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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947.
SPORTS FEATURES..
WORLD SWIMMING
CHAMPIONS
OF THE FUTURE
(BY RECORDER)
The recent American Indoor Swimming Cham- pionships, held at Columbus, Ohio, could well serve as an Olympic preview and the placings, though the events were not the standard. Olympic ones, should not see much alteration at the Olympic`finals in -London next year.
Now that the Japanese are de ↑ Angeles Olympic Games that were finitely out of the picture while some 20 minutes faster. Nurmil undergoing a democratisation, pro- did not compete at Los Angeles, CCRA, the United States seems to be the only country with a look having been disqualified as a pro- In at all in the swimming finals. fessional..
Competing at Columbus, Ohio, were the only two non-Americans who are conceded a cliance
of placing in the first three. In any event. They are Per Olaf Olsson, of Sweden. and Alex Jany, of France, both free style sprinters.
Jany, the 18-year-old French- man who is the current holder of the world record for 200 metres fren style, managed to squeeze into second place in his speciality between wn Hawalians, Bil Smith and Halo Hirose.
A feature of the Boston Mara- then was the youth of two of the first three finishers. Marathon are generally runners
at their peak in their late thirties or early forties and one
Boston Mara-
thoner, compated in the annual event until he was all of eighty,
was un-
Yun Bok Suh, first favourite' for the Marathon at London, is n sophomore at Seoul University in Korea. Finishing third other sophomore, 21-year - old Theadore Vogel, of Tufts College In Massachusetts, less than a minute behind Heltanen. Despite this double sophomore success, it is still unlikely that collegiate
Though Jany is still young enough to improve, the 200 metres in his best distance and at London he will have a cholee of gither the 100 or the 400 metres free style, the intermediate event not being on the Olympic pro- | athletes will take no the event. grammo.
Over 100 metres, Juny stands little chance against Bill Smith, not very much his senior in nge, while over 100 yards he failed at Columbus to qualify even for the finals.
Best Field Ever,
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Olympiad Drama
and
END
Full Story Of The Sensational Phillips- Anderson Fight
BY JOHN MACADAM
There will never be a more, extraordinary boxing Cliff sight than we saw at Olympia, London, when Anderson (British Guiana) was disqualified in the eighth round of his, return "needle” fight with A! Philips (Aldgate), British Empire feather-weight champion.
There was Phillips, In apparent agony on the canvas, the viator, and Cliff Anderson, the loser, kneeling by his side, weeping, hugging and kissing the fallen man,
What happened was this. Ander- son-in my view ahead on points at the time-ripped a right hook to the-body.
the
referee
of Ireland,
Picture on the left shows two competitors taking off. In one of the events at the Central. British Girls'
School swimming sports at the YMCA bath on Tues- day. Above, Shauna and Heather Anderson, two brilliant girl swimmers from Conada who clocked fast times in several races. -Ming Yuen.
Promising, But Mishandled
The all-round man was an ideal at the Olympic Games of ancient Greece: the athlete who could ran, jump, pitch and wrestle.
·There will be events for many-talented athletes at the modern Games, the fourteenth in the new series of Olympiads, to be held in Britain next year
ALL-ROUND OLYMPIC
SPORTSMEN
(By Lt. Col. F. A. M. Wolster, Author of fifty books on sports✨ and athletics and formor, holder of English athletic titlos) When the Olympic Games were held originally at Athens the highest credit was held to be that of the man who won the pentathlon. All-round ability in sport has always been one of the main objectives of British sportsmen.. At all British leading schools boys have striven to excel in all the team games and to win the Victor Ludorum Cup, which is awarded to the lad who scores the greatest number of points in the diverse events which comprise a school sports programme.
The tradition of the ancient ancient Greeks war a combined Greeks has been perpetuated in a competition in five events; running, modern form since the revival of jumping, throwing the discus, the Gomes in 1806. Now the throwing the Javelin and wrestling. greatest glory, at the Games goes to That much is certain, for the former the competitor who carries off the idea that boxing was originally one medal for the modern pentathlon. of the events was disproved lang comprising cross-country running. ago. These five events were repre- shooting, horse-riding, fencing and sentative of the whole physical swimming, based on the Greek training of the Greeks and the pen
tathlete was the typical product of Olymple Games of ancient days.
