THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1937.
Sport From Here And There GENERAL NOTICES
SCIENCE
London, May 16. There is a reason why athletes do better at some Olympic Games than others.
Parvin was wading enthusiastically through a full-course dinner, hors d'oeuvres and made repast on-
all. Carslake peach.
famous
Professor Paul Kirkpatrick of Stanford University, U.S.A., -has worked it out. It depends on the There's a good story I will tell RULES
one day of how, a pull of gravity at the various places you
London, May 6, where the games are held. At boxer's craving for cow-heel just
Some people to rules, some don't. Rome or Hong Kong there is less before a big fight was satiated only pull of gravity on the weight, the after his friends had scoured the Those who do sometimes hurt those
who don't. The explanation of the town: all hammer, or the discus thrown by market places
simple. the athlete than at Oslo in Norway. through the night. All-in wrestlers drink gallons of olive oil, and say they like it.
The shot-putter who put the shot a record distance of 57 feet 1 inch at Oslo should gain an extra inch at Rome. If the games were held at the Equator he would gain a on ice cream and chocolates.
second inch. Throwing the discus, the hammer, or the javelin, his gains might amount to as much as a foot.
Lizana, of course, almost subsists
is
In a game at one of the opening ceremonies Sydney recently, a skip, who had been in for a “spot,” turned two bowls over to see which side owned them. They were about nine inches from kitty, and his side owned the shot bowl, th other belonging to opposition num- ber three.
But the most curious diet is that affected by Piet Van Kempen, the
Playing to rules, the position Dutch world indoor 6-days bike would be as follows: The shot race champion. When Piet circles bowl, belonging to the side whose These figures are quite theore- tical, because the performances of the track at Wembley Pool from skip handled it, could athletes depend for more on their midnight to-morrowW until next declared "burnt," and removed to health and physical ability at the Saturday, he will keep himself the bank, but the other one, which he also handled, would remain, and become shot..
such
time of the games than on slightly influencing circumstances going on
an exclusive of
have been
as the effect of weight (another preserved ginger and pigeons. word for gravity)' on the spot. But, The pigeons will be sent in a con-
A member of the rinks playing if other things were exactly the stant relay from his
remarked that he would rather go home in same, a jumper, weighing less, Holland, and will form the basis of
out of the game than claim a bowl should jump farther and higher in
as "burnt" simply because a skip a southern capital than in one
his diet off the actual track. Piet wanted to satisfy himself which farther north.
eats the ginger all the time he is on side owned it. That is nice sen- his bike. Piet has worked this timent, but yields - no dividends when the colours are up, and, there- fore, it pays best not to infringeTM the rules.
He is also affected slightly by diet out for himself. the rotation of the earth, and should gain half an inch in a discus throw if he threw east instead of west.
FOOD FADS
“PURITY” MEETING
London, May 16.
of
The great “purity"" meeting the Council of the Lawn Tennis As- sociation lást Monday ended with. out anything being decided...... The attempt to purge lawn tennis of shamateurism failed...
PATSY HENDREN
Shanghai, May 6.
Instead of passing all kinds of drastic legislation to stop so-called amateurs carrying on their trade Patsy Hendren's appointment as with prize vouchers and making coach at Harrow, to start in 1988, playing in tournaments a rich interests Australians, who have a Athletes are kittle cattle, parti-man's pastime, the situation resoft spot for the Man of Middlesex. cularly where food is concerned.mains as it was.
If ever a cricketer reflected the spirit of the game, he is Patsy
London, May 16.
I shall never forget seeing Brownie
Carslake and Bill Parvin in Liver- It is true that the proposal to al-Hendren--a great batsman, fields- pool, one night before the Grand low players thier expenses for eight man and humorist of the field. He National, writes John Macadam in weeks in any one season was de- understood the Australian on the the "Sunday Dispatch." Both were finitely turned down by a big Hill riding at the meeting next day.majority.
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After all trace had been lost for 40 years by the Royal Southampton Yacht Club of a handsome silver cup given to the club for a handle cap race by. Queen Victoria in the year of her. Diamond Jubilee, the trophy› has been discovered under remarkable circumstances silversmith's shop at Cardiff.
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