the man enacting a cowboy character that
gave him a chance to display his skill with the lariats.
entertaining lariat throwing.
Roping tricks with a horse.
Some of his tricks resemble those of Will Rogers, “but not by way of imitation”. One of his stunts includes skipping rope atop a ladder and a spinning globe.
Billed as “Australian Champion Whip Expert” With only what is called over here a
“bull’ whip, Fred Lindsay, an Australian,
reaching the Colonial from London, holds
the audience highly interested for his brief
stay on the stage, a stay that is chock full
of action through Mr. Lindsay’s many
difficult maneuvers with the long piece of
rawhide. He snaps off the head
of a bottle held in the outstretched hand of
an assistant; circles the tip of the whip
around the necK of a woman, and tears
a revolver from a man’s grasp, among
the many really remarkable feats.