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ALEC BEDSER'S COLUMN

HAVING AN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1954...

BRITISH GRAND PRIX WINNER

IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF

COMPTON INTEREST IN DROBNY

During Denis Compton's huge innings of 278 for England against Pakistan in the Second Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, spectators-- and television commentators were quick to notice some furious signalling directed at the batsman from the players' balcony. Not unnaturally it was interpreted as tactical instructions.

Denis was attacking the bowling so furiously that he did not have to be told to go quicker, and it was assumed the signals indicated an early declaration.

A

the

then a tall-end batsman without and much hope of premotion in the bowled. balling order.

Early this season, however, he

cad.

allowed himmelt to be

consider. believe

But what was really happen- ing was information to Denis

AVITTUDE VARIES on the progress of the Men's

The attitude of bowlers to- Singles Final at Wimbledon. TV Bet was

was sent in as a "night watch-wards baiting varies installed dressing room and Denis had a man" one evening and so wellably. Some genuinely financial interest

but and continually In Drobny he bat the next morning they can

In towards the Bisk it was decided to experi- deplore going winning! When he was 2-1

ment with him as an ерепет the lead

Others Just don't want to, the England players

while some Just can't. thought it was about me Denis He continued to score runs and

has held his position culminat- Eric Holles, the Warwick- was put in the picture.

leg-break howler, has the Pakistan ing with a score of 86 in a big shire A. H. Kardar,

out captain,

that did

allow his rst wirket stand against Cam-been playing day in, day

since 1032 and until this season players 10 watch the serven bridge.

1937. TV efiet

his best score was 24 in during play, but the

Allan watches the ball closely come in handy during the rain-

arut though he cunnet Interruptions on the third day Both sets of players were able described as a stylist to watch the

Singles developed into Women's finals and were all astonished at halaman.

Mo's"

"If power

NEW

"Lille the atrokes.

Earlier in the week Peter May and my brother and

it doy's play at Wimbledon was the first time we fust been

trougla The opportunity came Surrey being able to fish their County match with Hampshire

in the fast ever before

ገፍና

he has

useful

he

Against Sussex 1214 year

improved

on that certainly record, almost getting a century.

once-In 1947

Trent Bridge he helped to save Eng- I wonder how many potential

from tand

defeat

South by Innguish in the Afrien run-getters

with

a long last wicket the stand with Contier positions among Tower

Martin, the Kent ut There Hilles Airmenly

fust bowler. dilfurent PTATENG rompietely

Bowes,

Yorkshire. of titate towards batting in the

regularly Look

more wickets Arst half of the order than

than the runs he scored, Some counties, the cond.

Peter Jackson, of Worcester- their bowlers

shire, was another ense in point. want fart, discourage from getting runs They

In thest days. however, Share to lift tudi and Rel out. the

youngster la expreled to play a But wonder if this

right bat at feat and make right way to appronch

the most use he

of his batting no matter how !!mited matter

his ability might be in this direction.

on the second day. Surrey's captain was May and this was the second occasion on which he hed led the team to substantial vleuries.

WITH BOTH HANDS The story behind the century

of Jimmy Allan Cambridge

Oxford against

in

121

the

The physeal strain of an all- reader is considerable for six

day week

noit

cricket. but

it

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player's the

taken

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the Varsity match at Lorit's

of a chance opportunity

with

both hands.

TE

cun-

game at the

In

can

and

Innich 24 In county or Test

he "rubbit" never knows when

Ruve might be called upon to hig side, and I think is is proper that every newcomer, irrespec- AD in the old days. I told, tive of his job, should learn all No. 9, 10, 11 9, 10 Jack as they

ttp there is

know about the are known in cricket parlance). were not expected to score at all, and one famous fast bowler. always last man in, invariably drew his bat away from the ball

Allan,

Seatsmon Edinburgh, won some notoriety

Auven by sending down secutive overs with his left arm buting

season for individani Drat spinners in ugainst a county side. He was

TED

DRAKE'S DREAM

United States And Canada As First Class Soccer Powers Of The Future

Ted Drake, chief of the new Chelsea, has a dream- to make the United States and Canada first-class football powers.

for

this

Hume,

A cup ch cheque £100 IK being uffered

perform- ances in county cricket. Harold Stephenson, the Somerest wicket- keeper. is lending in two of the sections.

moment of scored the fastest century-

-28 minutes-and taken the most victions behind the stumps.

