1950-07-01 — Page 13

Now

It's

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1950.

MAUREEN's

Turn

For Me It Was Next

Best To Being A

Ballet

MAUREEN GARDNER

THE 22-year-old

champlon *

today Answers the questions of the Editor of the Kipre SpoTIN Britain's Nelwol

Woth sin

greatest-ever

Aurice Het n A Worli perora ta k

Mortied ter coach, deo Dyson, after the Olymple Wembley

Their son, GAMER. Timothy, aged nine

She is now training Hebatniki quietly for Osmole Gaines in 1962.

"RUNNING and hurdling, jumping and throwing, all can But the athlete be great fun.

who enjoys his or her events most is the one who takes the trouble to acquire technical shill." -Maureen Gardner.

1

My first love was ballet. turned to athletics on medical advico

When

my after I had been ill. doctor insisted that I should spend as much time as possible in the open air, I decided to take up track run- ning.

Most beginners, and particularly is this true of girls, start with sprinting. My immediato lasit an was experiment

success.

I won several open handicap sprint I followed those races in my first season. up with wins in the Southern and English championships and went with the British tram to the European championships in Oslo.

'THE WORST STARTER'

Then I met Geoffrey Dyson. He was roaching the Oxford University team al the the Ifley-road track where my club, Oxford Ladler Athletic Club, praclises,

At

He told me I was the worst starter be had ever seen. In the next breath he VAS advising me to take up hurdling.

talt for SA. BY

I am reasonably hurdling. And had the speed that is necessary.

Geoffrey Dyran inslals that hurdling

The hurdles in, in fact, sprinting.

are

Warming up

Dancer

is #means obstacles Technique

The Food Ironing out the obstacles, hurdler sprints clean through the fluht of hurdles The bad one jumps them. To be a fit-elusa nihlete, you must have n trainer. (I married mlae.) Itis job s to apol and correct faults

and hammer

into you the importance of slyle and precision.

Geoffrey Dyson spots every mistake

I make. He insists on working until wo This might have got rid of the fault.

But It

seem shocking hard to some. Isn't if you are keen on your sport.

To a lesser degree the spectatur, too. should try to understand the teclinique of

various

lica the

events. That why

of the smoothness greater appreciation

of the champion anil sympathy with the beginner in his or her attempt to hold

the stars.

WARMING UP

weck,

You will want to know about the routine of training. I am on the truck four days, sometimes. five each Each time I spend about three-quarters of un hour in training.

I start with warming-up jogging and exercisen. Which

you see an athlete running before a competition, these are beng done to get the body ready for the extra strain imposed

by on it petition.

like warming; It is rather acro-engine before a plane takes off.

cum-

10 au

these Fult The tracit exercises is no glamour outfit, but it is designed to conserve the body heat. acts Ikea vacuum flask, and should not

Just be removed until

before a race Legins.

worn for

12

Some of the exercises 1 do are of the ordinary "dally dozen" type. Others are evolved from the actual technique themselves Some are of the events based on sprinting, come on hurdlar.

thinking of taking up you are strenuous training, see your doctor first. you may be, your However ambitions health has the deciding vote.

J

The most serious training I ever did was the year leading up to the 1948 Olymple G. MER, During that time I oner in three Visited my Imily doctor mout to have a thorough examination.

GET THAT SLEEP'

Sheep is important, and the amount needed varies from athlete to athlete.

•

·

I

MAUREEN

A Daily Express portrait

think that most people don't have enough. I try to get to bed by 30 p.m. and sleep right through to eight next moralag.

Food fads play no part In my Cat

I like good, plain food and plenty of it. I eat a hefty breakf, o hearty lunch, and a good supper. I have On the dry of a very little at teatime. competition I particularly avoid pastries. ice cream, and anything heavy. all that, I'm frightened to death before a race. But I don't ruppone I am the only gric. I manage to survive,

After

When it is over I wonder why I got myself in such a state. Then i get ready for the

flutter nxt pre-zace butterflies,

(London Express Service)

this is how I do it!

.

Trunk bending... to stretch the back and loosen the hips.

To build up stunten muscles and these or

the ley that leads over the urifle.

When They Box

A strong abdominal exercise and it Aas a tonic effect on the spine.

