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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1950.

MAUREEN GARDNER is this week's Guest Expert in the Sports School

How To

The storieT orders: "Get ta

Maureen settles with

both feet to the start

ing-blocks.

YOU'RE A

your marks,"

MACHINE FROM

THE 'GET SET'

Successful sprinting is like a hearty

outburst of temper.

That is not my Sprinting

phrase but it is one I like,

is an explosive, violent form of sport. But, like temper, it can be put to best use when it is controlled.

There is great satisfaction in being able to And over so quickly that the run fast. well-trained athlete can actually ein feeling of tremendous exhilaration immediately after racing.

The

Few runners are born champions, seemingly straightforward hundred yards race as tuvolved in the is, in come ways, just

technical sense as is a Western roll high jump or a hitch-kick long jump. 1st mechanical

gives the order:

prucene.

The starter "Get to your marks," and the sprinter is. Armly rettied with both feet One knee is on tight to the starting-blocks, the ground, as in the picture at top left of this pasin

UP COMES THAT KNEE

The starter

gives the command:

"Get

Run

וform

The frank must br carried with the elbows bent to

right- ungles 110 more and rarely less,

I

The "set" position on the starting - blocks governed by mechanicnt principles,

Distribution of body weight over the leading In and arms has to be

the angle at which considered in relation to the ruiner will leave the starting-blocks when the gun is red.

Maureen

100 Yards Anticipates

** Cat get" weight goes forward and the knee comte up. teatre picture), "She's of !"

AND HOW

TO HURDLE

And

Your Questions

Why do runners nowadays tisually insist on using stari- ing-blocks?

A

It isn't necessary. One can dig starting holes. But 1 have found the block

to be better. A starting hole can brenk. The block in the other hand, is solid security. It also ensures a smoother start; as the runner does not have to rise the two to three inches out of the depth of the starting hole, but Is already level with the track surface.

Do you look towards the tape immediately you start?

A No, 1 x my

a

Jack Dempsey Stays Rich

By FREDERICK COOK

Jack Dempsey, once acknowledged ns "the finest fighting machine of his time," is 55-and buster than he ever was during the long period (1919 to 1920) when he held the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion- ship.

He keeps a close watch over-his famous Broadway restaurant, is often there to sign autograph books for fans; he is in constant demand as a boxing and wrestling referee all over the USA; he is a partner in oil well opera- tions with wild-west actor Gene Autry; he owns a thriving fruit concentrate firm.

And recently he has formed new business enthusiasm: real eslate investment development.

William Harrison Dempsey, to give him his formal naine, cattles the yeurs lehtly. He now, but is not fot. He lill waits with tighter's cake tread. no

eyes on the welas 2251b. track some distance ahead, probably about 25 yards, more That helps to maintain the forward lean of the body that is essential in good sprint- ing.

A

Isn't there a temptation to perp at opponents?

But

There is.

It is very wrong to <io so. 1 can disturb your whole balance,

| Q

No one has to work harder in training than a hurdler. Hurdlers are never born.

They are made. A How good they prove to be depends to a great extent on the skill and patience of the couch.

There is not n hurdler who has not had at least one nusty spill, even in training. And when one hits the track after rapping a hurdle it isn't a pleasant experience.

Do you breathe normally in

sprint race?

That is a question that few of us can answer, I think that we tako several snatching breath. Many men sprinters to through 100 yards Oti two breathe, the frst when the pintal is fired, the second at about 60

yard:

Why do sprinters run on for quite a distance after finish- Ingrace?

Nempsey the Boxer.

the

My husband. who is my the rotary action of the rear, or conch, groups the hurdle take-off, leg races with the sprints. He Te hurdler does more exer-

There are Beveral reasonës.

of a year, he "Hurdling is elses than any other athlete. says:

One in that a sudden stop, travels somewhat more ปาก!) miles, mostly by air. sprinting! Never let Much of the technique of hurd apart from being unnatural, cun 100,000

talking is acquired through repeti-casily result in a muscle being between his hune in California me hear you

about 'jumping your ton of these.

hurdles. Sprint them. Sprint through them and between

The sprinter fearns to keep body weight

them." She must understand the ahen of the hips. principles of rear-leg drive and how to snatch for the track with the leading foot.

To achieve this perfection of molion in a hundred yards race calls for years of practice. Some people learn quicker than others.

But all have something to learn, even the mos mural of runners,

TAILPIECE: I have an exercise to add to week-the trunk

those toll you about last top-right

bending, the back stretching, and so on.

set," and that knee comes off the ground.

Now the sprinter, as in the picture, is ready for the starting-gon, weight well forward on the fugers and the front leg In uncther moment she will be on her way well forward, arms

at top speed....body

working strongly, halfway across the body....dushing

(und no more) straight for the

Anishing line with her eyes axed on the track

ahead.

