San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-16
FOR THE LOVERS OF SPORT
Items of Interest Notsd-Some Short
Memorandum Gotten From
Local Sportsmen.

Local Sportsmen.
Mr.. B. Bristow and wife are So
journing at the Gulf hotel on Mus.
tang Island.
The best bathing on the coast is
to be injoyed in on the gulf proper.
The salt water is pure and free OF
sesweed, and the bottom is clean
and as hard as cement.
Hon. r. F. Blair wife and child
took in the excursion to the coast
aud stopped at the Shell hotel. Mr..
Blair claims to have been out with
a party in the bay when they
hooked tarpon with a throw line
three elghths of an inch in diane
ter. The fish weighed upwards Of
100 pounds and the last seen of him
was when he departed with the
hook, line and bait.
The sea at the Pass ran high last
Sunday morning, and the wind
from the southwest was almost
blowing a ga. Several memb ers of
the T. P. A. and a LIGHT man
were out on the jetties, which to a
certain extent have almost washed
away, when an immense drift log
struck one of the wooden caissons,
precipitating some Of the wooden
trestle into the sea. Such a scram-
bic for terra firma was never seen
before. The drummers played leap
frog over one another, and held on
the rails like an opening bill.
Luckily all reached the beach in
safety, and il you hear any one Of
the party telling OF their hair
breadth escape from watery
grave, you can rest assured all he
tells you is so, init"
The Hon. Gus Houston has Just
returned from fishing trip to the
pass for tarpon, and tells most re-
markable tale. He was b3ing
pulled in a boat and was trolling
for the silver king, when tarpon
weighing fully $50 pounds took mis-
bait, and hooked himself. The tar
pom in his endeavor to shake him.
self clear, leaped clean out of the
water and was fast unreeling the
Colonel's line, when an i'm mense
shark twenty-five feet long, so Gus
says, swallowed the tarpon whole,
and was looking for more. This
was his only catch.
The breeding ground OF all coast
mosquitoes has been discovered by
the Il. p. A. party. To Doc Fetter-
man the honor belongs. Harbor
Island is their nesting ground, and
Doc says the island hasn't been
half explored, as mosquito eggs OF
all sizes can be found there.
H.F. Sheer, OF the II. P. A party,
was appointed commissary SER
geant and treasurer, and when leav.
ing Rockport left all the money in
his trunk; in consequence the
hotel man at the Pass, and several
other debtors had to be "stood off,"
until the party reached the Bay
View hotel, when all bills were
settled.
The directors of the San Antonio
Gun club are negotiating with
some Of the large target manufact-
urers and gun makers, in view OF
holding grand international
shoot open to the world, on their
grounds, at Lskeview next fall.
They expect to raise eight to ten
thousand dollars in prizes to be
contested for by all the most noted
shots in the world.
On July first the small boy will
rig up his pin hook and with a
worm or crayfish patiently sit on
the banks Of the river and succeed
in catching more fish than the
dude fisherman with his $40 split
bamboo rod and So reel and line.
The fishing season will open for
the members OF the San Antonio
Gun club at Lake Elmendorf, on
July lst, and the boys look forward
to some good catches of black
bass.
The prize shoot OF the San An.
tonic Gun club, to be held on July
Fourth, next, promises to be quite
an event in sporting circles.
George Chabot tried his hand at
tarpon fishing at the Pass using a
small boat and without an UNI.
brella. He has since shed his com
plexion and recommends plenty o.
shade when on the water.
Young quail are said to be plenti
full.
Doves are still nesting and theil
young are quite small. They will
not be ripe for the sportsman be
fore July Goth to August first.