Unutterable Bunk

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 49, 20 June 1930, Page 25

Unutterable Bunk

NE of the Auckland dailies recently saw fit to make an entirely unprovoked and unfair attack on the sporting announcing of Mr. Gordon Hutter. One of their reporters, admittedly having nothing better to do, took down a verbatim report of Mr. Hutter’s broadcast description of the race for the Great Northern Steeplechase at Dllerslie. This report was next day honoured by the best part of a column on the main news page, together with a number of very . critical and obviously ignorant remarks. The reporter’s final observation was that . no wonder the Racing Conference barred the radio announcer from the course so long "as such unutterable bunk © was put over. the air." Such remarks as the reporter made were really too contemptuous to merit a reply, were it not that one naturally resents such a grossly unfair attack. Mr. Hutter is generally acknowledged by listeners to be particularly good in describing of sporting events, and anyone: who knows the difficulties under which he works at Bilerslie can only wonder that he does so well. On a dull. wet day it is no easy job to give

an interesting description of a race through field-glasses from nearly a mile away, especially when only odd glimpses are obtained of the horses. Evidently the reporter knew nothing of what he was criticising, and he can hardly expect people to be influenced by such "unutterable bunk" as. he wrote! pougeamningil