April 1894

THE

PETERITk. Vol, . XI I .

APRIL, 1894 .

No .

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SCHOOL LET"I'ER. - OW that we are well into April, it seems rather out of place to give much space up to comments upon the football season, especially seeing how entirely our attention is being directed to the river, yet, however enthusiastic we become over the boat races and preliminary drudgery of getting the boats into a racing condition, the popularity of the game of the School will never, we are sure, decrease so as to render it undeserving of first place in the April Pctrrife . We finished the season on March loth by beating Darlington by 3 tries to nil, having also this term defeated the Magpies, Ripon G .S ., Yorkshire College, and Leeds Clergy School.

Our only reverse being at the hands of the Old Almondburians.

We may say the most important match was that with Ripon, who maintain that they have as much right (perhaps more !) to the Cup as we have . The game was a poor one as might naturally be expected, played as it was in some three inches of snow, and, of course, confined chiefly to the forwards—Ripon ' s strongest spot be it noted . The score—3 tries to nil—was decisive enough considering the day, but what it would have been had the elements been favourable, and our backs had their proper share of the game we can only imagine . perhaps not much short of those which made Bradford, Leeds, and Wakefield the losing teams.

The Almondburians gave us the beating of the season—37 points to nil—but then we must take into consideration that the

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match was played three days after the beginning of the term and consequently we had little condition, and still less combination, the only two points where we can score off a team much heavier than ourselves . Of course, we missed Newton very much in the pack this term, but had Whincup back again, whilst Mr. Head ' s weight was very useful against heavy clubs.

During the season we have scored 47 goals (r dropped and penalty), 43 tries—361 points, to our opponents 13 goals, 8 tries—89 points.

To turn from the football field, which, no doubt, our opponents as well as those interested in the School will be glad to hear, is in the course of being levelled and drained, to the river, we find crews of various sizes and degrees of proficiency, out daily, and before this appears in print, many of them will have rowed their race and be crowing over their more unfortunate brethren not yet freed from the strictness of training . The School boat— Partington, Whincup, Bailey, and Cotterell—under Mr . Head's careful coaching is going very well, and we shall be a little surprised if the Old Boys reverse the verdict of the last four years . Their crew consists of G . H . Eyre, F . Mitchell, H . G . Metcalfe, and F. M . Bingham.

We take this opportunity of thanking Mr . Crossley for the tubs he has given us, and the mere fact that they are in use every day shows our appreciation of them.

There seems much more enthusiasm throughout the School this year than usual as regards the rowing, and the generosity of the Old Boys and Mr . Crossley has, no doubt, done a great deal towards its increasing its popularity . Mr . Head, too, has spared no energy in getting the crews into shape, and will, we think, be rewarded by some very good form shown in the races.

By the time this appears in print the term will be pretty well over, and then we have to hope for a cricket term, conspicuous for as much success as the past football season, though attended by a little luck by way of a change .

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FOOTBALL. v . RIPON SCHOOL. Played on Saturday, Feb . 17th, on the Clifton ground, as our ground was in a very sloppy state . The rain which set in on the Friday had continued through the night and on Saturday morning turned to snow . Consequently the Clifton ground, though firm enough in itself, was two or three inches deep in snow.

There was only a small crowd of spectators, including a contingent from Ripon . A start was made soon after three o 'clock

by Ripon kicking towards the river . As was expected, the state of the ground told against our style of play, cold hands and a slippery ball not conducing to passing . However, our forwards soon settled down to work, and, helped by several free kicks for off-side play by the visitors ' halves, kept play well in the Ripon half . Metcalfe and Eastwood were both well looked after, the visitors playing four three-quarters, with one forward less in the scrummage . Attempts at passing were few, and attended with difficulty, but one very good piece was brought off, landing the ball with Partington, who, instead of running round, came back into the middle . He made a very fine run, and only just failed to get over . Ripon brought the ball down again, and play continued to be even, Wheelwright saving well once, and the halves many times . Towards the end of the first half Eastwood, from a scrummage near touch, kicked along the line, and Bailey, following up, took the ball on the bounce and ran right in, being brought down about half way between goal and touch.