He may have been, The Organising Commitice for the that training. XIVIH Olympic Games in Britain in and probably was, inferior, to the 1940, ls forced to consider sonic
athlete in his special modification of the modern penta-
***lised
but he was superior to him
thlon programme. In the past 1: has in general development and in that union of strength and been customary for the country in harmonious which the Games are held to provide activity which produced the models 45 to 30 highly trained horses for for the statues of the period of which the riding event and, as a rule, the Greek sculptors are so justly famous. Army has provided the mounts for
BETTER THAN ANCIENT CREEKS
the Competition. But, throughout SPECIALIST ALL-ROUNDERS the world, all cavalry régiments One or two recent instances, how- have been mechanised, so that it ever, allow us to question whether may no longer be possible to adhere it is always a true argument that to the normal practice. Perhaps, the all-round athlete is necessarily however,
the the mounted police and inferior in individual sports to various hunty and riding schools specialist. In 1924 Robert Legendre, may come to the rescue,
the United States, was not con- sidered good enough for a place in the US. Olympic long jump team, and that contest was won by an American Negro,
H. de Hart Hub- BY ARCHIE QUICK
The modern pentathlon will be hard at 24 ft. 5 15/16 ths. Ins decided from July 31 to August 5.Legendre did however, appear at Clifford Curvis is one of Britain's The riding section. If it is retained. Paris and in the course of the
will best boxing prospects in sight and nity of Windsor
possibly take place in the vicl- pentathlon, mado a world's record, he is going to make a good middle Horse-riding in the modern
or at Aldershot. of 25 ft. 0 ias., in the long jump weight. But he is getting for 10 tathion has always been cross-coun- further than the effort with which pen- which was approximately a foot. fighis, and he is not being try, involving the negotiation of de Hart Hubbard had won the in- handled properly.
many obstacles. This means that dividunt contest.
event connot Al the
many
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The last Olymple Games held his opponent, tears streaming down; Billy Thompson (Hickleton awakened from his Swansea bed at pects in the modern pentathlon, for jump and the 100 metres hurdles,
at London in 1908 now one of the
CHEERS AND BOOS
round and declared no contest,
the
Tho verdict for Monaghan Was rapturously received, and Famechon fights. will not be in any harder His right cyc was, badly cut in the The order of finish behind
sixth, and Monaghan cutting loose Vogel was Gerard Cote and Phillips swung away from it, and in the seventh, hit with every punch Albert Morton, both of Canada, as he turned took the full force of the in the calendar and out of it, and fourth
had him glassy eyed and splay Afth, Athanasioz punch on his left kidney.
footed. Ragazos, Greece, sixth, Sevki Down he went, and Koru, Turkey, seventh, David Andrew Smythe,
Rinty took the microphone as soon Mazzeo, United States, eighth, immediately held Anderson's glove as he had got the verdict and sang an Irish ballad in a high tenor voice, Vaine Muinonen, Finland, ninth, and signalled him to his corner,
When he fought tigerlsh
take place in But-there is in the modern Games The field over 100 yards at
Cliff sat there stunned as be heard to the added delight of the crowd. Kyriakides, Stylianos,
Philips at the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium, the main arena a much Greece,
greater, all-round purely Columbua was, however, perhaps!
M.C
announce his disqualifien- Other results: Danny O'Sullivan which was a pretty stiff task from for the sports, even though this will athletic contest of which, apparently, the finest in the history of swim-10th, Lloyd Evans, Canada, 11th, tion, pointed to his own solar plexus (Islington), former amateur cham- any angle you many look at it, was be inld out for other equestrian the ancient Greeks never thought.
Six swimmers qualified and Sun Ryong, Korea, 12th-
in explanation to the crowd, and pion, bent Wally Basquille (Ireland), he brought up overnight for the events. ming.
It is the decathlon, comprising the. then raced across the ring.
who retired at the end of the first contest? Not a bit of it. He was Britain, I think, has great pros-100 metres, long jump, shot, high for the final in 52 seconda flat or truely an international field!
Falling on his knees, he embraced
400 metres on the first of two better in, a 25-yard pool, so that
drew with Tommy Barnham four in
the
morning, bundled on the is not Lord Burghley, who is Chair days, and Jany's being blanked out does
his ebony checks.
(Fulham), eight rounds;
Albert (8 o'clock train, weighed in at 2 p.m., man of the British Olympic Organis- not put him down as a pour
Phillips Was less cffusive. His Finch (Croydon) and Jack Johnson was taken to the Corner House for fing Committee, himself a Master discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500
of metres on second day, ཇཱ་ most dramatic incidents of all handlers were pressing an ice pack (British Gulana) stopped in fourth a snack meal, slept in the afternoon, Foxhounds; and was he not, before sprinter.
