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2009 Editions

Volume 47, No. 4, November 2009

  • Bryan Hawkins tells the story of his remarkably varied life
  • Keeping right on to the end of the road: fond memories of Don Thompson - Bob Phillips
  • A throw, a death and three hangings (origins of Inter-Varsity sport) - Peter Lovesey
  • “People asked me a thousand times how I would have done with the new pole. I might have added three feet” (Cornelius Warmerdam) - I.E.G. Green
  • The great Czech beats the heart-broken hero of Belgium, but what will be the records in the next 60 years (remembering 1950) - David Thurlow
  • The neglected career of Charley Parker - Don M. Groome
  • “With steps as light as wind upon fair April’s day”: the Immortal Bard as athlete - Wilf Morgan
  • “I did little or no training. Sport was still amateur. I had to build a career for myself” (Ron Powell) - Michael Sheridan
  • A 1932 Olympic mystery which still remains unresolved - John W. Brant
  • Relay-racing in the 1920s. The essence of the contest - names of individuals are not to be insisted upon
  • “Verdensrekordbanen Bislett”, Bislett The World Record Track - Bob Phillips
  • Bislett’s 63 World records in 76 years
  • A brief account of the life of Joe Binks - athlete, journalist, promoter
  • The curious marathon career of an Estonian-American, Alfred Maasik
  • The World marathon rankings for 1938 - Association of Road Racing Statisticians
  • Book Reviews: Conquerors of Time; Tea with Mr Newton; Pictorial History of Leigh Harriers; From Last to First - Charlie Spedding; Edward “Teddy” Mills; World records in the women’s distance events
  • More photographs from the collection of Albert Webster
  • And a postscript from Bryan Hawkins!

Volume 47, No. 3, September 2009

  • Nurmi now, 90 years on - Veli-Matti Autio
  • Paavo Nurmi's 38 World Records and 12 Olympic medals
  • In the shadow of Britain's 1920 Olympians (Jimmy Pratt)
  • The Australian Aboriginal ultra-distance tradition - Andy Milroy
  • Before Fidel, before Figuerola, Cuba's almost great sprinter (Rafel Fortůn Chacňn) - A. Ballard Peck
  • The "floating thrower" from "Gliding Peak" (Stanley Lay) - Bob Phillips
  • My high jump contest with the versatile "Babe": Jean Shiley at the 1932 Olympics
  • Vladimir Kuts and Derek Johnson, Picture feature
  • The high-jumping career of Peter Wells
  • In isolation and autonomy: the marathon ambition of the computer genius, Alan Turing - I.E.G. Green
  • Tom Nicholson, hammer champion from the house on the hill - John W. Keddie
  • A literary view of the "Great Dane" (Gunnar Nielsen)
  • The grim rush of this knot of determined men - a golden era of Inter-Varsity cross-country - Arnold Churchill
  • Book Reviews (Inter-Varsity cross-country, ATFS Annual, Javelin statistics, Haruki Murakami, 1960 Olympics, Cuban atletics, Jamaica's champions, Sport in History)
  • Guest Book Review (Bill Anderson's biography) - Ian Tempest
  • West Indies cricketer, AAA pole-vault champion (Bertie Harrigan) - Bernard Linley
  • ... and some more cricketing connections (Lord Hawke, Douglas Lowe, A.E.R. Gilligan)
  • In search of Phol Jaiswang, Samnuek Srisombati, Sang Ok Sim ... and George Johnson - Cyril J. Smith
  • The 65 World Records and World best performances set by the competitiors in the 1956 Olympic Games 1500 metres
  • The ghosts of Burghley and Brown, Howland and Tisdall still to be seen on a superb summer's evening (memories of Fenners) - David Thurlow
  • The history of the Fenners track - Dr Chris Thorne
  • Alistair Cooke's so brief long-jumping career!
  • 70 years ago. The leading marathon runners of 1939 - 265 of them down to 3:28:01! - The Association of Road Racing Statisticians
  • A modern Greek tragedy played out on TV (armchair viewing)
  • The story behind a pacemaking "farce" (the 1992 Olympic 10,000 metres) - Stanley Eckersley
  • Berlin Briefing: Who will move ahead of Kirsty Wade?

