1953-10-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953.

How Pirie Treads The Hard Road To Success

By DENNIS HART

Marathon runners are admired by everyone. There is something

special about men who' race 26, miles.

distance is enough to tire the rest of us.

The thought of walking that

There is one man, however, who includes Marathons in his dally round. For, rarely, a day passes on which he does not run upwards of 25 miles.

His name? Gordon Pirie, Britain's answer to Emil Zatopek.

To la warld-beater on the "Anything cul track, Au've got to become anys his mother. machine,"

*l Re KLY, machine won't work unless

tune."

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This is wher: The Morst Come in. Pirle >pents

everything,"¿ bed. And this is hla programme

"Semetimes) week in and week out.

after an extra hard spin he is 'a loo tired to bother much will Toot But if he has been on a assort jog, jud long enough to thee give him an appetite, I just can't and a half hours at the day RIVE him cough,”. running over the downs nter his Surrey hope. He does Zatopek why, aftermately pouging. loping and sprinting.

An evening spont

thei

A SHORT JOG

How long is a short Jog" "About reven or eight anile," with flys Cortion, almost ashamed of, "running machine" hrough his kleness.

home to me what he meant.

His working day he spears in a bank del it a slark still, Just like day thee young oflee

worker.

.

"Don't you get bored, don't you long for a change?" I asked, "Oh, I got plenty of variety" he

mc, "Athloties is something you're always learn- Ing. One year you think you've hit on the ideal training method. Thon, next year, you find ung that suits you better. In that way you get variation."

EXTRA TREAT

an extra

As After supper evanes more desk

treat Gordon Belug a world-famous sometimes spend an hour or two work.

exercising with renner entails using a pen us in the garden, well as your legs, Gordon's fan weights.

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mail, Irun all over the world. If you ask him why he devotes ghes não ser prepetom, all his time to physical fitness, "I'm deter- But in the evening, Bnishest

Many correspondents ask for he replies simply, with

inance, advice about running and train-mined to get to the top as soon the affairs

the shacklein. Gordon diseneda

More still equat which chain him to a desk.

toogapla "They don't Just ask. He leaves the, bank liste CRC,"

the conazod Sily's fastest starting

Artiving Gordon. They clude half a pace, home, office clothes are repherd dezen pirces of paper for ine to by trock wall, Then, without a sign, Many are from Alt. 1 much us, a cup of tea, it's hey-hippose they want to swop them for the pen vikad,

for Gregory Peck's."

It is not unill he has reanyi niles of Surrey countryside bei hind him, that Gordon begins to DHA relax.

Even then, there are u svemu sessions for Gordon,

And then? Sleep is

traing

as I can."

His mod is best illustrated by the change in training methods years ago. he made about two Until then, he did it all wouring This limited his army booty. sessions to an hour because running for longer than that tr the heavy boots blisters on his feel.

It's time for bed, important in Pirle's "Energy schedule.

So, at nine o'clock, when most # worldof us are setting slown to enjoy Gordon gues to our evening.

First comes a shower, then af meal. What clo record-breaker eat?

Budapest's

him

us the grea'est

PRIZE PIECE

The 'running machine' relaxes. Wearing his prize Epecimen, a Swedish railway porter's hat, Gordon Pirie proudly displays his collection of headgear.-Express Photo.

TOO CONGESTED"

Page. 7*

AAA CHAMPIONSHIPS COULD BE MADE MORE ATTRACTIVE

London, Oct. 28.

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There is a growing body of opinion which thinks that changes should take place in the athletics world, so far as the organisation of Championships and the attraction of overseas athletes are concerned.

Weight was given to the argument by the lower number of visiting athletes who challenged for the Championships last summer, but this part of the matter ralses the whole question of payment of expenses.

This would not be necessưry,

Ir

the authorities want the cash by his attendance at Cham- best overseas men to compete, plonships, deserves to see the of course, if the number of they, must make arrangements | best in the world in a Cham- events werG roduced, thereby to get them here, and that plenship.