This was a very neat piece of play . Soon after this half time was called . Ripon opened the second half with great dash and, helped by good runs by Thompson, looked like scoring in the corner . Some very hard scrummaging continued for nearly a quarter of an hour in our quarters, after which the game became more even . Then Ripon pressed again, but in the last ten minutes Whincup charged a kick and dribbled finely over the line, and almost immediately after Metcalfe dodged through very cleverly.

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None of the goal-kicks were successful, and thus we won by 3 tries to nothing . The probabilities are that a dry day would have been much more to our liking, as our strength is undoubtedly behind the scrummage, On the day our nine forwards had a little the best of their eight, though there was not much in it.

The best of the Ripon backs seemed to be Skene, who did a lot of work at half, Thompson, and Stowe . Of our backs, Metcalfe and Bailey were the best, the last-named doing better than before out of the scrummage . Eastwood played well in the first half, but did little afterwards, though tackling well.

Partington made two good runs, but had not too much to do, and Rose did beater in defending than attacking . Once he seemed to have almost a clear course, but unluckily passed to Bailey, who was held . Wheelwright was satisfactory . Of course, the backs were terribly handicapped by the weather, and scarcely ought to be criticised . Forward, Whincup was far and away the best : he worked very hard, and was always near the ball . All the rest worked for all they knew, perhaps the most prominent being Romans and Williams . Cotterell did very well too, for a first appearance.

ST. PETER 'S SCHOOL .-II . Wheelwright, full back ; H . R. Partington, W . A . Rose, R . H . Bailey, three-quarter backs ; A. AV. Eastwood, J . E . Metcalfe, half-backs ; C . P . Whincup, Romans, S . Dobson, G . P . Haworth, NV . C . B . Williams, K . J. Roy, E . F . Nevile, E. W . H . Henson, C . B . Cotterell, forwards .

v . OLD ALMONDBURIANS. Played on February 3rd, on the School ground. The visitors won the toss and elected to play with the wind—a rather strong one. It was soon evident that the visitors' forwards were much stronger than the School forwards, for they carried nearly all the scrummages, in spite of the determined efforts of their opponents.

Being so badly beaten forward, the School backs were constantly on the defence . All the School backs did their work well, Whincup especially tackling well . The efforts of Whincup and Metcalfe to << feed their three-quarters were always frustrated by the watchfulness

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of the opposing backs . The game was more even (luring the second half, and once or twice the School got inside their opponents ' 25, but the sure tackling of the visitors prevented them from scoring.

Bailey and Dobson were the most prominent of the School forwards.

The following got tries for Almondbury : Bradley (3), Haigh (2), Learoyd (i), Bottomley (r), Lawton (i), and Middlemost (r).

Bradley kicked 4 goals and Dennis r.

Score :—OLD ALMONDBURIANS, 5 goals, 4 tries—(37 points).

SCHOOL,

nil.

v . YORKSHIRE COLLEGE. Played on the School ground on Saturday, March 3rd . Rose won the toss, and the visitors kicked off against the wind . It was soon evident that the superior combination of the School forwards more than compensated for their inferiority in weight . The visitors were kept defending most of the first half of the game ; but their good defence prevented the home team from scoring until nearly half-time, when Partington secured the ball from a " throw forward, " about 6 yards from the line, and got over between the posts.

Eastwood had no difficulty in kicking a goal . Nothing more was scored before half-time . On resuming, the visitors attacked for a time, but were unable to score, and were gradually driven back into their own half. Here Partington took a pass, and scored after a brilliant run . Eastwood sent the ball over the bar, but a visitor touched it in its flight, and the goal was thus rendered valueless. The home team still kept up the attack, and the backs made several combined efforts to score . At length Partington took a pass cleverly, and, eluding several opponents, again scored.

