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Tony Cozier

I haven’t listened to cricket on the radio in decades but the passing of Tony Cozier has stirred some long dormant memories.

I can’t remember when I first heard Cozier on the radio but my first memories of listening to cricket was the WI tour of Australia in 1960-61 when as a sapling I was able to stay up late at night to listen to Johnny Moyes in a colourful Aussie accent on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)

Later during the WI tour of England in 1963 we were treated to the dulcet tones of John Arlott whose descriptive commentary of Cricket as well as the surrounding countryside provided a picture as vivid as any contemporary movie scene.

Cozier came on the scene sometime after that tour and I recall his voice on the radio as one of our own and that voice although lacking the timbre of some of the other commentators was very informative. I also remember his reports in that other media- newspapers- I believe he came from a media family as his family was involved with the Daily News (now defunct) and I seem to recall a column by his father EL Cozier which appeared under the byline ELC. The immediacy of TV has diminished the importance of the radio voice but those of the generation which came of age in the 60’s remember radio as our connection to the outside world and we relied on the eloquence of the person behind the mike to fuel our imagination and Cozier fit the bill.

An innings well played.

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282 responses to “Tony Cozier, the LEGEND”

  1. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    Since the topic has wavered… I faced Graham a few times, 2 matches in U-15 and then later at Seawell at what I think was the Police training school. Something tells me he also played, maybe for Carleton? He was quick. Did he pelt? He had an action whereby he lowered his left shoulder, almost like Keith Boyce, and this is how he generated speed, and deceptive speed. The issue when when he needed bounce, he used to cock his right elbow. My truth is, you didn’t have time to worry about his action, just focus on the ball. He had a stinging in-swinging yorker, but as Seymour Nurse had taught us, just take guard a few feet down the wicket, and the yorker becomes a full toss.
    WWD was faster, but wild as shiite. You only ever had to play 2 balls in most overs, and most edges went over the slips. But if you beat up on him, he would bowl at the body. I only faced him twice as he was older than me.

    As far as the reverse discrimination thing went, to me it was all about perspective. Did I not get a pick because I was whitish, or because I was not good friends with the captain? there wasn’t a sport I played where the social element didn’t affect team selection. Many years later in Canada, in tennis, the summer is full of outdoor clubs, but in the winter they only winterize a few, so suddenly you get 25 summer clubs converging into one. If the captain of the A-team changed, I could bet the team members would change.

    Not 100% sure, but I was 14-15. I had played U15 for HC for 3 years. An adult man who lived nearby asked me one to play for his 2ndXI team, they were “short”. So i did. It was at Bristol and I did OK, so they asked me back. A few weeks later, the match is against HC at HC. Don’t you know, Tank sets up shop outside the office, with Otto, just as I begin batting. I made a few runs. So Monday morning I get a note to see the headmaster. He says “you batted well, but then I realised you were not batting for HC. I don’t recall giving you permission to play for an outside Club? I lied “I didn’t know you needed permission”. He dismissed me. Later that same day I am summoned again. This time the games master was present. Tank asked him how come I wasn’t on the HC team, for it was Tank’s observation I had scored more than anybody on the HC team. The games master said I hadn’t been to the nets often enough. Which was true, I had only been once/week, but Tank also knew I played other sports as well. He asked me to step outside. When he recalled me, he handed me an envelope. And said nothing. The envelope contained a permission letter to play for an outside Club, back dated a few weeks to coincide with my first game with the outside Club.

    To this day, I cannot buy into a race issue. I was younger, though I knew the boys on the HC 2ndXI team, I had likely played U15 with many of them. But younger and not within the Captain’s close circle was enough not to get picked, even if my skin was darker. If you wish to play a sport, go and play it. If you don’t like how you are being treated, go somewhere else.

    I have a son who was a half decent ice hockey player. But he was smallish, a finesse player with speed. Once he was on a team, which played a bruising style. It clashed with his own. So I moved clubs. I wasn’t upset with his current Club, he simply did not fit their style. When he was placed with a coach who played his style, he did better.

