COWBOY TRICKS.
ATTEMPT TO SWIM THAMES.
By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, LONDON, June 9.
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed by thousands of spectators at Kew Bridge when two cowboys tried to swim the swollen Thames on horses. They were swept off in midstream and narrowly escaped drowning. As a result of this episode the horse race across the Thames, in which 39 Wembley cowboys were to participate, was 'abandoned. • ■ ■' ■' ■
Floundering through four feet of Thames mud, the cowboys, Aldrich and Walker, urged their horses into the deep water where they were caught by a strong flood current and swept like corks downstream. The crowd had hitherto regarded the affair as a joke, but they now realised that the men and horses were fighting for their lives.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 June 1924, Page 9
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125COWBOY TRICKS. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 June 1924, Page 9
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