"RUGBY IN MY TIME"
Sir,-I wish to commend you on your choice of Winston McCarthy as the most qualified person to write on New Zealand Rugby in the last decade. On the score of experience alone, with the Kiwi tour of Great Britain, the All Black tours of South Africa and Great Britain in 1949 and 1953 respectively, the Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1956, Winston McCarthy. selects himself as critic. J. R. Kelly and C. G. Croft may show themselves as authorities on the Renaissance, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but surely it does not follow
that they are as erudite over players, personalities, rules and games, with a thorough memory of interesting tries, goals and incidents as he whom they derisively entitle "The Screaming Skull." Unless of course these two armchair critics play their Rugby with the celebrated ass’s head that graced the weaver’s skull in Shakespeare’s immortal play. It shows a very limited approach to writing to assume that a journalist writing on Rugby should use "the high-sounding terms" that characterise writers like Marlowe and Shakespeare. Some readers who enjoy Winston McCarth’s chatty informal reminiscences may also enjoy some literary giants, and I personally think there is room for both. Many thanks for these enjoyable talks to Winston McCarthy, and many thanks to The N.Z. Listener for publishing them.
S. D.
BRUSTOWE
(Milton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 11
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