THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.
SPORTS FEATURES
Vince Hawkins (facing camera), British middleweight champion is seen in action against Gus Degouve in Paris, when Degouve, won the bout on puints.
This
IS POOR FOOD ROBBING OUR
OUR SPORTS
STARS OF THEIR STAMINA?
Big international sporting events are upon us, and I fancy by....
we are going to take a lot more canings.
But if you feel like criticising our sports stars when they fail just ponder this question: What connection has cur present "poor feeding with the prowess of our sportamen?
DONALD MCPHAIL The British Davis Cup Player
In the second set, leading three nice to one, I lost the next critical game and suddenly felt the bottom dropping right out of my play, There was an empty feeling in the pl of my stomach.
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Ho-ean even detect a tendency to deterioration in the average muscle Ussue, particularly among boys who have grown up in the war years.
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First Half Of Racing Season Closes Today
BY "THE TURF"
The curtain goes down on the first half of the racing season at Happy Valley this afternoon with a programme of eight events, highlighted by the Lantao Handicap, with its huge cash sweep,
At the time of writing the sweepstake had sold approximately 650,000 tickets, and the lucky holder will win nearly $300,000.
Wooderson, the famous miler, has this to say: "For two or three hard races I am all right, as my recent performances show, but if I have to do more than that, then I feel the strain.
A TRAINER'S VIEW Athletic fatigue is due to an ac-
"The shortage of good milk, fats cumulation of acid in the muscles.
In normal circumstances of good and eggs is, I feel sure, a contribu-
acid is
this ell- tory
collapse of feeding and rest the
cause minated from the blood stream. But stamina."
athletic stiffness
persists, ac Ted Broadribb, truiner of Freddin
A large crowd of racegoers is ex- the winner. For the third position, unless the Argus is the most likely. Cassie is boxer, is very clear in his peeted at the Valley cumulates and causes strain which Mills, th have seven brothers, lots of weather-which yesterday was most given as an outsider. found ga obsession taking hold of can undermine the will to win.
mind: These were my own conclusions other relatives, and I have always unpromising-discourages the fans. "It
was not just physical fatigue, the conclusions of
has lived in Walworth. who
All my relatives and my friends was the fatigue that comes with by Arthur-including IL Yet apart from being outclassed innervous exhaustion.
fishmonger feel it, wow fangers, could supply salmon, sole, nbilty by the French players, I Of course I lost. The sports found that the physical condition of writers said I "cracked badly" ment keep on running day after day other prime Ash-rally round when the entire British team in no way tally and physically, because my
with that compared
of our op-stamina falled. ponents.
Last season I was chosen as a Davis Cup lawn tennia player ngainst
France I have been Scot- ali tennis champion since 1933. I was 35 and,
Quite contrary to my character I
top physical coam nome "All I want is to get it over?"
world-beater, I
myself in
EMPTY FEELING, Later on a Wimbledon a curious thing happened. It was during my championship match Milic, of Yugo-Slavin, I took the first set at six games to two and really felt I had the beating of my
mab,
there with
CAUSE OF FATIGUE
My case was not an isolated one. I found the foreigner beating us every time in sheer physical condi- tlon.
We Britons lacked.
of energy. Our prolonged shortage of nourishing goods was beginning to
tell.
n reserve
NORMAN YARDLEY (left), the new England cricket captain, and W. Į, EDRICH, the "might-have-been."
"Amateur" Nonsense
Y tradition old like the pavilion at Lord's, captains of England at cricket must be amateurs,
Probably not even the extremestilantees
of cricketing Blimps would say in ,public now, as the late Lord Hawke
said years ago, "Pray God no pro- | fessional will ever captain England," but there the unspoken ordinance remains, governing the choice of of leader against the South Afri- cans this season and the Australians next.
Bruce Harris,
who accompanied the Tost team to Australia, says, 'Promote the best men'
in the Arth
some
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Another
of unpaid of the line captains, N. W. D. Yardley, has England
Test match been appointed now. Unquestion without detriment to our chances, ably he has much more than his he was esteemed as much
us any amateurism to commend him. Even member of the side.
As for Edrich, I fancy he will so, the principle is worth discus-
have to wait sion.
time for his England, even his Middienex cap- taincy.
Did you notice that in the absence of Robins from the coun- ty side last week it was led, not by him, but by F. G. Mann?
