Show Lion Tamers Shun Common Colds But Get the Shivers MP MEMPHIS TENN It If If you are bothered with troublesome colds get geta a job as a lion tamer Your colds will disappear but in their place shivers will run down your back Capt Dick Clemens veteran lion tamer explained that men who work with lions never get colds I haven't had one in 20 years he said and all the other lion men menI I know are the same way He doesn't know how to explain it its it's its it's just a fact Its It's the same way with wounds healing A lion gets all torn up today and hes he's healed tomorrow Im I'm the same way I 1 got a bad tear not long ago but it was well ina ina in ina a few days You never get any Infection in In- A scratch is more dangerous danger danger- ous than a bite beca because the lion ton may have gotten something on his claws walking about We never sew up a lion wound Ills His Worst Mishap His worst mishap was in Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis about four years ago You cant can't call it an accident though Any darned fool can get hurt in a lion cage but there arent aren't any accidents If you get hurt its it's your own fault I had a new lion Nero that 1 just got from a zoo It makes all the difference in the world in what order order or or- der they come into the arena rena out of the chute I was getting a lot of ot applause and was bowing to the audience I Iwas Iwas Iwas was thinking Boy am I ever going over here and then I turned around and saw Nero coming toward me It should have been Tyrone my boss lion Every lion act has a boss lionI lion I shouted Wrong lion Hon but my I helper must have thought I yelled Come on lion because he opened the chute door and let another one in Id I'd been paying that man goodmoney good goodmoney goodmoney money for a couple of years too Falls Over Prop Nero was coming at me and as I backed away I fell Cell over a prop I threw my leg up to protect myself They always grab for the stomach The lion grabbed my leg He bit It all the way through twice and dragged me around the arena with the shifters firing blanks at him all the time He opened his mouth to get another bite and I got away My wife held him off with blanks while I got out the door Clemens said he lost all sensation while the lion was mauling him When he got out of the arena his leg gave way beneath him him broken broken He lie was white with rage sweat popping ou out of him He went back in the cage broken leg and all and finished his act The audience thought it was part of the show Then he went over to the handler who let the wrong lion inand in inand inand and hit him so hard he broke all the knuckles on his right hand Fear is always with him he admitted ad ad- Even today I 1 worry every time Once a trainer gets where he has no fear no sensation while working lions hes he's gone gone I |