James Catton, ‘Tityrus’ of The Athletic News (1860 to 1936): A biographical study

Sport in History

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 98-115

  Tate, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85009593172     PISSN: 17460263     EISSN: 17460271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17460260500073165     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Athletic News, 22 March 1920, p. 7.
2. Sunday Chronicle (Manchester), 8 May 1892, p. 2.
3. Sporting Chronicle (Manchester), 22 Aug. 1936, p. 8.
4. Preston Herald, 2 June 1875, p. 8.
5. A.J. Lee, The origins of the popular press, 1855-1914 (London, 1976), p. 71.
6. Sporting Chronicle, 22 Aug. 1936, p. 8.
7. Death notice, Harrogate Herald, 11 Dec. 1889. p. 8.
8. Lee, Origins, p. 288.
9. James Curran and Jean Seaton, Power without responsibility: The press and broadcasting in Britain (London, 1991), p. 43.
10. Lucy Brown, Victorian news and newspapers (Oxford, 1985), p. 38.
11. Joel H. Wiener, ed., Papers for the millions: The new journalism in Britain, 1850s to 1914 (London, 1988), p. xii.
12. T.P. O’Connor, ‘The New Journalism’, The New Review (London), 1 (1889), p. 434.
13. Brown, Victorian news, p. 254.
14. Raymond Williams, The long revolution (London, 1971), p. 220.
15. Brown, Victorian news, pp. 271-2.
16. Lee, Origins, p. 127.
17. R. Holt, Sport and the British (Oxford, 1992), pp. 306-7.
18. Lee, Origins, p. 289.
19. Tony Mason, Association Football and English Society 1863-1915 (Brighton, 1981), pp. 187-203
20. Tony Mason, ‘Sporting News, 1860-1914', in M. Harris and A. Lee, eds., The press in English society from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries (London, 1986), pp. 168-86.
21. J.A.H. Catton, The real football, a sketch of the development of the association game (London, 1900), pp. 55-6.
22. Sunday Chronicle, 8 May 1892, p. 2.
23. Brown, Victorian news, p. 76.
24. Lee, Origins, p. 107.
25. Roy Church, Economic and social change in a Midland town: Victorian Nottingham (London, 1966), pp. 375-7.
26. Catton, Wickets and goals, p. 16.
27. Nottingham Daily Guardian, 20 Jan. 1885, p. 7.
28. Hartley Aspden, Fifty years a journalist (Clitheroe, 1929), p. 16.
29. Catton, Wickets and goals, p. 165.
30. All Sports Illustrated Weekly, 31 Oct. 1925, p. 6.
31. Sporting Chronicle, 22 Aug. 1936, p. 8.
32. Lee, Origins, p. 110.
33. Sunday Chronicle, 9 Sept. 1894, p. 4.
34. A.W. Ledbrooke, ‘Cricket’, in Fifty great years, 1897-1947, compiled by "Denys" (Manchester, 1947), no page numbers.
35. Sporting Chronicle, 17 July 1895, p. 2.
36. Catton, Wickets and goals, pp. 285-290. He writes of the Oldham Athletic manager signing one player on his recommendation, and of Manchester City also acting on his advice.
37. The Times, 25 Aug. 1936, p. 5.
38. Athletic News, 27 Oct. 1913, p. 1.
39. Athletic News, 25 Aug. 1924, p. 4.
40. The Observer, 23 Aug. 1936, p. 21.
41. The Times, 25 Aug. 1936, p. 5.
42. Athletic News, 1 Sept. 1924, p. 4.
43. The Times, 25 Aug. 1936, p. 5.
44. Charles Buchan, A lifetime in football (London, 1955), pp. 41-2.
45. All Sports Weekly, 7 Jan. 1928, p. 3.
46. Athletic News, 17 Nov. 1919, p. 4.
47. Catton will. The sum left would have an equivalent modern purchasing power of £511,000, according to J. McCusker on the Economic History Services website (www.eh.net)
48. Wisden cricketers’ almanack (London, 1933), p. 21.
49. Wimbledon Boro News, 28 Aug. 1936, p. 4.
50. Glasgow Herald, 22 Aug. 1936, p. 3.
51. Ivan Sharpe, ed., Athletic News football annual, 1936-7 (Manchester, 1936), p. 6.
52. Athletic News, 27 Jan. 1908, p. 1.
53. Preston Herald, 30 March 1881, p. 2.
54. Nottingham Daily Guardian, 3 March 1884, p. 7.
55. Mason, Association football, pp. 189-90.
56. Nottingham Daily Guardian, 13 Jan. 1891, p. 7.
57. Athletic News, 23 March 1903, p. 4.
58. Sporting Chronicle, 22 Aug. 1936, p. 8.
59. I. Sharpe, ed., The Football League jubilee book (London, 1964), p. 129.
60. Sporting Chronicle, 24 Aug. 1936, p. 7.
61. John Macadam, The Macadam road (London, 1955), p. 127.
62. Neville Cardus, Second innings (London, 1950), p. 175.
63. R. Daniels, Conversations with Cardus (London, 1976), p. 61.
64. E.W. Swanton, ‘The Cricketer’, Sept. 1964, reproduced in Swanton, As I said at the time (London, 1983), p. 522.
65. Daily Express, 28 Aug. 1936, p. 13.
66. The Observer, 23 Aug. 1936, p. 21.
67. Sunday Chronicle, 30 Aug. 1936, p. 17
68. Catton, Wickets and goals, p. 1.
69. Sunday Chronicle, 30 Aug. 1936, p. 17.