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SPORTS SEARCHLIGHT
1932.
BY VERITAS
BRITAIN TAKES UP WRESTLING
REVIVAL OF ONCE
POPULAR SPORT
LTHOUGH, Britain is unlikely to send more than one or two wrept-
ALTHOUGH, Brille Cinnice nt Los Angeles this summer, sud
LAWN TENNIS LEAGUE.
STARTING FIRST SATURDAY IN JUNE
The Hongkong Tennis League, wit start on June 0, when a full pre- Kramme will be played. The follow-
Mixed Doubles.-Ladics Recreation the various competitions this season: Club, United Services R.C., Indian R.C., Kowloon C.C., Chinese R.C, and Club de Recrulo.
Although the national standard of the apart here is not high it in permissible now to talk of a "boom" la British amateur wrestling. The advance has been in quantity rather than quality, but, still, it has been an advance, and the 1982 championships, were the biggesting entries have been received for show over staged by the amateur wrestling authorities in England. Small wonder, then, that there was a gleam of satisfaction in the understandably harhssed eye of Percy Longhurst, honorary secretary Longhurst and of the National Amateur Wrestling Association. wrestling are interchangeable terms.
his
"A" Division-Chinese Rt.C.,,Hong- kong C.C., Indian R.C., South Chins A.A. and Kowloon C.C.
the former president of the Cambridge were reduced to one University Athletic Club who is Gog. who now professional coach, ja
overseas,
now
SETS WORLD MARK
Gene Venzko, who st
the
- Annual indoor games of the Millrose Athletic Association in Madison Square Carden, Now York, raced the mile in 4:11 1-5, shattering the world outdoor record and Botting
American Indoor mark.
A
slumber peaceful He has exercised
taheer guiding but a
from which they "B" Division-Craigengower, In- hand in the game ever since the illusion), | governing họdy was
ng a whirling dian R.C., Army Tennis Club, Uni- formed in emerge suddenly 1904-before that date there were vision of armia and legs, sprawling vernity, South China A.A., Hongkong no definite rules controlling the to the ground. To people, who C.C., Civil Service, Club de Recreio, "C" Division.South China A... unpaid side of the sport--he has know the game, these are seconds Kowloon G.C. and Chinese R.C.
Indian R.C., Army T.C., Hongkong glood faithfully by wrestling in packed with drama.
Legend hath it that the City of C., Club de Recreio. Kowloon fu its darkest hours and he, of all men, is entitled to some personal London was founded as the result dinn T.C. Filipino Clubs, Craigen- satisfaction on seeing a faint of a wrestling match between the gower, Kowloon C.C., Radio Sports Y.M.C.A., Civli sign of dawn. Longhurst, with two giants, Gog and Magog, whose Club, Police R.C., some associates who are as few jolligies adurn the Guildhall. The Service, Graduates Association, Uni- as they are zealous, witnessed the story goes that in 1008 B.C., when versity and Chinese R.C. dire falt of wrestling from public England was overrun by Bate (a favour nearly a quarter of a cen-descendant of Eneas) and tury ago, but stood by faithfully giants, the forces resisting and worked unremittingly to res invasion tore one of the world's oldest superheavyweight,
its resided in Cornwall. For the considered by experts to be one like pastimes to something
Gog vs. Magag match, the rules of the very nest over made. A former prestige, ** i
to running A with many
another good appear to have been elastic, for feature of it, new
in England, is the Use sport, the introduction of profes- it is told that Magor. after get the
ting the worst of the opening ex-of havins to keep the clay sub-i sionalism in wrestling was res- ponsible for both its rise to changes, buried his riyal into the soil from working into the cinders. high pinnacle of popularity and sea at the spot where Gog's rock This new idea, like many
To celebrate the ideas, is really an extremely old] its descent into oblivion. When is to be seen.
