LEAVE THE
LAWN TENNIS
RULES ALONE”
TILDEN DISAGREES
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WITH INNOVATION
QUESTION OF SPEED
OFF SERVICE
Leave the lawn tennis rules
alone? This was
the reply of "Big Bill" Tilden, the famous. professional and former Wimble-| donTM champion, when asked for his opinion on the suggested in- novation that servers should be allowed to swing the foot over the line.
"I consider that all the rules, as they stand, are perfectly sound." he said. "To adopt such a rule would be practically an admission that the footfault judge does not know his business.
This sart of attitude is alto gether wrong: instead of prais- ing a
man with an unbeatable service, certain people seek to re- duce the game to a standard of mediocrity to devise means whereby everyone to him.
can stand up
"I bold that anything a can do with a tennis racket is le gitimate; it is all part of the game. And there is no reason to interfere with the existing footfault rules."
No Longer Essential
Horace P. Odell, former Man- battan College ace, and inter colegiate javena champion, lass
victory in the 1936 Olympics as his goal now. In the all-Ameri- es championships this year, his toss of ZIT feet approached the marvellous marks of the Finnish titlist, Matti Jarvinen, and indi- exted that Odell stands a chance in an event in which the Finns usually reign supreme.
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US. WOMEN SWIMMERS' BERLIN CHALLANGE
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Sports
SEVEN CHINA
RECORDS FALL TO
MALAYAN CHINESE
Chatter TEAMS TO ENTER
(By GEOFF
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London, July 25.
fust a bunch of cake eaters!” declared 61-year-old Tom Sharkey, aning contemptuously.
CHINA GAMES
EXCELLENT SWILMING COMBINATION
Shanghal. Aug. 25.
When the forthcoming National
Mr. Sharkey anined again, Athletic Meet opens at the Civic
22nd Company R. E. WHEN the Olympic games of 1932 took place -There's not a fighter among them. Center Stadhon our October 16 at Los Angeles, C California, the American They couldn't fight their way out chance of seeing the best over- women swimmers made a very impressive show-of paper bags."
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seas athletes pitted against the
ing. In the seven contests in which they parti-The famous old sailor pugilist cream of native talent for cipated they won four of the swimming races and Francisco, was expressing in his and swimming divisions.
Jone of the toughest men in San Supremacy in the track and field both of the diving events. The only race in which customary downright way his No less than seven national they failed to take a first was the 200-meter
jopinion of modern heavyweights. track and field and swimming re breaststroke, an event in which they failed to timers, of course, whether they be ceived from the Federated Malay A popular pastime with old-cords, according to a message re- finish among the first three place winners.
ex-boxers, ex-footballers, or ex-States have been shattered at the
recently held in Kuala Lumpur.
The following were the results of games played in the First Round of the Army Amateur Bil-Dorothy Poyaton were the individual stars, and their perform always will be
Helene E. Madison, Eleanor Holm, Georgiana Coleman and cricketers. It was ever thus and Overseas Chinese Athletic Meet ances gave America the team championship in that section of the games.
They view the past through rose-coloured spectacles, Next year will find the American women swimmers in Berlin their heads sadly, and say, as well as capture individual medals and laurel wreaths for them- trying to retain the team championship for the United States, those were the days!” selves
deliver a "cannonball" is no points. longer a criterion of victory.
ONE GOOD MAN”:
S
On the first day of the Athletic shake Meet, Fu Chin-cheng established "Abija new national record in the 400 meters sprint in the time of 52 seconds, flat, reducing four-fifths of a second from the record held by Liu Chang-chan, China's pre- mier sprinter and the "lone wolf"
Whether they will be able to trials next year and what may file sailor Sharkey's views at the World Olympiad at Los An- do as well as their predecessors be expected of them.
Broad Jump Record
liards Championship:-
Pte. Jones (East Eanes) receive ed a
walk-over from QMS. Staples (BEL)
CS3L. Elvin (East Lanes) beat Bdm. Short (Lincolns) by 43 points.
Fas.. Taylor (Fusiliers) beat once possessed, and the ability to S/Sgt. Collins (BE) by 154 Speed of service does not play
are interesting. He says of geles in 1932 Sgt. Green (Lincolns) beat Sgt did is a question which will not This was once the case, but, Grossmith (RE) by 32 points.
Must Replace Miss Madison too big a part in the game, ac-Cochet and Lacoste gave us the
Max Baer: "He fights as though he be answered until the meet is
were rehearsing a skit, and as for obtained on what they may do Miss Madison, as the Washington knuckle Cpl Powell (BE) beat Slover, although some line was hardest task would be replacing turned out to be only water on the Just now it looks as if the his excuse of a bad hand, I see it not consider that it constitutes acidentally, was a man of com-points. serious handicap to players of a paratively small stature.