You cannot be a Middlesex pro-
BRADMAN'S £60
now
nn
1
Ma
coachel
his
who can halibut and
First ruddling bell will be rung at 2,30 p.m., and in addition to the Lantao Handicap, interest will be displayed in the Manley Handleap.
FINAL HANDICAP (UNOFFICIAL)
the
BONDI STAKES "C" CLASS
(About 1 MIlio 171 Yardis)
A real struggle should be witness- Dixon, of
cd in this event for "C" Class. Punters will have to do a lot of I have a boxer to train. without feeling tired or leg weary.
thinking before selecting the likely why Freddie F. Hugh Dempster, the
winner te all the entrants hav osteopull, who has treated Date Time ting his food now. If he had to rely
proved their ability. National Con- bledon stars for many
rations, he wouldn't last three
(About 7 Furlongs and 49 Yards),
RCK. Chiu up there is
Mildami,years, finds on
The programme opens with the gress (15 lbs) with of pulled rounds." muscles in sport.
Nearly every trainer has the same story to tell.se effects of our monotonous dict by a course from
Even the Americans here for last usual military event confined to the will have quite a following, and season's Wimbledon began to feel Hongkong Services Race Club over with Crown Witness (150 lbs) should and has much the same reason to
one mile post, occupy the first two positions, Fly- offer for the crop of injuries lack the time they had used up energy once round. The heavyweights will ing Arrow (131 lbs) will most prob
on the way to the of muscle-building food.
championships. find it much more trying over the ably All the minor post. Arabian
nothing un-
(147 lbs) will nood and provided "Severe injuries often take longer Some of the American girls were mile,
(162 happens Tony
lbs) watching This pony has the ap to cure than they did," Mr Demp-caling double portions at every meal. toward ster declares. People are not so
Now we find the American Walker should just about get the verdict. pearance of being a useful racer and prove ពត upset, Other solid and the risk of injury is greater plies of ham and eggs-which they the distance suitable and is capable probable startem nre: Golden Wheel
Cup golf team bringing over sup- Autumn Rose (150 lbs) will find may for athletes in full training.”
wil generously share with the Bri- of securing a place. Resalder (105 (147), Hol Pollol (149), Jackal (144), tish players to fortify themselves lbs) has still kept in condition, while Miami Beauty (153) Peacock (152) for this week's match at St. Another possibilities are Juckle (165 and Souvenir (1507.
ba) and Jacobus (100).
SPENCER STAKES "D" CLASS (8lx Furlongs)
Korea Seeks Admission To 1948 Olympics
New York,
Korea, emerging as a free nation after being under Japan's heel since 1910, plans to send a 100-man team-spearheaded by two great marathon runners to the 1948 Olympic games players who, like Edrich, are na- at London if the International fural leaders of men, cannot train | Olympic Committee approves its for the highest honour open to a cricketer. If Edrich had been an
membership bid.
drews.
2 ROUNDS ENOUGH
view:
This Is Henry Colton's "The golfer of today does not get enough to build up sufficient energy and stamina to stand the strain of playing 30 holes. He tires physical ly and mentally before the end of two rout
rounds." Cotton gave Von Nida's two recent the well-fed player. coming from the Colonies with sufficient stamina and physique to bent the best of the British professionals.
MANLEY HANDICAP "B" CLASS
result.
Maon
somo
This is the last race of the day (Six Furlongs)
and with it the closing of the first This six furlongs sprint will bring half of the racing season, so I aug- out a well balanced field and some gest to punters to throw all they have on Hosille Witness (145 lbs). This interesting betting should Fifth Alarm (143 lbs) with Rowlands pony on form should easily win. The Kelly, up, is conceded
eded an excellent chonce other probable starters are: of avenging his defeat at the hands (130). Bright Season (135), Golden and Swallow (135), Jinx (130), Lola Kim are
treated and very
The Sunny (135) and Tunny (135),
wins in big tournaments as proof of of. Royal en, v-J Day, Sopola (138), National Hero (136).
France Cotton has been feeding well After wintering in the South of for more than five months. He feels ane.
