1960-08-26 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1960.

When it comes to losing friends -Nixon has

found an expert!

office of Vice-

THE

ROME OLYMPIC 190O

The ladies have won through

WE

HEN Percy Wells Cerutty, 64-year-old "maker of champions", condemned women athletes

this year as unfitted for Olympic endurance, he was echoing a masculine prejudice which can be traced back nearly 3,000 years.

Women have been known to take part in athletics for almost thirty centuries. They have

By J. W. M. THOMPSON been allowed to show their legs in Olympic athletic

Tresident of the United Stator used to be a glided occupant sot cago. Tho

loaded

among America's friendsus tida denied tall, rich and handsome aristo- Nixon rai from Boston

there, helplessly,

prestige but

Richard changed all that.

with

pawer.

will be Henry Cabot Lodge the next Vice-President if the

the election Republicans win and Nixon has already, prenticed him a full and important

L

in affairs. After his own dorin- ant role he would hardly do less

Angered Belgium

But we have past hari fresh illustration of the problem that a busy and powerful Vier-Pre- aldent fade wonilet present in President Nixon, if events suxite Do turn out.

with the election Even Duw,

has Tooming. he campaign

hiis antagoidsed Belgiuin with stand at the United Nations uver the Congo so that the Bel- gians are threatening to leave NATO.

for the

Tilst a case of blaming the Micial spokesman things he is Told to say. Lodge had a big share in the shaping of American policy over Stoz.

President Eixinhower WHA his promise to his prospective comune. from the sunflikt-and Vice-President.

Lige, with Gabinet rank, thowerable only

Inevitably one wonders today, Nixon will therefore, whether

koop tu tolly

bo oble

Or will he not feel compelled President.

to reduce him to the status of

ametLa

URFERMIERN which

his predecessors have tradi- With Russia tionally accepted?

There is

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fascinating story Longe his represented his country at the United Nations of how he came to the up the

United States with Rita throughout the Eisenhower th. Aricans have rather relished that famous Suez vole which, in The bluff, bull-at-pegate speeches the words of the Aisop brothers, which he has directed at the the American political soltann- Soviet delegates. Indeed, bis iste, core harm to Anglo-

xlarity

Becount American relations than all that xplains his cusier Nixon's had gone before," running-male.

this

But Lodge's UN career has also permanently identified him with The most painful breach in recent history between America

e her a fest

Neither British Ministers ror The fact is that Lodge hos French Ministers aro ever likely made himself unpopular with to forget how he led the pack" one American ally after another, against their countries (in Mr Probably no ending American Selwyn Lloyd's phrase) at

distrusted-time of Suez, politician

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events for just 32 years.

grossly exaggerated that the event was abandoned.

Men have never been happy were BU about the so-called "gentle sex" perepiring and pounding around the running track. The ladies of | Greece were not only banned from competing in, the Ancient Olymple Games; they were not even allowed to watch.

Wonch who "gate-crashed" the Games were hurled to death from a lofty rock. Many Gre- elan girls paid the supreme penalty for spying on the male

treo-lops athletes from

and through Raps in the stadium

walls.

Now, after a gap of thirty- two years, the 800 metres has been restored to the Olympic programme for Rome. Doubtless, There will be more complaints that the distance is too tough. for women, even though they run as much as a ruile in meet- Ings outside the Olymples.

Of course, it is not a pretty

thing to see a woman' looking very distressed at the finishing But the objection can be resthetic grounds:

Only one wayen is known to Tape. have watched The Ancient only. Games from the orena. Her san medlealty speaking, there is no was running, so, she dressed up case against women racing over as the trainer of a wrestler to half a mile or even a marathon, gain admittance.

The female intruder 'was seized But it was discovered that her father and brother were Olympic champions; murgover her son had won his race. So they pardoned her.

Giants

It was in the 1932 Olymples Britain And Froxed

at

that women Los Angeles already agreed in principle to

athletes first showed the high Even then-before 176 B.C.

standards they could achieve, whdraw from Suez. An Afro-

-wonier wire swift to assert Three Jadies emerged 05 Asian resolution went before the

They had their "giants of sport"-Stanislawa the United Nations calling withdrawal "forthwith," with no! their rights,

(Poland), strings whatever, on Nasser. A own athletic meetings in secret Welasiewiczowna

amendment called and eventually separate Olym- Mildred "Babe" Didrickson, and Belgion

for women were Helene Madison (United merely for early withdrawal.ple Games

offletally, recognised.

To the astonishment and, in- deed, fury of Britain and France, Lodge cast the Ameri- can vote for the Afro-Aslan demand.

