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ready to play with Tony Trabert and Dick Seixas on the 

 present U.S. Davis Cup Team they would equal it. 



Take all the good Yankee baseball teams, put them together, 

 and you will have it. Put a hockey team on the ice composed 

 of a line of Morenz, Milt Schmidt and Gordy Howe; a 

 defense of Eddie Shore, and Red Kelly, and with Frank 

 Brimsek playing goal, and you would have hockey's equal. 

 How can I get so enthusiastic? How can I make such state- 

 ments? Here are the figures. 



Let us take the large fish first. Almost every variety caught 

 in the Pacific Ocean has been taken here except Allison tuna, 

 now called yellowfin by some, and wahoo. Large and small, 

 and the finest surfcasting ever known. Some half a dozen 

 species go along with it. For fifty-four years of salt-water 

 fishing a i ooo-pound fish had never been caught legitimately 

 by an angler. In one year and eight months on these grounds, 

 with only three boats fishing spasmodically, fish weighing 

 1025, 1060, 1090, 1 1 35, 1352 and 1560 pounds were caught. 



The old New Zealand record on black marlin that had 

 stood since 1926 was broken seven times the first year with 

 only three boats fishing and has since been broken twice 

 more as I write this in the second year. The first 25 black 

 marlin averaged 8 1 7 pounds. Broadbill swordfish were taken 

 weighing up to 687 pounds. Striped marlin were caught 

 weighing up to 382 pounds. 



This is the only place in the world where black marlin, 

 striped marlin, broadbill swordfish and big-eye tuna abound 

 in the same waters. All the records for men and women for 

 big-eye tuna have been established here, fish weighing up to 

 368 pounds being caught— and the catch is constantly increas- 



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