NOVEL RACE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 20

NOVEL RACE

■Market Porter's Feat

A novel endurance test between two Manchester.market porters to carry a hundredweight of potatoes from Shudemill Market to the Old Cock Hotel, Stretford, a distance of four and a half miles, was decided in December, when James Winter won a £5 wager frpm Clarence Bobinson, covering tho distance ;in an hour and a quarter.

The competitors were given a rousing isend-off by a crowd of about 3000 market employees. About 500 porters covered the distance with them —but in motor-vans.

Winter, who is known to market people as "Jake," accomplished the Journey in his shirt sleeves, in spite of a cold wind arid rain. He was behind for the greater part of the race, but he covered the last three quarters of a mile at "the double." His rival dropped his. burden about 300 yards from the finishing post. After the race, "Jake," who was imobbed by his supporters, declared that he felfc "perfectly all right," and if anybody had offered him another £5 he ■would have carried the potatoes back 110 -the market.