Oct. 7, 1911] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
543 
THE CHARM OF SEA ANGLING. 
What a grand topic for some American 
■writer to discuss, in full detail, “The Effect of 
Sports on National Character.” Presumably, 
says the Los Angeles Herald, there is nothing 
which creates a closer bond of union among 
men of all degrees of rank and station than fel¬ 
lowship in field sports. For man to a large 
measure is still primitive in his tastes, and while 
to-day in such rare clubs as the Tuna men fish 
for the sheer enjoyment of the quest, after a.l 
is said the bond that brings them together is 
the old instinct of the chase, when it was neces¬ 
sary to hunt and fish for food and clothing. 
Behind it all, as a matter of course, is a 
■ deeper social feeling. The relaxation and ex¬ 
citement offer a wholesome solace, as against 
the soul-destroying allurements of the great 
-cities. There is an element of solitude about 
a day on the deep sea, alone with nature, hunt¬ 
ing the mighty leaping tuna, that conspires to 
make strong men. and the Tuna club has on its 
roster, therefore, big national and international 
celebrities who foregather in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia waters at least once a year, coming often 
from the ends of the earth to cast a line into 
the deep sea for sheer joy. 
It has often been asked, “What is the great 
.attraction about this deep sea fishing?” Why 
should men living in luxury—millionaires, men 
■of large affairs—undergo many toils and much 
fatigue just to win a button? The answer is 
plainly that, after all is said, outdoor sports, 
from the pursuit of the leaping tuna to the 
battles with big four-footed beasts in the wilder¬ 
ness, all recall to man his primordial instincts, 
offer for him an opportunity to return to the 
call of the wild and enable him in a complex 
■century to throw off to an extent the restraints 
■of civilization and to revert temporarily to the 
habits of his dead and gone ancestry, to whom 
the chase was a necessity of life. 
Hence, your genuine Tuna club sportsman 
shoots and fishes with the pangs of hunger 
gnawing at his vitals, suffers the privations of 
life on the deep sea, the sudden storm, the 
capsize, death in horrid form at the sharks’ 
teeth, and a score of hazards equally serious; 
but for all these dangers the pleasure is in¬ 
creased in the renewed feeling of youth and 
strength and in the enlarged capacity for leader¬ 
ship. 
World famous sportsmen like W. N. Mc¬ 
Millan, of Nairobi, East Africa, justify their 
lives as wilderness hunters and deep sea anglers 
by their parallel record of leadership in great 
financial and industrial achievements, whose 
successful development, of such vital importance 
to thousands of American laborers, mechanics 
and artisans, undoubtedly rests in large part on 
the bold spirit of self-mastery inculcated by hard 
lessons of sportsmanship on the sea, or in the 
unbroken wilderness, hunting big game. 
A NAUTICAL CHRISTENING. 
Some years ago a slow sailing vessel, when 
some 600 miles out from Liverpool, picked up 
a lusty youngster of five years lashed to a mast. 
The captain took a great liking to him, called 
him his son and decided that the little chap 
must be christened—one of the few things which 
lie knew must be attended to in the case of 
children. 
Of course there was no chaplain aboard, so 
the captain himself undertook the ceremony. 
He gathered the men about him, and with a 
mixed knowledge of his duties, he glared about 
bim and asked whether any one knew just cause 
■why the boy should not be christened. 
“If there is,” he roared, “speak up like a man 
■or forever hold your tongue.” 
Then he suddenly cracked a bottle of wine 
above his head and christened him. 
The ocean waif is now settled down—a steady 
longshoreman, but he still relates with satisfac¬ 
tion the story of his christening.—London Tele¬ 
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