SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1932.
Y.M.C.A. Swimming Team Leave For Canton
To Compete To-night Against Shameen Club
The M.C.A. swimming team There are nine events on the will leave by the 4 o'clock train card and the losing side will be this afternoon for their visit to the obliged to hand over their fing to the Shameen, Swimming Club over the victor The following will re-
present the Y.M.C.A. week-end.
4
F. Selk's defection through induenza will weaken the chances of the "y" in the sprint events..
The news that Stoker will again be fit to play in the Water Polo game will come as a surprise as he only He left hospital a few days ago. has, however, been advised not to enter the Plunge event and to con- fine his activities solely to the "polo game.
and W. F. Kerr.
2 lengths Free Style:-F. Langley 100 Yards Free "Style:A Don
and E. W. Railton. Throwing Polo Ball: A Dann
and W. F. Kerr. Plunge: S Garrod and H.
Angus..
2 Lengths Breast Stroke:
2
G.
Brokenshire.. Relay: E. W. Railton, A. Donn,
W. F. Kerr, and G. Fowler. Water Polo-H. Angus, WF. Kerr, S. Garrod, E. W. Rail- ton, A. Donn, G. Fowler, and W. Stoker. Reserve:-J. Jenner.
THE CHINA MAIL
Eleanor Holm Calls Crawl Best Stroke In World
American Girl Swimming Champion Who Broke World's Record For 100-Metres Backstroke At Los Angeles In An Interview
Eleanor is absolutely convinced
variety.
A
Fear of Waters.
Summer Thoughts On Golf
Clyde Foster Writes On Sarazen's Policy---And Alliss's “Best Card”
One man
(1
confided that had his
wise.
If "cabbages and kinga, why not Jones and Walter Hagen as a Bri "aalads and golfers dish I here tish golfing favourite. Now he has propose as being more seasonable won the U.S.A. title as well as the than the heavy meats of golfing British I am constantly beguiled The first thing you notice about she get into the water, she should ting your face under and exhaling theories?
into talking of him. Then start Eleanor Holm is her smile. The not work so hard-almost all swim through your nose.
I looked on at a golfing mid-
One revelation, Sarazen made to day's dream under a me interests everybody." He said he' next is her figure. Or maybe that's mers who haven't had special train playing around with a ball, still in summer
ing make such heavy weather of it, shallow water.... You'll soon and spreading chestnut tree. It was an played with two balls at once an reversed. Anyhow, she looks alive They just look funny to us. In the yourself ducking and getting duck alfresco strawberry tea that follow imaginary ball which completed and alight from the top of her crawl especially, the action simplyed without minding it at all-justed a mixed foursome competition.sech a perfectly and the real ball has to be slow, smooth and easy. a lot of fun, and it makes you Women and girl golfers were the that was order to go and do like shining head to the ende of her
Whip through the water on the forget that water is any different hostesses. straight little toes, and she has down atroke, of course, but slow from land. By and by you can On that pleasant place centuries! The new American "open" cham- precisely the lines that all amartup the over-motion. Incidentally, play ball over your depth and never ago an English queen, surrounded pion of Great Britain will be re- by lords and, ladies no doubt ex-membered for another saying of his, ladies sight for at the moment that's the only kind of form that think about it.
seems graceful for a woman.” Fowler and M. Bergaust.
broad shoulders and slim hips.
tremely gay, used to indulge in the "You must," Sarazen has declar fold English sport of falconry; other ed, "drive a mile to-day to be a Lengths Back Stroke :-DA.
Swimming is the most perfect that the crawl is the best stroke in "If you go from a pool into the times, other games.
champlon." The "Sarazen mile was Donn and F: Langley: Diving:E. W. Railton and H. exercise in the world, and that's the world--the American crawl, of sea or a lake, you may find your Whatever else women have done an hyperbole that conveyed a truth, what it does for you. It makes course, not the earlier Australian fear coming back. If you can for golf, they may be credited with To-day's burnished fairways have manage it, try yourself out first in having added brightening tints to brought joy to the hearts of tens of the fat thin, the thin fat. It takes To begin with, it's the easiest to warm water-perhaps at "Nassau. the old game...
thousands who are having their first off bumps and fills up hollows, be learn. So far an experts can tell. Bermud, Florida or Southern Call- But yet there could be heard glimpses of the 200-yards white
- It's man's natural way of awimming, fornia. “Cold water cause it deals separately" and col-as practised time out of mind by up.
tightens you snatches of criticism regarding that posts opposite the end of their Warm water relaxes your perennial topic-handicapping. "drives. lectively with every muscle you've the South Sea Islanders, who hard muscles and makes you comfor
It is a new delight, if ahort lived. got. Eleanor herself walked ly know whether they're land or table." If it's so clear you can fair partner only played her natural I heard of a woman winning a long- straight into the Follies
water animals. because
The Australians see bottom, that helps, too.
game and not been overawed by the driving competition at 255 yards. took it over and monkeyed with it.' This fear-of-the-water business occasion, he was sure the first prize The ball completed a third of the she looked the part. But she walk Then the American coaches got it, made Eleanor think of one of the would have rested on her sideboard. journey on the ground. ed out again. She'd rather be one threw out the later additions and funniest things that ever happened It was a salad bowl.
