/' 
»j "Tile Dig fisli could not be im-l 
|1 mediately identified, but it more^ 
I closely resembled the rainbow 
!' runner than any other known, 
i, specie. While this fish attains an] 
i average weight of at least 12 
I pounds, the President’s prize! 
• tipped the scales fractionally 
j above 20 pounds. Wahoos, alba- 
j core and jacks also were counted 
in the day’s catch. 
' Start Home W ednesday | 
The Houston remained at an- 1 
: j chor off Cocos Island tonight. The 
{ I battle between the fishermen, fish 
; I and shark will be resumed tomor- 
! ! row and possibly Wednesday fore- 
1 Inoon. At 2 o’clock Wednesday aft- 
jernoon the Houston will proceed 
I to Balboa, Canal Zone, where it 
i is scheduled to arrive Thursday 
j afternoon. 
j “Tlie destroyer Dallas, from Bal- 
1 boa, is expected at Cocos tomor- 
row morning. It will bring the 
President the first official mail 
to be received since he sailed from 
San Diego, Calif.. July 16.” 
President Hopes to Catch 
Larger Fish Than 9-Footer 
He Got in 1935. 
By the Associated Press. 
ABOARD U. S. S. HOUSTON, CO- 
COS ISLAND, Aug. 1. — President 
Roosevelt's quest for a giant sailflsh 
and scientific specimens brought him 
to this Pacific island today for the 
third time since he entered the White 
?ie93ri 
Dinner for Sharks 
A radiogram from the ship de- 
scribing the day’s activities said: 
‘‘Fishermen eager to tny their 
luck in waters about Cocos Island, 
put out from the cruiser Houston 
today with President Roosevelt, 
later returning to the ship to alibi 
themselves at the expense of the 
shark, which they found every- 
where in great numbers. 
‘‘Time after time when game 
fish were hooked, only their heads 
remained hooked when the lines 
weue reeled in. To hook a fish in 
most instances was the equivalent 
of ordering dinner for the shark 
nearest the fisherman. 
President Wins 
i "The President took his small i 
boat well out to the windward 
side of the island. Others of his 
party elected to stay in the more 
1 calm waters on the sheltered side 
! of Cocos. 
1 They experienced the worst in- 
j terference by the sharks and when 
I the aggregate catch was weighed 
' and counted, honors for the big- 
gest fish and for the most fish had , 
: to be given respectively to the 
Pi'esident and his boat. > 
Only Heads Left on Hooks for 
Anglers to Haul in; Trip 
..Home Starts Tomorrow 
Herald 
ABOARD U. S. S. HOUSTON, 
COCOS ISLE, Aug. 1 (by Naval 
Radio to the United Press) . — Man- 
eating sharks spoiled the fishing 
for President Roosevelt and mem- 
bers of his party today by snap- 
ping off all but the heads of most| 
of the fish before they could be] 
reeled in. I 
Mr. Roosevelt had better luck] 
than his colleagues and easily' 
won top honors of the day. 
House. 
He arrived early in the morning 
after a day’s cruise from San Salvador 
Island in the Galapagos Archipelago. 
The President has made it no secret 
that he hopes, in the two days he will 
spend here, to surpass the feat which 
in 1935 landed him a 9-foot 6-inch 
sailflsh in the same waters. The catch 
on that visit weighed 135 pounds. 
Cocos Island is located about 540 
miles west of Panama. 
Prof. Waldo L. Schmitt, Smithson- 
ian Institution scientist aboard the 
Houston, said he and the officers and 
men of the Houston had collected 
several hundred scientific specimens 
in several branches of natural history 
in a week of fishing and exploring in 
the Galapagos. 
Even the anchor and anchor chain 
of the Houston, Prof. Schmitt said, had 
played a part in scientific phases of 
the cruise. After hoisting anchor oft 
Galapagos, the scientist discovered 
the chain had brought up a quantity 
of red shrimp-like crustatians, a num- 
ber of sea-urchins, a crab, a spira 
shell and a small, red calcareous sea- 
weed. 
The collections. Prof. Schmitt said, 
were of ‘‘especial scientific value,” be- 
cause they were obtained at a time of 
year when the i.slands are spldom vis- 
ited by scientific expeditions. 
He said exhaustive study of the 
scientific plunder would be made in 
Washington. 
