An Athletics Compendium

L 281 - 289 Essays & Reminiscences Sarqyan, William 281 Sam, thehighest jumper of them alol,r. The London comedy. London; Faber & Faber, 1961. 96p; illus BL: 11567.h.l7 A play, first produced in1960 at tTheheatre Royal, Stratford. Its main character is a jumper who eventually clears 7ft Sin (off-stage). Shirley, James 282 Hide Park, a comedie. London: 1637. BL: 644 .C .50 A play in five acts which features a foot-race in which the runners traverse the stage followed by their supporters calling bets and ultimately arguing and drawing swords. Toyne, Stanley Mease 283 The race: a play oMf arathon. Oxford: Shakespeare Head, 1934. viii, 67p BL: 011781.1.135 Essays Reminiscences • SingleAuthor Works Allen, Roland 284 All in the day's sport. London: Allen, 1946. vi, 186p BL: 7918.b.50 The author, Faleet Street journalist, meets C. 3. Fry at the1S56 FA Cup Final (ch.2'C5hampagne in thcear park'), recording some of the Corinthian's views and achievements. Allen's observations on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin are presented (ch.35 'The man who may not havebeen Hitler'). Angle, Bernard John 285 My sporting memories. London: R. Holden, 1925. 256p; illus; index BL: 07906.e.22 Angle was best known for his involvement in boxi g, but there are interestincghapters tohne BrightonRoad Walks and the Olympic Games. The illustrations include arare photo otfhe ultra-walker, WilliamGale. Cleaver, Hylton 286 Sporting rhapsody.London: Hutchinson's Library of Sports & Pastimes, 1951. 223p; illus BL: W.P.1156/22 A journalist on the Evening Standard, Cleaverwas assigned at shnoortice to covethr e 1956 Olympic Games, and offers some thoughts on their organisation. He discussthese role of thperofessional in sports coaching, referring to Geoff Dyson as a professor, since his primary role was to coach coaches, rather than athletes. 287 Before Iforget. London: Hale, 1961. 190p; illus BL: 10765.d.l0 In his final work. Cleaver reflects on the UKperformance at the 1952 Olympic Games and provides a nice vignette of EmiZl itopek: 'No runner has ever developed the spectacular to a greater degree thanhe; no man's personal success has sprung so surely from personality. No coach can possibly have tauZgahtotpek to runhis first lap as ifhe were exhausatelrdeady, yet the facthat he did, made lhaist lap looskuperb.' Cohhett, Martin 288 Sporting notions of presednatys and past selectedfrom the 'Referee' / edited Ablyice Cobbett. Edinburgh: Sands, 1908. vii, 366p BL: 7904.bbb.14 Cobbett writes interestingly on W.M.Chinnery and the early days of London AC (pp1-22) and on pedestrianism tihne nineteenth century (pp301-20). Doust, Dudley 289 Sports beat; headline-makers, then anodw / foreword by Harry Carpenter. London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. 240p; illus ISBN: 0-340-55900-4 BL: YK.1992.a.7603 A collection ofpieces one of whichis devoted to 'Mary Peters; The goldegnirl' -'She stilrlemembers, vividly, those two golden days in 1972 and exactly twenty years later, on September 3,1992, plans to return to the Olympiastadionin Munich. "It'll be nice", she says. "I'lljust go with a few friendTsh.e place willbe empty!"' (from the postscript). [ 178 ]