And just to add a snap to the of the best swimmers in the world worked over the original till it's to her
A Page From the Past
salad I include two stories as fresh pretty close to perfection, not only "I was playing around in the At an extraordinary general than merely an average dancer for races but for us poor fish who shallow end of the St. George pool Looking on at a distance were a band "lost his stripes" to his non-
as wild rose-buds." A golfing hus meeting of the Kowloon Cricket Nobody can win all the prizes.' swim for fun.
and a nice, fussy, elderly gentle-Romany youth', and a girl, Club yesterday In the Club's Pavi- on at King's Park, "the General
man hauled out and came over to swarthy and handsome. There was the nineteenth hole. "But I got both golfing wife by tarrying too long at When Eleanor started to swim, Teach Yourself the Crawl.
me. He said it was a pity a young wonder in their eyes, but no envy. them back," he said, "through win- Committee was authorised to ex-she was only nine and a person
The leg stroke has been quicken-girl.like me didn't have more court was the older world curiously ning a lady's hand-bag in a mixed pend a further $16,000 on the new who fell into so much mischiefed, the arm morementa slowed up age. Wouldn't I let him give me beholding the new. His hair was foursome competition." this event. He and Eric Railton club-house, in addition to "the ashore, that her mother was only gle and double rhythm: the first "I was just opening my mouth to the breeze were his brush and comb. of his best rounds to remind him-
To-day there are two varieties, sin- a few swimming lessons.
all the cap the young gipsy wore, An enthusiast I know copies cards" too glad to buy her waterwings with one wide scissors, kick to say the wrong thing, when one of She was Emerson's "Romany Girl" self of what he is capable of doing. and shove her into the sea. Nei-several smaller snippets; the the others girls got my eye. So I to Hfe, and could almost be heard Percy Allies carries one. He pro- ther of them dreamed she was be shorter ones in between. Women, awfully sweet of him to take the The wild air bloweth in our lungs, my benefit, saying, "That is my best
second, two fairly wide kicks with sort of gurgled and told him it was repeating:
duced it from his inside pocket, for ing shoved into a career that would more supplemuscled, generally use time, and wouldn't he please begin take her travelling over half the the eight-beat double-rhythm (two right now.
The keen stars twinkle in our eyes, card." It was a photograph of his wide kicks and six short ones for body as "dumb as I was, and
You never saw any The birds give us our wily tongues, youngest child swinging a golf club,"
The panther in our dances flies. on the lawn of Alliss's new home at a style also favoured by some men ruvelles, kept on encouraging some strawberries. Then we saw "A perfect finish," Percy said.
He Was A girl golfer walked over with Beaconsfield. racers. Men in general use the. six-beat double-rhythm. A few just put her mind to it.
me, said anybody could swim if she supreme smiles. It was the golfing "Head down and eyes still looking It wasn't long before she started women follow the ten-beat, Grown 1 got tired of the joke, but I was her for this ingredient in my salad. Can golf be Inherited?
At last girl's best shot" that day, I thank at the place where the ball had Inin. Bay, just for the fun of it. "Why in children's races, writes Elizabeth people who learn the crawl after in and I didn't quite know how to. cannot the athletes of to-day take Dickson. And it wasn't long before having been trained in other strokes get out, so I began to improve. He He seems to have deposed Bobbylas other paternal qualities.
Gene Sarazen is not yet forgotten: Why not? It has as good a right. aften find the less ambitious two-or was delighted. When I suggested a she stopped-banned because no-four-beat versions easier to man race, he fell right in, We went
A. Dont is considered the "Y"," most versatile swimmer, and "on him has been placed the respon sibility of three events in addition. to the relay and the water polo frame. Recently he covered 100 yards in W fraction under 62 seconds, which, should he be able to reproduce this form to-night, should be good enough to give him
left for Canton yesterday.
FURTHER $15,000. FOR
K.C.C. PAVILION.
$60,000 already sanctioned.
Benny Leonard's Comeback
PLUCKY RETURN.
· CONVINCING `· WIN OVER RUGGED RIVAL.
First-class boxing has been
scarce
of late.
of it. with the result that I do not fearth and into every pool worth each full revolution of the arms),guess he never did either.
for a moment think I am the only one at a rather advanced age who last summer was able to swim o mile and a half "across Manhasset
the same pride in such "fitness"?
