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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1989,
WHAT TO DO WHEN START OF DOWNSWING THE "GATE" IS SHUT
TO THE HEAD
HOW many players, of whatever degree of skill, are able to say: "I defy you to blőck my draw with a single bowl?” We are satisfied to leave the answer to you, but what will interest you more will be a solution of the problems that confront us all when a block really appears to have accomplished its purpose.
AS a long length cannot be got into a picture to serve our purpose, the imagination must be called upon to visualise the position as shown in the picture, having relation to "how to defeat a short block at bowls."
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WE have to imagine a side several points down, and which number, if lost, would be fatal to the side as a whole. It is the last bowl of the end, and the urge to "have a fly at the jack" brings from the skip:
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"THAT'S all very well, but if I miss
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we're in the soup for six down." He had learned something about so using his feet, what we know "manipulating the mat," that here he is shown-not the demonstrator necessarily working out his theory
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AND it has to be admitted, and is
easily proved, that he is on the right lines. He has to get either in- side or outside of a perfect block
well up near the right-hand front, he must so "get down" that he can comfortably green the bowl without interfering with his balance.
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HE must screw his knees into a contortion, and, for once in
all, stance while, throw overboard
When and "facing" set principles. ready, he is able to grass the bowl well to the right of the mat, and
would get a result, that
be his -if of the said mat was there instead where it is seen in the picture.
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BY aiming STRAIGHT at the bowl that "shuts the gate" to his ad- mission to the head, apparently, he will just miss it by some six inches, for by the time the bit of "bend" occurs before reaching the block, it will run smoothly past it and get the shot or "save.”
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placed by his opponent, and decides THE intelligent player will use his head as to where he must stand, and what contortions, if any, he
on the inside route.
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WHEN CONTORTIONS ENTER INTO THE PICTURE
PLACING the edges of his shoes on the extreme edge of the mat,
GRAPHIC GOLE
POSITIONS
OF GOLFERS
AT START
OF
DOWNSWING MAY VARY
BUT
THEY ARE FUNDAMEN-
TALLY.
THE SAME.
H.K.C.C. CRICKET
TRIAL
Hong Kong Cricket Club are holding a trial game on Saturday at 2 p.m. between the following team:-
T. A. Pearce'e XI-T. A. Pearce, H. J. Armstrong, D. 1. Bosanquet, B. C. Fay, J. H. Fox, J. Hackney, R. M. M. King, H. J. D. Lowe, A. K. Mackenzie, L. T. Ride, and D. S. Robb.
chell, H. D. Bidwell, C. W. E. Bishop,
E. J. R. Mitchell's XI-E. J. R. Mit-
By BEST BALL
To the layman it may seem that the golf stroke, is largely a mat- ter of the individual's preference for swinging a certain way. Off- hand from a perusal of various golfer's forms it would seem that this is so. Take a glance at the above illustrations for, example. Each golfer has reached approxi- mately the same position on the downstroke yet the suggestion of flowing motion is different in each case.,
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The top illustration seems more like an arm and shoulder swing, the middle one like a wide sweep- ing blow with perhaps a small suggestion of sway, certainly plenty of body motion, while the well lower picture implies grooved stroke with efficient body turn. Basically however the me- chanics are the same in each case. For example the left hip is turn- ing around to the left, the left hand, is initiating the downswing and the right leg is braced to aid With the flow of power forward. the ball well forward off the left foot there is every chance that the clubhead will be brought onto the ball in a sweeping blow. Friday
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Groovad Performance.
THE MASKED
MARVEL
New York Times," recalls in "We John Kiernan, sports editor of the
must get into to "beat" the various V. C. Bond D. de S. Carey, D. G. Day, Saw It Happen," a book of thirteen.
and
problems served up to him,
G. E. R. Divett, T. V. N. Fortescue, D. J. L. C. Pearce, C. M. which call for science and skill out. Parsons,
Stark, and T. Suiter. of the ordinary,
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news-
stories by thirteen American papers, the 'sensation of a decade ago.
The Grand International Graeco- Roman Wrestling Tournament was on at the Manhattan Opera House. In the middle of a contest, a man in even- ing dress arose and shouted: "Here's someone who can beat any of your so- called champions." By him sat a masked man in evening dress.
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The crowd gaped and there was in- tense excitement when the manager announced the masked man would wrestle. His opponent was a popular favourite. The crowd urged their favourite to "murder the masked man," "mop him up."
The masked man pushed his op- ponent round the ring and then threw him out. He picked up each adversary and dusted the ring with him, Inside a week he was most-talked of man in New York City. Cowds jammed the Opera House. Seats were at a pre- mium.
champion
Reynard Taboust, world weight-lifter, was his next: op- ponent. He could not wrestle, but once he had 'his opponent's arm in his grip he, showed him no mercy.
It was not wrestling, but it was Taboust's winning trick. It always won him his contest.
The masked man entered the ring- The crowd waited for him to be pinned to the floor. Taboust got his right hand in his grip. The crowd waited for the end. Then the masked man, after ten seconds of death-like silen- ce, began to move. His wrist began to rise with Taboust hanging on to it.
The crowd stood up. It had never happened before. The masked man snatched his arm clear and Taboust was a beaten man. The masked man became the wonder of New York City.
He was then matched with Strangler Lewis. The betting was odds-on for the masked man to win. Before he had been two minutes In the ring Strangler Lewis picked him up and threw him out of the ring with such force that he could not crawl back.
The wrestling promoters failed to pay the raasked mah. He took them to court, where he appeared with a pile of affidavits. Every match had been a fake. Every contest had been rehearsed, except the one with Stran- gler Lewis, A.
As Kiernan cynically says:: "It may have been the general excitement sur- rounding - his brief but spectacular career that caused the promoters to overlook the lsttle ftem er paying him
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