ONE WAY OF EARNING A LIVING.-Most of us have seen snake-charmers and lion-tamers at their work and descending the scale, trainers of flears But there is a new occupation. Allen Davis is an alligator-wrestler. He is a shown here in a Seminole Indian village doing a little Climbering up" for the tourist season. In the potograph he is holding a 10-foot alligator's jaw closed with his won jaw: surely one of the most daring of gator tricks! Since the photograph was taken Davis has get a thumb in thsi identical performance.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 19
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91ONE WAY OF EARNING A LIVING.-Most of us have seen snake-charmers and lion-tamers at their work and descending the scale, trainers of flears But there is a new occupation. Allen Davis is an alligator-wrestler. He is a shown here in a Seminole Indian village doing a little Climbering up" for the tourist season. In the potograph he is holding a 10-foot alligator's jaw closed with his won jaw: surely one of the most daring of gator tricks! Since the photograph was taken Davis has get a thumb in thsi identical performance. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 19
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