It is an incredible puzzle to mie
mentioning.
The Start.
faster leg work.
I
The
is
Real Golfing Genius-
BY CLYDE FOSTER.
No type of golfer is less sought after than the slow coach. He must feither hasten his movements or 'very soon and members of his club fight- ing shy of Them
Deadliest of All.
The principal and many others. I know. Hence body else had a chance. Then, at age. But the tendency in enlighthe length of the pool, and you can bout so far as public interest is the pitiable condition of our lead-the mature age of twelve, she join-tened circles is toward faster and imagine what happened, for I just concerned W
that between ing Boxers who, after even five ed the Women's Swimming-Associa-
couldn't pretend..any more. Even Leonard and Billy McMahon, with years absence from the ring-r
As for the arm stroke, the idea then he didn't get it.. activities-cut de- tion which came to Long Beach is to space the drive so that one hed simply excelled himself as a He thought the one-time light weight cham- other athletic pion showing decided improvement plorable figures when they try to (New York, not California) where Farm starts before the other leaves teacher. But he did tell me I had to win by n points decisión.
"come back to even a modicum of the Holm summer place was locat-the water, driving arm comfortably talent and ought to join a team. writes "The Old Ua.”
what was the most quickly luers-ed.
extended, forearm and hand align Even now, when he knows who I Leonard, all through his attempt tive possession
"I found out I wasn't so in the world.
good ed, palm down and flat, elbow awas, he goes around telling people ed "come-back," has been very Lucrative in cash, health and gen-after all," she tells us, half a life-trifle up, entry directly in front he gave me my start.
-HAS NOT AN time later, being now turned 18 but of the eyes conservative in what he had to say eral contentment with life.
on same side, power "But really I don't think that INFINITE CAPACITY still looking like somebody's most applied immediately. Back sweep was half as funny as what happen- about his possibilities. ·
What Leonard Says.
attractive kid sister. I didn't win continues with elbow slightly more ed Leonard fully appreciates, the Leonard is 36 years. of age. fact that "come-Backs
of itself when I made the FOR TAKING PAINS. I should be much surprised if the are not What could Corbett have done at a single race for four whole bent, hand under middle of body Olympic team the first time. tod casy for active lads who have 36? Ten years ago. McMahon months! When I did, I think it was till it nears thigh. Then comes the was fourteen, and you know how been kept in tiptop condition for a would have been declined as a
due to my coach, Mr. Handley, who out sweep, hand turned, coming to thrilled, I was to meet all the big, number of years and then sudden desirable work-out partner for knowing it. He never preaches at wrist, swung a trifle inward.
Improved my stroke without my surface palm down, dropping from important athletes I'd read about could
By no stretch of the imagination The particularly painstaking goil-" the final of the Amateur er is exposed to the danger of that ly drop everything.
Leonard, yet this time McMahon
you or tries to explain a whole lot forearm is whipped out and around, socks, going to live on
As me, a youngster in short skirts and championship at Muirfield be called mental condition known as "two The puzzle to me is why anyone was favourite.
at once.
He just says, 'Don't you wrist straightens. When arm-bendship with them all the way over.
the sama merely game of golf, minds. The muscles respond to Leonard who has been through the condi
Was pluckily
gene think it might be a little easier if is completed, so that forearm points I was no busy writing home about champion, and his runner-up, Eric le despatched. through eight or nine
For both John de Forest, the new the mental state in which the ball
Deadliest of all approach putts: Is
tion mill is so ardently' ready to
exercises.
months of
rosy,
stroke, back stroke and crawl.
Advice to Amateurs.
roy
record of any course was ever made in a tedious round.
shriek if he does not hurry up and dem from care. putt.",
Strain of Watching. Many times spectators turned
Quick Decisions.
drop all forms of systematic grinding training in the gym and You did it this way? When you've ahead, elbow starts forward and my heroes and heroines I hardly Fiddian, already an English cham- on the roads, working along the got that down so you almost for-arm glides to original position six mentioned myself, except. of I think ex-champion James J. most accepted lines and from be-yet it wasn't your own invention, or eight inches above surface. course, later on I told mother about pion, the 86-holes final or 34 to be the one made off-handedly on leat Corbett, heavy-weight, is the only ing paunchy and yellow skinned gestion. By and by there's a finish vigorous, forward recovery slow
he strolls up with another sug- Remember underwater pull my swimming.
precise-was a hard day's working the green after a hole has been exception to prove the rule. Since last June is now not much out to your work that wasn't there at with muscles relaxed. Easy does it came down to the dock to meet her
The tension never slackened to lost or conceded. "Well, when I got back, she vacating title and ring Corbett of body line and has .a
permit of a few cordial exchanges The wrists are given free play in has kept himself in trim condi-healthy complexion."
