July 15, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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CUPS, MEDALS AND PRIZES AWARDED UNDER TACKLE 
SPECIFICATIONS OF TUNA CLUB. 
tuna (Thunmis thynnus). 
Banning Cup—For exceeding club record, 251 
pounds. 
Earlscliffe Cup—For exceeding his record, 180 
pounds, under 1898 club rules (barring drags). 
Burns Cup — For exceeding club record, 251 
pounds. 
Morehous Cup—For exceeding club record, 251 
pounds. 
Club Medal-—For largest of season over 100 
pounds. 
McMillan Medal—For first tuna of season over 
100 pounds. 
Vom Hofe Prize—For exceeding club record, 
251 pounds. 
Stearns Prize Reel—For exceeding his record, 
197 pounds. 
Murphy Prize Rod—For last of season over 
100 pounds. 
Coxe Prize Reel—To first angler of season to 
win the club blue button and who is elected to 
membership. 
Enterprise Mfg. Co.’s Prize Reel-—For largest 
of season over 100 pounds, taken by lady angler. 
Holder Prize Cup—For smallest of season. 
Club Prizes—For first, second and third largest 
of season, respectively, gold, silver and bronze 
medallions. 
swordfish (Tetrapturus mitsukurii). 
Holder Cup—For largest of season. 
Ciub Prizes—For first, second and third largest 
of season, respectively, gold, silver and bronze 
medallions. 
Victoria Alden Cup—For largest of season. 
McMillan Medal—For first swordfish of sea¬ 
son over 200 pounds. 
black sea bass (Stereolcpis gigas). 
Tufts-Lyon Cup—For exceeding club record, 
436 pounds. 
Rider-Macomber Medal—For largest of sea¬ 
son. 
white sea bass (Cynoscion nobilis). 
Harding Medal — For exceeding club record, 
sixty pounds. 
awarded under tackle specifications of light 
tackle class . 
tuna (Thunmis macropterus). 
Potter Tuna Cup—For largest of season over 
fifty pounds. 
Tufts-Lyon Prize Rod—For largest of season. 
Club Prizes—For first, second and third largest 
of season, respectively, gold, silver and bronze 
medallions. 
yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis). 
Western Hardware & Arms Co. Cup — For 
largest of season. 
Nordlinger Cup—For largest of season taken 
by lady angler. 
Gillies Medal—For largest of season. 
Simpson Prize Ring—For exceeding his record, 
sixty and a half pounds. 
Club Prizes—.For first, second and third largest 
of season, respectively, gold, silver and bronze 
medallions. 
white sea bass (Cynoscion nobilis). 
Nordlinger Cup—For largest of season. 
Potter Medal—For largest of season. 
Club Prizes—For first, second and third largest 
of season, respectively, gold, silver and bronze 
medallions. 
albacore (Germo alalonga). 
Montgomery Bros. Cup—For largest of season 
taken by lady angler. 
Hoegee Co. Cup—For largest of season. 
Whitley Co. Medal—For largest of season. 
Club Prizes—For first, second and third largest 
of season, respectively, gold, silver and bronze 
medallions. 
bonita {Sarda cliilensis). 
Harding Cup—For largest of season. 
Hunt Prize Rod—For largest of season. 
DOLPHIN. 
Mattison Cup—For angler exceeding his rec¬ 
ord of twenty-five and a half pounds in 1907. 
LARGEST FISH. 
Brewster Medal-—For largest of season (in¬ 
cluding black sea bass). 
Eddy Cup—For largest gold button fish of sea¬ 
son. 
AWARDED UNDER TACKLE SPECIFICATIONS OF THREE- 
SIX CLASS—YELLOWTAIL. 
Potter Cup—For the three largest of season, 
taken in Catalina waters. 
fmbrie Prize Reel—For largest of season. 
CONDITIONS GOVERNING AWARD OF CLUB MEDALLIONS. 
First—One medallion only will be awarded to 
an angier. 
Second—If an angler should qualify in two or 
more species of fish, he may take his choice of 
medallions in those classes. 
