AN ATHLETIC FEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 281, 31 October 1883, Page 2

AN ATHLETIC FEAT.

a ~^'"extraordinary iricitlent, .m which, an athlete showed great presence of mind and unusual muscular strength, ,hapi)ene4 at Cranachan .Farm,! jiear rDuadee, recently, and is reported ijg>" t]ie, Dundee, Advertiser/ -MiP iA.rohibaldl McDonald,' ' one' of ? five brothers who occupy the' faring -frag Agoing OTerL hfs Jand accompanied by the shepherd,:, and when they were passing through a 'field 'in^ which cattle rwere jsrajjing^a bull gaye-them chase. TW shepherd! Tan, and left his; master* to bis "foie. Mr McDonald could: not ;ran, he having 1 8uffered ; much from irheuniatism, an^ } .being now -obliged to use- orutohea, , The^bullj ajiproacfeßajl^nA;. |»egan to' attack lump hp doing his best torkeep Mtfii M 'baj With '^Kis :c»tche^.v: Asj gdoi4 Sl luck ; .hard ife Mr John McDonald, ah elder brother, hearing* trie's, ran to the resoue, }■ In his hurry he forget' to'bring any instrument with Wni with which to fell the brute ; but it occurred to him that if he caught, the bull by the horns, he fmight keep hfm from 'doing more mischief till ; help arrived. Seizing the enraged! animal by the horns, and -using the* horns as levers, and with one, supreme effo'ftj he gave a su44en twist to th> nead, dislocating iie neck' by hig^erk, and, in [lff"' moment, _the bull fell helpless at his feet, i, John, McDonald was. at bne'time champion fttblete of Sootland.