--proventing a crowding and clash means payment of expenses.

of events. But that would not He (or she) is also entitled be necessary But here dangerous ground In

If the alternative approached, and until the day to consideration in other direcline was taken-an extension of dawns when athletes are treated tions and, in this connection, the time given to the Champion- the Bome way as lawn tennis there has been erfulcism about ships meeting. players, and allowed to receive expenses for competing in other parts of the world, the present position must remain.

But it does seen farcical that a man travelling with a visiting | team to Britain has his Expenses paid, but an individual does not. The spectator who is, after all, the one who provides the

Two Touring Teams That

May Come To Hongkong..

By "ARGONAUT”

From Malaya comes the report that all's likely to be well with the developed contemplated Far Eastern Tour by Badminton World Champion Wong

Peng-soon and his group of Malayan shuttlers,

Even so, breaking the British spent must be replaced," he ex-six-mile record had established plains,

middle- distance runner Britnin had ever prxtuere, and he was stili im- proving. But progress wng fast

enough. So Gordon abandoned the boots in favour of pumps, and stepped up his training programme threefold.

New Running

Track Poses A

Problem For The IAAF

Londan, Oct. 28.

Is ell this work necessary?

Other athletes have reached the top by a more comfortable route, With a minimum. of training they put ol! their season's efforts into one tast race,

no part in Suck practice has

Pirie make-up. "Sheer the laziness" is his comment. A problem seems to await solution the Interna- you can run a fast race one day tional Amateur Athletic Federation if, as some reports you should be able to do so the stated, the track at the new Hungarian Stadium in Buda-next pest is constructed on a base of osiers.

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Some amazing performances, including world records, accomplished there have led to the suggestion that the athletes concerned have been greatly assisted by this. Bur- face and it is suggested that the IAAF should act at once before records go on the books that are truly artificial,

But for all the time he develes to running, it is the last thing he talks about.

SIAT

COLLECTION

Gordon does not talk much anyway, but, when he does, he prefers to discuss his two other photography and

In these days when so much; tracks where-a-natural-minerat interests.

creep h

If

not

to

In a press release Wong stated that his statement to the Badminton Associa- tion of Malaya that he would turn professional, if the BAM would not approve his tour was purely off the record and that he believed that the time has not come yet for him or for any other Malayan player to turn professional.

The Johore Badminton Asso- (municatien. has yet been re-in three sets before bowing out

clation has forwarded the ap- eelved. plication for the tour half of its amliate body, the to

Badminton Parly. Companion under which name the touring team will travel.

un be It la learned that in addition Wong, Choong Hack-leng and Charlie Seow, who came up the team will here last year, also include Abdulla Firuz and Lim

Lien is

to Wong. Pen-80099 in the final.

Koonòd us care of the India hoskey Acam

ton

the way the annual British AAA Championships meeting is run.

One can

visualise crowded As things are at present, thero stands if the British Men's and is a full day on Saturday after Women's Championships were preliminaries, and come final staged as 'one meeting,, extend- have been held on the preceding ing over four days, for specta- evening.

tors would know they would be able to see everything and get Some of the critics feel that value for their money-and they too much is crowded into the could pick their day, according single day and that the Cham- to the programmes arranged.— plonships should bo spread China Mail Special. over a full two days.

WOULD DO AS WELL

They point out that cricket! draws its thousands in mid- week and, If the athletes

CRICKET TEAMS

farce was attractive, it would do so as well, Why, there- fore,

the they ask, cannot Championshipe be held in

and make mid-week

a real three or four days festival of!

The following have been selected maliers

holding tho to play for Anny "A" v KCC at Women's Championships during KCC. October 31

ARMY "A"

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the same period.

the

Major V. 8, Bally, Major §. P. M, Kent, Captain A. D. Kirby, Major The present position is for R. Arkle, Captain W. Packonliam the women's ruling

Walsh, Lieut 8. 7. Do Cruz Llout body to PC. Farmer-Wright, Lieut. D. have quite a sepamte date to. Alexander, 2/1 R. E. A. Ste-

men for their Cham-ward, 211 A. G. Weir. L/Col Dow plonships, but to have "mixed ing T.G. 12 Mon.-Captain E. S.

