MELBOURNE GAMES REFLECTIONS
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1956.
SHE FAILED TO QUALIFY
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS. SET THE RAZOR'S EDGE OF DEFEAT OR VICTORY
Says ROGER BANNISTER
Apart from the atmosphere of friendliness so successfully created by Australia, there were two outstanding features of the Melbourne Games.
First, the incessant, Irresistible surge of record-breaking, with seventeen now records in the 24 men's athfeltic events, and new records in all nine women's events; second, Britain's amazing recovery in all-round sporting ability, which enabled us to gain five Gold Medals compared with only one at Helsinki four years
before.
The
Rustin fact that
led America in the Anal bullion count will at any rate prevent inter. the repetition of one national incident at Helsinki. Here the Russians kept a most claborate scoreboard event by event. When they started loring to America.
The de
there
beaut" whenever Betty Cullbert as much as put a fool on perhaps Baron track; but Coubertin would forgive them
In the men's sprints was a jail in the record-break- mg, and I have no doubt that improve- the curve of sprint ment, being an enterprising
less affected than { distance running by new train- Journalist who saw them hastily
is fluttering out. dismantling It, cabled: "Russians ing methods,
Soon we shall time sprint races caught with their points down."
The Russians won twelve in hundredths of a second in Gold Medals In a day with their lead of tenths.
gymnastics and Greco-Roman wrestling Even allowing for
bios. I hardly think natural these medals rank equal in im- portance with the medals athletics.
for
By comparison, the Russians' track much-vaunted men's ccama gained only three modals, against America's fifteen. Out standing athletes are not turned out by any training machine. Russa, on the other hand, ex- called the sports In which painstaking drilling is essential, and also
the
team games. But it was amusing to see their soccer team completely at a loss when they faced a situation not * described in the textbooks This when eight Indonesian players stuck round their own goal the whole game. Most Bri- tish Third Division teams would have improvised tactics to meet the slution; the indonesians state-
was
forced the Russians mate. But by thinking about it for two days, the Russians won the replay 4-0.
For the first time for more than wwenty years no coloured printer finished in the first Three in the 100 Metres, shaking the myth that they are inherent- ly faster.
In the 400 Metres the mis- fasl Judgment of a hopelessly first half of the race cost Lou Jones, the world record-holder, the Gold Medal Mary were influenced by this loss of Judgment under the increasing nervous strain of Olympic com- petition.
BEST PERFORMANCE
fucce
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with tactical und
Derek Johnson's race in the 800 Metres against the great American, Tom Courtney, ranks with Brusher's steeplechase the Best performance of the of Games, and has something the same significance. Johnson, by combining outstanding nutur- al ability coumpotitive sense, re-established the British claim to produce great middle-distance Turubera. which has waned slightly since Tommy Hampson won our last 800-Metre Gold Medal in 1932,
печет whall The Australian crowd set out
forget the mo- with the idea of applauding ullment when, eighty yards from victore equally, but after a few the tape, Johnson courageously day of course, a little partisan- seized the opportunity
to fling ship crept in at the sight of an himself into the narrow gap of suddenly Australlan vest. The schoolgirls | daylight that opened behind me shrieked "Betty, you between A. Boyson and Court-
PARTISANSHIP
NO CHANGE IN U.S. TEAM
Same Players Who Beat India Will Face Aussies On December 26-28
Perth, Australia, Dec. 17.
The same four players who saw action in the 4-1 victory over India in the inter-Zone final will represent the United States in the Davis Cup challenge round matches against Australia, the non-playing captain, Billy Talbert, announced today.
ney. The American, using his 100 lts, to advantage, hauled back the four-feet lead inch by Inch, and twenty yards from the tape the two fighters were their level, every muscle taut, strength foding with each stride. It was Johnson who told the disbelieving and tottering Courtney that he had won, and Bake him friendly but unsteady This pair rank with support. the greatest half-milers of
lime.
all
The 0,000 and 10,000 Motres showed that the mantle of Zatopek hus fallen on Kurts. I diagree with those who кау Kuts
is necessarily 11 better runner than Zatopek because he hua broken Zatopek's Olympic records, Times do not make the butter runner. Zatopet run fast enough to shoke off his oppost- tion at Helsinki in most vastating fashion; Can we ask
de- what more
com-
I have a feeling of sadness that Zatopek's record should be eclipsed by a less colourful per sonality who cannot, in Zalo- pek's masterly way, take stock not only of the other petitors but also of the crowd. Zatopek was, after all, the ori- ginator of the punishing train- Ing that Kuts follows, Like 80 many inventors he has scen others gain greater beneût from his invention than he did him- self. I do not wish to detract from the magnificence of Kuts victory, and we have certainly not heard the last of him, but wonder whether he will live as vividly in our memories us Zatopek or Normal,
realise Few spectators
Improvement that margin of must be expected in these dis- tance races. The ultimate Unit must be at least 20 to 30 secs faster than the 5,000 Meries we
Melbourne, and BW in more
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This is Ann Morton, Britain's Olympic swimmer, who failed to qualify for the 100 Metres Butterfly Stroke final at Melbourne. -Central Press Photo.
