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U.S. FLEETFOOTS——

This being an Olympiad year, the athletes seem to be outdoing themselves. Here is Bob Kiosel of California University, who ran 100 yarde in 9.5 seconds, equaling the recognised world's record.

SPEEDWAY RACING

The Psychology of Cricket

LEADERS OF THE Character

TENNIS WORLD and

OFFICIAL NATIONAL Captaincy

RANKİNG LISTS

FOR 1931

THE AUSTRIAN RANKING.

Men.

2. Hermann Aricus.

1. Franz Matejku.

3. Erwin Bolzano.

C. Heinrich Eifermann.

4. Harry Kinzel.

6. Willy Brosch.

7. Willy Winterstein.

8. Michel Haberl..

9. Dr. Felly Hirsch.

10. Graf Adam Bawarowski.

Ladies.

1. Fr. Erna Redlich,

2. Frl. Hilde Eisenmenger,

3. Frl. Lies) Herbst.

4. Fel. Lily Elliasen,

5. Fr. Trude Wolf.

6. Fri, Lucy Soukup. 7. Fr. Grete Tischler. 8. Fri. Berta Binzer.

LEAGUE WITHOUT 9. E. Helga Helmer.

A TROPHY

LACK OF INCENTIVE

FOR TEAMS

A National League without a trophy! Such is the position In the English National Speedway cada League competition, which during the first week of July. Since the start of the season thousands of been followers have speedway cheering their teams to victory in neither a competition for which medals nor prizes have been provid- ed!

This Gilbertian state of affaira can only be attributed to the anxiety of the National Speedway Association to run two

10. Fr. Rosi Kraus.

THE HUNGARIAN RANKING. Men

1. Bela Kehrling.

2. Emil Gabrovitz.

3. Lehel Band.

4. Elek Straub,

5. George Drietomszky,

6. Count E. Ziley.

7. Ivan Balazs. 8-10. L. Silbersdorff..

Coloman Kirchmayr.

E. Petery.

11-14.

Emil Ferenczy.

L. Hegyessy.

P. Kisa.

P. Leiner.

15-19.

Leagues 20-24.

this season-the present National League and a new League confined to teams which fill the eight leading positions.

Promoters regard the existing League as a qualifying competition. This viewpoint is wrong. Both Leagues should be entirely indepen dent of each other. With no prize to be fought for, a team may as well be eighth as first as long as it qualifies for the new tournament.

Surely the association could nut up a trophy for the existing com petitim?

There is a proposal afoot to run The new Lengue on the lines of the Daily Mail competition. The sug gestion is that, instead of the re- sult depending upon one match, the total points scored in home and away matches between two teams shall determine the issue.

Egon Adler. Tibor Friedrich. Roland Jacoby Helmuth Radicke. Nicholas Szenthey. Coloman Aschner. 1. Hubert. L. Nyeviezkey,

11. Szekely.

A. Varady Szabo.

Ladles.

1. Miss Baumgarten.

2. Mrs. Screder.

3. Mrs. Wiener.

4. Mrs. Bokor. 5-7. Miss Demko.

Min Sarkany. Mrs. Stern.

8-13. Mrs, Bozsik.

14-17.

Mrs, Brandenburger. Miss Laten.

Mrs. Ritscher.

Countess Szapary.

Mrs. Tihanyi.

Mrs. Haloaz.

Miss Filatz.

Mrs. Ray. Miss

Sipons.

THE ESSENTIALS OUTLINED

Theophrastus hud includ-j

IF ed a cricketer in his well-

ATTEMPT ON RECORD

SWIMMERS TRAIN FOR OLYMPIAD

BRITISH HOPES

Just now the talk of the swim- known characters, he would aurely have had to fuse in him the ming world is the Olympic trials.

The lending swimmers in the Meals. South

are put- and Spartan

of England Athenian

training finn In their Either would have offered him the

ting raw material of perfect physical for the

tests to be held at fitness sustained through self- Paddington on June 3 and 4. The discipline without naceticism, but Northern and Scottish trials have the tenacity and courage of already taken place, but the form Leanidns would have

re-displayed did not suggest the pre- inforced by the imaginative versibility of a win at Los Angeles. satiifty of a Themistocles, whilst A most encouraging feature of the a dash of the Periclean vision results, however, was the excellent would have sweetened the whole. form revealed by a

been

youngsters.

number

of

Physical fitness, courage, im-) agination, and sportsmanship-

A. Chassels, a youthful member of these are the essential charne- the Pallokshlukis B.C., swam the

cricketer, teristics of the iden

most brilliant

Mr.

