1959-07-17 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1959.

BRUCE TULLOH THE SENSATION OF BRITISH

AAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

National Press

Laud

Former HK Runner

For His 3-Mile Triumph

By V. V. KOLATCHOFF

Paris.

Dubbed the "bare-footed, beer-drinking_botanist" by Britain's national pross, 23-year-old Michael Bruce Swinton Tulloh was the sensation of the Amateur Athletic Association Championships at London's White City Stadium last week. In actual fact, Tulloh's 13 minutes 31.2 seconds in winning the AAA Three Miles Championship was not the greatest performance of the two-day meeting of the White City and pales besides the 28 minutes 12.4 seconds for the Six Miles on Friday evening by policeman Stan Eldon, followed by his 13 minutes 38.6 seconds in third place in the Three Miles the following day. This was done in between regular flat-footing beats. The excitement In the nation al press was prompted as much by the fact that Tulloh ran bare-foot as by the fhet that in- chided were Southern Champion Kevin Gilligan, who only likes ls fags while Tallch likes his Leer, defending (though fired)

Clark! champion Eldon, Peter (fourth in last year's Europenn Metres Championships at 5,000

British Inst year's

Games Commonwealth

THI Mlles) and an otherwise all-star Beld that cluded Derek lebot. and seventh place son 11

much

ond

Stephen Jannes in ninth,

tually Tallochs but lost the C in Deven started his runnin; in Hangkong where he did his National Service as Gutiner Tulloh of 173 Locating M.B.5.

Royal Artillery, Battery, Lyemun at the age of 19.

4

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SPORTING SAM

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However, British Interna-Hongkong and in Japan, Tulloh, tional Six-Miler Martin Hyman. low hurdler Roy Boll of Lough- a clubmate of Tulloh's at Ports-borough College and javelin- mouth Athletic Club, told me thrower Colin Brand of Black

20 heath Harriers. at Hotspur Park on June

at the Southern Championships that he thought Tulloh had a greater future than himself in International athletics,

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up enough points in the Club's Annual Pentathlon to have taken third place in that year's English National title and all of 11 done in a pouring rain!!

great regard for his Iuture..

The HKAAC roll of athletes end they are the boat informed has represented Hongkong in who would try any event its international events both in quite a famous one - Asian people on British athletlen,

Games sprint medailist Stephen Xavier. Bill Reeves of Yale, Colin Brund of Blackheath, Roy Bell of Loughborough College, "headlong hurdler" Sammy Lo John Hunter, who once beat In the case of Tulloh and Bell, Alan Paterson for the Scottish Hongkong under Commonwealth High Jump title and was stil feet 11 inches in Games rules had a strong claim clearing 5

later,

and as both had started their athle-Hongkong years tica carcers in that very hot Chinese fremun Tsang of the who Colony where Tulloh always ran Hongkong Fire Brigade

didn't know one end of a juvelin Two weeks earlier Tulloh had in shoes-running barefoot

picked up been spiked in a two-mile race Hongkong's cluder tracks is like from the other but

in the other a red-hot oven points steadily at Walton when he had finished running on second to Michael Bingrove in Tulloh whose barefoot running events in the Club's Annual 8 minutes 59.2 conds, 11 was only developed on his re- Pentathlon which was

ΠΟ ex-pulsory" to all members. the Southern Three turn to England, has

we don't even mention the girls Colony record of 15 minutes 11.2 started in

Miles Championships but gaya planation for why he took for the distance in

mong them Brightan model March of 1954 and at the AAA up in the now famous ruce made bare-foot pounding except that Jennifer Hart who at it chun

that Kevinhe Ands it more comfortable. Champlonships in July of the famous by the fact

run same year clocked 20 minutes 25 Ghilgan happily pulled away atlle started with bare-foot Krniss tracks, while being inter-ning on a cigarette seconds for the Six Miles in the

and anally viewed by the press. After the cross-country AAA Championships Bal.

me told

cinder tracks. tore, Tulioh

comfortably Just couldn't run He was soon spotted as

10 pack and had

Tulloh was a member of the it shoes

Famous List comer by the Hongkong

scar

Committee of the HKAAC and showed me his h. 1 Amateur Athletic Club-

Walton race but tuld

A botanist Southampton one of his greatest contributions When Tulloh left Hongkong from the other background to several

hadn't bothered University College, Bruce Tullo to the Club was his discovery bis parting words to the Hon. me that this British national olass athletes

that 2/Lt Peter Boorman of 173 at all-only the shoes.

was a dedicated botorist-biolo- which

ked Secretary of the IIRAAC were:hlan particularly

"My aim is Rome in 1960." At The fact that TULLOH has gist even while a 19-year-old Locating Battery was "kely to Bruce

