BATTLE WITH TIGER
MAN KILLS BEAST WITH STICK A thrilling story of a Hindu youth’s hand-to-hand fight with a tiger is reported from a village a few miles to the west of Poona, says the “Daily Express." Marane, a young Marati a farmer, was informed that a tiger had killed one of his bullocks, and bad taken shelter in his field. Armed with a four-foot staff he went to the field and saw that the tiger was asleep. It took more than 20 minutes to kill the tiger, while the whole village watched with amazement the man’s fight with the animal, which harl made itself a terror to the surrounding country. Marane’s tactics were to await the spring of the tiger, move rapidly aside at the critical moment, and smash blow after blow on the animal’s head. He was wounded in many places by the slashing paws, but when the tiger was killed it was found that the skull had been smashed, while there was not a single mark ou the rest of his body.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 5
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