Arthur elvin and the dogs of wembley

Sports Historian

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 100-114

  Cronin, Mike ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1080/17460260209443683     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. For details of the opening night at Wembley, see Greyhoimd News, 16 December 1927.
2. These six dogs were the respective winners of each of the races held on 10 December 1927.
3. The origins of Wembley as the Empire Stadium was memorialised in the naming of these races, and they included the Empire Stakes, the Australian Stakes, the India Stakes and the South African Stakes.
4. For details of the transformation and eventual opening of Wembley, see ‘The Revival of Wembley’, Greyhound News, 23 December 1927.
5. See A.M. Low, Wonderful Wembley (London: Stanley and Paul, 1953), p. 45.
6. Greyhound Racing, 27 August 1927.
7. From 1929 the Stadium was used for the annual Rugby League Challenge Cup final.
8. Greyhound News, 9 December 1927.
9. For an overview of the redevelopment of Wembley as a greyhound track, see T. Morgan, Wembley Presents 25 Years of Sport, 1923-48 (Second edition, London, 1948)
10. A.R.D. Cardew, All About Greyhound Racing (London: Elkin, Matthews and Marrot Ltd., 1928), p. 4.
11. P.H. Tarter, Greyhound Racing Encyclopaedia (London: Fleet Publishing, 1948), p. 80.
12. Greyhound News, 16 December 1927.
13. See Greyhound News, 9 December 1927.
14. Cardew, All About Greyhound Racing, p. 5.
15. Greyhound News, 16 December 1927.
16. Low, Wonderful Wembley, p. 50.
17. For figures see Low, Wonderful Wembley, p. 51.
18. Cardew, All About Greyhound Racing, p. 5.
19. G. Hewlett, A History of Wembley (London: Brent Library Service, 1979), p. 220.
20. For details of greyhound technology see J. Skeaping, The Dogs (London: Newman Neame, 1959), pp 18-23.
21. A.C. Critchley, ‘The Origin of Greyhound Track Racing’ in Greyhound News, 9 December 1927.
22. Manchester Guardian, July 1926, quoted in R. Genders, Modern Greyhound Racing (London: Sporting Handbooks, 1946), p. 25.
23. Although Blackpool and Burnley had populations under 300, 000, it was felt that tracks could survive in those towns because of the holiday trade in Blackpool, and Burnley’s proximity to Manchester.
24. For these, and more specific track by track figures, see Genders, Modem Greyhound Racing, p. 22.
25. Johnson also registered the titles Greyhound Newspaper (1927)
26. Greyhound News, 9 December 1927.
27. Greyhound News, 9 December 1927.
28. See Genders, Modern Greyhound Racing, pp 24-6.
29. Although the football pools were established by the late 1920s, betting was illegal apart from the on-course gambling at race meetings. The advent of greyhound racing and the regular opportunities it afforded for betting was a great innovation for those members of the public who had become used to betting with street corner boys while being constantly wary of the police.
30. A. Hitch, ‘On Both Sides of the Fence’ in Greyhound Racing Association Annual (London: Greyhound Racing Association, 1959), p. 37.
31. For a discussion of the appeal of the dog, see Genders, Modem Greyhound Racing, p. 22.
32. Cardew, All About Greyhound Racing, p. 25.
33. N. Baker, ‘Going to the Dogs – Hostility to Greyhound Racing in Britain: Puritanism, Socialism and Pragmaticism’ in Journal of Sport History, 23, 2 (Summer 1996), p. 98.
34. See Cncdew K, All About Greyhound Racing, p. 59. For a discussion of the 1928 rules see pp 61-88.
35. Economist, 22 October 1927.
36. The Field, 29 December 1927.
37. These publications included H. Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing (London: National Emergency Committee of Christian Citizens, 1928)
38. H. Carter, The Betting Scandal at Wembley (London: National Emergency Committee of Christian Citizens, 1928)
39. P.T.R. Kirk, Sport or Plunder (London: National Emergency Committee of Christian Citizens, 1928)
40. Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing, p. 3.
41. Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing, p.5.
42. Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing, p. 5.
43. Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing, p. 17.
44. Quoted in Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing, p. 18.
45. Quoted in Carter, Facts About Greyhound Racing, p. 18.
46. See Appendix II, ‘List of Licensed Greyhound Tracks’, in C.F.C. Clarke, Greyhounds and Greyhound Racing. A Comprehensive and Popular Survey of Britain’s Latest Sport (London: Methuen and Co., 1934), pp 133-6.
47. Greyhound News, 23 December 1927.