Tug-of-War
PECULIAR’ phenomenon has recently made itself manifest in Dunedin on a Saturday night, and you can hear it on the radio if you tune into 4ZB about ten-thirty. You will hear the subdued roar of an enormous accumulation of people out for a good time, and the performance of popular music suitable for dancing if not for listening (music which bears about as much resemblance to a good jazz record as my piano playing bears to that of Solomon). Then something different is announced-the "tug-of-war." The purse, I am told, is £250, and welltrained teams from as far afield as Waihola, Glenavy, Kyeburn, Invercargill, and Christchurch are appearing on the stage to compete for it. The announcer, I may add, whose duty it is to describe the tug-of-war, has a style which must leave both himself and his listeners breathless. Each "pull" lasts, two minutes only, but during that short time no boxing or wrestling commentator, surely, could do more to make his unseen audience imagine that they personally had just completed a apn’ athletic work-out.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 9
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177Tug-of-War New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 9
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