TOO CARELESS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11985, 27 February 1932, Page 2

TOO CARELESS

CRAWFORD’S TROUBLE WILL NOT TRAIN. In accounting for the lapses of form of the Australian tennis champion, Jack Crawford, Dr. Martin, of the Institute of Industrial Psychology, went to Greek mythology to explain the phenomenon (says the Sydney “Sun”). “It is a matter of temperament. We go back to Homer -and read of Hector having great spurts of courage, and then an unaccountable lapse which resulted m his being chased through the streets, and killed ignominiously. The fact is that sometimes we feel good and sometimeswe don’t,” said Dr. Martin.

This is how Mir M. Henry Marsh sums up:

“Jack Crawford is a tennis enigma. He will play a superlative game to-day, and descend to a mediocre level to-morrow. There has never been so disappointing a player in big tennis. It is generally considered that his failures are due mainly to the fact that he does not train seriously. In fact, lie does not recognise that he owes it to Australia and the game to make good. ‘ ‘CVawiord is easy going and careless. If out of touch, he seems to wish to impress his unfitness on the spectators rather than to set his teeth and make the best of whatever disability he is suffering from. & PERFECT TIMING. “He seldom wins six love if six three or six four will do. Pa it of his lapse may he due to the fact that his game depends on perfect timing. He takes the irsiiig ball, the half-volley—every stroke as if comes to him. Usually a man goes back or comes forward to get at the return in an orthodox and easy wiiy. “Then, again, he has bronchial troubles occasionally, and these may alfect him more than we realise. Be that as it may, Crawford is a great disappointment.” if Crawford would train seriousiy and pay strict attention to his diet, there would he no reason why he should not win the world’s (ii ail ijll °]i ship, “ said J. Clemenger there was no doubt that Crawford was a tennis genius, but he Mas eariying at leeist a stone toomuch weight. No matter how brilliant a player might be, he could not carry that excess of weight and keep his form.