THREE SPRINTERS
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HAROLD PALMER REPORTS
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NOW THE RUSSIANS WANT TO COMPETE IN BRUSSELS GAMES
Unless anything happens to make them change their minds and you never know-the Russians will be competing in the European athletic championships al Brussels next month.
I understand their ambassador in Brussels bus re- cently informed the Belgian organisers of these cham plowships that the Soviets intend to send a team.
The Husstang compeled in the Goltell who was Just beaten by Last European championaalpa at Mrs Blankers-Koen at Orlo and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1950.
In the picture above Doris Balier chats with her former school cham, Sylvia Chers- min, who only ran in the 200 metres at the WAAA Cham- plonships to lose to Dorolby Manley. Doris and Bylyla have been suspended by the WAAA from taking part in any
international matches follow- int a complaint lodged that they were "not armeniable is dipine" on the vialt to New Zetland for the Empire Games. has brought The muspension the WAAA under fire from the British press.
Jane Foulds, (left), 10- years-old, is Britain's now 100
She mires champion.
■10 holda the new British 100 yarda record in 11 seconds fiat. At the WAAA Championships at the White City as brat Doris Baiter, shown above (left).
-Central
Press Photor.
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BUDGE PATTY LISTS THREE AND TWO CHAMPIONS
REASONS FOR HIS SUCCESS AT WIMBLEDON
BY FRANK ROSTRON
Budge Patty-new Wimbledon champion-lists three things as supremely im
portant in putting him on the road to the title..
And one of these factors he belloves to be the most important clue of all to Britain's post-war tennis fallures.
1.
1-2-3. What are they?
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|ing. The result jo that at every opportunity Patty in moving fast to the net, which calls for Hin resolution to a degree of stamina possessed; tain hla fitness campaign. only by an exceptionally f Patty likes "the good life," man. But he has found that in
For the anme reason he tennis It doesn't pay. For learned how to conserve four years he came to energy by using his wita. Wimbledon-and went back) Patty belleves that thany empty-handed.
hos
Ja
British players fall to make the correct valuation of the
many
This year it has bcon various points in a game. Too different.
people, he says, are un- der the misapprehension. that any, runs la a game of cricket all points are of equal value ma Not so.
It was not easy giving 25 cigarettes a day; cutting out parties; going to bed 10 o'clock.
up
at
But Patty WILD termined.
de.
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Long experience has taught Patty when to, what he calls, "fight madly."
Therefore right at the top of The list of Patty's priorities gu "Concentration on a ciful plan of play and development of the physical power to sustain it."
2. And this was dependent on No the concentrated develop.
And if Dusther factor must do ment of the aspect of the game on the list, it's what they call which he sustains best.
Patty
"the killer instinct” muny ways
admits
that in
his ground strokes are innde- When Paily breaks through quate compared with the superb his opponent's service bo nt- range and fluency of his volley-ways reslala that beckoning temptation to "sit back and ad- mire your handiwork." This 18 the point where he turns on the pressure. It was Bob Falkenburg who stressed that advice.
PATTY AT WIMBLEDON
ARCHIE QUICK SUGGESTS
Washbrook Or Griffith As The MCC Captain For Australian Tour
English cricket is in a new dilemma after the West Indlart Test defent. This matter of the captaincy in Australia the coming winter
is setling many heads wagging.
"When you brenk through service press three times as hard," said Falkenburg. Patty always tries to remember that.
3.
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The
*K
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game sot me early, and I could play it for nothing"
In that singlo sentence, Budze Patty argues, is a most im- portant clue to Britain's tennis setbacks,
In practically every town and city in America there are scorea of parks with hundreds of courts FREE for anybody who wants to play.
"You may pay 25 cents an hour for foodlit court-bat
pick next
can't
that's all, and any kid cur up an old racket fur to nothing-and it ho get free, second-hand balls, well, he's not considered very bright"
Give Englend free tennis, Patty argues, and you will have different championship story in one generation,
"Give the youngsters a chance to develop. Why, in England 15 doubt if me of the greatest names in tennis Kramer, Schroeder, many others would
ever have broken through 45 they could in the States."
Patty should know.
Maureen Gardner Dysoc
Look (right)
long time
to warm up this season after being out of athletics for a year but et le Women's 44 ^^^ Championships a fort- night ago she ran over the 80 metres hurdles in 11.0 noconda, a time to challenge the world's best at the European Games next month at Brussels.
Sheila Alexander (below) is Britain's now champion high Jumper. She cleared 5 feet 5 inches for first place in the WAAA Championships
and falled in an attempt to beat Dorothy Tyler's British record of 5 feet 83% inches.
-Central Press Photos.
Are Part-Time Players To Blame For
Britain's
Soccer
Slump?
