They stated he had nuts of metal.
The winner of a world championship event for the kids’s recreation “conker” is being accused of dishonest his option to the title — with a metal chestnut discovered stashed in his pocket.
Dave Jakins, 82, a veteran participant often called “King Conker,” gained the Conker World Championship in Southwick, England, Sunday by smashing the competitors — the sport requires members to string chestnuts onto a shoelace after which attempt to smash one another’s nuts.
However runner-up Alastair Johnson-Ferguson cried foul after dropping first place, and claimed that Jakins pulled a quick one, noting that his conker “disintegrated in a single hit” through the event.
Jakins conceded that he did have a metal chestnut in his pocket — however solely as a joke.
“We’ve got two conkers from Mr Jakins’ successful matches, and are talking additional to judges,” a spokesman for the champ informed Reuters information company.
“We’ve got a big physique of proof, which we’re starting to tie collectively,” he stated. “Every match has two judges, and there’s a chief umpire overseeing issues within the ring. It will be tough to not be noticed dishonest.”
To this point he has stored his conkers crown.
Greater than 200 rivals signed up for the event Sunday behind a neighborhood pub, with proceeds used for charity. Conkers dates to the mid-Nineteenth Century and was as soon as a preferred kids’s recreation.
In tournaments, members are required to drag nuts at random from a sack and aren’t allowed to tamper with them as soon as they’ve picked them.
Within the girls’s competitors Sunday, Indianapolis native Kelci Banschbach, 34, took first place, the primary American to win the event since 1965.
With Publish wires
