An Athletics Compendium

Biographies & Autobiographies B 1 7 - 2 5 Black offers views on issues such as the importance of winning and the administration Broiftish athletics. ^ Subsequent ed. B17 17 How long's the course?: my autobiography / Roger Black. London: Deutsch, 1999. 298p; illus; index; pbk ISBN: 0-233-99644-3 BL:YK.2000.a.6135 Contains additional material on Black's plans after failure to be selected for the 1995 European Championships. ^ Previous ed. B16 Board,Ullian 18 Lillian / DavidEmery. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. 191p; illus ISBN: 0-340-15606-6 BL: X.529/13309 A biography ofLillianBoard, Olympic silver medallist at 400m and European SOOm champion, by the Daily Mail journalist to whosmhe was engagedat the time of her tragically early death from cancer at the age of 22. 19 Lillian / David Emery;retold by John Kennett. Glasgow: Blackie, 1973. 90p; illus ISBN: 0-216-89670-3 Bowers, Kelvin 20 Closing the distance / Kelvin Bowers. Stoke-on-Trent: Andy Ridler, 1980. 225p; illus, maps; pbk ISBN: 0-905074-03-3 BL:X.629/17496 Bowers, a sub-4:15.0 miler, visited Percy Cerutty in Australia, andwas inspired to runacross thweorld. Some yearselapsed before he drew up plans forthe 'Stoke toSydney Marathon', a journey ne completed in 75 weeks. Bowers conveys, in some finely crafted prose, the nature of the changing landscapes and people encountered as wellas the sustainpehdysical effort involved. The log book shows dailyand weekly mileages, cumulativedistance, ancdities, towns and villages passedthrough enroute. Bredin, Edgar 21 Running and training E/. C. Bredin. Northampton: The author, 1902. xii, 176p BL: 7912.bb.ll Bredin, who shared the world's record for 440yd6, gives an account of his amateur and professional career, and all running events are described and analysed. Much details given of the seasons IStSoS 1695. The authoarlso lists an interesting evolution of running records. 'The evening of those '92 championships, very crestfallen, I wandered back to StamfordBridge (at that time 1 resided close to the LAC). On entering the then almost desertedgrounds, strewn with betting tickets, pieces of programmes, number cards, and other like vidence ofa recently heldmodern athletic meeting, I soon espied old Nat (Nat Perry, Bredin's trainer) seated on a cnheaair the number board,a in condition decidedly not arrived at by the strictest adherence to temperanpcreinciples. Inanswer to my remark, somewhat hesitatingly put forward, that with better judgement I might have been returned the winner of the quartermile championship, the veteran blurted out, "Well,you did your running and you got beat; what have yoguot togrumble at?".' Brookes,William Penny 22 British Olympians: WilliamPenny Brookes andthe Wenlock Games / SaMmullins. London: Birmingham Olympic Council in association wtihthe British Olympic Association, 1986. ISBN: 0-901662-01-1 23 William Penny Brookes antdhe Olympic connection / Muriel Furbank, Helen Cromarty & Glyn McDonald. Much Wenlock: Wenlock OlympiaSnociety, 1996. 15p; illus; pbk ISBN: 0-9528683-0-2 Brookes was the visionary who formed an Olympian Society in England as early as 1650, profoundly influencing Pierre de Coubertin who is credited with founding the modernOlympic Games forty-six years later. Brown, Richard <&Sandra 24 Long, at the top: Richaradnd Sandra Brown 1982-1993: word-pictures from contemporary writings about two world-class long-distance race walkersru&nners / collated byDudley Harris. 1994? 107p; illus; pbk BL: YK. 1995.b.9001 Includes contributions by twenty-one named writers, including the subjects. Richard and Sandra Brown commenced their longdistance careerins1962 and, after negotiating some 100 mile events, graduated in 1966 to Land's End-John o' Groats. In l ter seasons, they indulgedin a variety of events wdithistances up to 200km. Brundage,Avery 25 The Games must go on: Avery Brundage and the Olympic movement/ Allen Guttmann. Guildford: Columbia University Press, 1984. xiv, 317p; illus; index ISBN: 0-231-05444-0 BL: X.622/20491 Guttmann takes his title from Avery Brundage's speech on 6 September 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium, following the murder of eleven Israeli athletes. [ 43 ]