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·THE WORLD OF --ATHLETICS.

IMPROVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS STANDARD.

SEASON'S BEST FEATS,

News

WATER POLO.

V.R.C. "B" SCORE EASY WIN.

There

two were

water polo matches last evening and, though the first one was rather evenly contested, the second game turned Twenty-two years ago the Olymout to be a very one sided affair.

Chinese Athletic Association and pic Games were held in Lapdɑu, . "and the writing was on the wall Kowloon took the bath first and

for those who bad eyes to

read the good goalkeeping of the Chi- There was evidence in abundance ne custodian contributed in ne small measure to his sides win. that our track supremacy was threatened, our mastery

in field The Kowloon forwards were poor events and hurdling a thing of the and several chances to score went

a-begging as a result. past.

TF in those days, the ATA.A. could have interested the public schools in track and field athletics all would have been well today with Great Britain in internation“ al athletics. The task of tilling what is, and must be, Our suost fertile field was left to two clubs-the Achrilles, who in- stituted educational matches with excellent results, and the Londor.. A.C., whose annual Public Schools sports meeting provides an admir. able initiative to boys to strive after athletic excellence. Through out the post-war period the stan- dard of athletic achievement at the Public Schools has improved steadi. ly, because there has been encour agement of the right kind and be cause games masters have been ap- pointed who are well qualified to give athletic instruction

C. R. Cheong put in the first goal for the Chinese and C. C. Lan added the second shortly after.

The teams were:-

Chinese: S. P. Chan, F. S. Kwok, K. W. Fung, S. L. Chan, C. E. Chrong. C. C. Lan and C. K. Tam. Kowloon: Angus, Franks, Henry, Railton, Bliss, Witchell and Kerr.

V.R.C.

B. Somerset "B."``

This meeting resulted in a run- way victory for the Club who were Rėza by far the superior team. Pereira, put in the first goal for them and Lawrence put in another three in quick time.

Immediately after the second half started, Roma Pereira added two more goals and yet another at close range by Lawrence made the score: V.R.C. B" 7; Somersets "B" 0.

The teams were:➡

V.R.C.da Rocha, Fornito, nard, Remedios, Lawrence, Roza Pereira and Gosario.

Somersets: Wallace, Meadows, Bollon, Parkes, Spronting, Palmer and Lilley...

It is the standard of the mass of boys taking part in the sport that matters, because the record breakers will be evolved in the process of the production of athletes. These record breakers may be lads such

Future Matches, as Hugh Spitz, the 17-year-old American high jumper, who has

Mr. James Stewart, Hon. Secre- recently smashed all schoolboy retary of the V.R.Cinforms us that cords at 8ft. 4in, and H. A. Sim- the fixtures for the second division mons, the English boy, who jumped finish on August 3 and the remain eft. 2in. at the same age, or they ing first division matches from may be the products of careful August 11 will be played at 9 p.m. building up, as in the case of G. instead of 0 p.m. On this date the M. Moll, who has received instruc- abandoned "B" division fixture tion since he was 11, and whe, last between V.R.C. and Fukien Club year at 17," cleared ft. 11in.. will be played off at 9 p.m.

Nearing Even Time.!!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1930.

LAWN TENNIS,

STRIVING AFTER THE UNATTAINABLE.

PRETTY PRETENCES.

How many woman are prepared to admit that they cannot serve Da overhead, volley, or smash! they know that to produce these strokes well is the prerogative of the gifted few, and that if the player is not gusted all the lessous and all the practice will not give her them, In support of this theory one has only to look at the rank and file playing in any tour- nament and watch a typical per former. She is playing a single and it is her service. Up goes the ball and an attitude is struck-and that is about all that first service Amounts tu, for very, very rarely indeed is it such as to put the other side in jeopardy. It is generally. a pretty pretence at what a good overhead service should be, but the stance is wrong, the weight trans ference is wrong, and in place, of a rhythmical flow there is a violent and jerky effort and a loss of balance that usually means a foot- fault. The second service generally does go into the proper court, it has just sufficient strength to do that, and, having done it, it sits up and begs for punishment.

