America Again Wins Pancake Race
(Rec. 11 p.m.) KANSAS CITY, Feb. 22. Mrs Binnie Dick today led the United States to its second .consecutive victory over Britain in the fifth annual international pancake race. Mrs Dick repeated her triumph of last year by. running the 415-yard course in Imin s.lsec while flipping a pancake three times. In Olney, England, an ice-covered course held the top British contestant, Mrs Doris Millward, to a time of Imin 18.5 sec.
Olney women won the contest in the first three years, but Mrs Dick broke the string of victories last year.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27592, 24 February 1955, Page 13
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