1960-08-15 — Page 9

The fifth Test looks like being a tame finish to a tame series

By IVOR YORKE

All through this weary wet summer public interest in the

England-South Africa Test series has dwindled. · Forget the Geoff Griffin throwing controversy; discount the anti-Apartheid feelings which, in the end, amounted to very little, and what is left? A milk-and-water series of matches which have absolutely no bearing on the world cricket position of today.

That is why the Fifth and list of the world's top-ten bals | run-feast, -when 1,477 runs were final Test, beginning at the his-

men.

toric Kennington Oval on August) Before he began this tour 18, seems almost certain to be 5ft. Gin. MoGlew had scored played in an atmosphere of indit 8,497 runs (20 centuries) in first ference. England barring rain-class cricket for an average of should win comfortably.

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Difficulties

Nothing is at stake. England three shead with the fourth match drawn, and who bat the most fanatle will turn a repetition of up to witch cricket taotles as weary as the weathert

South Africa's difficulties have been numerous in 1980. The Griffin affair unsettled the whole party and the indury to Waite cost them the services of a fine wicketkeeper and excellent bale man, and it is hardly errorising that their cricket has suffered substantially as a consequence.

Trevor Goddard has never got going and Roy McLean has struck. top note only once, with that century at Old Trafford, Jackie McGlew, burdened with the position of tour cablain, has been unable to reproduce the lm into the form which shot

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scored for the loss of 33 wickets, The visitors needed just 28 runs to win with three wickets

when stumps were in hand drawn.

The other two post-war Oval Tests between the two countries

England's way, i though both have been close In 1951 England snatched a four-wicket win and four years later the margin was 92 runs.

47.48. The milestone of a cortar 10,000 seemed about to be passed. But after a good start in Enghave and he was still 500 runs short of his arrived.

gone

when August affairs. target

minor troubles. England's meanwhile, have not ruffled the selectors' confidence one ioła.

Even without the mervices af Peter May (injured) of the Rev. David Sheppard and despite the in-and-out-form of the opening batsmen, the selectors have bee

an England side able to field strong enough to beat a touring eleven bere of batting depth or a hostile speed attack.

Indeed. I go so far as to say that England could have won the series with a largely ex- perimental side.

Disheartened

go to the Oval South Africa

There thoroughly disheartened. are three main factors.

First, their own poor record (and con- sequent cash failure) to date; second, the rival attraction of the English

which opens on the Saturday of the to keep match and is likely thousands away from the cricket; and third, their dismal history in Oval Tests-three defeats and five draws in the eight matches since 1907.

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No such finish This malch olimaxed exciting series, In which the visitors fought back admirably to square matters after losing the first two matches.

A total of 100,000 people watched Q match iri which bowlers were on top throughout. Hugh Tayfield claimed dive Eng

and second innings wickets for 60 runs in 53.4 overs, while in the South African, second innings Laker and Surrey spin twins. Lock did the damage. Thanks to them, England won the match- and the rubber.

Alas,

there will be no such to However, true andstand finish to the 1960 character, the bulk of the English cricket-lovers would be pleased it the underdog South Africans could round off this unhappy tour by winning the final Test.

scries.

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1960.

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Science turns the heat on LAN WOOLDRIDGE as he faces

Done to a turn Wooldridge after 2 hr. 54 min. in the "oven."

OLYMPICS'

ROYAL

SPECTATORS

Rome, Aug. 14. Six members of European royalty are expected to watch of the the opening ceremony August 25, 1960 Olympic Games here on

They are Queen Juliana of the and Prince Bem- Netherlands hard, both at present on holiday in Italy, King Peul and Queen Frederika of Greece, who will arrive in Naples on board the with yacht, together royal Prince Constantine-a competi tor in the sailing event there;: Only on one occasion has south

For next year comes the big and the Grand Duke of Liech- Africa come really close to victory at the Oval. That was in test, with the visit of the Ausstenstein, Franz Joseph the hot sunshine of the 1847 traliens.

It would also shake England's selectors out of any complicency they may have as a result of such easy victories.

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AN OLYMPIC ORDEAL

Seven men out of ten, if they admit the truth, drift off every once in while into a dazzling Walter Mitty world of athletic achievement. For some it's a classic crisis century at Lord's, for others a Cup-winning penalty at Wembley. Plump bank managers flog home Derby win- ners, and a million hen-pecked husbands have floored Floyd Patter- son. Me, I always wanted to win the marathon.

It is a race for, madmen. masochists and... majestic heroes. And it has been like that since 450 B.C. when e splendid impulsive fellow called Pheidippides sel out hot-foot from the battlefield of Marathon to carry tidings of victory to the taxpayers of Athens. He dropped dead six miles short of his destination.

Unhappily, the full story of the last moments of Pheidip- pides--the Dese athlete who should bave had a ghost writer -has been lost to posterity.

But at the cost of three hours of agony and 4lb. in weight, I can now reconstruct for you precisely how he felt as the sun blazed down on his -dusty deathbed,

It almost happened to me. In Hampstead last week. In sight of a singularly pathetis sadience of three.

As in Rome

Like

plunging

head first into

hot, damp rags

acream as a thermometer, rammed under your xe. Your

firmly wrists manacted for purposes of re- cording your pulse. You interviewed in your under-

your pants and weighed in birthday suit.

