Foreword

This issue of The Sports Historian is led by material that was delivered
at the Society's annual conference on `Youth and Sport' which was
held in London in July 1994. It also includes a contribution from
a rather different source on the career of Alice Andrews, a pioneer
of women's competitive cycling. I hope members will agree that Vic
Andrews' personal memoir, with its element of family piety, is the
sort of non-academic contribution that the journal could use more
of. There must be other members who have access to this sort of material.

This is also the last issue for which I shall be acting as editor.
The time it takes me to do anything seems to increase exponentially
as I get older and I have found it very difficult to cope with multiple
deadlines. The delay in the appearance of this issue reflects this
and (I'm afraid) the relative priority I feel able to give to the
journal, so I think it best if I call it a day before the membership
become too restive. In mitigation I can plead that the size of the
journal has grown steadily over the period of my editorship and that
some of the delay this year is the result of work that should result
in a contribution to a future issue, if my successor likes it when
he sees it.



Russell Potts