Louis C. Scholl, 23, carpenter, saved Raymond C. Lanfear, 23, clerk, from drowning, Santa Cruz, California, July 9, 1911. Lanfear, who was in a canoe on Monterey Bay 125 feet from a high and precipitous rocky point, jumped into the water to save himself from being capsized. Waves from six to nine feet high were breaking against the point and sweeping shoreward over submerged rocks. Lanfear was unable to swim toward shore and was caught in a current that swept past the point. Shortly, he was barely able to keep at the surface. Scholl ran a quarter-mile to the point, and, although a companion urged him not to go saying that he might be dashed against the rocks and killed, he partly undressed and plunged into the water. A life preserver attached to a rope was thrown to him, and he swam to Lanfear. Lanfear grasped Scholl’s arm, and both went down for an instant, but Scholl jerked loose and forced the life preserver over Lanfear’s head and arms. While men on the point pulled on the rope, Scholl, holding to the life preserver, swam with Lanfear. When near the point, Scholl twice was forced to back away with Lanfear to avoid being dashed against the rocks. He then swam to the rocks and pushed Lanfear up as men above pulled him in the life preserver from the water. Scholl was then compelled to swim away to avoid a breaker. With great difficulty, he swam to the point and was pulled up a steep rock. Lanfear was revived. 7633-699
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