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Bible Encyclopedias
Potato Race
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A running contest, where the winner is the first who collects in a basket or other receptacle a number of potatoes, usually eight, placed, as a rule two yards apart, along a straight line, and then crosses a finish line five or ten yards farther on.
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Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Potato Race'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/potato-race.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Potato Race'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/potato-race.html. 1910.