all to begin with. I didn't realize And you're crawling before you little achonigir daughter. And or the relaxation of a natural smile, the making of shots with nothing tion; skipping an hour or so a day. He says that if he can manage any of this at the time, but I see know it:
Such desperate and painstaking depending upon them. she nearly had a fit. My skirts doing modified gym work, and a 75 per cent. or what he had and not so bad, he sent me to the it now, Then, when I was thirteen
No Other Method.
were long, had a Perla hat on, and
tactics do not make an edifying "You could not putt like that if spectacle. great deal of walking, so that evan athletically a decade ago he can National championships, and I came Later on you'll be able to prove she said she could have seen
you had to do it for a living, said when 40 years of age he was account for anyone who cares to
much Vardon once to an amateur who was palpably better qualified to take on face him. Which is probably trust second in the medley-breast the crawl's other advantages lipstick Just as well if she'd stay. The painstaking has t
maximum speed and endurance, ed In Brooklyn. I don't suppose pain about it. I dare say specta holing at all, distances with the then prominent heavies than
A Rugged Rival.
maximum exercise and development I'll ever be as grown-up again, or tors have no rights on such occa tonishing persistence. many of those entering the ring. This ind is of the rugged type,
for the whole body, maximum take myself as seriously. I'd even the whispered remark of the woman truth, and was probably made in alons, but there was something in The remark contained a grain of The same thing is found in eager to trade wallops with an From that time on, the years efficiency for both self-preservation had a couple of proposals.” American jockeys. There is no-opponent, busy every minute he is were just one award after another, and life-saving. No wonder the On To The Olympics, in the ring around a green: "I shall honest envy of the amateur's free- thing in this country to compare on his feet, and many thought It seemed that this child of Brook New York Women's Swimming As- And what does a racer cat when with the marvellous condition of Leonard was taking a big chance lyn and the sea had the swimmer'ssociation won't permit the teaching she's in training? She stays away Feakes I think that was his for another setback.
best gift-natural co-ordination. of any other method.
from heavy gravies, fried foods and name, but mistrust my memory ‘In“ McMahon did well in the first Most of the great swimmers have: One of the things to watch, if pastries, but she takes plenty of
The Americans (do not indulge in all things who came here a few and second rounds, and then it, though perhaps Josephine Mc- you haven't an instructor to check nourishment. If Eleanor swims their heads away to free their protracted surveys of the line to years ago at over 40, still riding, Leonard came in to take the third, Kim is the most effortless of them your form, in breathing. Too many at eight in the evening, she'll sit minds from the strain of waiting the hole, whether with appr hard as nalls, and capable of mak-fourth, eighth, and tenth, using af all. Occasionally you find one, self-taught crawlers try to hold a down to steak and baked potatoes and watching.
shots or pufts. ing good weigh.
more than average good uppercut, like Ethel McGary, who has achiev-breath too long, keeping it over at five with a clear conscience.
I shall particularis no further, They demonstrate their genius As a young man I was rather with short, right hooks to the chin, ed what others were born with. from one facelift to the next. This gives her more than the two but pass on to the tuneral question by Idspending with infinite pains: strong in athletics, football, cricket, He took several stiff-looking blows, Little Eleanor was “a natural” in Take a breath up top through the hours that all of us should keep for,
of this taking of infinite paink, at dung matcher, anyhow, rowing "especially, cross-country had a few face cuts, and was everything but the back stroke. To mouth and blow it out under water digestion. Two weeks training golf and my first deduction would riding, and all that, in condition rather unsteady on his legs after come to the conclusion that her through the nose. That's the cor- puta Eleanor in condition, but the be that it does no good to a man's practically all the year round, and the sixth round-when trying to genius is" part gift, you have only rest technique, der older girls ease into it and take same,
could have registered seoses of when other pecupations called 1ment of distance appeal fairly to know that this is now her spe- This raises the bogor that keeps a month or so. During her train short putts missed at Muirfield and numberless contemporaries slip away and around his man. {cialty,
a lot of girls from anything that Ing periods she sleeps ten hours held on to cricket, riding, rowing.__. Yet he finished stronger than his 2 Naturally, we'd all like to know can be called real swimtning—fear, a night.
clearly because the care punting, and walking in our leisure opponent, and it must be conceded what kind of advice such a 33rd They thin they're afraid of the iz "A rule like
them exaggerated their die hours
he has made remarkable progress. degree seal would hand out to the
"Both : Eleanor BES
and Introduced doubts to the Matter Of Pride. The query-mark lies In his legs About October 30 40-ofum and feet.. His hitting and Jud gravitated ston-on-
day
ment of distance appea
and if he can work his:
Improver
sual swimmers on this
da, sheer torture
inner wond
Minds are quickly made up, al- most as if first Impressions were best; and possibly they are in the
There is inspiration about first that does not come by aborate calculation.
not, of cou
aak of