22 JULY 1955, page 10

Lyonised

BY IAIN HAMILTON F 4 VERYONE has passed through Lyons. Few of you, if any, have stopped there. Nobody seems to love Lyons among the bold travellers going south to be jostled in......

Chataway Agonistes

BY G. M. CARSTAIRS T HE sport of athletics owes not only its name but many of its conventions to ancient Greece. The men's foot-race, the nucleus of the Olympia, was an .annual......