AVALON, THE BEAUTIFUL 



Jump set out in 1914 to catch swordfish on light 

 tackle, and incidentally tuna under one hundred 

 pounds. He was ridiculed, scorned, scoffed at, made 

 a butt of by this particular heavy-tackle angler, and 

 cordially hated for his ambitions. Most anglers and 

 boatmen repudiated his claims and looked askance 

 at him. Personally I believed Jump might catch 

 some swordfish or tuna on light tackle, but only one 

 out of many, and that one not the fighting kind. I 

 was wrong. It was Lone Angler who first drew my 

 attention to Jump's achievements and possibilities. 

 President Coxe was alive to them also, and he has 

 rebuilt and rejuvenated the Tuna Club on the splen- 

 did standard set by its founder. Dr. Charles Freder- 

 ick Holder, and with infinite patience and tact and 

 labor, and love of fine angling and good fellowship, 

 he has put down that small but mighty clique who 

 threatened the ruin of sport at fair Avalon. This 

 has not been public news, but it ought to be and 

 shall be public news. 



The malignant attack recently made upon Mr. 

 Jump's catches of Marlin swordfish on light tackle 

 was uncalled for and utterly false. It was an ob- 

 vious and jealous attempt to belittle, discredit, 

 and dishonor one of the finest gentlemen sports- 

 men who ever worked for the good of the game. 

 I know and I will swear that Jump's capture 

 of the three-hundred-and-fourteen-pound Marlin on 

 light tackle in twenty -eight minutes was abso- 

 lutely as honest as it was skilful, as sportsman- 

 like as it was wonderful. A number of well- 

 known sportsmen watched him take this Marlin. 

 Yet his enemies slandered him, accused him of 



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