"MARATHON DANCE."
• ' ♦ MANY COUPLES RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS. Undeterred by the dance recently given at a public hall in Brooklyn, when sixteen couples entered a waltzing endurance contest, .and only desisted when they fell -to"the floor from sheer fatigue, the New York police seemed to have permitted a similar performance in the same neighbourhood recently. • It was called a "Marathon Dance," the. winner being, the pair who were the freshest after an hour's ceaseless dancing. Eleven couples started, and at th« end of Ijfty-six minutes only four were conscious. May Smith danced so strenuously that she fell, cut her nose, and split her lip. She rose, and insisted on continuing the contest, with the blood streaming down her face. A few minutes later, however, she collapsed, and was sent home in a carriage. Four others were hurried into cabs. " _. ■■ . ■';;-:■:■ -,':-" . Alice Dunn and James Morrissey won the contest by waltzing; sixty-one times round the floor—a distance of more than four miles. More than; two hundred spectators witnessed the contest,, and there was much betting, : as' only one solitary policeman .: was present. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14375, 21 May 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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