THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947.
..SPORTS FEATURES..
SAILS COME OUT ALONG THE NORFOLK BROADS
A typical holiday scene on the lovely and famous, Norfolk Broads. This group of white sails was caught by the camera at Wroxham, where sailing is the most popular of all the sporta.
Why Can't European
Boxers Kayoe?
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(By ROBERT MUSEL)
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LONDON. In this year of big purses knockout punch can be valued roughly at say £250,000 for a heavyweight (provided he can box a little; too) and proportionately less--but still plenty -for the classes ranging down to flyweight. Why then are there so few knockout artists in European boxing?
I don't know. But I put thei question to scientists at London Üniversity. They said the famine of knockouts had never come to their consideration before but they would take note of it and advise what were their col- lective thoughts on the problem.
Professor D. H. L. Evans of the Anatomy Department then called me back and the following discussion took place:
Prof. Evans-Are we
correct
in assuming that Amerlen has a near monopoly on knockout pan- chera?
·Myaolf—Yes.................
Prof. Evans-Bruce Woodcock
and Freddie Mills here can be considered knockout punchers, too, can they not?
Myself Yes.
Prof. Evane-How about Primo Carnera, of Italy......Carpentier of France and that fellow.... whats his name....Uzcudum of Spain 7
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British Athletic Prospects Brighter
(By. RECORDER)
With the full results of the recent English AAA Championships to hand it is now possible to predict that Great Britain's showing in the Olympic Games at London next year should be fair enough.
Why Our Tennis Girls Lose
(By ARCHIE QUICK)
Donald Budge, whom I rauk only behind Bill Tilden and Henri Cochet as the greatest lawn tennis player of all time, has a theory about the aupremacy of American women at the game, and why British girls lag behind.
British Boxing At
Its Lowest Ebb
Flyweight Championship Flop
(By ARCHIE QUICK)
If anything were needed to force British box- ing to a new low, the world flyweight championship contretemps in Glasgow was that vehicle.
More than a fiasco, it was a flagrant filching of public money..
I was the only boxing critle to warn that Jackie Paterson might not make the weight. But n}} the other boxing writera must have known, and certain the Board of Control, the promoter and the fighter himself knew thut never again would ha-encompass eight stones.
man who chon, "
made n fool of Fame--
NOT IN SAME CLASS Marino is quite good but is not in the same class as Jurich Mon- Lana or La Barba, and he will not bent the Irish lad at his best. Therefore I say that three two will Bght again for the world. championship always providing the Hawaiian party do not sud- denly go home.
Paterson has had boils, it is truc, but that was the natural consequence of wasting lik jockey. And even on the eve of The whole time I was in Gina- Pat the fight, when over three pounds gow, Paterson's manager excessive in weight and admitting Collins could not be traced, which his recently Innced right hand is no sort of way to do business, had not properly healed, the or good publicity either, while statement was sent out that the Paterson's doctor Was aqually fight was on. It never was. That evasive.
was why Rinty Monaghan was -When asked if Jackie' had col- there. But more about his caten-lapsed through nervous condition weight fight with Dada Marino; Intor.
WEIGH-IN A FARCE
all he would say was that boxers were always in a nervous condi- tion just before a fight. I ask you!
The weigh-In, scheduled to take
My critical views on British place in the deserted ballroom boxing.are well known. I am not was another farce. It was stated prejudleed against it. I would that Paterson had collapsed. like to see it climb out of the That he had worked out at mid- present alough of despond, but night and was still two pounds; such affairs as this give it no sort
over. Rubbish! I suggest ho of uplift.
gave up the struggle long ago and
is now a natural bantam,
As a last veneer there was talk about a £3,000-a-side world title fight at some future date. Rubbish again!
who
los!
Marino,
has mary heavily through the protracted stay in Scotland has calmed the thle through the American Asso- ciation. Promoter Black anys he has lost £3,000 on the fight. can almost believe it.
The British Boxing Board of Control are to hold an inquiry. 1 hope they probe deeply. We were literally taken for a ride to rain-soaked Hampden Park where, so long ago as last May, at the Rest of Europe v. Great Britain. football match I was told Pater-
"Over here your girls are not keen to strengthen their claim to taught to take deliveries oarly be the world's greatest present- son would never go to the scale.
and at Wembley I am convinced too, that Rinty enough. They wait too long after day player,
difference - Monoghan was fighting under or- the bounce and that sput second £1,000 will be the
tween finishing first and second. ders. This was never the Irish- difference has put Brough, Os- borne, Todd and Hart, and be- fore them Marble and Botz, where they are today," he told me at a reception Sir Arthur Elvin gave to mark the American players' arrival in London for the £5,000 Wembley tournament.
Budge, Bobby Riggs, Pauline Betz and Sarah Palfrey Cooke had
“Early ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ season ** performances yet to improve on this time and is flown-from-New-York-in---14 promised very little and the Eag-nowhere near his peak.
H. A.
hours, and after Wombley they
PROPER ENCOURAGEMENT
Budge emphasised how greater is the encouragement given in America to parks players than in Cali- England, particularly in fornia where the majority of leading players hail from.
