Running Recollections and How to Train

29 are not even amateurs according to the literal translationof the word. I do not wish to be accused of making state­ ments at random,so I will endeavour to make my meaning clear. How many so-calledamateurs run for the pure love of the sport ? Do not the most, in fact, by far the most, enter and try towin only at those meetings where the best prizes are given,and, inmany cases, where there is the most gambling? I do not blame them—far from it—but I do condemn the smug hypocrisy of the governing body who recognise these things,and, knowing themto be contrary to their laws, make noattempt toprevent them, because they know that bydoing sothey will only bring abouttheir own undoing. When the Athletic Association limit the prizes given at meetings run under their auspices toparchment certificates, or, at most, bronze medals, they will be justly entitled to the name of "amateur," People may say that no runner would bother about running for the honour of winning a piece of paper or twopennyworth of copper, and that, if these things came to pass, the result would be a strike in the ranks of amateurs.