اده

in Siam It's Like

Organised Murder As Teeth Fly

The national sport

By VICTOR KENDRICK

Bangkok, Thailand. contestants pray to Buddha foring elbow sramshing

a graceful. dancing or solar plexus. of success in something that invocation, Standard equipment!

for at the ringside is an ear-split- any day

Siam is

could pass

Murder Incorporated. They in Stamese band whose reed pipes. rons and xylophones

call it boxing, but it is more hep drown out

a combination of jiu-jitsu, mayhem.

la savate and street fight-)

the sounds of

described

into face

KNEES ALSO USED

Back To Track

BRAZILIAN FOOTBALLERS TO GET £600 BONUS EACH

...as Guest FOR WORLD CUP VICTORY

Expert in

SPORTS

SCHOOL

BY ALAN HOBY

blink

with amazement. I received a cable the other day which made mo The message it contained was particularly startling because it arrived on the eve of our footballers' departure for Brazil and the World Cup.

a fanatical

per man

pre-

It read: "Brazillan players earning between £10 and £120 monthly during World Cup competition will also be paid £600 per man if they win the final."

nn-10 strokes with rounds of G4, And what will our England plunged into

Just £20 ational atmosphere where, with 64, 05, 06. players receive?

The Duko at

of Windsor match plus £10 a week suman extra £600

stake, anything can and prob- sented Hogan with the £3,000 mer Wales.

cheque.

Even then ho had

10 rest when his legs awelled up after 15 minutes or so exertion. have He could never

rot round at all without his clostic supports which he was wearing again last week and which helped to keep him going when he could scarcely ste d up.

(1

I just shows you into what ably will happen! financial fool's paradise this World Cup competition aiready degenerated.

has

THE WORLD'S BEST What of our playing chances shows how It also

fantastic in Brazil? American I don't share the general pess this

South Whole Soccer el-up has become, in-imism that we shall be man

cluding the Bogota business, gled by the Spaniards,

ILL-ADVISED

Quite honestly, I think that

any footballer who

nies off to

Bogota now l-advised.

While I certainly retain my view that English football stars seould be paid what they are worth,

belleve that Alex ("Sandy") Forbes ins nade ane of the wisest moves of s Life in sticking with Artenol.

As for Rio, the World Cup organising committee could have eliminated all these big-money bonuses long ago by framing a rule giving all players £50 a

of nation- mantch, irrespective Tality.

They should also have thrown in the warning that any nation found Infringing this rule would at once bo

competition.

tossed out of

But they didn't

the

do this and,

as a resuit, our boys are being

Too Many Petty Restrictions On Sport Amateurs

SAYS HYLTON CLEAVER

Study the sporting scene today. Dodds, a profes- sional footballer, will probably be suspended for selling the attractions of Bogota to other British professionals

and for selling professional footballers to Bogota.

Why shouldn't he?

Bergman, world champion, has been suspended for playing table tennis in South Africa without asking permission.

Why should he ask it?

a Beence for each. A boxer moy belong only to two clubs, one of which has a prior claim to his services.

table tennis a man is per- In mitted to charge a fee for his services; there is no distinction between

of thing stultifies amateur and pro- This sort fessional, any more than there and strangles amateur boxing of is in show-jumping on horse-the right sort. beenuse many back or in Australian cricket university boxing: Blue or los

pitai student is ready to have a fight whenever he feels like only to be told be must not,

MAKING A PROFIT?

restriction-the ap

to trade unionism In

mass-

Alex Forben, "wisest move of lils life."

nion

"Said Laddic Lucos, Britain's Walker Cup captain, last week: "For sheer guts I know nothing

'to equat it.

America Is now bracketing Hogan with Bobby Jones as the greatest golfer of all time.

UNSPORTING

To suspend two of our best riri athletes for a year without telling them --- or us - what "erlmes" they are supposed to have committed seems to me a clear case of autocracy Kone med.

It'in hardly the way to en courage our budding boys and giria to become champióna at u time when Britain desperately needs all the champions the can

If Sylvia Cheesemon and Dorts Bailer h vo fractured some rule of the Women's Amateur Athletic Association and have

Indeed proved "not amenable

to discipline" let us know what It is they have done wrong.

In ny view It is unsporing and un-British to punish people acred by the Italians, and mur-without first letting them know dered by the Brazilians.

the charges, Fair play demands We have in Te

Williams that the facts should be told. (goal), Jack Aston (back), Billy

TOOK 7,800. WICKETS Wright (wing half), Will Man- (inside forward), and Tom

Watching a cricket match on Floney and Stanley Matthews

at Chorleywood, (wings), six of the finest foot- the common

was W. M ballers in their positions in the lerts, last week,

Marsh, veteran slow bowler for world.

And although

last Hertfordshire and Harpenden. We have

In

took 7,000 his day he Nell

TOD Franklin, forgotten

and Ignored Lawton,

Laurie counties cricket. Compton, players like

is held by Wilfred Rhodes (4,108). tiurher, Stan Mortensen, Eddie first-class cricket Bally. All

Jimmy Ramsey

Total of 7,000 wickets taken Dickinson. Roy Bentley, Ted

Laurie Scott, Niby WM. Marsh, of Herts and Bitchburn,

and E.M. Grace took 12,078 wickets Milburn, Mullen, burn. cholson, Taylor, Watson, Cock-Harpenden is not a record. Dr

more than He made 70,760 runs as well. Eckersley represent

£500,000 worth of exceptional Latent.

