SURF HEROES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5426, 20 May 1929, Page 4

SURF HEROES.

SENSATIONAL RESCUES. >Oi«l ■ I IM MANLY PERILS. Fifteen thousand people, w&tching the sensational surf rescues at MaUh'> Sydney, recently, were horrified to see a 12ft. shark dive under one of the life-savers. E. E. Bath, treasurer of the Manly Surf Club, told a graphic story to a News man. He said that two eigncis, thought to be Swedes, were trapped in the swir] rom the hUS ® 30ft. combers whiqh were; pounding the beach. They were carried more than 200 yards from the shore into mountainous seas. Without hesitation Harvey Pryor and Ralph Ford donned belts and swam to the victims. Both meh reached their objectives, but the interference of people whb had nO knowledge of the working of a lib® and belt nearly drowned! Ford, who was, submerged and pulled through the seething water at an alarming rate. To make matters worse, the lines became tangled, and it sepmedl that both life-savers, as well as their patients, would be dished to death before; the big crowd. GAVE UP BELT. Then Ford, in a spirit of selfsacrifice, slipped his halt, and put it in the hands of! his patient. The Swede Avas pulled ashore, leaving his rescuer to fight for his life, 440' yards ram the beach. Ford had a terrible and gruelling swim towards Fairy Bower, and, seemingly dead, was Washed on to the orcks, Avhere he was found 1 hy club mates. Meanwhile;, Pryor lost hsi patient, who was washed out a further 400 yards. L. McNally rushed to aJ.ocKy promontory, and dived-in wit on a belt. He swam. 350 yards through waves, which threatened to dash h , to Pieces on the rocks. Qn reachi g the foreigner, McNally supposed l»m until the arrival of hoards, brought by D. Chalmers, R. H. Wat son, and Winton Healey. The patient. n. He was in the last Stages of exhaustion. It was then that liorrfiod to see a huge shark i Chalmers. That he escaped is regur - qrl as something like a mirac e. •4. scratch crew launched! the; s boat, which was mpset. Jack art Nell TapHelfl were eWWed, the rowlocks were lest, the sweep-oar was broken, and lines had! to be ta out. Douglas drifted) in an unc.onscions condition, and >vas» the rocks, where he was found by. h club-mates, who thought Ihimi dead. To add to the thrills of the day. somq amateurs borrowed a flying boat to help in the resc.ue work. H was smashed to pieces on the rocks. Ford, onq of the heroes of the sei - satioinal resc.ue, was the life-saver, who was “outed” by the Surf Association for his part in the Fres 1 water brawl. When the matter 0 reduction of sentences, conies bqtothe council it is thought that t a body may shorten, the penalties imposed on Ylazlin and Ford. GIRL’S DEATH. . Nellie spurgegs, of Bathurst Street Woollahra, was killed at Bondi, when she wa.s caught in a hugq wave an washed, off the rocks; A- Milne, of Wentworth Street, Paddington, w:” seriously injured. The girl’s sikull was struck by a fagged piepe of rock which inflicted injuries from which she died on her way to hospital. Jack Hannah, of Brisbane Strqet ■Manly, stiffened a broken nose when hit by a dunxper at Bondi. At Bronte the seas werei so rough that surf bathing haff to be prohibited. The baths were alsto closed, as 30-foot. a\ avex were breaking over the walls. A strange .monster, seuen in the surf at Dee Why, was ‘first b'Cliexned to be a whole. The sulf bobat crew caught it, and it was them thought l to be a dolphin, it was Dliace|d 0 p exhibition and realised £9 fo»r c|ub fundh.

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