{"id":1771,"date":"2019-11-14T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2019-10-09T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:39:43","slug":"no-50-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"No. 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The athletic sports came off on Tuesday &amp; Wednesday the 3<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup> and 4<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> of November and though the weather, on the 1<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">st<\/span><\/sup> day was, as might have been expected so late in the year, very bad, yet it cleared up on Wednesday &amp; we had a very good day. The mile, which was run on Tuesday, was won by Tomlinson T. B., Lane Q. S. second, &amp; G Dowdeswell T. B. third.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The half mile with hurdles at the end was won by Lane Q. S. The 150 yds flat race by Giles Q. S. who also got the first prize for throwing the cricket ball: &amp; the high jump by <\/span>Sim <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Q. S. This last was very good (5 ft 1 \u00bd inches).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Wednesday a police band was on the ground &amp; a considerable number of spectators were present. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On my asking Marshall for the public football subscription he said that for the future he could never pay it without seeing the details of the accounts bill that he might know how the money was spent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">W Lefroy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Head Boarder<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The athletic sports came off on Tuesday &amp; Wednesday the 3rd and 4th of November and though the weather, on the 1st day was, as might have been expected so late in the year, very bad, yet it cleared up on Wednesday &amp; we had a very good day. The mile, which was run on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[570,522,575],"tags":[568,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}