Eastwood converted, and time was called with the score : SCHOOL, 2 goals, r try—(13 points).

YORKSHIRE COLLEGE,

9121.

Sulam, TEAM : —Full back, A . W . Eastwood ; three-quarter backs, R . H . Bailey, 1V . A . Rose, and H . R . Partington ; half backs, Mr . Lord and J . Metcalfe ; forwards, Mr . IIead, C . P. Whincup, T. Romans, S . Dobson, W . C . B . Williams, G . P . Haworth, K . J . Roy, E . Nevile, and Henson.

The College played only 14 men .

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REMARKS .—The School forwards played a good and vigorous game, and managed to get the ball five times out of six . Mr . Head made good use of his weight, and Whincup, Roy, Williams, and Dobson tackled well . The giving and taking of passes were not so good as usual . Mr . Lord and Metcalfe were always busy—passing, running, or tackling . Besides running well, Partington saved frequently. The rest of the backs, though not brilliant, played well. v. DARLINGTON. Played on the School ground, on Saturday, March loth . The visitors won the toss, and elected to play with the wind.

Mr . Lord kicked off, and, the ball being well returned, the visitors took up a position inside the School half. The forwards proved to be fairly well matched, but, owing to the advantage afforded by the wind, the visitors were enabled to maintain their position, and to keep up an attack on our line . Owing, however, to the watchfulness of our backs, and, not a little, to the absence of combination between the backs and forwards of the visitors, their efforts to score were fruitless . Once, their captain got over the line, but, being held outside, a scrummage was formed 5 yards out, and the danger was averted . When halftime was called neither side had scored.

On resuming, play was pretty even for a time, until Mr . Lord got the ball from a scrummage, and, feigning to pass, scored somewhat easily. The wind spoiled his kick at goal . We were soon attacking again, and Bailey, taking a pass from Mr . Lord, scored near the touch line . Mr . Lord made a good, but unsuccessful attempt at goal . The kick out brought no relief to the visitors, for Partington got the ball and ran strongly until brought down about 20 yards from the line . Here Bailey received another pass from Mr . Lord, and again scored . No goal resulted.

The visitors now, by a combined effort, transferred play to our end, and were only stopped when close to the line. They made a determined, but fruitless attempt to score, and time was called with the score : SCHOOL, 3 tries (q points).

DARLINGTON, nil.

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All the School forwards played well, \Vhincup, Dobson, and Romans especially distinguishing themselves . Mr. Lord and Metcalfe were again in great form, both in attack and defence.

The tackling of the backs was distinctly good . Partington ran strongly, but had no opportunities for scoring . Eastwood was very safe, and never failed to return the ball, or bring down his man.

SCHOOL TEAM .—Full back, A . W . Eastwood ; three-quarter backs, R . H . Bailey, A . W . Rose, H . R . Partington ; half-back, Mr . Lord, J . E . Metcalfe ; forwards, Mr. Head, C . P . Whincup, T. Romans, S . Dobson, G . P. Haworth, \V. C . B . Williams, K . J . Roy, E . F. Nevile, C . B . Cotterell.

LEEDS CLERGY SCHOOL. Played at Leeds on Tuesday, March 6th . St . Peter' s won the toss, and Leeds kicked off with the wind slightly in their favour, and the ball was returned to half-way . Some light scrums followed, and the York forwards took play to the Clergy 23, where some combined efforts to score by the visiting backs were only just stopped in time . The home forwards then came away with a loose dribble, and took the ball close to the York line, where a scrum was formed . They again got the ball loose, and dribbled over the line, scoring near the posts and converting.

