Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — A Singular Competition. [ARTICLE]

A Singular Competition.

A singular contest has just taken place near Birmingham, Stones were placed a yard apart for a hundred yards, and a local butcher had undertaken to pick each one up separately and return it to a basket at the end of the line. The time allowed to accomplish this performance was fifty-five minutes, and the butcher succeeded in finishing in forty-eight minutes. The task is not so simple as it first appears, for when in the seventies he was running something like 150 yards for each stone, which was increased to 200 at the finish. In this way he covered a considerable distance —it is estimated between five and six miles.—London Standard.