THE Honour George Littlewood movement comes on apace. Now they're backing him in America.
This page has told how author Paul Marshall is pressing for the forgotten 19th century athlete to be remembered with a statue in his native city.
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field Flyer clocked up world records for six day running and walking, one of which has never been beaten.
Now support comes from Jerry Caine over in Santa Rosa, California, who thinks Littlewood should be on a British postage stamp.
"In December,1888, he set a world record for running 623 miles indoors at Madison Square Gardens," he writes.
"This champion of the world should be honoured properly."
Littlewood later kept the King's Head in Attercliffe and died from consumption in 1912, aged 53.
He's buried in Darnall cemetery.
Raise a glass to Tinsley towers...FANCY drowning your sorrows now Tinsley's twin towers have come crashing down? The Diary knows just the tipple.
The Sheffield Beer Company has just brought out a commemorative beer called, would you believe, the Tinsley Towers.
It's a ruby premium beer (4.5 per cent ABV) and is on sale at local real ale pubs.
...and raise a few cups of kindnessLADIES, if your cups runneth over donate your old bras to the English Institute of Sport.
They're sent to Africa and the money raised goes to, er, give a lift to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Send them to EIS Sheffield, Coleridge Rd, Sheffield, S9 5DA
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