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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY, 31, 1948.

OLYMPIC Scrapbook

The Olympic torates are 10ing. long. weigh 3lb.. designed this your by Chelsea artist Ralph Lavars

Olympic QIXTEEN HUNDRED

liike old- torches, looking

flarea lamp lighters' fashioned were distributed at two-mile in-

along

3,000-mile tervals

the Ühe

of from

village Journey Olympia in Greece to Wembley, Great Britain.

On July 17, in the ruins of the temple of Zeus, a young Greek girl in white chiton (ancient cos- lume) performed the 3,000-year- old rite of kindling the flume. She lit an olive branch by the Gun's rays at noon through magnifying glass, and used this to Ignite an old lamp, from which, In turn, the torch lighted.

Д

was

The 75 Greek athletes who tren left with the torch had 450 miles lopped off their journey; the activities of Greek guerillas made the crossing unsafe.

The next evening, at the Port of Katakolo, the flame went aboard the Greek destroyer Hastings and was taken to Corfu....thence to a British frigate which handed

crossed

It over to an italinn runner at

then Bari. The flatne

on the

Europe....at Calais for Dover... and reached Wembley afternoon of July 20,

The torches, which burn eight

pellets of solid paraffin wax and keep alight for fifty minutės, were finally checked by a Wilt-

shire Brework firm which supplied

the ignition pellets. Each bearer

keeps a torch as a souvenir of his

10-minute run.

ONE NIGHT'S dinner men in the competitors'

West camp at Middlesex! Hors

Drayton,

D'Oeuvres or Oxtail Soup, Fried

Fillet of Hake with Tartare Sauce,

Compiled by JOHN MACADAM and FRANK ROSTRON

AT NOON on July 17 the symbolic flame was kindled at Olympia in Grocco. Xat Wembley Stadium on Thursday, July 29, the King proclaimed open the Olympic Games of 1948, celebrating the XIVth Olympiad of the Modorn Era.” And 4,000 of the world's finest amatour athlotos have bogun their tussla?....

No nation can win..

HAT people cannot get

into their hends-unit· what all the talking and writing in the world will not convince them of is that nobody can WIN the Olympic Games.

All sorts of people claim to have won them, but the fact is that nobody ever does. Winners and seconds and thirds get points so that any one national team can tot up its points and shout: "Hooray, we've licked them all!"

But the

Games Committee

dis-

misses such grandiosity. They sim- ply say that the result of the so-and- so wat such-and-such, and let it go at that.

The polit is this: the Ganies are. an exercise for the youth of the nations taking part in them, and it doesn't matter to the committee which nation hns the greatest num ber of athletes.

An Olympic

is champion champion in his own right. He is not a nutive of this country or that country. He is himselt. Joe Doakes in any langunge.

*

Arties

Take nine

or Grilled Stooks and Tomatoes, tons of steak

or Cold Meat with Salad,

Fried

and New Potatoes, Vegetable Mar-

101,

Spinach. Fruit Jelly al

Cream or Cream Caramel.

„THE FIRST Olympic village over built,, on Baldwin Heights, Los Angeles, comprised profabricated

By JOHN DEANE POTTER

RITISH competitors and the

visiting athletes-are getting the heavy industrial worker's za- usbestos cottages. They were later tion: a daily extra pint of milk, auctioned to Californians as double rations of cheese and fats. one and a half times the amount bench bungalows.

of meat, and three times the bread...

WATCH OUT

■ for

W

the fun

of tongues,

a morass

out

HAT Babel

In une match the referee ordered one whut

of mis of the Argentine team out of the water, to the voluble annoyance of the whole understanding, what chaos team. A little later he ordered and wrangling there always another. are when the athletes and sports ofcials of the world meet every four ⚫years

As one man, the burly Argentinos Jased elr way to the side of the bath, and xeroinfling out glistening and dripping in the Califominn BUT, they bodily into the pitched the referee

Tat indignation water amid tumult from the spectators. and

Omelas rushed forward in protest. gesticulating and stouting angrily. One by one they, too, went in. Police and spectators went in as well.