400 metres free-style in min. 25 3-5sec., and Norman Wainwright, of Hanies S.C., aged 17 years, covered the same distance in 5 min.

-DO DAZZING RUS

Hara la Ben Lastern of Stan- ford, U.S., who is shown break- ing the world' 860-yard record anly two weeks after setting a new 440 yard mark.

LEAGUE TENNIS "STARS"

and the history of the game i one long record of the part they have played. Mr. Crutchley could play one of the innings of the 'Varsity match with 218cc.

AN ATTACK ON RECORD. mensles thick all over him. Tennyson, maimed in one hand,

In the corresponding test for the could defy the terrors of Messrs. Gregory and MacDonald in a Test Indica Miss M. Konyon (Nelson: match, Mr. Jessop could hit an S.C.), who swam unpaced, returned astonishing hundred against the the good time of Omin. 2sec. But Wol. that of Beatrice Players' at Scarborough when his easily the smartest performance

but the was

12-year-old Man-

D. Hazel and Y. Segalen proper place. was bed,

girl, whose reported general principle holds that if the stenholme,

free-

Although well known exponents for 200 melres lody is out of condition it cannot chester

accurately time rospond quickly and enough to the calls made upon it. style was 2min, 19sec. Progress on of tennis in Hongkong, Hazej and How often have we seen physical these lines will place this girl in exhaustion get

can

TYPE OF CRICKET COURAGE.

11

PERSONALITIES TO BE SEEN IN HONGKONG

a wicket that the very front rank of world Awirn-Segalen have not before this sea- seemed unassailable, or sap the ning, and will bring her fame simi-son played together. They are, fire and length from a bowler who lur to that achieved by her 17-year- however, teaming up in the first aro Club lengue combinations, and for a time carried all before him old sister, Cecellin, breaker of world string of the Hongkong Cricket

the should prove a great asset: But the body is the servant of the breast-atroke records. Both mind, and no physlea! efficiency pupils of Mr. Jack Laverty,

Hazel has quite an enviable re- Notable swimmers who, for some will command success unless it is well-known Midiand coach. controlled by a mind that

are Norman concentrate on the task in hand: reason or other, did not compate in cord as a doubles player, having

a sus- the Northern trials this concentration means

and the Brooks, Arthur Taylor and R. H. secured his county coloura, play- of will,

at Wimbledon with tained effort

is the Leivers. The last-named, holdering for Somerset in 1930, and ability to command it greatest moral asset in the cric-of the British native record for 440 appearing

yards and hailed as the most pro-W.A.. Duff, the Canadian Davis keter's armoury.

mising of our younger awimmers, Cup player. Hazel is, in fact, and esentially a doubles player, and in is recovering from influenza

resumed light this department of the game has has only recently

few equals in the Colony. Though hin will training. of

inclined to be defensive in To sustain an effort needs courage, for there is much

the ground strokes, he has a fine at- WE Of the men of the South to undermine it. Even if

for the tacking service, volleys well, and never know the panic that actually only apparent certainty made a batsman in the University Games is R. J. C. Sutton, the Barts' "kills" with refreshing vigour,

backwards medical student, and it is unfor

Segalen should improve his match dush smartly past the stumpa for his first run, tanate that his training is inter-

partnering Hazel, together with most of us know the shaking of rupted by his having to take up game enormously as a result of the knees and the empty feeling residence in hospital for a time.

One counot think that the South the fact that he will be oppoged about the middle with which we!

or will improve on the other districts to Hongkong's best players. At have often gone out to hat

An opening by producing any men swimmers of the present time, though, quite taken the ball for over. "Shut your teeth and re- exceptional Olympic merit, and one well equipped with a good range of member you are an Engliakman" ventures to forecast that the selec-strokes, he lacks confidence and was the advice of his wife to a tors will not be justified in sending neods boulstering up to give full world-famous cricketer, and that out more than five or six men in ffect to his work. He is a styllst is a good prescription to enable a the British team, from whom two and shows distinct promise. He of the most entertaining batsman to watch the ball and a would swim in the 100 metres free-and Hazel will undoubtedly be bowler to concentrate on a length, style event and four in the relay one

couples in the league this summer. (Continued on Page 9).

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