Third—If no fish of gold button, blue button 
or red buton size is taken, a silver medallion wi 1 
be awarded for the largest, and a bronze medal¬ 
lion for the second largest fish taken. 
For general information and printed matter 
address C. V. Barton, Corresponding Secretary 
of Tuna Club, 645 San- Fernando Bldg., Los 
Angeles, Cal. 
His First Salmon. 
Patten, Me., July 6. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Through your kindness I am now 
cozily ensconsed in camp on Lower Shim Pond. 
The fishing is quite good here, especially in 
Davis Pond, where I landed a 2(4-pound salmon 
on an eight-ounce rod the other day, the first 
salmon I ever had the pleasure of catching. 
L. T. Carter. 
THE TOP RAIL. 
It may be news to persons familiar with the 
sight of the numerous pawnshops in the cities 
of the United States, where so many firearms 
are displayed for sale, to learn that there is one 
American city at least where there is no pawn¬ 
shop. This is Quebec. Consul Willrich, sta¬ 
tioned there, says the last person who engaged 
in the pawn brokerage business in Quebec died 
about thirty years ago, and since that time no 
one has applied for a license. 
Many of the second-hand shops in American 
cities are exceedingly interesting to sportsmen, 
for they are veritable old curiosity shops, 
though it is seldom that these men purchase any 
article in them. Aside from their natural dis¬ 
like for used articles, they know that few of 
these are bargains. 
I he only time 1 ever found a real bargain in 
a pawnshop was in a town remote from rifle 
ranges. In passing I noticed a handsome 
schuetzen rifle in a window, and I simply could 
not pass it by. It was of a make long since 
discontinued, had superb stocks, high grade 
target sights, double-set triggers, palm rest and 
all the other fixin’s so familiar to shooters at 
Union Hill and Shell Mound. It was worth 
$50 if the barrel was in good condition. 
I ime after time I passed that way, sorely 
tempted, and at last I fell. I went in and the 
pawnbroker handed me the rifle with the re¬ 
mark that lie would sell it cheap. Holding my 
breath, I threw down the breech block and 
squinted through the barrel; asked for the clean¬ 
ing rod which went with the outfit, wiped the 
barrel and found it clean as a new whistle and 
showing no signs of wear or rust. When the 
broker offered it for $20, I grew suspicious and 
inspected it more carefully, but could find no 
fault, for its former owner had loved that rifle 
—its condition proved this. Still I hesitated, 
and the price was reduced one-half. Then self- 
possession was lost and I hastened to clinch 
the bargain. To-day the lock alone would sell 
to any target shooter for more than that. It 
was a fine rifle. 
If that broker was a philanthropist lie kept 
his own secrets, but during his life time that 
was the only occasion, so far as I ever heard, 
on which he was lax in shrewdness in driving 
a bargain. I always assumed that it was the 
first schuetzen rifle he had ever seen, he took it 
to be the product of a crank, and regarded it as 
unsaleable. 
sfc ;jc 
I here are times when plain English, used 
in the most vigorous manner of which one is 
capable, fails to express his sentiments. Here 
is one of them: 
I had been hunting all day over rough country 
and was hungry, thirsty and tired. Trudging 
along a country road within two miles of the 
railway station, I heard a cheery voice behind 
me, and turning, confronted a jolly-looking in¬ 
dividual driving a ricketty old barouche. 
“Whoa! Wanter ride to the station?” he 
asked, as cordially as you please. 
I did, and said so, but as I placed one weary 
foot on the step in the act of crawling inside, 
he held out a hand and said, “Ten cents, please.” 
* * * 
That is one picture; here is another one: 
I had been fishing, stopping at a farmhouse 
the while. Before leaving the village I had 
arranged with a liveryman to call for me in time 
for a certain train on a certain day. Half an 
hour before train time he appeared and we 
drove off. As he took a roundabout way, I re¬ 
minded him that it was almost train time, and 
asked if he could make it by that route. We 
had plenty of time, he said, and he wanted me 
to see the country. So we drove on, turning 
up at the station just as the train pulled in. 
And the liveryman would accept no more than 
his regular charge for the distance along the 
direct road, which was less than half the sum 
I had expected to pay. Grizzly King. 
