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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1953.

I'd Rather Win An Olympic Title

Says ROGER BANNISTER

In an interview with Terence O'Connor

"The Four-Minute Mile has no intrinsic value," says Britain's greatest Miler, Roger Bannister, on the one subject he hates discussing. "Its value is simply that of any very fast time hitherto not achieved or Theught likely. Everything depends on the standards you use as a measurement. A good case can be made out to prove that money has no value if you just think of the paper on which it

printed.

Before

"But to

Art of the world's leading athletes,j me records ephemeral, and do not com has declared that Bannister's strung, pare with the winning of heart and lungs are the best hol likes it Olymple title, which is eternal." has examined in years,

A TYRANNY

So master miler Roger Gilbert Bannister throws his own light on what has become one of the most discussed questlous sport today.

In highly n race he

he but this is how beenuse he thrives on nervous energy. The dynamic Baish which makes him tear Bannister will tell you that, 10j away like frightened cat and km, his medical career is much brings thousands to their feet more important than running is due to fear, doubt and deter- In fact, he has used himself amination not to lose.

a guinea-pig for his own medical jan

experiments.

While almost everyone in this! country is anxiously waiting fur this 24-year-old medical sludent to capture the blue riband of sthetics he takes an Indifferent attitude.

im

CAREER MAN

As a result, he has ascribed As he hits the tape, Bannister his success to the length of his nearly Ng-85 inches inside measure nunt--and to his capacity toj 1itres of nearly Ave absorb

xygen a thinute,

This gives come insight into It seems the athletic

the Inost 11f

discussed possibility" has become everyone ane's

the matt atheletes

world. The drvain except

the in who can schlove it.

sincular purpose of mind which typifles Bannister is to be ad-

tuukfa

"It is becoming tyranny, with everyone plan ning the four-minute mile for me," ndds Bannister.

"I may not do it, but someone will. It could only be done in á special race, not a race in the ordinary sense of the word but with a field chosen to provoke one man into doing it when truck and weather conditions are perfect.

mired.

NOT PLANNED He reveals couruge to drive his own course while everyone wants him to go the other way.

contradic- But Bannister tory. As a man he is convell-| tional, but na a runner unurthio- dox. He often misses major events because;

"Mest people train by racing. "I have not a special plan

I try to anake it an event in my which

Ro many people talk about, Naturally, I am pleased life. I know my capabilities when I do a fast time, but I am and they, do not include run- not consciously chasing the 15 ning a number of fust miles in m.p.h. performance.

"So much Importance has been attached to time that 1 feel it has become more a mental rather than a physical obstacle for the athlete,"

"Why did I take up miling?

succession.

"Before the Olympic Games

I aimed at one peak period in the year, so that I coud explode at the right moment.

"I consider I was never able to prove my theory because the run an which meant extra sumi-final,

"I was too long in the legs organisers decided to

for the sprint, and lacked the three races in the same nunter sustained stamina for distance

of days. This was something I races. Running is the

most elementary of sports: the mile hud not planned for. the classle of races.

"In the sprint, you can rum as last possible without think ing of opponents, and in a dis- tance race you can almost forget everything until the last two laps.

"It means that the strongest tather in the fastest man won the final, and Barthel is terri- Beally strong.

always fits the cliche: "He Anished perfectly fresh but mentally completely exhausted." Big races take a tremendous amount out of him, sa le pre- Scra the isolation of small meetings.

He is the absolue amateur. Athletles and the Four-Minute Mile are only secondary to his career. And he waved a good- bye with: "Excuse me now, I must tuck myself away my books,"

with

SPORTING SHADOWS

Athletes and their shadows caught by the camera

as they make a burst of speed in the 880 Yards race at the Amateur Athletic Champlonships at London's White City, Stadium on July 11.

The winner was Brian Hewson (Mitcham AC), Second was D. F. Williamson of the Mijocarian AC, seen Third was C. T. White just behind the winner. (Appleby-Frodingħam AC), No. 49.-Reuterphoto,

Hats Off To Hogan!

