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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 2Ë, 1960.

CONTINUING THE CHINA MAIL'S SPECIAL OLYMPIC SERIES

LEAVE THE GAMES ALONE Dead-eye Joe is the most

LORD BURGHLEY

OLYMPIC

QUIZ

Things are all right as they are says

the Marquess of Exeter

The Seventeenth Olympic Games will see a struggle be

tween on the one hand, athletes aided by the State, those deriving athletic benefit and on the other hand, from University life. In between come the unaided.

So it was at the Sixteenth Olympics, the Fifteenth and in all the recent Games. And if David George Brownlow Cecil, KCMG, sixth Marquess of Exeter, Lord Paramount of the Soke of Peterborough, has his way, so it will be at the Eighteenth, Ninteenth and at all the Olympics to

come.

The Marquess is the former Lord Burghley who won the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Now he Is Vice-President of the Inter- antical Olympic Commitice and President of the Inna - tional Amateur Athletic Federa- tion.

the Czech army almost matched his speed on the track?

own way, and

By

confident of three likely

DENNIS HART Olympic gold medallists

was the member for Péter- borough at the time.

But while the Marquess

thinks that things cars and should continue as they are, he is as pre the Olympic Games today.

of the dangers that beet the

na-

He Hats the three chiết dan- fti's 13 · commercialism, tionalism and polítics,

It has been suggested that

By RICHARD BERRY

Among the hundreds of competitors who gather in Rome this week for the 20 events in the Olympic Games, only three can be confident that on their statistical records they are world-beaters. Only three can rea- go home with a gold sonably feel that-barring accidents-they will go

Medai.

sbolishing such things as a They are the Australian swimmer Joh, Konrads, the American Negro high jumper John C. Thomas, and the Englishman Joe Wheater, who com. petes in the clay pigeon shopting event. And of these three confident men, probably the most confident is Wheater.

waving, banner carrying and the playing of rationa! anthems would

prevent

nationalism getting the upper

has

at

Lood Exeter has reservations. "It depends on how the indivi- himself regards thesc most all of them paying their dual

many of them things. Personally, when I wen with the hope of finishing in the 400 metres burdics

Amsterdam I was tremendously even the first 600,

proud to hear our national onthem played and to think that I had brought somrie credit to

No Halt measures

maintaining of

"He could have been a good soldier," suggests the Marquess, of What about the business athletics scholarships? Lord Exter declares that the major American universities do not award athletic sholarships and that "if evidene of abuses were brought to the altention of the International become a athletes, will

Olympic Committee or Inter- national Federations they would certainly take them up with the Olympic cozništvo and governing bodies of the country concerned.”

So we may take it that this view, generally shared by the rules of world

prevail.

Defence

But isn't the very Olympic structure seething with con- troversy

together in sport have

So we get back to the athlete

discontent? and Doesn't the whole Olymple concept of bringing nations who gets aid from neither state peace through or university. Couldn't some a hollow ring in thing be done for him-broken this materialistic and nationa- time payments, bigger prizes so cash in on the Ilatie

I asked the that he could world?"

skill that

gives pleasure to Marquess of Exeter.

millions? Reclining in an armchair in his suite overlooking Hyde Park,

Professionalism the Marquess opened his defence of the modern Olympic concept with, "The Olympic Games' do not create international ill-will, But people should not expect The was the shepherd the Games to settle all won the

1896

"We must appreciate from the start that different countries start by having different out- In-looks on many

things sport them.

These are the people we British sport. must also consider when we talk "But I do not think fer ene the amateur moment that because a man can spirit. But if a man wants to run say 800 metres faster than profeselonial well anyone else that the idealogy of there is nothing to stop him, his country is superior to the

Could limited profession- rest of the world's." alism be introduced, as in other sports where amateurs and professionals are often found on the same side?

Pruning

City pigeon shooting? To mph from a spring, loaded trap. Joe's father became a game- the minitiated it sounds a bit of It may be travelling in any keeper. Says Joe Wheater: "It a lark.

But there is nothing direction, any angle to the was the only life in which he comical about the way Wheater | marksman, who has one could get his shooting free. goes about it,

Imagine a saucer of baised clay shot into the air

at 30

more i keeping with the Olym- pic ideals. It ensures that cach country can send at least one man for each event, but a second they have and third

which Godard achlered should but them in the final.

But this is a matter on which the committee must keep a close eye."

The Marquess feels the same way about polikal issues, which "must be kept out,"

Bul how strong is a committee in the face of totalitarian govern- marits and dictators?

Explosion

two- second to empty, his barrel shotgun at the target.

Wheater usually ares in well under a second and most times the second shot is unneccesary he has bagged the target with his first blast,

IBAR

Consistent

"It he didn't get 90 head of game out of 100 shots. he' thought there was something wrong with him and 100 head out of 100 shots was nothing untsus)."

Önly life

Job was brought up in the sanie way. His father would His performance is so con- give him six cartridges and say sistently good that of the 17 bring back six head of game.”. International events in which | Jos became an under-game he has competed during the keeper bist at 19 he joined the last

Won RAF two years, he has

as a regular In the 10, come second in four and armaments section, third in three.