first Eoglish one, for the ancient Romana used| the war broke out in 1914, wrest-parture of the
a kind of twig, like bavins, for ling was slowly reenvering the championship prestige it had lost among ama Speak, London was founded, and the making or roads. The sur and later Billingsgate was selected as face is made of bright red shale. teurs through the weird wonderful exhibitions put on by a suitable site for the Temple of Inside the running track is a turf
reliable, steeplechase Peace, Bather mountain об Beh In quasi-
evidence various parts of the theatrical bouts
doubtfulPerhaps, is the written
WILM that wrestling
standard sites for vid events, arranged honesty. The memories of some English sport in the twelfth and to conform with the latest inter
The following will represent the New f the giganlic pre-war vaudeville thirteenth
i nalignal centuries-which
requirements,
"Wonderers" against .M.S. Corn. maulers, and of the difficulty in quite a long way further back dressing rooms are being built to wall
the Marina Ground conmorrow at 8 determining, in their case, where than most other games ean claim accommodate 200 or more
p.m. sharp: G. Dun- petitora,"
can, L. A. R. Duncan, L. F. Nichol. serious competition ended showmanship began, lingered
An innovation which has quite son, A. A. R. Botelho, II. J. D. Lowe, NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR persistently, and it was not until
put in the shade the mechanical E. G. S. Dale, E. C. Fincher, W. A. BRITISH LACK SPORT.
the recollections
rapid and Nowers, C. C. Francis, W. D. Wil these discouraging
measurer and could be superseded by a know-
British track and field athletics levelling machine at the long jump Hams, and S. J. H. Fox.
robot pacemaker-a ledge of the game as it stands to-
have, at last, found a worthy pit is the day that any measure of support
the pos
Nanking, May 23. could be gained. Even now, the headquarters in London, with the dummy figure worked by electrical
reconstruction and renovation of machinery. What are
It is explained that the troops of general public does not appreciate the White City Stadium, which sibilities of this device, it is ask-
Division, thinking the difference between genuine until this year had not been usedjed, in developing Britain's talent the Twelfth
Games? Tliey that the motorboat in which Mr. wrestling. which obtains little
the Olympic for the Olympic
bul- in 1908. are hard to gauge. But a perfect Graham was travelling contained publicity, and the grunting-stop for a meet since
Games were held there ping-heaving shows that have
shoulder Here the Oxford-Cambridge sports pacemaker is obviously an aid to bandits fired at it. The
White City let pierced his left been featured on London stages recently under the definitely mis. were decided on March 12, and training, and the
the English Amateur Athlete robot is most definitely the per- but did not touch the bone.
Mr. Graham is now in hospital leading title of "all-in" battles Association's 1932 championships feet pacemaker, controllable from
of here, and is expected
night.-Reuter.
of
WRESTLING IN THE UNITED STATES
and to go.
As regards amateur wrestling. the United States offers a strong contrast to Britain. American universities trent it with all seriousness and give it a fairly prominent place in their sporting i eurricula. In English universi- ties it has beconie well-nigh 'ex- tinet although Oxford and Cam- britlge now nicet at ju-jutau), and in the schools-it is almost entirely neglected. Then, too, there are no professionals in "legitimate" wrestling, except in the North of England, and probably all who fail to pass the amateur galige are "pros" only to the extent that they are willing to compete for money prizes if the opportunity
190*1114
Wrestling is, of course, one of the very oldest athletic pastimes, but its antiquity is hardly more remarkable than its universality. In England, ateh-ean and Cum- berland and Westmorland are the two styles over which the X, A. W. A. has jurisdiction; but the Fantinent, the Greco-Roman method, in which welght and strength play a predominant part, find most favour. The Cornish and
Devonshire style, famous. is nowadays hardly known. Ju-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence (the only genuine
wrestling), code of "all-in"
18 practiced, in its mildest form, by quite a number of people, includ Ting many women.
unce
BEST BRITISH WRESTLING AT GRASMERE.
But to see English wrestling at its best and in its normal setting one has to travel north. At the Grasmere sports, for lustance- the great annual athletic meeting of the dalesmen-wrestling goes on from morning until night, amid the keenest enthusiasm. "Wrust. lings," as they pronounce it, has always been part and parcel of the dalesman's life and was in- deed the direct inspiration of the Grasmere sports. Here, the wres- tling is a continuous performance, to the accompaniment of musical selections by the bra band. Tho guides may raco up the fell side, the dogs may circle the hills after the anisoed trail, and the jumpers may jump; but all the time, in
the the contre of
nrena, tho wrestlers
thair busy, in aro bright-hued slipa and tights. will First, the contending pair circle about each other in slow motion, then, na grips are mado they seem to drop into
a brief
more
course,
And archa
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