The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 189
Fig. 1.—DIVING THE HEADER. … Fig. 2,—DIVING—FE2T FIRST. head first, by which many ex-cellent swimmers have beenkilled. Worthington, a divingcelebrity, who was killed someyears since, used to jump froma height of forty feet and turnthree somersaults in his des-cent before reaching the water.He was applauded by thecrowd of…
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