A Remarkable Jumper

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 3 November 1904, Page 2

A Remarkable Jumper

T, CowiUKTT, who olaiins to bo tlm champion high and long jumper of the world, does bouio rcmarkablo (outs in tho jump-. inR lino. |He is not only a grout long and high jumper, but a trick jumper as well, Ono of the extraordinary tricks ho per* forms is to jump oil a brick (said brick on end] ovur.a ohiiin onto another briolt (ond also) mid ovor a lmrdlo 6ft Gin high, Another jump is off a brick ovor a chain on to another brick over 12 ordinary chairs on v to a man's face and off again without hurting tho man, only loaving a black patch of soot which is previously rubbed on to the solos of his blioos to show that'ho has beon on (ho man's faoo.. Ho also jurnp's, from tho ground into a tub of water, which' is on tho top of a Sft tablo Oft away, and out again without wotting nioro tlwn tho solos of his shoes. Another time ho substiiuiesabasltotofeggii for tho tost of water, and jumps among the eggs and out again without breaking an ogg. Anothor -uiarkable jump is over a foiir'whooloa Inn-Jan, the cover, hood and nil. Ho jumps '.:.[<. in ono standing backward jump, nnd can jump o\cr ton chairs placed lCft apart and finishes up by jumping throe horses' pliieod together 10ft, away from the last chair, flo is open to jump any man in the world at any style of jump. This truly remarkable man will be shortly seen in the colony, as Wirth Bros, have engaged him for a season through Australia.