Records

Ancient recordis say that Winthrop Aldrich, then Ameri-Hippodamin, danighter of King

estabilshed can Ambassador in London, | Octomuus, almost resigned on the spot-so Games in honour of Hers, wife

these

States),

Miss Wulasiewiczowna, · now better known as Stella Walsh, won the 100 metres in the then world record time of 1.0, sec. and until February 27 of this year she held the oldest of all world athletics records-her 7.3. sec. for the women's 60 metres,

Polish-born Stella, an Ameri- ean eltizen since 1947, also won; a silver medal in the Berlin Olympics of 1936; furishing second to the ft tall Ameriçañ sprinter Helen Stephens.

the Alsous later recorded-be- of Zeus, and named the Games set up in 1933.

"Horven." enuse he had been led to pro-

held These warts mine the British Government every four years-in between that no auch vote would be cast, the men's Olymples. Lodge hud taken his own line. as he was empowered to do, and thereby Indicted damage on the friendship Anglo American which it later took much patient work to repair.

to

It is an unhappy episode for {an American Vice-President carry around in his luggage.

One incidentul irony did not inuture umili nearly two years Jater, when Lodge WEB oncu again entreshed in long and aerimonious debates at the UN over Western intervention in the Middle East,

But this time 13 interVANEY- tion was American. U.S. troops hald landed in the Lebanon, and Lodge was silly ned power- fully defending, the oporation in the face of Ruselum condemna- tion.

:

Another story. credits this same Hippodamia with a part the origin of the men's ira Olymples. According to legend, those who sought the hand of the King's beautiful daughter hud lint to take part in A charlot race with her father. Anyone whom he defeated was to be put to the speur.

•

Altogether she has won over awards, trophies and 1.500 medals for athletics and more than 40 nutional titles in the United States.

Today Stella ranka as one of

One cuuning sulfor called the greatest alb-round women Pelops is said to have bribed athletes of all time, along with nl's Charioteer to the Immortal "Babe Didrickson

his opr

loosen

chariut. race. n. And Pelop celebrated Cumes,

vel of the King's fell off during the ing broke his neck. winning the girl, by

the founding

A picturesque story. But the results of recent research sUK- Lest That the origin of the Olympics was much earlier.

Zaharias.

to Olympic glory

By

JOHN COTTRELL

The crunts--the 80 metres a yard from the hurdles and the javelin-were quarielte. added to the women's programTM The

amuzing

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FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN..

The Aussie girts achieved even rule counted against her, She greater things at the Melbourne had been faulted on an earlier Games of 1958. Belty Cuthbert Jump.

collected three gold medals-in

the sprints and the sprint relay. And Mrs Delahunty

Who will be the women stars won two in Rome? Que to watch is Betty Cuthbert more gold medala with victories haney-blonde

in the sprint relay and the 80 who could become the most suc

of all women in cessful

the metres hurdles.

Olympics by adding to her pre- Another athlete, Mrs Dorothy sent total of three gold matals. Another is all-rounder Maxy Australian Tyler of Great Britain, achieved

If her gold medal blå unique distinction in Mel- Bignal, Francina bourne. She became the first succeeds she will be the first four British woman athlete to win an compete in

"Olympic event.

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woman 10

1 was in New York at tirat Lime.

I remember ?x It is, however, widely accept- ed that Hippodamia was respon- cynical commente which Lodge's speeches prompted in the dele- | sille. for the women's Games. UN build- These comprised foot races over Bates' lounge of the

ane at the 1932 Olympics. Miss (Ponny, Blankers-Koen, ho%290- ing.

about 170 yards with competi- Didrickson, us she was

then, wife und mother of two, hael Olymples, lors grouped according to no.

won her fourth gold medal at Winners

crowned with won both of them. She also were

came second in the high jump one Olympiad --- a feat no other chaplets of wild olives and re-

woman athlete has achieved, ceived part of a helfer sacrificed caly after a "jump off against + Fellow American, Miss J. lo Hera.

Shlicy.

+

Defended action

Since the great Suez breach between America and Britain occurred, Lodge has felt it neces- sary al times to defend what he did,

He

י

clainibed: "The hard action we had to take with closest friends respect to our earned u credit throughong Africa and Asia..

What

Naked

mart

While shor men-lolk nuked; the Greek women rased tunics in high-waisted, short which left the right shoulder and breast uncovered find end- ed between the hips and knees. They

barefooted went

End their hair draped well dowIL

similer but

in sttings most Britain, however, la the way the shoulders. witch he linked the Suez affair with the fate of the Hungarian rlaing. He went Eo fur as to blame the "distracting and con... fusing effects of Anglo-French-costume Israell action in Exypt" for the failure of the United Nations to help Hungary.

