An Athletics Compendium

B 1 0 4 - 1 1 4 biographies & Autobiographies Jones, hachlan 104 Walk a crookedmile / Gregjones. London: New Holland, 2000. 320p; pbk ISBN: 1-86436-640-0 Lachlan Jones, an athlete handicapped by limited vision and cerebral palsy, rose to the top rank of wheelchair racing. Tolbdy his father. ]ones, \jen 105 Age is no distance. Bognor Regis: Felpham, 1988. 105p; illus; pbk ISBN: 1 -870690-7 The story of vaeteran marathon runner. Keiljy Arthur 106 Marathon winner / Arthur Keily. Derby: The author, 1984. 187p; illus; pbk forewords by Ron Hill, GeorgeEdwards & RonDalton BL: X.629/24287 Keily offers some general advoicnetraining anddiet, as well as some trenchant views on BAAB administrators and selectors. Kiely, Tom 107 Tom Kiely: 'for Tipperary aInredland' / Bob Withers, research andtext; Patrick Holland, editor. Clonmel: Tipperary S.R. County Museum, 1997. 44p; illus; pbk The Olympic AllRound champion of 1904, Kiely also won five AAA titles tinhe hammer. Killanin 108 My Olympic years. London: Seeker & Warburg, 1983. xvii, 238p; illus; index ISBN: 0-436-23340-1 BL:X.622/16454 Michael Morris. Lord KJIIanin, was elected to succeed Avery Brundage as IOCPresideint1972 and heldthe post foreight years.He opens hisaccount with the closure of the 196>0 Olympic Games in Moscow, pointedly remarking that theraere sound practical and moral reasons 'for dissuading politicians from using sport as a means to an end'. Killanin concludes by examining the majorissues surroundingthe 1950 Games, including his concerted attempts to prevents mass U5-ledboycott. 'it wasironic that wheBn ritain was winning Olympic medals in1924, their troopwsere trying to put down the rebels in Afghanistan and on the North-West frontier.' The author considers, in retrospect, that the IOC should have carried out an inquiry after1950, and ofis the opinion that some members should have been expelled. Lavan, SeanThomas 109 Sean Thomas Lavan, 1898-1973: teacher, surgeon, footballer, Olympic athlete. Kiltimagh: Kiltimagh Historical Society, 1996. 23p; illus Lavan, a 400m/SC , 0smpecialist, competefodr Ireland in the 1924 Olympics. l^evy, E. Tamence 110 The autobiography of an athle/te E. Lawrence Levy. Birmingham: Hammond, 1913? xii, 270p; illus; index BL: X.629/14601 Levy, editor of TheAthlete and aAnAA official, was a famous weightlifter. Hboisok contains ainlluminating account of threivalry between Birchfield Harriers and Moseley Harriers. Thereare alsodescriptions tohf e Olympic Games of 1596 and 1905. Lewis, Carl 111 Inside track: my professional life in amateur tracnkd field / Carl Lewis with Jeffrey Marx. London: Pelham, 1990. 240p; illus; index ISBN: 0-7207-1957-7 BL: YK.1991.b.l571 The autobiography tohf e greatest sprinter-jumper of modern times provides a vpiviicdture of the life ofne of the last great shamateurs. Uddell, Eric 112 Eric Liddell: the making of atnhlete and thetraining of a missionary / D. P. Thomson. Glasgow: Eric Liddell Memorial Committee, 1945. 40p; illus; pbk BL: 10857.a.l5 An account otfhe lifeof the 1924 Olympic Champion for 400m, based mainly on his own writing and on press reports. Liddell spent twenty years as a missionary in China, the land of his birth, before his death from barain tumour in a Japanese priscoanmp in 1945. 113 Scotland's greatest athlete: the ELridcdell story / DP.. Thomson. Crieff: Research Unit, 1970. 240p; pbk Forewordby Sir Arthur EP. orritt ISBN: 0-900867-04-3 BL: X.708/6923 The author became acquaintedwith his subject when they were both students in1923. This fulleraccount of his life devotes particular attention to the twenty years ohf is missionary worikn China. 114 Eric H. Liddell, athlete anmdissionary / D. P. Thomson. Crieff: Research Unit, 1971. xxx, 230p; illus; index Bibliography:pxiii-xiv ISBN: 0-900867-07-8 BL: X.200/4812 [ 52 ]