Lesliv wi

wickets in club and minor

IT WILL BE NOISY Mind you, I would have been known that happier if I had the England team is staying at seme quiet spot instead of at a

bruch-front hotel 1 swank Copacabana, expensive suburb of Ria.

Record

for

*

*

Erle Howgege, playing in the Chorleywood match for Hert- fordshire Gentlemen against the incal side, who won by two wickets, had the amazing analysis in a recent club game of 13 overs, 13 maidens, five He's a fast medium wickets. bowler, too.

'THE MILLER' AGAIN

old,

the

the

In Copacabana the trame is the heat intense, Iremendous. and the noise unremitting.

Arsinal stayed

here and *: Golden Miller, 23 years This veto has nothing to do does seem incredible that

steeplechaser of b Wonder I accuse the Amateur Athletic

that with money; it is pure que quieter hotel

will parade before was not found 203, Association of suspecting

of

where the players could got a crowds again at the Internation- West Indian McDonald Dailey, tion

al Horse Show which opens at runproach In choosing where he will

Rond night's rest

goon the White Cily on July 22. and where he will not, must be sport.

He is coming from retirement, making a proft out of ll some-

should be a special and there how,

cheer for the horse who broke records by winning cake don't racing.

Cheltenhem Gold Cup

from 1932-30 and

If this is not what they think. iet them stop sugesting BS much by their behaviour, Is, let them say so.

If it

Then we shall all knew where we are, including McDonald Bailey.

OPPOSITE CAMPS

Even

FO, We have a learn. All I ask is that it will be and super-ft.

super - tough,

super-confident.

And for, heaven's

It can be sak to the credit of fiet's be too gentlemanly in Rio. the

the Rugby Union that they do it a foreign star kicks the life every year not say a man may not play forut of one of our beys-and the Grand National in 1934.

He will be part of the parade happened elsewhere) Oxford University, London, then

Middlesex, and Barbarians,

pray that he

won't step back in which famous and legendary England in the same acasonike a polite little white-shirted characters will be impersonated the Block but they have a tiresome habit mbasador and murmur "After en borstback-from

Prince to

Earl the Yellow Lord Lonsdale.

-(London Express Service)

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you, Claude."

WE MUST FIGHT To wlo-and that's whint we're out there for-we need

from the Arsl

How

fantastic all this tnter-of being terrified lest any of dare their direlples should have any- would ference !! Who

where he thing whatever to do with dietate to a golfer Examinations over, Cambridge

should play rol next Sunday, professional or be coached by them in the University Athletes president

ur tell a wandering cricketer film. That puts

opposite camp to Angus Scott is anxious to get whether he is to play for the completely down to serious training: Stoles or the Free Foresters this MCC, who lie Gentlemen and side which will erash Info the

Players to meet. And they have tackle and fight

whistle. The knee also in useful in n

for readiness again in

the week-end?

the equivalent at golf

So let's net within the rules situation like that, while :1 match between the Jelnt Ox-

rugged competitors-be- Surely to goodners amateur

As for the two Eiri athletes like well-placed barefool klek in face tord-Cambridge team and the

sportsmen are free! Governing

told they will cause if we don't we may us or body Can do much {.

American Universities

hodles are not set up to tell us who have been

another inter-well caner) our hopes now, contest take our exercise, but to lay national for England for n year, match all can say is thint the very He almost certain to up-

simple rules for down

curse has lifted its bend pear in the half-mile at ts play. meeting. He recently clocked 1 min. 55.8 sec, after very little give and should preparation,

plenty to think the Americans about.

Of

famo here.

ing. The stretcher at the One of the up-and-coming shoke the composure of one's Princeton and Cornell on July 1. when, where and how often to not ringside gels constant use youngsters Is. Sideri Vitheechal opponent. and the officials wear pith 119 pounds, who is helmets to protect them in the programine as possiKUTUK Apart from the style, Sin- from flying teeth.

"hurtful elbow, terrible

follows Western kick mese boxing forceful knee." Sadsidth modes, There is regulation and

is noted ring, referee, rounds, reconds The contestants wear padded Narupai, 117 pounds,

The fighters elbow and and time-keeper. gloves to keep them from Rou-for

circle each other ging each other's eyes out, but there the resemblance to box-malet knee to whirl opponents crouch and

his reverse

ing ends, Mosi of the punish-down by K. O."

ment Is Inleted by feet, knees

and cibows, planted forcefully

in any part of the body,

The reverse

for an opening.

elbow is

the

in

Scott.

be 23 who will The usual technique is to try August, will shortly take up an for n good kick, rush in with

д with

Peter- appointment blow that sends the teeth flats flylag and come out with

firm, but borough engineering ing. When coming out of the elbows flying. And Buddha help

to continue intends

in active in - fighting. cach contestant the guy who can't get out of

competition. suddenly and the way fast enough.--United to whirl The bouts are limited to five tries rounds and before each one the catch his opponent with a fly- | Press..

