WORLD'S GREATEST EATE

Shannon News, 4 January 1927, Page 3

WORLD'S GREATEST EATE

Mr. George ,W. Leader, a paper meflU chant, of Mlddleborough, is a happyflH and expensive gentleman who nothing left to learn in the art of eat^H A few days hence he sits down local hotel to eat against mighty trencherman for a wager oflH £SO a side. So great is the intereaßH centred on this "eating match" thaflfl it is stated hundreds of pounds change hands altogether on the re -H| His last match was decided in hisH favour in no uncertain manner. SomeßH two or three pounds of ham had beenfl consumed, to say nothing of two scoreflj eggs, when his opponent in the con-B test seemed to be failing. He retired,M leaving nineteen eggs uneaten! H Mr. Leader, already the victor, wasH quite upset to see all that good foodH ":going to waste," as they say in theH North. So he also ate those nineteen H forlorn eggs, together with varying B trimmings ranging from steak-and-M kidney puddings to cream cakes! . H While talking to me (writes a cor- H respondent to an English he ■ ate a few dinners, just to self in training. Mr. Leader does not H 'believe in leaving anything to ■ chance. H "Have you any special way. of eat- H ing?" I asked. "It sounds incredible 9 that any man should be abl v j to take ■ so much nourishment at one meal." I "None at all. I'll just read a paper ■ and eat and eat and eat—until the ■ other fellow goes under. 3Tou see, I'm I no little one: I need a lot of stoking- 9 up to keep me going!" '• H In that Mr. Leader is right. He is an immensely-made man of terrific strength. Fifty pork pies at a sitting; five or six lunches a a time; four dozen eggs . and a loaf, or so of bread as a pick-me-up—by such means Mr. Lea<Je* manages to maintain his strength. In ■' the next contest of his —so formidable ■ in his record —he is ■to be handi- ;._ capped. Before his opponent commences Mr. Leader has to eat a pound of grilled ham and twelve eggs. That, however, is nothing to a man ; who, for a wager, once ate two stone '; of hay. Certainly there was a little ' arfulness practised by Mr. Leader to dispose of this t.'isty meal, but I am not at liberty to give it away. Someone else may some day challenge him to do the same thing again, the stable '. secrets of this kind never should be given a public broadcast! ... _