broadbill ever has been caught, and a 659-pounder 

 in thirty-eight minutes on 24-thread. On June 17, Clarence 

 Ellis took the two heaviest ever caught in a day— a 74 1 -pounder 



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