Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-18
GETS FOUR FISH
ON ONE LINE
HAUPT PERFORMS WONDERFUL
oNE-HANDED FEAT
Sergeant's Story Is So Realistic That
the Ananias Club Committee
Awards Him All Three
Medals

Police Sergeant r. S. Haupt, familiarly
] known at the city jail by his brother Of
| 1cers and friends as Teddy" because or
| his marvellous resemblance to President
Roosevelt, is as great hater of the
nature faker as Is his distinguished double
at Washington.
Sergt Haupt returned yesterday from
| his annual vacation which was spent this
year at Catalina Island, and last night at
| the regular meeting of the police branch
of the Ananias club he was the star per-
former, relating for the edification of the
members tale after tale all of marvellous
detail and close attention to truth, of his
! prowess with the rod and reel during the
| past two weeks.
| At the close of his veracious recitals
and after he had talked everybody present
deaf, dumb and blind the award commit
| tee weakly got together in one corner of
| the big room and gave Teddy three
medals, one each of the first, second and
third class, they unanimously deciding
that as q facile, two-handed prevaricator
| he has everyone else beaten nautical
| league.
The space usually allotted to records of
| this sort will not permit the telling OF but
one of Teddy's marvellous and Ger true
tales, and the one which won for him the
first class medal is selected.
81 tell you, boys" remarked Teddy as
he carefully selected a cigar and as care
| fully cut off the end and struck match
with which to light 1t, II want to tell you
that this light tackle business that Capt.
| Broadhead and Harry White and that
bunch talks about is all to the bad None
of your light tackle in mine. Why, them
| fellows never landed one fish in fifteen
that they hooked, and it kept them busy
putting on new rigging and pinching their
lines Then the fourteen fish that got
away were always the biggest ones of
course. And then you ought to hear EN-
| tell stories Of what they did when
wasn't along. Why, they told some stories
| that no one with an atom of sense could
believe, because they weren't natural, nor
plausible, nor possible.
Tells Truth Always
"Now. when 1 tell fish story / only
tell what actually happened, and conse-
quently my tales are true to nature ana
| for that reason are not to be classed with
any of these here Arabian Nights dreams
| that they try to stuff down man
throat.
"As 1 was saying, them fellows lost
nearly every fish they hooked and l had
to keep them all supplied with fish so
that they could say when they got back
home that they had had all the fish they
| could possibly eat, and more too.
zone day we were out and the fishing
was simply fine. That was the day
pretty near swamped the launch with the
fish L cought. There was bonita and vel
loWtail and albicore and tuna till you
couldn't rest. With my rod was landing
everything that came our way and when
we started to go back the launch was so
| low in the water that we had to throw
forty-one fish overheard to keep from
| sinking her, and then we had III great
big fellows left when we got to the land
| ing Them other fellows caught only
three little, measly yellowtail; 1 got all
the rest.
Talk about your fun! Why, never
had such a good days fishing in all my
| life and there was one little adventure
| during the day that was real exciting and
| nearly caused Harry White to jump over
| board. l tell you, while was handling
| that fish with one hand had to hold him
in the boat with the other.
He Meant Four
did 1 say one fish? Well, l meant four
| had a 31-pound yellowtail on one hook,
53-pound tuna on another, 6O-pound
| bonita on a third hook and-and 2l0-
pound jewish on the fourth.
I'VE were moving along slowly, not over
| four miles an hour when l got the strike
I got the tuna first and he leapt out of
| the water about twelve feet. AS he
dragged the line through the water the
yellowtail came along like a flash and
| took the upper hook. While l was hand
ling them nicely along comes that con-
| founded jewish and nabs hold OF the
| lower hook.
"Well, 1 just spit on my hands, pulled
| off nv wooden shoes and went to work
In earnest That tuna and the yellowtail
| and the Jewish were towing that big boat
along at twelve-mile clip, and Broadhead
shut off the engine and let her go. l got
the strike from the bonita about this
time, and that bonita and jewish got to
fighting.
~That's what got Harry White excited.
He said it wasn't fair for great big
overgrown Jewish to slam and bang
little bonita like that around and he was
for going right overheard and separating
them. I thought he was joking at first,
and told him to keep still; that l didn't
want my attention taken off the work.
Had to Hold Him
HE Just pulled off his shoes and got up
on the side of the launch and was going
right after them, but L grabbed him with
one hand and held him in. told him l
would get them in all right in few
minutes but having only one hand TO
work with made 1t a little harder. But L
got them up 10 Ine DOLL anu We
gated the whole bunch and pulled them
over the gunwales.
"I'm true to admit If it hadn't been for
the fight between the Jewish and the
bonita l might never have got them In,
but the big one would slap the little fell
low a lick with his tail that would knock
him a foot or two nearer the boat every
time, and the tuna and the yelloWtah
were keeping them in the air or on top
of the water nearly all the time. Then
the bonita would rush at the jewish and
try to get a hold on him, but it was just
like Toe Cans trying to knock Jim Jeffries
out: the Jewish was too heavy for 1t.
II managed to keep Harry White in the
boat all right and get those fish in with
one hand OF course the rest OF them
helped me to gaff them and pull them into
the boat and Harry didn't do thing to
that Jewish. Why, Inever saw fish or
ANYTHING else get such lambasting as he
gave 1t. Every time he hit 1t he would
veil cry huff. and finally that blame fish
gave some kind of groan that sounded
like huff, and not till then would White
let up on it.
'You know he despises a big man who
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