What sensational incidents there 'have 'been making headlines

causing international friction-but also what good fellowship, what sportsmanship, and what fun..... The pool was soon a mass of bodies

To Los Angeles (1932), writes and floating hats, What a polo match

those Frank Rostron, we travelled by And what money's words for

spectators who remained ligh and dryt special train, the "Olymple Special.”" απ'

the Santa Fo Linc. Lord Burghley, present chairman, of the, organising committee, was aboard. with us as a hurdler and was our slowplete.

At avery, wayalde halt the crowds assembled and autograph hunters shouted, "We want Lord Burghley."

2 for the fireworks

They wanted a real live English N

lord.

OBODY looking at the preparations would accuse, the British of using the Games for political purposes, It wasn't so with tha Germana

-overseas

It is a light snack compared with the mountains of entables which athletes have brought with them. Two Utousand meals day are served by the ten Olymple camps around London.

Why Britain In 1948?

THIS 1948 Olymplad, the 14th of the modem series, comes to London again, after a Iapse of 40 years, only by a curious set of circumstances.

were

pic

THE ARGENTINES-203 of them -seem to be chomplous of the food

inind. brought 00 Olymple. They have tons, including sina tons of steak, dried vegetables, 600 13 tons of talions of wine.

INDIANS (02 strong) have brought six tons of rlee, 3,000 eggs. AUSTRALIANS (54 of them) brought 5,000 oysters (most of them went bad on the way) and 20 cases at org.

CHINESE (58) are more frugal, bringing only 50lb. of dried shrimps, a case of red bean curd, a crate of plckled cabbage..

HUNGARY (210) is bringing CRES, 301. 20,000 lemons, 20,000 of poppy seed, and 100 bottles of Napoleon brandy.

Nearly all this food is cooked by British cooks. One morning com- petitors were given an omelette con- inining three eggs. One athlete asked for another helping, then an- other. At the third request the cooks rebelled, so he picked up the counter and said: "I am strong mon, I am here as champion weight-lifter. You give me more eggs, please,"

They fried him six more.

DAB and FLOUNDER

M

Malcolm Campbell

By WAZ

I can was the clock again

Soan

hope it will be the #goodometer

fights for his sight

by

VINCENT EVANS

new fear the suckien blackout that "Pald" against would finally write his name..

ALCOLM CAMPBELL, of blindness behind him, be did not

the man who has fought fate for most of his life and benten it, le now fight- hug for his sight.

It was two years ago that the sight in Sir Malcolra's left oye began to fade; since then, And it has dwindled away. now he is fighting for his right eye. Glaucoma-high pressure on the eyeball has of fluid over

got into them.

And yet, at 63, he is sill planning to put his jet-propelled Bluebird back into action in an effort to beat time and become the Brat man to break 200 miles an hour on water.

AFTER THE 1036 Games In Berlin, the 1040 Games were allotted to Japan. Preparations for a Tokyb Olympic village well advanced when Japan's aggression In Chinn caused the International Olym

to change Committee

THE GAMES were then allot- ted to Finland, and a magnifi

in Wos built cent stadium Helsinki, The 1930 war wreek- ed the plan, and by 1941 Russian bombers were Helsinki's new concrete stadium. Via and V2s were exploding 1944 London when the Games should have taken place. But in 1945, despite high finan- cial bids by American cities, the Games were

again lonice allotted to London for this year. OLYMPIAD means a period Three Games of four years. have been missed owing to two wars, so the t, meeting is called the 14th Olympiad.

'on

The spirit:

FTER the opening ceremony the athletes took THE ÖLYMPIC GATH: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations of which govern them and dextrous participating in them in the true spirit honour sportsmanship for the of our country and for the glory of sport."

