Show adventurers club death straddles the fences by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter TODAY roday boys and girls dave sherin takes the floor X lives in new york city 1 I met with my adventure in art 1 he writes and strange to say it have to do with th the elia 1 tan revolution or anything 0 like that I 1 had my adv adventure denture ti horse A horse the answer to almost anything i in n dave dav dave remember the time when he be on ahr a hope Q 41 going somewhere back in 1924 when his adventure bappe happened L id hs h 1 steeplechase lider ader and a more dangerous sport e exist playing post office with a roomful of man eating tigers tit dave had been riding steeplechases steeplechaser steeple chases and hurdle rates races for loth tw years over in england when one september day in 1924 he ii out for ireland for a two months vacation and a whiff 01 0 at Lim air his home was in Kil mallock and hed only been there a when a neighboring farmer brought him a high spirited half bred mi asked dave break him to the saddle WE unbroken colt has wicked gleam in his eye bye the horses id been dealing with for the two years before h been full blooded chasers says dave and I 1 looked on this flew ai L 11 as being a very soft job indeed I 1 was wrong my first anming of offer k 1 tle tie of that colt came the first time I 1 entered the sta stable ble I 1 was BO a inside than he began to lash out in all diorec directions tio ns H he e pta practically k me out the door 1 I decided then that ned been spoiled by bad handling and anim 14 about coaxing him into a better frame of mind after a lew few din dij he seemed to respond to my efforts and I 1 put the tack or bra ng jig ngin in equipment on him gy by that time I 1 had forgotten the fai reception he gave me I 1 should have been warned though by hytti wicked gleam learn that was still in his eye well sir dave had the harness on him and for a few da days ys i him buck all the hellishness out of his system around the corral thai day he saddled the colt and took hi him m for a canter F for r a all of three rr id that animal was gentle as a lamb but finally they came to a field 0 three or four young horses were grazing and the sight of those h seemed to infuriate daves mount dave goes for a wild ride upside down e he quivered a moment says dave and pushed his head doz far as he could then suddenly he swung it sharply around andr enda 41 A 7 10 0 Q eze the plunging colt headed for the boundary fence with it under my right stirrup and at the same moment he heple alun ad N ways to the left his sudden action unseated me and as my fak 13 i slipped from its stirrup I 1 fell across his back to leftward but my right foot held fast in its stirrup and there ewt I 1 ny slung at the furious animals side my right leg sticking up in tote ik air and the back of my head hanging an inch from the grov and with dave dangling at his side standing on his head 0 a d air that wild colt started off he went heu hell for leather across tit til C field daves cranium bumps the ground at every stride at each long stride he took says dave my head hit N 91 and his hoofs grazed my skull I 1 have never been in a tighter ws my life but strange to relate my head remained clear and myta connected I 1 knew he was heading for the boundary fence at the of the field and I 1 never expected to cross it alive dang dangling lin 11 at his si I 1 was I 1 must inevitably hit that fence then if I 1 shashi less id be a lot tougher than I 1 ever thought any human could be on the colt galloped crossing that field in in a lecig length of 0 tio that was all too short to suit dave now the fen fence cc loomed UP lip bt fore him now the colt was falling back on his if haunches fe jump it all took place in the twinkling of an eye but to dave aou was racing with the agony of the doomed it seemed like slow mow colt rose into the air and the incredible happened that horse wr that fence he flew head well 0 t over it like a bird carrying daves top of the barrier and letting it down on the other side colts somersault saves riders life then we were in the open again dave says and hi he was ga g faster than ever across another fence and abher another lie he avent wa them with room to spare every time and still he kept ona on aels der his belly my head brushing the tops of the blad blades S of grassy hoofs beating a tattoo on the side of my cranium then belld ahw lashing legs I 1 caught a glimpse of a solidly built wall all ahead the most dangerous leap in county limerick barred his way J it was a stone wall five feet high that dropped d away aw i on the other side to a dyke 20 feet across its all over thought to myself and I 1 still remember that I 1 forgot 0 to o prayer then the wall seemed to be rushing toward me inc SDI could feel the colt bracing himself for a great effort I 1 he rest the air and the like 2 K last thing thin I 1 remembered was a crash bricks falling about my ears ly AI dave awoke three days later and they told him of the had saved his life the colts front feet had struck the wall andrt turned a complete somersault the one sort of spill that CO could d y have saved dave 0 seri ice |