GUESS WHO…?

When attending a dinner a couple of weeks ago one of the vice presidents recounted the following story to all present and I wondered if you could identify who it was?

Dikomite and Terry Evans were present and part of a group of band and bugles who played for the Optimist Hockey Club when based at Dover.

Anyway, one evening some bar games were being played, and the team, including a "Green Jacket" were losing heavily when a challenge was laid down whereby the “Jacket” filled two wines glasses with beer and shouts out “first one to finish the glass wins”.

Up steps an Optimist stalwart player and bitter drinker, Bob “Zoot” Jenson who downs the beer in one gulp.

The “Jacket” calmly picks his glass up, drinks the contents of the glass

………………… and then………………….

…starts eating the glass down to the stem. The onlookers are now open mouthed in a mixture of disbelief and horror.

The said “Jacket”, puts the stem on the bar, turns to Zoot and states, “You haven’t finished yours".

As if this was not enough the "Jacket" then lights a cigarette and takes a huge draw on it leaving about an inch of burning ash, turns the fag round in his mouth and sucks in the ash, then the burning cigarette, and swallows the lot.

Who was this legend now enshrined in the annals of Optimist folklore...?

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