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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, MARCH

1938.

GOALS out of a

“UNNY_baby-suit that your favourite athlete wears makes you think he is going to crawl round the track on fours.

all

The turf you felt so privileged to tread at Lord's last summer.

The perfect goal, a masterpiece of co-ordination of mind and muscle, you saw last Saturday....

Alf these, do you over ponder, had their origins deep in the roats of scienco?

Your athlete does not wear his "crawlers" for effect. He may tell you he only wears them to keep warm. But aclcnco will tell you why he wears them to keep warm. Physiologiata and biologists know that his skin, like yours and mine, is more sensitive than the most sensitive mercury and that it is susceptible to such minute dif- ferences in temperature 0-10,000th of a degree Centigrade. This, in its turn, leads them to point out that all such differences in temperature are reflected on the nerves, the impulses of which are alowed down the colder the man becomes.

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Further, that cold causes his muscles to become sluggish and viscous in the same way as Jelly sets in low temperatures.

And that's why he wears a "baby ault."

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OW that golf drive of glorioua memory WOB

only possible to you because of the many thousands of pounds in time; labour and ability that research chemists have spent to evolve a ball that will go 50 far:

Agriculturists and entomologists have embodied the results of years of study of soils and seeds, pests (and chemicals to exterminato them), in most of the examples of first-class wickets and groens we

FELL DOWN IN THE STREET

Effects of Neuritis Cured by Kruschen

The effect of neuritis on this mon At times his legs was a strange one. and arms seemed to go dead, and he; lost all control of his movements. But that was many years ago. Since then he has been taking Kruschen regularly, and those unpleasant ex- periences have never been repeated.

"For several years," he writes, "I suffered from acute neuritis. There were times when I lost complete use of my legs and arms. I would fall down in the street, or wherever I happened to be. It was as a drown- ing man clutching at a straw when I first took Kruschen Salts. I did not have any faith in it, or in any

at thing else. I took one bottle Kruschen and only felt slightly better, but I continued taking it, and very soon I was a new man. It is about 15 years since I started taking Krusehen, and it is now many years since I have had any of the symptoms mentioned."-E.H.

to-day,

TEST

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But have the cricketers and golfers and bowlers given their minds and bodies the same chance as the grass has had?

Science is turning its attention more and more to-day to the per- fection of the human mechanism. We have heard much recently about gland treatment or endo- crinology for footballers.

Here is a sclenco yet in its carly infancy, but which may, in the future, be a great factor in the creation of now world's athletic records and new atandards of play in many games. It is in athletics, probably, that

phase of medical

If

TUBE! you can't take it

By John Slee

science has been most advantage- man and ously applied to the woman, but even so, Its benefits to this branch of sport havo really only just begun to be felt.

Physiology and physics have played the chief part. Through physiology we have disposed of many old-fashioned ideas about training.

We have discovered there is no such malady as "athlete's heart,” which, though it represents a cer- tain cardiac state, is the result only of wrong training, or an in- jury received by some ill-timed violent exertion, possibly quite un-

with connected

athletica. It

SERIA L

TOVARICH

Serialisation of the Warner Bros. Picture, adopted from the Play by Jacques Deval.

THE STORY SO FAR: The fascinating and furiously temperamental Grand Duchess Tatiana Petropna and her muscular and amusing husband, Prince Mikail Quratieff-refugees from the Russian Revolution-have many ex- citing adventures in Paris among which are their attempts to elude the landlord who wants the room rent. Tatiana, convinced that the god of Russia intervenes in her behalf goes out to help herself to whatever she ilkes in the market. Mikail is visited by two important gentlemen whoi represent the pretender to the Russian Throne. They want him to turn over to the cause the money which was intrusted to him by the Czar, be- fore the Revolution. He indignantly refuses. Tatiana rushes in wildly.

Chapter III

has been found, by the expert- ment of drawing the outline of a trained walker's heart upon his chest before he began, that his heart expanded three-eighths of

an inch after a walk of a mile in seven minutes. The heart of an un- trained walkor who did a half mile in six minutes expanded one and a half inches.

Both hearts were try ing to repay what scientists know as “oxy-

gen debt."

It is upon the amount of oxygen debt an ath- lete can accustom him- self to incur that his ft- 21065 largely deponds, and it is only by training that ho can make his heart strong enough to pump enough oxygenised blood to allow of his not becoming fatigued.

A runner, after doing 100 yards, will not pay off his oxygen debt for some two to three hours after tho race. Some experts maintain that many runners incur this huge debt in one breath, or, in other words.. they run their 100 yards on one. breath,

FACIAL

Fwhich

expressions,

ich may amuse you so much in their grim-

ness as a runner passes the tape, have also proved a useful form of diagnosis.