Johnny Wardle, the Yorkshire left-arm spinner, has been the unluckiest player

with so far the best bowling

He hos, at the writing,

TPRESS

The Ferrari driven by Frollan Gonzalez of the Argentine passes the chequered flag as it finishes victorious in the British Grand Prix car race at Silverstone,

Gonzalez completed the 270-milo (9 0-lap) race in 2 hours 56 minutes 14 seconds, an average speed of 89.69 miles an hour. Second was another Ferrari, driven by Mike Hawthorn, who finished 70 seconds behind the winner, and third was a Maserati driven by O. Marimon. Italian cars thus successfully beat off the challenge of the powerful new German Mercedes.-Reuterphoto.

GOLF FOR LADIES

Watch Your Hips, Madam!

- And Don't Be

Afraid Of Your Strength

Says

BERNARD

HUNT

Nine out of ten of the ladies who come for golf instruction overswing. And the same proportion need an extraordinary amount of convincing that the ball in somewhere golf is meant to be hit and hit hard. Because they have heard it said that you should "swing slowly" they approach their shots as though they are in a slow ballet movement. The result is neither ballet nor golf..

No, ladies, if it's gentility you are after, stick to lawn tennis or croquet. In idea golf you have to make your hands really work hard and you must get the firmly in your mind that you have to hit that little white ball as nearly like a man as possible.

fatally

I do not suggest that this is muccess would be better. Cer-the flopping, gentle swishes a graceless

As which so often and so game for women. tainly it is worth trying.

How do The good strikern of the balloon as you get the feel of the start from the, top.. players like Bunty StevCTLY of shorter swing you will find the you build up this hand power I today and Diana Fishwick of a ball will fly just as far, if not have talked about? Simple! Do few years ago are poems of farther, and that you will a bit of real work at your movement 118 they crack into achieve far greater consistency. game. Get out on the practice the ball.

ground with a large bag of And now for the hands. For bails instead of taking out those Their grace comes from the too many ladies I have performance.

met day

cards so often. Get the timing and power of their shots. have taken refuge in the excuse "feel" of your clubs by constant All I do suggest is that there is that they haven't the strength swinging.

He lost his chance of a place

by conceding four overthrows!

NEAR-MISSER

Stephenson beat the previous fastest hundred, scored by Can baseball-worshipping North America equal the George Emmett, of Gloucester

shire, by one minute. I mention maestros south of Panama in Soccer ability?

Emmett's name for he surely "Yes," says Drake. "With British aid."

record for of power the baseball must hold cricket's

near-misses.

report of the studies his He Chelsea's eight-match sanumer barons. tour of the United States and The Yankee Stadium bosatz Carinda

and

"Unlike used a slight rain shower as an glows: Jimmy Seed's and experienceXCUS to cali off the United with Charlton in

South

States v. England match In New America, Chelsea's telp was the York last June. happlest, most encouraging

ever.

"What a wonderful

a case of "nervous

not

Bru

CONCENTRATE ON SHOULDERS

at a heavy club about the house

true

for occasional minutes of awing- ing practice in the garden. It you can make heavy club "whistle" through, you will

out.

11-Year-Old's TIRED Hole In One EYES

Robin Gammon, aged: 11, 8: has achieved the ambition of trouble overy golfer; he has holed

in one.

**Don't rub your eyes when they are alred from roading, pinensas, or Robin, of -Marleys Heath dog work. “Ducho thuen, Rond, Petersfeld, did it withsa, with Optrex Eye Lotion for brasse at the aimcuit 105-yard instant relief" and lasting sixth hole at Petersfield. Threo | sood ayoʻhjalta: ¦ Doctors bunkers, a hedge, and a ultch are ipprove lov

obstacles bewore the green. But - FREE sog`loth with besile "

Robin, who has been playing

since he was nine, cleared them

all.

"He said last week: "I play at round of golf every day after school. It's scrumptious to give the ball a good crack and watcly it sail away, better unum foot- ball any day."

His advice to older golfers on how to hole in one; "Take good look round you. See where the wind lles, because it makes a difference to you. Keep your head down when you drive- and hope for the best,'

Note:-Youngest player to hole in one is Tasmanian Peter Toogood. He was eight when he did It 18 years ago, at the 110- yard seventh in Hobart. Too- good was top amateur in this year's Brillah Open Champion- ship-(London Express Service).

