Journalist. Ben Bennison was considered one of the best known sports writers of the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. A 1928 “Time Magazine” article noted that “Each morning thousands of Britons turn to the “Telegraph's” sporting page and scan attentively whatever appears above the enigmatic signature ‘B. B.’ Under that monogram writes jovial, astute Benjamin Bennison – and on the staff there have been constantly not a few journalists of nearly equal fame.” Ben grew up in Manchester, England where his father worked in a cotton mill and his mother raised eight children. By age 17 he was working as a junior reporter. He married Sarah Johnson in 1896. By 1911 he had moved his family to London, where he wrote hundreds of articles as the sports editor for the “London Daily Telegraph” (1905-1929), and later the “London Evening Standard” (1932-1937). His writings appeared in many other newspapers and magazines from the “The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News” to the monthly journal for men and women “Britannia and Eve.” He reported on the widely-celebrated Football Association Challenge (FA) Cup each year from 1912 to 1922. He authored and co-authored a half dozen books, including two with Arthur Bettinson: “The Home of Boxing” in 1923, and “Famous Fights and Fighters” in 1937. Among his friends were long-time heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and big-game hunter, later naturalist, Jim Corbett. He was Britain’s correspondent at the Olympics in Antwerp (1920), Paris (1924) and Amsterdam (1928). When he watched Eric Liddell in Paris he wrote: “After an electrifying race, he won the 400 metres in forty-seven and three fifths seconds, a time which has never been equalled. Enthusiasm was unbounded when this fair Scotsman broke the tape; men and women of all nations cheered him unrestrainedly, and when the British flag was run up the mast in token of his mighty achievement, the crowd cheered.” In his most notable book, “Giants on Parade: Some Sporting Reminiscences” (1936), he wrote about his years of experience covering boxing, athletics (track and field), cricket, lawn tennis, rugby football, association football (soccer), and golf. He often crossed the ‘pond’ to cover major American boxing matches, where he was well received by both sportsmen and other international correspondents. Among those he covered in the United States were the 1921 Dempsey / Carpentier fight, 1927 Dempsey / Sharkey bout, and the 1937 Louis / Farr fight. His weekly sports column appeared in many newspapers in Great Britain, and also Ireland, (British) Malaysia and Australia. In 1937 “The Telegraph” in Brisbane invited him to air-mail his articles, which he did through 1940. In 1941, Ben reported on the many alien civilian internment camps on the beautiful Isle of Man, in an article called “Aliens in Clover.” He started the School of Sporting Journalism at 5 Queen Victoria St. in London in 1943, the same year his first wife died. All of this as Luftwaffe bombing raids continued to harass London in what was called the “Baby Blitz.” In 1945, now retired from Fleet Street, he married Beatrice Bannister, and they moved to Baldrine on the Isle of Man. In 1948 he was still going strong, and presented a talk called “Personalities I Have Met” to a large audience in Laxey. For his last book he teamed up with pulp fiction writer Raymond Buxton on “The Black Wraith: a Story of the Dog Tracks.” It was published the year of his death (1952), when he finally went to his rest at age 77.