Tony Roberts, the 16-year-old Torquay boy who has shown possi- billies of becoming a second Fred Perry in international tennis, is al-
his father.
distance is just about right. anish should be fought out between these four ponies. V-J Day is the The re- best outsider to follow. mainder of the field will include Onion, Speedaway and Thunderbolt. Jeep Hing, Masterpiece, Spanish
BONDI STAKES "C" CLASS
amateur before the war he might Louise Yim and Kee Chung Sohn lowed to play only twice a week by Arst section of "C" class ponies and
have captained England now,
Edrich, 31, possessing his full share of education, brains, initia- tive, drive, and resoluteness, has captained a RAF squadron in raids over Germany, but so far as I know he has never captained a first-class cricket side. That matter ought to be set to rights.
In Australia he had his tiny chance when Hammond with fibro- silis fell out of the match against Ballarat. But that is not nearly enough. He must have more CP- portunities. The first
Gentlemen
Two eloquent spokesmen-Miss
cause here and pleaded Korea's gained the sympathy of both Ameri- can sports leaders and sports writers. They asked that southern Korea (occupied by U.S. forces) be per- mitted to send its Athletes to London and regretted that they could not speak for northern Korea (occupied | by Russian forces).
If he were a young American he diMculi. woold be on the court every day.
FATHER'S FEARS
Is this regime imposed on Tony Roberts because his father fears that, on today's diet, the lad may burn himself out
If he plays too often?
(About I Mile 171 Yards) There is nothing of note in this
the winner should not be On form Wilhelming (142 lbs) with Ostroumoff up, should be the safest bet in view of his easy running the last time out, and des pite his promotion from the "D" to class. Eastern Diamond (150 likely candidate lbs), is another and third place should go to Tootsie (152 lbs). For an outside chance watch Peggy (149 lbs).
SPENCER STAKES "D" CLASS (Six Furlongs)
They do not use the fessional one year and a Middlesex might have come in the them of the United States seck permission for extra rations so that he can play first section, and a struggle la likely
In Australia, where our amateur- professional distinctions sorely puz- zle the natives, they are very com- mon-sense. works amateur and professional, because they pay all players alike and refer to them merely as cricketers.
́I ́ have ̄ never" noticed that Don Bradman was any worse a captain because he took his £60 a match like the others. not?
captain the next; it just isn't done. And until be leads a county he cannot lead his county for experi- ence counts in cricket captaincy. NATURAL LEADERS
That is the worst of the "amateurs Why should he only" custom; it means that paid
But there we are. Cricket au- thority in England, being conserva- tive in outlook, will go on choosing amateurs as "skippers," even if they are not worth their place in an England side.
One day there will come an end to when the race of amateurs dics out because no young men are left able to afford continuous cricket for five months a year. Two wars have brought that regret- table day much nearer..
So the Aeld for the England cap- taincy was narrowed to two men
Yardley, --Norinan
the selected, who vice-captained the party ro- cently in Australia, and-an outsido possibility-W. J. Edrich, who, like Walter Hammond, has gone into business and abandoned paid cricket.
Others there are who might have boen chosen but for age-Brian Valentine, of Kent, is 39; R. W. V.. Robins, Middlesex, and A. B. Sel- lers, Yorkshire, cach 40.
As this senson's captain will be groomed for next year's more im- portant job the extra year would have been a further handicap.
Edrich, 31, will undoubtedly bo n first choice for the English side again this season as an all-round .cricketer, apart from questions of
caplaincy.
Would Yardley have been? The answer to that one la "posálbly" even "probably," for in Austraila he showed himself, a plucky bats- man, with a cool, determined head when things were going wrong; ho surprised everyone by his powers as an emergency bowler; and there was nothing wrong with his fold- ing either.
· NEVER-SAY-DIE
JUN
We hope our bowling will bu strong enough this season to give Yardley a rest, but even though
·Yorkshire do not put him on very often he is a useful man to have in reserve
Even. Yardley wereja, profos- sional his would be a popular
He is a cheerful, choice.
keen cricketer who, whila maintaining. the Cambridge University, attitude towards the game, yat has absorbed. in his Yorkshire 'experience, "somu» thing of the dour never-say-die outlook of Yorkshire v. Lancashire. In Australia, where he captained:
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I am pleading no excuse for our Korca, a rich country with a total international failures. I am merely population of 30,000,000, has never trying to make what I honestly be sent athletes to the Olympic games lieve is a statement of fact. as Koreans, but always under the
The sportsman would be the last colours of Japan. But now, it asks person in the world who would ask
This race is confined to "D" class, that Avery Brundage and Dan Ferris
his sport belter,
to develop between Normandy )142 Most of them, I am men for Koreans to compete as Koreans
sure, will
Season (135), lbs), Happy v. Players match at Lord's in July. In 1048.
agree with me for in that game there must be
that we must not Blackie (144 lbs) and Rosebud (139 bid Final arrangements for Korea's
cense to compete in international · | Ibs). I recommend Blackie to win, one professional captain.
