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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 19, · 1934.
ATHLETIC PERFORMANCES
BY AMERICANS
ENGLISHMEN CAN FIND Lovelock, neither of whom has
MANY LESSONS
NECESSARY RECONCEPTION OF
A GOOD PERFORMANCE.
The American Amateur Athletic Union's adoption a year ago of the metric system for track-racing instead of the English lincar
such
athletica
A FOUR-MINUTE MILE.
ever boasted of his running, have aald they thought they might do min. G sec. More illuminating still in the fact that covering 1,600 metres at a pace of 1 min. 49 nec. to 1 min. 60 sec., as has
this case has
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MODERN BOXING
HABIT OF FIGHTING WITH
THE TONGUE
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buen done by Beccali, Lovelock, beat Burna at Rushcutters Day in Of course much of the prelimi and Jules Ladoumegue (France), Australia. Johnson. however,nary talk about bitter feeling works out at one mile in 4 min,nover behaved like a buffoon in between contestants in a big fight 3 sec. to 4 min. 6 see.
the ring as Baer did. J. L Sulli i mere "ballyhoo" designed to min, 10 4-10 sec, mile in August, opponents by his terrifying glare, public.
Remembering that Nurmi's 4an used to frighten many of his excite the interest of the general Most of the insults by British althletes over their traditional distances. system has not cleared the way for the creation of world's recordsidered the human limit, and that waste words, and Johnson was the other by the boxers actually come 1923. Was then generally con- but he seldom condescended to alleged to be levelled at each Whatever pass record-smashing still scope for improvement both yeara to see an improvement upon much in tongue-fighting until The fighters themselves know as It had taken less than a dozen only world's champlon to indulge from their respective managers. may have reached in some activi- upon the world's official quarter- his figures of practically 4 noc. Baer came on the scene, although much, or as little, about them as ties it is still vital to modern first-mile record of 47 2-5 acc. set up by the hypothetical "four minute Burns was up to all the prelimi-they aisually do of the books and class athletics. For it is by way. E. Meredith (U.S.A.) in 1910
f split seconds that the select and and equalled by his countrymen, possibility.
mile" entera the bounds ofnary tricks, such as keeping an articles to which they sign their general standard of athletics has Eastman and V. E Williams, in
opponent, waiting, We have and names.
There was, honvever, rison to its present excellence. 1931, and upon the world's and running ponder Cunningham's plon, whom I will not name, who Corbott and Fitzsimmons,
Again, let supporters of British one British heavyweight cham genuinely bitter feeling between Moreover, athleticfam has now Olymple penetrated so many remote quar- nec. 100 metres recurt of 40 record in comparison with the was often offensive in the ring, accidentally met and exchanged
forced out of ters of the globe and potentini (U.S.A.) In 1912.
M. Carr English native-record which in I have actually seen him apit at blows a few weeks before their "world-beaters" are appearing in
Fellowers of British
atood to R. H. an opponent when giving an exhi-famous contest for the World's variety of regions that re- will compare those
Thomas in 4 min. 13 2-0 sec. for bition, and in at least two Championship. Should Carnera cords, worid, national, and other-48 1-6 ere those ties with the three years, but for ten years contests he made himself objec- and Baer meet again it is probable war, are what the more isolated Bredin in 1895, and by 11. C. Previously to A. G. Hill in 2-5 sec. tionable.
that there will be what is called n champions now look for for in-Tindall In 1899-time which is still twenty in scarcely any longer the provoke the Tipton Slasher when everything possible will be done
slower, Evidently "beating four- Tom Sayers did his best to
"needle" fight, and undoubtedly | spiration and opposition.
That being so certain prominent mann in England.
the best on record for an English criterion of a first class mile as they met, and several times hit to create ill-feeling. There was British athletes will note with in- enlly-minded persons will not be Lena statisti-
in this country have long him and then ran away like quite a lot of trouble about the icrostand. let us hope, thoughts so husty to applaud "beating fifty"
been used to thinking.
child at play, a thing easy to do film in which Baer and Carnern of retaliation-three performances in future.
in a 24-ft. ring on grass. Cashel took part, and it is likely enough recently recorded In that greatest
EASTMAN'S HALF.
