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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1964.
NOW FORTHE FIRST HIME:
A self-winding, waterproof watch that acts as a stop-watch
GILES
"Want to make holiday headlines? Pick one up in your trunk and fling him over the iron house."
London Express Service
HE'S SIXTY BUT CAN'T
STOP
N this retirement cons
***
world
where
most men 11}} proaching 60 long for
arch slippers
costy chairs, a orcasional heretic sneers at the contented in- activity of his own genera tion by proving himself At and virile as those 30 aud 40 years younger.
back and relax Now per haps that is sound advice to
મ
PLAYING
By Tom
Tom Eyton
TENNIS
poles
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His early love of the game was enough to overcome all the difficulties and problems
tion by sensationalism hut In explanation he said, "I court. Two bamboo in a more lasting and more don't mind them swimming. with a mosquito net slung
but
"He sought for between them made rewarding way. Canavarro
words, hat obviously he just admirable net and the neces- as exceptional gifts as could not understand some sary lines were just left to coach. His nwn personat 318* preferring swimming the imagination. skill and shrewd julgment. (or anything else for that combined with the gift for matter) to tennis. Then as imparting that knowledge, an afterthought it carne to have enabled him to spread him: "Ah, the hent." the Gospel of tennis Lo That is the vounger people. He has secret of his Taught them the ter points vitality. the to of the game, breathing into inability
believe in any- little of his then a
thing but ten- Enthusiast.
nix. Around this guine re- his volves
DOWNL
Such |
2 is Raul Cannyaren, the 60-year-old tennis pro who says to refin would kil him. Doctors and men of wience have written thousands of words to prove that a man in lus sixties should slow show a Tafse I first met Canavarro at things easy. They say. Sit the Ladies' Recreation Club,
one of the clubs at which whole life and be conches. Arriving 15h himself NAYA without minutes after his period of normal men but it doesn't coaching was dite to end, I
if he would apply to a human dynamo thought by doing so
As a boy he die. Jike Canavarro. At least not would have time in which he fell in love while he can still go to to shower and change. But with the game. the tennis courts and give a ind he? No, not Canavarro. As the years Two hours of couching and rolled by the drubbing to men 40 years
fascination be- a strenuous game beneath a younger than
himself. scorching sun had not made came stronger Most men his age are con him watch the clock. With and more com- I c tent to do nothing more beads of perspiration still on pelling.
in has given it at n cultivate his brow he was deep
conversation with a young all he has member. His free, so full of his reward has expression.
that been the happi- showed deep thought was being ness in doing given to the question in hand what he lovea
the vitally important best.
the and problem of choosing right tennis racket.
Atrenuous
roses.
CRUSADE
RIVAL
On the way to
hend.
Canavarro snapped on the courts this week, (Staff Photographer}
Thirteen munt have been his Jucky number for at that age he first won the championship of Macao. To qualify for the finals it was necessary to win three gamca and account for all the other contenders. Then.
as in boxing, you challenge the champ. Canavarro held the championship until he left Macao to go to: Shanghai In 1915,
Canavarro became a clerk in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Suli plying tennis us an aristour he reached the semi- finals of the Shanghai cham- plonship in 1918.
Canavarro
was to play club tennis until he turned pro- fessional in 1932. His decision to join the paid ranks
ended
a long run of interport honours for ho had
represented Shanghal in all games since 1920. On turning pro he started a tennis school and at the same ilme took A job with a
sports
goods company. Here he was in his element, revelling atmidst the very best equip- ment and showing the customers the goods best suited to their needs.
INVASION
He also tried his hand at pro- moting tennis mutches and staged games between the Wimbledon stars Bill Tilden and Ellsworth Vines. Another
who tennis great.
teamed up with Canavarro was the French ace, Henri Cochet.
come that face any youngster Japanes
starting on what the "Old Canavarro
Fitness health have automatically.
