An Athletics Compendium

E 248 -252 Trainingfor Beginners <&Juniors 248 Gymnastics for youth, or, A practical guide to healthful and amusing exercises for the usescohfools: an essay towards the necessary improvement of education, chiefly as it relates to the bod/yJ. C. F. Gutsmuths, freely translated fromthe German by C. G. Salzmann. London: J.Johnson, 1800. xvi, 433p; illus Authorship wrongly attributed tothe translator onthe title page;translation of:Gymnastik fur dieJugend. 1793 BL: 07905.h.21 A most significant and influential book which determined many of the ideas on which English gymnastics was based. It has much material on running, jumpingand throwing,and is illustrated with copper engravings. 249 An elementary course of gymnastic exercises intended to develope and improve thpheysical powers ofman / Peter Heinrich Clias. London: Sherwood, Jones, 1823. xx, 1lip; illus BL:785.h.l3 Clias, fromSwitzerland, was paioneer of gymnastics who taught Ein gland. He claimed that phuipsils had run 'a mile in four minutes, and afterwards in less'. ^ Subsequent ed. E250 250 An elementary course of gymnastic exercises with the report made to thMe edical Faculty of Paris on the subject, and a new and complete treatise on the art of swimming / Peter Heinrich Clias. 4th ed. London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1825. xviii, 184p; illus 2nd and 3rd eds. untraced BL: 1570/5556 ^ Previous ed. E249 251 The road to manhood/ William Beach Thomas. London: George Allen, 1904. xi, 224p; illus (The Young England library) BL: 012202.aa.3/6 Published in the YoungEngland Library series asa book for boys, this contains much of interest to historians, such as the reason why the shot and hammer became established in the athletics programme on the insistence of a Scottish professional living in Oxford, and Q. S. Robertson's account of the discus used in the 1396 Olympicsas a 'sort ogf irdle-cake of wood, with a brass core, and bound with iron'. The chapter oanthletics runs to 27 pages and other references occur throughout. 252 Running, jumping and throwing: athletfiocrs boys and girls! / written and illustrated Fbraynk Sharpley. London: Nicholas Kaye, 1951. 64p; illus BL: 7920.f.34 A book for beginners, written primarily for boys and girls of school age. Theauthor was a Loughborough student who emigrated and became coach to the New Zealand Empire Games team. [ 1 1 4 ]