RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34126, 12 April 1976, Page 26

RANDOM REMINDER

A DOG’S LIFE

Sporting administrators, like officials in any theatre of endeavour, soon come to accept the fact that however hard they try there will always be those who criticise their decisions. One prominent sports official in Christchurch has taken as his guideline the philosophy that as whatever you do will be wrong, you try and do what is the least wrong. In other words, attempt to satisfy the majority. Very often it is not until people get elected to committees that they come to appreciate just how onerous and time

consuming the work is. Many a crusader has had his zeal curbed once has had been given the chance to work from the inside. Still, sports officials have all manner of crosses to bear. Recently, one official of a popular summer sport was woken by the ringing of his telephone at 4.30 a.m. His whole family scrambled out of bed, anticipating some emergency. The man’s mood was not brightened when he discovered his caller to be a competitor for a coming event in the sport seeking details as to

where and at what time he should present himself. The man claims he resisted any temptation to be discourteous and his family tumbled back into bed with only a modest show of annoyance at having their sleep so rudely interrupted. However. the family dog was not quite so orgiving. It apparently operates on the theorv that once you’re up you stay up and on this particular occasion he made it vocally clear that he wanted his breakfast.