After the kick-off play was taken into home quarters, and Metcalf getting the hall from a scrum started a round of passing, which ended in Partington scoring behind . Eastwood converted . The kick-off kvas returned to half-way, and the visitors ' forwards, headed by \Vhincup, Head, and Romans, rushed the ball to the home line . A kick into touch brought some relief, but from the next scrum Lord obtained and feinting a pass, ran in between the posts, a goal resulting . The visiting forwards were now having it pretty much their own way in the scrums, though Leeds often came away with a loose dribble . From a scrummage near the centre, Lord obtained the ball, and after passing through the hands of Metcalfe, Bailey, and Rose, it was finally grounded behind the posts by Partington, Eastwood kicking the goal . Bailey was next to score far out Lord failing at goal . Just before half-time the York forwards rushed the ball over the line and Dobson scored, no goal

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resulting, so the score at half-time was :—St . Peter's School, 3 goals, 2 tries (21 points) ; Clergy School, i goal (5 points) . On resuming the Clergy School pressed for a short time, and would have scored but for some smart tackling by the York backs . Bailey made a mark and sent the ball down to the other end, Whincup following up and preventing the return . Then Metcalf obtained from a scrum and passed to Rose, who almost scored himself, but passed to Lord when tackled on the line . The latter made a good attempt at goal against a strong wind across the field . Partmgton next scored in the corner after picking up in the middle of the field and running round all his opponents . No goal . Rose next scored twice in succession, each time with a dodgy run through most of the opposing team, neither of the tries being converted . No further score was added and time was called with the score :—St . Peter's School, 3 goals, 6 tries (33 points) ; Clergy School, i goal (5 points) . St . Peter's School team : back, A . W. Eastwood ; three-quarter backs, H . R . Partington, W . A . Rose (capt .), R . H. Bailey ; half-backs, P . E . Lord and J . E . Metcalfe ; forwards, C . P. Whincup, G . H . Head, T . Romans, T . Dobson, G . P . Haworth, E . F. Nevile, E . W . H . Henson, C . B . Cotterell, F . P . Fausset.

CONFIRMATION. The annual confirmation was held in the School Chapel on April 5th, when a number of candidates were presented to the Bishop of Beverley- . The service opened with the hymn, " Soldiers of Christ, arise ." The Bishop then gave a short address to 'those about to be confirmed . He dwelt on the necessity of the promise they were about to make being one of their own choice . He then put the question, and, after the laying on of hands, again spoke of the solemnity of their choice . Their life could not be without its influence on others, no man died ithout leaving some effect on the world around them ; let their influence be for good ; in order to carry on their conflict against the world successfully they would need strength from on high . The service then concluded with the blessing . The chapel was well filled with the friends and relatives of members of the school .

THEATRICAL BALANCE SHEET.

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CRICKET NETS .

FIRST NET.

SECOND NET.

C . Whincup H . Partington J . Shepherd P . Hudson R . Nevile E . Nevile A . Sullivan H . Bailey P . Williams E. Henson F. Clemons R . Russell — Ford E . Metcalfe

Haworth I. Feld I. Hey I. Addis Moiser I. Moiser II. Crowther Romans Wheelwright Fausset Greaves Cass Roy I. Dobson Walters

THEATRICAL BALANCE SHEET. CR.

Balance from 1892 School Subs Public Subs . . ..

Rev . G . T . lIandfurd Masters' Subs G . Veld, Esq .

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GAMES FUND ACCOUNT. NEW BOATS £ s . d.

C R. Subscriptions (in May, 1893, PETERITR) 23 IS 0 School Subscriptions 4 IS 6 .

M 2 0 0 C . Miller, Esq I o 0 Rev . G . T . llandford . . I o 0 Dr. Bingham . . . .

K . E . I . Wilkinson (2nd) r o o II . W. Preston, Esq 0 10 6 F. M . Scargill, Esq 0 10 o o to o E . V . Ilowgate 0 10 0 11 . D . Naylor ..

0 9 0 G. V . birks . .

A . C . Clarke . .

O 5 0 E . NV . Clarke 0 5 0 Games Fund . .

OI1II £37

FUND.

DR .

