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Show THEY FOUGHT SEA BATTLE Large Shark and Sea Lion Struggle to j the Death t San Francisco, Oct. 3. Chinese fishermen fish-ermen witnessed a battle between a huge Fea Hon and a twelve-foot shark off Bay Island yetsterday that resulted, result-ed, after two hours of fierce fight-j fight-j ing in tho death of the former. I Becoming entangled in tho fisher-i fisher-i men's shrimp nets, the shark and I the sea lion came together and tho ' duel began. Though the 6ea lion, according ac-cording to the Chinese, made a bravo stand nguinst lU giant adversary and Inflicted injuries that probably would have 'proved fatal. It wa5 so weakened weaken-ed by loss of blood that it was unable . to circumvent the rushes of the shark. The end tame when tho shark's Jaws closed on the sea lion's neck and held until the latter was dead. At this point the fishermen ventured ventur-ed to invade , tho zone of battle and, after a struggle lasting half an hour, contrived to kill tho victor. |