Clubs Huge Shark To Death

1920

Life Guard Kills a 450-pound Maneater With Oar.

EDGEMERE, N. Y. — A shark weighing 450 pounds was captured and killed on the bathing beach here by George Weiss, a life guard.

Attracted by the screams of bathers, who fled from the water, Weiss saw the shark plunging over the breakers. He jumped into a small boat, drove the shark into shallow water and clubbed it to death with an oar.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 4.