Two Fours Carriage . .

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7 11

s . d.

32 0 0 . . 571r

37 7 11

TUB PAIRS. CR .

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639 9

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Carriage . . . .

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s . d. . . 24 0 o . . 2 0 0 . . 4 9 1 £30

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GAMES FUND .—Di.c . 31, 1892 .

CR .

In hand, Jan . 1893 Christmas Term, 1892, Subs .

Jerseys Sold Deficit

£ s . d.

0 8 9 41 3 6 9 12 0 37 12 6

DR . £ s . d.

Bills, 1892 .. . 3 8 16 9 Owing to Rev . G . T . Handford 5o 0 0

£88 16 9

688 16 9

1893.

CR .

Lent Term Subs Midsummer Term Subs Christmas Term Subs Sports Subs .

Photographs Sold (M . Whittam, Esq ., and Rev . A. E . Burton) Deficit

£ s . (1.

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£ 1 49

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Sports . .

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£ s . d.

37 12 6 21 13 I 9 0 9 41 16 11 19 I 6 IS 0 0 117 6

£149

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CBIIUARY—NOTES AND ITEMS.

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Obttuari.

On January 29, by shipwreck, at Kilcummin, Brandon Bay, West Ireland, on the barque Port Yarrock, WILLIAM PHILIP BAINES, aged 19 years . Entered the School January 1885, left April, 1888.

NOTES AND ITEMS. J . E. Gofton, B .A ., St . John's College, Oxford, ordained deacon, and licensed to Thornhill.

J . Raine, B .A ., Hatfield Hall, Durham, ordained deacon in York Minster.

H . D . Naylor sang two solos at the University Musical Society Concert, in the Guildhall, Cambridge.

We have received a newspaper cutting announcing the death of Dr . Spence, Mathematical Master at the School about 1840-45.

As a botanist, he afterwards made a great name, contributing largely to the Kew Museum durrng "almost a life-long residence " in South America . His name "will always be associated with the introduction of chinchonas into India . " Through J . M . Meek (O .P .), we have gained some information about the School Company of Rifle Volunteers formed in 186o . The Officers were Capt . F . M . Scargill, Lieut . J. Walker, Ensign J . H . Leeman (son of the late York M .P .)

The uniform was dark gray with blue braid, buff belts and silver ornaments . On October 24, there were sworn in 36 members of the company, and subsequently 15 more. There was also a Cadet Corps, consisting of about 15 smaller boys, with the same uniform and short swords .' Both lasted about a year.

The upstairs class room, near the Head Master's

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room, was used as an armoury . Mr . Meek has presented his rifle and sword bayonet to the School as relics ; they will probably be placed in the Gymnasium.

The following have received their 2nd XV colours :—F . P. Fausset, G . G . Yeld (old colours), H . Wheelwright, C . B. Cotterell . R . M . Nevile, B. Hudson, N . F . Roy, F . C . Hey, E . C . Grey, F N . Smith, A . M . Sullivan, H . R. Tomlinson, J . P. Watson, L. Bird, B. Draper.

F . Mitchell has been playing for Blackheath v. Cardiff, also v.

Newport.

T . B . H . WLytehead . son of T . B . Whytehead, Acomb House, York, successfully passed the examination for "Second Mate " in the Mercantile Marine.

J . Shepherd and C . P . Whincup have been elected captain and secretary respectively of next year' s Football XV. Rev . R . '1' . E . Fausset has been appointed Chaplain to Lady Dormer of Sedbergh, and also Vicar of Killington in the same township.

R . H . Bailey has been elected " Peterite " editor.

R. S . Roy has been playing three-quarters for H .M .S . Britannia.

We beg to acknowledge since our last issue " Riponian, " "Hurst Johnian, " " Leodensian, " " Eastbournian, " " Brighton College Magazine . " We heartily sympathise with James, who had his hand severely crushed last holidays, and has been put to great expense and trouble thereby .