Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-07 | Page 21 | Eating Champion Eats up All of Reporter's Funds

Eating Champion Eats Up All 0 of Reporters Reporter's F Funds So World May Never Know J Just sf How Much Man With Lon Long Name Can Devour NEW ORLEANS Jan 7 APJohn APJohn AP- AP John Samuel Francis Dalton gastronomIst gastronomist gas gas- has advanced his claims calms to the eating championship or of the world The record some time ago by Dalton iI irl a contest was witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses said Twelve dozen and eight oysters three cups of coffee and one and a half quarts of wine a box of crackers crack crack- ers two slices of jelly cake In a letter to the New Orleans States Dalton claims that a light workout for him would be one bottle of tobacco tobasco sauce fifty hard boiled eggs and a dozen oysters the last six with sugar He would chase the meal with Uh another bottle of tobasco sauce His enthusiastic manager placed twenty dozen oysters or a hundred hard boiled eggs as a conservative estimate or of a a. fair fail meat meal for his champion A reporter sent to Investigate the claimants claimant's eating capacity gave up the attempt to satisfy Daltons Dalton's appetite appetite ap- ap petite after atter he had drunK a bottle of tobasco eaten several dozen oysters oyster's oysters ter's and spent all the reporters reporter's expense expense ex- ex pense money for other food Between Between Be- Be tween oysters Dalton threw in bananas bananas ba- ba nanas onions and bell peppers His manager said Dalton had just finished a light workout when visit visit- He ed just ate thirty five bananas bananas bana- bana nas eighteen onions and five bell peppers