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tackle remained whole, but in the instant I had 
taken my eyes off the rod to glance at the posi¬ 
tion of the net, he had started for the boat like 
a streak of light, and was under it with a slack 
line. My heart gave a bound as I felt the tension 
ease and I reeled wildly, giving a sigh of relief 
as I felt him still there. Up he came again right 
alongside the boat and I made a quick and blind 
scoop with the net and yanked him into the 
boat. A four pound small mouth. 
I sat in the boat and gloated and feasted my 
eyes on his beauty as I repaired the damage that 
had been done to the tackle. 
Soon I was at it again, but the next one I 
struck, which was not two minutes later, I made 
a miscalculation. I thought it was the bottom. 
But that it was not, I soon found out. I struck 
very 'gently, so as not to break the hooks on a 
rock, only to feel the fish dash for the boat and 
under it, dropping the hooks as he went. 
That taught me a lesson, and the next one, 
which proved to be a poor little nine inch bass, 
suffered for the crime of his elder brother. I 
struck so hard I fairly made the rod creak, and 
the little fellow came into the boat almost para¬ 
lyzed from the shock. I detached and placed him 
in the water as gently as possible and was glad 
to see that he still had strength enough to swim 
away as if he enjoyed life. 
The next one -was another four pounder and 
put up even a harder fight than had the first 
one. I only landed him through sheer blind 
luck, nothing more. I had fought him perhaps 
five minutes, when he broke water close to the 
boat. As he shot down again the lower of the 
two hooks caught on the bottom edge of the 
boat, the force of his rush breaking the one in 
his mouth and he was gone, but only for an in¬ 
stant, for I received a resounding thump on the 
back, and there he was smashing around like a 
stricken horse in the bottom of the boat. The 
sting of the hook as it broke must have caused 
him to break water even after he was free, and 
in doing so he struck my back and fell into the 
boat. From this incident ‘I began to regard it as 
my lucky night, and so it proved, for from then 
(about ten o’clock), until three I landed nine 
others, making eleven in all. three of which 
weighed four pounds apiece. 
Well, we made our train all right, and although 
we were tired enough the next day we both re¬ 
garded it as small payment indeed for the pleas¬ 
ure we had had. 
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA GUN CLUB. 
Outshootng a field of one dozen live bird de¬ 
votees, enabled Joe Jackson to carry off the 15- 
bird event of the South Philadelphia Gun Club 
over the club’s traps at Third and Wolf streets. 
Charley Bobbs and L. Steinhagen gave Jackson 
a close argument for the honors, with 12 kills 
each. In the 5 J bird test Bobbs, Jackson and 
Warner tied with clean scores and on the s'hoot- 
off under the miss-and-out rule Bobbs and War¬ 
ren ran five each, Jackson going out on his first 
bird. The two gunners then tossed a coin and 
Warner guessed the coin and won the shooting 
coat. Scores: 
Fifteen-bird event: 
Charles Bo'bbs . ia 
A. Dressier . 8 
G. Springer . 7 
J. Jackson . 13 
W eisenberger . 10 
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L. Steinhagen ... 
C. Z ihn . 
D. Wilson . 
A. Chandler . 
A. Blitzdorf .... 
Solly . 
J. Zihn . 
Five-bird event. 
George Hines _ 
Charles Bobbs .. 
J. Jackson . 
J. Zihn .. 
P. Dukes . 
A, Dressier . 
J. Warner . 
Miss and out: 
Charles Bobbs ... 5 
J. Jackson .:. o 
J. Warner . 5 
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