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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE. 29, 1957.
Ken Rosewall perfectly positioned ure pressure for a forehand drive. Note he is sideways to the on-coming ball won his racket is at the end of the
backswing.-ExpressPhoto.
THE SECRET BILL TILDEN
GAVE
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Dan Maskell has coached the world greatest tonnis stars— now he gives you the hint that help to make champions.
My aim in this series is to give the ferage club and public courts player the sort of practical advice that how from 30 years' playing and teaching experience cannot fall to brifabout improvement.
Cannot fail?
I will go further.
I guarantee to the player who is ambitiogo play better tennis, and who has the will-power and ability to apply himse intelligently to the game, an improvement that will lift him right out of his sent class.
I
emphasise embltion, will power, und Intelligent appllea- tion because all my experience hag mande me realise that the average tennis player rarely combines the three.
been
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lacks method and uppesto be [immortal Suzanne Longlen did, quite haphazard.
and Fred Perry too. fur this of Here then
Next week-The use of the player is a golden for
racket-bek), ground-stroke play.
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AS SOON as, you see other There has
red:cal the half is coming fygur change in the methoga of teach backhand or forehand. Ar ing the game.
| PREPARING so that y du hit it JUST A FEW JELES AFTER IT FALLS FROTHE TOP OF THE BOUNCE
MORE PRACTICAL
We no longer concentrate on confusing technical details of stroke production to the extent that we did.
We go for more practical and more easily understood advice.
The Arst principle of The game is to gel the ball over the net and into the court, Then
time for
teaching to improve and rette the stroke in order to get more pecuracy, more sped, and easy physical performance.
is the
Concentrate on this e instruction and soon youwill be timing the ball bett your weight going forwatin hannony with the F swing of the racketong Be Secreta shots.
of solidly hit ind
TURN THE HIPS
Το emphasise this ford movement ad asiste correct transfer of weightag the line of the shot, makɗe
to
It is as clear-cul as thal-. that your body is sidewałó simple achievement and conthe oncoming dence first, perfection second,
Big Bill Tiden, perhaps the greatest player of all time, who was still playing world-class tennis in his middle files, gave me some valuable advice when
ball when gre racket is AT THE END OFE BACKSWING and ALM FACING THE NET nt the of the stroke,
Yes, It means
I was a youngster. It was:— hips.
"Good tennis depends baslealty
turcinge
- As your confidence inert
on getting into the best position so you will and yourself i
in time to play the intended shot."
cnough to play your drive w the ball is at the top of bounce and, in due course. much practice, when bulis rising!
It turned me overnight from
someone who hit leanly into a tennis player.
Failure to do DS
Tilden
Professional Cagers Will Soon Raise The Goal To Twelve Feet
By STEVE SNYDER
New York.
Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals, one of professional basketball's brightest stars, predicted here the pros will soon raise the goal from 10 to 12 feet "because super-tall men are running away with the game."
-"It won't be long before every team in the League has an exceptional jumper like Bin Russell or It Reven-footer like WIN Chamberlain of Kansas," said Schayes, no dwarf himself at 6-8.
The pros will have to take Dilph's carop is for youngsters the lead In raising the basket," ringing fox RgC from 9 he mid. "We can do it. We're to 18, oht most of the appli- a tightly-knit group and don't cants are young basketball fana- have to consult several thousandiles from 12 to 17. officials, to the ameteurs do.
of
"But the big men are taking over the college geme, too, and something will have to be done. One thing the pros have proved is that a so-called "goon" the old days can be developed into a great player today. The big men ere running the show cow and raising the goal is the best way to restore balance, "
Since few players in the pro renks realise better fban Schayes what a tough time a fall, gawky kid has a learning basketball co-ordination, he's doing something about It this
summer at a "basketball camp" for youngsters near Plattsburgh, N.Y, on Lake Champlain.
"They'll get better individual attention from me and other preplayers,"
said Dolph. "It's something that hundreds of kids can't get in school because their ecaches naturally have to con- centrate on the best prospects, But the 20th man ca a squad today might be the star of to- morrow if he gets the chance.“
hu hit the pro ranks.
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. The Drobny v Patty match in 1953. Drobny won after four and a. quarter hours play.
2. Cricket, As Charles Lyttcken, he captainen Worcestershire before the
war.
3. Her ry Armstrong of the United States who WEA featherweight,
In 1938.
4. Yorkshire-22 limes.
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"We've heard from entire high rol as a unit so they can learn school teams that want to together," said Schayes. "And because television pro basketball
has carried all over the tions from California, country, we're getting applica- Michigan, Minnesota-just about Arizona.
everywhere."
SMASH HIT
Schayes sakk his camp Patterned along the linca of Bob Cousy's five year smash hit at Concord, NH., but will have
Ave two-week stasions instead
of one long one.
"At the end of each session, we'll have a special clinic with leading coaches and pro players caching their specialities," sald Schryes. "Bill Sharman of the Boston Cellies will demonstrate his foul shot, the best in basket-
ball. Carl Braun of the New two-handed set shot. Things like York Knicks will teach his great
thal."
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
Should Athletes Take 'Pep' Drugs?
By SIR ADOLPHE ABRAHAMS Honorary Medical Officer to the International Athletic Board and British Olympic Team
London. has put the "pep-pill"
The American Medical Association amphetamine ("benzedrine") cat among the athletic pigeons.
