Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — High Roller Rolls Three Miles and Wins Wager. [ARTICLE]

High Roller Rolls Three Miles and Wins Wager.

Baltimore, Md., May 19.—G. Howell Parr, a social leader in Battimore, who started at 7:45 o’clock last evening to roll from the Elkridge Kennel clfib to University Parkway, a distance of about three miles, completed his task at 11:20 a. m. today. He performed the feat on a wager and finished in good condition. For more than 15 hours, with frequent intervals of rest, Mr. Parr, dressed in a football suit, turned over and over on his hands and knees the entire distance, uphill and downhlU, through mud and over stones, without once rising to his feet until the end.