A LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE Sports Medal awarded 1916 to A.B Askey...

A LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE Sports Medal awarded 1916 to A.B Askey (Arthur Bowen) 1st EGG RACE (Open), in fitted case together with a Liverpool Institute blazer badge [2] Regarding the school games - I once won the Egg-Gathering Race - not to be confused with the egg and spoon race. This is the race where about about dozen china eggs are placed at a distance of about a yard apart. When the starting pistol went, you dashed off to the first egg, returned to base and placed it in your cap - then off for the second egg and so on until all twelve eggs were safely in the cap. I won easily and was preening around when one of the other lads said: "Of course you won it - you are so much nearer the ground than any of us"! as told by Arthur Askey Excerpt from Could do Better collected by Mark Barker