Re: [ARSCLIST] Radio News and Sports Reports

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > -Radio reports or broadcasts of golf tournaments from 1955-1965 (or
> > any period in the early 20th century).
> > 
> Did you check the BBC's archive of the weekly "Letter from America" by
> Alistair Cooke? He often talked about golf.
> 
This brings up a related question...were there ever any play-by-play
radio broadcasts of golf matches? To me, the sport doesn't seem to
lend itself to radio! I would imagine that the results of major
events were reported in sportscasts (to the extent that THEY existed
on radio)...

I suspect this might actually be a sociological question...golf has
always been identified with the "upper class," and today's increased
popularity of the sport may be a function of the larger number of
people who are (or who feel they are, or will become) part of that
elite group?

Steven C. Barr