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How I Built Up My Stroke

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By Learning To Catch Balls On Rise

SPECIALISE - LIKE THE AMERICANS

(By Fred Perry.)

LIGHT BLUES PROVE DISAPPOINTING.

Surprise Defeat By Italian Eight,

CRABBE BEATS TARIS IN GREAT FINISH.

Boy Charlton-Placed.

Los Angeles, Yesterday. The Olympic Rowing Regatta provided a sensation, on the very first day. The British sight, →It did not take me very long to and rushing me.. i had learnt which is comprised of the victori discover that success at games was from table tennis that attack is the jous Cambridge University crew not entirely dependent upon a na- best form of defence, and I decid- and which was considered to be tural bent, and that at even a sim-ed that before I attempted to go favourite for the event, was sur ple kind of game like table tennis any farther. I had to learn. to take prisingly beaten by the Italian tremendous amount of spade work an early ball.. has to be gone through before effects become anything like a na- tural achievement;

crew in the first heat.

The Italians won by two lengths A Bold Decision This meant very nearly the over the 2,000-Metres course.

The American eight won the All scrapping, of my whole game. my strokes needed readjustment, other heat and was probably one but there was nothing for it but to of the following clubs: Detroit begin a process of adaptation. "For Boat Club. Penh Athletic Club,

The realisation at an early age that the outstanding success of the Americans at games was largely due to specialisation-that their golfers the next few months chaos reigned Springfield Rowing Association or did not play tennis and that their fat the Hergs Chubs I prevailed the South Side Club of Quiacy.

The Cambridge crew will have baseball players stuck to the "ball upon friends to knock the ball over gamehelped me and having to me so that I could hit at them to win to-day's row off between made tennis my aim and object, I on the rise, and the results were the six losers in order to qualify did not try to dabble at football and deplorable. For every one 1 hit in to meet America and Italy in the .cricket.

The Light Blues were repre- Value of Table Tennis.

to the net, two would go sailing over Final.. the house-tops., Whenever I felt I

2,

D. Haig Thomas (Eton and

Lady Märgaret) (bow} 11 st. 6 lb.

K. M. Payne (Eton and Third- Trinity) 12 st. 5 lb.

T. G. Askwith (Haileybury

It was. by watching that burly was beginning to master the idea, Isented by the following: Hungarian, Bela de Kehrling, whose fused to take on some of the weaker' Jawn tennis strokes I had often ad-players in the club in gentle games, mired, playing table tennis, that I and try-out my "new-fangled ideas," first, rècognized that these two as they used to call them. Mean games could be made to go more while. I had lost my place in the or less hand in hand, and I am can-club team, which was rather gall-3. vinced now that, in all except one ing. It was about six months be

the particular, table tennis has enhanc-fore really cottoned on to ed my lawn, tennis enormously. idea, and then, my timing becoming That one particular was the accurate. I found that I could hit backhand stroke. My backhand the ball with ease, during.my run | stroke at table tennis-may I say up to the net and still retain my without boasting-is one of the best balance. My elation when I knew

in the world, but at lawn tennis it that I had really mastered the is my weakness.

"early ball" idea knew no bounds..

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I think I may claim to have in- enter the table tennis backhand.. I produce it starting from a point belnw the level of the ball and bringing the bat over the ball in a semi-circle with a slight flek of the wrist at the moment of impact. The "wrist-flick imparts prodigious | speed to the ball through the air, and gives it life off the table when it has pitched..

A Weak Combination: My lawn tennis stroke works in direct contradiction to these prin- ciples. It begins at a point above. the level of the ball, works down and under the ball'in a semi-circle, The and lifts it over the net. swing is even and unforced, and the, wrist held taut throughout the movement. Consequently I found) thal when I was playing the two games in the same season, my lawn: tennis backhand became a kind of combination of two strokes' in strik. ing; opposition to one another, and a target for any player sufficiently good to "pepper" it.

WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONS

BEAT JAPAN 11 TO I:

Dhyand Chand and Roop Singh' Score Four Times.

Los Angelea, Saturday, The All-India "Hockey XI, champions of the world, won their first match in the Olym- piad Tournament when they beat All-Japan by 11 goals.

to 1.

Dhyand Chand and Roop Singh both scored four times and Kermit Singh scored the three remaining goals, for the champions. Inchara scored Japan's solitary point..

TENNIS.

International table tennis is pro- HOLDERS ON TOP

bably the fastest game there is for footwork. You must be excep tionally quick and ready to jump in either direction, and it takes Reen, alert eyes to follow the flight of the little, celluloid ball in arti- ficial light.

"B" DIVISION.

Clean Sweep Victory Against Club.

RECREIO WIN LAST GAME.

