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Show WOMEN CATCH SHARKS. IIIne-Nmed M.n-Fiter I . ..I d bT rinrVy l-oee I.Un.l W.-mrn. Four iriaH,;.-, ,:.rk4 wr laad-fd laad-fd at Fay r "1. ,re. L. I.. 1-,: , rk by a fi-':..t:g laity ar.l the ere I t for the irii.tvm'ct !s pr. en to a numbr of wcrtrn, tc. F. Draper. Mrs. Fran He Ro-mtb and Mrs. Joseph H. Grls-waild. Grls-waild. 1 have w. r of course, a few men In the parry th it 1 ft the pi-r. They were round. ng Fi-e Island when a tremendous tre-mendous hark was s- en to Jump oat of the water near the tem of the boat. Capta'n Ke'.chnm r. sired threw I. lies erch a thi. k n an ordinary clothes!, n. and baited the big hoog w th g'Kj.l-siieJ chunk of pork, using pie-es f wood about the size of a brbk for Boats. The women of the party did the fishing Sion Mrs. Gris- ' wold got a bit so fierce that it almost Jerked her out of the bo t. But she held on. and with Captain Ketrhum' i assistance commenced to haul In. She , had hooked a blue-noSed shaik of tre- mendous siie, whlih struggled In vain to free It.self. Mate Howell grabbed the handle of a sweeping brush, to j which was at'a-he l a lance-sized knife. ' j and when the shark had been pulled : ! to the side of the boat he plunged It Id I as far as it would go. This he did fjur ' or five times. After a struggle of , nearly fifteen minutei the shark waa killed and lifted Into the boat It weighed 170 pounds. Mrs. Rogers and i Mrs. Draper each succeeded In landing land-ing a shark, though the prize catch was Mrs. Grlswold s. The fourth and smallest of the catch also fell to Mr. ! Griswold. t I |