The Game and Commentator
DON’T know how many bouquets are presented annually to Joe King, 1YA sports commentator, but he certainly gets one from me. Aided by his resonant and rhythmical voice, I always imagine I can fairly exactly picture a number of games which haven’t greatly interested me since my schooldays. And one appreciates his asides: for example, at the Empire Games, when an invitation race was run in heavy rain on a water-covered track-on such a day
Mr. King found it) hard to understand | how anybody could be willing to accept an invitation to anything." But what thoroughly _ distinguishes him is his enthusiasm for the game first, and the players second. It
is human no doubt to wish your own side to win, but that is something very difficult to infer from Mr. King’s comments: instead you feel his sympathy for the keenness of the players on either side: and this I seemed to notice particularly in his broadcast of the last Rugby Test played at Auckland. If anybody distinguished himself he was immediately named; but if anybody was off-side his name wasn’t mentioned so far as I can remember-unless the listening public would know in any case from what had been said a moment previously. But no matter how much Mr. King interests me, I can’t say that his comments on the last Test convinced me that I have been altogether wrong in not being greatly interested in Rugby
since I ‘left: school.
F.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 23, Issue 583, 25 August 1950, Page 11
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248The Game and Commentator New Zealand Listener, Volume 23, Issue 583, 25 August 1950, Page 11
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