A THRILLINQ ACT.
At the Olympia in London on Boxing Day tho great sensation of ho day was provided by Sohreyer, who rode a bicycle down n narrow suspended track, starting from the very highest point in the buildIng, lie looked but a tiny boy as ho catne out of the gloom of tho lofty roof, 11ml sped 'down tjie two hundred 'feet of the incline, which at the end turns slight' ly upwards aguln. Off the narrow diving plank in which tho track ends Rome 20ft above Mn ground man and bicycle lept at, a terrific speed into the air, mid Hchrey«r, p.trting from tho machine, flow ns graceful as a bird' through a apace of over a hundred feet, to fall head foremost with a great eplnah into a lanlt sunk Into (ho floor. It wan a thrilling act, carried out amid breathless silonoc, and nn immense ovation was accorded the air-flying cyclist when he clambered out of the water to bow to the cheering audience,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 13
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168A THRILLINQ ACT. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 13
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