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BETTY SPARROW, of New Zealand; came to Europe for a ten-month tour. "mostly sightseeing." She hopes to be a physical training instructor, so a week's course at Bisham Abbey was a "must" in her tour, and here she practises with the Javelin.

THE · CHINA. MAILA

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1951."

THE CENTRAL COUNCIL of PHYSICAL DE BISHAM NATIONAL RECREATION CENTRE

BOW-AND-ARROW GIRLS

SPEED THE WASHING-UP AT ALL-SPORTS ABBEY

By ROBERT KINGSLEY

the day that England retrieve the Ashes, are hailed as champion at the Olympic Games, win the Davis and Wightman Cups and the equivalent in- ternational prizes for weight-lifting, canoeing and archery, it will be appro- priate to think gratefully of Bisham Abbey.

and

For at the Abbey 700 young men women will this year go, as they have been going since 1940, to have a kind of hallmark set upon thuir athletic or gamos-playing

prowess.

They will take courses lasting a week, or Intrusive week-end courses, in their chosen £5-£6 for the sport, and they will pay

privilege

Mostly, they will pay the money them selves, though in some cases their visits to Bisham will be paid for as well as sponsored by the organising bodies of their sport.

Bisham Abbey 19 a National Recreation Centre organised by the Central Council of Physical Recreation and the governing bodies of a number of sports.

It is a 12th Century house (wlib charm ing architectural afterthoughts from the most gracious subsequent periods), built originally for the Knights Templar, on the bank at the Thames, near Marlow.

BETTY SPARROW, of Christchurch, New Zealand, drawa the long bow ander the guidance of instructor P. Hall, of Windsor, Berks. He la a coach of the Grand National Archery, Society; she learns about archery as a subsidiary subject

THERE ARK Ave taunis courts at the Abbey, and llan zam

Queen Elizabeth not only Blept in the house; as Princess she was held there in protective custody during the reign of Mary,

and it was at Bisham Abbey that she held her first Council of State as Queen.

In a room that has the Queen's windows, young athletes now dance and watch television.

house its

The CCPR lease the

rent from at a nominal

Vansittart- owner. Miss P. Neale, and the arrangement is regarded as a memorial to her nephews, who were killed in the war before they could in- herit the Abbay.

it

TENNIS FIRST

house The

largely furnished as it would be If it were owner-occupied, and says something for the young athletes that no horseplay has put ever developed that has the furniture in jeopardy.

When we visited Bisham 'Abbey, there were 52 students in residence-35

17 men, girls. For the men, the prin cipal subject of training" was tennis,with. athletics er canoeing or archery as subse gidiory subjects.

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The girls were training for athletics primarily, with nis, or cangeing or archery, as their subsidiaries,

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The fees for both courses were Live guiness for the

week.

According to the schedule, the age-limits should have been from 17 to 25 in either case, but in fact the youngest ; taking part were 18 and the oldest 30.

The working day for every- one at Bisham, begins at + a.m., when students are call- ed; they, are expected to make their own beds (and to help later with the washing-up) breakfast is at 8.30. Classes begin an hour lator, there is a break for "eleven- ses" (tea, bread and butter, Bandwich spread) and one and a half hours for luncheon.

and

All -ments aro dietetically balanced' to 'tle up with the current training programme,

between by-consultation

the Warden, Mr T. Malcolm Har- ria, and the domestic bursar. Men athletes, on the whole, eat a good deal more than the girls.

Pictures

by Victor

DREES

MEALS at the Abbey are served la a galleriod banqueting hall Menu for luncheon on this day was ham,'xpaghetti. mashed potato, bakewell tart and custard. Serving is Johanna Depril from Holland: She is over here to learn English.-

woman #

Wo met

ly altruistic; a young man wants to be able to coach' his friends; hoped to be able to teach not only her own two childreu but their friends, the nor points in tennly.

whole crane

He wore

a cream-coloured track sult (and how like rom- pers those suits look), and he said: "We can always be selec- tive, because there are always more people wanting to come here than we can put up."

TO TAKE the week's course at Blahiam young men and girl give up that much of their holidays from offices and factories. They pay flro, guineas for their training and keep, and many (enjoy the work so much that they offer to come back to Bisham shd help with house chores, lix order to get more training in thele spare time. Nearest the camera in this sprint start is Daphileq Chandler, of Liverpool, who works as a tracer in an architect's office.

