Bredin on Running & Training

ro6 RUNNING AND TRAINir "G. extent formed of men who are interested in the accumu– lation of this money, not for their personal advantage, but for the benefit of the clubs they represent. Money when passing through many hands is liable to become sticky and dwindle somewhat. A certain well-known club, whose president was also the treasurer and a most careful man over matters financial, took every care, in dealing with the gate receipts, etc., to see that every penny was satisfactorily accounted for. The secretary employed a jeweller and printer who agreed to add a sum to their bills, which was handed back to him, and, I presume, subsequently divided amongst the other officials "in the know." I may add that on this secretary resigning his position these little slips from the paths of honesty were guarded against for the future, and as my informant happened to be the new secretary himself, I have no reason to doubt the truth of his statement. This is not the only case of misuse of a club's funds that has come to my knowledge; and although I do not mean to infer that such a mode of procedure is frequently practised, I think that many men have a voice in the management of athletics and the formation of its laws who are influenced by personal motives and care very little for running viewed solely as a sport. That portion of the Badminton Library that deals with athletics without doubt ranks as a standard work on the subject. Written by a prominent official of the A. A. A., who was a fine athlete himself, and who, since his running days, has devoted a great deal of his time to the true welfare of athletics generally, it is a work of the greatest interest and instruction to lovers