World of Sport on both sides of my bloodlines

My mother Margaret won a trip to Japan as World of Sport's 'Miss Footy' in 1969. My father Ray won the handball in 1972. I am essentially made of Bertocchi hams and Jason recliners.

Margaret and Ray Wilson leaving the Channel 7 studios in 1969

It’s fifty years next month since my father, Ray Wilson, won Channel 7’s World of Sport handball competition. The prize was $500, as well as a mother-lode of Ballantynes chocolates, Four n Twenty pies and Bertocchi hams. Dad’s remembers his match payments at Hawthorn totalled $385 in his first…