Why Jackie Turner Never Became A World Champion

Sports day was an eagerly anticipated annual event, even for myself, whose puny frame was never going to develop into any semblance of the athletic. The specific race was the one hundred yards. I am fortunate enough to possess a reasonably photographic memory and I can vitalize the scene even now these many years later. The bang of the Starting Pistol and a vision of Jackie Turner almost one third along the track before the other competitors had even put one running shoe in front of the other. I do not remember exactly the winning time but it was around fourteen seconds, a remarkable performance for a ten-year-old boy.

The headmaster after the event was voluble about this and announced it to the whole school, almost as if it had been personally responsible for this remarkable athletic achievement.

"So what happened to Jackie Turner?"