CRAZY CONTESTS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20719, 1 February 1939, Page 10

CRAZY CONTESTS

AUSTRALIAN INCIDENTS i The announcement or a challenge ito push peanuts with their noses u 1 distance of three mile*, from Boulder to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, shows the Melbourne Age says) that the old pioneer spirit is not dead. Rolling a peanut would have won the hearts of Parramatta or Sydney sports 10U years ago. But there were no peanuts here tli6n, as the Zoo had not ! been established. In J 845, at Windsor, Mad Arthur and Kurrajong Sawyer had a contest —in muddy weather —rolling from Freeman’s Australian Hotel to Blanchard’s Sign Post. Sawyer won in nine minutes. At Maitland, in 1847, the Flying Pieman was backed to pick up luO cobs of corn a yard apart in 55 minutes. lie won by two minutes. In 1853, at Farmer’s Inn. Parramatta Road, W. Grigsby walking, running and wheeling a harrow a mile picked up 50 stones a yard apart in iT minutes. There was a great contest in 1854 at Geelong, Victoria, when, among other things, a man named Williams, in eight minutes, picked uy 3o eggs a yard apart with his mouth without touching the eggs or his knees toucli;.\r the ground. ; Peanut rolling with the nose had its counterpart with Mozart, who once wrote a piece of music which he challenged any other musician to play. It had a note in it Biat could only he played by using the nose. What a pity some of our musicians do not create a sensation by a pianoforte contest played with the nose. It • would vary the monotony of modern | music..