Man Catches Wife Who Fell In Trapeze Act
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) MIAMI (Florida), October 31. A trapeze artist caught his pretty wife when she fell 40ft during their circus act tonight. The Impact sent both sprawling in the ring centre at the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers’ circus before 2000 spectators. Neither appeared seriously hurt. Blonde Greta Frisk had attempted to spring from the trapeze and do a mid-air flip.
She grasped for the trapeze bar but missed it and fell. There was no safety net. Her husband Fritz dashed forward arms outstretched and caught her perfectly. The impact knocked Fritz flat and he and his wife went sprawling. But he got groggily to his feet as his wife, unhurt, embraced him. The big crowd, shocked into silence, broke into a loud ovation. Even the astonished cirCus band stopped playing momentarily.. Two deputy sheriffs and two firemen raced into the ring. The circus manager, John Pugh, said: “Both refused to go to hospital. I think they’ll go tomorrow. It was a magnificent catch.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 21
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