'Mr Cannonball'
Frank Richards made a career of performing this stunt in Vaudeville (later parodied by Homer Simpson in "Homerpalooza") but he did not begin until 1932, some 7 or 8 years after the Ince incident. There is archival footage of "Mr Cannonball" in the Getty Archive (the clip is on YouTube), and he can be seen in the photo on the cover of the Van Halen III album.
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