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The Near And The Far In The World Of Sport A CHALLENGE TO INDIVIDUAL COURAGE AND DETERMINATION No Sportsman Should

Miss This Film, Says I. M. MacTavish

Summer or not, despite temperature and humidity, this has been a most important week for Colony sport and sports- men -- · provided there have been eyes ready and willing to inter- pret the passing signs to our best advantage.

I find it very difficult to pluce the significant events in their most advantageous sequence, but the order of precedence must depend to a great extent on how each event appeals to you.

else In Overshadowing all my opinion has been the show- in of the truly magnificent Alm of the 1956 Olympic Games. I is en cuir by whatever standard

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Everyone is flying

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heurd Imitast have been impressed with his views and his opinions ou why Austraila del so well in the aquatic competitions.

The

essentials for. Olymple lister ng natural

success wire

ability, and expert coaching designed to build up strength of will, strength of character, and

A few years ago a sportsman | Anally great strength of body.

the purists

Even In these enlightened folks who still decry the often fanatleo dieter- minution of the modern athicle

be the best in his class, "Melbourne Rendezvous" must survig go a long way towards convincing even the launchest supporters of this attitude that of winners can be physically retent

THE WILL TO WIN Here at last is the will-to- wht demonstrated with a wine-days there are ment and artle try that enianes ftver before the belief that good winner is always more desimble than a good loser.

Every emotion experienced by in athlete enmpeting for the world's premier prizes is captured by the strange Intimacy

WHAT A FINISH!

By HENRY LONGHURST

I cannot help it if said it the other week. I must

say it again. There is no place in the world for an Open Golf Championship to compare with St Andrews.

The scena will remain imperishably in the memory of all who saw it, more especially those who saw it from the eminence of windows or rooftops or even the televisión tower behind the last green, which in the end was festoon- ed with small boys clinging to the scaffolding.

Mile upon mile of golden sands strilehed away beside the course

to the coast of Carnoustie, and we could ree every huje of the course itself As the to vas! shirt-sleeved crowds swarmed

and along beside Thompson Locke, batiling 1: out between them a quarter of a mile apart.

FRIENDLY DOUBTS Crities of the Championship Committer-to whom my sincera congratulations on their presen tation of the championship--bad tat expressed friendly double as to ex the wisdom of reversing the

20

of outstanding merk shocked According to our visitor Aus-order on the final day and send- by stating openly tralia's successes were the cul-ing leaders out last. The crowds,

be might that too many athletes theke† Į minutlan

thought, of elght yerrs of It was

ns to become bunched together as makes planned preparation. The medal streak that the mean

athletes that too winners were

This did not whose out of control. winning an obsession.

happen and the finale worked many of them would rather lose promise, noted at an early age, Bracefully than win at any cost.

was developed under expert up to such a perfect grandstand guidance in a country with an Anish that they will assuredly abundance of natural freilles, become a permanency. ms ideal ellmate, and A pro- gressive attitude towards the greed that good winners are better the good users.

He revented that one very interesting aspect of the train- Australia's swimming was the almost unprecedented incorporation of representatives of the close-up shots at which yo, morally the weight lifting into the prepara-

great sportemen. One stes the lion.

battles rvelling most

Such a practice has generally Olympic supremacy fought been frowned upon as a vacan with Krim unrelenting ca. of training swimmers but the deavour: human effort is direct- Australians have now justified en 10 greater speed, greater

its use and have already stated height, greater tilstance, greater that it will be increased still endurance: every opponent is a further In future programines challenge, an obstacle In the

сле because strength is the essential path

in vie'ory and yet the requirement for all who aspire

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ly trained athlete do nothing to BELOW THE SURFACE prejudice the sparismm rip. Let us take a look ut OnQ of congratulations which follows loen heldent against the back cach

event.

Rrounds I have just painted

No sportsman should miss see.

Let us look for a moment at

A. D. Locke, one of the truly great "competitors." times before, but now ho was going to win it at St Andrews.

And what a unish he treated then to! As the ball soared tip against the blue sky and plop Everyone lifted their hats to ped down a yard from the fog, Peter Thoruson. Rain or shine, my mind lushed back 21 years he plays with a cheerfulness that to a scene precisely similar and endears him to all. Undeterred I heard again the great rozr by a rix at the fifth in the paltant went up as Heelor Thom- round--no suim looks or banging son hit the same shot to within the club on the ground-he six inches to win the Amateur, rattled off five threes in a row A moment later huge crowds round the Loop, often within were swarming and stampeding hand-shaking distance of Locke across the fairway just as they where the holes march side by did when we won the Walker side, but towards the end putt Cup in 1988. On that after pult slipped by, holeable Charles Yates, holes, and he knew that barring one at each of the last three disaster overtaking Lucke at the seventeenth, he was done.

Decasion remember,

Wee Doch and Doris" from the gave them a rendering of "A clubhouse terrace. To complete the likeness. Locke niso treated them to a song-believed to be cutitled "Keep Your Hands in

Your Trews.”