Volume 47, No. 2, May 2009

  • From nowhere to the top of the World: the Landy era in Australian athletics - Len Johnson
  • Book Review: At last! Landy’s story of the mystical quest
  • Landy’s races in Britain during 1952
  • Subtle concentration of great power in his own hands, or an instrument of national pride? - Malcolm Nokes
  • The man who was British hammer-throwing in the 1920s and helped to make it in the 1950s (Malcolm Nokes) - A. Ballard Peck
  • “Doctor Pat”: The inventive Irishman who applied the precision of a qualified surgeon to the art of hammer-throwing (Pat O’Callaghan) - Denis O’Donoghue
  • Zoom! What comes next for the “one-man team”? Why, the decathlon, of course! (Bill Watson) - Bob Phillips
  • “Herkers”: stalwart of the high jump and hammer and a discus international at 43 (W.E.B. Henderson)
  • Who could possibly win but the hero of all Finland? (The fantasy Olympic 10,000 metres of 1940) - David Thurlow
  • Russia’s first Olympic marathon runner (Georg Lind) - Andy Milroy
  • England’s third man in that 1954 Empire Games marathon (John Kay)
  • The film star and the footballer - Richard Bond
  • Reg Draper, the hosiery worker from unfashionable Hinckley who commanded respect wherever he ran - Bob Phillips
  • More about Lewis Payne - Clive Williams
  • Sixty years ago. Fortune favours the brave, Emil sweeps all before him ... and there’s a first win for a 17-year-old lad named Ibbotson (1949) - David Thurlow
  • Barriers, what barriers? How soon to the nine-metre long jump? 1:40 for 800 metres? 26:00 for 10,000 metres? - Stan Greenberg
  • Olympic myths and mistakes - Stan Greenberg
  • The adventurous life of Lord Willy – played on “a fair field and no favour” - (Lord Desborough of Taplow)
  • Konstanty Maksimczyk: the last Mohican - Richard Szreter
  • The European Athletics Team Championship: will it work? - Trevor Clowes
  • Oh, to be at Motspur Park with the sun in its heaven and the half-mile about to begin! (The Surrey championships of the 1960s) - Bob Phillips
  • Bert Townsend, the least known of British steeplechase record-holders - A. Ballard Peck
  • Cocking a snook at the Saturday afternoon strollers (Ray Roseman’s biography)
  • Great Britain’s real relay team of 1951

Volume 47, No. 1, March 2009

  • Dealing with all those difficulties on the path to Olympic fame (John Loaring) - Bob Phillips
  • How Alberto Salazar contributed to the Basque distance-running tradition - Andy Milroy
  • GB 2nd again - and this time to Australia (1958 British women's rankings) - I.E.G. Green
  • The factory girl who was one of the first British women sprinters of renown (Alice Woods) - Bob Phillips
  • Wonderful times, travel, fun, friends. Never a false start. Always the chance to catch up (Sylvia Disley) - David Thurlow
  • Never mind sub-4! Go for sub-3:50! Keitany and Mekonnen join the select club of nine (The sub-4 chronicle revisited) - Ian R. Smith
  • In pursuit of Wint, Parlett and Bannister, great days for the “three musketeers” (Tom White, Frank Evans, Albert Webster) - David Thurlow
  • Book reviews (Richard Bond's compendium; Victorian cross-country) - Peter Lovesey
  • Book reviews (Jack Lovelock's journals; Sport on radio; books by Clive Williams, Stan Greenberg, Manfred Holzhausen, Jean Echenoz, Barbara Jacobs)
  • The great Welsh exodus of the 1930s ... and the passing of a breed in 2008 - Clive Williams
  • Britain's least known cross-country champion remembered at last after more than 80 years (Lewis Payne)
  • Last-leg heroics on the long, hard roads that led into Blackpool and Brighton (Road relays of the 1930s) - Wilf Morgan
  • Did the attractions of the “miracle mile” cause the downfall of Jim Peters at the 1954 Empire Games? - Colin Young
  • Further memories of wartime athletics
  • NUTS work in progress ... and plenty of it!