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THE NEW YORK  CLIPPER ANNUAL.
 

pany carriage, weighing, stripped (with an iron ll>^lb
jack attached), l,0673^tt), flying start, half mile track,
Noi-Avich, Ct, Sept. 21,1891.

^GASTRONOMICAL FEATS—Charles Pearsall completed
the task, undertaken for a wager, of eating thirty soft
boiled eggs each morning and afternoon, for six con¬
secutive days, J. Ross' restaurant, N. Y. City, April 6,

1884......J. Baker ate six pounds of cooked beans in

40m., at tourney under auspices of G. A. R., Tonawanda,
N. Y., April, 1884.

HORSESHOE TURNING—John CampbeU turned 200 shoes
in 2h. SSm., match with W. J. Dunn, five helpers each,

Buflalo, N. Y., April 26,1887......Joseph Lawler turned

100 shoes in Ih. 6m., match with Wm. Armitage, four
helpers each, placer and striker. Chicago, 111., April

9,1887.......100 in Ih. 17m., P. A. GeUvix, match with

A. H. Bumbaugh, three helpers each, shoes creased
and punched, Findlay, O., Dec. 11, 1888.

SHOT PUTTING.—Charles J. Currie, with 7ft 6in. run,
put a 12ib shot 64ft. ll)4\n., an 181b shot 4Sft. 2>^in., and
a 21fi) shot S9ft. 9%ln., exhibition at Winnipeg, Man.,
Oct. 15, 1892.

GLASSBALL SHOOTING.—Dr. W. F. Carver broke 1,000
glass balls in 34m. using six repeating rifles, assist¬
ants to load, Hamburg, Germany, Aug, 31,1890......

50 balls broken in 61s,, LIUian P. Smith, exhibition,
Woodland, Cal., Jan. 1, 1890.

LOG SAWING—20 inch hard maple log, having three large
knots, sawed  through in Sis., Loomls Bros., match,

Sylvan, Canada, AprU 10,1884......21 Inch hard maple

log, 348., Chas. J. and Ronald Currie, Parkhill, Ont.,
1889.

DOG RACING—F. Kilsby's Drake Carter ran 200 yards in
11)48., match with Clothesline, Buftalo, N. Y., April 24,

1886......W. H. Shedman's Clothesline ran 200 yards

in 12s., match AAdth Telegraph, near Baltimore, Md.,
1887.

BASEBALL THROWING—Ed. Crane alleged to have
thrown a ball 135yds. 1ft. 3^in., Oct 12, 1884, in Cin¬
cinnati, O., and lS4yds, 5ln., Oct. 19,1884, in St Louis,

Mo......lS4yds, 2)4in.., H.Vaughn, in match with J.

O'Rourke, Buffalo, N, Y., June 23, 1890.

LOADING CARS—Nine cars loaded with dirt in 17m.,
and ten in 20m,, by steam shovel; John Donnelly
foreman, W. W. Gritfin, engineer, Crockett Station,
Tenn., Oct. 18, 1887.

TARGET SHOOTING—Wilson Gardner reported to have
fired ten shots from 38-cal. double action Smith &
Wesson revolver at a 2in. target, 12tt. distant, putting
 

every shot fair in a bull's eye 21-32 of an inch in
diameter., Springfield, Mass., 1890.

WALTZING.—Prof. Cartier Avaltzed sixteen consecutive
hours, from 9 A. m. till 1 A. M., Tammany Hall, N. Y

City, April 16,  17,  1878......Prof. Julian   Carpenter

waltzed thirteen consecutive hours, Philadelphia,
April 9, 1880.

LATH MAKING.—W. F. and N. Leclerc made 64 laths,
pine wood, 4ft. long, 2)4 eighths of an inch thick and
l>^in, Avide, in one minute; plain lath bench, laths
pushed through by hand. They also made 2,100 in an
hour, including time to oil machinery and put wood
on bench, Acton Vale, Me., October, 1875.

LOCOMOTIVE FRAME Aveighlng 1,3601b completed in lOh.
40m., three heaters and two helpers, under direction
of James Rodgers, Niagara Steam Forge, Bufi-alo, N.
Y,, Jan. 21, 1871.

DISTANCE RIDING.—Captain Salvi rode Ledo, a Sardin¬
ian mare, from Bargamo, Lombardy, to Naples, Italy,
900 kUometres, or nearly 580 English miles, in ten
days, arriving Oct. 3, 1878.

LONG DISTANCE WALKING—Zoe Gayton arrived at N.
Y. City (claiming to have Avalked all the Avay from San
Francisco, Cal., 3,395 miles), March 27,1891; started
Aug. 27.

SHAVING—Harry HoUiday, with assistant to do the
lathering, shaved seventy men in S6m., London, Eng.,
Oct. 24, 1888,

LEAPING.—Mare Lizette, with Botty in the saddle,
cleared over thirty-five feet, taking off tAventy-flvQ
feet from fence—Caulfield, Aus., July 12, 1887.

BRICKMAKING—922 bricks made in 55m. by John Wat¬
kins, assisted by two off bearers and a wheeler, match
with A. Dennis, Baltimore, Md., Oct IL', 1885.

GLAZING—G. A. Blixt put in 4,320 panes of glass in 7h.
Sim. 20s., exclusive of stoppages, Minneapolis, Minn.,
Oct. 23, 1885.

CORN HUSKING—Samuel Loop husked 140 bushels of corn
in lOh., for a Avager, McKeesport, Pa., Nov. 26,1887.