On the second day, Huang certain
Hsing-lung, broke the Broad Jamp physique and with
the annual United States A. C. girl took the 100-meter and į structural restriction
“And I fought Jeffries 25 rounds National record with a leap of 7. shoulders.
the ers are often in doubt as to the sport as part of their training Beach last week. These events time, and then helped the U. S
championships at Manhattan 400-meter freestyle events in fast with four amashed ribs
meters, equivalent to 22 feet II -Service does not carry the pre-cialise in the game, and
extent to which they should spe-before they reach front rank and
"There's only one good one. in inches. In win the 400-meter relay.
the girls division, dominance in the game that it they desire to keep up some other lawn tennis all the year round.
often have little alternative but to play gave an inkling as to who will
the ring to-day and he's a black diminutive Miss Teng Yin-chiao, In fact, the Manhattan Beach man-Joe Louis. be the leading candidates at the championships showed that our eaters they are." And with a final the "locomotive," hang up a new Yes, it's cake known throughout the FMS. as best 100-meter candidates will expressive sniff Mr. Sharkey de-record in the broad jump event. have to show considerable imparted. provement to come up to Miss Madison's standard, and, judging
cording to Tilden, and he coes answer to that and Cochet, in-Condr. Andrews (RAO.C.) by
in
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Ambitious young tennis play-
Everybody's
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Her mark was 5.29 meters, equi- valent to 17 ft. 4 in. bettering the national record held by Miss Chien Hsing-shu of Shanghai by Europe, it is going to take record | STILL FORMIDABLE
I foot and 3 inches. time to win the event.
HARKEY was fighting too early Equally brilliant records were for me to see him, but he is made in aquatic sports, according
from reports corning
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The same goes for the back and breaststroke events, although it still a fire figure of a man, bull-to the message. is expected that Mrs. Eleanor necked, thick-chested In spite of Holm Jarrett and Elizabeth Kom-his age he is employed as a “boun- pa may look out for the back-cer" in a cafe. -
Aquatic Stars
| stroke event, and it. Katherine Rawls confines her competition patrons on to the pavement, which in the Malay States, created two to the breaststroke, she may be he does with speed and firmness. to break into the place winners.
new national records in the 400- After 10 years of throwing peo-imeters free lin that event.
ple out, Sharkey's reputation is meters free style events, with style and 1,500. such that when he stands up in a both records bettering those held cafe everyone else sits downL
by Shib Hsing-teng, the swimming. flash from the Northeastern pro- vinces who created such a sen- sation in the last National Ath-~- letic Meet held in Nanking
His job is to deposit unruly Yang Wei-mo, premier swimmer
Divers Look Good
In 1932,
America won every
R bred and proud of it
and
place in the two diving events, LEYLAND A SOLDIER and it looks as if he would haveOY Leyland, Wigan born little difficulty in taking both of
intain to star at the forthcoming the events again, although he
Another performer who is cer- may not clean up in both, th
spite of those music hall jokes-is One of the features of the wo-Education Corps.
taking a commission in the Armyee who broke the national re- National Meet is Miss Yang. An- men's United States champion- ships was
Thus, to the Service goes a grand free style events, both marks cords in the 50 and 100 meters the diving of little Mary Hoerger. The 11-year-old
Rugby player, and an England in-bettering those held by Miss miss from Florida scored 128.59ternational at that. And the Army Yeung Sau-king of Hong Kong, points, and by next year she Bagby team can certainly do with known throughout the length and should be the leading candidate three-quarter back of his quality-breadth of China as the "beauti for the title won by Georgiana
To do uniform Leyland is for-ful fish," the number-one mer
Coleman in 1932, Mrs. Dorothy saking a schoolmaster's post which maid of China China Press. Poynton Hill, who won the Olym- he holds at Lichfield, and I hear pic high dive of 1932, showed by be is being posted to the King's taking that title at Manhattan Shropshire Light Infantry at Cat- Beach that she is still able to terick.
give a championship exhibition J. Heaton and Leyland, both of in that event, and is a promising whom were at Liverpool University. candidate to retain the Olympic had no equals as a pair last sea- title in 1936.
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NEW CAPTAIN.
The women swimmers of the world are sure to put up a great battle next summer, and those of the United States will be in the thickest of the competition, de-
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from his own "25." He then sent Booth in with what looked to be the perfect winning try..
Unhappily, the referee did not think it was.
INTERNATIONAL SPORT
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The difficulty most of the men will have will be to keepfrée Another piece of Rugby news1 from stalmess. Sunshine, ka will skipper Richmond next, season too much of it, and no one can have for you is that MF.Peacock very good thing, but you can have in succession to C. E. Hopwood play cricket for tenor elevez Peacock is a front-row serum-months every year and year after mager, always in the thick of it year and come to it with a fresh One of the semi-finals was. play- He is a barrister, an lord Rugby mind and a fresh body. Jed at Basie a week ago. Then blue, a cross-country rmmer, and Sparta beat Juventus Turin by an expert at ski-ing.
5-1 MLA E Fogg, the F. A. Hopwood has been an inspiring Cup Final referee last season, Richmond leader for four year was the official in charge of the the longest term of service zime, and he was surprised and one since the great delighted at the high standard of
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