Pelty. Championships" would, It is Game commences 1330_uw. Trana- maintained, be an

altractive port will leave Queen's Pier at 1300 'gathering.

hex.

Anyone unable to play please in- form Captain Pierce Force 471 im mediately,

action.

OPTIMISTS

The following have been selected to represent the Optimists v CCC AL Chater, Road on Saturday, October 31 at 150 p.m.:

As everything is apparently in order, the touring team which most prominent among the rising latends to visit Bangkok, Tel-Malayon players. In the last wan, Japan and the Philippines Malayan Championship, Lim cot Ovi Teik-hock may also be expected in Hong- only eliminated kong, although no official com-but also had the bolies of Piruz | year. It Is reliably learned would be boring to watch, Bay; to represent the Hongkong and

The

Jupiter Wins

Cambridgeshire

Newmarket, Oct. 28.

Lord Lambton's Jupiter, ridden by Sir Gordont Richards, won the Cambridgeshire Handicap run nine furlongs today.

of

over

The going was soft following heavy rain, but a huge crowd was, present.

INTER-HONG

The allegation of congestion on Championship-day certainly ng- pears to be justited. It may Gur- prise como people to know how near some officials have been to materialise.serious accidents when javelines, If aringements Hongkong hoclory player will the odd discus, hammers and the

"L. D. Kibee" (Capi), G. T. Howe, have their opportunity at last of like are flying about the arena 9. I. P. Pritchard, It. W. Frank-

lin, R. M. Macpherson, 1. the famed All-while track rumers are also in Hughes, P. Mahon, H. R. Q. playing agairist

Hubble, K. G. E. Brink, A. Harvey, A. C. Clarke.

Twelfth The All-India hockey Federa- An extended period for the man. Van Oordo, Umpire-P. J.

team will visit Malaya | Championships would cnable Hart. Beorer-1. McAdam, about the end of January urjevents not to clash. Those who the early part of February next thought, at- ono

that it time,

The following have been chosen that the Hongkong Hockey As a high jump or other field oveni shanghai Banking Corporation in the sociation has been approached have changed their mind, CB annual Hong Maich against Butler. as to whether it can accom- spectators have become educated feld & Swire on Sunday, Nove

1. on the Hongkong Cricket Club modate the Indians, just after in the technique of these field ground at 11.30a.m.: that date.

events which often raise a big- G. Aitkenteod. J.. A. Borth- per cheer than a truck race as wick, P. Cantopher,

Jekyll, terms asked

Craig, J. Dilworth, J. a competitor takes the lead with Knighty, F. A L. Layton, for are understood to be beyond

a particularly

Ano effort. acceptance by the Hongkong Hockey Association, and a sug- Too often, onlookers watching gestion has been put forward ja track race have been suddenly to Macao

accommodate disturbed by a roar of applause them.

However, the

A week-end,

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Hongkong Hockey Association it must be said that the spectator-

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5. J. 11. Pughe. O. Skinner. 1. U. C. Thomson. Umpire F. Marshall,

from some who have been look. Amateur Boxing

International

A team from Hongkong coulding at a jumping or throwing is done to find the ideal running surface, capable of withstanding collecting hats.

event and have wondered what Vel weather

travel over to Macao for Both are connected with his surface, Just as cricket grounds-severe

artificially athletic pursuits.

He is proud

triangular game if the Indiangit was all about. inen have struggled to find the deviating towards

#ives, false

times of his photographs, taken with

visit to Macho happens to be on Then, too, there was the cass best type of wicket, it is not which

London, Oct. 28. B Jupiler, three-year old King

the Tudors artificiality athletes, is necessary.

communal the

box that

family's

Lot

of a girl bidding for a world Britain beat Franco by seven unnatural should

CHIETE,

places hechestnut colt by the Irish sire, second prize by a head from of different LIKE A SPRINGBOARD

The Phoenix, started at 100-6 the filly, Fair Colleen, the judge

that record high jump having her bouts to three in an amateur It will be a great pity The use of special dressingga

has visited as a runner, on the turf of cricket pitches

is and was one of the best backed having too consult a photo be. Hongkong's sports public will concentration disturbed by the boxing international at Wemb- allegations

the against

The

tonight.-China Mall of which he one

of pistol crack as runners were ley here bo doprived of the treat

Special. has, in the past, led to some Hungarian track are true and proudest, however, is not of a horsea in the field of 29 starters, fore deciding the minor placings.