    And I think that was seen even at the WI level back then. Bim could have fielded a test team itself, but selection politics came into play. They should have pushed for 2 teams, because that so called Rebel team was all about opportunity. And they ended up banning an entire generation of potential stars.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Wonder how Dave Cameron is feeling now that history will record how the WICB under his leadership curtailed Cozier’s commentating career.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    Not sure how many listened to the sports program Mason on Guest on VoB this evening. It was meant to be a tribute to the late Tony Cozier.

    Then we had the further farcical situation of the the CEO Noel Lynch of the BCA claiming publicly that the Coppin, Cozier and Short Media Centre was named afer the late Jimmy Cozier, Tony’s father, and not Tony Cozier. This was later challenged on the other cricket program where it was clarified the media centre was named after BOTH Coziers.

  4. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    David, probably he feels not a worry. A-type personalities like him are almost immune to criticism. He probably feels empowered that he has outlived the ‘great’ Tony Cozier.

    re BCL and club development over the years, of course all realize that life moves on. The BCL situation in particular tells that evolution story very well. All here seem to be close students of the Bajan cricket apparatus so surely those who were around can cast their memories back to the period when Estwick at BCL and the BCA big-wigs were having some issues.

    I too recall the days when there seemed to be BCL team in every village but issues started to develop as 1) clubs were trying to get into the BCA directly, 2) not releasing their players to go up to Blenheim to play in the BCA competition and 3) BCL players started to enroll at the BCA clubs,

    Those issues and more were bubbling for years way back when I was watching cricket on Saturday back in 90’s so it certainly does not shock me that the BCL has not fielded a team this year.

    Time marches on and life dynamics have changed.

  5. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    NorthernObserver May 17, 2016 at 7:20 PM #
    Nice anecdote
    Who was the games master then?
    What years were you at Kolij?
    Can you remember any of the players in the HC 2nd XI then.
    Where was the Bristol ground again Was it in St Peter by the rectory
    They had a good team one time

  6. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    David May 17, 2016 at 8:22 PM #
    Lynch continues to be an ass.
    I cannot understand how he got that post in the BCA

    i SUSPECT THAT THE ORGANISATION OF THE BCL IS NOT AS IT WAS IN ESTWICKS TIME
    ALSO THE SOCIAL NEED TO PLAY IN THE BCA THAT EXITED IN 68/69 WHEN THE BCL TEAM FIRST PLAYED IN THE IST DIVISION NO LONGER EXISTS
    ONE REMEMBERS THE ANNUAL BCA V BCL GAME WHICH ALLOWED BCL PLAYERS TO BE EXPOSED TO BARBADOS SELECTORS
    A LOT HAS PASSED IN THE LAST 50 YEARS
    NOT ALL GOOD

  7. David Avatar
    David

    The BCL ethos was an offshoot of village life. The social landscape has shifted to villagers migrating to built up areas.

  8. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    @Artax.
    You mentioned Henderson Roach. For the few balls that he faced, his batting was a thing of beauty.

  9. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @MB
    I remember the BCL Teams from Victoria, Sam Lords, Oistins, Maxwell, Seawell, Bathsheba, St Augistine—– Timothy Callender used to write short stories about area rivalries like St Jude’s
    +++++++++
    There was a cricket team in Oistins? Where did they play? I suspect that Seawell team you are referring to is Providence.

    Earlier I shared a memory about BCL teams in the general area where I grew up and these are all now history, Tino Terrace now covers the pitch in Warners Plantation Yard where Maxwell used to play many moons ago. There is a larger ground in the vicinity of Warners which is on the street now called Applegrove (in earlier times that road was called “Sugar Alley” but an older friend told me it was really ‘Chigger Alley” due to the Chigoes that people used to get if they lived in what was a marl road, I really miss CA and the conversations we used to have but he has gone to join the ancestors).

    I think the team that used to play near the South Point Lighthouse was St. Christopher, there was also a team from St. Patricks area called Yorkshire, there was Boarded Hall and further afield Ellerton.

    There is a book to be written about BCL cricket and someone should document the history of it before it is lost in antiquity.

  10. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    MORE CREDITS TO TONY COZIER
    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/81350/thorny-issue-cozier-class
    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/81342/editorial-preserve-cozier-legacy
    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/81349/voice-spirit-wi-cricket

  11. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    Oistins used to play under the Hill behind the Esso Gas Stn. I remember a pacer for them called Dodson, 6ft 5ins and fast. In the really old days some white fellas would play Village/ BCL. Victoria from St Martin’s St Phillip usually had a strong team and supporters galore.