Canavarro is a real-life
brain have matured and
Man" thinks is just another along with others,
China was overrun, Canavarro,
Canavarro
In 1948 ho became
World War II and the Invasion ruined It is almost as if he were
financially. When trying to organise the over
lost all he 60 brigade in a crusade, not
craze. Did young Canavarro had. Ho had bullt, his tennia only against the learned men
Peter Pan. His body and care if he couldn't play on a school into a thriving concern who insist retirement is
proper court? Did he mind and with plenty of pupils and essential, but also against
the reached manhood, but for all the ball being old and soft people he was all set to resp with the support of influential Old Father Time himself. Canavarro, much as he would changing room he gazed at that he has refused to grow or his racket being battered the reward of years of saving All boys find a hero through years of service? only to see it all smashed by like to, cannot put back the the swimming pool which as up. proving in the words of the young swimmers, He sighed likely he will be a great ket and the thud of the bat Shanghat clock, but at least he is the day was hot was full of whom they worship. Most Not a bit. It was fun to play, the ruthless invader,
To hear the swish of the rac When
left songs "Just how happy one and shook his
as well as can be, doing what comes gathered Canavarro didn't sportsman or a mountaineer, meeting the ball dead centre conch at the ERC
like the pool.
It was his or a soldier. To him they and sending it speeding over several other leading clubs. naturally".
And after seven years of teach- rival. To hin it was all a give an unswerving loyalty the net was all he needed to ing tennis in Hongkong he has дп enthusiasm very definite and decided ideas To most men his age it grent conspiracy with the and devotion and woe betide stimulate has been a hectic day if they heat and the swimming pool anyone so lacking in under which has never flagged or about the standard of play here.
in glove have a brisk walk to the working hand club for n game of bowls, against him and his beloved standing as to attack this died.
hero. Canavarro's hero was He has a few words on retire- Yet Canavarro would think tennis. Fogether they were not a man but a game, and, ment.
Juring the youngsters away
"Retire!" he said, when he was getting soft if he
"The material is there, but so, from the tennis courts, unlike other boys, he never I put the question to him.
Tho couldn't play tennis, one of where they belonged to the grew out of the phase in bewilderment showed clearly loo, are the dimculties,
facilities are very poor. Young the most strenuous of ball
K was pinyers are not encouraged to seok riches and on games, for several hours cool waters which Canavarro order to
shockad pause. "It would kill take up the game seriously. Tho cach week. He has been play for mermaids..
sincerely believes are only power. The loyalty and me," he gasped. "How could older members always have dirst
devotion are there to this I do without tennis. 1 must use of the ing tennis for half a century
nots That is keep on playing I am wrong:"
or now, and he looks good for
A youngsters in his early day for all to see. another fifty years.
miserable." teena came into the chang-
Canavarro is most empha- ing room. Canavarro con Canavarro was born in
tic about this point; "Why The Club Harmonia of Macau should young boys and girls tinued to tell me about his Macno. His father was a soon notleed the youngsters who have to play in the afternoon playing days, but at the Colonel and Raul has were often seen playing on the
when .the surs is hottest, or a kindly same time he watched the inherited the same military Army ground and
lato in the evening when it is
REWARDING
hls face. There
EMPHATIC
What has Canavarro boy change. His eyes were bearing. He soon took an official invited the lads along for too dark to we?
a grupe the Club, Canavarro, achloyed during his years of hopeful. Would the boy interest in tennis and at the showed grout proinied and was Canavarro's greatest ambition toll beneath the sun? Cer: change, info, whörte and age of ten he decided to play allowed to play at the club quite is to show the younger, geskurat tathly hot spectacular plimsolls brandish a ten- the game, and play it well, often. He must have made the tion how to get the best out of sucrose. True, he has done ma racket and go down He started to practise in the most of his opportunities for the game.
ati great. exceptionally well in local to the nets, and practice, or Army parade ground and two years "Letumbrated Canavarro, pays: “Bomens Lemfir, circine but he never would he choose, swimming after the soldiers had secro
For focs schools to teach, little girls how Impressed as a world heater, trunks and a cool dip. To finished marching and University, Canavarrow memory, to dance, rudely, ST
lön nærved his mirt Canavarro the question was counter-marching, young we not so strong as his legs and where youngsters
as a crowd pleaser vitally important and when Raul,“ together with some mone Afns & bubbla repufak the póời wên, he was hurt, friends-rigged up a fentia” wfmi
well
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