The TBB and QSS boatrace was rowed this year over the usual course from Putney to Hammersmith on Wednesday July 28th. Before the start it was supposed that the race would be a very close affair, and this was particularly to be desired this year, as it is the last and decisive race for the…
On July 16th the eight rowed a scratch eight of the Leander B.C. composed of several good university oars, mostly Ch: Ch: men. It was a neck and neck race until the Brewery was reached, when our coxswain pressing them into the Middlesex shore enabled us to gain a slight lead; our training here began…
The voting for the Athletic Committee for the next term resulted as follows. H.R. James QS Ex officio W.L. Benbow QS Ex officio R.T. Squire TB 56 H.N. Robson TB 55 W.W. Bury TB 52 F.W. Bain QS 44 R.C. Batley 44 It is a strange fact that no Seniors were elected H.C. Benbow…
T.BB. and Q.SS. cricket match, played Monday, August 2, & resulted in favour of T.BB by 10 wickets. H.C. Benbow and Mirehouse were not playing for T.BB. Note – Benbow has here intended to add the score but it has been lost. I therefore copy it from the cricket ledger. J.B. Hodge Prin Opp 1882…
Charterhouse Match This match was played at Godalming, July 24th, and resulted in their favour by 78 runs:- They won the toss and went in. Powell and Dames were not separated until 115 was up, the former making 66 the latter 44. After lunch they could make no stand against Wetton and Sandwith, the former…
Cricket Our prospects for the Cricket season of 1880 were not bright, as it was understood that only F.C. Ryde (T.B.), the eleventh man of last season, would be here, and that upon him would devolve the arduous task of giving away ten ‘pinks’. Benbow however came back, but did not retain the captaincy, and…
Owing to the kind intervention of Sir Robert Phillimore permission was obtained from Dr Scott to send a four up to the Henley Regatta to compete for the Public School’s Challenge Cup. Unfortunately no Schools of any note entered. The entries were Bedford, Derby, Cheltenham, Radley, Magdalen College School (Oxford), and Westminster. John Phelps, a…
The prizes for the Phillimore Translations into English prose and verse were awarded as follows: Prose. H.C. Benbow Verse. H.R. James Q.S. The subject chosen for the Prose was Thucydides i. chpp. 7-10, for the verse the fourth Ode of Propertius.
Friday June 18th gave rise to one of the most serious rows that have occurred here for many years:……. On Friday June 18th after ‘speeches’ up School a most unseemly disturbance was made by the greater part of the school, and which the masters took no steps to quell whatever. At the advice of Dr.…
On Monday June 7th I and my brother and Robson were asked by H.R. James Q.S. captain to attend a monitors’ meeting on the following day to consider a case in which Sheridan (Grant’s) had shown great insubordination and insolent defiance to F.E. Lewin (Head monitor) whilst ‘picking up’ at Lawn Tennis and a second…