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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1940

Kiefer Breaks Three Back- Stroke Records In One Race

LOWERS MARKS SET

BY HIMSELF

ADOLPH KIEFER OF Chicago rewrote the cord book for back-stroke swimming at Santa bara, California, last month.

or, 55-yard route.

HUEBNER AGAIN!

yard champion, came back and The long course record was set took the 440-yard free-style in by Kiefer at Coral Gables, Fla., in 4:50.4. He was an easy winner 1935. It was 1:05.9 for 100 meters. over Paul, Herron of Los Angeles) arid the third-place finisher, Henry New Records

Paris of San Francisco. Ralph title in 1939 Thus Kiefer, long the world's Flanagan won the greatest back-stroke swimmer, but did not compete this year. A lot of credit should go Al re-hung up new records for Kiefer to Defending Champion Jim Skin-

nér of Detroit, University of Huebner's way for his perform- for Shanghai Amateurs Bar-break.

The 200-pound artist was not Michigan star, had little trouble ance the only record-breaker. The four-retaining his 220-yard breast-against First Battalion, the Shang- Performing for the Towers Club of Chicago, the man team of the Island of Maui, stroke championship, but failed hhi League champions, over the

Hawaii, won the 880-yard free- to break a record. He was timed

week-end, says the "China Press." big lad was credited with breaking almost every style relay in 9:17.3. Three years at 2:48.8.

Huebner kept the First Battalion batters in a baffled state of mină back-stroke mark in the book in a sensational burst ago the Lake Shore Athletic Club team set the old American rècord

throughout. His cross-fire shots of speed that capped another brilliant exhibition in at 9:20.

The quartet, boasting two

had the corners most of the time the men's national A. A. U. outdoor swimming and

brothers newly crowned as A.A.U, champions, moved the Hawaiians European Y.M.C.A. beat South and Umpire Morang gave him the diving championships.

scrappy water-benefit of the doubt. The Marines nearer the hope for team cham-China 5-2 in a

polo game at the Y.M.C. last night:|managed to garner only four hits Kiefer captured the 110-yard1:04.8, set in Detroit in 1936. All pionship.

Goalscorers for Y.M.C.A. were: off him. How he did it will re- back-stroke race as expected, and these records were hung up in a

Come Back

-G. H. Fowler, G. T. May, E. W.main a mystery. Only last week. here's what he did:

short or 25-yard pool, which gives

Kiyoshi Nakama of Maul's Railton, R. Dodd, L., H. Chater, every baseball writer told the His time for 110 yards was a faster edge because a swimmer minute 5.5 seconds. His time for can come off the walls and gain Alexander Community House, de- while Lionel Lo and Henry de Salfans that Huebner was nursing a 100 yards was 58.1 seconds. His time. The race was over a long throned two days ago as the 220-scored for South China. time for 100 meters was 1:04.7.

The Former Records

A hasty search of the A.A.U. records disclosed:

Kiefer established the old 110- yard record-a new distance in

A. A. U. competition. His timb was 1:05.6. Kiefer held the former 100-yard record of 58.8 seconds, set in Columbus, Ohio, in 1939. He held the 100-meter record of

REFLECTIONS

AT HARROW

It being as good a way as any 1 could think of, of focusing on 'some- thing a million miles away from war, I dropped in to watch Win- chester at Harrow, writes Home correspondent,

It was in the corresponding game of 1917 that D. R. Jardinè first came into the cricket news, and I saw the whole of the cen- tury an old hand likened to Tom Hayward batting against Surrey calts.

During an interval I looked once again at the "Toddles" Dowson memorial. On the bench a plaque records that it was presented by of the five surviving members elevens in which E. M. Dowson played for Harrow in 1895 to 1890.

The greatest of Harrovian left- of the handers won the hearts

whole pavilion when in his first match against Eton as a child of 15, standing, about 5ft. 2in., bowled over fifty overs in an inn- ings.

Rockley Wilson

he

It was good to see at Harrow the Yorkshire and England cricketeer Rockley Wilson. He had retired from his mastership at Winchester, but returned on the outbreak of war to pull his weight as usual.

The steadiness of Winchester's bowling, of whom slow left D. A. A. Gray was the best, was his re- ward. That Wilson has not quite given up cricket was shown by his bandaged right wrist, a result of somebody having had the au- dacity to hit one back at him so quickly that he couldn't get out of the way.

'I suppose no cricketer has had a more curious career. He got his Cambridge Blue when, playing as a substitute, he scored a century against the University.

Test Trip

From 1890 to 1902 he scored a lot of runs and took many wickets for the Varsity.

For the next ten years he play- ed no first-class cricket.

Subsequently he turned out for Yorkshire, mainly during thei holidays, but that was good enough to get him a Test trip to Australia in 1920 when he was 42. And thereby hangs a tale. For he got the full blast from the boys on the hill at Sydney because he had accused the crowd of jeering Hobbs.

If Winchester had had a strong- er tall their captain, H. A. Paw- son, son of a former Oxford wic két-keeper, would have repeated his last year's performance when he got 100 against Harrow at Winchester. His method with his right hand close to the splice is sound and his. blade very straight. Ho crouches like Jessop ·and makes his strokes and runs very like Ian P. S. Campbell.

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