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GIRL WHO GAVE UP
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,- SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1949.
ALL
TO SWIM THE CHANNEL
By FREDERICK COOK B..
For almost two years now Shirley May France, of Somerset, Massachusetts, has given up all the things that usually go with being 16, a pretty blonde with a gay laugh and the possessor of a much-better- than-average physique.
There have been no parties, no boy friends, no cigarettes. Ice cream strict- ly rationed to one scoop a day, for a girl who can normally handle six with ease. And no soda pop at all.
The reason: "Everybody has to have something she wants more than any thing else in the world. I want the Channel," she told mo.
And to get it, the girl swim- "The Channel is entirely her own theme song, Slow Boat To mer who has startled America own iúca.”
has been to bed every night. for nearly two years by ninc.
She line put herselt on an
athletic training
schedule that
"ALL I WANT "
China,
She got into swimming early. Her home is only 100 yards from a beach. Her father wON
John France is a service mana local record-holder and her
hcr
would train most boxer She for an oil burner company and mother was his pocer when he
money for expensive trained. inches on has put two
hering no
friend of height (now 5ft 10in.) and Channel awlms. A
They taught Shirley curious 10lb, on her weight (1st. 5lb.). the family, Emil Mikool, put up swimming when she
And she has developed musclo £1250 to pay passage and CX-At eleven she did an eight-mile
for Shirley Penins
May, and co-ordination and mastery over pens
and coach, Harry source in 2 hours 32 minutes. raised her father that have
25 minutes better than mil water
Boudakian, and for Mrs Mikool, father's time, high the hopes of the people
svill be Shirley May's who are coming over to Eng-who
Shirley May chaperone.
dislikes and land with her.
Present plans arc to make result
of her years of Jasird the attempt between August
training, "They've made me too tall," she says. "Five foot ten and 12.
15 ridiculous.
for All right swimming, maybe. But for a girl, it's too much,"
"That's
'NOW I'M READY' The alher day Shirley May 14 miles from the
"Gertrude Ederle Awnin the
still holds Man- Battery, at the tip of
the world record for women, hattan, to Coney Island in Ava
14 hours,
anid 31 minutes,"
the only thing the want is ever complains about," said her hours As she ran out of the
cried: Shirley May. "All I fresh, she water, still
not just to swim the Channel. That's father. Channel "I'
for the
the most famous swim in the The first time she mentioned world, and I want It, swimming the Channel was list September when the swam a gruelling 12 miles race in Lake George, New hours 42 minutes.
now, Po
York. In ninc
"If I break the record, that be a nice rainbow on very pleasant dream."
will
The Channel distanco doca not worry
She Shirley May. There were 121 entries and 15 done more mileage across finishers. She was the only girlke St. Clair, Michigan, from to complete the course, and the first to do ho since the race be- gan in 1927,
"And what's more," said her Inther, John France, "she broko the world record for women in the first five miles. She made it in two hours 31 minutes.
She was the only one to run, fresh an when she'd started, out of the water ni the end.
the American shore
Canadian (23 miles).
SHE WILL HUM
to the
When she makes her Channel bid her father and trainer will be in the boat, handing her chocolate and a specially pre- energy-building drink. pared Shirley May will, as usual when she swims, be humming
Fixtures Muddle
her
Fixture-making for the four played Belfast Celile they bad divisions of the Football League won 25 and drawn one of their la a streamlined, systematic pro-26 matches played. cesa. By contrast, the efforts of tho Southern League clubs to arrange their match Hisis, follow-
-London Express Service)
WRACA
v.. BAOR
Warrant Officer II Caldwell bowling for the Western Command in the WRAC cricket match against a BAOR BAOR won by nine leum at Hounslow, Middlesex.
wickets.
SYDNEY SKILTON FINDS THAT
THE
IS
ANCIENT SPORT OF TENNIS
REGAINING ITS POPULARITY
attempt
this
W
Is there to be a return of tennis to popularity? I am prompted to ask that question because of the activities in London, Paris and New York. It should, of course, be made clear that I refer to the ancient and royal pastime of tennis and not to the less-than-a-century-old game of iawn tennis, which is what most people think of today when they hear the word tennis.
In France, the United who is preparing for this third The 14th century sport of the rest tennis, or court tennis as it States and Australia.
autumn.-From is known in the United leved to have been in a French the Christian Science Monitor. States, has come into the monastery and the shape of the monastery cloister is retained news recently through the in the court of the present day. team play The penthouse, a shed running international championship in Paris, the round three sides of the Court, English amateur champion-1s said to have been the mon- ship in London, and the astery cowshed, the grille was a window and there are other open forthcoming world's
The origin of tennis is be- championship challenge in
feasible explanations for the New York: International
galleries, the dedans and the interest in all three events
trambour. has never been greater and
These odd sounding hazards inter for the first time in many a are distributed around the 30- long year the graph line of ft. high cement walls and the
Boor.
also of cement or store,
100rt. measures approximately
middle of by 35ft. Across the
In extended A net the court over which the ballan Iron- hard affair mode of compressed As it flashes flannel-is driven.
