U.K. BEER DRINKING - THREE WORLD RECORDS.

Record ID: 652439

  • Title: U.K. BEER DRINKING - THREE WORLD RECORDS.
  • Date: 9th June 1968
  • Summary: WORLD RECORDS IN THREE CLASSES; DAZED FACES; BEER BEING POURED; CHEESE AND ONIONS. Initials MA/VS/GT/LAD Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th June 1968 13:00
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  • Location: BILTON, NR HULL, U.K.
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVAC2CIG6XLW4M7LIOGPI0VKSDFO
  • Story Text: ENGLAND, WHICH DOESN'T BOAST MANY WORLD TITLE HOLDERS BY WINNING ITS TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND, REDEEMED THE BALANCE ON SATURDAY (JUNE 8), BY WINNING THREE WORLD RECORDS.

    THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD LIONEL TUTT WHO COMES FROM DUNSTABLE IN BEDFORDSH, RE WON THE WORLD BEER DRINKING TITLE AT BILTON NEAR HULL, YORKSHIRE. ADMITTEDLY THERE WEREN'T ANY OVERSEAS CONTESTANTS BUT HE PUT UP AN IMPRESSIVE, IF EASY TO SWALLOW, PERFORMANCE.

    LIONEL GUSHED HIS WAY TO THE TITLE BY DRINKING 17 PINTS (9.6 LITRES) OF FOAMING BRITISH BEER IN AN HOUR. AND HE WAS ON HIS FEET AT THE END OF IT. IT WAS A MARATHON OF ITS KIND. IT DIDN'T TAKE A LOT OUT OF HIM - BUT AS ONE OBSERVER PUT IT, IT PUT A LOT IN HIM.

    IT WAS A DAY OF RECORDS, REALLY A CROWD OF 10,000 GASPED AS 30 YEAR OLD MIKE BARSLEY GULPED HIS WAY TO THE TITLE OF THE WORLD'S FASTEST DRINKER. HE DOWNED A PINT (.57 LITRES) IN 3.2 SECONDS. HIS PRIZE A SILVER CUP AND FREE BEER FOR A YEAR. A YEAR'S BEER AT A PINT EVERY 3.2 SECONDS WOULD TOTAL 164,250 PINTS ---- OR 20,513 GALLONS.

    AND A HULL BARGE SKIPPER, HERBERT WEBSTER, AGED 40, SET A WORLD RECORD BY SWIGGING A THREE PINT (1.17 LITRES) YARD (1 METER) OF ALE IN 14 SECONDS. HE CONFESSED AFTERWARDS HE'D HAD A WARM UP BY DRINKING A PRACTICE THREE PINTS.

    BUT UNLIKE MOST WORLD VICTORIES THERE WAS NO CELEBRATION DRINK --- NOT EVEN A SIP OF CHAMPAGNE.
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