Funny this should come up now,Mr Cooper has just give me a old Dover Express of Friday August 3 1979 cost was 10p and on page29 on the headline it has this
"Just one mile to go Vic" BIg photo of myself runing and walking backwards from Canterbury to Dover .
I will not write all the report but it starts like this
" He,s into the home straight but Dover Amateur Boxing Club,s county heavyweight champion Vic Matcham can only see where he has been.
Vic chose a rather unusual way of raising money for the boxing club.
The marathon began at the Canterbury Cathedral at twenty to five on Sunday morning in rain, and it was 10.00hrs when 36-year-old Vic still quite fresh, was reversed along London Road Dover to the clubs headquarters .
His eyes were that of his trainer Tony Zaman,Vic managed to stay the distance despite being lashed by rain and buffetted in the slip-stream of the passing lorries.
At one point he took a tumble ,but in true boxing style was down but not out.He soon recovered to step out towards his goal.
The headlines of the paper that day was the "The Ports New Lord Warden Installed, The Queen Mother.
