East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-20
Strength Does Not Always Win
and Craft Frequently Brings
to Grief Various Monarchs.

unto the d;gaity of royal emblem for the
reason that in every language the Word for
this animal is a synonym for stealthy. cruet
strong limbed ferocity. Nature has made the
tiger uneoualled in the combination or speed
strength, cunning. daring and physical beauty.
tigers first bounds are so rapid as TO bring
1t ALONGSIDE antelope, and a blow OF its paw
Will stun charging bull. 1t has been known
to spring over wall five feet high into a
cattle pen and TO jump back with a full grown
animal in its jaws. Sportsmen say that they
have known it to carry away the bait while
they were putting up the shelters from which
to shoot it.
Tiger and Ram Battle.
II is a fact, however, that the tiger makes
no pretence to invincible courage, as may be
in the instance of one kept in the Calcutta
Geological Gardens. which was butted 20
death by a ram.
A soldier owned a fighting ram. which be-
came so troublesome that it had to be sent to
the Zoo. There it caused so much trouble and
annoyance that it was decided to give it to
the great tiger OF the collection. Now. this
tiger was SO ferocious that it was necessary
to let its food down through sliding grating
in the roof of its cage
TIE ram lowered down through this
sp.~fas. The tiger. doing Ia sae corner.
ths ram descend and rising. began TO stretch
hisnssaf The ram. not knowing that he was
intended to be food for the big beast supposed
the stretching was the signal for eight step
ping ninIbly back TO the farthest corner of the
cage. the ram put down its head and went
straight ut the tiger ard in few minutes had
butted it to death.
An exciting duel that between tiger
and a crocodile. witnessed by an Engishman
in India This Br.ton had gone to battle in
ravine. He in the water up to his neck
when a tiger anDRarei the hill above and
gave a leap toward its prey. But the beast
had not calculated that since his intended vic
tim was much lower than himself leap of the
right strength for a horizontal range would
carry him far beyond his marx. CONSEQUENTLY
and fortunately for the Britisher, the tiger
fell feet on the other side of him.
Now, it CHANGED that hungry crocodile was
at the same time drawing bee line under the
water for this very iuprudent Englishman. so.
when the crocodile almost upon his prey.
he heard a splash just in front of him and
made a dash in its direction, bringing his
enormous jaws down upon the tigers paw.
Fight to the Finish.
The bather nearly tainted with fright when
he saw the tiger fall into the water and for
few moments he could not understand why
the creature did not devour him, but kept one
of his paws under water. beating savagey
with the other. And the water began to turn
redi
Then all at once the assaults4of the tiger be-
came more furious and his growis developed
into roars Of pain The huge tail OF the croco-
die reared up out of the water. The obvious
intention of the crocodile was to pun the tiger
under water and drown him, and the tiger
understanding this purpose, tried to Illustrate
II by beating the snout of the crocodile with
his other paw But the snout was too tar
down and he spent much OF his force upon
the surface of the water His struggles be-
came more and more feeble, and at length ne
disappeared altogether. only cluster OF ouo-
bles remaining to show where he had been.
His fight had. however, been game one ana
not entirely in vain. for when the bodies OF the
two creatures finally came to the surface II
,.sx seen that the tiger had literally torn away
the whole front of the erocodile's face and had
blinded the animal. SO that its victory was a
useless one
A t.arf,t d,leI between a bear and snake
was witnessed by an American and a party OF
natiyes on hunting expedition in Southern
India The natives had set some traps ana
nsta ana were making the round Of them when
a succession of hideous sounds were heard
Proceeding to the spot whence these SOUNDS
came they found a big jungle bear hshtinS
for MS Ife with a huge py thon The snake
had' wrapped the bear in its terrible folds and
was crushipg IT to death Inc oear 9r was e
SIDE. roaring and Swapping his jaws at the
serpsnt.p folds. ,
,,i,h n. teeth owing to the way in which he
80 h-,n euwrapped- He struggled along the
ground until he reached q steep SLOPE ana
sovrr thts he threw himself violently.
EvideptIy this manoeuvre frightened the
r,ake for II unwound couple OF folds from
the bear and threw its tail around tree
u1 uS -. the bears opportunity. No sooner
lid the snake. thus partially straightened out
viyIux a rigid une from the tree TO the bears
body. than the bear turned and fastened It's
laws in the pythons body.
the kissing was then appalling. The snake
quirlsiy unfolded its body and savagey struck
at tie Jaws of the bear to make him loosen
his hold but the bear, with muffled roar.
continued 10 bite and worry his antagonists
body.
Then once more tire serpent CONSTRUCTED It's
colds enwrapped the bowling and gasplns
besr and both struggling violently and rolling
over and over disappeared in the tall grass
Their track was marked with blood The
htinters followed and presently saw that the
antagonists had separated. The python. eVi-
dently badly hurt. coiled in an attitude
Of defence kissing and twisting angrily. 1t
looked as IL it had had enough and wanted 10
be out OF the fight
Not so the bear however Though crushed
almost 10 death, with its tongue loninZ far
pause on the python. Weak from loss OF
blood, the snake was unable to prevent the
bear from SELLING It by the head Then the
eear dragged the python about. with roars OF
triumph crushing the last spark of life out OF
its Quiyering body.
Turtle Tackles Bear.
while bears are certainly dreaded antago-
nists they have been known to get the worst
OF IL when cut of their element. Curious and
unequal copbats occur when beasts Of prey
attack creatures under unusuai circumstances.
The pursuer IN such a case is likely to incur
more risk than the pursued, fact that was
illustrated In q novel encounter in a harbor
Of Florida between q bear and a turtle
The crew OF q schooner while ashore heard
a strange rumpus and, pushing around turn
IN the beach. saw a huge loggerhead turtle in
deadly combat with big black bear.
From the mems position 1t seemed tnat the