BILLIARDS IN A LIONS’ CAGE
Mr W. E. C. Hutchings, of Great Ayton (Yorks.) writes to the “Daily Mail”:— I once played a game of billiards in a cage of lions with my then partner, J. F. 0. Jackson, on a three-quarter size table, at the Empire, Dudley . . . When the red ball was knocked off the table the lions pursued it, no doubt thinking it was raw meat, and some little time elapsed before the trainer, Mine. Ella, could persuade the animals to return to their pedestals. Meanwhile, I was lying full length on the table and my partner was under it; he lost a shoe when one of the lions accidentally trod on his foot. My feelings were much relieved when my partner ran out with a break of 13! Two years later Mme. Ella was mauled to death by the same lions in Par's.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 2
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