King of the Tudors started at watching A World Champion sent on their way, farcial situations which, had the they have not been denied then lovely panorama or a place of Sir Gordon, who had nover 20-1 and Fair Colleen at 22-1. team in action, but in support process been continued, would

one can realise the great assis-historic interest. Its subject is previously ridden the winner of

of the action taken by the heve ruined the game.

tance given to runners from thela newspaper reporter, a newsman

this race, put up onc pound Now groundsmen look for the springinces of a surface laid on very much the worse for wear overweight to take the mount,

To got the real low-down on

attraction, of hockey in Hong- moro natural wicket with just osters.

the reporter The winner finished strongly the

It is, in a less degree, equiva-Piric in training,

kong has been practically nii. preparation necessary to

to Rocompany to capture the £2,000 prize by There was a very big last An interport match in Macao ensure that it will last out a lent to a springboard where, in-had volunte:red

alend of a competitor getting the him in a spin,

three-quarters of a length from minute gamble on the Lincoln-usually attracts at least five to match,

the top-weight King of the shire Handicap winner, Salling six thousand spectators. The same sort of thing must resistance of en: spring, caletes

Gordon's picture shows the Tudors, ridden false take-off with

by Kenny Light, who, like the winner, is surely happen with running have this

poor fellow after the first quarter Gethin, who had won the trained in Yorkshire, He sur- This could have also been a every stride they take.

milo. Trousers rolled up to

Cesarewitch on Chantry two prisingly stated a clear favourite, golden opportunity to popularise Unless such tracks are banned bathing trunk length, coat, shirt weeks earlier in the first leg of but could only finish sixth after the for recognition of world records, and shoes discarded,

the famous Autumn double. there will be no stopping of prostrate on a bench. similar assistance in other ways.

Gordon sent the picture to a Maybe some means will be found to or runners to have rival paper; to his great dismay oxsan rupaliel while they el:elet was never used.

Two New "Caps”|

In Scotland's Soccer Team

12.

he les

a fack. Such happenings would,

Snips ar not the

only

Glasgow, Oct. 28.

al course, produce stupendous souvenirs he brings back from times and performances which, his travels. Every trip adds at

FILIPINO CLUB BOWLS RESULTS

The following are the results

Yester-

1

game. With sufficient running prominently.

publicity, curiosily alone among our local sports public would The Highly-weighted Ally, bring a substantial crowd to Ocean Salling, was another for these games. whom there was a packet of late money.

to

Perhaps

an approach tome of the influential mem- Thess two, racing on opposite bers of the Indian community sides of the course, led until

Исто to sponsor the visit of

began to flounder in the mud. may provide a suitable solution Ocean Salling also lost her for the Hongkong Hockey place.

Scotland has introduced however, would be entirely falze least one new hat. He now has of the Filipino Club lawn bowls furlong out, where Sailing Light | the Indian team to Hongkong two new "caps" for their test as in a track surface on samples of head gear of every tournaments concluded

Home International World Soccer Cup qualifying match against Wales "here November 4.

on

They are Willle Telfer, S. Mirren centre-half, and J. McKenzie, Partick Thistle right winger.

The team announced today is as follow:

Farm (Blackpool); Young

which competitors ger and shape and size, ranging from a vantage. from the springiness pimple-like skull can to a wide- placed below the surfact.China brimmed stetson, Mall Special.

MACAO'S TEAM FOR FENCING INTERPORT

Macao, Oct. 28.