Amidst all the tears that have been shed for England, the team which found
it was not good enough for the World Cup, and for Scotland, the team which, even more ignominiously, declared in advance it was not good enough, one outstanding question has still to be answered-Where do we go from here? -
There is no one now who will deny that we have lost our place as masters of the football world, One of the main reasons for our crash is the present-day pre- ponderance in Britain of part-time footballers.
Most of our ployers dovole} too much time to outside in. to which
He was terests, such as jobs
Daily They on there has done comparable times in "No" because of business and personal reasons, and poor boy himself. He started their football eventually takes only because of a misunders¦ the pul year. sindi. Although they had
not been admitted to meinber- ship of the International Federa- tlon, they sent a team and it was decided to let them take part.
BAD FOR WOMEN
Now they are in the Federa- tion and it would be no ordinary tcam that they will rond. In fact, the news is particularly rest of the womens bad for the athletes of Europe.
USEFUL MEN
F. G. Mann and N. W. D. Yardley have both said]
whoever takes the job now must suffer the handicap of knowing he is a third choice,
"The Russians will have zorne That is if the MCC stick to brillant bat arid an outstanding hardly a penny. lucefni men performers, too, tradition and appoint an amateur,feld, but first class ex-
at the age o. ane and for vesecond place,
he knocked
They have forgotten that only around tre years courts practicing, practising, complete concentration on foot.
mall produces complete Costing practising-and
ballers. "Tout's the stage. where
he says, "and:
the field events. Bulantjik was however, they break the perience is limited, and one talent develops," the fastest 110 metres hurdler in archale rule and appoint a pro-fears for him in Australia as that's the point, you in England Europe last year and T. Lunjeyfessional, four men become im- much as one does for the other often fritter it away," the fastest over 400 metres mediate "possibles"---Len Hut- suggestion of Doggort. hurdles.
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ton, Cyril Washbrook, Denis Compton and Tom Dallery, the Then they have hop-step-and-hitter established these past two jumper Szerbakov. He has dont masons as pro caplain of War-
the best in soft 714, goin Europe. H. Lipp. besides being weigh.-putters one of the best
NO
EXPERIENCE
There's this. champion
The
new
and his
first party
Simpson
nnd
Bailey пре
foot-
by ANDY- CUNNINGHAM
The
former Newcastle United manager, and one
arcalest of the Scottish traide forwards.
cannot
ever
choot.
the toe can still be a good paši, as long as It reaches its ob jective and stalna position.
A goal-scoring shot with the foc of the boot all counts. There is no compulsion to us the instep, which takes time but and allows a defenes second to tackle,
Д
OUT OF DATE?
THEY ARE JADED the Continental sides 1 havo
Should we be interested in We must put
Game a number of seen have the
aptitude searching questions to ourselves for making the ball do the work future World Cup competitions? about the stale of our game, with the minimum expenditure in the next series we should bo In nearly every case, I feel, the of energy.
better prepared, and not rely a postscript to all answers are applicable both to Some of our people can still players jaded at the end of
Wimbledon England and Scotland
be heard saying scomugly that a League and Cup programme.
wo Again,
can
the Copy foreigners Are our training methods as the
some of whom foreigners, up-to-date as they should be Dut the foreigners can choot,
Brst-class playcıp certainties for the trip, but for quite a ume, If any of the other three get they have
They are not. Compared with They team to shoot by conected 22 no knowledge of "I want to buy you a celebra, the foreigners we Oslo, Russia had five firsts, four in Europe, would be practically the unenviable task hin batsman-captaincy. The older school is tion drink, my first for a month,"
seem slow tant practice and by having it and organized them into team
into them
that groupings for two months prior but I plump for Washbrook.
matches cannot be won without to the actual competition. performances by their athletes he has totalled 7,539 points.
They lived together, trained
and together
played tactical matches against each other,
And I suggest that the team
In the nine women's events at
ot
was a
last year suggest that they will
with Harry Compare that be just
dominating na
which Brussels, especially in the field Whitle'a 6,007,
new British record recently.
the next Euro- By the way.
events.
wickshire.
THE CHOICE
seconds and three thirds. The certainty for decathlon. In this ship is almost certain to suffer, obviously led by Freddie he sald when he had changed on the ball, slow in positioning, drummed
slow in action, Brown, who is doing so well for after his victory. "Let 143 Other countries concentrate goals. Northamptonshire and has been drink to Pauline."
on ball practice until complete to Austraila before. He bala
SHOOTING FAILURE Pauline
Paulino Betz, proficiency is obtained in every well and bowls grandly but he
Wimbledon Women's champlonarl-control, shooting, passing. I know the three of them in-is well into the forlies.