By HENRY LONGHURST

Perhaps it is impertinent of us, second Oddle that we now undoubtedly are in the world of golf, to maintain that no man can be entered on the roll of immortal fame until he has proved himself capable of winning on both sides of the Atlantic. This, at any rate, Hogan has now done, and his name, with respectful salutation, is entered accordingly.

It is true that Carnoustic, of all places, was as near as ever it will be to the Most of the players must sort of golf you expect in a summer evening four-ball. have viewed the three rounds in windless calm and ideal light with the same too. good-to-be-true feelings as one who, on sitting down to the Greek Unseen, finds the very piece of Homer that he had mugged up the night before.

WILE

Nevertheless, if Carnoustie on account of the weather was com- paratively subdued, it afferent enough from anything on which Hogan has achieved his previous triumphs to prove that he can "do it both ways."

*

PUTTING PROBLEM

a small voice to say that I am quite sure it was.

Anyone who first plays with the larger ball finds that on the greens it rolls on and on-almost certainly because through the slightly higher contre it has been struck a little better.

Major League Baseball

"My Mile in the AAA Cham- pionships might be my last big I shall have

the Trace this season. are to curtail my training severely

and I shall not be run August because

"But in the Mile you thinking all the time of what now, the others

thinking and ning in BTC planning: of when and when nut medical examinations."

to be provoked into making your effort: of when to make your effort, and many other thing"

Own

of

Records show that nearly always he either scatters the field in the first round, or lets them slay with him for three rounds and then reads them in, turning his foot on them, in the fourth

New York, July 20.

only Hogan was interesting on this

regularly In the

day

today, game topic, and 1 pass on his com- scheduled

the Cardinals trounced ments at the risk of further con-

at Pittsburgh, 04, using our Walker Cup team, who Pirates,

in a game in the United States will for the after losing 6-4

time have the of big which choice

was a continuation of first or email. He thinks that the big the second game of yesterday's Amonican

ball is casier the doubleheader that short game and from bunkers in the sixth inning because of The latter was the procedure but, If he had the choice, he the Pennsylvania Sunday cur-

A On his road to fame, Ban-

at Carnoustic, where his Anal would still play the small British few law. nister has recruited a number 88-34 out, 34 in-was an ex-ball in the States because it

not like of critics. Some do

HIGHLY STRUNG

"This does notˇexplain why this the fact that he trains himselfhibition as flawless alinost 29} goes so much farther."

Bft, 1n. Englishman, Bannister. The Amerleans is the current fastest Miler in the world and within seconds of a dream.

were att

amazed when

for one of he arrived wo their

"Miles of the Century"" two years ago without a team- manager or coach. Yet he beat their ace milers all the same.

An American professor, T. K Cureton, who has made a study

THEIR

BIRTHDAY

July 4 was the 35th birthday anniversary of the famous Surrey cricketing twins, the Bedsers, and here they are reading congratulatory telegrams during an On the right, is Alec, whose benefit match it was,

Central Press Photo,

Bobby Jones's historic 00 in 1926 at Sunningdale,

Only the putting worried him. He kept expecting them to run up to the hole, he told me, but somehow they often didn't. (IL they had, one hardly likes to think what his score would have

been.)

Maybe it was the small ball, he salch A cat may look at King, so perhaps I may here uddi

was halted

In the corller game, Pitts- burgh-was-leading-St-Louis,-

neither To which, greally daring. 1 6-4, yesterday,

and reply to it probably does when side made any scoring today. you ht: it but I doubt that Paul LaPalme was the winning

plicher. goes for the handicap golfer."

Miller

In the second game. Cur One aspect of Hogan's notable

who relieved Stu after he visit should be emphasised. The Chambers,

yielded four distant reader might be forgiven runs to the Pirates in the frat for thinking that we had a week of omdní complaints”—Locke Inning, complaining of the stewards. the flags and the grassiness of the Hogan "narling" at the size of

greens.

Nothing could be further from the truth Löcke, I am assured |

Cricket Crowds by the party to whom he is

Will Appreciate

The "Sisis”

Leeds, July 20.

ing surface

was credited with the Was Vietory while Bob Friend

the loser.

The Cubs at Brooklyn was a night game,

League games

No American were scheduled.

