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Show CHAMPION CORN-EATER IS NEW YORK POLICEMAN New York, Aug. C. A New York policeman claims to hold the eastern championship os a corn-eater. He was last night awarded the prize In the final of the season's corn-eating contest for devouring sixty-one ears except the cobs In three hours and five minutes The contest was a part of the festivities in a political picnic, given by a Tammany saloon l-eoper. There were many contestants for the prlre and over S'OO cars were disposed dis-posed of In the e,ourse of the evening. The winning policeman was William Ornsteln. five feet ten and one-half inches high, of genial girth and countenance. coun-tenance. He says that fto far as he knows, his accomplishment has only been surpassed only once, and then by a Kansas farmer, who disposed of sixty-eight sixty-eight curs iu two hours and fifty minutes. min-utes. Ornstein announces that he will challenge the Kansas man for the world's record and ?50n 3 side next month. |