World of Sport dreaming

[Bernie]

On hearing of the passing of Ron Casey, a flood of memories poured out growing up with World of Sport.

1. Country Pubs Tug of War - amazing cross section of blokes

2. The Woodchop - getting to know the O'Tooles from Tassie

3. Uncle Doug - shameless ham who would spruke anything .. and he was a Labor MP !!

4. Cycling - with those chasing arrows around the clock.

5. The coaches head to head - those were the days.

6. The Handball - watching Polly Farmer NEVER miss.

7. Bruce Andrew and the Kicking - the taut instep.

8. The Footy Panel with a cavalcade of personalities - who's going to play Jack Dyer in the film of his life ?

9. All those racing blokes - straight out off the Sporting Globe ( Pink edition )

... and so on.

It was so uniquely Australian .. so uniquely Melbourne. Who needs globalisation.

 

[kevin sooky]

Forget Bernie, most people here were still in their nappies when WoS finished.

They also missed out on John Dobbie and the Draw to the Jack competition, and Beat the Champ. And Colin Long and Doug Ring.

They would have seen Bill Lawry doing his first cricket commentary on Distict Cricket 1DGs on Ch 7 too in the mid-70s and even the Aust v. WI tour of 75-76.

When the coachs got together it was called Club Corner.

 

[Bernie]

Kevin,

Nice get ... Soccer Scene with Fred Villiers ( was it a toupe ), Gus Mecurio, Rollo Roylance ( did he make that up ? ) .. who did tennis ?

I remember in 1965 the Bombers' team came in on the Sunday after the GF and sat down cross legged like a primary school assembly whilst everyone sang 'For they are jolly good fellows .." and then they went home ! Talk about hype !

This will be someone's PHD subject soon.

 

[servo]

Didn't see much of Ron in Adelaide but have come to know his worth via the Chairmanship of the Kangaroos. That club owes him a lot.

Will be greatly missed.

 

[Arrow]

Bernie

The guy who covered tennis - his first name was Colin and he played Davis Cup - sorry that's all I can remember.

 

[kevin sooky]

Hey, I already referred to him. He did golf and tennis Colin Long.

Freddie Cook later did the VFA.

Roland Rollo Roylance was his real name. Jack Elliott's Turf Comment when he would get stuck into someone in racing. Going and doing something else while the replayed all the races from the previous day.

Merv Williams and later Gus Mercurio doing the boxing. "Big time boxing is bubbling in Melbourne".

There's a million of them.

 

[Grendel]

I just remember getting seriously drunk with Ron Casey and some trotting mates of my old man in the early 80's down at Moonee Valley.

A good bloke and not a big head, something the likes of Elliot will never understand. Gave a great contribution to his beloved North Melbourne.

R.I.P