Counting Chickens
SPORTS fans would chuckle at an item in The Listener programme section regarding the Rugby Football broadcast from 4YZ, on Saturday, August 9. This
announced, "Ranfurly Shield (2nd Challenge of Season) Southland v. North Auckland (from Rugby Park)." This was printed in the issue which appeared in the shops before the Big Game (Ist Challenge of Season) when, as 21,000 spectators and probably an equal number of radio listeners now know, Southland lost the famous Shield to Otago after having kept it down there for the last nine years in the deep south. Obviously the writer of the fixtures for The Listener couldn’t have known who would win the first challenge, yet he calmly gave us his unequivocal prophecy by public announcement-was the gentleman born in Invercargill, perhaps? Anyhow, it was a great game as heard over the air; I don’t remember hearing anything like the cheering of the Otago supporters when their team got ahead with only 10 minutes to go. But why, on conclusion of the match, did the band burst triumphantly into the Invercargill March? Was it just tradition, or, with the certainty of. victory (basing their confidence, perhaps, on the idea that nothing seen in print can possibly be mistaken), had they just omitted to practice "Hail Caledonia"?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 8
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214Counting Chickens New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 8
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