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Up the slope note my right leg ucting as the "prop" with my weight rather more on the slightly bent left leg. Key here is to keep the head still, maintain balance throughout the stroke, hit with the hill, and never "press",

PACEMAKERS ARE ESSENTIAL RACING

TO

By A RACING CORRESPONDENT Permakers are an essential part of long-distance races in England and the suggestion that they should mt be used is unlikely to be adopted.

In the long-distance cup races, immediately after the war, we had farcical races, due to small fields without pacemakers.

Apart from the fact that in France horses belonging to the sanse owner 11.

bracketed together for the purposes of betting. French owners would still run their pacemakers, even if the position existed us in England today.

Tapet

a the tumse actually paid 25-1 Englishmen

The suggested rule place on favour of

the Tute. The win one dividerul for

have horses belonging

bren owner being bracketë ! log:ther |stupendous,

for betting purpuscal

wslet

This year M. Boussac won the

Pacemakers

alder of the two horses hebing- ing to ne owner is going to hit the high win he wants full odds for that ubility

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1984.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE SLOPE, GET YOUR STAŃCE RIGHT

Says BERNARD HUNT

It would be silly to suggest that a golf shot from a sloping lie is as easy as one from a nice stretch of straight fairway. It isn't. You have to make one or two adjustments. But it is not nearly so difficult as many people seem determined to make it.

The secret of the whole thing, of course, is balance-body balance. And that resolves itself intp knowledge of the correct stance for various slopes and a little common sense to keep balance and swing through the ball from Those positions.

Take the up-hill shot for As I also feel that there is a iristance. As you can see from tendency to lose a little distance my pleture I am gl set to hit it is equally imperative not is the alope. My weight is to force the sho- usually rather more on my slightly bent give myself "plenty of clud" for leil leg than my right which, the shot in hand. I then swing in effect, acts more as a prop fumiy through keeping my head throughout the stroke.

still and using my hands to make sure the club head goes through firmly.

to

1 is a vital principle not try to "press" in this shot. Do

nothing which will throw your

and you should have no trouble, So don't forget the principles get your stance rithi accord- ing

Llic slope, maintain balance throughout the shest, keep your head still, don't fall

back, give yourself plenty

club to avoid any tendency to "press," and don't be afraid to make your bands werk to KET the club-bead through the ball.

Sen

my

It

When the feet are below the balance out of tune. And bear ball tho tendency will be to In mind that you have to hit hook the ball a little to the left.

Don't be FOOTNOTE: Remember with the lie of the lond. In this Again, I allow for it Case as you are hitting up the afraid to stand well up to the writing in these notes of my the tendency will be for shot. I think this is far better young brother Geoff modelling the bull

Hogan? to fly rather higher than shortening the shaft of the his style on than usual and consequently club.

Again good balance and doesn't seem to have done lilin

With rather shorter. I am using

hand control

hurdly any to get the any harm. an Iron, therefore, I choose

A club-head Lhrough 1.TC vital practice he won the Assistants

Jour Anc six, say, instead of a seven

to factors. At all costs avoid any Championship with Re: to the spot I want.

collapse of the left hand in this rounds. shot; get right through the ball good indeed. He is only 19.

If the slope of the lund rises sharply in front of you, then the Best requirement must be a club with enough face to clear it.

DON'T FALL BACK

For the down-hill He the [secret is stil in gritlag your weight properly settled and keeping your balance through- out the shot. The weight is still rather more on your lett Jeg than your right, and

of

one

the main things is to avoid, at all costs, the tendency to fail back as you play your stroke.

play this shot with the ball nearer my right foot than my left and as I go through I con- the idea of getting centrate on down the slope in my follow- through. ing the weight of the rub into the shot and to avold any risk of topping.

4

Another

I think he will be very

Now I Can Count Goals In Four Languages

By ROY PESKETT

Feet below the ball — note how I stand up to this shot. I prefer it to the idea of going down the shaft of the club. Again keep balance, maintain good hand control, and hit firmly through the shot.

SNIPERS IN THE PAVILION

Len Hutton And The England Captaincy

By

ALEX BANNISTER

Are you pro- or anti-Hutton as England's captain?

To the thousands who

watch cricket, and the millions who follow it through newspapers, TV, and radio, 1 guarantee the answer is easy. Hutton_ls the popular hero.

The first professional captain of England in the modern era, he vanquished India, recaptured the "Ashes" from Australia after 20 years, and held the West Indies to an honourable draw in their own islands after being two Tests down — a performance which many rank as even a greater triumph than the defeat of Aus- tralia.

