The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-02-17
HUMAN Pigs PLAN EAT
CONTEST IN new YORK
"HUNGRY" SAM MILLER AND
JOHN r. M'kAY MATCHED.
These Fellows Would Sure Break a
Boarding House; Their Record
in the Gastronomic Line is
Something Fierce; Corey OF
for Europe; Short Stories From
Gotham, Including Sport Gossip.


Sam" Miller of Wilkes-B Barre, Pa.
who recently announced himself as
the champion catch-as-catch-can gas
tronomer of the world, must now
put up or shut up" His challenge
has been accepted by John F. Mac
Kay of Staten Island, New York
city, who asserts that he can out-eat
any two-legged animal on earth, and
has offered to back his gastronomic
ability with $500 in genuine money.
The Pennsylvania man, it is alleged,
has record of 1855 slightly cooked
eggs at one sitting, but the best he
has ever been able to do on solid
grub, so far as known. is five chick
ems. His pie record is fifty of the
ordinary size. MacKay declares that
such records are not worth consider
ing, and that he considers 155 eggs
merely a light luncheon. No man
worthy of the name of worlds cham
pion human hog would stop with
five chickens, it is alleged by author
tiles. MacKay claims the title by
reason of having consumed at one
sitting twenty-eight pounds of steak,
eight loaves of bread and twelve
quarts of milk.
William Ellis Corey, who recently
retired from the presidency of the
United States Steel corporation, will
leave within two or three weeks for
Europe, where he will take long
vacation from business cares. Mrs
Corey is now at the French chateau
near Paris, where she arrived this
week, and will remain there until
Joined by Mr.. Corey. Then they
will take house in London for the
season, and later will go on an auto
mobile trip through the French and
Italian Riviera.
A national sportsmen's league, sim
liar to- that of England, will probably
be organized in this country at a
night by prominent sporting men.
The prevention of malicious attacks
upon all kinds of sport is given as
one of the objects of the proposed
new association, which will be com
posed largely of those interested In
| racing and following the hounds. Au-
gust Belmont will preside at the
dinner, and among the expected
guests are Secretary of War Dickfn-
son, Thomas F. Ryan, Major-General
Leonard Wood, Major-General Fred
erick D. Grant. Colonel John
Jacob Astor. Judge William H
Moore, Sir Montague Allen. William
X. Vanderbilt, Jr., Cornelius Wander.
bilt, Harry Payne Whitney, Robert
]. Collier and August Belmont, Jr
Pictures, guns, trophies, rare skins
and sporting emblems of all kinds
have been used in decorating the
banquet hall, and so valuable are
these loans that they have been in
sured for $25O,OOO.
Crack players of the Philadelphia
cricket team sailed from New York
today for Bermuda. where series
of three international matches OF
two days each will be played against
the picked colonial and British mill
tary teams. The Philadelphia team
is composed of Clark, Cartwright
Donough, Green, Henry Valentine
Lee, Miffin, White, Leroy and Win
, ter. One of the contests in which
the Philadelphians will engage will
be against the famous cricket team
of the Second Bedfordshire regi
ment of the British army, now sta.
toned in Bermuda, which includes
several players who have distin-
guished themselves On the cricket
field in England. Games will also
be played with the Hamilton Coun.
try club and an All-Bermuda team.