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ed in their wrists and hands It is not a bad idea to have overswinging of so many of our needed for strong hitting handicap players. The sheer golf. That may be so up act of overswinging and of point, But it is not half as coming into the ball much too as many ladies would have you slowly prevents them from ever believe. Just watch those achieving the success they neck. ladies wield a scrubbing brush

ush make your ordinary ones KO or A paint brush at spring through Don't get me wrong, I

even more easily. cleaning time or see how they That is the hard work of being too critical of bad

better

golf for ladies—shorter shots, but no profesional could move even the heaviest plece of

Instead of overTM Up to the start of the season get good shots if he swung into furniture that is in their way swinging

I do not suggest that a woman swinging and the building up he had hit 25 first-class Co- the ball

slowly and in-

can match Д man's power. and application of hand power. women turies, but since the war alone decisively as too many

All I am trying to do here What I do say is that far too Now for a few practical hints he has got into the 90s as many do.

few women make the most of you can apply next time you go 30 times. Once against Sur is impress on you that there is

97 no

the power they really have. mark

the in at run out crowd-pulling rey he was Sunday A

half-way

You MAKE CLUBHEAD WHISTLE

APPROACH SHOTS International was postponed and through no fault of his own in approach to a golf ball." welcome became

B mid-week floodlit the first innings, but hit a fault-have to hit it and hit it hard

First those approach After all, the secret of every New they gave us in

York. affair.

less century In the second. Baltimore,

good golf shot lles in the appli-There is no question of brute New Jersey, and

is not It "Yet, despite such opposition

cation of power as the club-strength in these. You all have Montreal. And how Soccer and the acute shortage of first-908" for this dapper, beautiful

moves into the last two the strength to pitch fifty yarda class Soccer stadia, the great stroke player but a completo First let us, get rid of the Idea head game grows," Tet chuckles. Indifference to records spirit that a long loping swing is feet of its awing into the ball. to the pin. All I ask you

strength to commendable necessary. How can Britain help? "More which is doubly

It isn't. Bome of And It is the hands, compelling do is to use that

of speed in make, these shots crisp and firm. tours, more matches like the in these record-crazy days. the people who hit the ball best lata acceleration three Chelsea staged

with George goes on making his shots have little more than half swings. the clubhead, which produce it. Far too often I have seen ladies

shorter your swing,

flop lazily into these shots be- Glasgow Rangers in America, no matter what his score may For most Indien a tree-quarter generally speaking, the easier it chuar they feel that they

awing would probably be more Repeat

far Canada.

Another of his type in county profitable and far better con- is to feel and apply that late not far from the pin and they the hands, But, can push the ball" easily along. Dodds, is Dickie

of trolled than a full one. In the power from Moscow Dynamoe v. Washing- | cricket ton Wednesday in 1947.

the whether you swing long or That is wrong. Could Essex, who attacks the bowling main I have found

Watch any pro when ho be. Drake hopes.

from the first ball. Like David chief cause of the overswing is short, success demands that labe

So remember plays a pitch shot. He may use Chelsen are down to play In Sheppard, the theological much too free turn of the clubhead speed.

that, and build up your hand a short swing if he hasn't far Moscow in October. Drake, the student, Dickie la a man of high hips as the club is taken back.

lo hit the ball but he

never former England centre-forward. principles and often spends the I believe that if the concen- power to be able to apply it.

Try to

make the clubhead makes the mistake of being break English winter lecturing over-tration were more on the turn

on the ball. He knows 100 BORG for the cause of Moral Re of the shoulders than the hips-positively whistle through the lazy

over all nir as you go through. Cut out that a slow, lazy, shot is armament.

as you pivot tho

difficult; so he makes his club- hend get firmly through, Into the back of the ball, and on. to take a divot.

catching on out there. We saw

a football pitch even in the park outside the White House.

Praise Stan Matthews for North Amerien's new interest In football.

TV SMASH HIT

"A Dimm of the Blackpool- Bolton Cup Final was televised

and it was a smash hit.

"There's an American League,

a German League and now the

Portuguese have started playing.

more television firms.

Many schools, too, are taking knows how Soccer up football."

Ted Drake, the realist, knows!

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You, ladies must do the same. Play your pitch and chip shot firmly. Maintain your clubhead speed. Get down

tako divot, after striking- the ball... and get used to the idea of. letting the club do the work it designed to .do. Never attempt scoop. Ladies who practise these shots round the groens can cut half a dozen Ahots from their Inside a month of re work and concentration.

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