Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — SEA TIGER’S BATTLE PLACED ON FILMS [ARTICLE]

SEA TIGER’S BATTLE PLACED ON FILMS

Movies Operator Sitting In Steel Tube on Ocean Bottom Snapshots Sharks’ Duel v New York. —Down on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, in the shark-infested waters of the Bahamas, C. L. Gregory, of New York, expert photographer, sat in a steel tube, calmly turning the handle of a motion picture machine—a new invention which takes photounder water. A decrepit horse had been killed and lowered into the water. Soon a school of sharks were ripping to shreds the juicy meat until the sea was crimson. From the cavernous jaws of the leader a hunk of meat protruded when the bull of another herd wrested the morsel from the leader’s jaw. After gulping his stolen meal the great sea tiger swam around like a dart and seemed infuriated that it had been so little. Frenzied at the loss of his foo<L the fish thus robbed struck, cutting off a fin and ripping at the robber with his serrated teeth. Then followed a battle never Witnessed before by the eyes of man. The two monsters plunged toward each other with wide-open mouths, ripping and tearing at each other until the big bull administered a death blow and swam slowly away. A dark little form shot through the water, the figure of a native boy diving from a barge, knife in hand, to protect himself from the sea monsters. Boy and shark met in the latter’s element, and the king of the deep made a lunge at the dark figure. But the boy, with a long sweep of his knife, met the onslaught of the monster. Escaping the yawning jaws, as a matador dodges a bull in the arena, the youth struck again. It was the death stroke.