SCOTTISH DISTANCE RUNNING HISTORY

There are many young athletes who run superbly well as Boys and Youths but never even make it to Junior Men stardom. Joe Small has a look at this phenomenon with a short profile of a Shettleston runner called John Mulvey. A club, county, inter counties, district and national title winner he just disappeared from the scene and nobody knows at all where he disappeared to. He’s an example of many other young lads of the time.

J Millar was a very good photographer of athletics who took and sold many photographs at events around the country and also had his work published in magazines such as Athletics Weekly. We have some of his photographs of Lachie Stewart now on site and they can be seen at this link.

Just one week after adding the item below, we have just heard that Lachie passed away yesterday. More later but for now his profile chronicling his magnificent career can be found at Lachie Stewart When I visited him in Bonhill in 2015 when we were doing the profile, he let me borrow two scrapbooks with photographs and two with some cuttings that he had kept. I have them in the “Galleries” section of www.anentcottishrunning.com The exact addreses are

Photographs: Lachie Stewart’s First Gallery – Anent Scottish Running Lachie Stewart’s Second Gallery – Anent Scottish Running

Cuttings: Lachie Stewart’s Cuttings 1 – Anent Scottish Running Lachie Stewart’s Cuttings 2 – Anent Scottish Running

The Commonwealth & Empire Games of 1970 were held in Scotland at Meadowbank. They were the first major Games to be held in Scotland and they were really started in style when Lachie Stewart won the 10,000m from a star studded field. The Games qualified rankings for the year before the Games are listed above. I recently found that two AW programmes which featured a preview of the Games and a review with reports after them. I’m not sure that they did Lachie justice but I have just reproduced them here and you can see them at this link.

We all know about handicapping in track races as well as in road running events, but Tom McNab tell us a tale or two about the handicapping of field events on our latest post which you will find at Handicaps: A History We already have a page on handicapping comparing the amateur and professional methods of doing that and you will find that ( a very different take) at this link .

Scottish Universities Championships at Cambuslang, January 1965

The latest profile of a Scottish international runner who was lost to the domestic sport when he emigrated was Walter Eadie of St Modan’s and Strathclyde University – number 33 on extreme right.

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