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Rocky Mountain News Denver Colorado May 7 -1967

“A wounded animal must always be fol­lowed and killed- it’s the law, even if it takes days. We had been following a wounded leop­ard for an hour when it jumped me from be­hind – it had been hiding behind a rock. I am 240 pounds, but the animal brought me down. One of my crew, a Masai, but a spear through him and another finished him off with a gun.”But not before Hie leopard had taken a few bites out of Ball’s neck and ripped open his hack with its claws. He was hospitalized for three weeks. . ‘