Experiment Successful As Keen Game Expected For Taker Wins Squash Game Sunday's Encounter London, Mar. 1.
The visit of the Islington Corinthians is creating a subject for conversation as the game between the amateur side and the representatives ct Shanghai draws near. The visitors are the most important side to visit Shanghai, numbering amongst the players, men who have represented their countries in amateur international games The Corinthians will be presented by the following players. according to information released by the S.F.A. (subject to last minute alterations a their discretion):—C. Longman, E. Martin, P. B. Clark; J. K. Wright W. Whitaker, L. Bradbury: H. C. Read, J. C. Braithwaite, R. Sherwood. R. P. Terrant, and J. W. Miller. The colours of the Corinthians are white shirts, navy shorts with white stripe at the side, and blue and white band stockings, Shanghai will in red shirts with white shorts, and will be pr sented by W. Ward: Collet, Marcal; Brown, Thomasson, Symons; Favacho, Cope, Roboostoff, Sousa and J. Ward.
The Shanghai defence looks good on paper; so did that of the Probables last week; and much will depend on the two wing men. Reports of games played in the Colony show that the Corinthians, when faced with speedy wingers, have had to fight hard for victory. The Selection Committee are also expecting quite a lot from Roboostoff, but if the inside men have to drop back and help ihe defence, he might not get so many chances as he did in the second half of the trial game. Whilst attack is always the best form of defence, the key men would appear to be the half backs, Thomasson will have to play a much deeper third back game than he did in the trial Attacking Pivot Whitaker, the Corinthians pivot, is not an attacking pivot; he is a "stopper" pivot, one who plays the third back game, with the wing half backs doing the purveying and foraging. The inside men, accordingly, will probably play some yards behind their colleagues, to pick up clearances from those behind and from The newly popular "fatigue-killing" drug, benzedrine, was, according to Donald Butcher, former squash professional and open champion of England, responsible for his success in a challenge match against another professional, Jack Aylott, who is nine years his junior, He took two of these tablets before the match, under the supervision of a medical friend, purely as an experiment The two men played 65 minutes squash, and Butcher won by üv games to two, He came off the court breathing easily, and said he had "never felt better."
Big as Football Describing his sensations afterwards, he said "The ball looked as big as a football and I felt more alert than usual My sense of anticipation was greater and legs and arms moved quickly in response, All through I had a sense of hilaration; a desire to go in and win, "I recently tried this drug, in practice and found no after-effects at all. I hope it will not come into common use but as an experiment it was most successful."
His opponent did not know that he had taken ihe drug until after the match, but he spoke highly of Butcher's play.—Reuter.
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