'Lucky For Him That He Moved’
H An unusual incident caused a ® is shock to certain bystanders at a B H recent athletic meeting in the y H Southern Transvaal, reports a ~ g Cape Town paper. El B While the javelin champion- U O ship was being contested, one of the competitors threw so wildly 13 H that the deadly spear hit the jg D door of the van containing the = gj loudspeaker equipment. E H Only a moment before the gj El operator had been leaning over y g. the back of the van doing a job H and if he was at all an introspec- 0 El tive fellow he must have g gj imagined what the javelin B g would have done to him as he B P braced his foot against the van H to pull out the weapon, which r § penetrated more than a foot. 0 B As for the athlete, he was a y H picture of confusion and rather g wan at the thought of what S B might have been. jsj B
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Southland Times, Issue 24114, 1 May 1940, Page 10
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