Show MYSTERY CAVIS CAVE IS EXPLORED BY STUDENT Swimmer Braves Stream I Flowing Thru Cave In i Mountain I PREHISTORIC RELICS Find Statues In Clay of Long Extinct Animals PARIS Feb Some AJ 16 COT Some In- In IntereSting In J tere and thrillIng storIes are told In connection with the feats or OL som 01 toe LUU dates for tor or the grand prix of the AcAdemy des dee Sports but they are overshadowed by the pUblicIty given to the feat teat of o the winner The prize for 1923 recently awarded oard ed to Alain Alala Gerbault a noted tennis player went to him only after a spirited debate debato of the jury some of ot whose members Norbert a student at the University of Toulouse SAILOR WINS WL'S VINS The prize Is awarded annually to the man or men accomplishIng a sportIng porting exploit In France by a Frenchman or foreigner or abroad by II a Frenchman alone likely to result In a material scientific or moral progress for or humanity Ger- Ger Gerbault won eron the prize by making a trIp across acosa the In a s 30 toot foot sloop In the region of St ent of the Haute Garonne a brook enters the north side of ofa ol a mountain 1600 feet In altitude runa through a gulch regarded ns a Impenetrable a Impenetrable and emerges on the southern slope elope of the mountain On A 28 23 1923 Casteret a strong swimmer and expert dIver to tas brook Be- Be Before tore fore the leap Into the unknown known knowL made his wilt will Then armed tinned only with candles protected from the tho water to dispel dl pel the darkness of the subterranean cavern the tho young youn student dived In The distance between the spot where tho the water disappears Inthe Into the mountain to Its outlet on the theother theother other side measures three quarters three of a mile For three hours bours friends awaited In anxiety at the mouth of the grotto Suddenly dripping with muddy mud water dishevelled and haggard but with nth the grim smile of ic tory tOT on hIs hia features feature the student was shot out of oC the mountain Into the arms of oC his exuberant friend LARGE LAnGE CACHe CAVE CA He ie told a remarkable story of courage and nod energy FIghting against the current swimming to the the vacillating lights of the can can- candie candie caidie die die Casteret In many places of ithe the grotto where the water met with the root roof of stone had to halt bait Ignorant as us to whether the tho brook which In these spots as- as assumed exactly the appearance of ofa ofa ia a huge pipe completely filled rushing water would again attia a few feet teet widen and the swIm swIm- swImmer swimmer mer find open air above his head he be had bad to decide whether hether to turn turnback turnback back of to chance the tong long 8 sim swi under water Ho lie chose the latter Jatter His Ills courage was as re rewarded for after the swim under water lie he reckoned at about 70 feet he emerged Into a fry dry ry gallery about six hundred feet long and quite hIgh above hL his head In this grotto Casteret declared prehistorIc he ho discovered a torio museum Upon the nail walls allo of ithe the cavern engra engraved cd as If It with sharp Instruments or painted were characters In a lan Ian language guage which had never nev nevot before seen or heard of oC Statue of ot clay some of ot them n well ell eli pre Ire I animals have long since disappeared from Crom the surface of Europe Two of these that of a bear and a II tiger Casteret said must hao hae dated at least as far back a as 20 2000 years were so lifelike and awell well preserved that he ho wa was WM of the tho opinIon that the live animals had become petrified with the clay of tho earth In the course of some cataclysm m Some Seme of the members of the JUry argued that while the exploit oit of Carteret Casteret from a spectacular point of view did not compare e with that of Gerbault It bad had far more t alue from tram a IL a scientific side el They were overruled |