The

DAVIS CUP TENNIS. SPORT AND HEALTH. SOUTH CHINA IN MALAYA.

TILDEN BEATS BOROTRA. TENNIS CAN BE OVERDONE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

Pants, July 2 In the challenge round of the Davis Cup, Tilden bent Borotra 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 7-3.

WELL BEATEN BY PERAK CHINESE.

A large crowd turned up ou July 17 at Ipoh to witness the foot. ball match

Tennis is an excellent outdoor exercise. It is good for wind, eye; brain and limb. It teaches alert- ness and self-reliance, but it "de- mands abundant stamina if played seriously, and should be regarded, therefore, chiefly as an exercise for

Before choosing it as a recreation suffered defeat, this time by three the young and the fit. consider carefully your age and goals to one. physique

patchy game. The Growing girls should avoid.exens-visitors monopolised the attack at sive or violent tennis exercise, the start, but were unable to though in moderation it should do seure owing to the lack of dash

He did not believe the directors of football and other sports clubs always realised what they were doing when they parsistently: ar- ranged for those great league con- tests on Good Friday. Many of them did not inderstand the strength of feeling that existed.. They were immersed in their gate between the Perak money and their dividends,

It was ap to the members of the Chinese and the South China A.A.O.E.M.S. in their localities to bring tourists, and the latter cace again home to the directors the fact that they were distressing quite unacces sarily the Christian conscience of their followmen. Their society could The also infiuence the players. Football Association provided that ho player should be compelled to play on Good Friday, and some of good. The delicate person will Among their forwards. In the the leading players consistently ro benefit from tennis so long as he meantime Perak played poor foot fused to do so. If the campaign takes the game easily and avoids ball.

was vigorously persisted with local too streauous singles.

Half way through the openingly the victory would soon be theirs. A sweater, or cardigan should 9.10a.m. M. G. Mills and J. R. always be taken to the tennis court period Mee Onn, on the right wing, getting a pass near mid-field, work to be put on immediately the played his way down the line, and is over. This will prevent an after-lifted the ball from an oblique tennis chill.

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FANLING GOLF.

STARTING TIMES FOR TOMORROW.

Collins.

L. Yates and H. Lowe.

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9.28..

9.32

9.38

A. Hoffmeister and J. M. McHutcheon.

C. B. Terdre 'and H. V. Parker. Di སྙ་་༔

B. B. Anthony and J.

Smith

I. H. Geare and A.

Humphreys.

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DJ Keogh and J.

9.44

G. G. Johnston and

9.40

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9.52-

9.56 10.00

10.04

10.16

Dykes

W. Mackenzie.

E. R. Hill and C. My cock.

W. C. Shields and O. Eager.

D. Forbes and A. Brown

V. E. Ferrier and A. G. Coppin.

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P. T. Carey, and L. J. Blackburn.

V. R. Gordon and A. C. I. Bowker. CE Watson and C. W. Jeffries, A. Leach and Capt. Weir.

HISTORY OF GOLF.

ENGLISH CLUB'S CLAIM.

Golf sa every bit as popular in Australia as it is in England and Scotland. It is generally believed that the game achieved its first po- pularity north of the Tweed, The Honourable the Edinburgh Com pany of Golfers dates back to 1744, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews to 1734, and the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club to 1774.

Regular Massage.

The older person who feels he is fit eroagh to play the game would be wise, before beginning on a sea- son's tennis, to train for a week or two beforehand by regular mas- sage and daily physical exercises.

It is a good plan to rubs olive oil constantly into the feet. This is a preventative against the corps de veloped by tennis shoes. Soak the feet hefore, applying the oil.

The particular risks of tennis are tennis elbow," "tennis knee," and foot troubles.