Byron is described as doing that Baar learned a good deal of all athletic countries, the United
Granted that Cunningham's similar thing in his realistic about his opponent in the realis States, where the season is just
time la correct Eastman's 1 min."exhibition spar" with Paradise, tic fight of which a pleture was reaching its helgirt. The British time heenuse it
If there is criticism of Lavalle's 49 4-5 sec. under the same condi- in which Paradise lost his temper taken.
was able to athletes affected are the runners fractional error at the take-over tions should soon be gracing pro-and bit Byron. To those who In Hemmingway's story, "Fifty of the quarter, half, and one mile there need be none of Cunning 3-5 sec. by Dr. O. Peltzer
grammes instead of the 1 min 51have seen the nien, one of the Grand." the preliminary tongue- events
which, unlike the field
hom's record. The track кля
(Ger-best bite of ring repartee is that fight is given at length.
"They events, we are used to numbering carefully measured before Love-any) at Stamford Bridge in 1926. told by the late Eugenio Corrt in met and the referee put his arm amongst our best.
Superb though Eastman's At the Olympic Stadium, Los lock's record was ratified, and it
new "Fifty Years in the Ring." Bec-on each of their shoulders, Hollo, may be taken
#gures are, they were, Angeles, California, d. Lavalle has there were enough stop-watches ed, for T. Hampson's world's and "Tell him that I'm going to spoil yourself Walcott for? Juck enys. liko kett gave a mesango to Carpentier popularity, Jack says, to Walcott. for granted that Cunningham's, only to be expect-in the ring just before the fight: Be yourself. ran 440 yards in a relay race in checking the race to satisfy the Olympic eight hundred metres his good looks
What do you call New Jersey, track on which J. Enational A.A. Federation.
On the Princeton, Records Committee of the inter-record of 1 min. 49 4-6 xec. was which the Frenchman replied, ger?" And there is quite a lot to-night." To Didn't you know he was a nig- Lovelock (Oxford University and
With the equivalent of a New Zealand) lowered
"one-fty" "And tell him i may make men as Cunningham, Whalf. Indeed it looka
himi more. the world's
It is quite tinic that re one mile record to 4 min 7 6-16 ronthen, the runner-up and eight hundred metres record itself finished."
as if the uglier than he is before I've ferees took a strong-line and pre- Ree, Ben Ensiman has run terrific time was to be expected. neighbourhood of 1 min. 48 see.
Venzke, third. In the same race is in for reduction soon to the
vented any insulting word world's record half-mile of 1 min. Conninalom it was who cut out
gesture during a contest; whether 49 8-10 sec., and Glen Cunningham the pace which enabled Lugl
by the boxers or their seconds. As So longer can a mile a whole second faster than Berenti (Italy), and J. F.
"beating two were Carr's quarter and Harapent in this country, but there are I said before, it is not yet preva- minutes" Lovelock's but for 1-10
be mentioned пр Cornus Such figures must surprise the most up-record, and who last year achieved connected with
to smash the Olympic 1,500 metres than can the other catch-phrases those very runs which have been son's half, or, rather, 400 metres criterion
for the half any more und 800 metres. Yet it is just practices grow quickly.
a few men who are notorious, and to-date athletic statisticians.
about
the quarter and thor is supposed ever to of all time-the American
fast as anyone at the most amazing "doubles" the mile.
exposed. 800 Those are the first lessons for the climatic
The explanation lles partly in was when G. L. metres title in 1 min. 51 8-10 sec. British athletes. So far as the conditions, but more especially in have travelled, for and the 1,500 metres in 3 min. 52 world's standard is concerned, and the highly organised and financed and atmospheric metres (437 yards) in 2-10 sec., both American records. that has its reaction the Medicy Helay against Ger- Bronthon is hardly less wonderful, later upon domestic standards, which
sooner or American system
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touches reconception of what constitutes a material for long enough to pro issory note for £10, dated April enough raw Exnetly 115 years old, a prom- old Olymple champion and Eng-world's one mile record 'lish native, record holder describe Lovela 1 mln. 53 sec. half to
behind good performance is becoming vido ever-ready ultra-skilled com- 24, 1819, has just been presented and about an hour laterj ed Rampling's effort for "The
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Wonderful the full 440 yards at the same paco metres men at Los Angeles and the
as the Americans Promising to pay the bearer: he would have done approximate the Oxford and Cambridge half-number of the records set up at parably, if not quite so brilliantly, signed by a Frederick Drennan her nose is always cold and wet and everyone comments on the -
Olympic Games,
it would be wrong to suppose £10 on demand "for value received that y 47 Rec., whereas had Luvalle tile record-holder.
Los Angeles will remain been tinted for 400 metres he would The athletic world has not been for many a generation" must be france, Finland, Japan. Canada, pression "Bank of New South
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