NOVEL POTATO RACE.
CARRYING A HUNDREDWEIGHT.
MARKET PORTER'S FEAT.
A novel cnduranco test between two Manchester market porters to cany a hundredweight of potatoes from Shudejjlill Market to the Old Cock Hotel, Stretford, a distanco of four and a-half miles, was decided in December, when James Winter won a £5 wager from Clarence Robinson, covering the distanco in an hour and a quarter. . The competitors were given a rousing send-off by a crowd of about 3000 market employees. About 500 porters covered the distanco with them—but in motorvans. , . , Winter, who is known to market people as " Jake," accomplished the journey in his shirt sleeves, in spito of a cold wind and rain. Ho was behind for the greater part of the race, but ho covered tho last three-quarters of a mile at " the double." His rival dropped his uurden about 300 yards from tho finishing post. After tho race " Jake' who was mobbed bv his supporters, declared that ho felt " perfectly all right," and if anybody had offered him another £5 he would havo carried the potatoes back to tho market.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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181NOVEL POTATO RACE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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