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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER

WELSH RUGBY UNION ON THE CREST OF WAVE

ENCOURAGING THE

SCHOOLBOYS-

INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS

VERY ROSY

Rugby clubs in Wales hare ap proached the present season full of confidence. The indications are that it will be one of the best seasons in the history of the game..

"We are on the crest of a pros- perity wave,” said a prominent offi cial. "We have an abundance of players, and the youngsters are pro- gressing on the right lines.

LARGER GATES

Trade has improved in most dis-

Sport Quiz By Jim Donald

Sydney, September 23. Harold Hawke, the North

Ade-

laide footballer, has travelled 3,000

miles this season to play in matches with his club. He fights the ball.

The right.

hopped, off

The Presbyterian Fellowship Union held an athletic carnival dur- ing the week-Great Scot!

One Sydney boatbuilder has or tricts, though much leeway still has ders in hand for 14 new craft.

to be made up. Many clubs turned call that scismanship.

the corner financially last year. In the coming months they look for much larger gates and greatly in- creased receipts.”

This

hopeful spirit prevails throughout Wales. All the leading clubs have their plans ready, and already club secretaries have been inundated with applications. for trials.

In West Wales, particularly, the rekindling of enthusiasm is a tribute in large measure to the organisa- tion and development of ex-school- boy clubs.

CHEAPER TICKETS

To encourage it. still further, many clubs are making substantial concessions in the way of cheaper tickets for attendance at matches, and in the provision of easy facili- ties for the training of juniors.

From the international point of view, Welsh prospects are rosy Last season's international players are available again, and it is rea- sonable to expect that many of the aspiring youngsters will make suf- ficient progress to challenge tried players.

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NEW ZEALAND SHIELD AT BURHILL

Playing brilliantly in a

These pole vaulters are on the up and up.

It used to be neck to knee as re- gards bathing costumes- now, it's neck or nothing-

The solar plexus punch is breathtaking performance.

AUSTRALIAN TENNIS CHAMPIONS MUST BE ALLOWED TO CONCENTRATE

SHAMATEURISM” IS

KNOTTY PROBLEM

CONFERENCE OF TENNIS FIRMS AND ALT.A. URGED

(By "INTERNATIONAL")

Sydney, September 23... ONE of the most difficult problems that has con- fronted the amateur bodies controlling tennis throughout the world, is the ever-increasing com- mercialisation of leading players and rising juniors. Some critics have referred to players who are employed as representatives of sporting firms. as shamateurs” - which is unfair.

ANY PLAYER WHO WISHES TO ATTAIN CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD MUST DEVOTE MANY HOURS TO ARDUOUS PRACTICE AND COMPETITIVE PLAY. THE MOST SATIS- FACTORY WAY TO DO THIS IS TO BE AN EMPLOYEE OF A FIRM WHOSE INTERESTS ARE IN TENNIS

In Australia the climatic conditions are such that tennis is regarded as an all seasons sport unlike swimming, cricket, foot- ball, etc., it knows no defined season. Consequently leading players who have the ability and inclination, are faced with the prospect of almost continuous play, which would be impossible if it could not be carried on in conjunction with a business pursuit allied to althe game.

Some pugs spend the greater part of their professional careers their backs.

What happens in the case of University students is significant. I can call to mind many Varsity students that would have ranked on much higher in the tennis world

if they had spent more hours po fishing up their tennis, and com- peting in tournaments.

consequently always available for Reviewing also other first-class important matches, or tours. Tennis champion falls in love, players, who follow commercial If these circumstances did not. Racquetty coo.

Where there's a Tee, there's a the Caddy, of Course.

rain-

Lay of a glove-lorn fighter: "Swing me to sleep, the shadows fall"

storm, G. H. Coley (2), with 77. over the Old course and 72 over the testing New course, won the ble next June. Burhill club's annual competition for the New Zealand Shield, pre- sented to the Club in memory of the time spent there by New Zealand troops during the war. J. W. Dodd (9) and E. W. Carter (10) tied for second place with 151.

ASTON

ENGLISH LEAGUE CAPTAIN

INQURED

TENNIS TOURS

pursuits, quite apart from tennis exist, I feel sure the personnel of interests, I recall that many of our national teams would be con- them have, by arduous practice instantly changing. leisure hours, achieved outstand- ing performances at various tour- neys, and no doubt would have continued to do still better, if they had had the leisure time.

INTERNATIONAL TOURS

A further illustration of the cause of the commercialisation

These tours are great prepara- tion for champions in the making, and players constantly together on

several tours mould themselves into a very strong combination. But if the commercialisation of termis was absent here in Australia, I

definitely consider that we would these days I have an everchanging team, as the players would find it most difficult to continuously obtain necessary leave.

Consequently, I feel sure we would not be the same strong con- tenders for the Davis Cup.

I feel sure our National Associa

some suitable whereby our leading and senior,

the

by players of their tennis ability, is international tours. When a player has attained the Joe Louis will be Schmeling trou-ability which secures selection as 2 national representative, it be comes necessary to be able to be away on tour for over six months, and that's on top of all the time he has had away from business pur-- suits competing at various tour- neys at home. And once a player tion will evolve London, September 21 Young, attains such status he is more or scheme the Huddersfield centre-half, who less assured of his position for a players. both junior and

will still be able to pursue their was to have captained the Football number of years.

business activities, associated with League against the Scottish League FACILITIES CAUSED ADVANCE

Australia's tennis has been their tennis capabilities, but at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, to-morrow, pulled a thigh muscle on Saturday: greatly improved by the advent of doing so should reach a

understanding with After a test yesterday he was facilities which have enabled many found to be unit, and he has been young lads and girls to follow a firms that employ our or replaced by Cullis, of Wolverham

vocation in life, which gives them players, that will obviate the over- ton Wanderers.

plenty of opportunity to develop playing of these players which their

powers as players, and has proved so detrimental lachieve their ambitions to It is to the adva age of all con- champions, while at the same time cerned the players, the game it- WAINWRIGHT'S RECORD

they are receiving an excellent self, and those in control of tennis. business training, which, in most as well as the firms employing our London, September

instances, would almost surely leading players that this all- Wamwright, the Hanley

important question should be broke the British record for 150 have not come their way.

I sincerely Australia, to my way of think satisfactorily settled. yards free style at Birkenhead last The fact that J. C. Stothard beat R Graham in the mile at Stockholm, which night, covering the distance in ling, owes her present position in hope the conference of the various was won in such fast time by San Ro- 1min 27sec. This beat the previous the tennis world to-day, to the fact employers) and the Australian mani, might appear as added justifica-record held by Stephen de Barany, that all her leading players are Lawn Tennis Association will

successful ish-engaged in commercial activities bring about tion for Stothard's inclusion in the Scots team for the Empire Games of Budapest, by 13-5sec

allied to the tennis game, and are gement. ed in London in 1928.

VILLA INVALID September 25-Maund, the Aston Villa outside-left, who became ill in the match with Nor wich City a fortnight ago and was taken to Norwich Hospital suffer- ing from pleurisy, returned to morning Birmingham yesterday and reported at Villa Park He seemed in fairly good condition, but will not tart training for a few days.

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