B.U. Duo Batters Crimson Chompers

John Henry was a pancake-eatin' man.

Two Harvard-Radcliffe teams were optimistic when they entered the national pancake eating championship at the Inter-national House of Pancakes in Brighton yesterday. But when members of the Crimson duos had downed their first stack of three pancakes, and saw Henry--a 6 ft., 5 in., 240 pound B.U. football player--calling for his second platter of 18 it became obvious that Harvard and Radcliffe very going to got clobbered.

And they were, Henry consumed a staggering total of 248 pancakes within the 20-minute time limit, and his partner, 105-pound Janet Lahrer, ate 119, giving the Boston University team a new American record of 367. They won a trip to England for their fast.

The Harvard-Radcliffe team of James R. Barker '65 (117 pancakes) and Heather J. Dubrow '66 (113) took down second place. Nancy Moran '66 (53 pancakes) and R. Andrew Beyer '65 (102) threw in the towel early.

As six B.U. students him on, Henry gobbled up everything in sight but the tablecloth. With five minutes to go, the cheering section began to yell, "Comes as, John, you're making the stretch run now!" At this point Henry announced, "I've had the course," and gurgling noises omitted from his threat. Members of the Boston photographic corps hovered over him to get the picture of the day, but Henry made it to the mean's room is time.

He returned half a minute later and announced another platterful before the contest ended.