Club Swinging

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 16, 1 November 1929, Page 7

Club Swinging

3¥ A Broadcast HEN Mr. Chas. Buckett, the wellknown Christchureh athlete, set out to make a new world’s record for endurance club swinging, the event was featured by 8YA. " Though television would offer greater opportunity for conveying to a radio station’s far-flung audience an ‘adequate impression’ of such, a silent performance as club swinging, yet 3YA decided to cover the attempt. Progress reports were sent -out," and a microphone was ‘installed on‘the stage of the Caledonian Hall, where the perfprmance was taking place.. Here 3YA’s sporting announcer described the proceedings "at different times, and the club swinger himself also- spoke.’ He ‘did this after he had been in action for nearly 48 hours, "when he fain would have slept." On the final evening BYA’s ‘audience kept well in touch with the hall, and heard the cheers when Buckett broke his own previous record of 72 -hours, and then set out on the ‘final lap of 86 minutes to overtake the world’s record. At 10.86 there was. prolonged applause, and a speech was made by Mr. E. H. Marriner, the referee, announcing that the world’s record set by T, W. Burrows, of Australia, had -been broken. A gold medal. to.commemorate the occasion was presented to Mr. Buckett’s mother on behalf of her son. . _ The club swinger then earried on till 10.45, setting a record of 72 hours 45 minutes. He declared he could have earried on for another twenty hours.