  12. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    when i was at HC there was a white fella a couple years younger who for whatever reason could not make the 2nd Div team, I dont know if he tried out or not. He played as a Leg Spinner for Carlton against HC and takes 7 for like 20. As Nth O mentioned there was always other reasons for team selection, and some black chaps played for outside teams.

  13. John Avatar
    John

    Does anyone know where Kent played?

    I get the impression it was close to Oldbury Sugar Factory.

    I am looking for the book I had on Sir Garry by Trevor Bailey which describes how Sobers came to prominence through interventions by adults, more specifically, Garnet Ashby.

    There is a great anecdote about a young Sobers, small for his age and withdrawn, preferring to hide when time to batting came.

    The captain, Garnet Ashby gave Sobers his own prized bat in a match which he reckoned would be lost with half the side down and told the boy Sobers “don’t come back in till the game is won”.

    I reckon that was in the mid to late 1940’s.

    Free secondary schooling robbed many young males of those rites of passage to adulthood.

    Many spent hours of each school day with other children in the bus system going to and from school and missed out on the lessons they could have learnt from adults.

    Now, no parent in their right mind would trust their child to an adult because the adults are nothing more than overgrown children.

    It was different in the past, we grew up with giants.

  14. Brathwaite Avatar
    Brathwaite

    I don’t suspect that Kolig got that problem with boys needing letters from the Head to play for outside team dese days.

    Nor do I suspect that any boy -white, black or transgendered – who wants to play wid de form-team for de lunch time inter-grade games (wait, dey still dus do that) got a problem to get a pick either.

    Co-ed dus brek up things like that.

    You guys had some fellas dat went and play for Windwards too as I recollect…one of dem in Parliament now too. And one was a big-shot in the BCA.

  15. Brathwaite Avatar
    Brathwaite

    All praise to Tony Cozier. A life well lived, He is a legend.

    But this is off kilter to Cozier. Andi Thornhill has over the years been one of the columnists with very crisp and well written articles.

    Whether on Horse Racing which I believe must be his first love or here with cricket he is very smooth with the written word. Props to him.

  16. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @GP
    I believe the games master was Orlando Greene of athletics fame. It was in the 70’s like 70-78. Yes bristol was in St.peter and always had competitive teams, with players who also liked alot of sport.
    Today I would be guessing at the players. But I know one was ???? Rochester, not Peter from the CB but an older brother. And Sousy Lynch. I could call other names, but I would just be naming cricketers of the era, as I don’t recall exactly who played house, 2nd or Intermediate; plus I believe this was also around the time of the Combined schools in the Div1.

  17. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @John
    Kent was in Gemswick. I think it was formerly called Penny Hole.
    The story as I recall. is Ashby used to pick up Sir Gary and take him to St.Philip where he would play on weekends.

  18. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Seems you entered after I had departed
    I had already sung the Hymn ” Lord dismiss us with thy blessing, Thanks for mercies here recieved” for the last time This hymn was sung on the last day to the tune “ETON”
    On the first day of term the Hymn was Lord recieve us with thy blessing, once again assembled here……sung to the same tune.
    Those traditions have long gone literally down the “drain”

  19. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WILLOW CHANNEL CONTINUES TO SHOW THE WORLD CUP DAILY
    What I can not understand is that there was no footage of English faces whether fans or players after the game.

    The thing I laugh at most is the premature celebrations by the Poms.

  20. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    The story as I recall, is in those days there was an annual BCA vs BCL game, and Sir Gay was selected to play for the BCL after his performances for Kent. The game was played at Wanderers, which in those days was in the BayLand, where Sir Gary grew up. He was known to Dennis Atkinson, where he would bowl at him in the nets. Atkinson suggested to Wilfred Farmer, then Commissioner of Police, he should enlist Sobers to play for Police, and farmer did so by getting him to be a young member of the Police band. The rest is history, and Sir Gary would never represent any other Club in Bim. Old tyme loyalty.

  21. Pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    Pieceuhderockyeahright

    Wunna dun see why i does got my spiffs with de Blogmaster?

    Look at 11.24 a.m.

