January, 1923 
its carcass. Then the fish jvas thought 
to be subdued and taken to Knight's 
Key and fastened to the trestle work. 
The resting renewed its life and in its 
struggles it smashed the piling as if built 
of match sticks. Tied up once more it 
hit the propeller of a thirty-ton yacht, 
smashing it and breaking the cables. 
. Another boat was shattered into a thou¬ 
sand pieces. A tug-boat finally towed 
the monster to Miami, where it was 
i, viewed by thousands. 
The whale-shark was forty-five feet 
in length, twenty-three feet, nine inches 
in circumference. Its hide was three 
inches thick, its liver weighed 1,700 
pounds and in its mouth were several 
thousand teeth. Its last meal was a fish 
weighing 1,500 pounds. 
On President Harding’s Florida fish- 
ing trip, he was coached by Captain 
Thompson. By capturing a six-foot 
sailfish, alone and unaided, President 
Hardir.g won membership in the Sail- 
fish Club of Florida, an organization 
whose membership is made up of men, 
B who, according to the rules, have taken 
sailfish in a sportsmanlike manner. 
A tarpon that President Harding 
fought for an hour in the Texas waters 
in November, 1920, covered the Presi¬ 
dent with perspiration, left him trem¬ 
bling with excitement and exhaustion of 
physical effort and compelled him to rest 
for a while on a cot in the life saving 
station. 
The capture of a tarpon is a man’s 
job. Sometimes the strike is so terrific, 
it jerks the rod from the angler’s hands. 
When Mrs. Harding hooked her tar¬ 
pon at Point Isabel, Texas, the President 
having previously taken a “baby” one, 
ran up and down the beach, crying: 
“Be careful; don’t lose him! Don’t 
hurry ! Take your time, Florence !” 
The first lady of the land replied: 
“If you had hold of this whale, Warren 
Harding, you wouldn’t have so much 
breath left to tell me what to do.” 
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