OUTSHONE

So we had the scene set just as the stage manager had de

med-grandstands full, crowd's awarming ten or twenty deep on either side, and the nolema,

Last year he had been out- portly figure in the familiar shone uver here by the young white cap and dark, plus-fours South Africans, Gary Player and proceeding slowly and inevitably Trevor Wilkes, whom he had to his supreme moment of been shepherding round the tournaments rather in the role of ing this film. It should be seen the dismal failure of our bad- triumph. He had won it three

a rich and retired uncle. At Arst for the speetselt 1 hmlatan reprezentaflves in their

beaten by match with the would prove most advantageous home he had been doubtedly is and then it should exhibition

Player in u series of matches Thomas Cup team to their badminton career, be seen again in study what it Japanese

over 108 holes. They were asy- this week. ..and

It was prepared by a gentle. really means, not only in the earlier

Ing that he was "over the hili” we're at it of while

Wo might

man who has studied his sub- ever Improving performance of

and that the moment which comes in the end to all great super athletes or the mysterious taken look below the surface ject in one of the greatest hidden

attitude to physical training establishments fcentive that

qur players'

games players had come to him, Bob modern preparation methods. in the world. Closely followod veterans kc tho Rev.

Now, fitter than at any time in the syllabus could hav It seems only the other day

his life, he has put critics end Richards to

fabulous ncar

fine the Hongkong team into a really

youngsters alike in their place. heights up und over the bar of since Hongkong scored a

win over Japan in Thomas formidable limit: The whole Arthur D'Arcy Locke la one of the Pole Vault, but rather to

Cup match at the Queen Eliza-thenie wils 'strength'... but

the great "competitors" of all raustute what they sce into

beth Stadium in Kowloon. In probably because it did not em

lime. They may not be finish- into hours of planned trainag

thig Interim the Japanese brace hitting a shuttle over a

ed with him for another months of experi coaching, and have improved out of all re-net for hours on end it proved years, Anally into years of striving and cognition

and this time they to be unpopular. scif-denial by accompilated made the Hongkong Selection 010 youngsters failed athletes who grow up in a

leok like third rale opposition. emulate their opposite numbers Spartan avironment of the Why should this be so?

in Australia In appreciating that w!!!-to-win.

First of all the Japanese re- physical fitness bullt of bodily presentatives were very much strength is the real basle essen filler than our playeru They ul of success.

TIMELY

11ts of

.

It was indeed timely that walle this film was being shown played with

in the Colony a famous Austra-fidence and with a will-to-win classes

never even Inukod

ming events.

we

built

to

A STILY of con- Attendance at the training dwindled with cach like passing work in spite of

congement from The local

Ute Above all they were supreme; } Asgoelation and

unusual

matehing.

co-

lian Myimning couch should pass through It only because he was one of the backroom boys wim did so much towards his 'country's wonderful run ot successes in the Olympic swim-have been and certainly would definitely and almost inevitably have been if they had had the the training project was courage to stick to a strenuous abandoned. During a brief stopover in

training schedule drawn up for

The pay-off was collected in Hongkong he took time out i them some.

time ago by this week's crushing defeat by record an interview for Re-physical training export.

a team we had beaten not so diffusion's

of Sport" Since Hongkong's victory

over Japan the brillant veterans very long ago. who brought its so much honour in the post-war years have bowed out of the picture. Un- fortunately they have been re- placed by youngsters who have spurt.

soon...

lyf. In fact they were as patience of the organizer. Such ΠΕ Hongkong's players might indifference could not go on in-

"Velce

ANSWER TO

SOCCER

"PUZZLER"

The combined lesson from all theso

several polita is that

national

success

there is no easy way to inter- in modera you must be willing to give everything you've got or

return

Don't worry if you didn't get become stars too the answer. You're in good youngsters who think they know you get nothing but defeat in and that doesn't lead an (much more than they do... Two offietals at company.

think they Art better you to any Melbourne Rendez- international match last season whe

rolly are vous! I 1 were asked the same question players than they

and, worst of all, who are and both got the wrong answer,

When Commander E. W. not apparently prepared to Beetham, an FA Council mem- WORK at the task of malding

worthy

the of ber, put it to the Annual Can-themselves ference of the English Football (eminence they enjoy in Colony Association Rejerces and Lines-] badminton.

I know these are harsh words men no one offered an answer.

Corrzet deelslon: A. penalty ..but I know too that they kick. Once the ball goes out are not follow, I know they alde the penalty area it is inne truc. play. A goal cannot be scored direct from a goat kick,

TOO MUCH BOTHER Some time ago physicul

охрет перагод

The back commits two of- fences: playing the ball twice training and handling ft.

D

He should be strenuous but novel training penalised for the more serious, programme to assist our young ulong the path to which is handling. .and you players

cau argue about it all week-end. physical maturity in a way that

Pop music

SOCCER "PUZZLER" And now may, I Anish this week with a 'puzzler for soccer fons?

A full-back takes a goal kick The ball goes outside the penalty The area and is blown back. full-back handles the ball but cannot stop it going into his own goal. What is the decision? It you don't know the answer you'll find it to the left on this page,

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2. Who captained the

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3. Where will the next Olympic

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7. Who was the first woman

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9. Two brothers, Peter and Derek Richardson, played for England in the third Test Match against the West Indies. When did three brother play In a Test team and who were they?

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