Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-29

animal, now reused to fury, reared himself
on his hind legs and came on with a rush
Sullivan caught him by both forefeet and
held them in a grip like iron. A furious
battle followed. 1t was a hand-to-hand
fight between man and beast on equal
terms and with life as the stake.
Sullivan tried to throw the beast, but the
ground was slippery with his own blood
inch by inch. he forced the animal toward
the root of big tree and with a mighty
effort threw it down and fell on top of its
PROSTATE body, never releasing his hold OF
those mighty forearms.
Then came a struggle that Sullivan long
remembered with SILVER. He knew his
only chance lay in keeping his clutch on
the brute's forearms, extending them as
brea thing spell he crawled up the brute's
body and planted one Of his knees firmly
on it's c.rest All this time the panther was
using his hind legs; to great advantage
tearing chunks of flesh from Sullivan's
feet. But he never thought of it He haG
other work before him. How to kill the
beast was a question that puzzled him as
he kneeled there, painting, half fainting
with loss of blood, his nerves almost over.
come by the fetid odor of the brute's car
cass. inhallng its hot breath and almost
feeling the fire of its eyes.
At last he thought of a way, and nerving
himself to the task he dug his knee deep
down into the animals chest, summonine
all his strength to the effort, and feeling
its bones crunching under him. Then using
the spot which the knee rested as
fulcruru, he drew the animals head to-
ward him so as to break its neck The ami
NAL OWNED his motive and resisted with
all its strength. but the man prevailed and
the neck broke with a snap that might
have bee1 heard a block.
When the conductor and engineer came
along half an hour afterward they found
Sullivan lying unconscious in pool of his
own blood, almost i'm the arms of the beast
he had slain.. AThes> animal weighed 500
pounds. and measured . feet 81 inches
from tip to tip. -; a
Sullivan is fifty years of age. His name
is probably assumed. He has lived in the
United States for twenty years and is en-
ployed by the Memphis Street Railway
Company as trackman. A reporter for
the Commercial-Appealysaw him last night
and took his measurements. His height
is 8 feet 5 inches, his arms outstretched
measure feet 10 inches, 6a4 inches more
than those of Robert ..Fitzsimmons; the
laxed and is inches when tense; IFitssim-
mons bicepa are only u inches; forearm
IL inches an inch and half more tina
Bob's; his, chest measurement is 80, against
FitZsimmons' Al, - / -.
Sullivan used to, wear a No. u shoe. but
after his encounter with the panther HIS
feet, which had been badly clawed, swelled
so that he now has to-s squeeze into a IL
Not long ago. it will be reWembered that
a local shoe dealer}pb trout ~ pair1ofR s&ees,
with placard ststhE that anybsdyi the
shoes would fit might have them. The
shoe dealer bad no idea there was such a
foot on earth. Sullivan came along and
soon proved that his title to them was in
disputable. p'-" A si-.3l,.
Sullivan Is afraid to fight a man For fear
of fatal results to the other fellow. A blow
from his tight arm might kill an OK.