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Show CHAMPION PIE EATER. Brooklyn Policeman Devours Sixteen Pies in Hot Contest. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Patrolman Terence Smith has been crowned king of the pie eaters In Brooklyn. On Thursday night Smith met the pick of the borough's pie devourors, and in an eat-to-a-finlsh match showed ouch form that the other contestants seemed to be eating like dyspeptics. Smiths put under his belt sixteen pies of the size, if not of the quality, his mother used to make. The contest for the pie eating championship cham-pionship of Brooklyn was held in a cafe at 50G De Kalb avenue. Smith, upon whom the members of the police force were plunging heavily, led off with a -Juicy pineapple pie and put It out of sight with four bites. George Meyer, the fnvorite. however, passed him at the third pie and still wns lending when he encountered a thick mince creation cre-ation on the sixth lap. The mince pie troubled Meyer, ho that Smith, who was plodding along at an even four-bltes-to-the-ple pace, overhauled him, and ate his way into tho lead. Smith still was leading us he fairly romped through three pumpktns.but faltered when he struck the lemon meringue. me-ringue. He got rid of it with five bites, however, and sent two cranberries, cranber-ries, a plum, nnd a coconnut, after it in fast time. At the sixteenth pie ho was seven ahead of Meyer, his nearest competitor, who then tossed up the sponge. Smith, who then Just was getting Into his pie eating gait, was for -going on and finishing with fourteen more mince pics to make a record of thirty, but the manager of the contest declined to assume tho responsibility. |