Long popular in Europe, the thrilling sport of balloon-jumping has recently gained followers in the United States. Probably the youngest of American. balloon-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 his own weight, he can make leaps 40it and SOft high. A tether is attached to his jumping balloo-i for safety. Older bal-loon-jumpers, using untethered balloons, are able to leap prodigious distances across country, and to jump over houses and trees much as if they were wearing seven-league boots.
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Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 2
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98Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 2
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