The yearly match with Charterhouse came off at Godalming, Saturday, Feb. 24. There was a strong wind blowing across the ground. Westminster kicked off & their play at the beginning was very good. Peck and Hewitt running up, the ball was put through by one of the Charterhouse backs, thus scoring our first & only goal. Then the play of Westminster fell off, none of them being able to master the heavy Carthusians, & the Vincents on the right did our opponents very good service, being helped by Blenkiron, who played splendidly. Our backs, however, kept the ball well away from Goal, till at last the Carthusian forwards, coming up together, made several shots in rapid succession, which Tritton as often repulsed, till by a good shot Stewart shot their first goal. After this the Carthusians overmatched us, their weight & pace being much superior to ours, & till half-time we hardly got the ball up to their goal, whilst three goals were shot against us by them. After half-time we succeeded a little better, Hewitt, Higgins, and Scoones doing some very good work for the School & succeeding in scoring a corner, which unfortunately was not made good use of. The Charterhouse forwards then rushed up well & shot repeatedly but owing to the good play of Tritton only 2 goals were scored by the Carthusians. The games continued without any further result till time was called, leaving Charterhouse victors by 5-I. For us Scoones, Hewitt, Higgins & Peck played well forward, & Tritton in goals; though owing to the loss of Bedford, our best back, the back play was not so good. All the Carthusians played well up, & it was owing entirely to their size, man for man, that the result was so disastrous to Westminster.
For us the following played – C. B. Tritton (goals), A. G. L. Rogers & A. Fevez (backs), F. Hoskins, F. G. Thorne (half-backs), C. Page, R. A. Ingram (centre), W. G. Hewitt, F. J. Higgins (left), O. Scoones (captain), and H. C. Peck (right).
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- Hewitt P.O.
I may here remark that the Charterhouse ball was the worst I have ever seen.