We remain at the stage of Do our own players realise which is entered should be a of four years ago. Now she is Mrs
of shooting? "Britain" team, picked from the Mra Blankers-Koen, thepean championships look like mately, and I say unhesitatingly
a moving the Importance submit
in Washing laboriously trapping Let me
Addle, living one other 1.
of mill of the Com-that in the matter of lendemhip.
four countries. Duich girl who has won five being held in one
ball and bringing it dead to the Are they prepared to concen[best Central and particularly in
the art to After all, it is the Britishy tearn in gold medals the Wembley munist controlled
a deep name that has not yet cropped ton.
ground before making a further trate on acquiring
the foreigner do?
which competes at the Olymple Olympics, may provent their European countries.
knowledge of the finer aspects up S.C. Griffith, who has re-
resigned the Sussex "In a way I owe this chain move.
Too rarely do we ca pro- Games of the game, the Lancashire man cently in the SUCCESS
sprints and
have applied should get the vote.
Patty to Pauline." secretaryship to become a Flat pionship Seven countries
DYNAMOS SHOWED US fessionals at training spend "any We could prepare a British hurdles. But in the weight,
Street Journalist.
went on. "When we were poor dlocus and javelin thry could to alge championships in 1954
In practising shooting on team heartened by the memory Years до tho kida Czechoslovakia, But Yugoslavia,
Dynamon time will cricket's head-
together she aged 13 and
Most of what the All-Britain side probably supply the first three.
Aria, Hungary, Turkey, Swil-quarters take such a revolu-
He was captain of the county, 11, just big enough to see over showed us at Ibrox that a bailight at a running ball
well liked Betsjenova won
100 zerland and Sweden.
tionary step? It seems unlikely. is a
leader, has the net-we played every monneed not be deadened before seem content to stop a ball did to the rest of Europe in the both
dead, then leisurely kick it game at Hampden three years century in a Test Ing on a public park court.passing. metres and 200 metres at Ono,
it is to be an amateur, who? rcored
She FROM YUGOSLAVIA
you understand.
Ball control to the Russians back into goal West Indlas~~ | Free, Douglas Insole Match-In the but Mrs Blankers-Koen is doing
At the moment
Woul
the introduction
London Express Service) Essex faster
let it be is belig
remembered, persunded a talent timea at the
freely and,
spotting meant using the ball whether much
Mr E. J. Holt, secretary of the
was preferred as wicketkeeper coach. Bill Weissbuch, to teach it was waist high, knee high ballet and country dancing help mentioned. moment
the Improve
poise and International Federation, has
In the last two Tests In South me because the said I would one or hip high. lust returned from Yugoslavia,
He explained Cambridge, is Africa last winter to Godfreyday bo a champion. Well- They saved time and gained balance of our footballers?
ago I was in the where he was the guest of their skippering his
Some time county, a Evans.
cheers Paulinef"
position in one move, and all
company of a group of pro- femionals when the idea was mooted and greeted with scorn,
want to make They clasica," said one. But I wonder fore If the idea is really so fetched?
As for the 80 metres hirdles, the Russians have a girl named
HONEST
JOE TO WIN
CROWN
Barry
App Bly
TATT'S
CADURITE REET!
Government-controlled
Athle
ties Association. They invited
him because they wanted show that they are in a position
of
10
K. O
to put on the European cham-
plonships at Belgrade.
They have new stadium there which will seat 60,000, but the Interest in athletics in not very Impressive when only 3,000 tumed up on the first day and 0,000 on the second day of a two-day match with Belgium.
The point of view of the Cen- tral European countries is that as the last three championships wil have been held in Paris, Oslo and Brussels, it is Southern Europe's tur have them.
Mr Holt was greatly Im- pressed by the running of the Eleito Yugoslav steeplechaser who won the 3,000 metro event
9min. 0.0005.
CANNON
I DON'T UNDERSTAND, CANNON. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT ARE YOU
GETTING AT?1
I THINK WELL HAVE A LITTLE CHAT IN \_PRIVATE, EH, NCML197
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
/GOOD HEAVENS, CANNON)
YOU'RE HOT SUGGESTING
THAT | PLANNED THIS?... "YOU DON'T THINK THAT, \THIS ACCIDENT...
7. WAS NO ACCIDENT) THATS JUST WHAT (LAM SUGGESTING)..
Yout... WHAT ON EARTH! ARE YOU DOINS
HERA 2
to
ngo.
of
IMMERLIMAT
us
ONE-FOOTED PLAYERS There is nothing more awk- ward on a football field than
a one-footed player who has to pivot around on one foot till he gets his good one to the
ball,
Our football is crowded with players whosa one-footed balance and agliity could be Improved by dancing lessons.
there enough" enterprise and variety in our basic playing methods?
1.
I feel the short, jabboj pa with the toe of the boot should not be the heinous crime which miny think it A pass with
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