The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
WINNERS OF FREAK CONTESTS.
Curious Competitions That Required SKIN
and Endurance.

anu E-uuuIbioNs
The struggle between Tom Burrows and
Charles splnch for the long distance club
SWINGING championship Of the world re-
minds one, says Tit Bits, Of the many curious
feats which one would look for in vain in
tables Of records and yet which arc full OF
interest.
To take club swinging alone there are
probably few who have any knowledge OF
Z. W. Morgan's feat performed Just seven
teen years ago, when he manipulated pair
Of four pound clubs In $50 different move
ments and combinhtio IONS making a total
Of 2,sll revolutions, in IS minutes Is
seconds.
Some time ago In a violin competition
held In Berlin a dexterous fiddler played a
piece by Paganini, consisting OF 800 notes.
in four and q quarter minutes, his nimble
fingers rafting OF the notes at the average
rate Of 10 to a second.
An astonishing feat Of skill and endur-
anco was that Of the principal carver at
Paris boulevard cafe, who not long ago.
for a wager, cut 1000 ham sandwiches in
10 hours 20 minutes, using up y hams
in the process. Less 20 he commended,
perhaps, was the feat OF @. A. Lee Of
AhNNuuelus NOlAlst WIZ tiilDhcQ " NAboio -
II hours without once taking a drink.
At Waiting tournament held two years
ago in the Sale Wagram, Paris NJ. Vim
cent and Mile. Scherion danced withou a
moments pause for six and three-quarter
hours, beating their nearest rivals by g, .
narrow margin Of minutes whlgllns.
But perhaps a more remarkable feat
was that OF William Kemp, an Oldt inc
actor, who danced all the way from London
TO Norwich, covering the 10 miles between
Bury and Thetford in threc hours,
A few months ago NJ. Jules Cohen ard
NJ. Pisrre JRnssaud played billiards Tor -
conse cutive hours, scoring together 6t3t
points, and walking about 80 miles round
the table; an Italian professor once re-
cited the whole OF Dante's 'Divine Com
edy' from memory in a continuous sitting
Of % hours. and, late, an Englishman. not
TO be outdone by hi, Italian rival, rerlt"d
the whole Of Paradise Lost in ST. Martins
Town Hall.
Last year New Zealand farmer md
his wife MIXED 70 COWS daily for months;
Patrick Fitzgerald. in 1883 aroused the
envy Of the worlds butchers by dressing 10
sheep in 80 minutes. following this feat ~
dressing a thirty-siX pound lamb in min
utes 80 seconds. John Malone won his
laurels by killing and dressing a bullock
In minutes 20 seconds; George X. Fisher
OF Detroit, by dressing 200 chickens inr
the market In ~ minutes-a CHICKEN for
every 10 seconds. approximately, anc
George Randall Of Taunton, Mass. made
a great reputation by killing and dry
picking lO3 geese In . hours IS minutes
And what shall We say 81 the gastronon.'
achievement Of Charles Wurz. who ate
30 geese-welghing from q pounds n u
pounds each-in A. many dnvs. ~ Charles
Pearsall. who swallowed 10 soft boiled cg
a day for 9 consecutive days, Of W 8 We
colt who ate ? quails every day for 30 dave
or Of ] Rakar who dfenps "a az @ DI1rrf, T
beans In 20 minutssY o. A. Bhxt rut 20
$40 panes 81 glass In hours minu'r..
John Watkins Of Baltimore made 922 bricks
In IS minutes. and a Lynn shoemaker with
Q single helper, lasted t32 pairs Of shoes a
9 hours 20 minutes.