"The use of this powerful, stimulant is shocking and vicious. It produces super athletes and explains why so many have recently run a mile in four minutes. But it is the most dangerous drug existing today. It can produce violent, rapacious, and criminal behaviour and might also cause serious physical damage."
from
self-
Such drugs which, I am formed, have been employed in' in-
the "doping" of, racehorses are not, and never will be, utilised for athletes at any rate in this country.
A storm of protest and denials of increasing athletic efficiency; tics of judgment and remove the has arisen from athletes, coaches, from freak diets and the simpl-inhibitions that ensure and officials. who denounce the est materials to be fount on preservation. charge as unfounded, unsub- kitchen shelves to the most stantiated, as ridiculous and obscure secrets of African witch silly. And the drug manufactur- } doctors. Ing industry has declared that That effects can be produced amphetamine Is one of the safest is beyond doubt; that these drugs available to medical prae- effects necessarily result tice.
any active properties in the It seems worth while examin-material ingested is a very dif- draw the line whero legitimate It is not easy, however, 40 ing the matter dispassionately. ferent matter. Can amphetamine cxalt athletic
stimulation cnds to reprelien- A trained athlete emelency? Is it in fact used for suggestible. He Is willing, indeed tinction is largely a matter of is highly sible "doping" begins; the dis- this purpose? Ard is there any anxious to ertrust himself to opinion and of conscience. danger or other objection to its anybody in whom he has con-
Was it employment?
for example,
"un- Пdence, and he will be firmly
to use sporting"
охудет in persuaded that a physical im- ascending Everest? Tea and provement has resulted from the coffee contain the stimulant
ENERGY TABLETS
to
the
general it creates n sense of
ministration.
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But the veteran Syracuse star Amphetamine came loto pro-ingestion of anything if the right caffeine (or theine), yet no ob- Dolph is a prime example of feels what today's basketball-mence in the Second World War Personally, is behind the Bd-jection can be advanced to these
minded youngster needs the that. He grew up too fast, reach-
as "energy tablets," These were
and, one may add, to alcoholle mosi 13 a perfectly-rounded given 10 the Armed Foreca cd ecllege ico carly and didn't
I myself have scen results beverages in common use. become a full-fledged star un style of play,
confidenty attributed pestpone sleep, to prolong
to a few
we to refrain from "There's
on and continue grains of salt or sugar in a cap- will to hang for гост
sule or dissolved beyond the point at which fali- spoonful of chloroform
in a tablo- "drugs" that sharpen the ng- specialists any more," he said.
water. polite, improve the digestion and gue would otherwise be over- The boy who can shoot must
Ard amphetamine comes into so contribute to phylent well- whelming. also carn to rebound and play
this category.
being? defence. And I know the young-
Amphetamine elevates the
"Use your common sense" is It could not directly increase mood, and often permits a dis-athletic efficiency, out by im- about the only useful rejoinder sters are extremely Interested in the kind of ball the pros play card of physical dangers. In parting a feeling of evidence by these who are asked to draw because of what they've sech on television.
euphorin, a feeling of exhilara- and well-being might contri-up deinitions, admit concessions. and impose restrictions regard- tion, an increase of confidence, bute to a maximum performance. n
This may smack of o dis- ing "drugs" for athletes. tinction without a difference,
The gradually increasing spate but technically corsidered the of four-minute milers" thero now are twelve in the world- owes nothing to emphetamino (or any other drug). tractive target had been closely For years this particularly wi-
approached by three or four runners and the question was, who would be the first do break the barrier.
5. Grace, Ruth, Llewellyn, 0. 147.
7. Ewart Potgieter of South Africa who has weighed in at 23 stone 41b. lig tall.
U. Table-tennis,
of energy and of caprelty for work.
influence is psychological. He is
9. Lord Monckton; the lightweight of Norfolk.
and welterweight champion 10. Hockey; snooker,
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Asning, then, that you advised holds the club and happy about mastering i partes player back more than vidual baik, ret yourself d anything else,
your practice partner the tar? bf ever-increasing rallies-5, 15, and up to 20.
At one moment he is too reer the pitch of the ball, resulting in a cramped, hûrried shot, and The next he isgioo far away and able only to scoop the ball bask.
The good stroke he may be oble to demonstrate when in the
Count them aloud as > krock them over and then p dress even further to a Fuce SION ol drives to, spy, boekhand corner.
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"We Just got back from long tour with the Pro All-SterI and I was surprised to discover the kids in a place like Provo, Utah, were as familiar with our faces and styles as any New Duke Yorker, And they all want to play our way, too-United Press.
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In the ordinary circumstances of le it may be usefully em- ployed when a maximum effort of relatively short duration demanded under conditions physical
or hardship mental stress.
Save in the case of emotion-
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A "pep pili" would be of no greates value than a "pep talk," a mode of medication to which nobody would have the slightest objection.
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oxcitable or subjects or these with a special Quite spart from the poss! Idiosyncrasy no ill effects have bily ct physical ill-con-- When Roger Bannister triumph- been recorded.
sequences, athletes ord their ed, we confidently predicted Because of the subjective ad- advisers have a rooted objection that in a short time others. vantages there is naturally # to "drugs" on to anything "un would succeed. Apart from the templation to continue its use sporting." Here one is compell- advantage of utilising the techni- as a habit but it cannot be con- | ed to face a debatable situation. cal details of a leader, meroly demned as an “addiction" in the It is easy enough to dis- to know that a certain achieve- true (deprecatory) sense.
countenance drugs of rarcotic ment is proved to be humanly Many, many things have been character which by diminishing possible is a stimulus to repect credited and extolled as capable sensitiveness paralyse the facul- and even surpass it.
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