AMUSING WAGERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 20

AMUSING WAGERS

"PUSHING" CONTESTS

Presidential, elections in: the United States always furnish many , amusing bets, according to .a New York newspaper. Two of the most humorous wagers that came, to public notice when Mr. Hoover defeated Mr. Al. Smith: in the last Presidential election are the following:-1- •- . '"■..".■. A man in New York State made a bet with his friend who lived-across the State.line in .Pennsylvania that Hoover would win the election, but that if Smith should win he (the New Yorker) would push his Pennsylvania friend the distance of three and one-half miles to The Old Half-Way House on the border. The most antique baby carriage that could bo found in the attics of the community was requisitioned for the payment of this, wager, which w.as paid by the Pcnnsylvanian to the'accompaniment of many cheers aEroin friends who had gathered in their automobiles along the path of the "push." Another "pushing" contest, which took place after Mr. Hoover won the election, was that of the "Champion Nasal Peanut Pusher of tho World" in Texas.- A man named Bill Williams of Bio Hondo, is now the holder of this unique title, having paid his wager by pushing a peanut with his nose along the eleven-mile road from Eio Hondo to Harlingen. Two thousand people gathered from all parts of Texas, saw him cross the finishing line. It took tho conquering hero nine dys to make this eleven-mile "push," on his hands and knees on a bard concrete pavoment, with his nose skilfully guiding the elusive, peanut toward its goal! He went through all sorts of hardships/including illness, blistered knees, and hands, and even waa run down by a motor-car.