Miscellaneous
A little country kid ushers in the Davis Cup. It's the summer of 1966 and Susan Oliver is just like many kids from all over Australia in that she loves tennis. She doesn't just love playing the game with her sister and father but loves the players she reads about in the papers and hears on the radio. So when the Davis Cup final comes to Melbourne, Susan wants to be right there, even though Kooyong is a good 60 miles from her home in Warragul. Despite the distance, Susan got her chance as an usherette showing fans to their seats, a dream come true to be involved. Ironically, Susan's uniform from that time has gone on display just as the Davis Cup as we know it is no longer. In episode four of Object of the Game, we look back on a time when Australia was the best tennis nation in the world, and the summer when one little country kid got to meet her heroes. The article mentioned in the episode is "Australia wins an Indian war" written by Kim Chapin and published in the January 9, 1967 edition of Sports Illustrated magazine. You can find the text only version here. Archive audio of the 1965 Wimbledon Final between Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle courtesy of British Pathé. Find the whole video here. The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive. Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the National Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.