"Tennis elbow" is an effusion of | fluid into a small 'sac

Dear the

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angle over the goalkeeper's head into the corner of the net.

After that the Perak forwards

added two

had a spell of activity, and were continually in the picture. They more goals, Philip Yoong scoring both, one from a pass by Mee Onn, and the other us a result of combined work by the forwards. At the interval, Perak led by three clear goals.

On the resumption the visitors bucked up, and their inside-right forged his way through the home defence and scored an "excellent

soal Ragged play followed, the visitors being content with trying long range shots.

elbow joint. It is due to over-usage

In the closing stages the local of the arm in some favourite and forcible stroke or to a too sudden forwards were provided with many

opportunities, but Failed lament stroke in an unnatural position.

"Tenais knee "is a slipped "ably. The visitors appeared to be cartilage of the knee-joint. No stale. amateur should attempt to set right this temporary locking" of the joint. A special knee bandage : fitted with a pad to support the cartilage in position may suffice to rectify the trouble, but if it per sists in recurring an operation may be necessary.

The foot troubles of tenais are usually sprains or strains. Slight sprains may be walked off, provid- ed that the foot is bandaged up to the ankle and just above it. But no tennis should be played until recovery is made Severe cases require cold applications and rest for a few days. Later massage and bandage compression may be desir- able.

Why Not the Underhand Service?

The underhand service is looked 10.08

as out of date, old-fashioned, and 10.19 upon by the modern young women as being a poor weapon in com parison with the dashing overhead. Doubtless the beginner is thinking of Mrs. Wills Moody's fine service, or of Miss Ryan's, or of Mrs. Whit- tingstall's first delivery, but she is ignbring the army of incompetent overhead servers, and critical ob servation will reveal an astonish- aying amount of rank bad serving

snag the women players." overhead delivery is much more tiring than the underhand, and just 13 women are structurally less well adapted for throwing a ball than are men, so are they not on egual terms when it comes to overhead serving. There is no need to think that they are invited to adopt ven

Any weakness of the arch of the inferior weapon. It is in very few

fcot may be accentuated by cop- bands that the overhead delivery is a certain ace winner, and Tildeas There is one golf club, however, stant exercise in soft rubber tennis and Pattersons grow on very far south of the Tweed, which claims shoes. To counteract this practise to possess even more ancient re- tip-toe exercises and joint move- trees, and must be regarded as

Fords than any of the Scottishments some time before the tennis exotic fruit of the lawn tennis tree.

clubs... The Royal Blackheath Golf season begins.. What one should expect of the ser- vice is that it should not surrender Club was instituted in 1603, and. the initiative to the other side. Auntil comparatively recent times service that keeps low does not per was one of the few golf clube in mit this, and this is easy to attain" England. Even as lato AS 1879 Larcombe, who won every conceivable clubs out of Scotland. Half a cen- honour and who as a doubles play-tury ago the golfers on Blackheath, er was accounted superior to, many with their red coats, were regard- a good male tournament frequenter, ed by the schoolboys and young played the underhand-service, de-

men of the neighbourhood as old fivered, as this service is always debuffers who were too old for livered, with no effort, which kept cricket. Golf was lcoked upon low, and thus denied the enemy the with something akin to contempt. initiative-the attack remained The men who played and the cad with the server. Mrs. Satterth-dies with red flags, who had the 'waite, though now a veterao, can appearance of warming the passer- defeat all but the very best, and by of the approach of a traction engine, were curiosities in the eyes of all young people,

A careful study of results at the U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS. with the undefaand delivery. Mrs. there were only seventeen golf

various schools this year suggests that something inside 11sec, for 100 yards is now quite normal for the schoolboy sprinter, although one feels perhaps A little sceptical about the 10 1-5sec. by E. T. Le Favre (Victoria College, Jersey), and D. W. Draffan (St. Peter's, Fork). In the case of J. D. Wade (Lancing) one is not so sure. This boy not only returned 10 1-58cc. for 100 yards, but also 53 4-sec, for 400 yards.

