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MONSTROUS SWORDFISH GETS AWAY After Nearly Twelve Hours of Fierce Battling Novelist Grey Loses His Broadbill AVALOX Cal August 5 A broadbill sword fish estimated to weigh between 700 and 800 pounds thought to have been twenty feet in length Wednesday and the battle lasted for eleven and a half hours Just before midnight the drag of the reel went out of commission under the strain and the line parted partedThree Three men the next day were still feeling the effect on their muscles of the strain they had under ¬ gone fighting the monster broadbill They are R C Grey brother of Xane and Capt O I Donald ¬ son from whose launch the fish was hooked hookedIt It is the ambition of every angler for big game fisli to surpass if possible the record broad bill swordfish taken during the season of 1917 by W C Boschen of New York a fish that weighed 403 pounds The only man who ever came close previously to tho taking of this record fish wai Hugo R Johnstone of Pasadena Cal who in the season of 191G took a broadbill swordfish of 352 pounds with rod reel and line The fish was seven pound heavier than the record fish of W C Boschcns taken in 1913 Boschen himself has hooked fish larger than this 1913 and 1917 record fish lias fought them for many hours but finally these larger fisli escaped escapedAs As the Donaldsons launch was outward bound a huge dorsal fin of a broadbill swordfish was seen sticking two feet out of the water The swordfish then indulged in acrobatic stunts and jt was at this time that the monster took hold of the flying fish bait baitWhen When the fish felt the hook it jumped clear out of its native element and R C Grey with his cam ¬ era managed to take pictures of nine of the fourteen leaps made by the fish fishXanc Xanc Grey fought the fish for hours the strug ¬ gle being intense and he finally was compelled to turn the rod over to K C Grey R C Grey fought the fish for several hours and then lie passed the rod over to Capt Donaldson and after that all three men took turns in playing the fish fishAll All IIOIH was given up of creating a new record for the Tuna Club the moment that Zune Grey passed the line and rod over to liis brother for to let another handle a fish disqualifies au angler for prizes in the Tuna Club ClubWhat What Zane Grey desired when he found he could not take the fish alone was to get it in somehow whether the honor went to his brother or the cap fciin fciinNight Night came on and tho fish was still going strong unwearied seemingly by its hours of struggle against being pninpod toward the boat When the watch indicated the midnight hour neUher side ihiivlng made any great giiii ruihlen parting of the line ended all hopa of breaking the broadbill swordfish recpnl
