 He was runner-up to Harold Whitlock for the British 50 km title that year, but he slid to fourth place in the following year's competition and was not selected for the Berlin Games.Whitlock, who captured the 1936 National Championship with a world record time, became the eventual winner of the 1936 Olympic 50km walk.Green retired from competitive athletics after 1936 and, having lost a thumb in an industrial accident at Eastleigh Railway Works in 1934, took up a career as a publican.