A sporting wager
The trial of strength and endurance resulted from a bet made on Anzac Day 1935, between Beechworth's local garage proprietor Tom Parkinson and the licensee of the Post Office Hotel, Tony Evans.
The bet, for twenty pounds, was that Parkinson would not be able to push Evans from the Beechworth Post Office to the Chalet at Mt. Buffalo in a wheelbarrow, given the time-limit of eight days.
Although by all accounts the wager had originated in the local pub over a couple of beers, Tom Parkinson and Tony Evans took their bet very seriously. Both men put in approximately three weeks of training before the event; Parkinson pounded the roads, pushing a training load of fifteen stone in a makeshift barrow, and for speed-work he top dressed the Beechworth bowling greens with barrow loads of superphosphate. Evans played lots of golf and practised sitting for long periods in a barrow.
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