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Olympic swim champion Murray Rose back in serious training on meatless diet

Sydney, July 24,

CHINA MAH MONDAY, JULY (25. (1

CAPTAIN'S VIEWPOINT

England must import

> to keep

keep County Cricket alive

The Olympic gold medallist, Murray Rose, is on a spartan diet of seaweed

jelly and sunflower seeds to bridge a half-minute gap and regain his Nothing annoys me more role as the world's top distance swimmer.

Rose, who has never eaten meat in his life, must take 35 seconds off his best time for the 1,500 metres to draw level with his fellow-Australian, the ? brilliant young John Konrads.

Since he won three titles at moes (seaweed) Jelly and gost's the sight of It. Besides I have the 1956 Olympics in Mekourne, milk junket.

has conceded world eminence over this distance to Konrads, another of the century's great "Wimmera who has been Bhattering records while British bom Rose has been at the University of Southern Cal- fornia.

raw

Lunch-large raw salad

raw carrot, (including beetroot), egg or cheese dish, wholemeal pancake.

Dinner - cooked vegetables, peppers stuffed with soya beans, millet pudding:

drink He prefers not to in

with his meals. Between meals

the remote tropical

Townsville Northern Australis, the two Kats Wars Epen dreshing up And down the pool to strike

the

top fort for

Offshored at Home,

Swam at two

1980

Rose, credited with having been able to swim at the age of two is keeping rigidly to his -vegetarian diet to power himself back into the dynamic, style that won him the 409 metres, 1500 metres and the. 4 x 200 metres Olymple titles in 1956 when he was 17 making him one of the youngest Olympic champions in

•bistory

Ob his disk of fult fulce and unprocessed foods, including raž 'salads, sundlower seeds, soya

besos and seaweed, Rose revelling in his first really good training for four years.

At the University of Southern Callfornia, Rose, who was born in England... but, brosacht uq, Án Autralia since he was a year ald has been able to average only 90 hitites swimming a day

In Melbourne he won

the

Olympic 500 metres tit with

full faith in the food I eat and I feel, this does a lot for me,”

Rose is more than six feet tall and has a ne physique, weighing 13 slone I (191 Ib). He has pat on 'more lixan. a stone since returning to Australia frons hla. University skuilles in California to virais. with the Australian Olympic swimming team, !!

"This is the first time since the

than to hear Somerset

described as the Foreign Harold Stephenson

· Legion" of the county cricket clubs.

True, we have had to bolster our strength by importing on a big scale, especially since the [... ansteur suply

which Somerset traditions were

founded has largely dried up.

But

to dall Somerset the "Foreign Legion," the "Home and Colonial and other smart, gimmicky names, does less than Justice to our honest at- temps to give local youngsters every chance!

No interest

he has druit or vexetable Juice 1986 Olympics that I've had We have imported no more than or goat's milk not tea coffee (or alcoholic beverages)..

time to concentrate

on a-pro-

per training programme." he

"There are many variations sold. to this menu, of course ", guld his mother, Eleen, she pre-Murray Rose

dish at their special

pared a

"For instance, instead of truit at breakfast we might have mil let porridge.

"And in place of the goat's milk junket there might be a and sum- mixture of flower seeds, honey and nuts, and so on.”

sesame

Never eats meat

Mrs Rose buys the seaweed In dried form from health food shops. "It comes from Ireland, that's why it's called Irish moss," she said.

Mrs Roge, who like her champion sun-wwas born le Eng- land, first adopted this meatless. foods for diet of unprocessed health reasons.

When it proved successful her

tine of 17 minutes 38.9 husband, lan, an advertising

executive, switched to it. seconds.

world Konrads holds the reconditor the distance at 17 minutes i recònda);

Typical Menu

During a break in his rigid training, Bose guys reporters the first full accent of his fastartle diet Previously, he kal Kways been reluctant to

tastes bf food.

I just couldn't see how it could interest

anyone, so I'd always, let the subject drop," he explained.

Here is a typical daily menu: Breakfast, bowl of sliced pineapple, bowl of grapes, Irish

loaf'

"Now I'm getting the right sort of exercise and the best food,”

Mrs Rose makes arrangements for Murray to get the right food when he is in Townsville to prepare for the Olympic Games.

stre

"There's a special millet brend we use and this is available at only one Sydney store," said. **I strange for it to be flown up to us."

The bread is seven times as expensive as ordinary Australian bread.

Mrs. Rose said the bread is similar to a lost sold in Los Angeles.

Not long after Rose went

California, he

gave his mother's millet bread recipe to a friendly health food store proprietor. Soon the bread was on the market.

By word of mouth, fussy eaters came to know it as "The Murray Rose Leaf.

While he is training in TownTS

Murray was born to it. During his 21 years he has not eaten flesh in any form-meat, pulville try or fish.

supplies of seaweed and freshly-ground sunflower and sesame seeds are also being there, China

Of this he says "I don't miss flown meat-in fact I'm repelled by Special

Four D. Jones, OH YOU DID, DEAR. DON'T THEY MAKE BY MADDOCKS

HANDSOME COUPLES

THERE WE ARE, DEAR. ERBAND COMPLETEDİ A GOOD JOB I DID

DON'T YOU THINK?

The severu other counties: truth is that the smaller counties have always had to bring in talent from outside. Only Yorkshire have managed through the years to field teams of players bom ex- clusively within the broad acres. But look at Yorkshire's size and population compared with Somersel's!

I was reminded of the "York-

shiremen only" ruling when as a youngster playing in that part of the world I was asked if I would be interested. in a trial. When I said I was born on the Stockton (Dur- ham) side of the Tees. York" abire promptly lost interest.

like for So, but

counties Somerset, who are prepared to accept out-siders, frit-

Davis Cup win

Somerset skipper: takes over the Monday morning

* talking spot.

clad cricket would be denied the likes of me. Even Lancalhire have an Aus. tralian (Ken Grieves), and what would Surrey, bave done without the help of Berkshire (Peter May, the Betsers, and Ken Barrington were all born in Reading).

A ROTHSCHILD DHERA CU

Israel

now has

its

first golf course

Pioneers who have drained the marshes and those who are still

the badlands of the Néger desert may raisë, eye first golf course has come into being..

Like, luxury hotels, · juvenile juvenile

· Plans for the delinquency, millionaires and skyscrapers, golf may not have dream of "an Larbell Riviera," been in the scheme of things for in Caesarea, where some of the this rejuvenated nation. But wealthy of the world wil

Israel is growing tolerant themselves luxurious villasto of the vices of the modem enjoy holidays in sunny" Israel world. Even television, is just are also taking shape. - SURA

There

no contesting that' round the corner, they say.

the place is a beauty spot, b Kibbutzniks and Moshavniks the distance, golfers can see the from the neighbouring villages | lower-hills of Mount Carmel, may look with disdain at the Silhouetted on the resiline are A county like Somerset, decadence symbolised by the the ruins of crusader," castles. where there is no league Caesarea Golf and Country Close by, stand the ancient cricket en a large peale and Club New, immigrants from hippodrome and forum of the the standards are necesarily

and East Roman city and, less than Moslem countries governed by a small popula-Europe may stare with a puzzled to the west the deep blue tion, the only answer is to look elsewhere for talent. So ession. But Israel has by Mediterranean,

now its people of wealth, lei and We have Colin McCool

are seekers, top flight exccu Bin Ailey, from Australie, Peter Wight from West Indies,

tives and tired "businessmen say nothing of tourists and quite a problem for the Roths and shortly we will include

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