The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-07
FELL 100 FEET THROUGH NET.
MILE. ANTONIO BREAKS HER LEG
DOING HER THRILLER.
Grim Interlude I'm Try'Out Rehearsal OF
Thompson & Dundy's Performers nj
Iona Park-IIOrseback Ballet tlne
SpectacIe--A Clever Miss From Texas.

Lima Park-IIorseback Ballet Fine
Spectacle--A Clever Miss From Texas.
II will be many long day before Mile.
AdelinA Antonio Of Paris and Calcutta can
wear red tights again and tumble from a
tower top. She broke her left leg yesterday
afternoon at Luna Park when rehearsing
her thriller for the amusement OF several
hundred folk.
The accident TO mademoisele came IA
a grim bit Of tragedy in days fun with
elephants that played tunefully on mouth
organs and rang for drinks 10 assuage their
pachydennc thirst, with thick calved ladies'
of the euuestrienne ballet posing lightly
on one toe the while they nicked the other
ut the grinning spectators; with bear
that walked like a man; with Hindoo Jug
glers (Kir Singh, the cunningest Of ALL who
grew lowering trees out OF pot Of black
dirt. and with black eyed, pink checked
girl of san Antonio who threw a lariat like
any cowboy and tanned very devil Of a red
eyed. hard mouthed. punging bronco
Everybody who has been to Luna Park
remembers the lay Of the circus the oval
Of boxes the three rings over the water in
the centre and the 100 foot tower at the
Tar end. where the incline OF the shoot the
chute begins
Coed views of hair raising things may
be obtained from any of these points, but
when a fat boy with girls face and voice
like the below of bull called out toward
the end Of the indoor rehearsal that Miles.
Mona earle and Adelnn Antonio were ready
to leap from the tower to the net at hts foot
everybody climbed to the chute incline
squarely in front Of the tower. Up its
Fl,. n luslIar fl,ar TO ba and fhara
ten foot platform. looking no bigger
than a chair seat projected and shook in
the wind At the foot of the tower stretched
the net, an old web, blackened and fraaz'ed
at the ends
A little mite OF woman in pink tights
slipped round the corner OF the tower,
waved her hand at the crowd, shivered
bit and climbed up the ladder. The fat
hoy introduced her
Mile Mona Carl. who will leap for life.
supported only by her nerve and the
strength Of her head
Sixty feet up the ladder tho pink tights
stopped, turned to the crowd, made a little
bow and shot swiftly downward, turning
over twice She landed in the net on her
back, bounced, got her balance, waved
thanks for the applause and ran away
her bare shoulders shaking in the cold.
How easy that is" said most of the
crowd. What little thing for a lot of
money. The climbing up IS the hardest
part
minute or two later came Adelina,
her shapely limbs in red tights her yellow
hair gathered in big coil. She is big
woman, with the majestic presence one
sometimes sees in circus rings or in the
front row OF show girls. 1t was her first
try at the dangerous game this year. She
hadn't even tested her net TO see IL it was
safe. but she had to rehearse like all the
rest Of the queer folk of Luna Park
She went up the ladder slowly. At the
top she looked like a red doll standing
on the cover OF shoe box. The girlish
faced boy talked 70 her through mega
phone.
Are you all ready7'
All right she called family.
She turned her back, set her heels and
let her body fall backward stiff as a stick.
over and over her body whiried down
ward, a slowly revolving. red wheel.
She hit the net on her shoulders and back,
went through the rotten stun AZ II it had
been cheesecloth, crashed ag inst a heavy
plank that ran along the side OF the incline
and dropped to the tightly stretched canvas
below the net with thud that made the
women scream and the men a little cold
around the heart,
When they picked her up she was I'M
conscious and her left leg was twisted
under her. A dozen men carried her into
been going on. The ballet girls gathered
around, \ dancing bear watched the
hurt woman and growled. A man in tights
and spangles, a giant OF q fellow, supported
her head while dwarf chafed her limbs.
When DR., Pierce OF Coney Island eI-
amined the broken leg he found that the
bone had forced its way through the flesh
the fracture was so bad. When he put
splnt on the leg the pain brought her to.
-piable, she groaned, and the word
made DeOule launh and broke the At mi
Then they took her TO the Kings County
Hospital. In a minute or two the guests
OF Luna Park were Watching the girl from
Texas ropo ponies the poor mademoiselle
and her broken leg quite forgotten.
Old Antonio, her father, who manages
liliputans for living, said the net hadn't
been used for year and a half. Adelina
thought 1t was safe enough Mails non
n shrug that was all, The Luna Park
people disclaimed responsibility for the
accident, saying they had offered a new
net, but that the mistress of the air. pre-
ferred TO -se her own
The 81 bronco bus er, the girl from
San Antonio the lar maid Of Texas,
made the hit Of the tryout show. Her
name is Champion and her ma and pa named
her Adele, she says. She IL about X, COM
piexion like peaches and cream, pretty as
you'd like and black aye with dancing
devil in Il,
Adela's long suit is doing things with
horses the neaner the better. She did
things yesterday mat ma de people sit up
md wonder what sort OF girl this young
person in the red waist and green slee YES
could bc.
She laIiated a kicking stallion. threw
him neatly from the back of her own pony.
Pinto, clapped a saddle on him before be
knew what had happened and was riding
him around thirty foot ring sticking like
glue while he raved and raoked and tied
his body into knots. Right after tina. the
Texan miss SHE'D her soInbrero into the
rinc, hung from the saddle with one foot
in the strrup and caught up tho hat quick
as lightning good as any COW puncher
could do. Then she dismounted and
skipped a rope for exercise
3 'Toint nothn' when you know how"
said she, Anyway, there amt no flies on
Texas, Mr. Man
STEDIOS EOR OLD Glib