It seems to have little connection with either printing or hurdling, but I am sure that it does my shoulders a lot of good.

There is a hanging pole at the Oxford University track, used for training pole vaulters, You just can't stop me from climbing that

pole

Women Should

Be Banned

From International Sport

SAYS

ALAN HOBY

W

I SPRAWL...

ክ WHEN hurdler elcars an Su think of the buriller as a

obstacle. his movement sprinter who, while he niay feel calls for a considerable degree

torn,

Another is that it helps to slow down the flow of the blood, which has been accelerated na n result of the tremendous effort. of sprinting.

in the course

and his main business interests 3,000 miles away in New York.

that it is unfortunate that some of thetar freedom and Joint THE GAMBOLS S

one stuck those hurdles in his way, was clever enough to de- vise a way of making light of the obstacles,

BAMBOO TIP

mobility.

Is exercises act in the same way as a ballet dancer acquires

and range of move-} freedom ment.

But that does not mean that is actually much, more dim-

my early ballet training helped than the me cult for the men

in ny

Ballet hurdling. women because they have to go dancer feet should point out and the 3ft. Gin. high, toes of the hurdler over obstacles whereas war hurdles are a foot at 11 and one o'clock. But the Hower.

Sprinter must paint straight blend.

Bul

we must both nini to do the nine think. Sprint through

the hurdles, not jump them. That is why you see brillant hurdler ke Donald Finlay skimming the top of the hurdle and dipping his body well forward as he goes over,

+

If you want to start hurdling, use bamboo canes as obstacles

first, Jaising the height gradually according to the pro- Cress you make

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Your coach should get you to eprint along the grass, track, or Rym floer. Midway between thei ninth and tenth strides he will lay one of the bamboos.

Race over this at sprinting speed, Arut with the bamboo on the ground, then with it rained by stages of three inches.

It has always been my opinion that women should be barred from inter- national competitive sport. Indeed, a lot of them don't seem equipped even to run their own athletic affairs satisfactorily. It is not their fault. Nature made them that way.

Take, for example, Miss Nancy Chaffee, America's latest tennis glamour gal.

For a woman, she has Miss Chaffee hits the ball with masculine power.

In three years, if one of the finest and fastest forehands I have ever seen. she sticks the big tournament circus, she should be the Champion.

of Mrs Ruth Taylor, cigarette or two in the even But I would much rather see | port

Women's team manager. ing. the beautiful and bronzed Miss the

"Wrong again. Constantly in "not amenable

When the bamboo has been Chaffee, or "Gorgeous Gussle" they were

neither drinks nor raised go high that is Imposs- Moran for that matter, decoral-discipline" during their trip to training. ing a ballroom or garden partem for the Empire Games.

with the British smokes. But in the tropics on ble to go over it without inter- their way to New Zealand they fering with the sprint rhythm, and not-as I saw them Queen's Club-gritting their Well, in the interests of fair did, on three occasions, take you introduce the real hurdling teeth

their play, here is one writer willinglong, cooling drink with a slight movement and straling and

to Ko on record with some alcoholte base. muscles trying to ape m11671

mighty, facts even if the mysterious and secretive WAAA At is not!

the sports arena.

in

DOESN'T SUIT THEM Some girl tennis players and swimmers make a graceful anti: charming picture.

New Zealand

CURFEW OBEYED Sylvia and Doris childhood

to the went Best Intense friends,

school, captained sports competition doesn't suit Middlesex

their respective hotises at

But I maintain

women.

same

you are taught

What

these occasions? Werc the ship's dances on Christmas Day

and

New Year's Eve and again at the farewell party.

YOU'LL

31 my opinion, the WAAA this hash of made a ave stupid all-feminine wrangle.

Inded- -they have stirred up

Women should play games for games, while Sylvia was head such a rumpus that it looks as

When prefeet over 600 other pupils. relaxation and exercise.

2 the men will now have to Both left without o blemish they go into battle with tighten-

step in and take over in order) ed lips and wrinkle-producing on their characters.

What frowns

happened then on board to clear up the mess. of concentration, the tigress seems to come out in ship to New Zealand? them. They just don't look an authoritative source right!

THIC

From BRADMAN'S FAREWELL I learn Very early in Sir Donald

INTENSIVE TRAINING

him

0

that the

iris invariably | Bradman's Iwa

cricket career "In a crowd." went around The truth

"You can't make is that, whatever

friend said: do. They had escorts but always people love you-but you can women do in sport, better-lacluding Losing grace-kept to the same small group make them respect you."