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OLYMPIC

PRETTIEST and one of the young-

est

women

Is

competitors MAUREEN GARDNER, blue-eyed dark-haired, freckled...at 19 is the whitest British hopo for the 80- metro hurdles and has fixed Sep- tember 11 for her marriage to her coach, Geoff Dyson. "You'd never think on the track that I was going to be his wife,"

...Helght. 5ft. Din. weight 9st, 10lb. size 7 shoes and gloves....She. cats whatever she can get..."Mother- says I eat a lot."

....Likes pretty clothes, ballot, and dancing, but goes to bed at 0.30;-means to go on being an athlete after marriage, even I she hay children.

en

HER track clothen are blue shurts, white cellular shirt, white rib- bon to keep her halr back..........her favourite dress a new brown. met- aver-gold-taffeta dance dress made for hor honeymoon. Make-up-samo for hurdling · dancing--lipstick and pow»

Final Ding; 8.40 .m, Oxford to Lon- don-train, shopping for bargains mainly, for trousacau or now home, tunch and ballet-runtince with a girl friend. After this rest (7) she staris track training.

OLYMPIC

MISS

by ANNE EDWARDS

AUGUST 31

80 metre hurdles

SEPTEMBER 111 Setting married

MILE

ONE target of the Games is to produce a man to

beat the four-minute mile, the athlete's dream for years. W. G. George, the all-miler who used to be a

mite rectacled figure, in Fleet Street, set up a

4 mina. 1214 arcs, in 1886.

After nearly 50 years, New Zealander Jack Love- lock brought it down by five seconds. Sydney Wooder- son, the little barrister's clerk, the greatest rummer never to win an Olymple title, clocked 4 mins. 0.4 вест And finally Gundar

did it Hacg, of Sweden, VA, in 4 mius. 1.4 sees. Now there will be an effort by Lennart Strand; In the opinion of Wooderson he is the likeliest man to break the four-minute mile.

Lenzart Strand

ODD SPOT: The Scandinavian coach of Strand and the great Haogg has said that if the four-minute milo were ever achieved ́ Woo- dierson with Scandinavian coaching was the man to do It. But Wooder- son is out of Olympic athletics. Strand's time, for the 1,500 metres- the Olymple distance is about the equivalent of a four-minute mile.

Cheers make him go faster

* In Los Angeles ho ́was always mob- when the Games were last held in Der H

gosiplin in 1930, writes Jolin, Macadam.

by CHAPMAN PINCHER [OW an almost exhausted athlete summons up fresh energy when cheered by spectators is one of

2

1936 village is still Busy TODAY

TODAY: - 614 miles (as the BEA

Viking flies) from Wembloy Stadium, the 1930 Olympic Stadium in Beril is belag used by the British Army na n depot for supplies flown into the beleaguered British sector. it was a P.O.W. depot during the war and was immune from Allied bombing.

TODAY: One mile outside the TODA

Brush sector at Doberitz, the sumptuous Olymple village which housed "and" féd the entire male per- sonnet of the 1036 dames, 1s also a depot--for Russian troops.

bed by autograpia hunters, R writer in a Los Angelca daily wmte: went mat alx months before the "Lord Dave Burghleigh is regular Olympie flag was due to be lolated, and the uncertain things, America's Dr T, Buy The Blond Teer is Dave to evezze political bosses were tolling me already. Cureton will try to find out in, body in the British team and is not of the glories that were to come.

the The Reichsportsfeld was not ready, his-trackside · laboratory at mmooty. His Hurdling Highness is proba ably the most democratio aristocrat but it was in a stalo `of readiness that ever. He is so unassuming that yester had everybody in Berlin bending over Games.

was backwards in admiration of the Fuehrer With the day autograpit hunters found he

olher facts ho illecovers enlos just plain. "Burghlaigh'-no lord who had ordained such miracles. The it may be possible to increase a or anything."

