THE
PET ERITE. VOL. XXIV.
JULY, 1926.
No. 253
SCHOOL LETTER. N a résumé of the term's achievements first place must be given to our successful efforts on the river, with special regard to the magnificent performance of the School Boat in winning the Corporation Challenge Cup at Durham Regatta. We take this opportunity of offering our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Ping and the crew, and hope that their splendid feats will lead to a proportionate increase in the boat-house fund. The boaters, however, will have to look to their laurels, when the third boat (as the first and second dare not risk their reputation) rows the cricketers' boat, an event which will shortly take place ! The Cricket XI. has been rather disappointing this term : we started the season with bright prospects as far as batting was concerned, and indeed there is little doubt that we have a side, nearly all of whose members are fully capable of getting plenty of runs, but nevertheless we have unfortunately had some most amazing collapses, on which perhaps we should not dwell too long in view of a really magnificent victory over a very strong Craven Gentlemen XI. thanks largely to a brilliant century by C. L. Troop. Our main weakness has been in bowling, in which Daintry got little support, though he himself put up some brilliant performances, notably against Worksop College, whom we beat by one run thanks almost entirely to his splendid bowling. But when we came to play on really hard wickets we badly missed the services of Crawford. In direct contrast to the failure of the 1st XI. to fulfil our fondest expectations, the 2nd XI. has just brought their season to a close in a blaze