They rigidly obeyed the 10.30

In his "Farewell to Cricket" fully. fully

and religiously carried (Helder and Stoughton, 12/6), But whalever

Gre my per- curfew

Bradman expresses the belief sonal views on women in sport, out all their training schedules,

that he has made people respect there are two girl athletes who have been disgracefully treated. They are 21-years-old Sylvin

deserved Cheeseman, British 100 and 200

occasiona 20 times round the deck. From criticism metres champion, and

11 o.m. ta

noon she performed would be absurd. I have always Batter, 60 metres champlon.

ker

Arsi suppling, stretching, and beca DEATH WARRANT

and foremost human being and therefore Recently I said their suspen-strengthening exercises. sion by the

TRIBUTE TO HOBBS

enough, Naturally

In

Daris

Every morning from 7.30 to 8 But he conferres: "To suggest Sylvia jog-trotted for a mile-that

I

have not

mony

In the evening she did another, prone to error." Women's Amateur

Athletic Association was a case

death warrant

hour's Intensive training.

Mrn W. Hughes, secretary of

the WAAAL

his

Ballet lets me down there. I still sprawl coming down from the hurdles because, try as I may to correct it, I inke-off with my right foot pointing loc-out, in- stead of straight ahead.

--(London Express Service)

K.

AH WELL,

Barry Appleby

I'M AFRAID THERE'S NOTHING FOR IT BUT TO FACE UP TO PAYING THE BILLS OUT OF INCOME

CANNON

Carmela ter har father hear

the formé Casson rod kroeght

Kim Dach to Castri del Falco

INVESTED WISELY

His home now is three two- bedroom flats in a large block at Santa

he Monica, which and which he shares with a brother Joe and their unmarried Custer Els

daughters by his third mar- riage, Joan

Hannah, aged 15, and Barbara Judith aged and their governess,

his

the ring with: Louis. He caught Joc "before he was ready." Otherwise he would not have had a chance;

Jack Sharkey came closer 10 knocking him (Dempsey) out than ever Firpo did;

Doxing now is in a deplorable sinte. The men are lazy. They want to bo champions. But they won't put in the work it' calls for,

"WENT SOFT"""

The fight that brings Demp- sey the most questions was his memorable encounter almost 27: years ago, at New York Poto

with Grounds,

Luis Angel Firpo.

That night, at the peak of his power and fame, Dempsey was belted elenr out of the ring in Round One, pushed back by the

boxing reporters who hastily wrote their "flasher"- DEMPSEY KNOCKED OUT- but never hnd need to send them.

In 57 seconds of Round Two, Dempsey made one of boxing'o historic recoveries, and knocked Firpo out.

Now Dempsey admits: "After that ght I began to go soft I got vain and had my beat-up nose straightened out.

-(London Express Service}

Arthur Peall says: BILLIARD SHOTS CAN HELP YOUR SNOOKER LD billiard-players will and my long-range knooker is threo солт to copy. chiune catriz Famillarity with single boulk cannona

taught thom the angies and strength required for th

what.

13.

RED

Dempsey. who made more than $5,000,000 out of the ring, and invested wisely, admits that his current account today carries a balance of more than a million dollars. ▸

·For 60 many years has he been answering questions from boxing enthusiasts that he now hús fils replies thought out. Some of his opinions:

Gene

Tunney was a

better

boxer than Jpe Louis and could have beaten him:

Colours are on their spots and contact with red is quarter-bail. Btriko

White above centre and lot the cue run through.

It worth try- ing to make this something ta nothing shot by attempting to out end into the top right pocket. Bi the same time an L:0 snooker to played?

Here the state of the scoreboard must be the deciding factor.

My snooker pot (diagram_right) rather awkward, since few players like aiming into a

Docket.

blind

corner

Play at modemte pace, guarding against the in-off in the opposito was one of baulk pocket which mcan four

points pensity.

Max Schmeling the Iucklest men ever to enter

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Then it was announced that the WAAA, has been reported-summing-up of 22 years in big three other girls had been sum-n saying that Mrs Tyler, Mrs cricket, Bradman's praise goes

the Hall, and moned to appear before

Miss Desforges mainly to Australians, but he in their training WAAA-Mr Tyler, Mrs P. Hall, "pleased

pays a generous tribute to Jack and Miss Jean Desforges

throughout."

Hobbs. No mention of Miss Cheese- ilo was I predict that

the best equipped have virtually signed their own man and Miss Baller, But as batsman of all, in the technical the former was the only English sense-English or Australiin. I sprinter or hurdler to could dotect no flaw in attack or The arbitrary way in which girl her heats and reach

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Apart from his semi-final, surely she 100

grent

Jack's cricket have pleased in her demeanour was always an object Icsson." THREE DANCES

Of bowlers, he ranks Larwood might think, from all the fastest of all, and O'Reilly the fuss, that these single, un-sa the greatest he ever played Al the girls know is attached and typically English against.

Inethighet, rvei stirts both, enjoy, a cocktail or

(London Express Service),

they have suspended Sylvia survive Cheeseman and Doris Batter for the

a year without telling the two must "victims," their parents, or the training." public the exact nature of the alleged offerices, has aroused general indignation,

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