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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1961.

BOOKS AND SPORT

OLYMPIC FLAME MAY BE

TAKEN TO TOKYO OVER

THE ANCIENT SILK ROAD

Tokyo. Japanese officials want to bring the Olympic torch from Athens to Tokyo for the 1964 Olympic Games along the ancient Silk Road which crosses China.

The 6,200-mile route was proposed by Mr Michio Ito, a Japanese theatrical producer, who will arrange the opening and closing ceremonies for the Tokyo Games.

the

of

Japanese Ofeials Olympic Committee say that the Silk Road route, at this stage of preparatlouis, is still mainly just an idea. No decision on whether it is possible to carry the flame

and oft

would

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Desert, Taklamakau: Desert.

The route as it crossed the Taklamakar: Desert to Turfan,

How to become champions -and successful duffers

By CHARLES STEPHEN

How has the United States produced so many world champion athletes? One secret of their success is that, unlike most other countries, they scientifically select many of their potential star performers.

Champions moy be born i rather than made. But how many hors champions come to realise their full potential? All too often, great stars of athletics discover their capabilities by chonce rather than design,

Not so in the United States. There, most colleges and Uni-

select athletes studying their physique as well us performance and a student of ù certain build will often be

the and Professor Yajiro Sakato, of Shizuoka University, whu fed an inal expedition to the Pamirs descend

year, have been invited by the

Riveversities then pus Organising Committee to

their options on the best route for the flume.

down into Aust in China. From here, the torch could be carried

vla to Pekle! then Kanchow, Kather

overland from the Mehterran

will be renched. ean to Tokyo until June. In the mean time. they will continue to relevant information,

The biggest problem, they think, will be to get permis- China sion from Communist which, at present, is not a member of the International Olymple Committee,

If the Silk Road route proves Impracticable, alternate

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by

Nun and Games preparations recommended to concentrate an

across to Pyongyang in North Korer, Senul, in South Koren, and across the Korean Straits to Kyushu, in southern Japan. The last stage. of the route

torch bring the wouk! through Japon to Tokyo.

up

A Japan will be the first Aston country to set as host to the Care, some offietals con- the lane should sidered that pass through as many neigh- bouring Asian countries as pos sible. To do this, and use the Silk Road route as well, would

routes Used by Marco Polo cen enrrying the flame south

will be considered taking the torch down along the Red Sea from the Mediterranean, neroas the Indian Ocean then up the shores of the Pacific Ocean, through a score of Asian coun itles.

It has been calculated that runners' would need a ver bring the torch along the Sk Road. Most of the running would have to be done at night

lo escape 11 temperatures: during the day.

The route

Mr Michlo Ita suggested that the torch could be car- ried by horses, camels, jeeps across even helicopters and

in the more rugged terrain

In some areas, Central Asia.

Itto Southeast Asia to include auch Countries us Thailand, Bama and Vietnam.

are

a certain event.

While there

always mafnhle exceptions, a very definite link exists between

British-bred

coll wins at

New York's

·

100

있었다

certain physical types certain athlette events. Now two

American athletics experts, Jesse Morlen- sea and John Cooper, discuss such ways of selecting formers in a beautifully pro- duced coaching book-Tynck and Field: For Coach uncl Athlete" (Prentice-Hall Inter- national Inc. 30s.),

Points

par-

Here are some of the points help which may they make

to decide pil some youngsters which event to concentrate:

440 yards-"The extremely focky, short INviduals ure not usually successful....most Guccessful perfonners are thin,

800

wiry, and of average height,"

yards Tall, long- tegged runners with

good 880 speed may become

men'

1964 opening meeting at a

in Tokyo, the Olymple Or- ganising Committee has select- ed 16 sites for the 18 events on the programme for the Gaines. Plans for

marathon, cycling and eques-

had 1rian events

not been finalised by

All February,

and

New York, Mar. 20. Merry Ruler, a British-bred col, fook the lead at the head uf the homestretch today went on to capture the $28,500 Swift Stakes

as the earliest, New York ever opened at

racing season the Aqueduct.

ection."

дустаке

Mlle--"The ideal miler is slightly built individual wiss lause striding, running

Long-distance "Participants ATE nonnaly the smaller

unners n the track team."

ous emount of research remains to be done before such psyclin- togical ideas could be reasonably upplied to the selection of top athletes.