Sponge Table Tennis Bat Is On The Way Out -Back To Rubber Now
By ERIC NICHOLLS
Sponge, that peculiar type of rubber which produces a plip and a plop, and which has been wielded with such force and with favourable results by the ladies and gentlemen of Japan, is on the way out,
more arguments than
Since its introduction to table tennis it has caused anything the game has ever known.
for lis
Three times the International Federation has been with strongly-worded tions calling Three times they have passed When I spoke to Kent selector the buck straight back to
The and English Table Tennis As- individual member countries, sociation representative Conrad
As far as Gloucestershire are Think hard, you table tennis presented corberned, they leave no doubt enthusiasts. The Hfe of your
about their resolu in our minds
in-favourite sport is in danger. abolillan.entions.
Those who claim to be "in the know have not been reluctant to proclaim their views to the table tennis world, that aponge would de a natural death after the novelty had worn off.
although But sponge, longer a novelty, is stili much i evidence,
Then why is it on Out?
Jaschko on the subject, he thought his own county would follow suit, "Gloucestershire's decision is a wise one," he told me. "Sponge has been killing the game."
Enter Victor Barna, once naworld champion, now maker of very champions as a couch. "I had an open mind on sponge," he says, the way "untli
went to Parts and saW youngsters starting off in the The English eveu
table tennis game with sponge bats. Many of authorities,
our experienced players have having compared
switched to
La sponge. That the plip and the plop of sponge
have with the ping and the pong of mot so bad, for they s
their game. But when young- decided plmpied rubber, that sponge is not exactly what sters with nothing but the big
hit without footwork, ball con the doctor ordered.
trol, or style of any sort arc And their views have been seen, then it is time to do formed after a swift piece of something about it." mental arithmetic which has decided drop In revealed a attendances,
It
the
a
showed that possible for amateur
win Gold Medal in the men's dis- tance track evente, but the run- ner who aspires to defeat Kute must
only have grepi not natural ability, he must train with frightening dedication. As for the
for women,
whom Tigorous and scientific training is in its infancy, we must ex- pect a margin of improvement in ull events far greater that of the men
FIELD EVENTS
then
In the field events there was a ray of hope that may encour- age others to give more aller- tion
these Cinderellast
to
of
British athletic endeavour. Mark his previous Pharaoh excelled best performance by 4 ft. in the Discus, to win curth place
athlete No British
has had among the world's strong men. better than sixth place this event since 1898.
Olymple is scheduled Watching countless
has heightened that so far as they by plane tonight races recently
and wiil start my belief
sald
Vie Seixas, Herb Flam, Sam Giammalva and Miko Green were chosen to meet the defending champlon Aussies ut Adelaide, from December 26 to 28.
Meanwhile, Harry Hopman, on what form they show during
Adelaide," at non-playing captain of the Aus- workouts tralian team, revealed that his Talbert. four-man squad would consist
The US. Rosewall, of Low Hoad, Ken Ashley Cooper and Neale Fraser to leave here virtually the same line-up for Adelaide that reclaimed the Cup from working out the Yanks last year at Forest round on Tuesday. Hills, New York.
Talbert indicated
team
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for the challenge can be separated, there is much leza difference between the phy- The Aussie team also is expected to report than in their
sical ablity of various athletes mental strength. 10 Hopnian In Adelaide
quality needed by the vic- that he Tuesday.
tors is the capacity for mental would use Seixas and Flam in
In the final two inter-Zone excitement which brings with it the opening singles matches against the Aussies and then singles matches played yester- team Seixas with Giammalva in day, the doubles.
WORKOUTS "However, I might switch the boys around, especially in doubles, but that will depend
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the ability to overcome от Ignore the discomfort even pain of supreme effort,
Ramanathan Krishnan raved india from a complete
It is the psychological factors whitewash by defeating Green that get the razor's edge of de- 7-6, 6-4, 0-3. Giammalva, pre- feat or victory, and determine sented the US with its fourth how close an athlete approaches
in the best-of-five to the absoluto limit of victory series by routing Naresh Kumar formance. 0-3, 0-4, 6-2.—United Press.