Hutton, too, is not only a suc- pard to accept should he be Hutton in Australia is a hotly, cessful captain but the greatest

Invited to do so.

debatable point, and if it comes batsman in the world today, und

On the other hand we may to the test the whole country the man who, at least since all be jumping too far ahead will be in bitter dispute. 1908 when Denis Compton be- and reading too much into his

selection us Hutton's deputy.. came 28 per cent Incapacitated, virtualty "carried" the

As Trevor Bailey has "blotted his copybook" with newspaper |England batting.

articles and Bill Edrich is like ly to lose his place to Tom Graveney, the selectors had scant choice,

hes This is to ensure gel-|

4 seven,

hit down the

the

are

For me the foremost memories of the 1964 World Soccer Cup, a Swiss Olympic Games in miniature involv- ing 16 nations, will be centred on the brassy voiced announcers who dominate the games with their stentorian shouts.

Their job is to keep the spectators au fait with the situation at the game they are watching and also to relay snippets of information from the other grounds where matches are being played simultaneously.

As

each

announcement

DIFFERENT WAY But in the counells of cricket the question with which I open- ed might be answered in quite a different way.

sports, clings tenaciously--and a 1782 perly to tradition and nobody has realised more than Hutton

of

about point downward lie: as I play the shot off the back foot I usually like steeper faced fron than the distance suggests. For instance, If it is a six iron distance I take This is because us you slope you

is small-sized referee, defying him that he is unacceptable in some really coming into contact with made in four languages, Ger- to award a free kick.

quarters. the ball with the face of the man.

French.

Italian, and

say he is too dour, "They" When the official, too, stood club slightly closed. As a matter English,

and

personality, and In the his ground the big fellow walk- West Indies lost control of some of fact I have my hands, at the usually four matches being

to the bull, address, in line with my right; played

with frequented majestically

it to of his players. leg. rather than

picked it up and handed usual Incidents you can see just how

Only the other day a former county captain This won him terrifle applause. When the MCC

sold to me: and I thought the referee was going to kiss him.

the

at once

there

are

middle position, when I shape much we have shouted at us. the official with a courtly how.

for this shot.

The Englishman liken 1.

Gold Cup with his second string. exercise his own judgment to

than the but this was not quite the same greater degree foreigner. If he think, the out-thing as a pacemaker,

generally have

the In both the up-hill and quality of racing that

shots I take possessed blown-h1}} who was carrying al-slope of the ground--as far The most reebrates partner-most 9st, in top-class mile and possible--in my stance. I then ship between horse and face-quarter handicaps last souson concentrate on that vital factor muker in revent times was that and with success.

outsider.

of Brown Jack and Mall Fist.

In

49

Osborne,

of balance.

I

the

117

It is most distracting trying 1o watch one game and listen to three others; like being in 4 the televisi and room with three wireless sets, luned to different stations, all going at once

Our

own game

locks

go overseas they must have an amateur skipper fer the off-the-feld acti- Then there was the scene vitles, the speech-making and whien The hongarian referee so on. awarded a free kick to Stani-

He

**

than

away,

seemed quite surprised forth, the England full-back, when I told him, as one who and then changed his mind. WAS on the spot and perhaps This fact must not blind those

When tuckled afterwards, the more qualified to judge When I come up ugainst those Bre MAW nigainst pace- Everyone knew that Mail Fist whe

has barely referee sald: where

"But he aided along thousands of miles awkward makers.

-poly han nu chance whatsoever

standing atrave or below the ball started naturally after a long water pistol at me and I gave that Hution carried out his A really any race in which Brown Jack

slowly Fun Face I think of the same rule-keep series of warnings in four inna free kick against him for un-social obligations with teet and ran and the odds against him probably does

the public of the speat than any distance,

more to sicken balance, don't try to press for guages about Take care at the rentlemanly conductin were accordingly extended.

Ono of the little pickpockets," "No film pictures other single item.

be taken unless you are try in these circum-to As long as pacemakers ena stances is to grip the ground wearing an official arm" (mean-

25-1 A PLACE Last year M. Marcel Bousend almost won the Gold Cup with his 50-1 paremakes, Aram, and

PRIZE

FOR

prevent this, and they do, they

tricks !

will always be an essential part more famly with my feet

silly when 1

of long-distance cup races.

DUCHESS

The Duchess of Norfolk mounted on her bunter, yal; receives her prize from Mrs H. Coriat,

"competiáir for the Corist /

may sound

NOTHING SERIOUS

that Stanforth,

satisfaction.

I will go further and say that If some of the amateur skippers happen knew had been in charge of clutch- the MCC in the West Indies the

What actually did iting armlet), or "You are not to ambe walking on the pitch between ing a piece of cotton wool four might never have been

game" when we Ko "achtung sintions."

wearing shoes but I think most the Kolfers will understand. Again, it is to help balance.