    One Brathwit open he mouf and cuss so whutessly and i repeat de man words “Andi Thornhill has over the years been one of the columnists with very crisp and well written articles….”

    Surely this man should be banned forthwith!!

    Andi Thornhill? “crisp” and “well written” ?

    Whuloss, help de ole man nuh, I heah pun me back, jes tekking it easy, typing way pun de Ipad tings and jes so, whaplax, a beriffle up pup.

    Jes because de groundman at Kensington, over 20 years of cutting grass and roling de pitch, has cumulatively spent more years on the Cricket Pitch than Brian Lara, Smitty, de groundsman, is now de “best cricketer” in de world!!

    Why if we was to use dat reasoning more rampantly dat would mek de man “who does be in MP1 regularly (in this case the police chaffeur) the prime minister

    Andi Thornhill and 7 UP sam is lovable characters whose attempts at hyperbole is legendary in truth but most people know, they lack the “je ne sais quoi”

    Dem cant even tie Cozier’s shoes.

    Steupseee (i get dat from Simple Simon)

  22. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    Braff

    Co-ed at HC, which had far fewer boys than Cawmere, Lodge etc, was totally unnecessary as QC and HC could have remained separate without effecting sports. Hence why kolij has been fairly dominant in BasketBall since less boys are required. Some think this was a conspiracy by former Cawmerians, in high positions, who could not stand the competition!

    How come Springer was allowed to stay all girls and now dominate athletics for obvious statistical advantage reasons? Actually it is reported, by me, that the real reason for Springer remaining girls only, was quick thinking by the Family Planning Dept who appreciated the potential for explosion in teen pregnancy. AH LIE?

    In the 1970s Bristol was a dominant force in the Intermediate Div (as was Cable&Wireless, Wibix) I played against them in Aug 74 in the 5th/ 6th Round and they were top of table. I bowled pure nonsense the first Inns but redeemed myself in the 2nd with 7 wkts, the first 5 in 35 mins before Tea on the 3rd day. Dont remember the names of the players. C&W had a strong team including Big Bird Garner, Wes Hall, Alvin “The Finner” Greenidge and Alder, dont need to remember others as these 4 were the key destroyers.The game I played against C&W was one for the history books as they had us to kill at the start of the 3rd day, they thought it would 1 hr max BUT at 6pm they were fighting to draw the game with the last ball being 1 wk left for them and like 5 runs to win they managed a Draw with scores tied when bails pulled. I had to face Bird for an hour to keep him from running through the side, saw him off. Then i bowled 12 overs straight for 4 wkts. Real turnaround. Wes had bought tickets for the wife and himself to go out for 4pm, he was cussing in technicolour!

  23. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    Sir Gar was a trumpeter if memory serves.

  24. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Piece
    …and how about Les “Shell” Harris?
    Was he to ‘Bajan’ to have the needed “je ne sais quoi” too..?

  25. John Avatar
    John

    Shell’s son was at HC a couple of forms below me.

    Rejoiced under the nickname of Cashew …. a chip of the old block … just that he got the nickname of Cashew, not Shell.

    I never saw his father Shell but I know why Cashew got his nickname.

    I only heard his program on Rediffusion.

    One lunch time Cashew decided to drop kick a wall and knocked himself out cold if I remember right.

    Wrestling on a Friday night used to show on CBC and it took Barbados by storm.

    He must have been trying out a move he saw.

    I remember names like Bobo Brazil … and Mick McManus I think.

    On a Friday night my aunt was glued on to the TV watching.

    The good guy always got beaten unfairly in the beginning … then the tide would turn and the bad guy got the final beating … always.

    Same with the tag teams.

    I guess it appealed to my aunt’s sense of justice.

    I figured out after a while it was probably rigged to appeal to an audience’s natural feelings of outrage when the underdog gets unfaired ….. but I still enjoyed watching!!

  26. David Avatar
    David

    Shell Harris’ sports show on Redifusion was called Sportlight? The late Don Norville was a regular.

  27. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    Shell’s commentary on Boxing was great with ones and twos etc

  28. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    David
    So was the late Peter Short and the late Harold “Ricochet” Kidney
    Show was started by the late Jerry Richards before he went over to CBC. I think 7 UP Sam Wilkinson also participated.

