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NEITHER BANNISTER NOR STACEY

...

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THEY WON'T BE AT THE WHITE CITY TODAY

A blow to athletics. This year, when the standard at Oxford and Cambridge has never been so high, the pick of the university men

will miss the AAA championships at the White City today.

Performances against Princeton and Cornell and Harvard and Yale during the recent visit to the United States stamped sprinter Nick Stacey and miler Roger Bannister of Oxford, and half-miler Angus Scott, of Cambridge, as potential cham- plons, but none of them will be running in the Championships.

The truth (writes Harold Palmer) is they have had enough racing this year. They had to be fit for the relays in November and the University sports at the White City on March 12. They have earned the rest they and others are taking.

This would not happen it the sports were held later in the year. One of these days to be the change will have made.

Main obstacle at the momen seems to be the inability of the

Cambridge men to

ure their

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track at Fennera regularly once the cricket reason

Sportsman's Diary.

EDITED BY

of the present.

trained as a paratrooper-and he has every chance of reaching

high class.

RACING, RECRUIT

At the age of 68 Mr. Sean T. O'Kelly, President of the Elre Republic, hos adopted the Sport of Kings. He is to lease horses

Company, and they will race in his name and colours.

started. Oxford, sharing their trasted with the great matches from the Irish National Stud ground with the soccer club,

Interference In have no summer months

fhe

Now I hear there is a chance of this difficulty being removed, Cambridite county may build a for the track and arrange University to have full use of it.

happens

thot When

ECONOMY

This is not without precedent Practising for Use Open in a head of

leased from has raced horses The King Royal Golf Championship at

Stud, St. George's, Sandwich, Frank the British National

formerly in Ireland but now in Stranahan wag seen playing stripped to the waist. Strann- England. Two of the best were

Sun han is a man with a fine torso

Charlot and Big

Game, winners the whose hobby is weight lifting.

of cinsaics. Major C. C. Hall, manager of In America he is known as the

the Irish Stud, will be Mr Muscles Man from Toledo.

His Said the muscular man from O'Kelly's racing manager.

Toledo,

colours will be St. Patrick

blue cap: "St. George's,

blue, gold sleeves, Lido.

with gold tassel.

sports must be held during the season, not two months before

광산 Iny other athletes action,

Into

are

having a holiday in the States

Bonnister and Stacey

but

I know, is no

and will be back only a day If you think it's not chasic or two before the Champion To play stripped to the waist ships out prepared to run again before Then tomorrow I'll wear the reason ends.

of

training

QUICK RESCUES

K Vernon, who now in the middle seventies is still one of and enthusiastic the most t

of cycling coaches on the Hen- ley towpath, has been keeping quiet about one of his recent exploits, now revealed.

A week or two ngo he was

of his coaching uno

many crews and had reached Reh- mond Lock when he notleed a red head hobbing in the water, saw a child there and tumbled In himself. Having reached the child, he held on to one of the

Inty

I can find no previous exam- ple of sporting tastes in the Fire President, a tempestuous figure in political days that are past, unless it be attendance Eric at the Eire v. author:

England soccer International in 1046.

The Gaelle Athletes Association did like that they regard not soccer as a "foreign importa-

tuxedo."

Unblushing

Prain.

SUSSEX FIND

Ken Saltle is

tlon."

BURDENED FATHER THAMES

booming

one of Patsy Hendren's brightest discoveries Hovo cricket nursery, in, thu After several big scores for the second eleven, he played in his

One sport thai is opening first-class grune against Hampshire and scored 12 not this summer is rowing. Here out. This he followed with 43 is another example-from Mar- not out and 27 against York-low Regatta, June 18.

147 For this, shire, and ended a big Hutton innings by accepting a hot catch.culiers have entered, which is

This 21-year-old left-hander claimed to

regatto.

crews

and

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1949.

A Wimbledon Reporter Summarizes A New Technique

Problem.To -by-pass--the advancing Server

RETURNING

American

SMASH BACK

Pisyer moves

•quickly from here up to the art

'Attack-Strategy'

Brings This New Challenge

To An Old Game ..