To the Games of the VIII Olym- modern Olympic history When a to his side..
and early in the evening was in his an accident to his Achilles tendon, a plad in Paris in 1924 came Harold Winner was Walter Ris, of Iowa little Italian tailor, Pleti
Joe Rood (Aldgate) knocked out dressing room in the bowles of the great all-round athlete who won the M. Osborn, U.S., who in that same entering
Tommy Bostock (Mansfield) City, one of two tree style spriu-Derando; collapsed "on
in deserted Albert Hall. He got knock-Olymple 400 metres hurdles in 1928 year was to establish a new world's second round. Freddie Price (Bel-ed out in two rounds for his pains and was first-class in such divergent high jump record of 8 ft. 8 ins fant) outpointed George Howard and, was then put on the night train events as the 120 and 440 yards He again
theory that main proved the (Finsbury Park), eight rounds, for South Wales.
hurdles, the 440 and 800 yards flat all-round efficiency is the best basis races and steeplechases, and added for specialisation, for at the Paris I suppose his connections saved a even javelin throwing to his athletic Games he first won the individual lot of money this way, but it is just repertoire? He was, moreover, an high jump at the new Olymple re- another stab in the back for British officer of a famous British regiment, cord height of 0 ft. 5.95 Ins., and boxing. And bellove me, British the Grenadier Guards, and It is later won the Olympic decathlon, boxing cannot afford to lose that from the Army that the majority of with a new world's and Olympic amount of blood.
Britain's teams" for the modern record score of 27,167.75 points. pentathlon have come in the past. That British athletes, too, can ex- There were nearly three times the cel in the decathlon was ably proved number of competitors. In this event in 1932 by the Cambridge University at Berlin in 1030 than there had all-rounder, R.M.N. Tisdall, who been at Los Angeles in 1932, and won the Olymple 400 metres hurdles in the 300 metres swim, the 4,000 in 51.8 secs, which would have been and 5,000 metres cross-country con- reckoned as a world's record had test, the revolver shooting and the he not knocked over the fast hurdle fencing bouts, Britain's representa in the course. He then competed in tives took the leading places. At the decathlon, for which ho had present,
as proved by the been given no special training, was
and District Army,
but 1/10th secs. behind the winner cross-country championships, Britain of the 110 metres hurdles and re- is very strong in cross-country run- turned as achieving the fastest times ners. I think that ից
hosts at the
In the series, 49 secs. for 400 metres next Games they will do better than and 4 mins, 34.4 seca. for the 1,500 they did at Berlin in 1930, where, metres.
Then he went back to his corner, where his seconds buckled round bis waist the belt that admirers had given him for losing the verdict to Phillips three months ago
ters who, since 1944, have better- the stadium and had to be helped With the 12,500 crowd cheering ed Jolinny Weissmuller's world to the finish of the Marathon and booing madly, Anderson got record of 51 seconds fiat set at line. He was, of course, dis- up to allow Phillips to be carried Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1927. qualified, but received a special to his corner, and, smiling through The Welssmaller
his tears, posed by his side for the achievement prize from Queen Alexandra,
camera men. stood up against classle free style
Moro charming possibilities felds for 17 years, but Itisi
for London, 1948, managed 50.0 seconds in his heat arise and repeated that time in the where the Royal Ladies should be more in number than they were 40 years ago. Though Dorando very nearly finished first, lila ime was still the poorest ever record ed for a Marathon in the modern Olympic era. Things should be far different next year when the Arst man who started out from
final.
The 27-year-old Swede, l'er Olaf Olsson, was a foot behind Ris at the finish and should be a certainty for a place in the 100 metres free stylo at London.
In the other events the Ameri- cana are virtually unassailable, Thought there is no back-stroke star like Adolph. Kiefer and no
· record-breaking breast-stroker avallable, Robert De Groot of Ohio and Joo
of Verdeur Philadelphin fuished in respect- able time ahead of select fields. Finally, for the diving events, thore Is Ohio State's Miller An- derson who is in a class by him- solf on the United States, probab- ly on the world as well..
Another Proview
Yet another preview of the order of finish at London was that at the Boston Marathon in April. Competing in this classic of American road races were the leading Marathon runners of all nations, all those in fact who are considered to be, in the running for the London crown.
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After an unfortunate episode when he was, tripped down by a dog, Korean Yun Bok Suh crossed the finish line four minutes 'nhead of the European champion; Fin- nish Mikko Heltanen. Suk was timed in two hours 25 minutes and 39 séconda, time which constitut- ed new Boston Marathon record and is the best recorded ever though it has been claimed for. Paavo Nurmi that he turned in Awo practice spins in Finland while in training for the Lay
SPORTING SAM
Stamford Bridge enters the White City Stadium.
