ATTACKED BY SHARK
ANOTHER SURF SENSATION AT COOGEE BRAVE RESCUE WORK. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. -COPYRIGHT. (Rec. March 2, 10.30 p.m.) Sydney, March 2. Another surf sensation has occurred at Coogee. Mervyn Gannon, while bathing waist deep within twenty feet of the shore, was attacked by a shark, which tore off his right hand. His agonised cries caused a general stampede from the water, but Jack Brown, a beach inspector, dashed to the rescue of Gannon, who was fighting the shark off. When Brown reached Gannon the shark again • attacked him, tearing off the fingers of the victim’s left hand. It also tore his back and shoulder to the waist and ripped his stomach. Brown stuck to his man and brought him ashore with the assistance of another surfer named Ernest Carr. Gannon was taken to the hospital, where he lies in a critical condition. He is 21 years of ago.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 135, 3 March 1922, Page 6
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