Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 22: April, 1937 Alligator wrestling, for instance. Bumps Coppinger, thirty-eight year-old native of Florida, is champion at this peculiar pastime, and every Sunday during the winter he downs a twelve-foot live alligator at the miami-biltmore Water Carnival before several thousand paying spectators. He's been doing this for a living since he was twenty, but danger exists every time he jumps into the pool. An alligator can knock you thirty feet with his tail. He has two sets of dagger fangs which can easily snap off an arm or two. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.