Jish athlete takes, it seems, a good | In the Three Miles, the Nether: plan to play In Bristol, Brighton three or four months to warm up lands runner, J. Lataster, was and Nottingham, and hope to go to his best performance. The only 15 yards ahead of
English team loaks Olney, of Thames Valley Har on to Paris, Brussels,. and appear probable
on paper but
the rlers, with G., F. Lucas of Bel- for the Forces in Munich. respectable Olympic Games will start a good grave Harriers another 10 yarda month before the third week of behind. It was a good showing July when the AAA Champion- for both Olney and Lucas and do ships normally take place...
they can be looked upon to GREAT. EXCEPTIONS
Britain is weak in the sprints better next year. Intaster won the event in very respectable time. MyselfThese are great excep- and the quarter-mile. Best bet tions. The question is why do a up to the "quarter" is E. Q. F. great majority of blitz battlers Coffe, of Edinburgh University, Scotland originate in the United States a Nigerian student In with England a distant second? who has done goad times on poor Prof. Evans-We have conclud-tracks. The surprise of the AAA ed that there is absolutely
no Championships was the fact that unatomical reason for this British athletes, always strong in superiority in punching. But the quarter," were blanked out of perhaps this will provide a clue: the first three places, which went tests show that races originating to an Irishman, a south African
Europe have a more and a Swiss respectively.
PLEASANT SURPRISE
in North effective reaction to premeditated danger than, say, South Euro-
ONE GOOD BET
D. O. Finlay is a good bet in
Sarah Palfrey is from Boston, the high hurdles. The surprise performer of the day was, how- but others like Alice Marble are Whittle, of from Los Angeles where talent ever, Captain H. Reading A.C., who took the 440 spotting is highly organised, Yards Low Hurdles in 55 seconds flat, a very nice effort, and follow- ed that up by taking the long jump with a leap of 23 feet 9% inches. In the former event, D.
Budge did not think Fred Perry would be seen in England, but the incomparable Fred is one of a touring cireus that plays In
R. Ede, the London University America's Important cities for
peans. That 18, both react i In the half-mile, however, there Champion, was close behind, and ten months every year, instinctively about the same way was a pleasant surprise,
Tom in the
long Jump bath Prince to 'immediate danger. But when White of Lincoln Wellington | Adedoyin
Miss Betz, who recently turned and H. E. Askow of
told me she had the danger is known and its form A.C., who finished fourth in good | Achilles Glub
were within two professional, known the North European re- company at Oslo last year, nall inches. With three other Eng- set herself no financial targot, action la somewhat better.
ing at the tape the strong Dutch liah Jumpers doing better than but she has already received over Myself low about negroes runner. F. A. De Ruyter, with H..23 feat this year the prospect of £5,000 and she intends to make Buch as Joc Louis?
J. Partett, of Dorking St. Paul's Olympic points in the long jump as much money in as short a time A.C. a surprise third a fifth of a looks very bright,
as possible before retiring. She second behind. Purlott's perf
does not aim to get married be- fore she retires either.
Prof. Evans Mind, I am make ing no hard and fast statements, That would require ; intensive statistical research.. I can mere ly say that Negroes when young have very fast, natural, insting- tive reactions.
MORE MENTAL THAN PHYSICAL
formance in hanging on to Del Bettor than that, British Ruster classes him in the list of athletes seem finally to have con- probable Olympic point-winners.quered their inferiority complex
in the field events. Though per
MASKELL'S OPINION
Don Muskell, England's 'leading In the mile too, though Douglas formances are still not up to Con- professional and world's premtor Wilson failed to come through, tinental standards, they are now coach, attributed the supremacy Bill Nankerville of Belgrave, iar not for behind and there was of the four American women to riors, who won the Armed Forces nothing at the AAA Games this one of those cycles that come to Myself-Lots
of American 1,500 metres in Berlin last year. yent comparable to the Continen- all nations. France had Cochet,| knockoutera have diverse Euro came in a nice third in approxi- tal sweeps of the past. pean derivation-Italian, (Rocky and Slykhuis, of Hungary and the only certain fold events point- tin, Lee and Hughes: America, mately 4.18.4, well behind Goray Alan Paterson, of Glasgow, Is Berot Brugnon and Lacoste at one time; England, Porry," Aus- Graziano) Czech, (Joe Baksi) and Holland, respectively. Bill has winner next year. Ille 6 foot 774 Tilden, Wills Moody, Jacobs and Inch leap at ibrex Park against Stocffen; Australia her four in Bill Vessie is a very respectable the days of Jack Crawford, and performanco, indeed, the third] best In the world this year and only a half-inch below the very
so on.
Prof. Evans-Personally,
feel a knockout is more a mental rather than a physical quality.
80' on.
come
Prof. Evans-Uneciontife but Didn't Jimmy Wilde at 84 pounds a good a description as any.
would Myself By the way a famous
England's turn knockout lightweights at 135 and
again, he said, but only after an over? A knockout is a ripple of American, Arthur Brisbane made | best. nervo and muscle that travels up widely quoted comment on box In the disc throw, D. L. Grigg, Intensive search, great organisa the body, and along the arm to ing. Ho said "a gorilla could do L E. Nesbitt and E. J. Brewer tion and unremitting training.
have been conslitent this season Budge told me too that he has the fist. It takes mental direc-it better."
around Prof. Evana-He was wrong. A at
140 feet, Brower now flown half a million miles In tion to make that ripple explode
cannot be taught to should yet improve. For the first America, over Europe and JA at the precise moment at the pro- gorilla ciso spot that will induce tefa-punch, nor will he make a flat mo in history, too, there are South Africa.
English Javelin There are certain human "sporte" half-a-dozen porary unconsciousness.
Myself-They sometimes call with which animals will have throwers who touch 180 feet and
to do. Good day better. A very promising Im-ional matches between him and that killer instinct' in the United nothing
United Prosi
frovement, Intel, States.
He
stressed that: the profes- laks are not set-ups. Both are
Arthur Peall says:
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