THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1928.
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In track events Great Britain. is, however, runners-up to the United States, in which branch Finland, Norway, Hungary and Sweden are all in the first eight, In the aggregate-i.e, the best all-round athletic nation for. 1927
COMPSTON BEATEN. is very liable to concentrate on the placings come out in the fol
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In the Open Championship Jose amongst five nations-America, Jurado, the young Argentine Germany, Finland, Sweden and On Berlin- player, took longer to go round the British Empire. Sandwich than most of us, but Empire advisedly, as two far-dis-On demand provided you were not playing be- hind it was easy to have sym- pathy with him. He had come all the way from South America to [By Fred Robson.] make a supreme effor, and in During the amateur champion- Buch circumstances, the means ship, there were many complaints which he took to get the figures about the slowness of the players. might be thought to be justified. Some men I am told, were taking Possibly, too, Jurado played at as long as three hours for the the pace to which he was accus- round, and that to me suggests tomed at home. At the same time that there was a good deal of it was significant that his pace time wasted, not deliberately, of quickened and that his last round course, but owing to excessive was played in the shortest time. caution, or care. I wonder if it But that was when the strain was becoming more tense, and this were worth while.
The pace at which the golfer have previously made that the rather supports the contention I plays is, I think, governed by his temperament. You have George player who is nervous is inclined Duncan, "a streak of lightning" to hurry over the strokes.
There is only one way to play
or any
Andy Payne, 22-year-old Oklahoma eauntry marathon race from Los An farmer boy, winner of the cross
geles, California, to New York City. Payne led a field of expert mara. thoners virtually all the way.
as I have heard him described, golf in regard to pace and it is true that he plays. at a other matter. One must be na speed that is all too fast for most tural. I believe that the man who of us. But Duncan has admitted can. successfully adopt special that he cannot slow down, og at methods for special occasions is a any event that he is not comfort-
rare exception. One may be able when he makes the attempt.justified in making the attempt His quick thinking mind is al-for tactical purposes, if, for in- ways urging him on, and to make stance, it is. legitimate to try and the correct physical response he rattle an opponent, but even this tant "posta" have furnished is risky. You may rattle your world-beating athletes in C. H. self.
Conffee, the Canadian sprinter, who has 9.3-5 seca. to his credit for the 100 yards, and A. W. Winter, the Australian who sur- prised the critics in the Paris Olympiad of 1924 by achieving 50 feet 11 ins, in the Hop, Step and Jump event.
must act promptly.
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On the other hand there are those who may be described us slow; that is the player who, as soon as he arrives on the green, begins to walk about with slow and measured stride tramping up and down studying the line from both ends. It is tedious to watch him standing, while all the time
this Having suggested that you are waiting your turn to putt.
year will almost certainly see new But be careful or you will become irritated and upset.
How often during the last few world's records made, may 1 point Slowing down may, of course, years has one heard the observa-out where Great Britain could
come into the picture? be a matter of tactics. It is often tion at some athletic meeting of think we have any world-beating tried and with success and I am major importance "Another re-sprinters this year, though Lon- told that one of the big surprises cord gone! When will it stop!" don, Hodge (who has, I hear, at Prestwick was brought about It is really amazing how records temporarily retired from the entirely because a competitor was continue to be improved upon track), Rinkel, and Butler hopelessly rattled because of his year after year-not only our easily in the first flight. Rinkel opponent's dilatory play!
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SUITABLE PACE, But, as I have said, each golfer has his own pace at which it is
As one looks through the exist almost reached their minimum most suitable for him to proceed and if he alters it one way or the ing list of international records it other he is liable to suffer. Golf seems almost impossible that mark, but the world of athletics is not exceptional in this respect. they can be bettered and yet I those marvellous minimums. It Can you imagine J. W, Hearne, so feel it is one of the safest of pro- is interesting to note, in passing, correct and polished in style, lash-phecies to predict, in this Olympic that the world's best sprinter last ing out at the bowling in cricket year, that two or three new in the fashion of a Jessop, I am world's records will be set up be year was a Norwegian-Anderson
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his runs at the pace set by the There are many factors in this OUR HURDLING STRENGTH. old Gloucestershire amateur, he seemingly phenomenal advance in D. G. A. Lowe, of course, is} would lose his wicket quickly. athletic standards. One of the more than a potential world- And so it is with the golfer. chief is undoubtedly the advent record maker. In view of his Unless he takes sufficient time in of the age of the "specialist," and defeat by Peltzer two years ago, which to take up his stance and be the principle underlying such when the loser actually broke the attune his mind properly, to the concentration good or bad it cer- world's record, it would be but BEDROOM ARREST. making of the stroke, it is bound tainly produces "giants" in any justice for the laurels to come to go wrong.
