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Inadequate

... university, provision for sport is hopelessly inadequate. Present spending on new facilities is under £20,000,000 a year. Dr. Roger Bannister, chairman of the Sports Council, wants to see that figure upped to £35,000,000. Even that is modest compared with £63 ...

Published: Monday 22 January 1973
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Invited for indoor events BRITISH TO RUN

... Invited for indoor events BRITISH TO RUN BRITAIN'S three great middle - distance runners, Roger Bannister, Chris Chataway and Bill Nankeville, are almost certain to compete in indoor athletic meetings in the United States early next year. Mr. Jack Crump ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1953
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 62 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Four relay world

... two by men and two by women. The men's events are the 4 x 1 mile relay sChris Chataway, Don Seaman, Bill Nankeville and Roger Bannister) hi 16m. 415., and the 4 x ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1954
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

it's even

... it's even .r~- ~~ JEAN DESFORGES World record bid. represented Britain in international events. Roger Bannister, Britain's fastest miler, has declined an invitation to run in the mile. but will compete in the quarter-mile kg in the relay. An attack Is ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1951
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 68 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ARCHER'S RECORD BUY

... ARCHER'S RECORD BUY THE official stopwatch used when Roger Bannister first broke the four-minute mile barrier in 1954 .was bought yesterday by Lord Archer. It was expected to fetch between £4OO and £6OO at a London auction, but the millionaire novelist ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1998
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 72 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

MIRROR COMMENT Making a fast buck

... in their shoe but they didn't negotiate fat fees from Rome to Timbuktu. Those were the days when medical students like Roger Bannister ran at illorganised meetings on mediocre tracks and broke four minutes for a mile. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1987
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 77 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TODA Y

... TODA Y 1929: Roger Bannister, first man to run a sub-four +minute mile, born. 1919: Benito Mussolini founds Fascist Party in Milan, Italy. TOMORROW 1877: Only dead heat in university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge. 1933: Concentration camps set ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1985
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 61 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

ADVANCED GRADE PLUMBERS

... heating and plumbing is required. Must have own transport and be prepared to travel. J. 1.8. rates of pay. Please telephone Roger Bannister on Woking 76155 or write giving full details to: Ideal Homes London Limited, Goldsworth House, St Johns Road, Woking, ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1987
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 69 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

If only athletics could

... first sub-fourminute miler, Dr. Roger Bannister, to his British predecessor as world mile record-holder. S y d n e y Wooderson. Amid the gold plate and stained-glass windows of the Egyptian Hall in the Mansion House, Bannister wa s replying to the toast of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1969
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 83 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

`stealing'

... know that perhaps the greatest individual athletic achievement—the original sub-four minute mile—was performed by . Dr. Roger Bannister with distinct assistance from the two Chrises Chatawav and Brasher. But Everest can be conquered for the first time only ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1963
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 75 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

London

... up Nets s sponsored Houdin, athietics match at White Ca% on October 13. includes thirteen champion,. the exception of Roger Bannister. Ikrek John.-on art Llred for the ::ea on and Gordon Pine •.njuredl the team is the ongcst London can out cut. It Is. ...

Published: Tuesday 05 October 1954
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 69 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

BLAST

... BLAST WOMAN : The Queen Mother. POLITICIAN : Sir Anthony Eden SPORTSMAN : Roger Bannister. SAINT : Dr. Albert Schweitzer. FACE: Zoe Newton. QUESTION MARK : Aneurin Bevan. TV PERSONALITY : Barbara Kelly. JOURNALISTS : Cassandra, Malcolm Muggeridge, Rene ...

Published: Tuesday 13 December 1955
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 70 | Page: 1 | Tags: none