Slace ninety-nine people out of a hundred have no pro- spect of becoming a champion of any kind, there will per- haps be wider readership for the work of another American, Henry McLemore, who given advice on "How to Be a Successful Duffer."

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He writes: "A true duller always will be a duffer. Lessons from professionals do him lite good. He will curry that loop in his buckswing, that flyswatter service, to his grave.

The library shelves of the nation are over-rum with learn- ed books on how to become a champion by improving your ร้oงาว,

The real Juffer bas tie form and couldn't improve if he did

'Too old'

"As fer becoming a champion Champions you can't fool us, are harder to make than trees, To begin with, they must have great natural ability and early start.

a caravan of trucks would be needed to follow the runners with water, to provide them food and medical supplies.

the suk

are expected other facilities Marco Polo, used the

completed

Pole vault--"Rope climbers, between to be Road in the 19th century during

parollet specialiste And March and October of 1863, his excursiors into Central Asin,

plans for longest and richest Outlining the

Kymnastics apparatus per- He took four years to open the

village.

Committer

formers in general are a sourco le route between Rome and Olymple

a potential performers,” Peleng Later, the development oficials say that the quarters be able to accommodate

Discs "Boys with Professor Hko Matsuda, of

long of sea transport made it obsolete. will

female male and 1,500

A crowd of 44,119 turned out Waseda University in Tokyo,

Mr Ito inks that the fact 0.500

arms and considerable weight. athletes. Plans include such under blue skies with tem-should That the leading of

tu 0120

bc encouraged oki SUK Japan's

Rund, which

post office, bank, peratures in the mid-40's. They attempt this event." authorities 1511 Central Asimis ove linked East and West, and services as a

customs office, are department, iw merry ruler stave off a hisic

not been used for aries at War clinic, motion

to thess Many picture theatre closing rush by Mrs Samuel Le rules

exceptions coma to mind, but since ancient thnes, Is

symbolic

Frank's Stan The Man. Four of the peaceful Olymple spirit, and press centre,

athletics tracks,

generally they are a fair guide. Okinawa was the first of the practice grounds for jumping, Slan

However, I feel the authors are "Mosi The Man, named

Aly-casting islands in the Pacific to ask to

treading on thin ice when they learned the rudiments by cast- throwing and putting the shot, Laseball player Stan Muuial, be included in the relay route five football felds, five hotkey was half a length

To link cuck chind the

psychological ing into the goldfish bowl from the one is brought up the Heide, three swimming pools, winner Lut 24 angths in front

factors to certain events.

their bassinels. Anyone who is Pactic. Mr Masaji Tabata, the

gymnasia, 25 small of the third horse, Leonard P.

For example, of the 880 yards old enough to read is too old to mayor of Naha, Okinawa > gymnasia

they write: "Boys who are not | start becoming a champion,“ and 18 volleyball Sasso's Clobeniaster, to capital, made the request

inclined extremely Socially practice courts will surround the Organising athletes' quarters. Japan's Olympic

came here

trac

has

and APPORTaphy, the roule as follows: From Greece,

the Turch would cross the Mediterranese Teheran, then over a highway desert, the

to Bugdad and continue east

OUPONS

Middle East 11 welts and 10 Sambakand, an East-West trading

pi elines,

important

centre.

The route would then cross! Committee when he the difficult 15,000-foot Puur in February. Plateau to Kushgar med desvend j cestward between the Tienshen Mountains which stretch from the Pumir Platesu to the Clo

diretor

Dr Hiteshi Kiara, of the Nations) Hereditary Research Institute who visited the Mille East a few years ago

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+tYmir champlon horseshar plicher probably started pitch- ing pory shoes when he st wore three-cornered pants, and your gulf champlon undoubtedly could put backspin on his milk bottle.

experts.

for may be successful. A boy whe McLemore makes his witty likes to play team games has a observations in "Esquire's The harder time adjusting to running distance races than one who has the opposite traits."

Globemaster, purchased

was yearling, $80,000

of 1901, making his first start and was the 3 to 2 favourite. He took third place by a neek Farm's Jets May over the Nonerist Pat,-AP.

Oleints say that Japan's plat for the Olympic sites will be submitted to the International Olymple Committee when it mects in Athens In Reuter.

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