HEENEY SCORNS LION HUNTING AS SPORT.
MIGHT AS WELL SHOOT TABBY CATS, HE ASSERTS (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 31. The “New York World,” in a leader entitled “Mr Fleeney and the Lions,” discusses Tom Heeney’s assertion that all that a modern lion hunter needs to do is to “pick off the lions,” which “just stand there and wait for you to shoot them. I might just as well shoot tabby cats in the rear of the Shubert Theatre for all the kick I get out of it.” The leader continues. “We feel it our duty to point out that Mr Heeney’s idea of excitement is a little different from the ordinary man’s. Any man who had the courage to climb into the ring with Tunney ought not to mind a lion very much. If you are going to give us the choice of facing Tunney without a rifle, or a lion with a rifle, you are going to see a dead cat every time.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19035, 2 April 1930, Page 1
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