    John
    Didnt know that Shell had such a young son at H C , but we knew that the very thin fast bowler/long distance runner, now lawyer Noel “Arkie” Lynch was Shel’s son

  29. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Shell had problems pronouncing Venkatarhagavan and decided to call him VENKAT. And so it was.
    Then there was the commentary at the funeral of Sir Frank Worrell
    Here Shell…
    “The Cathedral clock is chiming 5………………….its a French clock………………but it chimes in English.”
    On boxing ” 1,1 1-2, 1-2, 2 2 2 123 ……the ones were the rights the twos were the lefts and the three were the ones I didnt see

  30. David Avatar
    David

    Didn’t Shell have a daughter who was a decent cricketer?

  31. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    GP
    When i arrived at Kolij in 1967, Arkie was long and tall BUT Burrows was in 5th, 5.2 and was massive with legs like tree trunks.

  32. David Avatar
    David

    Didn’t Shell have a daughter who was a decent cricketer?

    Seem to recall the late Aubrey Corbin and George Shepherd?

  33. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    She was the Barbados female captain Angela Harris

  34. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Was George Shepherd not a basketballer?

  35. David Avatar
    David

    Yes he is associated with basketball.

  36. John Avatar
    John

    Shell’s son was with my cousin two years below me that is how I got to know the origin of the nickname.

    But like I say, I never saw Shell Harris, but, …. my cousin told me the two were very similar!!

    I was told Shell was once commentating a cricket match on the radio and the batsman hit the ball up in the air.

    …. and the fieldsman is running in to catch it …. and … and …….

    …. oh shite ….. he drop it!!

    The guy who told me used to tell some tall tales so he probably made it up.

  37. John Avatar
    John

    I can still remember the music that introduced Shell on Rediffusion.

    CBC also had some classical music to introduce the sports with Gerry Richards so I guess Gerry Richards chose the music for the Rediffusion program too.

    I can also remember the introductory music to “Music of the Masters” which came on in the afternoon when as young children we were put to rest!!

    Often whistle the three tunes.

    Seems like a whole era has passed us by … but it was fun to be a part of it.

  38. Brathwaite Avatar
    Brathwaite

    Now wait a cotton picking minute, that is not nice to say that – << the real reason for Springer remaining girls only, was quick thinking by the Family Planning Dept who appreciated the potential for explosion in teen pregnancy>>.

    Fah real. Yo can’t say dem things bout the people girl children. But Jesus, it woulda been real trouble fah trute. Blouse n skirt.

    But look at de udder fella pon here trying to fool de peep here that he aunt uses to watch de wrassling because de good peeps did get a triumph ova de evil.peeps. Don’t mek ma laff do.

    De woman watching Macho Man Savage and Invader 1 and 2 and alla dem and feeling a certain warmth every Friday and he talking foolishness bout ethics/ Wha losss!

    But to the brother who didn’t apprecaite my wutless language. I wud love to apologise but it don’t mek sense. Yah see I cud never cus home. I neva see my old man come out de bedroom as if he just do a thing nor even see he walk bout half naked nor nothing so.

    All nice and proper. But here now my PM and all he cabinet walking bout half-naked showing all dem nasty underwear of lies and deceit and they cussing we in mind, in spirit and wid corruption.

    So all the nicey, nicey upbringing in mean one shite. My expression wutless as it is come from the pain of this bad-word vasaline-less shafting I receiving.

    Looka I ask a friend to create a facebook page de udder day and put all de posters dem pun it. Just now I hope that we can get the thing perkng.

    So pleeze excuse de cussing.

    Yah see. No pain right now…so no cussing,

  39. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I was told Shell was once commentating a cricket match on the radio and the batsman hit the ball up in the air.
    …. and the fieldsman is running in to catch it …. and … and …….
    …. oh shite ….. he drop it!!
    ++++++++++
    Have heard that story a few times but the culprit was Stanton Gittens only the language was more colourful.

