Yvonne Sugden
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956.
BRITAIN'S OLYMPIC HÓPES
On track and field, in gymnasiums, baths, in towns and villages up and down the country, Britain's top athletes are preparing for a tilt at the biggest prize amateur sport has to offer an Olympia Gold Medal. What are their chances?
This series takes you into the dressing rooms, and shower baths, introduces you to the men and women who hope for the honour of wearing the Unton Jack on their track Bulls in Melbourne next year. It tells the story of their rise to fame, their hopes and fears.
Champion At 16, And
All Because Of That Rainy Afternoon
By ERIC NICHOLLS
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} LEARN YOUR CRICKET
CROSS-BAT HITS TO LEG
FN hiling the full pitch to leg. leit leg should move well out and over on to Die line of the ball; the head should lend the body well forward on to this line over the bent left knee.
The ball will be met at the Full streica
the arms and hit mainly with the right hand. The stroke should be nimed in front of square leg. though the wider the ball, the more will it Inevitably tend to travel behind the wicket.
The main reason the young ba amani so often misses or mail- hits the full pitch toy reg is inat he tries to hit too hard and so
fails to look at the ball.
his
He mun keep balanced, keep head still and, in making
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"If you want to succeed as a figure skater, you must do necessary in any sport-train and practise very hard. I spend four or five hours every day practising glides, turns and jumps. I everyone at Streatham Ice Rink must be heartily sick of music from and the of "effort, Swan Lake, but every note means a great deal to me-perhaps, in the the log stump should not be mit end, even an Olympic Gold Medal."
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Low full puches on or car
Who spoke those words of wisdom, A Champion? Yes. But this mature advice comes from a little Miss who at 16 has just been permitted her lipstick, her first carrings. She is Britain's Senior Ice Skating Champion, Yvonne Sugden.
Nine-Game Card For
Softball
Fans
This Week-end
By “TIME OUT”
Softball activities at King's Park come back into full swing this week-end as a nine-game card is featured for showdowns. With Pennant races in all divisions rounding the half-way mark, fans and players alike will be trooping out to the diamond in force for the much needed morale. Sentor ugain the Taking top billing in this week's programme
Heading the list is the Leaguers as three main tussles are slated for decision. stcond round encounter between Eddie Marques' unpredictable Warriors and Buster Hollands youthful Buckhawks at 3.30 p.m.
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standing half way down the f League table and a loss for Jury side would
mean farewell to
this year's Pennant chancts,
By virtue of their convincing win over he the initial
in
Blackhawks round, Eidle Mar- will futer the q Warriors clamand as slight favourites the acquisition of win 'mili art Goose Wong into their roster the Warriors #hould not have too rough A lime
sund with
Wong will probably be thumbed
Slab for
duties to- stout-hearted morrow with George Ribeiro calling the slands.
The inner section in their strong he 01 d-fence will rotate around fleet-footed ball- hawk Stephen Xavier at short with Jocy Reis at first while Hank Killeen and Reggie Santos take second and third T- spectively.
In the
outfield. mentor Marques has a selection from Jimmy Chen, Dick Pereira, Russ Meyer, Terry Ewins, 'Sluggo' Costa and Google Marques.
DEGINNING TO CLICK
The Blackhawks on the other hand are slowly beginning 'click' as a team and oro steadily climbing up the Pennant ladder as was shown by their last two victories.
Starting out inexperienced and shaky, Buster Hallands' Hawka lost their first two games by notable scores, but with a lot of hard work put in during the past months, the old Black hawks machine got into motion and pulled them: right back into the Musivo flag,roco,
Tosing the rubber for the Hawks tomorrow will be their
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QUITE A HEADACHE
Thus Navy mine hai
proven headache to tur facul quite a terms
Rasinasogn's ie plteber Debatis across the plate claim- ed many batters for their well- earned victories,
Starting off from the cell r the sure-lire battery of Rasmussen and Morengo talled The picke line, num item in diligently to bring the Navy out the Hawks'
that dark cold from Ceither, wi
spot to How- by the covered
Blugging land up in sixth place.
and ever, with this year's potential Remedios brothers, Gerry
10- ft and rign Donal, t
with Champions against them fen-busir Tony Rodrigues morrow, their string of successes covering the area in centrefield. should probably come to a halt. Undies for this main game will be Robert Hemedios, Mico Gaun, Ba reto and Renne Remedius.
ILA HARDS moving outfit
Endle
Manager Ed Carvalho of the Braves will
spure no quarters in this tussle and will be out in force to halt the Navy in their fast- tricks. Shouldering the main this from
from will come
burden of the Tribe's attack Gruch, the Bickonies of Jouy
will be ace hurler Vic Pedruco on the slab with Reggie Mattos Gery Remetios, Mar us Souza, Tony
Itodrigues and Eric catching the filings. Remedies, It the Hawk side
A slam-bang affair is expected manages to so ve the lightning us "boom' guns from both sides pitches of opposing hurler will be punching out a series of Wong, the batting department long balls to keep tang should snatch the win over to to their seats.
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Hitting long hop to leg.
Right foot well back and just putride in of ball.
