KING AS HUNTER
EXPLOITS IN INDIA DEADLY MARKSMANSHIP TIGER SHOT WHILE LEAPING One of the most exclusive clubs in the world recently held its annual meeting at a London hotel. It is the Shikar Club, membership of which is open only to famous hunters, men who can boast hairbreadth escapes from the jaws of man-killing beasts of the jungle. The club's president is the King, the patron is the Prince of Wales, and the Earl of Lonsdale is the chairman. Members include Dennis Lyall, intrepid lion hunter and trekker; Dunbar Brander, who has shot tigers by the score, and there was Selous, who hunted maneating lions on horseback and can now join the shikar gatherings no more. The meetings of the club take place on Oaks night, at the close of one of the greatest sporting weeks of the year. In this Jubilee year some of the exploits of the King came in for _ more than usual discussion. The King is one of the crack shots of the century.
During 1911 His Majesty went to Nepal to shoot with the Maharajah. Six hundred and thirty-four elephants were used to ring the game. Out of a bag of thirty-nine tigers the King secured twenty-one. On the first day, while moving along a river bank a tiger suddenly took a flying leap across a river bed. The King'shot him through the neck—a beautiful shot in mid-air. The same afternoon two rhinos charged straight at tho King. Ho brought them down with a right and left. Another time, the King shot a tiger and a bear as they burst out of the grass together. Colonel Glasfurd, a member of tho Shikar Club, met a panther unexpectedly in the forests of Central India. Locked in a death grapple they fell over a cliff. A tree saved the life of the hunter. Colonel P. T. Etherton, another member, is probably the only man living who has stared out a tiger.
They met unexpectedly in a ditch. He managed to back away to safety by fixing the tiger with his eye. Another time an elephant he was riding kicked and wounded a tiger. The tiger sprang on the elephant, claw.ing his way higher. -Elephant, hunter and tiger all went off together into the jungle until a tree swept the tiger off.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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