A COMEDY OF THE SURF.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12967, 21 November 1907, Page 7

A COMEDY OF THE SURF.

|g-£,4 6ft fong was nearly drowned |t'*Wol water at Bondi yeeterday (s*y« IS?*!*! , Dail J Telegraph" of 13th 'Hβ; was plunging about when. |g:H* **ekWash carried him into a brcaktrln fi T *" immediately became ** * en '" fro . nt °f * galloppSr ca .n»« out of it gasping, and fej2*%.w> ewim deeperatdy. AVhen he engaged in taking in large |f.t7"BW* of water ho was cnllinjs for rank member of the Life-caving pilSPjyent ««t to him, while others ran I ZZjfff lrf*-Hnes sitjiatod about 300 Pkf? W the )* ncn - TTi's eecma to B°°d scheme. It eneurea $'*$&' °if e ? erclse to those who trudge H'af?t■• n«»ry eand intervening, al--1 j^yjL>*_»* * drawback that tJio bather |SiP ! >iitl« may be drowned before l f lK» lae i. aro " vai,ab, o Jor use. While a,r4, ? on *«eir long journey, jPi 8 2-22 p ■<*■' Ht<sken»clunidt build tree R'BeS e ftiJ n tt valiant struggle with a which is kept in a box ®<&*iLl; « w,ter » bat Imhad as much i'wTw?»? i. RettinK il out a S*i nst J 1, * Wia id. » • wo "'d hnre of swimming i : «*Kii ,3 d with <he tteneril PostKSltr* eer "'* " rm « However, owinji M&W'-. pmence 9 f mind of the bather

who had first plunged in to the rescue, neither lines nor lifebuoy were remnred. When he got within speaking distance of the then drowning man he politely requested hirt to Btand upTnd' walk out. He did.