The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-21
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Two Convent Garaen pofters, for
wager engaged to walk TO HamsIead
Heath station and back again. One Of
these men had to walk on stilts un-
burdened. while the other mad to carry
a sack Of potatoes. In this ease the
man w..h the stills won.
Then John Roberts once, for a.
wager engaged to play Billiards with
an umbrella against a good amateur
who had a cue. In this case Roberts
lost.
Two Bury sportsmen had wager.
as the result Of which a Maccelefeld
man walked from Maccels6eld to Bux
ton backward inside or three and
half hours.
Another very curious wager was one
in consequence tf which a gentleman
is now travelling over the world This
gentleman has to cycle 10000 miles
in ave years. This is not an extra
ordinary feat, as he expects to cover
the whole distance in four.
During the time he has to come in
contact with three Kings, kill a w1ld
animal in each country, to write 400
articles, to take 1000 photographs, dnd
to deliver 100 lectures, and 70 do simi-
lsr curious feats.
Very extraordinary was the wager
in connection with which Miss Nellie
Wicks accomplished great scat at
Wigan. Miss Wicl1s claims to be phe
shampion lady shaver OF the world.
and the wagsr was that she shoam
shave twenty-four aSen With two HANDS
IN the ordiEary way, three men with
one haRa and three men blindfoided,
all within the space of forty Ave
minutes.
What she accomplished was that the
first ten were shaved In 1910, the
second ten in 1910, and the last 10
iu $3.50. After this remarkable pcrfor-
nance the lady barber has issued a
challenge under which she is ready t.
shave against any lady barber in the
world for e1,OOO, neither country
no; coloy barred" she declares in ne.
challenge.
Sir John Ashley won some very re-
ma7kable wagers. when he was quart
cred at Windsor he organized chicken
races. In this case the entrance fee
was one guinea, and each bird carried
the colcrs of it's nominator. Sir John
had been cunning enough to choose
a sturdy young cock. He had the sat-
isfaction OF seeing his favonte reach
its mother at the end OF atty yards,
far ahead of all its sieters.
An odd wager was made between a
pair of Wakefield Golfers mis- was
in order to see who could balance a
cork longest on the zip Of his nose.
A most unusual wager was that made
by Mr.. Pierre Lorillard and very
well known member of the House of
Peers Mr. Lorillard wagered that in
one year he would spend the sum OF
G2O0,OO0 upon his own personal
amusement and qualification alone.
That is. 10 was barred from deiiber-
ately wasting his money in senseless
gifts. or from spending it in any man
me- which would not acord him dis
tipct gratihcation.
Many restrictions we're enforced IN
order that the expenditure of the
money should be fairly managed aud
that the test should be a square one
as to the amount OF money man can
spend on himself
Mr.. Lorillard lost. He set to work
with a win, and did his best to win,
He went IN for every expensive amuse-
ment conceivable. but at the end OF
the twelve months he had still an un-
expended balance Of more than $50,
600.
One curious wager made by "Old O."
in the days before express trains we're
thought about was that he would cop
vey letter nifty miles within the hour.
he won the wager.
He enclosed an epistle in a cricket
bali which was then hurried from one
to another OF four ans twenty players.
He had circulated beforehand that il
they stood at intervals OF sixty yards
apart the bali would have to be thrown
sixty-one and fraction tiRes around
the complete circuit OF lao yards
Pearson's Weekly.
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