THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, MAY 29,- 1954,
Page 17-
A TALE OF AMAZING COURAGE
But For Injuries Yarnold Might Well Have Been A Deputy To Godfrey Evans
By ALEC
BEDSER
There is a wicket-keeper playing for Worcestershire in
English county
kal mamd Hugo Yarnold. In size he is not much taller than stump height. In ability he is definitely in the top bracket, and but for injuries he might well have
It is about those injuries that 1 deputy to Godfrey Evans,
want to write for they reveal a tale of amazing courage,
16
For some seasons Yaruold played six days a week with a knee which gave him To support irani pain and after several operations his knee cup was removed. his leg he was given an iron to wear and when he stripped to go on to the fold he hung the support in the dressing-room, Even now in the winter months he wears the support to strengthen the knee.
J Bests from
how many times first ball to the lento touring verage English Enplural by Tradition they May always open the progi, same t Worcester 1936.5 dien than any ther playe Te dvd most "eerntly, of course, ngainst the poputur young Pakistan player.
September, Yorno!! mast have be down belusul The
temp And although " Bm he was in agony not onve hud he complain.
af contage of th
Instruct of coaching in South After the winata Perks now has become a var salesman, te feels all the better for having a 51 break from cricket.
4. And if that 618-642 110 veturns, 1950 - 50 1951 51) be mala ned remarkable level of brittanee Quce 10
friendly L agains! Scotland be Skampan elx balsinen), which is IL World record.
PLUCKIEST EVER
i! 1 cas, the former England fest bowler who befute the wat played Against South Afri and the West Indies told me he has been astonished at Yarmoki
.
Nowe meet another remarkable velesura Barva Davies ile is afty in June and has started his
with Glamorsah.
What is more he is their Number 1 batean. Emrys alows bu isiens of Bulfing for the two fac- tors whit arc usually flye
county er keter's Best warnings of unreasing age 1. Leg. 2. Eye.
"He }: quite £2 pluckless So for Emrys told ine "ny erickcler I have #cross," said Perks,
ever come legs are okay and I can see them all night Then he added with Reg has been with Worcester | 4 sinde, "hi any case I have been ince 1930 and has had the un- pinying so long: that if i can't ustial distinction of bowing there them can play the towing
from memory
The Films Are
Davies hat well over
1,000 runs bust season and may well pass the record of Sir Jack Hobbs Janet Frank Woolley who had
Starving Soccer longer spells in county cricket.
Of New Talent
would
seem thnt the youngsters of today who might be expected to emulate those of evrlier generations.
through
and
spond
We in the Surrey team have recently been pulling the leg of our popular skipper Stuart Sur- ridge whee bowled Len ifutton Yorkshire match the MCC v Lord's
גןןן
to his
Len makin bu first appear- their Saturday mornings kicking Jance ot Iter SOLANDA since his a ball or in about on the local
bretura Den The West Incles, recreation ground. or maybe dragged a ball from Stuart wide!
neighbour's window, of the off-stump are "100 much bitten by the wicket. cinema-going bug" to have time for a form of play which bas been the foundation of the later skill of many મ football pro- fessional.
Centre-half atel former Portsmouth FC Skipper Flewin has been bemoaning this trend to local Rotarians and has told them of his concern at the growth of the Saturday morning elnema habit amongst boys. He euraldorn this one of the reasons why youngsters are not coming along into professional football in anything like former numbers,
He says: “Once there were areas recognised for producing outstanding footballers. where fiving conditions were hard, and where children in less prosper. Dus days amused themselves by football or tin about kicking a the district. From the country's elag-heap playgrounds came our great Boter stars, but today there
are Lou many counter attractions; too many Saturday morning cinemas."
He could not agree that there was no future in football me
averred that for the player who used his commonsense the game could be a stepping-stone la future
career of considerable
worth.
THE
WEEK-END
It reusinded we of ocension, 10 match Middlesex and Surrey.
Warvestre
the Deal - Maprod Ahmed' stroke play was the most unoressive of ony overseas player to be seen in En land sanie Don Bradınan in 1930.
A century 190 minuter is n tremendou Start and Maqsood
Ahmed.
ますよね Kiven
necessary
luck, might pre a real star.
Pakistane have any average age? of 24 And as I have mentimed
uvent veterin I will
Note firmstance, hall off front toe, arms close to
hips, left hand tucked well under shafi, palm of striking
axtern-year old, Khalil right hand facing the hole. Keeping the clubhead low Hussain. Ing-tetrak bowler with a pane ke Dong Weight's, I follow through as far as I have swung the club back
He may be the youngest player
The
Test match. Truly this is a game for old 'una and teen-agers alike!
and I keep my head still until the ball is well on
its way,
The Boat Race Costs
£3 A
By J. W.
Stroke
TAYLOR
This centenary year of the Oxford and Cambridge series of boat races is not to pass without an authoritative record which will surely rank as the most complete commentary which has been written on the subject. It is Gordon Ross's sportsman's book of the year--“The Boat Race; the Story of the First Hundred Races between Oxford and Cambridge" (Hodder and Stoughton, 168,).
