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This brought a smile to my face when I saw it, it must be over thirty years ago when I first read the article during break time at school.
It was shortly after Ian Heaps became World Champion and a local venue expert had challenged him to a match on the local cut except Ian had to use a tree branch for a pole, which he had selected himself on the day.
At least that's the best my memory will allow me anyway.
Again if I remember rightly the final pictures showed both anglers each with a good haul of silvers and without openly declaring who the winner was, except to say something along the lines of...
"Ian would be far too modest to let on"...
It was shortly after Ian Heaps became World Champion and a local venue expert had challenged him to a match on the local cut except Ian had to use a tree branch for a pole, which he had selected himself on the day.
At least that's the best my memory will allow me anyway.
Again if I remember rightly the final pictures showed both anglers each with a good haul of silvers and without openly declaring who the winner was, except to say something along the lines of...
"Ian would be far too modest to let on"...