The "Babe lost this tile by o quarter of an inch. She had, in fact, made the best jump but it was discounted because she had used the "Texas roll" which was illegal"

Modest

She started as 10-year-old Miss Odam, the "baby" of the British team in Berlin in 1930, There she cleared the winning height in the high jump. But she finished second,

In those days when two con- at the same

-Eleven times in eight days this modest housewife was the first testants drew to break the tape. She won the height,

the bar was lowered 100 metres by three yards and then gradually raised until one broke the world record in the 80 of them knocked it off, prob metres hurdles, as did Maureen ably through sheer exhaustion, (now Mrs Geoffrey Dorothy was eventually worn Despite this, she became the Gardner

who Anished inches down by this marathon and lost first woman athicle to win two Dyson)

behind her. gold medals at one Olympiad.

Then the Flying to 25-year-old Hungarian Ibolya

200 Csak. the Dutchwoman she would probably have

metres by about two and a half won more if two had been a

won

Irony

wider range of ayants, in her yards, Today a young Greek girl in

In the 1952 Olympics, Aus- athletic career she competed in modect 034 events, winning 832. more

tralia kept up the good work And

Next

rule day the performs the 3,000-

was through Shirley Strickland, now she became Arnerlen's greatest- Mrs Delahunty, and year-old, tite of kindling the

Marjorie changed and the present rule of fame af Olympic

ancient ever wonsin golfar.

Jackson, now Mrs Nelson, Miss the "count-back of faults in before Olympla

the Cames

Strickland, who began her run- previous jumps came into force open. Lighting an olive branch

ning career hunting kangaroos, So Dorothy missed her gold 'distraction," by the sun's rays al noon

set up a new world record of modal by 24 hours.

Ironically, she cleared the he sud "world oplandon could through

10.0. sec. for the 80 metres a magnifying Have been focused on Hungary she then ignites the Olympic

hurdles, Miss Jackson set new winning height and finished in the 1018 with for more telling effect. torch which is carried in relays

Olymple marks for the 100 and second again

Olympics. This time the qulio possibly causing the Soviet to the Olympic Stadium.

200 metres, Ünton to withdraw.....”

*Without ther

Naive view

-

or

Every title

The third star of those 1932 Gomes, swimmer. Helene Madl

two Individual Olympic tiles the 100 metres

won

This Was the limit of and 400 metres_free-style-and woman's contribution to the set up record times for both, fræ three modom Olympic That year she held overy world Games. At the fourth Olymples swimming title for women. in London (1908) "they were

It was an astonishing analysis. allowed to indulge in Roma No doubt about the outstand-

course, it is

obvious that dignified lawn tennis, archery ing woman competitor in the Erut for Suez the Rusland loe-skating-Britains wow 1030 Olympics. Here the ruthlessness in Hungary might four of the five events but fabulous little Sonja Henie of

ive been more

posed to the worki

gloringly ex-

that was mil.

Twelve

That year

IT'S

Wonder girl

Another who can make Olym- pic history is the Rumanian wonder.girl, fi. 2 in, tall Iolanda Ballos, This long- legged world high-jump.chano- pion can become the first woman to leap higher than six feet in the Olympics.

The first woman's high jump gold medal was won with 5 ft. record stands at 5ft 6in. Now 2% in, and the present Olympic this can be smashed by six. In- ches.

Other records are likely, to go -despite male prejudice. For in athletes, as in other things, once women sát their minds 10 something we men can only sit back and watch.

TOMORROW:

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Norway retained her figure- skaling title for the second lime At the Vih Olympica, Slook to become the first woman to Dui con Mr Lodge stili belleve, fter all he has since peens of holm (10(2), women's eventa

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Collectors of the vintage Bob Taylor, president of the will being nearly HK$54,000. could really have induced Mr years later, fencing was added already won in world titles aircraft are wing to label as Antique Airplane Association. But some collectors have found Hirushchev to pull his troope to the programme,

around 1,000, that they can also make thobert out of Hungary?

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If he does, he lakes an siarm- ibaly naive vlaw of Communist thotives-alarming, that is, if he là soon to become Vice-President of the United Flatca,

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Unlour, of course, the office is once again to become a mere doconaive appendage

the Prodancy: in which case no one Will worry too mucts over what Site Lodge thinks about anything.

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