QUEER RECORDS
Record ratting.—2s rats killed in lm 28s, Jimmy Shaw’s dog, Jacko, London, August 20, 1861. The longest shot ever recorded by a British archer in competition is 443 yards (over a quarter of a mile), by Sir R. Payne Gallwey, in 1907. The shortest glove fight on record was that between Battling Nelson and William Rosser in America in 1902. Nelson kayoed his man in two seconds! ICitty Me Hale broke all lecords for skipping when at the age of 13 in Yorkshire, two years ago, she skipped 3,028 hops unbroken. Arthur Newton ran from Bath to London (100 miles) last year in 14hrs 22min lOsec. The longest recorded distance for a homing pigeon is 1,182 miles, flown by Fred Bower’s birds, Darby and Joan, in America, in 1892. The longest tug-of-war was between two soldiers’ teams in India in 1889. It lasted 2 hours 41 minutes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 7
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149QUEER RECORDS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 7
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