A

IN

and Peterhouse) 11 st. 8% lb.

1. W. A. T. Sambell (Melbourne

6.

and Pembroke) 12 st, 61⁄2 lb.

C G. S. Sergel (Monkton

Combe and Clare) 12 st. 9 lb.

6. R. N. Rickett (Eton and Third

Trinity) 12 st. 114 lb.

7.

D. H. E. McCowen (Chelten-

ham and Pembroke) 12 st. 14-16.

L. Luxton

Pembroke)

24 lb.

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(Melbourne and

(troke) 12 st.

J. M. Ranking

and Pembroke) 13 b.

(Cheltenham

(cox) 6 st.

The Long Beach Marine Sta- dium, where the race was held, is a fresh-salt water course of suf- cient length to contain a splendid 2,000-Metres straight Over 100,000 people are expected for to-morrow's Final.

course.

TWO WORLD RECORDS Clarence Crabbe, the world's! greatest short-distance swimmer, gave America further points when he beat Jean Taris, the world- famous French champion, in thei 400-Metres Final by a matter of inches in one of the most thrill- ing finishes, ever witnessed in American aquatic inv

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Jean. Taria, who holds two world records, very nearly failed to make the trip to Los Angeles. He ar gued that if he travelled with the

French team he would be unable to put the finishing touches to his training and would also be unac climatised before the opening' of The the Olympic Swimming. French authorities, realising his tremendous value, waived aalde áll formalities and allowed him to prosced to America in advance of the remainder of their representa- tives.

LOSES ONE

At the H.K.C.C. yesterday the Chinese. Recreation Club beat, the

On June 21, Taria broke the Hong Kong Cricket Club by 9 seta world's record for 800-Metres Free to nil in the "B" Division of the Style at Cannes. His time was 10 Tennis League.

My First Big Club. After a senson-winter season- nt table tennis 1. had a first-class knowledge of its requirements court-craft, footwork, and some con- fidence in my strokes. I joined the Herga Club at Harrow in 1927, and began to apply this knowledge to bawn tennis. As I have already told you. I had taught myself a chop stroke, which was a good sound one, and I possessed a medium service, I but I needed orthodoxground | strokes, and sq set myself to learn C.R.C.

TABLE TO DATE.

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mins: 16-3/5 secs.—4/5 of a second- better than Mekino's existing re- cord "He held the world record. for the 400-Metres until Crabbe broke it to-day. He has still, how- P. W. L. D. F A. Pts. ever, the 300-Metres..

770.0 556.7% 14: AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION.

"B" Division.

Seta

them one by one. First came the C.C.077 0.0 47 15 14 Andrew (Boy) Charlton, who

forehand, which I used to practice.KUT.C.

S.C.A.A. continually until I had developed a C. de R... fairly well produced shot, upon A.T.C. which I could rely. Then came the L.R.C.

C.SC.C. backhand," and, by ceasing to play

H.K.C.C. table tennis for a time, and thus K.C.C. eliminating the confusion of ideas,

I found this came fairly naturally

to me. Volleys and smashes came.

along in due course, and by then I

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"C" DIVISION.

came in sixth occupying the last place, is, the Australian swimmer who, recorded two successes in the 1928 Olympics securing second place in both the 400 and 1,500 metre free-style events.

To-day, despite rheumatics, he has lost little of his former power and speed-in-the-water. In the

At King's Fark yesterday the New South Wales championship was "not bad", but I had had to Club de Recreio beat the Kowloon in Sydney last January, he swam Cricket Club by 7 sets to 2 to con- the 880 yards in 10 minutes 22 clude their fixtures.

work at the game. --

Champion-and Then.

I was good enough, anyhow, to

win the club championship and to play in the first team, and was ba- ginning to be regarded as a young hopeful. Then came, a setback. Before I was ready, I began to en- ter tournaments, I wanted fun after the drudgery of learning, but, as soon as I came up against G.A

Home

de R

TABLE TO DATE.

“C Division

seconds, only 1-5/5 seconds under the world mark of Clarence Grabbe of Los Angelesbend

He won by 50 yards merely paddling along, In the opinion of experts he could have smashed Crabbe's record had he been push-

rama Seta P.W. L.D. F.A. P. ..14.18 1 0 94114_26ed to it.

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anything like class players, I soon Y.M.C.A.127141 64% 48% 15

found that I had not enough, time AT

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to make my strokes, LR.C13 45 456

FUKIEN WATER POLO-WIN.

At the VRC last night the Fukien seven beat a scratch side from the V.R.C. by 3 goals to

This set me thinking hard, and g PZROZZO Water Polo match

I sought for a reason, it came to

me suddenly that, whereas I was thoroug

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top of the bound, these other people were hitting it on the riso

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