Amos. The success in the last test is largely due to the efficient instruction received from Cadet Terry, of the A.T.C. The standard of aircraft recognition for this badge is identical with that required for the 3rd Grade Test in the Royal Observer Corps. Finally, the Troop owes a debt of gratitude to parents of ex-Scouts for the return of uniforms. Not only are these still more difficult to obtain, but the increase in the size of the Troop has put further demands on our slender resources. Any further help in this direction will be gratefully received and willingly paid for.
RUGBY FOOTBALL, 1942. RETROSPECT. This season cannot be called a successful one as far as results are concerned, only one School game being won. Yet the side had by the end of the term learnt the lesson which they had struggled with, that no satisfactory performance can be given without a solid backing of hard training and vigorous effort. There seemed to 'be in the team a complacent feeling that wins would 'be obtained as a matter of course, and an easy win over a supine scratch side in the first game was perhaps the worst thing that could have happened in the circumstances. Disillusion followed pretty rapidly, and no real attempt was made by the team as a whole until the game with Durham, when the School side, with three reserves, showed that they were capable of backing each other up to fight right through the game. The pack, after a creditable game at Worksop as regards set scrums, was, in general, weak afterwards, and failed to give their backs enough of the ball in loose scrums. Amos, the hooker, who left early in the term, was badly missed, and the pack became a too static unit, leaving overmuch defence to a back division very weak in three places in this respect. Had the heeling from the loose serums been satisfactory, the side would have done a great deal better, but with a poor supply from these key positions, a vacillating back division never knew whether to adopt defensive or offensive positioning. A great handicap to the side was the difficulty in finding a sound fly-half. Cookson played 35
