ATHLETICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16267, 6 November 1920, Page 12

ATHLETICS.

ODDS AND ENDS OF SPORT. I’m game to bet that nowhere in the world that * i Var ' e f y 0i Eport ' be Beeu as that which takes place weekly on tb 0 square Pnrl 0 / 80 ! o£ ,°P. en space surrounding Moore (S / d " y » ) - i' mtes 4 "Bulletin" correspondept. A few Saturdays ago,' at the Agricultural Sports and. Cricket Grounds, thousands of ban-ackers were watchim- " bis " nrntw * ™ rou “ «»all matches were in Progress on the outer"; several early cricketers were haying a practice swipe; a hockey team (girls) and a baaksf-ball ditto h S °M girs) ' Tr , hard at it near-by; on the Municipal links golfers were trudging about; a score of harriers iu shorts were sweating earnestly in a walking race'; along * ha!f , a doze! i baseball matches were raging draped across the railings of the park lake were hundreds of onlookers intent upon the Model l.acht Club’s miniature regatta; the sky was speckled with ’planes out to meet Parer and MTntosh; at Kenso a P9 was i u dgiug the quick and the dead; it s odds cm that the pupils of numerous two-np schools were studying audV n „ thß 80 d ode back o’ the sandlifllsf and t am_ passengers returning from the citv were ?i> b e s.eged with ' " Who won the boat! ' ' V ’ Duke Kahanamoku is an ideal athlete in appearance and a consistent performer in Hobart Edgren in the mi,Lw .? ve h>«S World"). "Like many other Hawanans, ho clearly shows breeding His head is very well shaped, his hair thick and black-I noticed that he rubbed grease into it well after hjs Olympic try-out races in salt water. His features are regular, his forehead high, ears perfectly shaped, eyes well shaped, open, quick, and intelligent ],is nose straight, .and his mouth strong ’ nn( j expressive. His hands are, rather small and his fingers long, slender and well shaped d His feet arebbitg t broad, and shaped like paddles—an inheritance from many centuries of sea-swimming ancestors. His toes are broad and long. One could almost imagine that a few more generations of swimming champions in tho Kahanamoku Hue of descenl would develop web feet. I never saw a man with a finer torso. His shoulders are wide and well muscled. His body tapers neatlv o the small waist, with tho perfect muscle lines so often shown in statues of Greek athletes. His logs above the. knees are thick and perfectly round, the muscles not staid! ing out m relief, nml no ridges of muscle showing. His knees are exactly in don to the thighs and the well-shaped ca]f neither too light nor too heavy i ’ like his powerful arms, make J a perfect drivmg machine for his swimming stroke TKn r* however is that of the Duke s pectoral muscles the breast muscles that pull the amis down „ tjiey are pulled down in a swimming, atrokThese muscles stand out in high relief Th« abfut th«e S the thickness of the pectoral muscles of the aveiage trained athlete. It i 3 somethin® like the very unusual development of the' breast muscles of a duck or a quail-], eav® but fast-flying birds It is hard to beat a man like ihe Hawaiian, bred from generalions of swimming ancestors, and living al mqst as much in as on dry land,” -When Nicholson, the*designer of Shamrock IV., arrived in England (says a cable message to an American paper), he placed the super*? seamanship of the Resolute’s cantain and faHure & T e tb ea k nS i failure to lift the America s Cup. Membws of the Shamrock's crew whs have turned to England resent the slur . which hey consider Nicholson has thrown upon heir efficiency as yachtsmen and declare that the. Shamrock s riaulty handling was largely duo to the intenerenco of Nicholson. Arthur of . ll,e . said in an interview with th e Associated Press correspondent t was a, case of too many cooks and he pointed to the fact that on the only occasion S"Sic?i£ n s e,S"w;r . ■ At Paris, on September. 5, Kahanamuko was^ credited .with winning a 100 metres race iiv iiutn, which Is a. world's record being Wmo hstter thaa his pwloui best,