USE "PLENTY OF CLUB" When the feet are above the ball the tendency will be to cut the shot slightly. therefore, is to aim slightly left.

A hoareo cough, magnifled into an elephant's trumpeting, heralds the first of the flood of international verblage,

"Then.

was

to soaked in water which had been completed.

thrown to him to relieve his Yet the pavilion gossip, which

ing brow

had uncon-has gathered in volume recent- squeezed while run-ly, has no doubt contributed to ning up to kick the ball, and the breakdown in health which the referee, seeing the sparkle Hutton has suffered.

That, added to the strain of Indies adventure, which taxed him almost to breaking point, has made him Amusing, too, was the utter (sick of the sight of a bat and minuten Turkey are leading confusion caused by the decision bell.

the of

water

thought

the

big

roaring across

"Achtung, ach-Huddersfield player was playing the West My policy, ground, comes

fung." and the inspiring news a job on him. from Geneva that “in der zwei

LEADERS IN THE FASTEST 100 COMPETITION

Desmond Barrick

Korça eins to nul."

THE COMIC SIDE Naturally, apart from all this distraction around you. of there are all sorts of interesting

of the ogranising committee that players must wear on the deld the numbers registered for them by the commitice.

the

THE SURPRISE When Hutton withdrew from the second Test with This meant that Uruguay had Pakistan, at Trent Bridge, number 17, at left half and 19 Nottingham, there was a sur- Northamptonshire and George and amusing incidents inevitable at inakte right, and the line-up prise choice es deputy-David

for the Emmett of Gloucester are lead-among so varied a company.

the England-Switzerland Sheppard,

28-year-old There is the leader of the game numerically was: England theological student at Ridley ing in the race for the fastest

band English cricket brass

Bale, 100

at

dressed of the

from zonikeeper out-1; 2, 3; Hall, Cambridge. smarily in morning suit, striped 14, 4, 6; 11, 8, 10, 16, 17; and for Sheppard's namo has been SLASON.

Both have reached three figures trousers, and black Homburg, Switzerland-2; 7, 4; 14, 10, 8; closely linked with the cap-

which In 90 minutes, Barrick against

ho frequgitly Falset to 15, 22, 20, 10, 17.

taincy of the MCC in Austra- Евосх and Emmett against acknowledge

applause

It was like trying to follow a next winter, and the whole accorded his uniformed musi- the sequence of numbers touch-maller neems to revolve round Sussex.

Prize for the fastest hundred, clans. There are the photo-ed by a ball on a roulette wheel, one question which has never

'But, anyway, it

fun been good put up by a well known firm,graphers who rush on the pitch

answered: Could Shep- £100.

to snap the goal-sporers.

of hi studies There is a similar prize for

I shall always recall the at- and is helping me become pro-pard be relieved

Actent, in tarco innguages. At for the duration of the tour? bowlers and at the momenttitude of the big, brown-skinned least I can now count in Ger-|··. have heard it stressed that tho

list

headed by Uruguayan player, picknamed man, French and Italian, and I the Church would consider an Glamorgan's Don

Shepherd by the English newspapertinen know that whatever the number ex-England captain in Australia with 9-47 against Northarsts. "Joe Louis," who stood tries he carries the Mittlesturmer. is, —the plùm job——a decided asset

okimbo, -London Express Service, -

towering over the the centre forward.

encourage Shep-

in

EOURSE RECORD AT SANDWICH

H Berwick of Australia, established-n new course record in winning the Royal St George' and Champion Chat- lenge Vase at Sondwich,

His two rounde":"were 07 and 74, which gave him an aggregate of 161 callow a recort for the compaction, which is one of the moet co Vin sagtdur."'golf. }'

1-26minan walth weeke

HOME POP

The

"COME COLONEL REMEMBERINOKU WERS. A BOY, YOURSELF

and would

Sheppard might well be

Sheppard himself must reflect on the capricious ways of selec- fors. Last season when he was playing regularly for Sussex he was passed over completely.

One big point seems to be overlooked in the matter.

If Shepp who would take over did go as captain to

merely a "caretaker" coptain, next season when South Africa, for I know, despite all the eriti- | now one of the world's strongest cisms, Hutton has firm friends teams, are the visitors?

selectors, and among the

they Would Hutton be recalled, or remain unshaken in their bellef do we start all over again with that he is the best man for the this thorny

ever-recurring Job.

question in English cricket? Whether

would Sheppard

Confused about it all? make

than❘ am I.

**

botter

Job

BRITISH "HOPE" IN PLAY

Bobby Wilson, British funjór who beat the Brazilian No. 1, Armando Vieira, leaps to a. from Tony-Trabert (USA) during their

·· Wimbledon Central Press Photo

t's' different!

Don't risk your sight

replac

be

So