STEAK-EATERS’ CONTEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 50, 23 October 1912, Page 6

STEAK-EATERS’ CONTEST.

NEW YORK’S CHAMPION TRENCHERMAN. August is the season of the beanfeasts of the strange political associations which arc the bulwark of New York’s municipal and 2>°hce system. The most alluring feature of a political outing on August 26th was the beef-steak endurance contest for heavy weights. In the presence of 1600 chocring followers, Alderman Frank Dotzler, who weighed 3811 b, devoured 9llb of beefsteak, drank eleven cups of coffee, ate nineteen rolls, and two plates of potatoes. The alderman was declared the champion alderman over his fourteen competitors. Each of the beefeaters weighed more than 2501 b. The sight of the fifteen lined up to attack on the steaks aroused enthusiasm and envy. Ton of the fifteen men dropped out after devouring 31b of beef. The five who finished were: Dotzler of beef), Jack Probst (7h 11)), Frank Dostel (51-lb), Frank Wilson (4411>), and Frank Benedict (4Alb). Coroners Winterbottom and Hellenstein and the coroner’s physician, Dr. Lehane, were present in case they were wanted; also other municipal officers. All the steakeaters are active municipal politicians.