SNOWY BAKER, WORLD’S FINEST ATHLETE.

Shannon News, 29 October 1924, Page 3

SNOWY BAKER, WORLD’S FINEST ATHLETE.

AND BOOMERANG, THE WONDER , . HORSE. The name Of Snowy Baker is held 'in general respect in the world ol sport. He is the same Snowy Baker who won the world’s applause by capturing the individual honours of the Olympic Games, the youthful amateur boxer who; was one of tlie last opponents to face champion Fitzsimmons, the holder of six worl.d titles in as many different manly sports, known everywhere as the exponent of clean and strenuous living. Phil Goldstone’s production, “The Empire Builders,” tells a thrilling, dramatic and humorous story of West Afripa to-dfay. Baker, always one of the screen’s most gallant heroes, rides two splendid horses, performs some marvellous stunts and ends by winning a light with an opponent stones heavier. ; -Snowy sets out. to execute a treaty of peace with a, native king in Africa and to win Katryn van der Poel. But the Boer cattlemen of the veldt dq not want their pastures settled by farmers. The native king’s advisers wish to plunge him into war with England; and Katryn’s circle had chosen another man for her.' Baker and hi s famous horse, Boomerang hurdle more obstacles in less 'time than you ever saw before. At. the Maoriland on Friday night.