ARMY
HIGH STANDARD OF TENNIS
ATHLETICS IN U.S. Defence Programme's Effect
HIGH JUMP OF ROSYLIGHT S.C.A.A. OVER SEVEN FT. STATEMENT
"In view of the distinct revival of interest in athletes
Hong Kong, I have written this article on the sport in the lured States which gires some ulea of the catremely high standard, and achich might prove of interest to your athletically-unded readers." writes a correspondent
ARMY CAMPS and the absence of a chance of qualifying for an Amateur Athletic Union track team touring Europe have had little deterrent effect on the standard of track and field performance in the United States this
year.
Defence jobs have elammed training time from a number of top-flight athletes, and conscrip tion has clanned a number of the bigger names, prominent among them being John Woodruff, Diym pic champion at 800 metres and world record holder at 880 yards.
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College athletes continue 1 provide first class opposition for active graduate stars, however, and men of the calibre of Walter Mehl and John Munski, both since graduated from the Univers sities of Wisconsin and Missouri, respectively. are meeting with stern competition in the mule rut from college stars Leshe Mu Mitchell, Bob Gm and Plul Lei- bowitz.
Fast Mile
MacMitchell, with Mehl, hold. the best line of the season at the distance -- a mule 103 4 ms. 7.4
secs and the others any more than five sectid, behind. Woodruff's few appearanceS un
the track are compensated for by half-milers of the standard Campbell Kane. Edson Burrowes, Clarence Barnes, MaeUinstattd. Dick Peter and three or Jou others, consistent at 1
52 secs. or better.
The colleges lead in the 440 yards with Grover Klemmer of California better than 47 seconds flat, close on his heels being Gene Littler (Nebraska), Warren Brie denbach (Michigan), Hoy Cochrna į (Indiana), Clarence Barnes (Cali- forma) and Vie Bourland (USC), who are capable of 47 2 sevs. better.
The heydey of the sprints has passed with the retirement from competition of the great Jesse Owens, Eulace Peacock and Ben Johnson, but potential 9.4 men re- main in Harold Davis of Salmas and Norwood Ewell, Penn State, who, however, face little
stern opposition.
There are not as many hurdlers of class as there were one or two years ago but Dugger of Turis leads the high-barrier men, with Batiste of Sacramento, both of whom have done 13.9 secs., and Stickel of Pitt and Cochran of Indiana the lows, both near 23 seconds flat but far out of the class of Rice Institute's great Fred Wolcott.
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Lester Steers of Oregon has cleared 7 feet 01⁄2 inches in the high Jump and is consistent at 6 feet 10 inches, with Johnny Wilson of U.B.C. and Bill Ste- wart, another Californian, steady at 6 feet 8 inches.
Cornelius Warmerdam of Fresno has already lifted the pole vault record this season to 15, feet 2% inches and looks capable of 15:6 before the season is over, while Earle Meadows, Dick Ganslen, and Kenny Dills are in the 14.6 class.
Brown in Own Class
The broad jumpers are led, by Billy Brown of Louisiana State with an early-season leap of 25 feet 7 inches, but there is hardly another 25-footer in sight:.
The weightmen are led by AT Blozis of Georgetown who has, already heaved the shot 57′′ feet, and by Archie Harris of Indiana and Phil Fox of the Olympic Club in the disc, Harris has spun | the platter out to 171 feet and Fox to 168- feat.
season
GALA
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South China Athletic Association wit hold the Best swinging gala of the
North Pant. at
MOF-FFOLDOW Following is the proR PATEN Ladies' 50 melies Free-style Men's
metres Free-style (Open to the Colony i Ladies' 100 metres Freestyle (Open
to the Colony a
Lushies 100 metres Breast-stroke Children's 58 inefros. Pretsstyle Men's 200 metres Four Men Relay 30 metres Obstacle Race. Water Polo match
Asked for a statement uns the withdrawal
Rosylight, 7.30 p.m. of Cire's econd favourite, at last Saturday's Laces and the decision not to re- turn betting money on this pony,
Secretary Mr CB. Brown,
#f Hong Kong Jockey Club, told the the ["China Matt" yesterday that
pony
the came wider
Starter's orders and so must be considered to have raced, in which case bet- t.ng money was not refundable.
Army
Second Division Tennis League, 38th Battery, Roy- al Artillery, beat Royal Corps of Signals by two points to one at Sookunpoo yesterday.
Price and Love (Signals). beat Licut. Dawson and Bdr.
Whitmore, 6-3, 7-5.
Sgt. Brakenberry and Sgt. Wat- hen (Signals).
Host to Lieut.
Godfrey and Cpl.
Reynolds, 5-7, 2-6.
C. S. M. Fayers and Cpl. Gor- man (Signals).
Host to Sgt. Hicks and Bdr. Good- enough, 6 3, 2--8, 2-6.
WATER-POLO
TOURNEY
Two matches in the water-polo Tournament were held yesterday. Navy "A", after being two goals down, recovered to beat Middlesex "B" 4. 2 at YM.C.A. and Navy "B" and 5th A.A. Regt. shared four goals in the Dockyard,
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