MYSTERY OF SKILL TO BE DISSIPATED.
SLOW-MOTION FILMS WILL SHOW MERITS AND DEMERITS •> OF SPORTSMEN. By Telegraph..— Press Assn.— Copyright. Aus. & XZ. Cable Association. (Received September 3. 9.2-5 a.m.) LONDON. September 2. Professor Pear, addressing the British Association, argued that in future the merits or demerits of a first-class sportsman would be decided by the exhibition of a slow-motion film of his per forma nee. Thus batsmen would not be ranked by runs made on incomparable wickets against incomparable foes. Bv slow films their performances would be simply compared. There .should no longer be any mysterv about their skill. In all sports, what was wanted was universal notation of movement in sport, just as there v. as universal notation in music.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17632, 3 September 1925, Page 6
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