THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1940 ·
Learning To Swim
ATHLETICS.
The Butterfly Stroke UNIVERSITY COACH TAKES
By Guy Larcom, Jr.
Co-Author With Harold S. Ulen of
"The Complete Swimmer"
(This is the eighth of a series of 12 articles which appeared in
the "Christian Science Monitor.")
HONOURS FOR 1940 SEASON
“THE BUTTERFLY IS an experimental stroke, Skilful Work Wins
and the question whether it can be adapted, to po- pular use cannot easily be answered. At present it seems too strenuous for the average swimmer, al- though it shows evidences of gaining popularity. After all, man had the same difficulty with the crawl in its early days."
overarm
This is an stroke, the recent discovery
Glowing Tributes
THE BIG STORY OF this year's Pacific Coast track and field meets concerns, not an athlete, breast-ing because in the first place its writes an American correspondent, but Bill Elling-
of mechanics come easily to some, competitors anxious for greater frequently to crawl strokers. Furton-head track coach of the Stanford team for
thermore, it is an experimental 1940: speed. What is more logical than stroke, with its form still to be that a speeding swimmer, impa-perfected, and the learner does not] · tient at the measured underwater have to be too particular.
thodox breast-stroke should whip be able to take a new stroke andj
TENNIS WASHED
OUT
Rain washed out all Tennis League mat- ches yesterday.
Nationally unknown until the middle of this BASEBALL
AT
QUEEN'S
recovery of the arms in the or-! Half the fun of swimming is to season, the veteran Ellington, by his skilful hand- his arms from the water at the do a little self-initiated research ling of his small but classy group, has won a place SHORT end of the arm pull and forward into various techniques. In this for himself among the greatest coaches of the Unit- through the air. A longer, harder case the swimmer is invited.. to pull and a faster stroking of the essay various co-ordinations be-ed States. arms and legs results.
tween arms and legs, variations in Yet there are losses as well as the pull and the kick. gains in the change. The grace- For those interested in competi-į;
is the fact that but for a peculiar combination of interested to learn that R.K.O. ful, leisurely qualities of the old tion, however, it should be "em- stroke are missing; and although phasised that the breast-stroke is circumstances he still would be nationally unknown. have an exceptional short subject some boys can cover a mile easily carefully defined in the rule with the butterfly, for many peo-books, and the butterfly must con- ple, It involves at the outset con-form to the restrictions there siderable strain. It is worth try-'establishd.
What makes the story all the more interesting
Baseball enthusiasts will be
Radio Pictures of China, Inc., on baseball entitled "Pennant At the end of the 1939 season] In the meet against. California Chasers," showing with "Prim- the Stanford board of Athletic at Los Angeles on April 13, the rose Path" at the Queen's Theatre Control decided not to renew the Stanford mile-relay. quartet this week-end. contract with its head track coach, brought to Ellington the one thing "Pennant Chasers" should be of R. L. Templeton and engaged most desired by every track coach particular interest to players and Franklin P. Johnson of Drakea world record. Charley Shaw followers of baseball alike. University to take his place. How- ran the first 440 in 47.5.... . . Ernie!
lever, Johnson's contract at Drake Clark the second in 48.3
had one more year to run so the Craig Williamson the third in Stanford Board appointed Elling-(47.4. .. ...and Clyde Jeffrey sped ton (coach of the freshman team through the anchor lap in 47.5 for i
He Went To Work
WON BY A PUTT
for 13 years) to take charge of the a new world record of 3:10.5 In the play-off for the Cana- varsity squad for 1940,
lone and one-tenth seconds under dian Open Golf Championship' the U of Southern California re-title at Toronto yesterday, Snead stroke, cord made in 1936.
beat McSpaden by one His Predictions Taken McSpaden's 72. McSpaden missed Snead turning in a card of 71 to
Seriously
Quietly
To many observers the pros- pects for the 1940 Stanford track
P
a two-foot putt for an equal 71 at the eighteenth hole.-Reuter.
team were not encouraging. How- By now any prediction made 1:y- Although various ways of mers. Unlike the orthodox breast-ever, optimistic Ellington did not Ellington was taken seriously and to win and captured nine Arst swimming the butterfly are in stroke, there is no glide. The point entertain this pessimistic view-when he stated that Paul Moore places out of a possible 15. How common use by good breast-strok- of greatest speed is illustrated in point. This California-born coach would break the world record for ever, this was not enough to out- ers, the co-ordination described Figure 22. A strong pull com-laid the foundation quietly, but the three-quarter mile in the meetpoint the numerically stronger here has proved most effective in bined with a solid whip of the legs soundly during the 1939 fall train- against San Jose State, his an-U.S.C. team who, because of more the cases of some leading swim-'has just been concluded.
ing period and when the season nouncement was treated with second and third placings, were opened in March, Ellington's boys respect. Moore and his teammate, able to win the meet. were well prepared.