  40. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @MB
    Oistins used to play under the Hill behind the Esso Gas Stn. I remember a pacer for them called Dodson, 6ft 5ins and fast. In the really old days some white fellas would play Village/ BCL.
    +++++++++
    I vaguely remember an open area there but can’t remember a cricket team with the name Oistins, but there was a family named Dodson that lived in the terminology of the day “under Oistins Hill” but the two brothers I knew were short so the fast bowler must have been a relative. Incidentally the older of the two was very mouthy as short people tend to be (BTW Bushy is probably short) and was always getting into arguments at school. One of the arguments was heated and Jack Smale (the Irish teacher) brought a pair of boxing gloves for them to settle the matter on the playing field (Jack was the referee).

    That St. Martins team was a very strong team and had some decent cricketers among them the Coppin bros (I think Livingstone Coppin was the most successful) eventually the team entered the BCA but I can’t seem to recall the name it adopted in the BCA don’t think it was St. Martins.

  41. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Pieceuhderockyeahright May 18, 2016 at 2:21 PM #

    “Andi Thornhill and 7 UP sam is lovable characters whose attempts at hyperbole is legendary in truth but most people know, they lack the “je ne sais quoi”….”

    @ PUDRYR

    Yuh got muh laughing Piece, especially wid “7Up Sam.” I have not heard that name in years.

  42. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    St.Martins- St. Catherines

  43. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Sargeant
    BTW Bushy is probably short
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Depends on the standard of comparison …. to a horse – perhaps…. 🙂
    Wait ’til Islandgal writes her book and tells all…. you will then pay due respect,,,,,

  44. Money Brain Avatar
    Money Brain

    Sarge,
    The team from ST Martins Church area was Victoria. Very strong team fah ears.

    There was a Dodson family that lived in the Oistins area that was short, one fella was at Kolij in my year. A crazy lil light brown fella was a good friend of mind but tanta igrunt, pelted a compass at a teacher one afternoon.

  45. balance Avatar
    balance

    “This was later challenged on the other cricket program where it was clarified the media centre was named after BOTH Coziers”

    What could have informed the decision to include Tony’s father in the naming of the media centre? Never heard of his contribution to game of cricket. Then we should have included Don Norville who was involved at all levels in sporting activities in Barbados..

  46. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @MB, after the extensive debates here on BU re teacher-student relations and all the union-administrations issues it is interesting to catch this ball in the slips from your cricket tales.

    I believe it is fair to say that if you went school at Kolig, Lodge (with its supposed coffin initiation) , Cawmere or any of those type institutions that you were ingrunt when you did things like throw compass at a teacher. Oh lawd.

    Nowadays at any other school that is big union fight and the boy or girl is a vagabond.

    So did the compass fall well before its target, reached but missed or was he corralled and received a Tank correction that saved him and his temper from going down the wrong path of life!

    Funny how simple stories tell us so much about this life called Bdos.

  47. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Sargeant May 18, 2016 at 10:08 PM #
    there was a family named Dodson that lived in the terminology of the day “under Oistins Hill”
    ABOUT HALF WAY DOWN ON THE RIGHT

    RE but the two brothers I knew were short so the fast bowler must have been a relative. Incidentally the older of the two was very mouthy as short people tend to be and was always getting into arguments at school and at SUNDAY SCHOOL
    HE SANG IN CH CH CHOIR WITH ME
    OFTEN WONDERED WHAT BECAME OF HIM
    MUST HAVE BEEN ANOTHER SIBLING THAT WENT TO KOLIJ AND WHO BOWLED FAST.

  48. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/81382/complete-journalist

  49. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @GP
    Sunday School arguments too? Ah tell yuh , sounds like Bushie. As per MB’s description the Kolig student must be a younger sibling, I haven’t seen any of those guys in decades could be living overseas.

    Throwing a compass at a school teacher? HC like it had its share of vagabonds, we in our wildest days never threw anything at a teacher although throwing something at each other wasn’t out of the question.

  50. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    “Shell” Harris spoke with a broad Bajan accent that one didn’t hear on the radio in any official capacity in those days. The only time that any of the announcers on Reddifusion spoke with a Bajan accent was Alfred Pragnell with his Bajan short stories. People enjoyed Shell because they could relate to him as he didn’t try to imitate English broadcasters with their clipped accents on the BBC.

    Another voice on the radio with a distinctive Bajan accent was Sylvanus Broome of the Ministry of Agriculture, Broome’s reports were relatively short and they related to Agriculture conditions and crops.

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