SCOTTISH CAPTAIN Captain of the London Seot- ing their annual meeling In tich Rugby Football Club for London, WOK 1 fantastic next season is Frank H. Coutts, scramble. It was more like a who
lives nt Camberley, rugby scrum!
Coutts, Army captain, has played in every type of rugby county and Interces
The clubs had not approved the Hats supplied ofleinlly and schools, club,
ford.
back and
by clècting Weymouth and The Scottish, who play al lendington, in addition to re- | Richmond, can turn out almost electing Chingford and Bedford.|a completo side of international
At this stage the clubs had and Trials players,
few Saturdays to offer the new arrivals, And when Harold
PILGRIMAGE
1021.
whosu Gould,
used for
Gae
were allowed to make their own
He is Д grand forward tennis popularity inclines Axtures, They had made good
leader and one of the best upwards. progress before the meeting, and
place kleku in the country. had included the two bottom Melrose in his home club.
The Davis Cup of tennis is the clubs who were applying for re-
E. Ogilvie, his vice-captain, Bathurst Cup, a
trophy given election-Chingford and Bed- has already been captain, so in 1922 by Lady
Bathurst to knows the ropes. He has not
encourage international team Their idea was that if the, re-ret played for
but play. Scotland,
It is competed for in of the walls it is diverted into tiring clubs failed to secure re-has travelled as reserve full-alternate years in London and one of the apertures. A hundred eicetion they would only have to
centre-threequerier. Faster than most full-backs, teams representing
Paris and from time to time balls are often substitute the names of the two
the United match. Ogilvie makes a most capable States have entered. This year clubs who were elected.
centre. He comes of Border
ORIGIN NOT CLEAR What upset this arrangement rugby stock; his family is close a team came over which beat
'the'best' that Britain and France How and when the game was the unexpected decision to ly associated with the Hawick could produce and to took the increase the league to 24 clubs club.
came to England is not clear. Bathurst Cup across the Att is known that as long ago as lantic for the first time since 1305 a restrictive statute was
passed against tennis because Victory for the U.S. a quarter it interfered with archery prac of a century ago was entirely tice and it is also known thai due to one man, the late Jay King Henry VIII was a keen
namo rates
the court at player who built- Palmer last saw the Weymouth. Among the pilgrims return-high_in_the_Annals of tennis, historis Hampton Court That: nianager he was sitting gazing ing to London from Lourdes History repeated itself this year was in 1530.
The court was disconsointely at a 1st that in-ly Jimmy Towcel, South because in the final round after rebuilt in 1860. As recently as cluded 13 blank Saturdnys! Africa's light-weight cham-the United States had beaten 1935 it was restored by private
Clubs found ft impossible to plon. He is a devout Catholic. France it was entirely due to
and today subscription complete the last two or three Towcel's win over Birken-one player that the United very much in use. The game fixtures to their mutual satis-head light-weight, Peter Fallon States beat Britain.
reached America via New York faction, and the League officials has strengthened considerably may have to take the job over the South African's claims to
He was Ogden Phipps, seven and Dosion, Muss, in the 1870's The reigning champion of the times and scrap the Isls the clubs an Empire title eliminator.
champion of America,
world,
Etchebaster, la a
a native have arranged.
If the present Empire it'e who won both his single mat-
although of France
now holder Canada's Arthur King, ches and then partnered J.H. Van
York and the cham-sident in New succeeds in his bill for Amert-Alen, thrice American can citizenship, one of the first plon, to win the doubles clash, earliest world champions were
tille
drs! While Second Division League moves the matching of Towcel triumphed by the odd match crossed the thus Frenchmen. new champion The
Atlantic In 1885 champions Fulham were en-
through English-born Tom gaged in a not-too-successful with Kid Germain, Jamaica's in Ave.