DISADVANTAGES

Has success also brought dis- advantages?

day:

Singles--Winner, R.M.V. Ribeiro; rumner-up, 11.J. Noronha.

Singles Standicap--Winner, H.J. Noronha; runner-up, S.J. Hunt.

Pairs-Winners, L.A. Peres, Dr V. N. Atlenia: runners-up. L.3t. Nevn H.A. Ribeiro,

There are some, the main one being a Bradman-like reputa- Triples-Winners, L.A. Perez. CM. tion..

"Spectators expect me to up. 1.M. Never, 1.8. Enatm, W. break o record in every ruce," he says "I wish they appreciated

Xavier, W., Ogley (8kip); runners.

Joward tSkip).

A Macuo fencing team will how much effort it involves.” 5. Castro. R.M.V. Ribeiro, R. Bass (Rangers), Captain, Cox arrive in Hongkong by the 83

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Rinks-Winners, M.R. Pareira, 1. (Ekip); runners-up, L.M. Neves, L. A. Peres, W.C. Ogley, CA. Coelha,

HOME RUGGER*

RESULTS

(Rangers); Evans (Celtic) Fat Shan on November 30 to "Having seen Gordon race and

Mirren); Cowie compete Teler (St.

with fencing en-drain, I can vouch that it is (Dundco); McKenzie (Partick thusiasts in the British Colony. enormous. Thistic), Johnstong (Hibernian), Reilly (Illbornlon), Brown: Macao trem win

priso Captain Julio A. Cruz, What is mere, he does not gain (Blackpool), Liddell (Liver- Captain J. Pinheiro, Captain a penny from it. In fact, few of pool).

Fausto Palmela,

the cheering thousands at the A. Branco, Only five members of the team, civil

White City Stadium realise that Engineer Humberto

British title in the which beat Ireland 3-1 in Rodrigues, Lieutenant Ston, Lt winning A

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costs Championships Buffer earlier this month have nui Ferreira und Lt. Sampalo Gordon more to schlove-than sults of Rugby Union matches been retained-Farm, Young Nunes-France-Presse.

it does for them to watch.. They Cowie, Evans and Cox.

can get in for half, a crown, He has to pay a ben shillings en

The entire Scottish forward Ikon In that matchi has been

Apart from #crapped.

Me-Victory For Eire race fee, and receives no tx-

Kuzzle, the selectors have re- verted to tried and trusted players for the attack, including

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pensca....

And, no matter how s Dublin, Oct. 28. Litika he wins, no matter how

Eire beat Luxembourg 4-0 10 many recorder he breaks, all the

Allan Brown, the Blackpool In the World Cup Soccer match victories in the world will not

side forward who broke a leg today,

"In a League match last seas013,---

Ching Mall Spotial;

help him become manager of his At half-time the score was 'bank..

London Express service) 1-0 Reuter.

London; Oct. 28.

The following were the re=:

played, today:

County championship: Eastern Countries 10, Hamp Surrey 18, Middlesex 31.

chiro 3.

Other matches. Headingley 3, Barryowen 8. London University 0 Marya Hospital. Reuter,

King of the Tudors then took the lead, only to be run, out of It up the hill by 'the strong- Ondshing Jupiter,

The Queen's colt, Cholr. Boy, who had been heavily backed with Chantry in the double, 'jumped off well on the far ølde,

but was naver Been with chance later-Reuter.

QUADRANGULAR

SOCCER TOURNAMENT.

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Ratgoon, Oct 28. Burns and Pakistan dлN ́1-1- in the Asia Amour Qurdaangu- Jar Soooer Tournament today.

There was no sooceat half- time. Let-Winster › Lamall-anteed for Pakistard after 48 minuet ond Sonwels equalised with a penalty 12 sdturbos åæter,

Indio, with two wins, and Hurend, and in next onlo draw: will ancrest on Saturday tordeelde St the wings of the tournament,

Association.

THREE

Parisian Grill

presents

PAT KAY

and

BETTY ANKERS

also

*JACK GELLER

at the Hammond Organ

Ring 27&80 for reservations,

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