More Riding Tiger!

This is my father preparing to to enter the steel arena for the riding tiger number with Beatty-Wallace in 1943. He had poor eye-sight throughout his life and in this instance was often asked if he could see what was going on, always replying "My vision improves to 20/20 as soon as that tiger shows up". His only complaint was that Mrs. Beatty's whip handling was very erratic often resulting in both he and the elephant receiving more whelts than the tiger.