HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-04-03, Page 7Why Australia
Wins In Sport
Within a month, two Austra.
fans, Herb Elliott and Mery
Lincoln, have each broken the
four -minute mile eight Austra-
lian swimmers have broken
world records, and countryman
Lew Head has been breaking
Pancho Gonzales's grip on the
pro tennis, championship. Here
J im Russell, an Australian news-
man for 25 years, analyzes this
phenomenon for NEWSWEEK.
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It was a foregone conclusion.
that the Soviet Union and the
United States would dominate
the 1956 Olympic Gaines at Mel-
bourne, but in finishing third,
Australia .snored a moral victory
en a statistical basis, in the eyes
of local rooters. Russia won 4,9
medals for every 10 million peo-
ple in its population; the U.S.
won 4.6 for each 10 million,
Australia, with a population of
L5 million (far less than New
York State's 15 million), won 35
individual medals. We were
clear winners by more than 7 to.
1, the way we put it.
Australia has won the Davis
Cup, symbol of world domin-
ance in tennis, seven times in
eight years, the latest triumph
being the work of Mervyn Rose,
28, Mal Anderson, 23, and Ash-
ley Cooper, only 21. Australia's
cricket team has just defeated
South Africa, Its professional
Rugby football team went
through last year's world round
robin without a loss. The coun-
try's swimmers and track stars
— many of them teen-agers —
have kept the record -book edi-
tors busy.
Tennis, swimming, and track
are the cheapest sports in Aus-
tralia, and the best organized.
A visit to a municipal swimming
pool costs sixpence; a weekend
of tennis with free balls costs
less than $1. It. is a common
sight on a Saturday morning to
see hundreds of boys and girls
leaving their homes for an hour
of mass coaching under local
tennis pros. The cost is 35 cents.
(The actual teaching is not
novel. Australian coaches have
merely adopted the Califonia
"big game,") Darkness does not
stop tennis in Australia; public
courts are equipped with flood-
light systems.
In the suburbs of Sydney,
thildren come on a court in
etches of 30 and practice strok-
ing. After an hour, another
roup is ready. From 8 a,m. till
noon, every hour on the hour,
there is a fresh squad. Junior
clubs are formed, and regular.
weekend competitions are orga-
nized. Before long the players
who show special promise are
selected for interdistrict teams.
The standouts here are chosen
for more advanced coaching by
tate tennis associations. The
best of these are then sent
*round the country with a man-
ner and all expenses paid.
When the sifting process has
evolved further, the outstand-
ing players are finally chosen for
state teams and play against the
best from other. states.
Out of the rigors of this com-
petition come stars like Ken
Rosewall, Lew Hoad, and Mal
.Anderson. Each is put under a
permanent manager -coach, such
as Harry Hopman, and sent
around the world at the ex-
pense of the Lawn Tennis Asso-
ciation of Australia, Australian
amateurs, unlike those in the
U.S., are permitted to work for
tennis -equipment companies, but
what makes the whole early
program. possible is the tremen-
dous national enthusiasm for
tennis.
This pattern of organization
and coaching extends into swim-
ming.
wimming. "My kids," says Frahk
Guthrie, one of Australia's best
swimming coaches, "come from
as far as 10 miles away twice a
day. They work out from 6 a.m.
to 8 a.m., then return a second.
time between 3 and 5 in the af-
ternoon. Sometimes you see a
world -record holder like Brian
Wilkinson (butterfly) thrashing
his way through a hundred
kids."
Australian coaches modify the
.American swimming technique
by teaching bigger, longer, slow-
er strokes. "Our leg work,"
Guthrie says, "is much smaller
than that of the Americans, so
eur swimmers are not as leg -
hound."
Sam Herford, who developed
Murray Rose, the Olympic 400-
meter and 1,500 -meter champion,
expresses technique in terms of
percentages. "Our style is made
up of 80 per cent arm action
and 20 per cent leg work. With
the Americans, it's about 05 per
cent arms."
In track, Australian national
willingness to travel has had a
great deal to do with the suc-
cess of• Herb Elliott, the only
teenager ever to break the four-
minute mile. Elliott; a star
sprinter in school in Western
Australia, moved to 'Victoria in
the east so that he could join
Ctraining camp run by Percy
erutty, 63.
Nineteen years old, Elliott;
Than a smile in 3:59.9. in January.
e next week, he won by 2
yards in 3.58.'7 against Mery Lin-
goln (3:59), the prize pupil of
Franz Stamptl, the Hungarian
TV PATRON SAINT — This port-
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bue, is of St. Clare of Assisi.
St. Clare was named the patron
saint of television by Pope Pius
XII. According to tradition, in
1252 the saint "watched" a
mass being celebrated in a
church several miles from her
sick bed, qualifying her as
mediatrix for all persons con-
nected with the industry, ac-
cording to the Roman Catholic
Church.
track coach brought to Aus-
tralia by the Victorian Athletic
Association, A day later, Cerut-
ty put Elliott through a session
of weight -lifting, followed by a
barefoot run over a sandy, un-
dulating training track. Then
Elliott returned to camp and,
with two companions, packed
haversacks for a 30 -mile hike.
The meal he took, atypical of
Australia, incicded nuts, raisins,
cabbage leaves, bread, and a
pint of milk. Neither Cerutty
nor his proteges; willing to try
anything once, find the diet or
the training routine strange.
"Down here," Cerutty says,
"you get beauty. Beauty of your
soul that can give you strength.
You will not get that on a cinder
track, with the noise of the city
in your ears and petrol fumes
filling your nose."
The answer is not, of course,
in one man like Cerutty. It lies
amid the roots of a vigorous
young nation, which has em-
braced sports nationally — not
with the idea of mass enjoyment
so much as with the idea of
winning.
If Americans consider them-
selves intensely oompetitve, as
they properly do, perhaps the
current difference lies in the
tender age level at which highly
Organized techniques first set
that intensity in motion in Aus- '
tralia.
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are those that are hardy like
lettuce, radish, the first potatoes,,
carrots, beets, cabbage, peas and
such things. These can be plant
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of potatoes, beans, corn and so
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At ' the end are the really ten-
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of his vegetables in the order
mentioned. These directions are
only for the first of each group.
In order to spread out the gar-
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tables, it is vidtal to spread out
the seeding dates.
Something Will Grow
There is a lot more interest and
satisfaction in gardening 11 one
plans to make plants fit. No two
vegetables, flowers of shrubs are
exactly the same. There are, of
course, the familiar differences
in height or colour or season.
But there are just as definite dif-
ferences that are not nearly so
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Some plants, for example, pre-
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quite a few indeed actually like
a fair amount of shade at least
for part of the day. There are
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rich, some poorer, some heavy
and some light. 'If we want to
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then we should cater to these
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For steep slopes, preferably
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These are listed under the gen-
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on. These are just the right sort
for planting on the north side of
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At the opposite end of the scale
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sun, things like poppies, nastur-
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particular about soil or moisture
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