Olympia or world plisietes lived and man's top speed of about 24 m.ph. Olymplaherdorf Olymplo TN_LOS_Angeles the whole town went trained-had been built so that it could, by a few decimals.

business he occupied, Immediately Olympleetazy, Normal

atter The practically stopped. Theatres and Games by a corps of Heimwehr afficere cinemas refused to accept money from any visiting · Olymplin."

Hollywood authollywooded self, up from there. The Games opened with their nature. There are three types?~~~ team manager, my main headaclio WAR aslow march by picked troops, and, tha: EXPLOSIVE · type=sprinters and tum- rescuing my charges from sun stars voice of lililer, Deutschland Uber Alle parties and getting them to bed, and the Horst. Weasel Song were, played hers who can unleash great initats of

How could you trake a fiatrowed, young incemently throughout the two weeks energy to DOWN

the stadium were ENDURANCE:-type-distance runners,” HER Middleweight boxer oncentrate on his. The streets and

walkers, and · swimmers, rounds he virated with the Nazi emblem of black training when in between Would get starry syed and may, "Gosh, and red. Hitler maintained his racial, BRUTE – STRENGTH".

Utters, and hammer- throwers.

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Ar

First line of attack is to ensure

15 was perfect for bath jobs. That that young athletes concentrate from: set the political note, and it never let the start on" events -möst" suited to

THE FIVE CIRCLES representa tive of the five continents of the

I had foxtrots with Norma Shearer and by refusing to meet the greatest plosive athletes have subnormal World: Inked together. In' unity. The and Carole Lombard a siked, mo te a runner and general athlete of the Gamer aufpest of their muscles. If I-bend my words "Citius,* Altitur; 2. Fortius,”

- Negro Jesse Owens, party!,topigm

Every flufig done to stress - this warm in hair rebond more than half the which usually appear to under... the

"Ortézy "I" B54714 - Wailed" in ́ ́ovareoming. OST HOTWHOLE ORGg of all is the racial feeling, this superiority, The Ger- Hingeas, que bom shinte uses his store rings, mean "Quicker," higher more M

water man way of lite was lalt on with », a guid muscles, much more smelenity. memory of the Olympic

Gdje strongly' '--indicative of the athlata's polo perhaps the most strenuous trowel,

„ÖDD-SPOT: Goven1n pig carrying stones

of all the poorer of evated athe-him to exactly what it will not be of fat and with no boot endeavour to create new world Gomes and probably the roughert. The : like at the Olymplo Games, London, could beat the best Olymple sprinter pver Tacope for foul play is extrems,

100 yards.

HIS inspiration

AMPBELL cannot rid himself of the urge that, for 10 years, has driven him on to become the first man on land to reach 150, then 200 to which he was beaten-and then 300 miles an hour.

His answer: "If you want to know It fear of blindacas will stop me from racing Bluebird again, the answer is 'No.' It is difficulties with the bout and the infuriating slowness in the

recovery of my sight that are hold-

me back. Nothing elec Fate dosen't get

you until your time has come. No one has ever got anywhere without a big helping of luck, and you've got to learn to bank It. Luck's always been with me. "These

eyes of mine are just another frun- another difficulty, tration. But I've always had 'em and I've always benten ein. I'm going to beat this one."

on

HIS worry

and `AMPBELL hates

pushes away from him the thought of blindness-as all people do except those who know it,

"think "Great heavens" he says, First he fought. Parry Thomas what it would mean, I've always but Parry Thomas killed himself in had the most perfect sight--to lose his

then it would be the end of my adventure, car on Pendine Sands;

Segrave died

For, in my case, I on

would not have Segrave-and Windermere; then Ray Keech and the compensation of learning how to Keech was killed in motor race.

use my ears. They have become too Then-on Bonneville. Flats Insensitive after a lifetime of sitting Campbell got his 300 miles an hour, behind a roaring engine,"

at which he used to say that real speed began, and took to the water.

For years,

Gar the American Wood taunted him viciously for the water speed record-until, finally, In 1938, Campbell pushed it up to 141.74 miles an hour. Gar Wood went out of the game. And, with Segrave gone, Campbell WDs supreme on the water.