Pettit who had established him. tour of Spain, two of their "southpaw" champion. Liver-
UNDERSTOOD BY FEW
self In Boston, Mass. players, Lawler and Campbell, pool promoter, Johnny Best,
In 1800 the idle become an were making soccer history fancies the pairing as an ideal
Tenuis is understood by few | English possession and it pasted und in New York of all places. Empiro eliminator.
people, and played by fowor. to and from five different In that
to
SOCCER HISTORY
When the two Ji shmen went
Craven Cottage
Fulham
agreed they should be allowed
to find a
OUTSIDE THE RULE
United
States
The
But it is the boast of those who ŝholders before 1914.
it is
FC-
do play, usually those wealthy year came Jay Gould, a member attached to it, that the muscular family, who enough to bear the expenses of a famous American financial after dominating
to go to America with their old tion offeint was allowed to as
No Amateur Boxing Assocla- club, Belfas! Celtie.
sist at the Inter-house boxing effort required is in excess of amateur play turned his atten- Both men were in the Celtic competition of a Romford school all the ball games which have tion to the professionals and team which beat Scotland-in-in aid of the Kenneth Fares descended
from
it. These heat them. Gould resigned cluding six of the men who de- Memorial because this in the include racquets, squash rac- the title la 1917 and it reverted feated. England at Wembley-by close-season."
quets, lawn tennis, Aves the to the previous holder G. F. When professionals fight all Basque game' of two goals to none in New York.
pelola and Covey who lost it to Etche Campbell, signed us a wing for the year round and amateurs the American
game of hand-
The baster in 1928,
Basque ward by Folham, played centre-can go to Oslo in June or box ball.
hon withstood all thallenges forward and stored both goals. In the Olympits in August, why The actual number of courts in since that time, including those This was a notable occasion, on earth must the ABA debar use" number less than ain the current postwar period It was Scotland's third trans- tchoolboy bouts in July?.
hundred. Forty-three of them by James Dear, the British atlantic tour and until they
London Express Service) are to be found in England and open champion, and Phipps
INWEES:
FORVE
WELL
THEY GAY-
* YOU ŠTAND
YOU'RE BOUND
MEET GOME-ONG
YOU KNOW
Mister Conquest
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DREAMING
SPORTSMAN'S DIARY
Worcester Win Would Suit Everybody
SAYS BRUCE HARRIS
Curious thing about County Cricket Inst year was that everyone even the staunchest supporters of Middlesex and Yorkshire was pleased when Glamorgan won the Championship.
And, from what I hear, the same applies to Wor- cester this season. Thoy have a great chance of their first-ever win. They still have to play ong of their chief challengers, Middlesex, but Middlesex will be weakened by a Test match.
This is at Lord's when there
Riese SECOND THOUGHTS
two (with possibly Robertson
True Roty Jenkins may be There too but the balance definitely in favour of Wor-
Dick Girling, outside-left who
or Young) will almost certainly has just re-signed for Brentford, be across the river in the last is one of those footballers who Test at The Oval,
was brought to London by the wor. He came from Birming- ham to serve with the East Yorks Regiment at Shirley, and was recommended to the Crystal Paince club.
Ho
cester.
BETTING ON CRICKET
And
talking of the County Champlonship brings us to bet ting on cricket, which to me
is little kehood of it
means on every
signed profezionat for them in October 1943, but was Inter badly shot up in the Nor
made
It WDJ
in
Always seema rather distaste-mandy invasion, ful.
March - 1947 that he and his But if latest odds offered by te Brentford for £7.500 and partner, Naylor, were transferred leading bookmakers In this form of gambling persist, there they
ade their
first appearanco In a First Division game against spread- Ing. We have the very peculiar t
Chelsen at Grimo Park.
• Girling's football wan below odds offered of 3-4 Yorkshire,
par last senson because of 2-1 Worcester and Middlesex. Now bookmakers bet to
stomach trouble," At Arst 110 "book. That
was put on the "open to transfer hundred pounds, or units of that
list," but recently Brentford their minds and re- amount, they win a guaranteed changed sum, based on the odds they engaged him. offer. No doubt they have b'g, ONE HE MISSED monoy for only these thren Among other activities, ex- favourites, But, even 20, every Surrey cricketer, Tom Barling, other county, on these odds, writes in the Evening Standard ought to be at least 100-1.
of the promising young erle- keters he has seen during the season. It seems he should look
carer home.
WHAT A 'BOOK'
.
was awarded the "Best sports
Young son John, not yet 12, was uw
But, behold, Glamorgan wund Surrey are.D-1, and Warwick 100-6. The "outsider Leicester was last quoted at 60-1. would like to get someone to Collingwood Preparatory School man of the year* cup 'nt his back Leleester with me at 666 to this term. Father knew nothing one!
about it until it had been pre- N.B-If Yorkshire, Middleser sented, and Worcester are "laid" at there; odds with £100 in the "book" cricket and football for the last John has been captain of both the bookmaker pins £10 if three years.
One innings this Yorkshire wins and £12 if either term he-topped 10-a big score Worcester or Middlesex in for a small boy. Ho goes to quite apart from money invested Whitgift in September. on any of the other counties.
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