The final was delayed until nearly the end of term, and it was evident that both teams had put in considerable practice. The Manor gained the first success, but School House soon drew level again. The score reached 2-2 before the Manor finally won by 3-2. York Championship. This year the York Schoolboy Chess Championship has been revived after being allowed to lapse during the war years. The Championship is being run on a knock-out system; four boys from each of the 4 York Schools were entered for the first round, which was played on Friday, 4th March. St. Peter's representatives were Jenkins, Goode, Daneff, and Unwin. Unwin was unfortunately beaten in the 1st round after he had held the initiative for most of the game. In the second round Goode won easily but Daneff lost The game between Buller, of Bootham, and Jenkins resulted in a draw; the replay which lasted for 5 hours finally resulted in a win for Jenkins. The Semi-final draw is :Manchester (Nunthorpe) v. Jenkins (St. Peter's). Goode (St. Peter's) v. Wilson (Bootham). The semi-final and final are decided on the best of 3 games. Goode and Wilson have each won one so far in their semi-final, and the other semi-final has not yet been started.
SHOOTING The beginning of the term saw the introduction of the new "Country Life" conditions. Instead of 10 points for an inch group, 5 points are now awarded and 10 points for a half-inch group. The Rapid was made much harder by greatly reducing the size of the bull and by small snap targets being used in place of the large ones; the use of slings was, however, permitted. Taken as a whole the team did not adapt itself well to the ►ew conditions, as a glance at the match results clearly shows. Because of this the "great things" promised last term failed to materialise, and the •team found itself struggling to win a match. At times we were only narrowly beaten, but by comparing our results with those of our opponents it can be clearly seen that other schools adapted themselves much more quickly to the new conditions. We were handicapped by only having the use of two slings but there should have been a gradual improvement throughout the term, and there was not. Unfortunately Frank's arm injury persisted throughout the term, and he was only able to shoot twice, once for each of the VIIIs. Both the 1st VIII and the 2nd VIII were entered for the Country Life Competition, the latter shooting quite well, whilst the former were again disappointing. 40
