ROCK ’N’ ROLL CONTEST
Winner Lodges Protest
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 26.
One of the co-winners of the rock ’n’ roll endurance contest held in Wellington this week has registered a protest at the premature stopping of the event. He is V. McCarthy, a Samoan, who said: “I could have danced for another eight or 10 hours. My opponent could not have gone on much longer.” McCarthy said he considered the contest was like a game, and he thought the supervisors should have allowed it to go on till a winner emerged. He danced continuously for 26 hours, as did his opponent, D. Gill, of Lower Hutt. The two were declared joint winners of the contest when they looked as if they would dance into Anzac Day. McCarthy said Gill had needed hospital attention when the contest was stopped, but he had been up at 9 o’clock the morning after the contest. He had got out of bed, he said, to do some ’rock ’n’ rolling.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 2
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168ROCK ’N’ ROLL CONTEST Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 2
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