How To Eat 135 Pancakes
(N Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 17. The advice of the United States college pancake eating champion. Miss Mary Graves, who arrived in Auckland today for the start of her prize I a trip to New Zealand—was: I Squash the pairakes flat 1 to get all the air t <bbles out,
eat them like a sandwich, and sip a little water as you go. A 23-year-old brunette from California State University, Long Beach, she won the contest for the second year running with Brick Samuelson, aged 24. Her partner in the contest was unable to make his trip, and be was due to be drafted into the United Sta*'s Army, so her friend, M£s Hilda
I Wickstrom, a nursing student . at Long Beach City College, i was invited as a travelling , companion. To win the contest, Mary ■ and Erick downed 423 plkelet- , sized pancakes. Erick ate 288 in the half-hour allowed and t Mary 135. This made them , national champions and won I them a trip. The previous , year, each won a colouv TV i set fj,
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 2
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