23
Marston Girard, planned to run
On March 9, Ellington created the first 440 in 57; the second in Two Teams Meet Again 1 mild sensation by announcing|60; and the third in 62. Actually
hat a quartet of Stanford. boys they ran 57.7; 60.3; and 60.7 for : Later in the month the two would try to lower the one-mile new record of 2:58.7. Although teams met again, in the West world relay record at Long Beach only Moore will get credit for the Coast Relays at Fresno, and this in March 16. Considering that record, Girard with a, time of 3m. time Stanford succeeded in de- hree of the group had never, in was under the old figures......... feating its formidable rival. This previous season run under 48s., Next came the annual Big Meet made the score--one win each- his statement was not taken very with the U. of California and with the next meeting scheduled seriously and there was little sur-Ellington and his. boys reversed for the Pacific Coast Conference brise when the boys failed by 3.4s. the Stanford defeat of 1939 with championship meet at Los An- However, Clyde Jeffrey brought a splendid victory of 80% points geles. Once again Stanford cap- athletic honour to himself and his to _U.C.'s 501⁄2.
tured more first places but the coach by winning the 100 yards The next meet on the schedule second and third placings won for n 9.45., to tie the world record of was with Southern California in U.S.C.—54 to 53. Frank Wykoft and Jesse Owens. the Coliseum at Los Angeles. After the meet the coaches of On March 23 Stanford defeated U.S.C.-the greatest college team the Pacific Coast Conference paid But the arms immediately re- volution. A study of 22, 23 and| cover from the water
of Bill Ellington a well-merited tri- the 24 will show the legs trailing the the U. of California in their dual in the Nation for a number near
him head a strong bute by appointing hips and are flung far forward (23 If the arms swing forward a littl relay the Stanford team of Bur-team in the field and because of coach of the P.C.C. team' in the
arms into the recovery position Relay meet and in the two-mile years as usual placed and 24). It is as if the pull (from earlier than the legs, there is les: Jack Moore and Paul Moore ran performances of Stanford,
man Skrable, Marston Girard, this, and the splendid pre-meet meet against the Big Ten. Modest- 24 to 22) and the recovery (from'of a hitch in the forward momen
there ly, Ellington gives all credit for the distance in 7:37.7 to establish were 13,400 paid admissions in Stanford's success this season tó 22 to 24) were one continuous re- tum.
1 new intercollegiate record for the Coliseum to see the meet. the marvellous team spirit and a Stanford made a gallant attempt wonderful leader-Clyde Jeffrey.
his event.
OPENS FRIDAY AT THE KING'S
an
In Figure 24 is shown how the ming, the orthodox breast-stroke, arms have just established abit is possible to intersperse "grip" on the water, that is, have overarm recovery by continuing begun to pull, with the leg re- the ordinary arm pull back to the covery about to be completed, hips then whipping the arms for- Now when the arm pull is at its ward out of the water. This is strongest point-just beneath the how many will gradually learn shoulders a backward thrust-the-butterfly. Others: can' push squeeze of the legs will be made, off from the bottom or from the The combination of the arm and side of a float or pool in thé glide leg movements will lift the body position and with a strong full over the surface with a great rush, pull of the arms back to the hips Breath is taken in about posi[try, to bring them to the forward tion 23 or a little before, and is position with a double released during the underwater recovery: The legs need not be
used in the first few qttempts. pull. The kick: 18 narrower, short; hard whiplash motion. The If it at first seems to be more knees: should be bent more of a freak stroke than anything than is necessary to permit ajelse, a little practice will reveal forceful kick; they should be its possibilities. Whether it can' drawn up into position 24 with be developed into something the least possible resistance, worthwhile depends upon the "floated into position for the swimmer's persistence and in- kick, as some swimmers put it. genuity.
overarm
Probably the best instruction to [Photographs and quotations are from be given those who would master The Complete Swimmer," published by the butterfly is to try it." Swim-the MacMillan Company of New York.]!,
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