The hook is the name com-
Right across
"cross-batted, but forced wide of mid-on with a straight bat,
in hitung long hup to tek weil the right foot will move first buck, as in the back stroke, but it will open up so that it lands polung to exira cover or in-monly given to the stroke by an; the left foot will move back, which a short buli on the wicket, after 11 and land or even the off-side of it, is That sums up the determina- | Jeanette Altwegg, and invited naturally
straight down hit found to the onside with a Bon of this young lady. And to make her Brat overseas ap- pointing nearly
ts cross bat. the fact that Yvonne has only pearance as an "extra" in the the wicket so that the body Just been allowed such adult World Championships st Milan, now almost fully open, with the lead over VN the line of the feminine ndornments emphoaises
was not beginner's luck, ball. strict Litat sensible parentul
either. Yvonne proved thint Though the feet move back, essential control
beyond doubt when, by winning the balance of head and body should be carried to far across the wicket that the hend and Scalor Success has not been allowed the
Championship of must be well forward.
body are just outside the line of with
Great Britain lost month, Yvonne's to interfere
The mechanism of the stroke the ball. is She
Bucnt at completed a hat-trick in three will be the same as that already
turns it into education.
This really successive years. French, proficient in German
analysed For halting the full short ball to leg which can be She has won medals for dancing,
pitch to leg, and there must be dealt with exactly 0s already
emphasis body described.
on too, and enjoys her swimming and week-end golf. And she
the sume balance
ruther and on speed can cook.
on effort hitting, than
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success
she
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But the hook
dangerous Championships in Budapest, and
stroke for any but experienced appearances before delighted Norway, In Italy,
reason players and most boys will be spectators
so often abs- | weil-advised to use the much Switzerland, Austria, Germany these balis are
hut or missed is that the bals- safer forcing back stroke man hils ko hard and too late a straight bat,
to look at the ball.
balance Jorward;
stories,and France. Yvonne's has a strange begin- ning. She started along the rond The professional offers come and falls
your But modest Yvonne Keep to skating fame quite by chance, pouring in.
And, suys
Taken from
"Cricket-How
with
puutuled by Educational Instruc tions, Lid.
to
It was the weather, cinema is too intent on preparing for meet the ball well in front of Play." produced for the M.C.C. and querue and Pinocchio. The the Olymple Games to worry you. Sugdons touk seven-year-old Yvonne to see the Walt Disney her about them.
her mother, "I hope she never show it Kensington cinema. will accept. Rain and long queues forced them to seek their Saturday afternoon enteriininent else- where.
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Yvonne they took little along to the local fee-rink by way of a consolation.
And little Yvonne, struck by the spoed
grace of the and skaters, pleaded with mother to
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next day those let her try. feet
WCTC encased in infant skates, and another part of her corning diminutive body was into regular and violent contact with the lee.
But Yvonne was not discour
agret. She beerme a frequent visitor to Streatham Ice Rink. Three months later she turned down an invitation
to join a children's
on the lec-galu ground that she was "not yel io lo perform enough
Kood public."
The Sudgens, realising they had a perfectionist daughter on their hands, sought advice from instructor Jacques Gerschweiler, the man who trained Jeanette Altweg, a 1952 Olympic Gold medalist
His advice was: "Let her con-
could be centrate and the
Take her away Champlan. from school, get her a governess, let her train four hours a day for Ave mornings u week, and we will pee how ken she is at the end of a year."
STILL KEEN
"There are other things in life beskies skating.”
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Says Brundage
Just five weeks before the Olympics begin, with the Winter sports in Italy, the International Olympic Com- mittee has come out with a forthright reminder on the purpose of the Games,
are a
contest This is that "The Olympic Games. between individuals and not a means of measuring the Landy, politicul or social conditions in different countries." Chutaway, Hewson and Tabori.
An official statement from the performances as at Committee has been distributed political
to all national Olymple commit- This idea 100%.
1.
2
J. W. H. T. Douglas in 1998.
C. B. Fry.
3. Five- Bannister,
4
5
Yes. in the Third Manchester. Pulo, Horse Trials, Yachting and Rugby Union,
Test
It follows the attitude taken
the 6. Mervyn Rose, Ronnie Allen, by
States United
and Fred Norris.
Russian sports writers who have 7. Hobby
Sutcliffe. Col. been giving the Impression that Llewellyn and Foxhunter.
the Olympic Games are a battle 8. Moscow, Hungary, Vienna.
between nations.
and
1. Tony Galento.
10. Fred Perry in 1834-5-6.
11. Jack Hobbs, 61, 221.
12. Randolph Turpin.
13. Tommy Burns
14. 7811.
15. Athletics; Wrestling: Cricket,
16. When Jack
Johnson
took the world title from Tommy
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17. Between 14 and 18 ozs.
18. Yachting; Motor - racing;
She was still keen. So keen, and talented,
in fact, that at nine she was the proud holder of a novices silver cup; at ten she had gained third place in the British Junior Championships; glued of 11 che was sixth in the Senior 20, Johnny
Championships behind help-mate 1953,
FALSE IMPRESSION
a record number
of Winter
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conditions. or social
abandoned must be immediately, dociares Brundage, The Olympics are a colliesi The Individuals, between Games
are not ant must not become
cor.lest which would nations trary to the Olymple spirit and would surely lead to disaster.
With this fals: impression in mind
the the Russians, competing
first time, for the
are putting forward competitors eporia Championships-145.
Not to be outdone, the United States are sending 120.
for
the
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be con-
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"The
International Olympic resents attempts to use the Games as a political Instrument or to pit one
against another."
Committee
Mr Avery Brundage, Presi dent of the International Olym-country pic Committee, states that al- though it has been pointed out on numerous occasions that the contest Olympic Games are a between individuals from sny country, several nations still
to
understand what this
fall really means,
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