The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-08-18
QUEER wAeERs sY sNeLisHmEN
On Chicken Races, Waking Contests
and Billiard Game

and Billiard Game.
Two Convent Garden portcr7. for q
wager engaged TO walk to Hamsteod
Heath station and back again one q
these men had to walk on sults IN.
burdened, while the other had to caEr.
sack of potatoes. In this case the
man with the stills won.
Then John Roberts once, for
wager engaged TO play billiards w.u
an umbrella against a good amate
who had a cue. In this case Rober,
lost.
Two Bury sportsmen had wager
as the result of which a Macceisdsid
man walked from MacceIsheld to Bus
tor backward inside OF three and a
hal: hours
Another very curious wager vas one
in consequence of which a gentleman
is now travelling over the world This
gentleman has to cycle 10000 miles
in five 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 ia
contact with three Kings, Kill a Wild
animal in each country, to write 100
articles, to take 1000 photographs, ana
to deliver 100 lectures, and to do simi-
lar curious feats-
veTy extraordinary was the WAGER
In connection with which Miss Nel,i2
Wicks accomplished a great toat at
Wigan. Miss Wioks claims to be thu
champion lady shaver Of the world,
and the wager was that she should
snave. twenty -four men with two harus
IN the ordinary way, three men with
one hand and three men blndfoldel
all within the space Of for'y-d,e
minutes.
What she accomplished was thar the
FIRST ten we're shaved in 1910, thi
second ten in TO- 1G, and the last ~
10 9:5O. After this remarkable poiioc-
nance the lady barber has ISSUED a
challenge under which she is ready Il
thave against any lady barber in the
world for $1,000, neither country
roi color barred she declares in ne.
challenge
Sir John Ashley won some very 70
markable wagers. When he was quart
eree at Windsor he organized chicken
races. In this case the entrance Zee
was one guiDea. and each bird carried
the colors Of It's nominator Sir Joha
had beer cunniEe enough 60 choose
a sturdy young cock lie had he sat
isfaction OF seeing his favonte reach
ito mother at the end Of Fifty yards
far ahead Of all It's sisters
An odd wager was made between :
rair Of WakafSd colhers. rhis was
in order TO see who could balance 4
cork longest on the Tip OF his nose.
A most unusual wuger was that mad
| by Mr. Pierre Eorillard and a veg
lWell known member Of the House 0
Peers. Mr. Lorillard wagered that 90
ont year he would spend the sum OF
| 100000 upon his own persona
laumse ment and gratihaation alone
/ That IS. be was barred from delibcr
ately wasting his money in scnseles'
gifts, or from spending 1t in any man
ne. which would not accord lin dis
| urct uatihcation
Many restrictions Were enforced n
order that the expenditure OF M
| money should be fairly managed aat
that the test should be square one
as 20 the amount Of money men car
spend on himself
SIR Lorillard lost lie set 20 woyl
with a viii. and did his best 10 wiz
| lie went 10 for every expensive amuse.
ment conceivable but az the end OF
the twelve months he had still an an
expended balance Of more than $50
COO
One curious wager made by "Old q,
in the days before express trains were
thought about was that he would con
vey letter nifty miles within ths holg
lie won the wager
He enclosed an epistle in a cricke
bali which was then hurled from on'
TO another Of four and twenty players
| lie had circulated beforehand that q
they stood al intervals Of sixty yar'ii
apart The ball would have 20 be thrown
sixty-one and a fraction times arount
the complete circuit OF lao Yards.-
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