We also congratulate an "old" Peterite, D. C. Spencer, who, this yea' , won representative honours for Great Britain's Modern Pentathlon team and David also played water polo for the North Eastern Counties U.21 team. Our thanks go to Simon Dench for his dominant use of the whistle during the junior matches and his shielding hand during the fierce senior battles. Next year's team will be weakened by the loss of five long-standing campaigners. Victor Matthews, Peter Clare, Greg Pritchard, Alan Tait and Gary King are all leaving this year—but with the influx of several promising young players led by Ian Hindhaugh and Mike Johnston, with Martin Gray, Marcus Tyson, Kevin Kerr and Gordon Tait alongside, the club's future still looks bright. Congratulations to Martin Gray, who takes over as Captain of Water Polo for 1977. Good luck! The Inter-House Competition.— This year, for the first time, we held a Junior Water Polo competition which proved to be a very exciting one. Both School House and the Rise had relatively easy passages in the early rounds but the final was a very different matter. It took two periods of extra time for The Rise to emerge as the eventual winners. Manor repeated their success of 1975 by winning this year's Senior competition, defeating Queen's by 13 goals to 3. T.T.
TENNIS This has been one of the most successful seasons for many years and the future for tennis in the School looks bright. However, it must be said that the facilities at School are not as good as one would like, and because of this we have had to use other schools' courts. The 1st VI of Alastair Barron, George Knowles, Anthony Temple, James Larcombe, David Barron and Graham Village had a very good season, recording victories over Barnard Castle, Archbishop Holgate's, Roundhay and Scarborough College. In addition there were draws with Bootham and Pocklington and four defeats to the strong sides of Leeds Grammar School, Hymers, Ashville and Ampleforth. It was great fun playing in this team since there was a tremendous team spirit and great enthusiasm for the game—they deserve credit for their hard work. Perhaps the highspot of the season was the match against Bootham which was drawn 41-41, but the result was always in doubt until the final set which we lost six games to five. On results throughout the season Alastair Barron and George Knowles were the outstanding pair, and they were awarded their 1st VI colours for their good performances; the second pair of Anthony Temple and James Larcombe could at times play extremely well particularly against pairs who were expected to beat them; the third pair of David Barron and Graham Village were a very consistent pair, who achieved some fine results and should do well next season. 78
