Pancake race to England
NZPA Liberal. Kansas An English housewife from Olney. Mrs Linda Carey, aged 31, has won the annual Shrove Tuesday international pancake race in a time 5.2 seconds faster than her American counterpart. Joyce Heeb, aged 26. a housewife, from Liberal. Kansas, won the American half Qf the race in a time of 71.6 seconds.
The British win cuts the Kansans' lead in the international series, begun in 1950. to 19-14. With her victory. Mrs Carey recovered the international winner's trophy, an engraved silver skillet, lost to the women of the Liberal, Kansas, farming community last year. According to legend, the race began at Olney, a Buck-
inghamshire town, when a woman, late for church at the end of Lent ran to her pew. skillet in hand, flipping a pancake. Modern-day contestants, often dressed in the oldfashioned long dress, apron and head-scarf, are required to flip their pancake at the start of the race, midway through the course, and as they cross the finishing line.
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Press, 18 February 1983, Page 9
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