John Brown Senior’s scrapbook was a traditional sort of scrap book in which he kept such records written by hand as he wanted to keep mixed in with cuttings from newspapers and magazines.  The order was chronological order and the cuttings covered Olympic Games, sports meetings, articles on training, on athletes and on the history of the sport.   We have a small selection from the book below.   The first piece on training by Joe Binks was typical of the advice given out by most coaches and ex-athletes of the time.   I know of one international athlete and coach who wrote to him c/o The News of the World asking for advice and saying he was training 5 days a week, only to receive a handwritten reply telling hom for goodness sake to ease up, he would only harm himself.

Now a report from Dunky Wright followed by a report on the SAAA Championships at Meadowbank.