SOME ADVICE FROM WONG PENG-SOON
"Learn To Creep Before Attempting To Walk"
By “ARGONAUT”
The second visit of the unofficial Worki Badminton Champion, Wong Peng-soon, and his team has provided a further Allip to the shuttle game in Hongkong.
When Wong visited Hongkong in 1951 almost three- quarters of the crowd who attended the matches knew practically nil about the game, having gone there with the inain intention of seeing a World Champion in action.
That his millal visit to Hong- | naikiuous concentration and kong, produced most benefcial practice of every clementary results to the game could not stroke until they have reached be better proved than by tho an almost 100 per cent necuracy
fact that practically the whole i In each of these.
of the big crowd that attoruled "Study the execution of every the two exhibition games laststroke until you can executo it week consisted of active play ing menborn,
A most pleasint additional feature was that no fewer than 1,500 schoolchildren uttended the two exhibition genes.
ever.
DISAPPOINTING FACT
correctly, preferably with the aid of coach, and after that practise executing each stroke until you enn put the shutile within an inch or two of where you want it to be" is his ad- vice to would-be champions.
Another pertinent obse:valion by Wong is that the majority of young players have fallen into the bad habit of starting the are with soft shots, as a result which they will never be able later to play a really hard aggressive game.
A disappointing facl, brow. that between the Champlon's two visits to Hong kong the improvesnent in the standard of play among Hong-of kong players has been tremely light,
The
and
They should," he said, "start by learning how to hit hard be- fore concentrating on such shots as the net shots and the drop shots."
Even Thailand, which started to form a Thalland Badminton; Association only in 1950 after a series of exhibition matches in Bangkok by Wong and Charlie After having visited a few Soow, has gone ahead of Hong-badminton playing clubs he kong.
thinks that the local bractice of allowing players of different standards to play together in detrimental to improvement in the standard of the game
the game locally, In England and elsewhere, he suld, the system of allotting certain times or certain days of the weeks to various classes of players has met with great suc- cess and he recommended that this system be put into practice by badminton clubs here.
Chinese YMCA team, which consisted of the cream of Hongkong players, played the Unity teen of Thailand at Saigon last year and received an 8-1 trouncing.
were
Although the Malayan players chary in their comments 011 the relative badminton standard of Hongkong and other countries, there is no doubt that they regarded the Thalland players as stronger opposition.
MOST IMPORTANT In this respect the comments and suggestions of Wong Peng soon, given
QIL exclusive interview, should be of interest to local, players and clubs,
And last but not least he re- marked that an Improvement in standard can best be obtained greater by taking part in a number of international com- petitions and playing with better players.
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Wong Kave it as his opinion that the most important quirement in the making of top- The Malayan badminton notch players is that they players have bren Invited by should start young,
the Ministry of: Sporis of the An average player can main-Nationalist Government, to play tain Championship form up to a series of exhibition matches 32 years of age and only bylo Taiwan. strict living and training to 35 They hope to be able to or 30.
accept the invitation after their
Bangkok starting tho game, he rip to
and in the. thurt youthful players event of their going, they may should be advised to "learn how nak a few Hongkong players
accompany to creep before they start lo
them on their walk."
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Ray Danenberg main- The Philippine tennis player This suggests that a man can
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yesterday run an absolute best event tained his lead in the a season. Lueg's best Colony Chess Championship beat Britain's No. 2 once In player, Geoffrey Palah, 0-0 and was faster than Barthel's best tournament with a victory 4-2 at the Croydon Tenals But he could only reproduce i!
over the reigning Cham- TWO MORE SEASONS pion, G. S. Coxhead, at the R. Dryro of the Philippiprs beat a British Davis Cup hope from spikes and track in his
Landy is now enjoying a rest | Peninsula Hotel last night. Roge Becket, by 4-0, 6-1. 10-8-home town of Geelong, 40 miles dimeulties after casting at an 8A,
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game and Danenberg pressed agricultural science next Novem--Jis advantage successfully In an For-beauty,-please-come-to orthodox Queen's Pawn Open- 10g.
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