Mr Ross deals at length with the question that has been asked ever since men rowed--is it a strain on the heart? Whilst no Rowing Blue has lived to be a hundred, there was G. C. Dicker who was 96 when he died, and the oldest known
Rowing Blue alive at the moment is H. Woodhouse, 91, who eaxed Cambridge in another 1881. between Stuart
born in
FLARED UP AGAIN
had to go into bat when the Very much alive. anil judge; blood poisondrug, following il light was falling und for the for the University Boat Race of high rever. first four balls he received he 1952 is Charles Kent, complained "I can't see them." 1806 and stroke of the vic- He was bowled with the afth torus Oxford crew of 1801. and Johnny Warr who toured During a conversation in which Australia in 1950-53 and hus a the name of a popular carmay rendy wit remarked: "You have cropped up, Kent once remark- proved your point.”
sedly "Poor Below. He wwwda. stay The COUTSO doubt if he was reventy when tre led"
HAT-TRICK HOPE
Ch
Putting Is Half Your Golf
P
Don't "Hit And Hope"
Says BERNARD HUNT
You play nearly half of all the shots of your golf on the putting green. It is
a bit of a shaker to think of it like that—but that is exactly the measure of the importance of the putting part of the game.
I know that many people feel it is unfair that a two-inch tap into the holo should count just as much as a spanking 300 yard drive. But it does. That is golf. And it all adds up to the fact that if you want to be a good golfer you must be a good putter.
I make no bonest about my on the upswing. and (2) they ;
And now-what about a bit Pes ni preferoner --1 like the hit with the right hand
of practice? That is probably tomparatively HOW Tangled I have seen Bobby Locke put more
ell the Tanportant this centre-shafled pullers. There ting sometimes which I could other things put together
to swear he hil only the top half | will just remember to keep of his bail. But be still made your head still and your club It disappear down that little following through to that hole. hole that matters. The whole point is that by striking off your front foot you give the ball a
2+
undit is an gument whether the centre shalt does
smt help
solier of 10
It may be
- komad y "clerenes, fe of a
the departments of the sforme measure of top spin which helps portug In vertainly a must to hold a line.
divintal IF ferik vt either
tyle or technique,
As for the right hand—well,
I have always thought putting I don't think anybody can say was a right handed business. particular True the left is there and it is
ettely tha club is thu best LES that one
vital in the balance of the stroke. | partevila methand as the Fightitut it is the right which brings ***** Most people rette the head into the ball and gives club and the sly that helps it its vital strength and direc- then to get the ball to the hote most effectively.
cortali
L
tlon.
Au
the
Dai Rees
Puts On Weight
see from Jou will But I feel that thump are photograph, my left hand Is By JAMES GOODFELLOW
which Val be very much more under the shaft marved on tetral which
be than for an ordinary shot with Should golfers be heavy- Jelpful.
Into the weights? it for instance, you the club fucked well
Dal Rees, Bft. and witht ኀረን pae not quite satisfied with your [palm ph putter I think you might
My
hand, the6in., raised the point when showing.
right fint a erre shaft just the thing; controller of the shot, is in its he was winning the Herts
normal position.
you next to put your kinky
Turm devetandy Dink it can
Jar Sp the magy inate res putter.
LINE-UP OF PUTTS
the shaft
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knuckles
1011,
'championship at Moor Park.
Around 10st.
the Ryder Cup match ut Went- worth, he is now 11st. 4th. He feels he needs the weight, 1s visual training with the Arsensi was cut ไป two appearances during the winler because
this.
D
Ryder Cup victor Fred Dály, 5n, aym. looked a sturdy 12st, at Sunningdale.
Sak the cheery golfer from Belfast: The weight works oft during the stress of the tourns- ment season and it is no serious problem.
FOLLOW-THROUGH
two ร.
important points which can be passed on are that to put well you must I have found that the line of keep your head still during the going into the ear shot-as in every other shot in merctare of the blade does help the game--and you must muke sur le tour up my putts better, your club-hend follow through, And that elings me to my Far too many people give up on
this patting the ball as soon major tile about
as they have business the Hne
WE O
the, made contact. That is fatal. I am perfectly
refin that!
estimate that your follow- handicar players, through should de exnetly 113 pay enough "affen- | great is your back swing In tain to the how then putt should, every putt 31 is the follow- through, & am certain, which rontrols your direction and en- You won't and Ben Hogan, aures that the ball is properly events come along." Bobby Locke or Arthur Lees or struck. And remember this--you any of cair really good putters, flow through with the club striking the ball before they've had a very careful look at the Texture of the grass and the gefabours of the green they has a to Vover They look rarefully, deckte the lie and the strength of strike needed and then, not one second before, they gene down murd hit the ball.
