John Francis Tokes, 16, schoolboy, saved George E. Smith, 53, farmer, from an enraged bull, Greenwich Village, Massachusetts, April 25, 1924. While Smith was leading a bull along a road, the bull became enraged and knocked Smith down, gored him, and continued to press its head against his chest. With no weapon at hand John ran 50 feet to the bull, and, grabbing up a short stick, he struck the bull across the nose and on the head several times. The bull immediately charged toward John, and John ran behind a fence post. While dodging the bull behind the post, John got hold of a rope attached to a ring in the bull’s nose and wrapped it around the post; but the bull butted the post and knocked it over. John then ran to a small tree, and the bull chased him four or five times around the tree. John finally followed the bull closely and got hold of the rope, slipping it around the tree. The bull broke the rope, but a man then arrived and slipped a loop in a rope over its horns, and he and another man fastened the bull securely to the tree. John was not injured. Smith was seriously injured but recovered. 24220-2053
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