TO WIN A WAGER.
THREE MILLION SOMERSAULTS SOME CURIOUS BETS. A few weeks ago a man started on a journey from Amsterdam to, Marseilles by the, strange method of rolling on his head, hands and .knees. Ho must make more than a million somersaults to reach his dost .nation by January 12th, 1926; and his speed is three miles a day. In earlly days, Kemp, a friend of Shakespeare,, and himself an actor, danced all the way from London to Norwich He was several weeks upon the journey, but the actual time spent on the. road was less than nine days.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 11 May 1925, Page 6
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101TO WIN A WAGER. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 11 May 1925, Page 6
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