3
take
ing
If these big buys tired to do that I feel sure that handap players would benefit by copy- Item Tize pariral dant making up your mind about your line and strength 18 in- portant. Far too many golfers Phit and hope" with their pults. When we come to teclinique Readers aze given A fair we are on more difBoult ground. own modern You have only to watch a major "immterpelt
prominen1
notice how viewpoints: J
Mid- tournament
effective styles, The land oarsman is quoted as y varied are Ing: "No one ought fog in But I think you will find that for rowing seriously without most of the good putters have The ruthor recull that the having his heart examinert. two vital foctors in common.. controversy flared up again
(1) they strike with the ball off in is absolutely one of the most 1001. when
H. Culme strenuous
the front foot, hitting it slightly of sports," Also Stymo died from pneumonia qu
winter following the quoted is the opposite view by * |& well-known doctor who was Boat Ruce in which he stroked also a gre
a great athlete: "The heart the Oxford crew lo a dramatic
will adapt itseir to any sport, Each incenber of the Surrey team which won the champion-
to his About
victory Critles pointed they when
provided The participant exceptional effort in the race ship last year we hope to make Boat Race series
was 40 years as likely
sound in heart, lungs and it a hat-trick now has been old
to have caused hid
joints and is thoroughly. magnificent young lowered resistance to the lines
ond led them to suggest that perly and gradually trained." presented with a sliver cigarette oarsmen, H. B. Cotion, T. H. E.
of case. Though my twin brother. Stretch
Mr Ross, who is Balfour. the Boat Race course
Editor Erie, and I are non-smokers we members
was for
Boul Knee appreciated the gifts which came Oxford views
of the all-conquering too long and ex tothe the well-informed
In the nineties. | human frame.
Metal Souvenir Programme, as a surprise to all of us.
died in 1897.
after a the Arst
has a flair for dealing with and months' ness six
They argued that a shorten- every aspect of his subject, and others
but i after lingering
A ing of the four miles cours!:
his book is not without its inter...
=ཝ© ༣ Now let me offer my sincere few days." This drew from a would not only avert risks of esting stal latica! items, such as congratulations 10 Muqsood
past-president of health injury to the unrsmen the one that "a gentleman with Ahmed
the Sancerried and Alimuddin,
the Royal College of Surgeons but would teed to more elossie a mathematical approach to fe Pekbtan balemen who rach a letter to The Times asserting contested scored a century in Pakistan's that the University Boat Race, medical profession put forward ! ability to the Boat Bare al first game at Wurster.
was a nullonoj fully " Cetion, the proved fuel that strain was enlculated that every troko however, had died from more likely to result from 1 taken in the race over the four-
Stretch pneumonia,
per-und-a-quarter milles
costs £3,"
The lime
"three
and
E. R.
th:
pro-
conics. until tho once appiled his tin-louhted
from ap-
fent of extreme exerilon forined for a very short time.
According to friends who were ¦ there was playing against pendicitis and Balfour
GAMBOLS
WHAT'S THE MATTER. DEAR? }
YOU DIDNT KISS ME WHEN YOU CAME DOWN TO BREAKFAST
• LIKE YOU USUALLY DO
from
by Barry Appleby
NO - IT'S TOO LATE NOW
GEORGE. DO YOU LIKE THE WAY I'VE DONE
MY HAIR WITH THIS NEW DRESS ? DT
YOU LOOK GOOD"
STOP IT, GEORGE | NOW I SHALL HAVE TO GO AND DO MY HAIR ADAIN - REALLY ITS TOO BAD OF
YOU DEOROL
course
Here is:-
Surf
LATHERS L
Surfer an
SLIKE HACK
kept low behind the ball.
1 wouki not be dogmatic about the amount of wrist ond should use in striking. That is largely an individual matter,
nity
if you put well by using plenty
I only use | of wrist, keep on.
as much break of my wrists as ecessary to take the club back easily and bring it into the bad with a natural strike. In wit my golf I try to avold exaggera- uch.
Finally please don't be put CIT by my preference for a cendie-shafted putter.
If you like the feel of your own. If you have confidence in It, stick to it. will be your best friend. If you are not so happy or not so good with your old one don't be afraid of the new iden. It helped me and it might help you.
DOUBLE
"I am always a late starter, and Und myself in condition ab the right time when the big
YOUNG GIANT
and Cup
In contrast broad - built Harry Bradshaw, 571, Oh, 13st. lb., another Ryder victor, has practised very hard
kis during the winter to keep
swing "cythe-like"
tho Kroove. He has always worked STOM strenuously at the game.
The
young glont of golf, 8. In, Peter Allins, is nearly 14st.
Lillie Australian Norman Vom Nida, adynente of **win or starve" golf, in other words, fewer and bigger prizes, will be here for about two months.
Arriving at the end of May, he leaves at the end of July for the Chicago Tam O'Shanter tournament.
The purse of £25,000 is the biggest in golf. Winner of the world championship gets a con- traet worth half this amount in addition.
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