For his willingness to

the British Ganes in May this

win International National Servicemun in Hong be a very useful member of the do as he was told. He

year at the White City 1 pointed glad to always

torget the

hanaurs is not for the Hongkong. He was very popular with Club." He was quite right, Peter kong Amateur Athielle Aso Chinese track fans and officials Boorman, who ran the Mile for Three Miles and run instead cut Tulloh to the national press

ciation's want of trying. He in Hongkong and used to cause Cambridge against Oxford in Bu but found Freshmen's matchi in the Half or One Mie when as certain to finish in the fest

six in the Three and Six Miles. was actually entered by the endless laughter at Chinese that was nece-wary for the

the Arst three in

KAAA for the British Com- Lanquels when, having it ex-training for the "big time" 100 Club always rich in distance

Inger race. Ir nished

monwealth Games last year, plained to him that he was like-much of a bore, was also in the HKAAC's best traditions and in runners-in dual or triangular

sixth in the Three Milles and

But his entry was challengedy to be tackling a soake or frog his one and only start in the 400 meetings against other clubs.

arth in the Six Miles, I also

British in the next dish, he would reply Metres Hurdles turned in a good und refused by the the would win Tullah was Hongkong Cham- predleted he

Amateur Athletic Board when simply that "As I want to be a 60.3 seconds, 1960 AAA Three Mifes. He even

the HKAAA applied to the futologist. I may as well find out this at 5,000 metres but never

a Hongkong record. 10 surprised me heki

by Winning

HAAD for his temporary re- Wizz Considerably Impressed, event in 1959. though, that he was not far off

For quite some time 3 thought the best of Hongkong record-

after was the only man who had nlder Peter West, who

in Tulloh's future. Hongkong applied for partle einly having battled the Hong- any faith

Cum- 11. Even

NUTFS an effort

(National cipation in the British kong male in

of Track and Feldmonwealth Games in Hongkong break 15 mindies for the Three Union

a" Statisticians) have

colours of Marathon runner Bub Miles, lett contented with

A

was

Parting Words

perhaps in U 13

Tulloh proved very the Sunday papers friend as the race started at 4.40 pm, and

wasn't uver minutes 13.2 seconds later when it was too late for the evening papers to make marl out of it.

The Sunday-noring Tulloh splash in the nationals"

of

was

one that has greeted fow stars tomorrow. His liking for beer, on top of his bare-footel running and his fret scarred by spikes in other rares, gave hằn column-space by the foot in Sunday's nine Batlemal papers. One' fhet completely overlooked was his new bare-footed world record, benting The previous best of 13 minutes 34.8 seconds TH by Kenya's Nyandika Malyoro at last year's AAA Championships.

Remarkable

Hot

While Tulloh was undoubted- ly overshadowel by Stan Ellon, who still had plenty but quite enough left after his Six Miles victory on the previous evening, his performance! noverthalexs was quite T-

markable,

To begin with, Olymple (1952 Champion Emati Zatopek Gamus) es un identical best tine with Tulch's #419<h only 13 men have run faster. They happen to be 13 of the greatest ever "middle long distatico" runners In history-Albert Thomas (Australia), Sandor Thares (Hungary). Murray Hal- berg (New Zealand), Derek Ibbotson, Stan Falon, Chris Chataway und Peter Clark (ali; Great Britain), Neville Scott (Now Zealand), Viurbimir Kuls (USSR), John Landy (Au tralia), Gordon Pirie, Frank Sando

and Ken

tul Norris

Great Britain).

Thus the pint-sized Tidlo).. also take his beer who

JES

pints, moves up to 12th place en the all-time British Common- wenith list and eighth place m the all-time Brilish is,

He also

moves up to 35th place on the all-line Three Milts 5,000 Metres world list,

For the current year he b the fastest man in Britain and the over Three Miles second fatest in the Com- monwealth, behind New Zealand's Murray Halberg. In 1950's world ranking Hst for the Three Miles/5,000 metres he moves up to eighth place.

Not Quite Ready

is on

Ja sudden rise to fame has www.her frightened Bruce Teloh The suggestion that he was now a British International (he is very likely to be selected to nin against the USSR and Finland Luter in the year) was met with the words: "B-but I am not quite ready for that yel" In actual fact, Tulloh performance the year's best in Britain and it would be a pity. Indeed it the British Amaleur Athletic Board did not blood him as a full International. But he is quite correct about the fact that he is not ready for the "big time". To begin with, he is, not a Three-Miler but more of a Six-Miter for which distance he is yet too young though he finished (10th in thic race at the British Games ut the. While City in May.

It would be most unwise on Tulloh's part, however, to turn seriously to the Six Miles and 10.000 Metres distances now and ho would beat reserve his ap proach to the longer distances Another three of four years after some concerted effort over Two and Three Miles.

Bruce Tulloh he is a Scot were ac- and his forefathers

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