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Show Boomerang's Antics Is n Puzzle. l.NLnN Jtin ii -Tin- Anthropological Anthropolog-ical institute is engaged In an attempt to popularize the boomerang, awl .111 exhibition of the throwing of tin. Australian Aus-tralian weapon look pla n Worm-Wood Worm-Wood Scrubs common. The dlhiculty was that none of the Spectators Cbuld gauge the alighting place of the boomerangs, and terrified members of th- Institute were pursued all over the common by (writing, semicircular semi-circular pleo s of hard wood. It was good exercise on sin h ;i 1 Old day, but the enthusiasm of the greatest scientist Is sensibly diminished when a boomerang boome-rang Suddenly darts between his legs and knocks him down. The thrower-ln-chlef wns v. H. s. Knowles of Oxford unl irslty, w ho has devoted three years to studying the erratic er-ratic iltghts Of the boomerang, and hopi s in another thret years of constant con-stant prat ii. o to equal in -kill the Aus- t 1 .1 1 1.1 ii aborigines Tin- majority of the boomerangs used were lent hv Ihe authorltlt - ol tin BHt- lsh museum and Mr Knowles made them do some extraordinary things. They sprang from bis hands with a his:- .11" fury leaped high into the air. and tln-n des-iile-.l gracefully 'Int.- after af-ter circle until they sank after an absence ab-sence of half a minute, al the thrower's throw-er's feel. Often the boomerang shot au,i 160 yardl befora beginning the return Journey |