THE GAME FISHES OP THE WOELD 



at Palm Beach, Long Key Camp and other points in Florida. 

 For the XipMas of six hundred or one thousand pounds he should 

 ship for a cruise mth a swordfish fisherman from Boston or 

 Block Island ; and for the Santa Catalina swordfish, from the 

 town of Avalon, where he will find swordfish cups and albums and 

 records of scores of battles in the rooms of the Santa Catalina 

 Tuna Club, whose records of catches for the last year is appended 

 to illustrate how this new game has taken its place as the great 

 game fish of American waters. The Holder swordfish cup was 

 won by Mr. L. G. Murphy, of Converse, Indiana, his fish weigh- 

 ing three hundred and eighteen pounds. The Victoria Alden 

 cup, for the largest fish, was also won by Mr. Murphy. The 

 McMillan medal of Mr. W. I*]". McMillan, of London and British 

 East Africa, was won by Mr. C. G. Twist, Santa Ana, California. 

 The fish weighed two hundred and eighty-one pounds. The Tuna 

 Club medallions, gold, silver and bronze, for first, second and 

 third largest fish during 1912, were won by Mr. L. G. Murphy. 

 Fish weighed three hundred and eighteen pounds ; Mr. Chas. L. 

 GriflEith, two hundred and ninety-eight pounds weight of fish ; 

 Mr. T. McD. Potter, two hundred and ninety-pound fish. 



In a recent letter from Dr. Gifford Pinchot, in referring to 

 the fishing season of 1910, at San Clemente, which I missed, being 

 in Europe, he says : 



' I got another swordfish in an hour and fifty minutes ; landed it with 

 a broken rod about an hour after dark, while Amos took a three hundred 

 pounder (weighed two hundred and seventy-eight pounds twenty-four 

 hours out of water, after losing much blood) in an hour and 

 nineteen minutes after one of the prettiest fights you ever saw in your 

 life. The fish was so tame at first that Mexican Joe in the skiff with 

 Amos tried to gaff it within three minutes after it was hooked. Fortu- 

 nately he failed, for immediately after it came to Ufa, made one round of 

 the skiff on its tail, drenching both of them with water, and then made a 

 straight away run of two hundred 3rards, largely above the water in 

 great leaps. It was the prettiest fight on the whole I have ever seen 

 any fish make. The fishing was comparatively poor this year, but the 

 Island just as attractive as ever.' 



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