SHOE LASTING.—432 pairs of shoes lasted in Sh. 40m. by
an operative, aided by a helper, Sweetzer & Co.'s fac¬
tory, Lynn, Mass., 1889.

POLE VAULTING.—lift S3^ln., T. Ray, amateur, Bar¬
row-in-Furness, Eng., Sept. 22,1888.

CRICKET BALL THROWING—Ed. Crane, of A. G. Spald¬
ing's baseball combination, threw a cricket ball
12Syds. 103^in., Melbourne, Aus., Jan. 6,1889,

ICE SKATING—A. W. Llndzulst stated to have skated 60
miles in 5h. 33m., Minnesota, Jan. 4,1891.
 

CUB.   ILLJJSTRATIOKS.
SPOHTINa,   BASEBALL,   CRICKET.
 

C. W. Dorntge and W. H. Penseyres.—Among the
anore eflective portraits adorning The Annual are those
representing C. W. Dorntge and W. H. Penseyres, of the
Buffalo Athletic Club, mounted on the tandem bicycle on
which they won the mile championship at the League
meet at Washington, D. C, last season, and afterwards
created several best on records for the double machine at
the Monumental City. They rode together in numerous
races during the season of 1892, meeting with considerable
success, besides Avhich they competed in a number of
events for single machines, doing excellent work.
Dorntge was born at Buffalo, N. Y., in November, 1868,
stands 6ft. 6^in. in height, and in racing condition weighs
ISSib. He is the owner of a muscular, well developed
frame, possessing unusual strength in the lower limbs,
which, combined with phenomenal powers of endurance,
makes him one of the most promising racers on the track
today. He made his first appearance in a race at the.games
held by the Sixty-fifth Regiment A. A. and the Buffalo
Ramblers B. C. at the Arsenal, Jan. 31, 1891, and surprised
the spectators by winning every event in which he com¬
peted. In June foUoAving he again carried everything be¬
fore him at the City League tournament at the Buffalo
Driving Park, and afterwards, during the season, he par¬
ticipated in numerous races, scoring repeated victor¬
ies. His best performance was accomplished at Peoria,
111., Sept. 22, when he made fresh American track rec¬
ords from five to twenty miles, subsequently, at Chi¬
cago, Sept. 25, reducing the five mile competition record
to ISm. 57s. During 1892 he was a busy man on the wheel,
but in his single races he met with repeated accidents,
one fall laying him np for a couple of weeks, and another
destroying his chance in a championship race at Wash¬
ington. He was more successful In the tandem races In
which he had Penseyres for a partner. Their first victory
was gained in the race for the State L. A, W. champion¬
ship, one mile, which they won in 2m, 31s, At the same
meeting they won the half mile from scratch in Im, 12^s,
and finished third in the mile scratch event, the winning
time being 2m. 69s, This was declared "no race" on ac-
'Countof its not being ridden inside of 2m, 50s,, the time
limit. They also, with their club mate. Crooks, won the
two mile team race. At the Buffalo meet on July 4 they
won the two lap tandem race in 4m. 51s., and with Wittle
were victorious in the relay team race, in 7ni 16^s. They
•were next seen at the League meet at Washington, July
19, when they Avon the one mile tandem championship in
 

2m. 28%s. From there they proceeded to Baltimore, Md.,
where, on July 21, they created new records for two,
three, four and five miles, the time of the full dis¬
tance being 12m. 14%s. At Philadelphia, July 23, they
finished second in a mile race, won in 2m. 28%s.,
and at Buffalo, Aug. 20, they were defeated at two miles,
the Avinners' time being 4m. 59s. Penseyres is also a
native of the Bison City, Avhere he was born on May 22,
1865. He is 6ft.l0in height and Aveighs 160ib in con¬
dition. He is an expert mechanic, and has had several
years experience in the manufacture of wheels. He first
came into prominence through Avinning the fifty miles
road race at Buflalo, July 6,1890, which he followed up by
winning the fifty mile team road race in 1891, he covering
the distance in 2h. 41m. SOs. He was in active competi¬
tion throughout the past season, taking part in numerous
races, aside from the tandem events chronicled above,
and proving a popular winner on many occasions. A few
of these contests are here recorded; At Rochester, N. Y.,
June 16, him and Crooks were second in the mile tandem
event, won in 2m. 39s., and he finished first in the team
race, won in Sm. 24^s. At Buffalo, July 4, he finished
second in both the two lap and five lap safety races, and at
Tonawanda, July 9, him and Crooks got second place m
the one mile tandem race, Penseyres also winning the
open mUe safety race in 2m. 40%s., and being second in
the open half mile. He also took part in the great
Chicago-New York relay race, covering the allotted dis¬
tance, together Avith Dorntge, in the fastest time of the
entire series, notwithstanding muddy roads and dark¬
ness. His latest achievement was his riding the Corfu
course, fifty miles, from Buffalo to Corfu and return, in
2h. 50m. He rode the first half of the journey in Ih, 5m.,
and on the return an accident caused the loss of several
minutes. In his trial he rode a 231b "Globe" safety, man¬
ufactured by the Clinton 'Cycle Works, of which he is the

senior partner.                  --------

Harald Hagen.—The present professional champion
skater of Europe, now on a visit to this country, was
born at Christiania, Norway, March 29,1866; is 1.86 metres
in height, and in condition for racing weighs 75 kilo, or
about 1601b. He is by occupation a lithographer. At the
age of twenty he made his first appearance in a race,
being then an amateur, and his opponent being E, God¬
ager. The distance was 5,000 metres, and the race came
off at Christiania, Hagen winning in 10m. 23s. He next
appeared at Hamar, March 21, same year, in a tAvo mile