THE SPORTING WORLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 5

THE SPORTING WORLD

Tour ol’ New Zealand Providing confirmation is received, the Indian hockey team will arrive at Wellington on 11th May. and sail on 26th July from Auckland. The team, which is under the captaincy of Nawab of Manav -dar. will play three tests. They will be played at Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Films for Instruction The purchase of a projection machine was decided upon recently by the council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, which is making the progressive step of utilising films for teaching and coaching in swimming. Films of leading swimmers in action have been screened at recent meetings of the council. Famous Cricketer Retires Many noted English cricketers have retired recently, and to the nst has now to be added the name of Lord Tennyson. better known to cricketers as the Hon. Lionel Tennyson. Lord Tennyson has had a remarkable and a stirring cricket career and has played the game in many countries. Educated at Eton and Cambridge he did not gain his blue at the university, but he created a sensation with his batting in his early days in the Hampshire County team, of which he was captain for many years. He played in only one series of Tests against Australia. He was the captain who. in a threeday Test which had become a two-day one on account of rain, closed England's innings when the time had passed for him to do so. and brought about the

“incident” that has been talked about ever since it occurred in 1921, and which resulted, when England was forc'd to continue batting, in Warw : r.k Armstrong bowling the first over after he had bowled the last before the interruption. His has indeed been a colourful career. He has announced that he will retire after his return from South Africa, where he is captaining an English team. BlllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllM

Matthews’ Advice for Training Here is a schedule that should be I kept for future reference:— C. H. Matthews, winner of the three miles and six miles events at the recent British Empire Games in Sydney, has received requests from various athletic organisations both in New Zealand and Australia for- some information concerning his methods of training for distance races. He has prepared a three months’ schedule on the following lines, but subject to revision, and even extension, to meet individual needs. “After the winter months, in which the athlete should have kept fit by hill tramping and suitable physical exercises, as well as by any sporting recreation to which he feels inclined, serious track training should begin in New Zealand by the beginning of October,” advises Matthews. “For the first month, train four nights a week, as well as on Saturday afternoons. Confine the work to slow jogj ging over a distance of three or four ; miles. • This should extend over three ' or four weeks in October. “Second Month. —Train three nights j only in November, Tuesday, Wednesday I and Thursday, and race in club or in- ! ter-club events on Saturday afternoons. On the three nights mentioned do jogging work, but cut it down to about j two miles. In the same month get on ! to faster work, striding at half to threej quarter pace. In other words, jog over i two miles for warming-up purposes, and then stride for six or eight taps. This builds up stamina. Final Month.—ln December develop the training work, with the aim of adding speed to stamina. The jogging j is cut down to four or six laps of an evening, and short striding is included : for speed, such as over 300 yards, 600 ! yfcrds, three-quarters of a mile, and a mile, but never run at over seveneighth pace. Do not go flat out in any training work. “At the end of the three months of training the athlete should be near his peak. After that, for a week before any big meeting, he should do very little, except light jogging and easy striding for two nights early in the : week.” Following hints given him by Jack Lovelock in England. Matthews urges 1 that the jogging, especially that over the first two months, should all be done I* n sandshoes, and only the striding and 1 fast work in running shoes. The long, steady work is for the purpose of gaini ing stamina, and the short work is to gain speed. Stamina, combined with speed, spells success in distance racing [ Right through the whole season there ! should be regular hours, regular sleep, regular training and regular meals. All last winter, after his lack of suc- . cess at the Olympic Games in Berlin. Matthews set himself resolutely to get 1 thoroughly fit He overcame the stiffness that had affected his leg muscles in Berlin mainly by means of hill tramping. Frequently he covered from 20 to 25 miles during a week-end. and as a result he was in great physical form when the regular training season started. “I remembered the advice given by Lovelock in splitting up training work on the lines I have mentioned in the schedule It put me on the road to success at the Empire Games. Last year was the first time I have put such methods into operation. I may mention i that after the Empire Games trials in New Zealand I did a lot of mile racing in order to find form for the three miles. M.v best time for the mile is 4m in 17sec.” The schedule outlined is for athletes j in open competition. It does not apply to sprint athletes, except as regards the month at the start.

