Track And Field - Decathlon - Javelin
Aug. 08, 1967 - The Big Dig bank holiday competition for £60, 000 worth of prizes at Camber Sands.: Today 100 winners of a Gillette Super Silver competition were taking part in a Big Dig contest at Camber Sands, near Rye, in Sussex, to find £6, 000 Silver Maserati Mistral, to a racing pigeon. Each contestant, accompanied by an assistant of their own choice, were issued with shovels, and allocated by ballot, plots to dig on the two acres of sand where the prizes had been buried last. Each plot contained either two or three prizes. Photo shows Richard Pugh, age 19, of Kenilworth, Warwick (wearing glasses) and his brother Roger, 24, his assistant, are full of excitement as they rush to the judges with their token after digging up the major prize a £6, 000 Silver Maserati Mistral in today's contest at Camber
