A slight slender book of memories , photographs and reproductions of programmes, letters , cartoons and memorabilia of early athletics and sports history at universities in South Africa . Published in the 1980's before the engaged participants for over 60 years had passed on . The mover and driver of organized University athletics was Pete Suzman . Other Intervasity sports were rugby, cricket , boxing , hockey and tennis . This is more a book of personal memories of Suzman , it touches very lightly on issues of women in sport, the Olympicss movement , race as a factor in sport and the long contraversial issue of spots and boycotts as a tactic to express politicalt anti--apartheid opposition . Sport became a battle ground of note but other books have tackled that issue in greater depth and effect . Fun events are recounted such as the hoax in 1925 during The visit of the Prince of Wales , to Johannesburg when students pretended to be the Prince and town and gown disnaries were fooled . The photo (undated ) on the last page shows a very chic Mrs Betty Suzman seated next to the Earl of
Athlone at a Cape Town event. she wears a fashionable cloche hat and a fox fur lies draped on her lap. What a glamorous wife of clearly a rather boring , self important husband . This book is a collectable work but hardly worth that status, ( )