NOVEL BUT RISKY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 276, 12 April 1911, Page 4

NOVEL BUT RISKY

SCULLERS AS SHARK-BAIT. ]■■ ''^^H Something extraordinary in of training operations wag by some of the men competing 'Tarramatta Hundred" sculling val. It is quite a new idea and although the men who indulge consider it gives them "wind," it appear that they do little whet the appetite of any shark* may be cruising round after lunch. '^^M Taking hold of a lino trailing 20 feet behind speedy men, clod in bathing suits, board and tow astern. Working principle of a plane, they cant heads downwards as they shoot the water, and go many feet the surface, only to come up to again twenty yards or so Up and down they go, giving selves time just for a breath or the surface before diving again. - *^^H They yell loudly with all the of their lungs as they speed surface for a moment or two, and they allege, frightens the doubt it does do so before the get hold of them, but as they yell beneath the water the whole seems risky, especially as the are indulged in in the quiet Double Bay and the Parramatta Perhaps the first man to try method of improving his Charlie Messenger, who may his great row alongside A rest Saturday, when he finally world's champion, to the practice. who have seen this novel way of making lung P° the men are simply it is done in deep water.