THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



he was accomplishing what appeared to be an angling miracle 

 worked out by Mr. Potter for his special benefit though it 

 took him a half hour to land his fish that perhaps was only a 

 seventeen pounder. 



The reader will see the point. The man who had a natural 

 craving, what the late Professor McGee of the Department of 

 Ethnology called a ' blood lust,' suddenly discovered what real 

 sport is ; also the gentleman's conception of sport, that it is 

 against all the laws of God or Nature to destroy life and throw it 

 away. The result is that an exalted standard of sport has been 

 established at Santa OataUna, and as two hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand, or more people visit the field of the Tuna Club per annum 

 the lesson has been far-reaching. K"ot to burden the reader too 

 much with the machinery of this humanitarian proposition, I 

 will quote the specification and rules which must be observed, and 

 are observed, by most of the anglers who fish here, though it must 

 not be imagined that every one who visits the locality strives 

 for a prize or cares for a button. The man who is an angler and 

 who knows how to fish is not in need of buttons, though it is a 

 fact that all fish by the rule for the simple reason that it appeals 

 to man as pre-eminently fair ; it is the square deal applied to the 

 fishes. 



The fourteenth annual tournament of the Club has recently 

 closed, and as a matter of interest, the following results are given. 

 A winter tournament is now held to meet the demands of the 

 winter or tourist contingent. The Tuna Club has several hundred 

 members, and an associate class of several hundred who have 

 all the privileges of the Club, except voting, the actual manage- 

 ment being in the hands of men who are entitled to wear the blue 

 button, or have won it. In fourteen years but seventy-six men 

 have qualified under this test. The Club takes an active interest 

 in the fisheries and the state laws. It has employed deputies 

 to enforce the game law^ and stands with the law. The clubhouse, 

 which is the property of the Club, the money to purchase it 

 having been paid by the dues of members all over the country, 

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