Those of us who have been at Wimbledon ten years or more have watched a change in technique come over the game, a switch in tactics which this year is more emphatic than ever.

be:

If you had to sum up this new development in a single phrase it could well The-Serve-Smash-and-Finish-It school.

Its effect has been gradually to displace those dazzling baso-line returns and the long ding-dong rally by an attack-strategy of great daring and savagery, which wins or loses the point in a few strokes,

The diagram here shows the technique in netion.

It depends first upon the ne- quisition of a mercilessly emelant service-which Ume and again seitles the point there and then.

But if the opponent gets the ball. back at all he finds the Korver aggressively advanced to the net and showing an as- tonishing aptitude to answer even very tough returns with a sinash

that is virtually st auswerable.

We have had one examples of this year's games with players from the United States.

un-

For, of course, the Americans

Serve Sinush and Finish - It brigade.

piles of the lock and wondered from Worthing is a superb field for a one-day world record are the ace exponents of The

what to do next.

Ted

in any postion-and particular-

Ho

The entry is made up of 71

Phelps happened

try in the deep-and has an im-eights, 30 fours, four pairs,

four

20 scullers. doubles and coine along In his launch and perturbable temperament.

both tins many strokes and plenty of It will mean a huge programme was able to take them out.

of 86 hents and anals, time in which to make them.

Cambridge Then He plays football for Chelsen

the Reserves at inside left, so, like "Bumps." 100 crews, in seven Patsy, he has a burst of speed divisions of racing daily, en- between the wickets. Ils Armytered for them. service is behind him-he was

-fLondon Express Service)

Almost before Vernon could change his clothes another child fell in and he had to ko back and perform the same feat again, although this time one of his crew jumped in to assist,

Vernon, known Bean," is one of the most sun-

The

burnt and hardy characters on PROMOTION PLUS

the river,

winter

many

times at Henley. He is an artist whoso etelings are much prized.

NOT YET

Women, an promised, have been on ile Centre Court of Wimbledon this meeting 15

ne judges-Mrs Cavis Brown, Miss McLennan and Mrs D. V. Connor among them, But

have

not yet been

women

raised to the dignity- of the high umpires chair.

I raked an official if it would happen at these champion-

ships.

He raised his eyebrows. 'OPEN' WIMBLEDON

Lawn tennis

It's Now Called The "Monopoly Sports Club"

By CORNELIUS RYAN

Sports writers already are calling the new boxing promotional group in the USA the "Monopoly Sports Club," and some of the evil results of a monopoly already are discernible.

The new promotion organisation, in which the Jim Morris-Joe Louis International Boxing Club has a close working agreement with Madison Square Garden, thus giving the promoters exclusive use of the Garden, the Chicago Stadium, Detroit Olympla Stadium and several history of the personalities and doings of the fieldhouses in smaller cities, has therefore what amounts glanis and giantesses of the to complete control of all boxing because the boxers have game-the Renshaws, Dohertys, Tilden, Lenglen and to go to the place which can pay the biggest money and the rest is ingled with con- big money can be made only in big stadiums. trovany in "Romance of Wimbledon."

The

the

Oia,

First, they are mostly very tail, and reach is of supreme importance at the moment in Stage Two, when you have to. cover the whole width of the net at only a few feet range.

Second, It calls for incessant practice, because so much must be packed into those few seconds and again the Americans have ideal conditions for all-the-year- round practice.

WOMEN TOO

More notable even than the men in adopting this technique Bre the woman.

I would say that the biggest single change which has colour- en the game since Lenglen is this new-found power of attacks in the women's matches. Misa Louise Braugh the perfect example.

Now it may well be that the American Attock is not all its

Badminton

On Ice

By VERNON MORGAN'' Badminton on ice, that sounds something quite im- possible yet it has been played in Britain.

practitioners crack it up to be, although it is a very satisfying experience to watch.

Neverthelean, young tennis players will find it I predict that very attractive and try to copy

From pictures, from eye-wit- ness descriptions, from the news. neels, the new meliods will

ripple out to less talented (but no less enthusiastle) players.

The character of tennis, has since the gentle days of "Forty- already changed beyond mensure Thirty, Berile"

strategy

Watch for the new on the courts at the end of the aireet.

