At the beginning of term one of our fellows seems to have kicked a small skye(?) on his way down fields, from the awful effects of which the latter fell into a speedy decline being in the graphic language of his mother “all drooped o’ one side”. This mother therefore called a witness, aged somewhere…
The School has drawn the Match with Old Carthusians & been beaten by Old Etonians & R.M.C. Sandhurst.
On Shrove Tuesday Feb 6th the Pancake Greaze took place. The Pancake was very well thrown & fell not far from the Rod drawer. Scoones got possession of it & ran with it to the Sixth-form benches where the Greaze took place. Scoones managed to keep his prize entire & thus won the sovereign.
The Gumbleton Prize for English Verse has been awarded to C. Webb Q.S. The subject was the St. Gothard Tunnel.
Westminster played the return match with Reigate Priory on Jan 27. A draw was the result. On the following Wednesday we played Clapham Rovers & were beaten 5-0.
January 1883. T.B.B. in the Sixth W.G. Hewitt (Rigaud’s) F.T. Higgins (Rigaud’s) A. Stanfield (Rigaud’s) G.E.M. Eden (Grant’s) A.M.T. Jackson (Grant’s)