An Athletics Compendium

International A 400-409 400 The Oxford companiotno Australian spor/t edited by Wray Vamplew, Katherine Moore, John O'Hara and Richard Cashman. 2nedd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiii, 575p; illus ISBN: 0-19-553568-5 BL: YK.1995.b.11416 ^ Previous ed. A399 Hungary 401 Hungarian athletics/ Gabriel SzabcS.London: Athletics Arena, 1966. 28p; pbk An intensive survey of the sport in Hungary 1575- 1965. 402 Hungarian athletics: part tw/o Gabriel Szabo. London: Athletics Arena, 1967. 34p; pbk Lists ofHungarian all-timemen's bestperformances decade by decade ovneinr ety years. # Kenya 403 Sport andthe global system: the case of athletics in Kenya / J. M. K. Sang. KeeUleniversity, 1994. PhD thesis. 404 Kenyan running: movement culture, geography, and global change / John Bale and Joe Sang. London: Frank Cass, 1996. xvi, 209p; illus, maps; index ISBN: 0-7146-4684-9 (cased) • 0-7146-4218-5 (pbk) BL:YK.1997.b.ll34 Kenyan athletes made their first entrance on the world stage in 1954. Thismeticulous work examines the riseof Kenyan middle and long distance runners, whose successis placed in the context sopface and time using measures both quantitative and qualitative. The indigenous movement cultures of Kenya and the transitional period between folk-games and modern sport duringBritish colonial rule provide the historicalbackground. The finaslections describe recent developmentsw, ith track and fieladnd cross­ country becoming a global system, theregional per capita production of distance runners, with special reference to altitude, and the paradox of simultaneous development and underdevelopment in Kenyan athletics. * New Zealand 405 Lap of honour: the great moments of New Zealand athletics / NormanHarris. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1963. 160p; illus BL: 7926.W.40 • Pacific Region 406 South Pacific athletics handbook/ Tony Isaacs. Macclesfield: The author, 1976-1990. The first attempt toreat statisticalloyne of the more remote areas, there are sections on the performances of South Pacific athletes at major international championships, results of the South Pacific Gamesa, ll-time listsof best performances and performances bSyouth Pacificathletes, and ianndex of outstanding South Pacific athletes. Th authorwas assisted Ybyves Pinaud (France). ^ Also listed at: Ml 13 • South Africa 407 South Africansports: cricket, football, athletics, cycling, tennis, racing, polo, golf, gymnastics, boxing, shooting etc.: an official handbook/ edited byG. A. Parker. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1897. xxiv, 234p; illus BL: P.P.2579.bb An early compilation witphortraits of leading athletes and officials, andchapters on 'SouAthfrican sports' and 'Athletics and Rhodesian sports'. The championships 1of594-6 arliested in the athletics section. 408 The South African game: sport arancdism / Robert Archer andAntoine Bouillon. London: Zed, 1982. viii, 352p; illus; index (Africa series) Bibliography:p337-345 ISBN: 0-86232-066-6 (cased) • 0-86232-082-8 (pbk) BL: X.529/68791 This remains themost completeaccount osfport in South Africa during the yearsof white supremacist (apartheid) rule after 1945. • United States 409 Cinder-path tales / WilliamLindsey. London: Grant Richards, 1900. 78p An enlargeded. alsopublished in 1900; firstpublished, Boston: Copeland <& Day BL: 012707112 This is a rare andtantalising glimpse into American professional athletics in the nineteenth century. It includes an account of the first meeting between Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Yale Universities. Lindsey was a British amateur runner who emigrated to tShteates and spent the first part of his life there as a 'prruon' ner, beforesettling down as a college athletics coach. '! learned all the tricokfsthe tradeg,ave closefinishes always, did an artistic "fainting act" and made myself a subject of regretful, not to say painful, remembrance to a large part thoef sporting fraternity.' [ " ]