THE SCORES National League

RHE

4

7

1

0 12

0 15

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alleged to have made it, made no official complaint, As for Hogan, ho might have been specially St. Louis briefed for the ambassadorial Pittsburgh tactfulness and restraint of his St. Louis Pittsburgh comments.

We are not a demonstrative people, especially in that part of A new device for remov- our beland but Hogan must have sensed indeed he assured me he water after had that the vast majority of heavy rain was tried suc- the enormous crowd were root- cessfully today at Heading-ing" for him to win and delighted ley, where the fourth Test when he dit so,

between England and Aus-As a (nilpiece on a less pelous tralia is due to start on note I can only adet that I wish I had a tape-recording of the Thursday,

account, vouchrated to a select The machine called the audience of four, by the French "Sisis" has been developed by professional Pelissier, of his the Bingley Sport Turf Research adventure with the geraniums at Institute, which:

assisted the last hole.

frandally by the major sporte bodies in this country,

It consists of a revolving felt covered drum which when

LEFT 'ANDED!

oned a superb three- rolled over the ground soaks up from drom a bunker, soared over the moisture which then passes the last green and lodged under the very fringe of the border, into a metal tenk.

VERY SATISFACTORY

-United Press.

NON-E

Callover On The Steward's Cup

Lendon, July 20.

Sir Victor Sassoon's four-

year-old Deuco remained favce- te at tonigh's Vida Cha Collover here in the Stewards Cup to be run at Goodwood on Tuesday, July 28.

Odds,

against Deuce were reduced from nine to one eight to one but there was more money In a quiet market for the second favourite, Epsom, trained King's Mistake who

to

came into ten la one.

Best backed of the other

LEAGUE TENNIS

Following are

the results of Tennis League matches played yesterday:

MEN'S "A" DIVISION

SCAA beat UCC 0-1- the BCAA X.C. Doo and T. Liang (SCAN) beat ileenan and Higgo 84: lost to Mackle and Holmes 6-7; beat Agu- Euroft and Colvert 0-2.

K.1. tp and D. Szeto (BCAA) boat Heenan and Higge 4.3: beat Mackle and Homes 641; best Aga. turoff and Calvert 0-2.

C.C. Yow and E. Lug (staa) boat lieenian and Niggo 0-1 beat Mackle and Halmes 6-3; beat Agai furelt and Calvert 0-2.

MEN'S "C" DIVISION

KCO beat 11KU 9-0. A.V. White and F. Grose (KCC) beat S., Yue and W.C. llo -

best J. Clints and il. Lee 0-4; bent G. Low and A. Low 6-3.

H. da Silva and J. Fontoe (CCC)

beat 8.3. Yue and W.C.0 0-1 brat J. Chan and It. Leo 6-1; beal G. Low ood A. Low 6-0.

G. Englington and C. Spolem (KCC) best S.D. Yue and W.C. Bo 0+2; beat J. Chan and 2. Lee 6-2: best G. Low and A. Low B-Q. SCAA drow with KFTO 436-439. P.F. Shou and T.H. Shao (SCAA) beat U.B. Mund and Yaqub Khan 6-3; drew with Y.A. Wahab and Dawood Khan 6-0; beat Firdos Khan and Y.J. Khan 0-2.

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Brussels, July 20.

King Baudouin may soon have to decide when a boxing match in Belgium is a combat and when it is an exhibition.

after consultation with sporting authorities. Should the youthful monarch - decide it is a combat, he will suppres it.

This is the gist of a private member's bill tabled here recently by the Catholic Deputy, Marcel Phillipart, who wants boxing and wrestling banned in Belgium,

bill declares, when the bill comes up for a M. Phillipart's is willing to M. Phillipart allow "exhibition" bouts to, take that boxing, when practised as decision, but it is certain that per- the more sordid aspects of box- place, but only if the King gives a "sporting exercise," is

missible. When it is a "combat,"ind and wrestling in Belgium the green light.

discussed however, he estimates The bill has been

that are going to be tald wide open Inspection-United and,

special Article 338 of the Belgian Penal for public Committee Partiya

and Code concerning assault and Press. now it is up to Parliament to de-ballery is being broken and the

boxer should be punished. cide if it will become law.