Masks have been made by a Canadian professor of the phases of expression 4 runner's face assumes at the time of his critical effort, and these have been cata- logued.

Science, however, often has its Hittle joko at the expense of athletics. An American physicist polated out after the Los Angeles Olympic Games that while races were photographically and elec- trically timed to 1-100th second, the starting-gun was fired from such a position that it could not be heard by the runners for three to four one-hundredths of a second after it had gone off.

of a

Ho also commented on tho futility of measuring Anderson's record discus throw to small frac- tions of inches while ignoring the direction of the throw.

If Anderson threw in an easterly direction he

would, said the Pro- fessor, have gained a half-inch in his 162 feet, through the assistance of the earth's motion. If he threw in a westerly direction he would have lost half an inch. No mention of the direction he throw was made. to "Why didn't he mind his own the local Police Station-then

to the Foreign business, instead of spying on me?" Headquarters then

Office-and finally to the Office of Tatinna shrieked the words, told the Secret Funds for payment!" Mikail she didn't care whether the

"You mean they pay for every- two strange gentlemen heard or not, thing I take?" gasped Totlana, and when the crowd that had been

"Everything! And

A

of take-off. before I go," Kruschen is a combination of six natural salts, which ensure internal following her beat against the door said M. Brekenski darkly, "I must and the warn you that the representatives cleanliness and keep the bloodstream she commanded Mikail

pure. New and refreshed blood is startled visitors to join her in keep- of the other Russia are also con- sent coursing to every fibre of youring it shut! being. Then, neuritis, sciatics and kindred is all pass you by.

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cerned about the forty billion franes which you, Prince Ouratieff, de- "Your Highness," commanded posited in irust for the Czar! It Mikall forcibly, "Open the door!"

would be wiser for you to give up this money! It is beginning, if you Tatiana opened it sulkily and hid will pardon me, to place your lite behind it as the offending gendarme in some danger! Corotchenko is in

Paris!!" came in.

"Pardon the intrusion, sir. Is Her Highness here?"

The gentlemen bowed themselves out.

"And I was so sure it was my "Yes, she is!" said Mikat, pulling own cleverness!" said Tatiana, sit- her from her hiding place.

ting on the bed and beginning to "Oh, so you're against me, too" cry a little. "And I was always so careful to never take much. if I'd I'd have taken

she stormed, glaring at him, "Very only known well, my blood be on your head!" cavlar every day!"

"Tatiana The gendarme by this time had

NOTHER -criticism was directed at the measure- ment of jumps from some irrelevant point below the bar instead of from the jumper's point He also pointed out that in shot putts and hammer- throws variations in the force of gravity differ two inches between, for instance. Oslo and Madras.

Such points, however, are not likely to worry the audience at London's Portland Hall to-night, when a movement to enlist the ald of science in the teaching and development of athletica is to be Inaugurated.

a

To-day's Thought- has NEARLY CUCryone

secret ambition to be con- sidered "a sportsman."

-R. L. BOLLOR.

vast dignity, "is five hundred years herded three grimy urchins Into the We shall have to move from this to eternal Russia!"

room.

Petrovno, my darling,

hotel... perhaps even from France

"Yes,"

must never

cried

There was a knock at the door. Both thought it would be the landford but it proved to be a neigh-

on the floor below! Both starving!

The grocer and spectators Itself following, practically filled the room. As soon as the youngsters saw

Tatiana, straight- Tatiana one of them yelled, "There's ening up with the old pride, we bour who had come to ask ald for a the one who did it!"

again submit to their poor mother with a newborn baby treacherous charity! We will go to With a surge of good feeling they All three of the urchins went into the ends of the earth! But a shrill chorus of blame. The gen- when we get there what shall we all the groceries from the table- urged the good neighbour to take darme blew his whistle for silence have to eat? I can't even steal any which he didi

assured Tations that he was more without being afraid of trick- merely trying to prove that the ery!" boys had

been stealing from her. The grocer, on being questioned in-

and

"Tell me something nice, pigeon," Tatiana said faintly, "tell me you "Darling, please don't cry! It's are not hungry!" LAM'S GARAGE slated that Madame was one of his never as bad as it seems) Wo atill

best customers. The gendarme have ninety francs!" Sho Was "We'll both earn a high place in asked her to identify the thieves, sling dolefully. "Tallaria, where heaven if we don't get something to which she said she couldn't possibly are the ninety francs you promised eat soon!" the to bring back

from market?" She

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(To be continued to-morrow