THE THAMES riedles Bisham Abbey, and on it students learn, pánočîné 1.3 a subsidiary subject. In the kayak negrost to the camera is Wron Dorothy ('Donnell. of HMS. Heron.

to students, the Council sub~. sidise the couro.

FROM THE ARMY County cricketers whom Mir in the Indian Harris knew Army como to Bisham to coach

Olymple young men; champion cangoists hand

'About tho

As permanant staff, Mr Har- moves the tall

ris has only his secretary and, 2001ba (Oft, zin.)

the Domestic Bursar; coaches figure of the Warden.

in specialised Courses came and go with the courses.

Mr Harris is a fair-haired man of Monmouth ("Welah" he insista), who was second in command of a Ghurka bat- talion in the war, and, later, on Lord Mountbatten's staff.

Hc___ is... single, weighs 14 stone, is a specialist in rugger and cricket, but an all rounder.

the

Very largely they give their services free, but occasionally the governing hadles of sparts they represent ask for payment, which may run out 29 much as 309. a sussion.

That, at four sessions a day, becomes 20

that expensive rather than pass on the charge

give

Rugby

exporta

on the

river. and fgotball

Soccer maka themselves avaliable. But I

best thought that the

came Cowmany to Bisham from two young girls whom I saw playing tennis. They had boon on a course earlier in the year.

to volunteered They come back to work on domes- tic chares so that, in their spare time, they might join athletic courses

And that, Mr Harris says, is happening all the time.

No Upset In First Round

Of Women's Singles

At Wimbledon

Wimbledon, Surrey, June 26.

Louise Brough, the United States player, bidding for her fourth successive Wimbledon title, easily beat the British player, Mrs. Robert Scott, by 6-1, 6-2 when the All-England Lawn Tennis Championships were continued here today three hours and a half late owing to rain.

The drizzle, which began early in the day, did not let up until 5.30 p.m. and only a few matches could be played. The men's doublea matches were all postponed. Miss Brough, though not having played competitive tennis for nearly two months, gave no signs of her tennis elbow as she ran out a very easy winner.

She said after the match that | Mottram, British Wightman| match, on the centre court. her arm did not trouble her, Cup player, 6-3, 6-4

A number of women's singles Miss Shirley Fry outclassed matches were held over until Miss Susan Partridge. Britain's tomorrow.----Reuter. No. 7, 0-3, 6-1 while. Miss Baker enjoyed D After luncheon, athletic acher Arst appearance on the similar success 6-2, 6-0 over ivity goes on, with a break famous centre court, was not in another British player, Mins *J. for tea, until six; supper is at her best form.

Morgan savon, and then, for anyone

The only other player, Mrs Jeen. Wolker Smith, Bri- ain's No 1, had an easy win against Miss Georgie Woodgate, Britain's No. 6 player, 0-0, 6-4.

with any

energy left

(and

CENTRE COURT NERVES The British player, nervous at Beverley

Doris Hart (United you get the impression, that States) Dent My Encans everyone) there are (France) 6-2, 6-0. The French as dancing girl led 2-1 in the Art set but Miss Hart, warming up the six-bed to her task, took the next 11

games for the match.

buch relaxations and table tennis.

Lights out in darmaltaries (there are a single and double rooms among

Lew

is a subeldiary, subject for girl athletes. Horn, whilo, cosch David Hughes (m. Welsh International benula nikyer, and asp. time Swansea Town fastballer) instructs a punik, atheus look. on. In the middle of the group (third from right); is hira. Bonilen as the Arable word it is, J. M. Lloyd, ranked No. 11 Mloy, of Folkestone....

Miss Nancy Chaffee, encoun Smoking -- 18 actively dis-tered the toughest opposition, couraged, and alcohol seams as being taken to three sets by Mra

at Bisham · trut the canteen Britain,

evenings, and J. opens in the

IMPRESSIVE DEBUT

when she beat the Surrey

· TWO NOVICE hurdlers: Alan Sowerb} (nearer camera), 22, of Stockton-on-Tees, a draughtsman and spare-time Pt instructor, and Derek Mitcham, a chemist from Grantham, Eincs, who takes games evenings for blu lọcal county council when he has finished work.

IN MIINAIR over the long-jump landing pit, 20-year-old Hazel Perrin, of Surbiton, "solisors" with her logs

Joe Louis Does Not Want To Fight In Berlin

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