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age the boatmen and gaffers who have a large invest- 

 ment. Its rules and tournaments have brought thou- 

 sands of anglers to the island, and their prizes to 

 boatmen for efficiency have resulted in a body of men 

 unequalled anywhere for intelligence, skill, and loyalty 

 to patrons. If their experiences in a single year could 

 be collected, an interesting and unique book of adven- 

 ture would be the outcome. The boatmen especially 

 recognized by the Tuna Club for their skill are as 

 follows : 



The Tuna Club Gaffers' Badge, instituted in 1907, 

 was awarded to boatmen having gaffed a one-hundred- 

 pound tuna under Blue Button specifications; or a 

 fifty-pound tuna under Light Tackle specifications. 

 It was won by: Captains Chappelle, A. S. Clover, O. I. 

 Danielson, Harry Doss, C. A. Fisher, Geo. Farnsworth, 

 Jim Gardner, Tad Gray, Geo. Johnson, Felice Jose 

 Presiado (Mexican Joe), Geo. Michaelis, Percy Neal, 

 Chris Ringsen, Claude Whitman, Geo. Zimolier. All 

 the above boatmen have gaffed one-hundred-pound 

 tunas. Captains Clover, Danielson, Fisher, and Neal 

 have also gaffed fifty-pound tunas, taken on light 

 tackle, and winning for the anglers in each instance 

 the Red Button of the Tuna Club. 



The professional boatmen — and there are many 

 more whose names have not been given — have their 

 own organization in the Sophia Boat Club, founded 

 by Commodore Tutt, of Colorado Springs, a late hon- 

 ored member of the Tuna Club. 



The Tuna Club has influenced legislation in favor 

 of protection of the fisheries. Its members have con- 

 tended first, last, and all the time for strict game 

 laws, and through their influence laws have been 



