"BIG GAME"
HUNTING AT HOME
AMERICAN'S^ AMBITION
: , V: 'NBW;:yOBE/^j'tii January; ... Mr. Benver Wright,' . tha ; woulcl-Tbe "big game?' hunter, of 6't. Louis, whose scheme'for'Stajking:circus1 lip^R in JiJs home State ''jungle" wasilrvyarted'by eherifcv ,b%e)-8;.;is;, f m " ago, has at last realised.his" ambition. On. this occasion Mvv Wright kept his Elans secret, and.can now boast that c has shot two "lions. He'^purchased them. ■ from a circus,'' ana; toot up' his position 100 yards; from the. cages' in which they- were drawn' to: thfe '/jungle.*' „ •,. .■'; .:;■■ ■'; '. . .;.' ■; One'animal was/so decrepit that it had to bo.prodded, into activity' before it wouia stagger from' the' cage. Its apparent senility did ',not tijucJi ' the heart of % }f, hunter, " however..,' Ho "potted" it .before; it had' tottered 50 y.ar?.s- • btKer lion' was in aix almost similar state ;<)f decrepitude," and it ajso fell, an easy victim to tho bullet of the "big ganje*'man, ...,■.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 4
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143"BIG GAME" Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 4
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