New Britain herald., 1923-04-13
AT THOSE
 IN EATING CONTEST
Consume Amused as Prize Goes
 to Man Who Ate Only SS-4 lbs.

New York, April 1S.-"Laugh ?" cried Ludwig Consume of 209 Park Row last night, Why. I been laugh ing all afternoon. dropped in at T. Morton's club. 92 First avenue, to- day, where Frank Dostal, who used to bo alderman from the eighth district, was giving beefsteak dinner, to see a few amateurs eat Laugh? thought I'd die."
 You can understand why Mir. Con- sumo laughed when yoV read what happened and then remember that Mir. Consume is the worlds champion open eater.
 There must have been forty men at Franks party" went on Mir. Con- sumo after another paroxysm. Forty big fellows who nibbled at their food. although it was as fine q feed bag as ever seen. Frank Dostal announces that there's fifty bucks coming to the guest who could eat the most beef steak.
 Was Very Thoughtful.
 T didn't get in 1t as I didn't want to spoil the party because when I eat for money food vanishes for miles around. So just sit there and watch and laugh. Besides Frank says that nobody weighing less than 190 pounds can enter the meet and I don't weigh any more than ITO at the plate. Fun ny thing about that. lose weight during a championship match. Once eat guy from Kansas City. start nI {v, Ntsv1at Il. l.. . carried my opponent out. which they had to do after the third hour of con- tinuous going, leap on the scales and tip the beam at 166. Funny about that, ain't 1t?
 Won $50 Wager
 Anyway. Charlie Hanneman, who weighs 26O, won Franks 50 bucks today and ] though I'd die laughing. Charles packs in a snack of eight and three-quarter pounds of steak, 15l rolls and about ten cups of coffee. After that he waddled out and as far as I know he ain't been heard of | since. Second came Jim Walsh, 220 pounds, with six and one-half pounds of steak. Frank himself came in | third with five and quarter pounds under his belt. but Frank weighs only 251. Eddie Lohman, 220 in his vest, packs away four and pounds of steak, and Al Morton and Charlie Kientzier, who weigh 240 apiece. quit after each had eaten four and three-quarter pounds. Eddie Dryer, 225. stalls at three and one half pounds and the party is over.
 Do you blame me for laughing? And me thinking of the day I beat Frozen Phil Douglas, the hot coffee champion of Chinatown, at the an- nual field day of the Louis J. Heinz Outing and Chowder association"
 Just Light IMnch
 And well might Mir. Consume sum- mon memories of that day. It oc- cured at Sheephead Bay. After the baseball game 12 fried founders, six oaves of bread and four quarts of peer were placed on each of the three bases. Mir. Consume and MT. Doug as were supposed to eat their way around the bases, the first one to each home was to be rewarded with ! boiled ham, to be eaten then and here, and purse of s100. Each con- estant was to eat half the food on 'ach base.
 MT. Douglas foundered on the sec md founder at second base and had o be helped home. Mr.. Consume not 'nly finished the contest, but ambled rom third to home plate with large ection of the third bag in his teeth.
 Yes" laughed Mir. Consume, that ], vas quite and outing. Do you won 1, Ter that I laughed at Frank Dostal's arty?"
 Mir. Consume. by the way. is the nan who was matched against an os- rich a few years ago at the Orange ounty fair. MT. Consume not onsy J fon, the ostrich dying of acute in- igestion, but he boiled and ate the r;c