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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1948.
"
"If they must have another war why can't they have it in all those lovely wide open spacos for a change ?”.
From Giles in the United States,
Why men are
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By LEO TURNER
EW YORK.The trouble is, Miss Adeline Wasserman contends, too many people are working up a sweat trying to improve on J. W. Gent's recipe for keeping cool.
The blue-eyed Miss Wasserman has 1,000 reasons, all of them alcoholic, why men should not be grouchy on a hot afternoon. She's the boss, on the 85th floor of the Empire State Buliding, of a 3,000-volume library on liquor.
... i.
- Sho picked up a yellow, fragile copy of Gent's "Vinctum Britannicum," published on November 23, 1675, in London.
"The cherry is a most innocent fruit," Gent nivised the people of London, "and rarely hurts anyone unless caten in too great a quantity. The wine made of them is very pleasant and proper wine for the summer scasen, cooling, strengthen- ing and stirs up a good appetite for ment."
LOTS TO LEARN
There is a lot to learn in Miss Wasserman's library. The Arabs discovered the art of distill- ing, but their Moslem religion prevented them from distilling anything. stronger than water.
Irish priests blamed the 1816 famine on soldiers drinking aqua vitae (Irish whisky) during Lent.
running
faster, jumping higher
Can a mile be done
in four minutes?
by
...
JOHN PREBELE
T every meating of the with a characteristic, but not very
sentence; Informative,
"Ah Jes' Olympic Games
likes running, Ah jes' gels away quick and then runs like a puss on hot tiles."
there have been records
broken.
How is it that men and women are able to go on doing this?
what physical By mechanics are they so much better than the men who re- surrected the glories of the Olympiad 52 years ago?
They can now lop off seconds from a race time or add' inches to a jump in a way that challenges both the law of gravity and the credulity of men. They can jump four times their own length.
Each aims to be the fastest man, the highest or the longest jumper, on earth.
There is no doubt that there are differences in the Negro's physical make-up which give him an initial advantage over a white man,
His thighs are hung further for ward, giving him a stronger, piston- like drive, adding four inches to his
Elride.
His chest is deep and, according
slower, to some, his heartbeat is H raco La renowned for its stamina.
But there was more to Owena, than
and to any record-breaker. running "like a puss on hot illes
They owe their superiority over previous runners the more com- prehensive organisation of athletic events, better tracks, better training, an all-round rise in physical fitness.
...
Girl's strides
Her secret jay in her alx feet of lean body, and the amazingly quick strides which won her tho title at Berlin in 1938. She broke. the tape ten yards ahead of her competitors.
The "western roll" expert literally rolls, with head and shoulder leading and left side to the bar.
Some jumpers prefer the "eastern cut-off," left leg leading and right leg tucked over the bar, as the Jumper faces his original position.
But it is the “straddle" or the "belly-roll" that dotermined-Steer's record-breaking.
He rolls up to Oft, dins, and then straddles. The strain
of the "straddle" is great, but it gave him the world's record, and may well have decided Paterson's efforts.
15ft. 7ins, vault
As the world's highest polevaulter, Cornellus Warmerdam pegged up his record in California six years age with a vault of 15ft 7ins.
He was the first to clear 15ft.. faultlessly curving over the bar and sliding down.
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Once the world's fastest swimmer was enclosed within the handsome. torso of Johnny "Tarzan" Weis. smuller. Few thought his records would be beaten.
But they were, by a knock- kneed water-dart called Alan Ford, He smashed Weissmuller's 10-year- old record four years ago when he cleaved through 100 yards in 50.6secs.
His great strength comes less from
The title of the fastest man
A1 Who is the fastest woman? looks like going to six feet of the moment, a farm-girl from his knock-knees, the result, of an wiry studenthood from the Missouri, Helen Stephens, holds-the-injury, then from the tremendous University of
power in his body. California. record. Twenty-three - year - old Mel Patton has the long, slim lege, the narrow hips and deep chest of a champion runner.
Unbeaten record
At
Salt Lake
City last year, admittedly with a following wind. he projected himself along the 100- yard track in 0.4sccs.
-.
Some say he has since done it in 0.1 of a second less. If he uld. he beat the record at present held by the Ohlo Negro, Jesse Owens, whose Incredible bursts of speed won him the nicknamics of "Brown Bullet" and "Black Panther."
She also beat Burke's time for 1808. Her body is as strong as a man's,
Owens holds the men's long- Jump record, but Holland's Mrs Fanny Blankers-Koen holds the women's record.
She took that, and the women's high-jump record, In Holland under German occupation, leaping 20ft. Ging, and clearing 5ft. 7ins.
Both of these caally beat the men who went to Athens in 1896.
Over their heads
When he decided to go all out to beat "Tarzan's" record, he put him self through a strenuous five months course of physical training. Al 19 he broke the record.
Efforis like this come as much from
new methods as new con testants.
Duncan Forbes was given the privilege of distilling whisky duty free in the barony of Ferrentanl, Scotland, by William III in 1690.
Scottish soldiers Introduced whisky to England.
The first whisky was distilled in America by Aaron Putnam on January 29, 1791. The American spelling became whiskey.
Then came mass production of summer "coolers."
ANOTHER RECIPE "The Complete Grocer," printed in 1832 by John H. Turney In New York, offers this little item:
Now times in breast-stroke events have been set up by the use of the
"Tako 34 gallons of pure white "butterfly," in which the arms are rum, 32 pounds of common brown brought back above the water. sugar, half an ounce of the oil of As for the fastest woman in the wormwood, one gill of alcohol, a water, that title probably belongs little ground cinnamon, six nutmegs to swift Fritzie Nathansen, of Den- and one quart of lime juice; make mark, who, at 18, set up the 100 your sugar into syrup, kill your yards free-style record 59.4secs, oll by beating it in a mortar with four years ago.
the alcohol and spirits of wine with a few lumps of loaf sugar, sleep the nutmegs, strain them and add to the other ingredients and colour It green"
A Greek's spirit
There is still one great question. mark facing the athlete and hanging over every big track. Can the mile be run in four minutes flat?
