Oddballs and Guinness

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33521, 30 April 1974, Page 14

Oddballs and Guinness

f.V.Z. Press Assn—Copyright? LOS ANGELES, April 29. A pound of hard Cheddar. Seven kosher dills. Twenty doughnuts. A pound of grapes. Three hundred goldfish.

These were all downed, not easily, but in record time, by glory seekers at the “Oddball Olympics.”

The week-end event in Los Angeles must have been a record in itself for bizarre talents in one place. Cigar crammers, toiletpaper stackers, rolling-pin hurlers. and one-leg standees congregated in a Los Angeles shopping centre for a collective assault on the Guinness Book of Records. AH of the contestants were from southern California.

As the sun set on Sunday's activities, the rock-ing-chair marathoners had faded, but a ping-pong

contestant had passed his fiftieth hour, and the Monopoly game begun last Thursday was still going. It was primarily a shopping centre promotion, but Guinness officials were in attendance as:

Kevin Farrell and Corey Fletcher each stood on one leg for seven hours.

Scott Zuckman threw a rolling pin 175 feet.

Rick Sackett stuffed 52 cigars in his mouth, and smoked them for 30 seconds. His triumph, however, was marred by a rebellious stomach immediately afterward. “Its always horrible with these,’’ said the man from Guinness.

John Parker, aged 24, swallowed 300 goldfish. Roger Guy English, holder of a girl-kissing record (3000 kisses in eight hours) began what he vowed would be 75 hours of singing.