No date for the all-important A "cambat" is vaguely. de dobate has yet been set, how-ned on a "bout in which the exchange violent opponents blows."

over.

Five British Cars In Singapore Grand Prix

Singapore, July 19.

One foreign

New British Speedway Champion

The

London, July 20.

New

NOBODY SPARED Nobuly is spared by the bill. It provides for prison terms running from eight days to six months and fines from 100 franes to 1,000 francs (US$2 to US$20) for "organisers, parti- cipants, referees, judges, those

Ronnie Moore, of Wimble

became Speedway's competitor is who provide boxing material

British Match Race Champion at Bradford track competing for the first time in and those who lease a hall for don, Johore Grand Prix on Sunday, boxing bout." - Singapore Motor Club's annual the purpose of holding in Illegal now

Peralules will be doubled at the week-end. August 2, in Johore Bahru.

Sydney Anderson, from Perth, should one of the participants

20 year old Australls, will be racing his be "injured and thereby unable Zealander smushed Yorkshire's reven and one-half litre twin to work and tripled should four-lap record by 2.8 seconds Engine Ford Mercury over the "one of the participants be' kill-in two straight runs. 824-mile lap in which 18 other ed". contestants are facing the starter,

of M. Philliport has long been on Tucholder Derek White,

At of the noble art.

World Championship at Edin- Selangor, however, is not de-enemy a to 1 Deuce,

various times he has attempted burgh Don Cuppieditch of fending his crown,

points; Phil 10 to 1 King's Mistake.

For the

In Malays to introduce similar bills, but Edinburgh

und Bob 100 to 8 Palpitate, and Sally

also, five English-built racing until now he has failed to clear Clarke of Norwich

the Parliamentary committees Mark of Edinburgh 13; Barty Kells and Blipper.

cars-four Coopers and one ) ,100 to 7 Dyland, Eastern Imp.

and provoke a debate, Briggs of Wimbledon 12. Olcan-will via ter honours.

and other sporting Boxing Springday, Brickiebrit,

total of 99 entries record drin and Sunny Outlook.

100 to 8 Devon Vintage. 20 to 1 Globe of Light and Silver Spon

A Walker Cup selector, eearch was the Irish trained filly, Sally ing his limited French for Slipper, now on the hundred to "stroke and distance," could only eight mark. get as far as quatre and cing, so Pelissier decided to play it,

Many greenkeeping experts watched today's trial at Leeds

"If I play right 'anded,” ho where a night of heavy rain had left pools of water on the play-sald. "I stay in the geranium. ing area. These disappeared as So I take a de blastalra, sad I the "Sials" did its work and play left 'anded. It is shot afterwards Mr Dick Moulton, beach me by Augusto Loyer. the Headingley groundsman; ex 'it it--and it go out of bound." pressed great satisfaction with (The shot, in fact, carried a full the results.

80 yards, narrowly missing a public, telephone kiosk.) (en The machine will be available drop another. It drop in for, use if needed during the the same ole. I it it out, and

Leeds Test. It should cut the

CLOSING OFFERS

Closing horsen were:

13 offers on the

...

1 Chivalry and Blue

A

Other results were:

National League Division 1

for Malaya have been entered federations have opposod M. Odsal 42, Birmingham 41; Bells for the grand racing event, They Phillipart all along the line with Vie 40, Bristol $7.

Division II Coventry 49, Include: the country's crack propaganda leaflets and mass

meetings, but the tenacious 50-Yarmouth Stoko 42, Glasgow drivers and motor egalists,

Races are being run in Johore year-old Deputy has won the White City

Southern League Swindon

which way Parliament will votel Southampton 27-euter. good track in Singapore to hold Nobody is willing to wager 47, Ipswich 37: Rayleigh 66, ItUnited Prom,

Interval in the match against Yorkshire at the Oval, playing time normally, lost then I get down; in a chip and Butter lover on thiş big Bahru because there is not a first round,

through the after effects of rain puit, If logan do that, all the

25 to 1

by a considerable amount people they go 'perr." Never a six furlong sprint will be held

[full mibus! Reuter

The next

on Friday, July 24,--