(London Express Service)

A World Championship

Greyhound Race? By ARCHIE QUICK

Plans are afoot for a world championship grey- hound race. Quarantine regulations have, of course, to be observed; but British dogs have been to the United States and South Africa, and the Greyhound Racing Association believes it is possible to reverse the procedure and bring overseas dogs to Britain. Australia, South Africa, and the USA are also very interested.

The chief concern in England at the moment, however, is to breed home puppies more prolifically rather than to import from Ireland. Another matter of contention is the sharp, divergence between the North and South of England. Only three of the 48 dogs in this year's Greyhound Derby come from the North, and two of these are trained in the South.

1 £20

While it is possible for an owner to enter open races, bringing weekly rewards of any thing from seventy-five guineas to £250 in the South, maximum-ls-imposed in the North, and owners, spending £2 weekly on the upkeep of dogs, have only one or two chances a season to get their money back. The need for open races in the North is urgent.

The belting duly has made no difference to the popularity of the sport, and while nitén- dance figures for 1940 are not yet avaliable, the total for 1993 was 25,204,000, an increase of two and a half million over the previous year. Betting, however, The "Monopoly AC" will make other commissions. Steve Bel- It was performed as a stunt

has decreased both on the Tole only the matches it wants to lots is the logical challenger by

former United and with the bookmakers make, with little regard for the now, with Bert Lytell and per-States badminton champions, partly due to the tax and partly worthiness o! tie fighters.haps Rocky Graziano next in Hugh Forgie and Stig Larsen, to a decrease in the circuintion

the IBC has an Inc.

as one of the turns In tho of money. that it wants nounced

ice spectacular

show Much the same thing has hap-Cycles

"Ico staro world middleweight

of 1049" une pened in the writerweight divi Harris has brought to Europe Mr Franels Gentle, Chairman of which John- These fuels were revealed by titlo is between champion Marcel ston. Kid Gavilan of Cuba for the first ilme.

ight at Detroit Cerdan and Jake LaMotta. This, clearly is the chief challenger for

author, John having described the past the Championships colourfully, is not, apparently, altogether Alrendy happy about their future if professionals tre per-

the

manently barred. I agree with

hlm,

Inevitably, ho feels, an open championship will

to

Fusari next.

tho

two

Judging by

the GRA, at the Association's of course, is contingent upon the Ray Robinson's crownete these two could have, played a

their display annual luncheon In London to owners add the Press. when the of badminton draw for the Greyhound Derby ono. would have very is made. much liked to have seen them

oventually Garden buying out the Tournamonly AC" offered n sum- serious, gaine

bo started-if not at Wimble tion thea somewhere élec.

Than Wimblecion would displaced as the centre of the best tennis in the world.

The

trouble, of course, is International

that this is on

matter. If we decided off-hand

defence.

..

mont of Champions, Inc., which mer title shot to Fusari, who re-and holds Cerdan's contract for a be

fused.

Of course, the TBC-Garden do so, it only to show if the not yet touched greyhound rac- Mr Gentle said television had DOESN'T DESERVE IT uzis could exert its power just shuttle game

could really being, but he was very definite to strengthen sport

played on ico as emphatically

as a proper

in his view that promoters were Such a match would be the boxing. Fighters could be care.

entitled to the copyright of the to throw the gates open to all docan't deserve a title shot.

rowest Injustice;

Sitting in the Empress Hav LaMotta fully and evenly matched, with

spectacle they produce, just as A the less important fights being as the "bird" fluttered to and comers then the Americans and few years ago ho was far and staged in the smaller cities. fro across the net there hover-

much

as writers, dramatists, and others would not bend their

maboury.

When International away the top challenger, but he

fighter a proved himself on the "ghosts" of Dave Free-songwriters. The GRA did not pose as a Canule trying to stop man, Wong Peng Soon and Federation must be converted has slipped badly since then, and first-rate, he then

truly

could bo Ool Telk Hock

Davinder the tide of progress, he said, - frst; then we can go ahead. moreover, he was involved in a offered to the fans in New York. Mohan and George Lewis, and but they did want some protec Otherwise, there would be a peculiar fight with Billy Fox. or Chicago. And championship a host of other great players. tlon from the incoming waves, great schlem in the game.

