SPORTS BRAINS TRUST
answer soldiers’ questions and wrangle over matters of tactics in football, boxing, racing, athletics, soccer, hockey, golf, or any game that New Zealanders play, is one of the latest ventures of the Army Education and Welfare Service. It has already begun ‘its consultations with groups of soldiers at their posts, and interest grows rapidly. , The Listener went to see Sergeant W. McCarthy (formerly "Mac" of 2YD) ‘ SPORTS Brains Trust, which will
who will be the Question-Master at these "in-the-flesh" quiz sessions, and found him sorting out huge piles of old recordings of sporting broadcasts, important races, and game commentaries of all kinds. In a room surrounded with pictures of boxers in aggressive attitudes or mountainous wrestlers wearing studded trophy belts, and shelves of Turf Registers and sports books of every kind, this walking compendium told us héw he plans to keep the Sports Brains Trust interesting and lively. Mark Nicholls, the famous All Black, and Jim Parker, both an All Black and a champion sprinter, will probably be permanent members of the Trust, and "Mac" hopes to ‘co-opt such authorities as Johnny Summers, veteran boxer of the early years of this century, D. J. Guiney, a racing judge, L. A. Tracy, the runner, and so on. Additional experts will be taken on as questions’ for them make their presence necessary. A minimum of time will be spent on questions of mere statistical fact--who was it that won the so-and-so in such-and-such a year?-idle questions that would waste the time of real experts. Instead it is intended to make the utmost use of their insight into the deeper problems of their sports. Sgt. McCarthy even has some questions in mind that he wants to ask for himself, but we leave the experts in the dark in the meantime, since it is proposed that all questions should be answered without preparation.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 197, 2 April 1943, Page 5
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