Health, Racquet Sports, Memory, Athletics, Diet, Ancient History and Classics.

Eustace Hamilton Miles (1868 – 1948) was a British real tennis player and all round athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

In 1908 he won the Olympic Silver Medal at the age of 39, after losing the final to Jay Gould II. Miles had, in fact, coached the much younger Gould during his stay in America in 1900-2 when he became the first non-American winner of the US Championship in 1900. He won further the amateur racquets championship of the world in singles in 1906 and in doubles in 1902, 1904, 1905 and 1906; and of England in doubles as well as becoming amateur squash racquets champion of America in 1900. He was amateur real tennis champion of England in 1898-1903, 1905, 1906, 1909 and 1911 and amateur real tennis champion of the world in 1898-1903 and 1905.
He was a prolific author on diverse subjects including health (e.g. "Fitness for Play and Work" 1912), racquet sports(“Racquets, tennis, and squash”1903), memory (“How to Remember, Without Memory Systems Or with Them”1901), athletics ("An Alphabet of Athletics"), diet ("The Failures of Vegetarianism" 1902), ancient history ("A History of Rome up to 500AD, with Essays, Maps and Aids to Memory" 1901) and Classics ("Comparative Syntax of Greek and Latin") with many of his books still available on Amazon. He married Hallie Killick, also an author, and both engaged in philanthropic works including providing free food and clothing to the poor of London, available during winter months near Cleopatra's Needle, a charitable exercise supported strongly by Queen Alexandra.

Miles was a mental and physical health teacher that ran a large food reform restaurant on Chandos Street, just off Trafalgar Square in London. He was unique, combining the food shop with a lecture salon where food, scientific breathing and metaphysics were taught.
Dr. Cornwall Round once took Harry Gaze there for dinner. One item on the menu was a meat substitute consisting of a combination of yeast, beans, whole wheat bread crumbs and other ingredients. Miles idea was to provide meals that were meatless, yet closely resembled the look and taste of meat so that the most confirmed meat eater wouldn’t miss their steaks or chops. And he was quite successful.
Gaze, not being a meat eater preferred his meal didn’t resemble meat or flesh for that matter, but his meal there seemed satisfactory.
That night he suffered acute distress in his stomach. Relaying this to Round the next day he was taken aback by Rounds glee. It seemed Round, too, had experienced a similar reaction.
As Gaze realized, our spiritual, mental, and emotional states are closely related in our complete nourishment, and the mental factor involved is always present.
Thomas Troward and Harry Gaze both enjoyed many meals with Dr Cornwall Round at his home. The housekeeper and cook knew how to cook foods conservatively retaining their full flavor.