DROPPED-OR WASN'T IT?
DOKETT (South Africal is
apparently "missing, 'n' good catch at Lord's.... Just another of those camera-angle surprises, 114 caught it, ai elgbi-anų Washbrook was out.
Phillips left the ring in pain and to the boos of the crowd that had received him with generous cheers.
The belted Anderson stood in the middle of the ring to receive their plaudits.
It had been nearly nine rounds of
SPORTING DOCUMENT
Boxer's Father's Fine Letter
The most remarkable sporting document I have seen in years 15 letter received by Cliff Anderson from his father in Georgetown, British Gulana. The young coloured it to a gathering of when he was presented with a belt the day before meeting Al Phillips again for the Empire. feather-weight championship.
hard, uncompromising fighting, of which I thought. "Anderson had slightly the better. Certainly he started as. if he meant to leave no doubt about this verdict, and for the fighter read Arst three rounds Phillips was glad sportsmen, to get inside and work away there. In the second round Phillips dropped from a punch to the body. He was up again at the count of one, and as he got to his feet he looked appealingly at the referee as if hely were claiming a foul blow.
As he turned away Anderson slipped him again and dropped him for a count of two.
ANDERSON FADES
The belt was subscribed for public- As consolation for atrocious decision given against Cunt in the first fight.
The letter said Cliff was not to hold any I will against Phillips and hoped the better man would win. "Conduct yourself at all times with For the first part it was give and
dignity and uphold the prestige of take fighting. Phillips,
British Gulana by acting as a thorough third round on, tried to open it up of English people. Always realisa from the sportsman before the critical eyes with long raking lefts. He caught. Anderson several times and follow-given you and exercise it with dis
your boxing ability gift God has ed up with rights which, however, cretion. Colour did not
seem to carry the old tiger who wins or loses does not matte
does not matter, stic
Anderson faded a little from his so long as you win or lose properly. strong two-fisted manner and there The whole colony is proud of you, is no doubt that Phillips was be-watching and waiting for the out- Linning to cut down the leeway too, realises that the outery over the come of your struggle. British Gulana, tic points.
Then "at the end of the sixth previous decision is just one more round, Anderson caught him with sign of the great and honest little. another swing to the body that speech in which he indicated that dropped Phillips to tho canvas, while he had nothing against Philips writhing in pain,
and hoped the better man would win he was niso dotermined that
ho should be the winner.
Among the speechmakers were
were two members of Parliament, James Glan- ville of Consett and Dick Blyton of Houghton-le-Springs, two Durhain ex-miners and James Knight, Sea- The best night of the night was men's Union, of which Cliff was a supplied by Rinty Monoghan (Bel-member when he served in Mer- fast) and Emile Famechon (France). candile Marine throughout the war.
The end-came with dramatle gud- denness with both mên dilling away to the body and a general feeling was that such a willing scrap should have gone to a proper climax rather
the, music-hall, treatment
than
received.
By Reg. Wootton
Mr Glanville, deputising for tho Colonial Secretary Mr Creech Jones said he had worked in pita beside coloured men, and on behalf of the working class. he represented, he Enid he was disgusted the British Boxing Board of Control should have put, up the colour bar for the cham- Dionchips.
Mr Blyton sald the Government stands four square in favour abcillion of the bar which was the
most
of
pernicious thing to have inside
the British Empire.
An East London hairdresser who. spoke said most of his custom was Hebrow but they all hoped the bet-
ter man would wi
A full description of the second Dght between Anderson and Phillips appears in column 3 and 4.1
Arthur Peall says:
ENTRE of diagram shows pink on ta agot with cueball and black as indicated. This obvious stroke to play is the scrow-back oft pink to pocket that ball and leavo
PINKO
BLACK
good posi➡ tion on black vin the side cushion
This atrok O makes no
tional de- mands on cue-power.
but is
of ton bungled because inexperienced players spot the ans by gripping to cus before contact in tindo with the object-ball. The remedy is to let the cue completo its work when playing acrow strokes.
in the final placings, after the scores
Both Cambridge University and
In separate sports had been reckon the Amateur Athletic Association ed
up, Britain was placed seventh. (the ruling body of amateur athletics Compared with the traditional in Britain) have now established all-round contest of the ancient decathlon championships and Greeks, I think the Modern Interna- may look for some promising repre- tional Olympic Committee has gone sentatives from those one better. The pentathlon of the the 1848 Games.
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