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EXACT DEFINITIONS
Sponge wit stay for a while, Sponge has taken the blame until the authorities can work and, I feel, rightly so.
out new rules to provide exact definitions of what is and what is not a legal' bat. But its days are numbered.
when
WAR ON SPONGE
Gloucestershire, leaders in the County Championship, have
I couldn't agree more already declared war on sponge. The executives have decided | Barna says too many players to- What next season no player who day spend their time in starch- unying for new materials instead of uses a bal covered with thing but normal rubber will be working hard to improve their
considered for county games.
British Jockey Wins Indian Classic Worth
£3,075
Bombay, Dec. 16, Britain's jockey Frackle Dur, riding Titwillow, today won the Indian One Thousand Guineas-irst of the seasons five classics-worth £3,075,
Titwillow (Willoughton-Ti) started at eight to one and finished 信息 fength ahead of
Vestliar (nine to two) in the
field of twelve Indian bred milles.
Freemanor, favourite at three *to one, INAS ano and three quarters of a length further away third-Router,
Sports Diary
TODAY
BadmintoÄ
Men's "C" Division: Chung Cheong V Bt Blephens,
Ladion Doubler: CYMCA vYWCA CCC "Yellow" v Récrelo "White"; Recreio "Blue" y CCC "Green",
Hockey MANAGE „Macao" v. Army Xi (Charity garbe in Macao).
TOMORROW.
Border
Bummer Leagueï Khan in M (cff): # pan.
Third-Rounde at. Fan
WIDNESDAY
game
Such players, he ex- the plains, prefer to bank on "weapon" instead of their own skull.
Look at the attendance figures and you have to
that agree table tennis as a spectacle is being counted out. No person- alilles and no spectacles means
and no no spectators money,
gate
-(London Express Service).
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Bert Trautmann Will Have
To Fight To
Regain His Place
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Bert Trautmann, Manchester City's German-born goalkeeper, practically fit again after breaking fils, neck in last, May's Cup Final, will have to fight to regain his place in the League side.
young.
two months.
Croydon-born John Savage for whoin City paid Halifax 24,000 in November, 1958, is playing so well, tho board is likely to be split when the time comes to decide. Charles Hurley, Millwall's Joe 'Braking, British Heavy-
Eire "International (weight Champion," "will" "fight centro-half, will, if the Army Nino Valdy at Barls Court on agrots, spend a fortnight at February_10. If Valdo, beats the Garston Rehabilitation Heinz Freldrich in Germany, Centre at Watford for: frent-on December 28, the winner of meni that will complete,
• his the Cuban's fight with Daikino recovery from a knee injury may get a crack at Floyd that has kept him out of foot- | Patterson's world title. ball for QVÉT Hurley,
who is still on National Ronile Greene, Wimbledon Service, would be in the hands speedway promoter, has put a of George Brown, brother of ƒ scherne forward for considera- Hoy Brown, Watford's centre- tion by his fellow promotors half, at Garston.
that woilld Joave speedway Gillingham are one club who with only one division for next
with the playing season. do not agVICES.
Mr Groene's loca
15 of League games under flood- for
to have each club
two light, Gillingham cannot afford teams of four ricors, each team lights themselves, and think it being of equal strength, unfair to expect their players two teams would race to go dway and play under and away on the same__night. the lights, Gillingham played ---{London - Express (Seroles).
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September, when
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floodlit Brentford in
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Since then ali offers
games.
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NO MORE BOXING
ago,
Service Orders
tarolment Regruit (H) Chan Lei chow, ecruit (1) Ho Hoo-kwon. eruit (K) Woo Young-fat Beerus (the) va chon. H w.e... 11,12.5G.
Rocky Marciano, former No. 47. Orders by Mr Alistair world heavyweight champion, Drummond, Superintendent, Au- will not come out of retirement xillary Fire Service, of Decem- to fight Floyd Patterson, the | ber 15, 1930.. new champion. Says Marciano: "I retired seven months and I'm going to alay retired.
know i could
get dollars. But I'm not million going to make the mistake Joe the mistake Jim Louis made. Jeffries made. I'm going to do what Gene Tunney did-stay retired."
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Pabite Houday--December 23, and
programme for these days'in hroby bet public holidays, the training cancelled. __Black+08—75. No. 793 (NT) 'Mar Bing-leung wet. 7.22.04.
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Deputy Supt, ATS.
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