BALLOON-JUMPING THRILLS. Lopg popular in Europe, the thrilling sport of balloon-jumping has recently gained followers in the United States. Probably the youngest of American bal-loon-jumpers is four-year-old Billy Crawford, of Cleveland, Ohio, Sitting in a harness below a diminutive balloon, with its buoyancy regulated until it is just 11b less than bis own weight, he can make leaps 40ft. and 50ft. high. A tether is attached to his jumping balloon for safety. Older balloonjumpers, using untethered balloons, are able to leap prodigious distances across country, -and to jump over houses ns if they were wearing seven-league boots.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 94, 15 January 1932, Page 17
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