Any runner who can drop the re- a second and a quarter will be the cord of Sweden's Gundar Haegg by
world's fastest miler.
"The Flowing Bowl," published by William Schmidt, New York, 1801, has this ono known as "Wil- Ham's Summer Cooler.”
"In n
very
long glass cut the
New methods, better tracks, im-juice of two limes, a spoonful of proved conditions, will go on powdered sugar, a good dash of seltzer; dissolve this well; one pany breaking records..
But every
unser and jumper of Santa Cruz rum, one glass of needs something more than that. California clarei; mix this; All your What it is, is best explained by the glass with ice, ornament with spirit of Spiridon Loues.
slices of orange and pineapple and A Greek peasant when the first ice cream and top off with straw- modern Olympiad was held, he be berries or other berries in season." lieved that it would be a slight an
"The best way to keep cool," said his nation if a Greek did not carry off-the-laurels-for-the-marathon. Miss Wasserman,"is-just-relax,”........... He went out and won.
United Press.
THE YANKS HAVE A NEW
By C.V.R. Thompson
NEW YORK.
But, adds McLemore, "I do wish English would over the TS. getting the Us newspapers are site, idea that they, won the war all by themselves. After all, the US stories from ex-war correspon- did contributo a mite or two." . 1 dents now back to report on the Olympics.
I
LOOK ROUND
AMONG AMERICANS. at home
there is sardonie laughter, over a typically rugged American Indus- Irialist like the Marshall plan's Mr Hoffman telling Slr Stafford Cripps not to be conservative in his targets for recovery. But the New York Herold-Tribuna explains that Mr. Hoffman was not using the word in BRU PRITAIN also took up large por-, it political sense.
tions of the American sports.
"Mr. Hoffman represents nothing Here is a selection of what they are telling the folks back pages with reports of the Freddie other than the hopeful energy, the Mills fight. The American exports boundless and unquestioning faith His official record for the 100
home:-
found no fault with the decision, of the New World.: Sir Stafford yarda (0.4secs,) has been equalled, • As for the highest-jumping man Britain is more war-minded but they found plenty of faults with represents the European with his but never benten. Until that in the world, that tle goes to than America. and the first tho fight.
doubts, his subtleties, his dis- happens (and Patton may do it) Oregon's Les Steer.
and Illusionments,
his 'historie Owens holds the tille of the fastest He can stride neatly over the question any American visitor Ree Smith, sporta columnist for
memories. To such # опе the man in the World.
heads of three six-foot brunettes, is asked is,. "What about war?" the New York Herald-Tribune, and, more satisfactorily from sh There are the same dreary ra said Lesnevich was the luckiest man American will seem not only His superbly muscled frame, his ocial point of view, logged the tions. restrictions, and regulations, there because his eyes closed up petuous but naive," long legs thrusting him forward world's record in 1941 with
WoTEC. a jump except that they are
could The in the first round and he precision and certainty of thoroughbred racehorse, enabled of 5ft 11ins.
British people have finally "had it" not see the rest of the fight, "But," TWENTY-TWO British him to set up four world records in
According to correspondent Bob adds
"even he must have men working in New York, and one afternoon 13 years ago.
Considine they are "terribly tired melted
their wives, will spend their sum and frightfully uncertain."
mer holidays going to college. For WHAT IMPRESSED the Amert- the first time, Cornell, one of the cans most about watching a larger New York universities, is big night in London: The announ giving a fortnight's course in how Cer saying: "My lords, ladies and to know America, gentlemen,' all the ringsidera in dress clothes, and the good be- The students, most of them from haviour of the audience, which, new five British Arms, including British cording to one critic, was "20 Overseas Airways,” will read 10 books, listen to eight lecturce, and genteel it hurt all over.”
with
A year later, at the Berlin Olymples, while the Nazla were sneering at the coloured entrants as "Black Auxiliaries" of the American competitors, he took apt revenge by snatching the 100 and 200 metres and long-jump records.
Experts believe that there is no reason why seven feet should not bo
cleared eventually.
With four years to go before he repches, maturity, a likely man to reach this height is Scotland's young
Alan Paterson. He already holds the British record (ft. 71⁄2ins.) and Is an inspirations to British jumpers. Paterson hopes that when his muscles are stronger he will change his style from the "western roll" to the "atraddle."
He Anished the 100 metres nearly two seconds earlier than T. E. Burke, who ven it in 1800. His tong jump was nearly six feet further than the he "straddle the two the winner in that same year.
What makes the Negro such on "straddle," in which the body curls outstanding Agure. In athletics? itself, face and stomach down, over Owens once defined his own ability the bar, gives better clearance.
NANCY
“......... And Carried His Own Trunk
"OLUMNIST Henry McLemore re-
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ports that Britain sill has the world's loveliest countryside, politest policemen, pinkest babies, and most obliging public servants.
He finds a great effort among the people to keep up appearances.
The streets are alive with men in
Im-
business
toppers and morning clothon, and Albis put forward by the Ames. ak part in a village street dance. restaurants glow with chafing dishes cans for Lesnevich: He is too old, that America's strength comes not. cooking nothing and walters bustling He had too much trouble taking off from Broadway but from Main). about serving the same.",^«
weight.
Street.
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