But, un-
have been made through Dan Ferris, even if we must take our beatings. with Normandy and Happy season happily, now Edrich is on the same
secretary-treasurer of America's But when we fail, let us not pin all side of the fence as Yardley.
for the minor positions, Rosebud Is an outside-chance..... Amateur-Athletic---Union, and Miss the blame on, the individual. Yim, Korea's delegate to the United Nations, and Kee Chung Sohn, 1030 Olymple Marathon champion and record-holder. Sohn is here with Nam Sung Young, who finished third in the 1930 Olympic marathon, and Yun Bok Suh, winner of the recent Boston Marathon. All three are members of the executive committee of the Korean A.A.U., headed by honorary president Lyuh Woon Hyung.
Let us abolish this "amateur" shibboleth and promete to captain- cy the men most suited to command.
Test captain must not be a figurehead
FROM
By JACK HOBBS
one point of view the problem of the caplaincy of England's' Test team this summer is simplified-we know we have to find a new man. So far as I can see, however, there is no ready-made or obvious successor to Wally Hammond.
Must we have an amateur ? All my experience of big cricket tells me that the best reason for having an amateur captain is that the majority of the professionals prefer it that way. The authorities like it, too.
On one occasion I was left na
the skipper of a Test matchside as a cricketer. There is no roam side. I didn't want the job, and for a gure-head skipper in our
modern alde. I didn't very much like it when Perhaps we shall have to appoint. T had it.
sa captało, a good cricketer who has not had a lot of experience in The "pro" player has to be a captaincy. If such an appointment success, otherwise his livelihood made, then let us have a man who Focs. He, la less likely to be a will not liesitate to max for the views success if he has other than his of his knowledgeable colleagues, but actual play to think about.
will act on their advice. They don't all do this you know.
The amateur, on the other band. can fall and come back.
In any case, where is the pro- Lesalona) cricketer who had all the tiecossary qualifications {
What we can be sure about is that A player does not avecesarily becom a capable Tent match caplain be Cause he changes from proto Amateur.
The captain must be popular too the sort of man who makes the team happy to give their mil
Other things being equal-or nearly soyo want to arold, to my opinion, a captain who a primarily a bowler. The two stools between which he may fall
and up very bizi,
The news that Bill Edrich too little too soon in the innings He may bow himself too much or doing, the switch-over was hailed, in or too late. some quarters, as the automatic
problem.
Answer to our Kagland captain Time for experiment ?
Woll, Edrich might possibly prove The wicketkeeper knows, better to be a good captain, but nobody can than anybody else, just what is bap pay whether he would be. He is lackpening in the middle, and one of ing at rest and most valuable asset the days we may and a wicket
captalogy experience.
|kespen. captain.
Must be popular B. c. Grath, of Busser, crops up
(as a Dossible, but the stories brought Norman Yardley has had some use back from Austrails of the keeping ful experience a deputy to Ham of Godfrey Evans uzrost that he mond in Australia, but it would be lixa made the job his own, for the an oven bigger Job for him to take time being." on what seems likely to become
'now* England tonii.
IS R
The time may be expe for expori. menta-and it does not seem poces sary to appoint a captain for the Personally, I think Brian Hellers whole of the series of Test matches
Fry good captain Indeed. He's just ahead of us. A hot" emptafa im Tery good) Helders and very nearly, if not bowler, fall he is dropped. Auch II. Tot match bataan, or a absolutate qualined arbetsman more important than any one player is the skipper. If the one selected
up to jest match standard.
That brings us to another point does not prove a -audos, well, ne Our next ekipper, whoever be may should be substituted without stones be, must be worth his place in the, being thrown, from right and leit.
AMERICAN BACKING
The Koren A.A.U. will submit formal application for Olympic membership at the coming Olympic International meeting at Stockholm and Ferris hos assured the three runners that the American represent- alves will urge acceptance.