"[REUTER'S AMERICAN BLAVICE.]

NEW YORK, July 24. The following are the results of the baseball matches played in the National and American Leagues to-day:-

National League,

!New York Brooklyn Brooklyn Beston Philadelphia

In the quarter-inile the standard of the top-notchers at the schools is now better than 54scc., while H. Rundle (Brighton), has return ed 52 2-58cc. and E. H. Deinfeld " (St. Paul's) and Parsons (Felsted)!

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1 Pittsburg

3 Cincinnati

9 Cincinnati

5 St. Louis

13 Chicago

American League.

have done 53 1-5ser. The half-mile St. Louis, is somewhere about min. 13sec., Cleveland but the Public Schools record of Detroit

2nrin, "1 2-sec., made in 1927 by H., Chicago. E.. Townend (St. Edmund's, Can terbury) has been beaten by H. Llewelyn (Christ's College. Bre con), with 2min. 3-5sec., and close-

3 Boston

6 Philadelphia“.

2 New York 10 Washington

0 her service is an underhand. When

4 one thinks how easy it is to soul tivate an effectual underhand, and

4 how difficult to own an equally 10 good overhead service, then -34- tonishment increases that the wo men persist in the cult of the over

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head.

The illustration is of an engrav ing in the possession of the Black- heath Club, and dedicated to "the Society of Golfers at Blackheath with great respect by their most humble servant, Lemuel Francis Abbott," who painted it in 1790. The engraving was by Green, who signed himself "mezzotint an.. graver to his Majesty and the Elec

If you discover you have no apti tude for a certain stroke, but that you have it in a marked degree for others, why waste time over the in- tractable one?

Observation of the service of some 3 of the more prominent women play ers tends to increase one's admira tion for their game, the general ex- cellence of which enables them to Pole-vaulting form has improved surmount, to a great extent, the tor Palatine." ly approached by W. G. Bannister amazingly since the competition difficulty in which their service has (St. Bees), min. 3sec. Last year for the Public Schools Challenge placed them If only some first- class woman player would appre J. E. Robins (Lancing) won the Cup was institued in 1925 and Public Schools mile in amin. 31 won by O. G. Crossman (Bedford) ciate the virtue there is in the 4-56ec.; this year there is a failing at 9ft. in. This year, perhaps, underhand delivery and could-en off, since the best times returned a dozen boys have reached oft, but sure a following! One would see women no longer struggling have been R. K. Dainty (The the best performances are those of the Leys), 4min. 42 4.55cc, B. E. W Bedford school-boys. F. R. Webs with a service they rarely master, McCall (Weymouth), 4min. 43 3- ter, who is 15, and who has been their game would not be disfigured sec, but a Lancing boy, C. O. vaulting since he was old enough by so many foot-faults, and the lealey, shows promise of better, to carry a pole, leads with 9ft. physical strain would be enormous

Gin., and is followed by three 17-ly lessoned. things.

Hurdling is certainly on the up year-old school-fellows, F. G. C. grade, with the general adoption Gilbert 9ft. 3in, R. Marks and of the straight leg method. Lane B-Clay 9ft while R.. Walker, ing has held the palm in this re of the same school, although only Apect for number of years, and 13, cleared 8ft.

