My thanks to the following for the use of photographs, newpaper extracts and cartoons used in this book.

E. D. Lacey, photographer; The Times; The Sunday Times; Daily Express; Sunday Express; The Telegraph; News of the World; London Evening News; Reading Evening Post; Reading Chronicle; Windsor Express; Athletics Weekly; Len Runyard; Keystone Press Agency.

Thanks also to all those who have helped to make my sporting life so interesting and full, and who have directly or indirectly helped me to put this book together.