DANCE FIRST

K. O. CANNON

WHEN CARS SMASH WITO WALLS.. GIRDERS CRASH FROM CRANES.. PEOPLE FALL FROM CLIFFS..THESE,

VARE NO ACCIDENTS.

THEY ARE COLD" BLOODED MURDERS?

I SUGGEST THAT YOU STANT YOUR INVESTIGATIONS AT THE ANGLO-ITALIAN CLUB ON THE CORSO UMBERTO. THERE YOU MAY FIND YOUR ENGLISHMANŲ

-(London Express Service)

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

LISTEN! WHAT'S THAT GREAT SMOKE

LOOK OUT!

NOISE 7 QUIET!!

LAW-MAKERS

In which and providing a selection

Gre

were

HEROIC HOCAN

The Same For Both Sides

the

E. L. Cozier, of I don't know what you think Caribbean Press Associa about it but if there was such tion, did not like the Mon- An award as the Hoby Gold

com- never

When he

The only sports

those mitice.

They are free enosismen

governing bodies intended to do anything else. over which are there for the sole purpose of low-making.

FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH

man coming

The Women's Amateur Athle-Medal for Sheer Gallantry it chester Test wicket. But in tle Association should confine would go this year to America's his message home to the

to making rules Den Hogan.

West Indies he expressed their business

won the National dislike also of the state- Open

Championship

the news- Golf Ardmore, Pennsylvania, last ments made to week, with a score of 69 after papers ns tending to leave a triangulae play-off with Lloyd "a bitter, unpleasant taste."

and (73)

George Conditions, he

out, Mangrum

points Amateur

Fazio (75), it was a case of an were the saine for both sides. Take rowing. The flowing Association organise no

The fundamental truth is that indomitable little

WHISKED BACK championships whatsoever. They

whether a Cam-sportsmen find their own level. back from the doors of death to

do it. do not care

from his Sixteen months

Another quotation to race It a club cricketer makes h'r

aco Hogan's Knes bridge eight

or sell a nuisance by trying to sell Christmas, America nt

is soon Ilfe was

10 one probable he

despaired of after report points bais at the bar whether a London eight races at

murderous crash in which his grouse, "I only have one crill banned by any decent club.

"the four 19 ear collided with a ten-ton bus. cism," he writes, Antwerp in June.

for stronuous becomes known

players As a resuit, his legs wore too If a runner

unaccustomed to cricket They do not require to be told

persistent pot-hunter he sliced and sinshed by the eur who pakt the fares or the hotel os a

geon's knife, he hnd a blood days a week. Perhaps that can-

lcg and was hill. neither do they instruct a need not be pleked to run.

told not be helped. "Well

accept good, would sculler to compete at Barnes

if he lived, he Above all it la no earthly 01 in one

that, but and most emphatio when he wishes to compete at

good trying to handcuff a sports never play golf again.

To

elly but it is a shame that Chester.

ccmmitteemun. 10 #

the West Indian Cricket Board have the suggest that if McDonald Bailey As a result you

should have arran of Control University Boat Race as an ex- wants to run in Brussels he "manager" is omple to the world, and Henley must take a

He is not nttracling 22 foreign entries bunkum,

fessional boxer. next month

COMPARE BOXING

man

Ibat,

a

RECORD EQUALLED, Afterwards.

When he was

and

I

a mere four pro-:obbing about again, he could Red to, whisk them all back to

et around a golf course only in the West Indies

days after the Snal match. wheelchair.

The New Zealanders had to seg something

themselve I have known, for a

Eventually he found he could

la full month is bad walk gingerly it his legs were of the country and to enjoy

braced with wire and clastic.

Yet a few weeks ago "Little

All that damages the tradi tions of sportsmanship behaviour by sportsmen, whether amateur or profes- Compare this with amateur slonal. And that is eradicated

far more quickly by the atti A boxing club may hold tude of other players than by only

two big nights of enters any governing body. tainment each season, and needa

doxing.

-flondon Kxpress Service)

In

it be that they teed-Water" as they cali lloganong time that the WIBC have

the States, equalled

the no head; can

have no heart either?"

BRUCE HARRIS. world record for 72 holes on a por 70 course when he won the Greenbrier open tournament by -London Exprest“ 'Suretes) “

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