HIS battle.

is ime

after

HKAA NOTES:

PROVIDING SERVICES CAR OWNERS

TO

TiNE Honektone Automobile Asso-

T clation is zelnz all out to in-

erenso its meniborship la order to be in a tinauela) position to give lis racanters those services which are nomally expected of an efflolent A.A., that is to say, road pairois, ear batk suborvision. car cleaning and watching and a perkral furthering of the hiteresie of motorists as well as | the protection of their righis,

The financial yield of the subscrip- flans, etc., of the present membership does no allow the Committed to organlio eficiently all those pervices whielt mem- bers are entitled to expect. It 16:thero- foro hoped that every car owner and every member of the public Interested In motoring in the Colony will faint the

Association to enable

4 to get back onta sta prowar_footing of efficiency and wer- vice. Membership enrolment forma can be obtained from any member of the Committee, or from the Honorary Secre- zary, V. E. Perrier. c/ U. Spalinger de Co...Lid. York Building, or direct from the Secretaries, Kémera. Peal, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Exchange Building,

With approximately to five

times greater than prowar and in spite of many dimeuities, the Hongkong Auto- mobile Assoctation has already reinstated many of its prewar services to members,

The Association's Supervisors are on. dury daily from 0.30 am, to 5.30 pm. at the Statue Square/Chiater noad car park and at the Kowloon Car Park (op- Watchers posite the Peninsula Kolet). and Cleaners are on duty on all ika car parks in the Cenizal District and on the Kuwinon Car Park from 8's.m

of la 0 p.m., whilst a 24-hour service Watchers is maintained at the Security Car Park opposite the Hong Kong and Shanghat Bank, and watchers are on duży "til midnight in Pedder Street and Chinler Road.

ANOTHER PARKT. Another car park with accommodation for approximately 100 cars is likely to become available in the Central District in the near future when arrangements are completed for the parking of cars on a part of Murray. Parade Ground. Additional men will be needed for the supervision of this car park and it li essential that the ILK.AA. be in a finan cial position to engage the NECORSETY personnel,"

to Members

Odd services rendered during the past few days include chang ing the spare wheel, changing, tyrËS, - changing ou, ntting IKAA.. badger, car and even bringing in a Members that ran out of petroll Only yesterday an H.KA A. Bupervisor noticed a nero- ber's cas standing in the Chater Road his Car Park with a flat tyre; ha immediate- ly hastened to that member's office, in- formed the owner, obtained his car keys and in a master of a tow minutes had tho changed the spare wheel; when owner turned up later he was not sub- ject to that most annoying of all delaya

finding one's car in the Car Park with.

Campbell does not fear the loss of sight. The fear he has is one that all blind people have known-"When had my eyes bandaged up the thing I really feared was being hit on the head-it was nature's warning to

to look primitive man most vulnerable spot.

But, day by day, Campbell's sight getting better. Now he can tell the by a small clock across the room: His nervous, crisp. Sgure IT is back inlg that tempestuous moves about his Reigate home, A fat! hands

fdgeting, eyes screwed up baffling, and.. frustrating battle

IKAA. Gupervisors arò easily recog- against the that Campbell wants to go

has bright light he

nised in their anart grey uniforms

and HIAA.. - watchers For the Jerking indicator is the always hated, and surrounded by whilst ali

cleaners wear the Association, badge on measure of his happiness and the dogs that like him, but not others.

an aryn-bard. II.K.A.A. patrols will; up. And, the thing he calls luck on request being made to the Secre conquest of speed his way of life. Reckless madness to most. But Joy but others call other things-holdstaries in sumelent time, be placed at out. Bluebird will one day put the the disposal or the organisers of private to him.

and public functions, out of the reach of HKAA. patrols are always on duty af *On race days, I asked him recently if, with the water record memory of at lens) a couple of weeks ordinary men.

the Jockey Club, -,"

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