| Show YOUTH REPEATS TS HIGH UGH DIV OFF OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE Doubters Doubter Skeptical About First Ex Exploit plop Are Satisfied by Second Jump sew hew ew York Ray York Ray Woods twenty two old old year bt SL t LouIs Loul s swimming Imming star made a perfect back balk dive ot of feet oft off Brooklyn bridge recently Into the East Cast rh river riser er A few days before he be did the same thing but skeptical sew ew York refuted refused to take hIs Ills word for Cor forit forIt It it so eo this time be took along a half dozen reporters and photographers neither time wis he even esen slightly bruIsed and both loth times he swam to hore bhore unal led Jed Woods only fear was that the police would stop hIm hlin Ills first dive was seen only by two t drivers and anda n a few v barge workers but nothing came of It II but smiles of ot doubt So there would be no doubting the second time timo Woods telephoned the tho and oud told them of ot hIs big plans and ond reporters and camera men en to the bri Ige Woods on arrival removed remo hIs Ills shoes coat coal BpI and wrist watch tie lie Ie climbed oulon oulon outon on the Manhattan side aide of the Iho ho bridge some seventy se feet flet from frem tr m shore chore and an 1 nearing a 0 bathing suit chest J I ruled roler- tor andI tor dl dlIn diving In helmet shirt trousers and I socks po posed ed foi tot a n second with Ith t I eyes closed and dived backward Slowly Iy although he be estimates his body was nas as traveling mills an hour Woods turned In the air with wilh his hands locked beneath him Ith hardly B a ripple Ie to struck the water hater ater and p pared arld The tl t w w spectators spee augmented by bys s motorists gasped n as the diver struck the water lie He reappeared Jered for a moment and S Sam am to a I pier climbing up Didn t hurt burt a 0 bit lilt be he said regain la lag Ing his breath Later at nt the hotel be he said raid he hall had ha l been Cen stunned momentarily when lie he hit the water uler but that lint he felt Celt no II effects othu than thun a n mild headache Woods Roods fearing a Q visit from the I i dice olice checked out of the hotel lIe said he had eaten nothing and hud had only a 0 cep c ip of oC coffee for Cor breakfast and ane gel get his belated dinner Woods Roods who bo Is i 1 of ot the Ue thebold bold to high school In ha St Sf Louis Loul says he has hns dived Horn flom all the lie idles b-idles b spanning the llie lie MI MissI Mississippi sl rh river er III HI highest dive dl he lie said was as from it 11 tI f top of ot a lighthouse at zilch Into I aLe l 5 feet On April 10 1021 1921 D Carom lt diced ed from Brooklyn bridge e for most mo Purl oses and was OS uninjured lit he U sal 11 re rescued by a 0 tu tug On July 1 12 19 Wl 10 Icier t eter Mc sic vern ern of ut Juror jinni Juin I u oft orr a truck on which he be was crossing the tho bridge and took the leap lIe He too was rescued receiving cuts lutS and bruises on the tac fact face and und body |
