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Tan Ser-cher of Singapore altempts to lift 290 pounds but fails during the Empire Games at Cardiff. He, however. equalled the Games record with 275 pounds, and was the winner of the featherweight event.-BIPPA Photo.
A THREE MINUTE 50 SECOND MILE ABOUT 1970 SAYS SCIENTIST
A scientific study of re- cord times for the mile sug- us the 100 yards in gests that it will be run in
seven seenla 3 minutes 50 seconds about
long believe it will even 1970-give take tiveran eight seeunds,"
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BRITISH
THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, AUGUST 0, 1958.
AT SYDNEY: KNIVES ARE BEING SHARPENED-AT MELBOURNE: MURDEROUS INTENT
Aussies Are Bent On Revenge
ENGLAND'S AUSTRALIAN ·
TOUR WILL BE THE MOST HECTIC EVER
By HAROLD BUNTING
It looks to me as if England's next Australian tour will be the most hectic ever. You can already hear them sharpening their knives at Sydney; at Melbourne there is murderous intent. There is so much that cannot be forgotten, much less for- given. If Australia do not win this time they must in- deed be wiped off the cricketing map. And mark my words, they intend to win.
My prophecy is that things will happen that will make the Jardine controversy, by comparison, a mere difference of opinion on a croquet lawn. So prepare for the
wors1.
That most amiable of cricket writers, Jack Fingleton, is a man who keeps his head.
The
He is not a sensation-monger. up when Laker announced that available for the He does not read assault and he was not battery in every
bumper.
'Disgrace'
Aussies are, of course, has made a business trip to Eng- after faker's blood. What a land, and "meanwhile he was tour of thwarted revenge went trade a member of the MCC and a member of the Free Foresters, "Both are exclusive cricket akibs, and I doubt whether they of their provide what Australians wouldh consider a useful background for an Astralian Test captain,...I. don't think a young Australian- should be closely linked with
barnless coming tour. He is funding it,"
Yet it is his book "Masters
nycnging.
seteamed Journaliste.
some
A 'Must'
with
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton ›
RECORDS AHOY-BUT THAT'S NOT
ALL IN ATHLETICS By DENNIS HART
Lucky are athletics' fans as their heroes of the track and field
pursue their wonderful record breaking ways.
But a moment's thought please for the athletes. Their job is to keep it up. The Sixth Empire Games was for most sports enthusiasts a magnificent spectacle. For the com- petitors it means still more work in maintaining the standard. Good performances seem to count little these days. Only the best will
do.
Take the case of Gordon Pirie. At Cardiff he ran his fastest ever three miles with a time of 13 mins 29.6 secs, and his 4 mins 4.1 secs in the mile was the fastest by any Englishman this year.
no
op.
To
krep up record-breaking times
What I found so fascinating victories about Herb Elliott's
of Cricket" (Heinemann, 15 Fingleton wrote bis book such bodies."'' shillings:) that fills me with fore- before all ihni and Laker's sub- Why, on one occasion Craig boding. What a lot, it seems, quent change of decision, but, was even seen wearing his Old the Australians are best on even so, he gets the spirit of Foresters' tie.
comment Match that the things There was the Old Trafford
"Laker must be chosen.... Fingleton's beaming approval of relort to Huiton who *to soms events we are at the wicket for the July, 1956, Test, After Old Trafford, surely no Bedser's
selection Nobody when Jim Laker tool 9 for England
committee had taxed him with being too physiological timit.
with the Australian In the first innings and 10 for would dare omit him....I repeat friendly 63 in the second.
that Laker Is a "must selection players;
"I like "Frasikdy,"
Australians," Bedder Fingleton, for Australia.... Bays
But in each race he came ways rested for three months in "Where was not a member of the
"No England selection com- replied. "and I'll go on king
fourth and was either ignored the winter for fear of going them. Bui IL makes Australian team who didn't think mitive, surely, would date deny herence to my cricket slutade us a failure or publicised as a stalo
Now that something particularly slick the Australians their chance of
athletics means hard
The it. these work ail the year round. in pitch preparation had been revenge....Never have I known towards them. Have a look at put over them at Old Trafford."young batamen
so nvid us the my figures."
athletes great Emil Zatopek showed the Fingleton thinks so, 100: Australians to it again with an
must give their sport everything value of this. And it applies "This pitch, for a five-day Test, executioner."
they know, What they do not even to sprinters. The emergence Was 11 complete disgrace,
learn. This applies of England's sprint challenge can although, had Austrotin batted indent that it was not Laker who
Australians they must
in last winter under the advice first the story might have been slew them, but the pitches on cannot get any comfort from 10 training inethods and to race be traced to the hard work put looking at Craig's figures, but,
retired champion which he bowled.
The secret of the Australian of recently Cautiously
adds: is it seriously suggested that he Fingleton could
And man-of-the-meeting at be very, very avoids making runs because he track successes al Cardiff is not Brian Shenton. They wrong, of course." But I am does not want to offend his only the amount of work they
do in training but the way it is Cardiff, sprinter-hurdler Keith get the very Gardner, of Jamaica, trains for sure he does not really think so. friends, the England playerst
He calls also for Trueman, Inevitably for so experienced calculated
their men and sprinting by running quarter
miles. And tough ones, at that. for he will like Australiana cricket-lover, Furleton's book best out of
So who is to say dogmaticolly pitches, and the Australian has much of the "O my Trumper women.
that belter methods will never and iny Collins long go type of Supreme Example barrackers will like him."
