THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 3, 1989.
Hats
Off To The Teachers
Men Who Are Maintaining The Football Standard
Efforts Being Made To Keep Youngsters Fit
Edinburgh, June 3. THOSE who attended the schoolboys' inter- national match at Tynecastle recently were no doubt delighted with the fare, but it is unlikely that they gave much thought to the work done to enable the match to take place.
Throughout Scotland there are hundreds of teachers, probably players of the past themselves, who are giving hours each week to teaching the young generation how to play football, seeking the proper positions on their behalf, and eventually, from thousands of boys, selecting district and national teams.
ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT ABROAD
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the hitting of 6's is a very real science.
The make-up of Saturday's winning team which may or may not have been the best avail able since selectors make mis- takes shows how thoroughly they did their work with boys from Fife, Lanarkshire and even Banffshire in the eleven.
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These teachers do not require Probably all sorts of reasons could go to such trouble and their volun- be advanced against a standard boun-tary efforts should not go unnoticed dary, but it does seem strange that in these days when physical fitness the same hit, on different grounds, is the country's call, should have such a different fate.
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SIGHT-SCREENS · In other directions, too, surprise may be expressed that thus far we have not reached what might be call- ed a standard of requirements. instance, on some grounds there are sight-screens behind the bowler's arm at each end of the field. On-other grounds there is only one sight screen, and yet again on certain grounds there are no sight-screens at
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JONES" DOWNSWING
GRADUALLY ACCELERATED.
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HAVE -STARTED. UNCOCKING
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CONTARTING
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SCHMELING'S COME-BACK
Stuttgart, To-day. Seventy thousand boxing fans saw Max Schmeling, making his first ap- pearance in the ring since he was badly battered by Joe Louis last year, win the German and Euro- pean heavyweight championship when he beat the holder, Adolf Heuser, in the first round.
Schmeling launched a vicious attack from the opening bell and finally floored Henser after 71 se- conds.----Reuter.
It is true that at certain big sports coach may weigh along with schools, a man's potentialities as a
his academic qualifications in obtaining For
teaching
post, and in right that he should be heart
that case it is only the parks are used to capacity and soul in the school's games, but the prevent boys or girls playing another and the intrduction of one game may only same cannot be said of the ordinary game. In any case, some of the older education authority school, although established games are still the best there is a possibility, now that phy- football (Soccer or Rugby), cricket, sical fitness looms so large, that and hockey though girls should get Let us ignore, for a moment, all greater account will be taken of plenty of chances for net bail as the
work on the sports field. So there summer alternative to hockey." arguments as to whether sight- screens give the batsman an advan-is maybe, just time to doff our hats tage he should not be permitted to to the teachers who have, by their own efforts, and often enough with possess. The point I am making is that either sight screens are good or little encouragement, maintained a they are bad: Surely it is not un-high standard of football in the Scot reasonable to suggest uniformity in tish schools. this connection.
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the ball is delivered.
Drift Towards Rugby
If you were a Batsman in a county aide you would realise the difference. Batting at one end you have a white screen behind the bowler's arm, giv- ing you a clear view of the bowler's Nowadays there is a drift towards arm and the ball. At the other end Rugby which is definitely a fine game the bowler's arm comes over against for boys but one for older boys in a dark background of spectators my opinion. In any case a ground- coats, with possibly one of the spec-ing in Soccer for our public school tators moving, and affecting the bats- boys would undoubtedly improve their man's concentration, at the moment Rugby. Many a Rugby player seems
to go through his field career
en tirely oblivious of positional play. BAD LIGHT QUESTION. That could not happen had he had This difference in the conditions as year or two, with the round ball. affecting the batsmen is emphasised from time to time when discussions. Baille Sawers welcomed the boys' arise concerning the fitness or other international, teams last week and wise of the light for play. Already stressed the care that the Govern- this season we have had such discus-ment and municipalities were – taking sions, and at least one demonstration | in regard to the fitness of the hove by the people who had paid to see in their care. It would have been cricket played. I am not arguing the merits or otherwise of any particular case. The spectators cannot possibly be the best judges as to whether the light is good enough, and there are no instruments to Judge the light. The instruments remaining are the human ones--the umpires. Would it not be much more satisfactory if the decl- sions on this head were always left to them entirely, without any ques- tion of appeal, or without the mutua' consent of the captains entering into
When people in general are becom- fng accustomed to concentrated ent tainment, they are apt to stopmages at cricket, or delay starting after rain with a frritation. Umpires are,
`partial; and it seems to
tators, of cricket wouldA they felt convinced that
---and they alone- clsion as to the of the pitchor
the
interesting also had we heard Coun cillor Collart, of Edinburgh City. well known educationist, on footba in the schools. None can be mo concerned than he on the Inronds b ing made by Rugby in the schools and
·Lanticipate that some time, he be asking the Education Committe of Edinburgh to implement, the osten sible promise made when they a questionnaire' on games.
-- Ballie. Sawers also spoke of Edin burgh Corporation'a part in providin felds for the players. Well, burg
any be better served the that respect but it
Cluttered-Up Competitions
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Football, of course, dies hard this time of the year for a variety of reasons. The junior competitions get cluttered up, as do those of the juveniles, for the small associations and clubs like to have the field free for senior competition.
The Juniors make money in the month of May because there is such a vast public who will go to football is something under any conditions. Where there wrong, however, is when a club such as Rutherglen Glen- cairn, the Junior Cup winners, have to face up to five games in a week, The standard cannot be very good in view of that programme and one wood- era how football scouts, and managers make allowance for the hard gramme undertaken by the youngsters
Of course managers make mistakes, especially at this time of the Ben Many a youngster is snapped up. hurriedly and whirled into & Lengu football at such a pace that hel sattles: Just as one can count. did youthful captures ONET CÂN
ele Jads who failed beca re pushed along too quickly. eniber itwa cases in particu
purgh lads who went
Juivenile .football" "into and faded out. They promising player!
t even rendy to len ve done it and "the junior ranks.
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By BEST BALL
Bobby Jones illustration above, taken with a new high speed cam- era which photographs each stage of the swing, shows clearly the speed progression of the clubhead as it descends. The time inter- vals between each picture of the clubhead shown above is 1/100th of a second. The greatest dis- tance of course between the pho- tographs comes as the wrist cock is unleashed and the right, hand adds its power to the stroke. This fundamental hus been stressed by golfers for a long time but the average player has often failed to be impressed for to the observer the downswing looks like one continuous high speed performance from top to bottom.
The path of the clubhead has been carefully grooved by Jones: in the above illustration, coming down fairly close to the body and coming on to the ball from an inside out angle. This dis- patches the ball straight ahead along the line of fight as the illustration shows. Had the club- head been allowed to travel out- side this path, it would perforce be brought onto the ball from an outside in are, imparting-n-slie-- ing tendency to the ball. The flattened are as the clubhead ap- proaches the ball, near the turf is also emphasized in this picture. This allows a greater margin for error than is possible when the clubhead is brought onto the ball in a more upright swing.
Wednesday.Correct Impact.
People have developed a habit of stating that cricket. trials are of no consequence. That is not strictly cor- Tect. Trials held in the past have been rendered useless because the lessons they taught the selectors were never heeded.-R. J. Evans,
HE WOULDN'T WELCH!
Beaten...battered... broke ... he remained faithful to
the only low he knew!
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