particular event. Our friends Lowe's way in August. It is on the greens during the from the United States are the In the distances, as in the critical operation of putting that examples par excellence of sprints, I think we shall be well most time is wasted. It is then specialisation,
in the running, but not in the Midnight arrests by the local that the nervous tension is most AMERICA'S SUPREMACY, front, unless, perchance, Stallard police in a bedroom of a Bath the intervention of Signor Musso- acute and players claim time in America heads the statistical can still produce one more of his boarding house resulted in the ap-lini, the threatened boycott of which to pull themselves together list whatever way one looks at it; super-efforts. In hurdling, on pearance at Bow-street Police-court films of the Olympic Games by before settling down to the task Americans hold most of the the other hand, Great Britain is of two youths named William the Dutch Cinema Theatres Union of getting the ball into the hole, world's records; America pro-stronger than she has ever been Saunders and John Savill. They has been called off, the Amster- On such occasions you see men duces the best results in both with F. R. Gaby and Lord Burgh- were charged with being concerned dam newspapers state. looking at the line from both track and field athletics. She is ley in the short hurdle race, and in stealing about £14 in notes and the Olympic Games at Amster
The exclusive rights of filming ends when at ordinary times they without question the premier the latter also in the quarter mile cash, and A number of cheques, dam were leased by the Dutch are content with a glance from all-round athletic nation in the hurdles.
belonging to the Sons of the Clergy Olympic Committee to the Italian Either athletic might win a Corporation, Corporation House, State Luce Film Company, of I am afraid that the extra care With the development of the world's title and make a world's Bloomsbury-place, W.C and which Signor Mussolini te pre- which seems to be taken in these specialist has come rapid improve- record in Amsterdam in the Webley service revolver, the president and director. When the instances does not always serve ment in trainers and training shorter race. a very good purpose. Indeed, methods, and the physics and able is Burghley's chance of the same address. there is a danger that they may psychology of the athlete have achieving this distinction at the Saunders, it was stated, had been had obtained the rights of filming →for the same reason that so much his anatomy and physiology.
not see anything at all. It is often now an equal place at least with longer distance.
as the games, they decided to boy- In the field events proper the employed by Major Rowden "gardening" is done.
One more point occurs to me outlook is not so cheery, but there houseboy, and Savill was a son of cott all such films in the theatres wick one official declared that he mind of much importance from late of marked all-round improve./disappeared about a week ago, and As the boycott threatened to The story is told that at Prest- in this respect, a point to my have been very distinct signs of the cook at the establishment. They owned by members of the union. would propose that for the cham- the international viewpolct. The ment. We may not get within it was afterwards found that a safe saddle the Italian film company Ponship next year every compet-general raising of the standard of reach of world's honours in this in the offices of the Sons of the with a considerable loss, Signor itor should be provided with a box athletics is largely due to in-field of athletic activity, but shall Clergy Corporation was open, and Mussolini is stated to have in- into which he would have to place creased competition. everything which he picked up national contests are almost alOlympic finalists. Amongst these broken: into and the contents stolen..that if the boycott was not with- Inter-without doubt provide several that two cash boxes had been formed the Dutch Government from the greens, He added: "We hundred per cent. more frequent the probables seem to be M. C. Major Rowden also missed a re-drawn by the Dutch Union ali shall want a magnifying glass to now than in pre-war days.
Nokes and R. W. Howland. volver and two cartridges, and Dutch exports would be boycott- examine the contents."
only has this multiplication been One may say, in conclusion, these are alleged to have been ed in Italy.
The Dutch Foreign Minister, It is said of the golfer who responsible for a sporting rivalry that only one nation has very de- found under Sounder's pillow when hurries over the shots that he is productive of what seem almost finite designs on two or three he was arrested.
upon receipt of this information, frightened of them, and that he superhuman efforts, but it has world's championships and world
called a meeting of the Dutch
It is equally true that the player has helped on some of the smaller Britain, who last year was only detained at Bath recently They cott, which they have agreed to I think ripened international amity and records this year, namely, Great evidence as to finding the prisoners Cinema Theatres Union, and ad- vised them to withdraw the boy- the sixth athletic nation of the were told they would be taken to do. World-A. E. Porritt in "Even- London and charged, and Savill jing News."
anid: "I shall be glad to get home. I only had · 108: of the money.!! Saunders, added witness, had in
YOU Even more prob-perty of Major Eldred Rowden, of Dutch. Cinema Theatres Union
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who is excessively slow is having nations to an amazing extent.
a fight with himself. That is to
Not
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A consideration of some figures from last year's athletic
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One old player watched the results in all parts of the world The Air Ministry agreed to lend his possession £8 199, 4d., nineteen amateurs at Prestwick with some-will serve to show how much this the Supermarine-Napler 85 sea- thing like pity. "They thought help has meant. It is somewhat plane, with which Flight Lieut. cheques, and the revolver and told the Grocers Federation confer themselves out of their matches," of a surprise to find that Sweden S. N. Webster won the Schneider A Temand was ordered, Savill 250,000 shops are open on Sundays cartridger fence At Brighton, that at present he told. "The chief object was the second best all-round Trophy at Venice, to the French when they set forth seemed to field-event performer for the air, authorities for exhibition at being allowed bail.
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