Feminiscenze but essentially t
Double gold medal winner be devised? is a modern book of modern days Herb Elliot is the supreme
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ara con-
And he gives those barrackers something to go on with:
No Offence?
Unfortunately,
and modern ways.
crickel will
tactics.
10
was the way he not only outgua the opposition but outgeneralled The man who supposedly needed a fast pace throughout a race fooled them all in the 880 yard by "strolling" along with the rest, in the first slow quar-
the. heat at the bell to cover the ter-mile then turning on second lap in 50.5 sec.
In the mile he exploded norma} theories by making his break in
tap normally the third slowest in milling which he did in 08.9 acc.
the
Shocked Spectators
Then he could küll unleash n Bhul Jap of 50,7 sec.
New This record cult is often
in it
the three miles
Murruy Halberg example, His success is based dangerous one. The fact that a Zealand's
say spectators-to the rediscovery of the man can return a certain time shocked
conditions does nothing of his competitors basic principles of running under certain
A He proved not guarantee success over when instead of walting until strength and speed.
near the Anish to make his vic- lory bid he did it at the two that the ultra scientic approach, man who has not achieved auch which has gripped
many a time,
Tactics can be the all-im- and a half mile mark. athictes, by no
portant factor in a race. And I
means the
Especially modern in the strips it tears off Bradman: I personal-on "I don't suggest that Truemany think he is a better writer was deliberately wasting time than a selector.
"Few who know Australian when, at Lord's in 1958, ho
dispute the belief walked from the fine leg boundary to the umpire to glue that. Bradman dominates the only way.
game in this country. Ho was led back to nature is this side of running at Cardiff him his cap and then returned his mark to
begin hla (Australia.)
"Surely it is not a good thing by the fanatical Percy Cerutty which I think heralds such an
guided, bullied intriguing future for athletics. bowling..
that any one man, however who coached, "But....if it had been necess-
a player, should and inspired Ellott
Now Brian Hewson, the ury, under the penalty of suf- competent as
have over-riding powers in a clegant London tallor who was fering a loss of runs, io bowl a
national game."
hot favourite for the half-mile certain number of overs an hour,
Empire Games title until being Trucinan's captain would cer
shown the way home by Elliott, tainly have ensured that the cap
is to try inking the tough line gol to the umpire through come-
with himselt body else.
He even works Trueman
like.
At Fault
success.
This "unclvilised" approach selts the Australians athletics is not
breuse
Plainly, Bradman is blamed out that for Australia's defeat in the last was wallding 10 un- tests. Did he not insist on John-
the well-or- necessary steps per over! Thats son as captain in spite of the
ganised stale -alded busine fodder for the barrackers, if you superior claims of Miller?
But generally Fingleton is is in America and Russia. In Then there is the criticism looking forward all the time, re- Austraila it survives only on past only to seek the enthusiasm of the athletes, that Peter May is 'n disciple of calling the
lessons for the coming battle.
and men ke Cerulty. Hutton-canny and cauticus"
holl B From that point of view this
Australia hon only Look how he was satisfied with
every cricket dozen cinder tracks and until the draw that gave England the is n-book that
two years ago virtually no or Oval Test of enthusiast will grob for. The
It is a sombre, strongly spoken anised coaching. To get, a team, to Cardiff Australia's athletes "It is well to study these de-prologue: a Henry V speech
ran exhibition races then look before Agincourt. fensive tactics because they have Having sald his plece, Fingle- the hat round. been responsible for much dis- satisfaction in recent years, and ton strides firmly to the wings plty if they are, and declares: "Let battle com-
mence," allowed to obtrudé ogals in the I can hardly wait for the next few series between England first dispatches from the front. and Australia.
rubber
1958.
in
it will be a
But those who are prepared already to howl at every True- man bumper, he warns: "Hutton was full of courage. I never ceased to admire him in the days
Lindwall when Miller and tiever once told by Bradman to break it down' or 'cut it out- plied him with brow-scoring Ideliveries....
A WARNING
TO AMERICAN
GOLFERS
"Australin bos nothing to be
Americans are usually noted prodd of in this-the fact that for their supreme confidence in we Indulged in flood bumpers when England had no fast bowlors to retaliate.
How Much Faster? Australia is still a ploneer country in athletics, This makes thom want to prove all the more the canviction that they con run faster than anyone else.
It lets to the question of how much faster 'can athletes run?
for
An-
Fox long "time now people have been declaring that tho limit has been reached or is in night. Thirty years ago when Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn, clocked min. 10.4 sec. the mile people said that this really was the end. of International sport. But that Num! himself calmly
that confidence seems to have been nouneed
the day of the for shaken in golf, at least.
four-minute mile was no! The United States veteran. | distnot-and was laughed at, the war-like spirit in which Gene Sarazen, has jusi sud Troubio s people invariably Australio Is approaching the this sharp warning to his fel-basp their enlculations on cur- couting series, you are offered a low countrymen:
reni standards and methods. If condemnation of Cralg for "America has lost the Ryder athletes had continued with the
that "fraternising with the enemy."
applied Cup; the Chrada Cup and the principles It appears that he has played Curtis Cup. We'll JAY tho Nurmi's day the mile more rst class cricket in Aus- Wolker Cup next year. Our my have remained at about tralia than in England, thay he boys are in for a real shock,” 4 min. 10 rec. Then a mon al-
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