Athletics

vi AUTHOR'S PREFACE. by the late Dark Blue President, now the Rev. W. Pollock- Hill—it is sufficient to prove that "Athletics" is one of the most practical handbooks everissued; and our sincere thanks aredue tothese gentlemen for having made it so by their veryinteresting andvaluable contributions, and also to that most popular of "passive" athletes, ValHunter, C.C., L.A.C., etc.,for the plans he has prepared. It is a great gain to our sport to find a member of the Common Council of the City of London not only deeply interested in athletics, but actually contributing to a work on the subject. Also the fact that two recent Lord Mayors were distinguished athletes intheir youthis encouraging. Comparatively few of the sportsmen of to-day know any­ thing of the early days of amateur athletics. It is a subject we would fain linger on^ but, bowing to the inevitable "want of space," we have played with a light hand; we trust, however, that wehave, in our short retrospect, given an insight into the manner in which the great athletic movement struggled into life. Training waso exhaustively dealt with in the companion book, " Cycling," that it would be mere repetition to go over the ground again, and as the same rules apply, we must refer readers who desire full information on the subject to that work. Under each sport, however, the subject has been touched on by various writers. H. HEWITT GRIFFIN. Feb., 1891.

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