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too late gabble that you smoke 25 a day, drink far too much too frequently, play poker nightly to à am, and were only kid- ding, anyway, about running a marathon.

It hits you

For there, behind the de- ceptive facade of a distinguish- ed red-brick building half-way down Holly Hill you can perience in advance the

under You are already part of The agonising conditions

as such, Experiment. And, long- Olympic which our

you meedy follow Major distance runners and walkers

James' Adam

metal- into & will torture themselves in the

room which walled

could quest for gold medals. In Rome. In early September. serve as a film set for a San

who In sight of thousands

Quentin execution, Spanish inquisition,

8 Gestapo have congregated from the far

grilling. corners of the earth,

Medical Admission to the

The heat 104des F-hits you like a fist in the face. But Research Council Laboratories

it is the humidity that really at Hampstead is by invitation

911 guests only. But

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"Surely," you

asp, they can't hold the Olympics in conditions like these?"

"No." confesses Major Adam, "this is really. more iike Aden." But a 104 deg. F. temperature has been recorded in Rome within. the past 10 years. And the staff of the Medical Research Laboratories have been drilled to leave nothing to chance.

This heat chamber, design- ed for acclimatising, troop:, has been placed at the disposal of any Rome-bound British athlete.

ASTONISHINGLY, ONLY FOUR HAVE MADE USE OF IT SO FAR.

Four-hour test

It was with two of them, 50-klometre walkers Tom Misson and Donald Thompson, that I underwent a four-hour test.

It may sound simple. You merely step on to a 12in, box and of it again. once every five seconds, for 30-minute spells,

My own sublimated ombi-ĺ tions. towards marathon im- mortality were shattered after 2 hours and 54 mins. At that stage I knew just how Pheldip- pides felt,

Dramatic Picasso-like de- signs were darting across the walk, My breaklest was perched precariously between my lungs. More seriously, the well-upholstered calendar

Russian women dominate in

rowing championships

London, Aug. 14.

The Soviet Union was three of the five lites In the three-day European Women's Mowing Championships, esding today on the Welsh Harp Reservoir in Willerden, Northwest Lon den.

The three Soviet victories were in events, in which they were reigning champions--the eights, cored fours and double soulls but for the first time since the championships were instituted in 1854, the USSR lost its grip on the quadruple

World! sculls East Germany won this

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event, with Rumania second, Hungary third and the Soviet crew fourth and last.

A 80-year-old Budapest housewife, Mrs Jesione Papp, won the single gels for Hun- gary for the third successive

In the doublé aculis final, Tast Germany were disqualifed were. for going of not allowed to

re-row won by Union, who hed also finished first to the voit racem Bele

queen pinned up over the door began to look little more al- Witch luring than the Third from Macbeth.

I stepped down into a pool - of 41⁄21⁄215, of my own perspira- tion--and

leave vowed to athletics for ever to the athletes

The man

who maintained that it was fun, finding out was a monumental liar. But the experience, if only to emphasise the colossal climate shock that can face norther European athletes in Rome, was invalu- able.

The eyes on the contrals... are Dr Otto Edhalin's,- director of the Medical, Research Council's De partment of Human Physiology.

marathon men, who have run the opposition into the ground only to collapse yards short of the tape. In 1908 it was Patro

Derando, of Italy. In 1954; It - was Jim Peters, of Britain.

Warning

English cricketers have also suffered. Alec Bedser told me of the freak heat wave, reaching 190deg F. in the which struck the Adelaide Test in the 1946-47 MCC tour of Australia.

that "I bowled 25 eight-ball overs Regrettably I discover a certain section of British that day, and in the end I athletic officialdom regards didn't know where I was" hé this Hampstead heat-box recalled. "BW Eirich "col- nothing more than a good-fun lapsed half-way through an

VILJONGERENCIAS MURALLES DEULOTKUCANCER

How does the man-is-the-street compare with the highly trained athlete? The Hampstead Heat-Box Test gives you the answer.

Tom Misson and Donald Thompson, Britain's 50-kilometre walkers in the Olympics, are at the paik of their training. Writer Wooldridge merely claims to be "as fit as the next man."

*Pulio rato per min. Weight lost

At start At finish ...

THOMPSON (4 hrs.) MISSON (4 hrs. WOOLDRIDGE (3 hrs.)

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gimmick, knocked up by out- of-work witch-doctors.

con

Misson and Thompson eraighten them Thompson fold me: "This is the

perlect place to build up your cont dence. You know that Rome can't be worse than that."

Heat exhauation is more than a mere danser in sport. It can be a killer. The death of Pheidippides, 2,410 years ago, was only the first of many fatalities recorded in the rug- ged history of merathon, run- ning.

Sport's two most glorious failure stories of the 201 century have also concerned

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Meteorological

statistics, past ten

compiled over the years, reveal that Rome's daily maximum temperature for August is 88 deg. F. for Sep- tember, 88 deg. F. And dur- ing that time 102 deg. F. has been recorded in August, and 104 deg. F. in September.

Our athletes have been warned. I only wish they would call in at Holly HILL, Hampstead, and prepare them- selves for the shock.

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