Marlin-spike fish (1907)

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   This should get me Florida Marlins tickets.  Do they still play baseball?
   The revised OED has the July 1917 VANITY FAIR (!) for "marlin" (the swordfish, not the bird).  The full text LOS ANGELES TIMES should help a lot (and maybe also for "tuna"), but here are some citations.


May 1907, AMERICAN NATURALIST, pg. 335 (JSTOR database)
   In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum for 1907 (vol. XXXII), Jordan and Starks describe a collection of fishes from Santa Catalina Island, California.
   Among these are _Cerano macroplevus_, the yellow-fin Albacore, heretofore known from Japan and Hawaii; _Tetrapterus mitzukurri_, the Marlin-spike fish, heretofore known from Japan; _Lepidopus xantusi_, known from Cape San Lucas; _Chaenopsis alepidota_, known from the Gulf of California; and _Luvavus imperialis_, known from the Mediterranean.

21 October 1917, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 100:
_BIG SWORDFISH LANDED._
_Pacific Coast Record Catch Credited to New York Angler._
   George S. Pollitz of this city has the season's record catch of marlin swordfish, the finest game fish of the Pacific Ocean.  (...)(326 pounds!--ed.)
   Frederick Gray Griswold of the Union Club, whose privately printed and circulated stories of the fishing for this gamest of salt water fish have attracted so much attention among New York club men, is largely responsible for the number of New York sportsmen who made the trip to California in late August and spent most of the month of September hunting the marlin off San Clemente, a government-owned island about twenty miles south of Santa Catalina, where the Tuna Club has its clubhouse and records.


   See the following NYPL entry.  Griswold's an interesting author, writing 30 books about fishing and polo and horse racing and gourmet food.  Perhaps I'll take a look at "The Lady and the Tuna."


Call # MY (Griswold, F. G. Stolen kisses)
Author Griswold, F. Gray (Frank Gray), 1854-1937.
Title Stolen kisses : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold. --
Imprint Norwood, Mass. : Privately printed, 1914.

LOCATION  CALL #  STATUS
  Humanities-Genrl Res   MY (Griswold, F. G. Stolen kisses)
Location Humanities-Genrl Res
Descript 143p. : ill.
Note Inscribed to Robert P.Perkins.
 "Principal authorities quoted in the text," p. [144]
 Stolen kisses. What happened to the bulldogs. The tragic end of Reddy the fox. A day with the "Wards." The sporting barber's close shave. Jack Travail's first love. The lady and the tuna. The twilight of racing. Iroquois. Westward. The origin of the America's cup.
 Sixteen plates printed on both sides.
Local note With author's autograph.
Subject Fox hunting.
 Yachting.