Mixed Doubles,

Who Can Smash 7 The proper reply to a lob is the smash, the kill after the man- ner of Hair Cochet, of Jean Borotra, of, Gregory (dometimes), In a mixed double the woman or of wel., who is there who can player, when her partner is serving, he reckoned upon consistently to will take her position at the net, put away a deep lob? The owner with arms akimbo, like Mra Whit of a good smash enters the court that school has at present a fifteen The policy of decreasing the tingstall, and houd well forward, with the odds heavily weighted, in year old boy, A. J. Fitzgerald, who weight-of-the-schoolboy shot from like Miss Ryan, and thus is ready her favour, for that is the crushing has beaten 17 seconds for 190 yards 18lb. to 191b. has proved very popu- for anything except the ball. At reply to the toss for safety, the over 10 fights of 3ft. 3in, fences, lar, and in this event K. F. Craggs bust that is the impression on lofty raking lab, designed to ex- while W. G. Bannister, who won (Oundle) heads the list with 41ft frequently gete. The volleyer stands tricate the attacked from an un- seven events at St. Becs, has a relin, but is closely followed by J.rooted to the apot, not taking any tenable position., Happy the play- cord of 18 2-6 seconds for 120 yards A. Edwards (Bedford), who, in of the many chances to intercopter who owns such a stroke. Yet a fortnight, improved from 28ft. a return, and, when she does volley, consider. Have you ever seen a wo over hurdles.

to 40ft. Bhin., whilst R. F. Droogle-instead of the firm and purposeful man "kill" a deep lob, and how Field Events, Field events form is apt to be ever (Haileybury) went up from hit there is a footle push or a comften have you seen one desi pro- a similar beginning to 37ft... plete foozle. How many times perly with a shallow one? The oc deceptivo, since wind, sun, and the

The two pewly adopted events, would a woman player be better currence should stick in your memory, for it is not a usual one. state of the turf are all important throwing the javelin and, throw-employed did she stay back and ex- factors. The best recorded high ing the discus, have a large fol-ploit her excellent drive or well- It is surprising thing that a jump this year is that of PD Clowing. R. A. D. Burnett, (Mal-judged lob? But that again would stroke supposed to offer so few Walker, (Lancing) 6ft.in e vern), who took the first Public savour of other days, might be con- difficulties sometimes spoken of as has phenomenal apring, but little Schools javelin-throwing title last sidored old-fashioned, and so, the natural" stroke-in such a idea of style. A number of boys year at 148ft. Bin, is still the pre-order runs" To the not!" Crowd rarity in the game.

It does not take a good coach very Have beaten bft. pin. notably at mier schoolboy, and has improved the net!" If you are a Mra Lár- Eton, Bedford Maven Monatly razer feet is year while Wittingstall orang to ascertain if the pupil is outfit the boys G Molly LE SC Gilbork (Bedford) is up Miss Ryan, then you are happy at ever going to tackle a lob properly. (Bedford), shows distinct prospects to Burnett best form of a year the net, but very few can volley and it convinced she will t of touching 6ft. for a new Public ago. A year ago the brothers G. as they. The average woman has why waste time-with the smash"? Schools record. In the long jump M. and J. 6. M611 were supreme no aptitude for the volley, and The pupil probably had an aptitude for other strokes, so let her pro 20ft. has been beaten at Malvorn among schoolboy discus throwers. without that aptitude no amount where N. 8. Duncan cleared 21ft, but this year, the suppremacy of of practice or coaching will progress with them and make that 1in., Clifton, Dover, Dulwich, and the Bedford boys is challenged by duce a volleyer. It is all very well forehand such a shot as Mrs. Wat son owns. Doubtles the thought the Imperial Bervice College, The K, S. Duncan, who won the Mal for the coach to send over a stream Dover boy, F. W. Goodbody, who

vern event at 119ft, Sin. The of easy ones for the lady to deal has occurred to very many coaches, achieved 20ft 10in., was clearing younghe Moll, has, however, once with, when in the roul thing the hut that it is the woman who is 20ft before he was sixteen.

this year beaten 127ft, with a prace other side is not so accommodating at lault the indomitable woman tice throw

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CAMPAIGNS. "

A strong protest against the desecration of Good Friday was made by the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, presiding at the annual conference of the Church of Eng- land Men's Society at Reading last month..

He said that to a far greater extent than many people realised the battle for the recovery of Good Friday was one that could be won. This year there were unmistakable signs of the trend of public opinion toward a much more worthier ab- servance than had prevailed in res cent years.

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