TIGER’S ATTACK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 258, 28 September 1935, Page 16

TIGER’S ATTACK.

ANIMAL TRAINER MAULED. An animal trainer, Clifton Eric Flyger, was atacked by a tiger whicl: he was “breaking in” at Wirth’s Pari at Melbourne. One of Flyger’s arms was badly clawed, but he was savec from more serious injury by Mr G Wirth, who went to his aid with ar iron bar. Flyger was training two tigers Prince and Pasha, neither of which hac appeared in a circus before. He was Inside a small cage with the animals, and was teaching them a see-saw act, He carried a whip and a fork as protection. Flyger slipped on a miiddj patch of ground and fell against Prince, who was balancing Pasha on the see- ' Prince immediately sprang at Flyger and began to claw viciously. I ly; ger threw his arm over his face anc called for assistance. Pasha also was moving towards him when Mr Wirtl: came into the cage and drove the tigers back into a corner with an iron bar. . , Mr BVrrth rattled the bar against the cage and kept the tigers at bay until Flyger got to Iris feet, picked up his whip and fork, and regained control of the animals. Four years ago Flyger tracked an escaped tiger into some scrub at Springvale. He kept the animal cornered there all night ,and in the morning drove it into a fowl house, from which it was driven into a cage.