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Miss Norman for Canada Canada has agreed to meet the expenses of a woman manager for Miss I Decima Norman, winner of three Empire Games titles, for her proposed visit to Canada in August for the Canadian World Fair Sports. It is un- I derstood that Miss Norman will not make the trip unless accompanied by her trainer and mentor, Frank Preston. Indoor Mile Record Recently. Glen Cunningham. America's amazing middle distance runner, ran the fastest mile in history. On an indoor track at Darmouth University. Hanover (New Hampshire), he covered the distance in 4min 4 2-sscc. Cunning- , ham's time bettered by two seconds the • record established in 1937 by Stanley j Woodorson (England^ Wooderson’s record has been approv- j ed by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. The American held ! the record in 1934 with a run of 4min : 6 7-10 sec ; Effect of Broadcasting: A paragraph in the annual report ol the Canterbury Rugby Union says; “A very marked effect on the returns from representative matches last season, as compared with other years, resulted from the broadcasting of matches against the South Africans in other centres. For instance, it will be noticed that our match against South Canterbury. which was played earlier than usual, on the day of the third test (at Auckland), showed a loss of £59, while the match against Otago on the day of the first test (at Wellington)returned a surplus of only £BB ” On the other hand, a comparatively minor match against North Otago early in the season returned the Canterbury Union a profit of £126. Wellington Begins i The Wellington boxing season will j open on 7th April, when J. Jarvis, pre- ! sent Dominion lightweight champion. ! will meet that rugged Australian. J. ; Sharpe. Both men are already in good fighting trim and Jarvis, particularly, j hopes to put a punch into New Zealand boxing this season, for he is going out of his class this week in an endeavour to lift the welter-weight title from Stan. Jenkins at Oamaru. Sharpe dropped a decision not so long ago to Jenkin. but as he filled a gap at the last moment when the original opponent could not take the ring, and under the circumstances had no time to put the finishing touches to his training, he fought very creditably. The Wellington Association expects much of the Jarvis-Sharpe bout for it realises that a good start may mean all the difference to the public reaction to boxing this year. Leo Kelly Back in Australia The coloured American light-heavy-weight boxer. Leo Kelly, is back again in Sydney. Kelly will be remembered for his great drawing power in Australia. where he always had full houses during the 1935 and 1936 season. To mention two of these —£3600 against Ambrose Palmer and £3089 against Max Rosenbloom. Once more the American should be a good drawing card. He j has again been matched against j Ambi’ose Palmer. The Australian has already had some good wirit, mainly | against Claude Nichol. Frank Rowsev. | and Tom Chester. The last occasion Palmer and ‘Deacon” Kelly met was j in April, 1936 .Kelly won on a tech- j nical knock-out, the referee stopping! the bout in the twelfth round. The in- j juries received by Palmer in that bout ! let to his temporary retirement from i boxing. He had previously beaten Kelly , on points. Palmer has made a great “come-back” this year and appears lo be as good as ever. Who Will Captain the English Team? ; When Walter Hamfnond at the end of j last season was reinstated as an 1 amateur it was naturally coincluded that the knight of English batsmen would be the next captain of England's XI. The latest news places Hammond ! definitely out of the running. Even if the captaincy were offered him, Hammond would not be prepared to accept it. Although an appointment cannot yet be made it is probable that G. O. B.

Allen will be invited to captain the English eleven in the Test matches against Australia. Allen has been officially sounded in regard to the position. It is hoped, too, that he will consent to take the team to South Africa on the next tour. G. 0.8. is now engaged on the Stock Exchange and this honour which has been paid him is a big inducement for him to return to

first-class cricket. There is also the question of his form. He played in only two or three first-class matches last season, and though he has shown considerable ability as a captain he might! not accept the position unless he could j justify himself as a fast bowler. R. ! W. V. Robins is the second choice for, the captaincy, but he is temperamental i and at the time of a crisis is liable to 1 get excited.