MAN-COLLAPSES
DURING ENDURANCE CONTEST,
• o SYDNEY,; ; May EL. A ma,n "became" temporaifily deranged'; during an endurance contest in a rlange hall in Elizabeth ’Street, city, last 'night. He struggled with doctors at Sydney Hospital until he was pacified. About '2O gir] s and men entered for the contests, which began a minute after midnight on .Monday morning Marathon dancing, pole .sitting, talking, and cycle riding all had their entrants. One young ma n hoped to make a world’s record for rocking a chair, while the young man who afterwards collapsed and a girl set out to hold fishing rods and lines above a goldfish bowl longer than a Mi s s Lottie Borgia, of Chicago,; who was credited with the record.
Both anglers lasted until yesterday. The man collapsed, and wa s found hitting his . head on the floor under a canyas sci’een... He and hisj competitor outlasted him an hour. Little notice was . ./taken of him for several hours, but he began to scream at the dof this time and butted his head against the floor. A motorist took him to Sydney Hospital, where he attempted to strike the doctois He was treated with Q drug and kept under observation before he was allowed to 'return to his home in Leichhardt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 6
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