He left in 1946 and went

European champion Wheater, back to gamekeeping. In 1950

35-year-old Joe,

alert-faced, man, owes his success own unaided efforts.

his father and brother old-estibilished

to his bought up an

gunsmith's in Hull,

In

At Beverley, Yorkshire, near his home, he has buill himself a shooting range where he currently firing off some 2,000 shots (at a cost of £140 cartridges and clay pigeons) to get into Olympic trim.

This and his rural back- Wheater's main

Through the international The Marquess believes that committee, the Marquess, and his see that this you must have one thing or the colleagues ain: to

No half measures. He balanced point of view is other. makes the point that in Britain, generally held. for instance. where teams are

And how, about pronting the sent to the Olympics on public Games? Regional qualifying com- subscription, he could hardly ap- petitions have been put forward peal for the thousands of pounds as a way of cutting down a

The Marques of Exeler needed on behalf of men going tournament that has shown signs

a behind-the-scenes revealed cut to make money for then of becoming too unwieldy.

explosion that threatened to selves. Or why not go the whole bro

bring down the whole Olym Lord Exeter is "And as amateurs. athletes

not keen.

pio édifice of 1936. and admit open professionalism? should not expect to have, every "From the technical point or

Those who think that the word thing handed to them on a plate, view in athletics it inposts a big The 1836 Games were held in professionalism, makes amateur They can be expected to make strain of competitors. In quick Berlin against a background or Dr Levald, oficials reach for the smelling some sacrifices, to use some of succession they would have to Nazi persecution,

German salts would have been interested their holidays, to take part in compete in their national com- the chairman of the

team selec- Olympic Commitee, was half ground, are For petitions, on which events like the Olympics. in the Marquess's reaction,

"Professionalism? Nothing this is their hobby."

tions are based, then the re- Jewish.

Just before themes were dub he admitted.

The Marquess said that when gronal tournament and fally in wrong with "

to open. Hitler sacked him. The settling easily into his armchair.

Olymple Com "And this would also cut lenational dian who was forced to Take this amateur question. "It's just as honourable for a man he went to the Los Angeles the Olymples.

world-wide re-mittee demanded reinstatement to earn his Hving by running as Games in 1932, he used his holi- It is impossible

would be Ior the Olymples training between presentation at the Gattles. fitted in his by journalism or, say, banking, day from business to do so and down on the as I do.

The system He have called off.

Dr Lewald got his job back. business and sittings (often late) think of the House of Commons. He adopted this year in athletics is

1. Who

who

marathon?

2. Who was the Red

return the medals

world's differences.

he

for instance.

won at the 1912 Olym pica?

3. Who was the last Olympic Lawn Tennis champion?

to make an arbitrary legally

watertight ruling defining an amateur which could apply throughout the world.

Scholarships

"The IOC lays down the prin- the ciple that no athlete may make

4. He was known as

"Phantom Finn," always ran holding watch in his right hand: His name?

"But it so happens that the Olympics are designed 15 а gathering of amateur athicles, men who run for fun. That's athletes want it. the way the otherwise they would press for changes through their club and

a profit out of his sport. The county associations.

and National Bodies administer this "It must be remembered too as fair and just men. If in a that the athletes who get as far case there is any reasonable as taking part in the Games are doubt the athleto gets the just a small fraction of the benefit of it.

athletic community.

5. Everyone has heard of Dorando Pietri's gallant marathon in 1908.

who won it?

(Answers tomorrow)

"In countries where mosi

"Let me tell you of an ex- fat- perience I had last year.

the British tended

cross- country championships at Peter- borough. It was a most miser- able day, cold, wet and windy. Emil But over 1.600 competitors turn- whose promotion in ed up from all over Britain, al-

people are employed by the stale it is natural that athletes should But be as well.

But I have been assured that they do not receive special financial benefits."

Then what Zatopek.

about

Four D. Jonė ALAS IT'S TRUE, MY

BY MADDOCKS

HONESTLY, THIS IS STARK RAVING.

MADDOCKS

CRAYON DRAWINGS COME TO LIFE AND WE HAVE TO WASH

THEM AWAY

WITH WATER

IF ONLY I COULD CONTROL MY.CRAYON SO THAT THE DRAWINGS WOULD STAY ON THE CANVAS

assets.

Joe

Wheater's success has helped the business,

He was the best British clay- pigeon competitor in the 1958 finished Olympic Games but up in a low position-18th out of 32.

He has learned a lot since then. He has analysed the methods of the top shooters ali

the world-and then

There has always been a over tradition of shooting in the beaten them. Wheater family. His grand- father, a farmer, was the grealest game shots in Great Britain...

CAN SEE BY YOUR FACE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME SIT DOWN. MY FRIEND

one

YEAH, DRAW ME AND SEX WHAT HAPPENS

He

says: "I can't afford to slip. It is too expensive a sport to compete in as an also-ran."

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