An Athletics Compendium

.L 261 - 271 261 Friendship's offering; a literary album. London: 1829. BL: P.P.6605 Includes 'Theminstrel boy' in which James Hogg(the Ettrick Shepherd), founder of the 5t Ronan's Border Games, recalls performing'thaet leap, the raocrethe throw'. 262 Athletic sports/ Joseph Mason and John FrasIenr:. Prize papers written on various subjefocrts the Boy's Own Magazine. London: S. O. Beeton, 1864. BL; 12273.d.5 Contains two poems, both entitled 'Athletic sports' (pp127-153). 263 The poetry of sport / selected and edited byH. Peek, with a chapter onclassical allusions to sport by Andrew Lang, and a special prefacteo the Badminton Library by A. E. T.Watson; illustrated by A. Thorburn, L. Davis, C. E. Brock. London; Longmans, Green, 1896. xl, 484p; illus (The Badminton Library of Spoarntsd Pastimes. 1885) BL: 2270.cc.21 Andrew Lang's essay on classical sport has some references to ancient athletics, and there are extracts from Spenser and Thomas Randolph. 264 Sports andpastimes in English literature / compiled and edited byL. S. Wood andH. L. Burrows. London; Nelson, 1925. 256p (Teaching of English; no. 61) BL: 012207.aa.l/44 The following poems on athletic subjects are included: 'Athletic od(e('5. Santayana),'The athlete'and 'Before the race' (E. C. Lefroy) and 'The song of the ungirt runners' (C. H. Sorley). 265 Anthology of sporting verse / selected, with a preface, by E. B. Osborn. London; Col1li9n3s,0. 288p BL; 11601.k.30 Osborn's introduction has a reference to hammer- throwing (casting tohfe sledge) tihne drama of John Ford (1629). Thepoetry includesSir Theodore Cook's 'The Olympic spirit', awarded the silver medal for literature at the1920 Olympics; and references to athletics by Edmund Spenser in 'Astrophel' (1595) and 'Mother Hubberds tale' (1613). 266 The annals of ThamesHare andHounds 1868 to 1945 / compiled by James Ryan; with. The present generation 1946 to 1968 by IaHn . Fraser; foreword by J. G. Broadbent. London: The Club, 1968. xiv, 198p; illus BL: X.449/3579 An appendix includes club verses: 'TheThames Hare and Hounds at Roehampton 167T by Walter Rye; 'The Nightmare' by White and Brown (P. J. Burt?); 'Winchester House, 12th February, 18>8>7 by Little Peter (A. ES. tenning); and, 'K-ensit's team v. Askew's team 1943' by E. P. Askew. ^ Also listed at: A267 Poetiy 267 The Penguin book of South Africvaenrse / compiled and introduced by Jack Cope aUnyds Krige. London: Penguin, 1968. 331p; pbk Includes 'The comrades' marathon' by Chris Mann. 268 Forty years on; an anthology socfhool songs / compiled by Gavin Ewart. London; Sidgwick & Jackson, 1969. 254p; illus SBN: 283-98069-9 BL: X.439/1710 Includes 'Downthe HaileyLane', recollecting hare and hounds running, by (5. H. Sunderland Lewis (Haileybury); 'Down the hill' by E. EB.owen (Harrow), on cross-country; and, 'Sweats' by Cyril Norwood (Marlborough), on cross-country training ru s. 269 The Greekanthology and other ancient Greek epigrams: a selection in modern verstreanslations, edited with an introduction by Peter Jay. London; Allen Lane, 1973. 447p; illus, maps; index ISBN: 0-7139-0344-9 BL; X.989/25669 Includes two short poems by Luciiius translated by Peter Porter. 'A recent earthquake (on sprinting) and 'Marcus in thaermed Hoplites race'; and 'Dedication of a torch' bKyxinogoras, translated Abliystair Elliott. 270 The Oxford book Aofmerican light verse / chosen and edited by WilliamHarmon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. 1, 540p; index ISBN: 0-19-502509-1 BL: X.989/54135 Includes 'A mighty runner' Nbyicarchus. translated by Edwin Arlington Pobinson. 271 The poetryof motion: an anthology of sporting verse / edited by AlanBold. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1986? 20Ip; index ISBN: 0-906391-70-9 BL: YC.1987.a.2801 Includes 'Therunner' by Walt Whitman; 'Elegyon the death of James Fleming' by James Kennedy; 'To an athlete dyinygoung' by A. E. Housman; 'Thehundred yards race' by J. K.Stephen; 'Isaw a man pursuing the horizon' by Stephen Cran'Seo; ng of the Ungirt runners' by Charles Hamilton Sorley; 'Highland Games' by Norman McCaig; 'School sports, at the turnstiles' by lain Crichton Smith;'High jump poem' and 'Longjump poem' by Stephen Morris; 'Fanny Blankers-Koen at Wembley' by Jeff Cloves; 'The smiler withthe knife'by Bill Costley; 'Punning sequence' by Susan Wilkins; 'Punners' and'In ten seconds' bDy ouglas Dunn; and 'The high jump' (anonymous). [ 176 ]