broadcaster
passes away

IN DEATH, as well as in life
during his long career in radio
sports, Bill Good Sr. proved
he could command a big audi-
ence.

By Jim
News Columnist

rearney

A packed house tomorrow stu
ing at 1 p.m. at West Vancouver
United Church, 2062 Esquimalt
Ave., will say a final farewell to the
big affable guy who, for so many
years, was the nation’s preeminent
curling and golf broadcaster.

A West Van resident from
almost the diy he arrived here from
Winnipeg shortly after the Second
World War ended, Bill was 77
when the bronchial problems that
plagued him from the day he was
born in Wilkie, Saskatchewan,
ended his life at the Beacon Hill
lodge last Tue:

It's one of life's ironies that he
became a national broadcasting
personality with his annual pla
by-play broadcasts on CBC radio
of the Canadian curling champi-
onships in the days when the event
was sponsored by the Macdonald
Tobacco Company.

~ Among his perks was a constant
supply of the sponsor's cigarettes.
which certainly didn’t help his
probiem. He gave up smoking 15
years ago and became a low-key
crusader against tobacco.

He wasn’t a broadcaster all his
working Jife. He started out as a
sports writer with the Regina
Leader-Post, moved to Winnipeg
and the Tribune and then to
Vancouver and the Province, where
he wrote golf and curling and
became assistant sports editor
when Erwin Swangard was running

the sports department.

There came an economy wave
day when Erwin was ardered to cut
one reporter from his staff. He con-
sulted wath Bull.

As each name came up. Bill
would say things [i fou can't
tet him go. His wite’s expecting a
buby in a few days. or“... We
can't do that to him. He's getting
married next w And so it
went until Swangard said: “We
there's only one guy left... and it's
you.

There ended Bill's newspaper
career. In no time he became
Vancouver's first truly suecessful
freelance sports broadcaster,

The bulk of his work was for the
CBC. Not only in curling and golf
though. He broadcast the swim-
ming and diving events from the
1964 Olympics in Tokyo, the 1968
Games in Mexico City and the
1966 and 1970 Commonwealth
Games in Kingston, Jamaica, and
in Edinburgh.

A deadpan practical joker, he
casually informed a young home-
town reporter at the 1967 Pan-
American Games in Winnipeg he'd
just learned that the Games’ 50-
metre pool was a tenth of an inch
shorter than the listed length. As a
result, if there were any record
times, they wouldn't count.

Just as the reporter was about to
go on the with this exclu:

Good confessed to the hoax
and saved Phil Reimer, now the
CBC-TV weatherman here, cons
erable embarrassment.

He spent a working lifetime
making his job a lot of fun and
making friends with almost every-
one he ever met. He leaves his
wife, Doris, and two sons. Bill.
also a broadcaster of note,
John.

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