Show RIVALRY DOES STRANGE THINGS Man said Job was born to trouble as tho the sparks fly Cly upward Nan lIan was also It seems born to seek fame and to excell his fel- fel fellows fel fellows lows For If It there Isn't In most peo pea people people pie an Inborn desire to do some some- something thing better thing anything better than their fellows how do you account for forthe forthe the recent epidemic of ot eating con con- contests contests tests In tn which various stout ached gentlemen have hale been tr try trying ing fag to achieve prominence by proving the unparalleled elasticity of 01 their Innar innards s First we wo had drinking coffee coffee contests We forget just what the record Is it tt wag wll was set and broken often for tor a while and our best recollection Is that some chap Is aImIng at a mark ot of cups Then there was a griddlecake cake griddle eating contest Next a chap down I Cincinnati way leaped Into lame fame by consuming a whole crate of oranges at one time And now nowa nowa nowa a hem lew Jersey man claims the dog hotdog hot championship of ot the uni un universe verse b by virtue ot of ha having en 1 eaten en gI 54 In tn two hours and a Quarter All of this is strangely reminiscent reminiscent cent of a few tew years ago hen nhen marathon dance contests were all the rage those days when so soman man many ardent ardent young steppers proved that their legs were everso ever eyel everso so much sounder than their heads These endurance contests are of a kind hind that leave most of ot us cold It may b be a stirring soul soul teat feat to eat 81 gt hot dogs without stopping it may be marvelous to drink 90 cups of o coffee without calling time out the heroes of old may quake at the spectacle of ofa ofa ofa a man who can toss oft 31 wheat cakes at one but sitting sitting but what's hats hat's It all about Does It prove that people are slightly unbalanced or does It prove that any form torm of ot fame Came Is welcome to the human heart that most of ot us are glad to do do any aDY anything thing at all It if It will make our fellow men look at us ant an ad- ad admit ad admit mit that we are better men than they It is Is a a question forthe for tor the the ages to answer nn J A |