A FOOTBALLER'S DIVE. .

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 5

A FOOTBALLER'S DIVE. .

SAVES MAN' ETIOM7 DEATH

The speed of thought and action which his football training had taught him enabled A. Gough, a -young- man who lives in Arncliffe*, to save a man from a terrible death among carriage wheels at Arncliffe railway station just before midnight a few nights ago. * According to the 'Sydney Sun, the 11.22' p.m. train from .Sydney had arrived, a^ Awicjiffe; and a crowd of passengers' ' alighted and walked along the. stdtion • and up. the steps to the overhead bridge which gives access to the streets on either side, of the lipe. As. usual, before all the traveller's liad. walked off ' the station, the train started to puU. out again on its journey to Sutherlanu. p lt had got up 'a. fair speed, and was, half-way along the station, whep a well-dressed man, who had evidently just awakened .to' the fact that Arncliffe was his alighting station, jumped from one of the cars of the moving train. Ho alighted on the station, but staggered back, and a cry of horror went iip from tlie people on the platform, many of whom were men and women returning from the theatre, in _ evening- dress. As the man reeled he slipped sideways on the rain-swept station, and it look^ ed as if he was gone. Just when the , passing of another second would have resulted in his falling under the wheels of the train, at a point where two carriages were coupledy a young man in a. dark coat and a sweater shot out from the crowd, and with a wonderful .half-leap and halfdive, which seemed to carry him yards, grasped the falling man by the shoulders, and in some inexplicable way, with a twist of his body, got hini into safety and bundled' him several yards back from the edge of the station platform. Th© people who saw tho action could not forbear lo cheer.

The rescuer made off quickly, but it was ascertained that his name was A. Gough, and that^a couple of years ago he played football with Annandale District Rugby Leagiie Club.