Athletics (British Sports Library)

FOR PARENTS AND SCHOOLMASTERS 19 and Southern District Championships, open to athletes with a birth or residential qualification within the area ; these are followed by English, Scottish, Welch, and Irish Natio-nal Champion– ships, for men with the necessary qualification of birth or parentage. Then come the annual A.A.A. Open Championships at Stamford Bridge, London, at which athletes from all parts of the world compete. There are also various internationals, such as the three-cornered contest between England, Scotland, and Ireland, and our annual match with France ; and, finally, the Olympic Games which take place every fourth year, and at which Great Britain is represented by one combined team, which does not, however, include our Dominion, Colonial, and Indian Empire athletes, these having separate representa– tion of their own. From what has already been written the young athlete will see that if he has a preference for athletics over other branches of sport, he will find it just as easy throughout his active career to follow the track and field events as it is for the cricketer or football player to keep up his games as long as his wind and his muscles will serve him. At the very commencement of this book it will be as well to discuss certain fallacies that have lived too long and some other matters that need correction. From the parent's point of view the greatest