An Athletics Compendium

Biographies <&Autobiographies B 154 - 163 Kand,Mary 154 Mary Mary (anautobiography) / MaRryand; foreword by Ron Pickering. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969. 158p; illus ISBN; 0-340-10527-5 BL: X.449/4011 The autobiography tohfe first Britiwshoman athlete to winan Olympictitle in track anfideld (long jump at Tokyo on 14 October 1964, with a world record of 6.76m). RichardsB, ob 155 The heart of cahampion / Bob RichardLso. ndon: Peter Davies, 1962. 137p; illus BL: X.449/880 An analysis oifnspiration in athletics bthye famous Vaulting Vicar', Olympicpole vault championin1952. KiefenstahlL, eni 156 The sieveof time: the memoirs oLfeni Riefenstahl. London: Quartet, 1992. 669p; illus; index Trans/ationof:Memoiren ISBN: 0-7043-7021-2 BL: YC.1992.b.4231 Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl (born 1902) commenced work on these memoirs at the age of eighty and completedthem five years later. Her 1936 film Olympia is unquestionably the greatest of all sports documentary films and The Sieve of Time includes a detailed account of its making. 157 A portrait of Leni Riefenstah/l Audrey Salkeld. London: Cape, 1996. viii, 256p; illus Bibliographyp:297-302; ftlmoeraphyp: 303-304 ISBN; 0-224-02480-9 BL: YC.1996.b.5056 The making of Olympia is covered and Salkeld discusses thaettempts made by scholars such as Graham andInfield to unravel conflicting evidence. The editing of the filmand the effortsby Riefenstahl to recover the material after 1945 are discussed. Subsequent events surrounding the screeningof the film are mentioned. Roy Fowler, Chairman of the History Projectof BECTU, suggests than ananalogy can be made between Riefenstahl and the great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. Kom, Arthur 158 Champion in revol/t Arthur Rowe. London: Stanley Paul, 1963. 160p; illus BL: 10712.e.27 A characteristically forthright autobiography from the British, Commonwealthand European shot putt champion. Rye, Walter 159 An autobiography of an ancient athlete and antiquary / Walter Rye. Norwich: Privately printed, 1916. v, 226p; illus BL: 010855.b.5 Rye's work is in diary-form. He was one of the most famous of early athletes, a founder member of the AAA and secretary of London AC. Rye gives a good account of athletics in the 18>60s, including much detail about Mincing Lane AC and London AC and about the AACAv.AA controversy. 'The AAC... wasbeing mismanaged by J. <3.Chambers of Cambridge.... He wasstrangecharacter who tried to combine aristocratic sport with running the "Amateur Athletic Club"for his own benefit at Lillie Bridge, and a littlsehop for thesale of "Welsh produce" in Arthur Street, Chelsineaw, hich his trainer, Harry Andrews, acted as his salesman and manager. His best athletic performance to my mind was running second to his great friend "Friday" Thornton (afterwards MfoPr Battersea) in a West London RC half-mile handicap.' Containsa bibliography of Rye's works. 160 The recreations ofNaorfolk antiquary/ Walter Rye. Holt, Rounce & Wortley, 1920. BL:W.P.6089 Includes extracts from an unpublished novel. The Cromer Steeplechase by the pioneering athlete and journalist. 161 Walter Rye, 1843-1929/ Peter Rye. Dereham: Larks, 1996. 13p; coat of arms; pbk (Pocket biographies; 10) Cover title:Walter Rye,athleteand antiquary ISBN: 0-948400-42-0 BL:YK. 1996.a.l9791 Kyun, Jim 162 The Jim Ryun stor/y Cordner Nelson; photos by Rich Clarkson. London: Pelham, 1968. 272p; illus BL: X.449/2957 A profusely illustratedinterim accountof the career of the mostprecocious miler in history, writtenwhen he was stillnot twenty years of age. Samaranch, Juan Antonio 163 Olympic revolution: the biography of Juan Antonio Samaranch / DaviMd iller. London: Pavilion, 1992. 266p; illus; index Forewordby KingJuan CarlosI of Spain ISBN: 1-85145-768-2 BL: YC.1993.b.8764 A surprisingly uncritical biography ofthe seventhIOC President. The work contains many athletics references. ^ Subsequent ed. B164 [ 57 J