The first definite Indication of; Koreans' athle:le ability came in the 1930 games when Sohn-then 28 and running under Japan's colours-won the Marathon in the record time of 2:20:10.2. (The Japanese changed Sohn's name to Kiel Son and that Is the way he is listed in the record books.) Evidence of Korea's great distance runners of today is
Yun Bok Sul, 24-year-old, 115-pound Seoul university student who de feated European marathon Mikko
letanen of Finland to win Boston Marathon (20 miles, 385 yards).
in the record time of 3:25:39. American soldiers, who have stimulated ports in Korea, raised $1,500 to "send the three runners to compete at Boston. And financing Korea's potential Olympic team may have to follow the same pattern. As Miss Yim explained, If an ex- change rate is established for Korea in time for the '48 games, Korea can finance its own team.
Ten on
POPULAR VICTORY
the
But if not, Korea's American friends there and here will have to carry the major load and from present indications they will be glad to do so. Suh's gritty victory in the Boston Marathon-when he tripped over a dog, cut his knee and broke his shoe lace but scrambled up and
to vic
victory-was a popular one In America.
Korean basketball teams recently have defeated American 0.1. teams in -Korea
and
pre considered "exceptionally good". Their marathon runners ranic with the world's best, Sohn Bold Karen's best sprinter int present is Yu-Tak Kim, who does 100 metres in 30.5 seconds, Korea's top broad jumper is Won Kwong Kim who feapă 7.87 metres while Chang Chun You-does-1,500 metres In 4:00-United Press.
Arthur Peall says: LEFT of diagram shows what max be called a double target at snooker. Pocketing red, the Grat tarrot. 13 almost too easy to bo
but not BO
'DASEI t
the second target. which to cannon on black and IEAVO that bail Des the risat
ΑΠ
W pocket
seems automatio a or Lainty with a professional, but la actually positional sequence which offers Jite perrainable margin of error.
Bearing this in mind, it will pay you, before pocketing red, to verify the contact cuo-bail must make on black to ensure the leave you want.
So far as scoring two points for too cannon gosa, any twenty-break amateur would expect to make tho two-cushion cannon shown on the wght. But Tom Newman at his best was glad to make it and leave bil three ball as indicated. APTEAS stroke: try
LANTAO HANDICAP "B" CLASS
(81x Furlòngs)
SNACK BAR FOR RUNNERS
"
London, Jung 6. Long distance men in the 1048 Olymples' two nigst gruelling races, the marathon and the fifty kilometre road work, will have a snack bar every five kilometres if they care- to cat on the way to fame.
If they stub a toc, an ambulance will take them to a first aid enals half way along
and to the Foute give the customers a run for their.. money, the entries will start in Wembley stadium and finish there- with one lap of the track.
This was announced yesterday by the Olymple organising com- mittce in a report on complèted
for the two arrangements
races. which are among the most dramatic of the 130 events, In the games a
distance
measuring wheel was pushed over bath courses to get the down to the exact yard.
12-MILE LAP
The marathon scheduled to start at 3 pm. on Saturday August 7, 1948, will cover a distance of 26 miles 385 yards. Running north of the stadium the course covers op-
ward
and homeward journeys.
Great interest will be shown in proximately seven miles in the out- this race. The entries are: Argen large lap of nearly 12 miles will be tine Moon (154), Avalon (153), * Cooper (146), Elmer (157), Hur- ricane (156), Lucky Strike (150), Mainsail (150), Red Fox (142), Rose Emme (148), Shanghai Beauty (141) and Sunshine (140).
it
once, most of it being - in covered the country avoiding built up areas. For the 60 kilometre walk set for 1.30 p.m. on Saturday July 31, 1048 the same
course will be covered extra mileage' in plus the required
in 1932.
In looking over the entries, the middle. This race has been would seem that Lucky Strike has contested only twice in the modern the best chance. The pony looks history of the Olymples very at at the moment. Strong opposition will be sure to come from Avalon, Elmer and Hurricane. For the rest their prospects appear very
remote.
WOODENBONG STAKES "C" CLASS
(About 1 Mile 171 Yards)
and 1936.
Stage makers will be provided at each kilometre and milo post so that the runners con pace their strength for the beneit of the spectators. back at the Olymple stadium posl- tions, and times of the leaders will be announced.
In fact it looks like nothing, haa, Officials: have. In this race of "C" class ponies, been left undone. over the distance of a mile and 171 even provided a bus to haul the run- yards, one has to go no further than ners around for a previous look either Honeybelle or Kookaburra for PAssociated Press.
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