"By Jove! That was Grand"
"THIS is beautiful football. Isn’t it exhilarating? It’s a wonderful day and there are 35,000 people here-just | listen to them... ." And the crowd roared, all 35,000 of them, as a background to the best sports commentary I remember hearing. This, of course, was the Kiwis-Auckland match from 1YA, a honey of a game. The commentator, who was, I understand, the one who did the commentaries for. the Kiwis on their English tour, brought this broadcast alive. Seeing is believing, they say. But the point about seeing in relation to belief is not so much the verification of fact, but the translation of fact into feeling. You see, you feel, you believe. Most radio commentators give an accurate account of facts, but their very infallibility kills feeling. You may wish you were there, but you do not always recapture the reality of the experience. The commentator on the Kiwis-Auckland game did not pretend to omniscience. One or twice he missed out on players’ names and he quite shamelessly admitted on a few occasions that he did not know why the whistle had gone; but this all added to the zest of his talk, for he gave you his thoughts spontaneously. They were the thoughts of yourself, if you had been at the game, or of any other enthusiast. You overheard rather than heard. -You saw through the commentator’s eyes’ and to his "By jovel that was grand," you echoed "I’ll say it was!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 11
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247"By Jove! That was Grand" New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 11
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