Every spectator of, that bout, bouts could be divided among One wondered what they One pleasant • gesture of the The book published by expert or Inexpert, questioned the big elties-New York, Chi would have thought of it. They Hutchinsons at 128 d., tells Its honesy. LaMotta is not accepcago, Detroit, Los Angeles to could only have marvelled that ail about the great matches of table to the New York Athleile keep Interest in boxing at a high these ictwu, Americans the past, which can at this Commission as a title challenger, lovel in all sections of the perforcat their game so well time bo. compared and con- and he should be inacceptable to United States.-United Press, on skattReuter.

Tho

Mister Conquest

·QUICK!

DO SOMETHING.

GIRL

GENDARMAG! THIS MAN HÁS STOLEN MY BRACELET

VOICI, MADEMOISELLE

YEG- THAT'S IT!

could

Chairman's was to congratulate

Arthur Peall says:

STOR OF THE TADLE Billiards zaust be: played aboys' the pyramia spot. A professional would develop my diagram leave towards that end.

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Position for numery

canon

run, koop

ing

en

oppo-

near top cushion and driv ins

rod

Alon guide 11, would

then be his stm. The bolder

generally beat for amatoure, ins White quarter-ball with right-fasci side just sharply enough to sing red over corner: pocket, . Fellow with In-ot red and back to hand for the Open game. T

DNA variation of this angi margs the parrecanooker (played lawly to pare complete cannon on the ascend (ball,

of

a member of the GRA staff, Mr "Laddle" Lucas-late Squadron Leader, DSO, DFC-upon being chosen ng the captain Britain's amateur golf teamin the Walker Cup against Amic- rica at the Winged Foot Club.

Mr Fred Trevillion, biggest breeder of dogs in the country, told me he has 100 dogs and puppies in training. His cham- plon, Trev's Perfection, which won the Derby in 1947, and the Scottish and Welat Derbies, the Circuit and the Golden Collar all within the space of 3 months, is now at stud at 100 guineas.

Voile ball" on penere pooké), brink, try

· for dona' straight blu, Djus anguks.

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Lessons From Wimbledon

And Henley

4

BY ARCHIE QUICK

What are the lessons to be learned from Wimbledon's- record Lawn Tennis Championship meeting and Henley's record Royal Regatta, both of them tacitly recognised as world championships?

First and foremost, the Americans showed us that specialisation pays. Whether we learned the lesson or not is another matter. United States representatives enter sports events with the sole idea of winning and nothing is spared in time, money or energy to achlovo that end.

Whether victory is every thing is a topte which has long been debated. Old gentlemen will say that the game's the thing and victory of secondary Importance. But I do feel it Father allly to enter something unless you make up your mind to win. Whether you have the ability or not in another thing.

Americans, whether they aro Californian lawn tennis players or Pennsylvanian scullete novor Jet up for a moment in striving for their goal, of course Uny enjoy the considerable advan tage of perfect conching which Is dented our people,

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colloge. What happens to a. promising paraman at Eton or elsewhere? He gets his tubbing' and rowing practice from a conch who is generally a boy in

scalor form who enjoys his fun cycling along the towpath when he can spare the time yelling in- alructiona through a borrowed megaphone. aspirant

to

the

the Stewards Enclosure at Hen

I heard a shocked member of jey-he wha wearing a pink Leander cop almost green with age-say of Princeton Univer- ity's eight: "What a disgraceful style. In fact no style at all. But Princeton

won, beating the When wo had a Davis Cup graceful St Margarets BC. That to play, Fred Perry was sums it up. While we argue brought it n week before-hand whether the Fairburn style is

or not the Americans- to impart belated knowledge to correct Mottram and Palsh, Of course

tro sacrifice style for effectiveness they were nover able to absorb and do not worry much about In contract the Broughs, bent backs so long as they get Parkers and Badges of this past the winning post first, world are picked out of the parks

AR by an army of watchful coaclics

Wimbletion. and brought along to perfection. United States people serve as The Lawn Tennis Association | hard as they can and if it is not. have no such scheme,

an ace they race to the net for, the quickest possible kill. Not Again, Jack Kelly gained his spectacular tennis but the stuff skill by constant coaching that brings in the pointz.

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