THEIWORCESTER CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHRONICLE. ru>, TO. S'fVKTa Trapa OfS>v i/r
No. 21.
VOL.
II.
JULY, 1892.
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Editorial Worcestershire Churches Regatta Boat Race Athletic Sports Cricket School Officer? School News ... Chess
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(Ebitorial !E remember various Vigornians in the past wherein a note of despondency was struck in the opening chord, to be repeated at intervals as long as space allowed. But the day of Jeremiads is over, we hope never to return. We can enjoy the unwonted satisfaction of looking round us without finding so much to grumble at. Briefly, we have put a fine four on the river and beaten Hereford in our first race ; our cricket has improved in no small degree; we have lived to see the numbers reach 70. Outward and material prosperity all this, and such as counts more " in our day and generation " than scholarships and class lists; but there we have to shew a first in Final Mathematics at Oxford, to find a parallel to
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which would defy the memories of half a dozen oldest inhabitants. We have dealt elsewhere at some length on our victory over Hereford on the river. Certainly, a finer crew we are not likely to turn out for some time, and strokes like Dutton are few and far between. While we have had the making of a good four more than once in recent years, none of these previous crews went through such careful training or reached such a pitch of excellence, and that through the absence of any motive like a race with another school. Add to this the greater value now set upon a place in the four, and the good done to our rowing is obvious. At the same time way will be made under great difficulties. The poverty of the Club bars the road like a brick wall. For the Rowing Club stands apart, and is only helped by the Games Fund when the members' subscriptions are not enough to meet expenses. Sometimes it taxes the generosity of the general fund to the amount of sixpence. Owing to the preparation for the boat race with. Hereford Cathedral School, in which two members of the eleven rowed, we were unable to begin properly our cricket season until nearly three weeks of the term, had elapsed. But, notwithstanding the late commence-
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ment, we have been very successful hitherto ; far more successful than we expected, for our three best batsmen, including the captain, had left us, and among these were two of our best bowlers. Of course, as we are now in the middle of the season, we cannot tell what will be the result of the remaining matches, but judging from the form already shown we ought to win the majority of them. At present, out of eight matches we have won five and lost three, and though to the casual reader this may not seem to indicate any marked improvement, yet an examination of the scores will show that whereas last year it was the Masters only who succeeded in scoring, this year, on the other hand, the boys themselves have contributed largely, one boy having made a larger score than has been reached at the School for several years. We wish wo could bestow the same praise on the fielding ; but this is undoubtedly the worst part of our cricket; one match was lost entirely through the inability of our men to hold even easy catches, and the way in which balls were allowed to pass between the legs was astonishing. This is very probably on account of the very slack attendance at the practices. Hardly ever have the whole eleven turned up at once, and consequently the practices have been rendered very dull and uninteresting to those sufficiently energetic to attend. There seems to be an impression in the School, too, that net practice is only for members of the eleven. Let them disabuse themselves of this idea at once, or else there will be very poor material to supply the places of those who have left in next year's eleven. In the middle of the last football season, at a formal meeting composed of the Masters and representatives elected by the School, it was decided that in future, for various reasons, the School should play Association. Accordingly, during the latter part of the season, we practised hard at Association, and ventured to play one match with Mr. Littlebury's team. Thougli beaten by eight goals to three, we played much better than we expected, the chief fault being an inclination to use the hands, a habit consequent oil the Rugby game we have been accustomed to play. Of course it was impossible to gather, from such a short trial, whether the change was advisable or not, and we shall look forward with considerable interest to next season to decide this, though we can hardly expect to have much success after so little training.
§ome Ullorcesterslute Churches. !O talk about Worcestershire or any other county as if it owned a monopoly of fine churches would only argue an unreasoning partiality to one county, or blank ignorance about everything outside it. We may point to certain districts as the home of certain peculiar excellences quite their own ; we may admire the spires of Northamptonshire, the lofty towers of Norfolk or Somersetshire, or take an interest in the peculiar development taken by Norman architecture in the latter county, examples of which may be seen in the slight remains of the triforium arcading at Glastonbury. With these exceptions we shall do well to view with equal eyes the country as a whole; our conclusion will then be as follows : —Where there were no influences at work in the other way, whether such influences took the shape of a backward state of civilization, an absence of law and order, a prevalent condition of robbery and war not yet thrust aside to make way for the reign of peace ; or the neighbourhood of the sea and the consequent exposure to attacks from marauders from without (thougli it is true that this, instead of being held a good reason for refraining from building churches which would only be burnt down, often led men to build on stronger and firmer lines), or scantiness of population, lack of enterprise, difficulty of the carriage of materials, such as might he the case in mountain districts. Where these were absent church building was actively carried on all over the country. As these arresting influences in the first instance were at work with the least power in the midlands and, where they were present, soonest swept away, we should look for a multitude of noble churches in Mercia, and those, too, of early date. For the purposes of this sketch we need not go farther afield than our own count}'. In the seventh and eighth centuries monastic foundations thickened about the Huiccian diocese. The times favoured the movement. By the wiser heads among the kings it was welcomed as the bringer of peace and civilization; to men who had spent the best part of their days in bloodshed, and in their latter years were turning to see the error of their ways this simple means of making some atonement readily commended itself. The monks would find much to please them in Worcestershire. Sites for monasteries were often selected from the charm of scenery in the shape of valleys, woods
THE VIGORNIAN. and rivers; this was particularly true of the Cistercian clump of lofty trees, bare of branches save for the tuft order. The stretches of forest country called out all of foliage at the top, crowns the highest point. You the energy of these untiring workers who often found turn to the left and find yourself descending towards a district under the complete sway of nature, and left the Avon, through the village of Twyning. A bend a fruitful garden to minister to the needs of man. in the road, And, on a sudden, lo '. the level lake The nearness of the county to the Western Marshes And the long glories of the winter moon. offered their missionary zeal a grand field for exercise ; Or, if not that, the faint November sun setting through there stood open wide to them a great door of preaching the faith. So all up the banks of Severn and Avon the trees on your right, and a magnificent sweep of these foundations were numerous. A Cell was founded the Avon before you. You stand on the outside at Theocsbury (Tewkesbury) in 675, and at Deerhurst of the bend, on the ner.rer side the trees run down to yet earlier. Pershore was founded before the end of the water's edge, opposite you the sweep of the river the century; to Evesham, the Abbey of his own encloses a wide stretch of plain, which loses itself in building, retired Egwine, Bishop of Worcester, in 714. the trees and orchards beyond. In the background is Ripple and Bredon date from the same time. Eipple one of the slopes of that mysterious hill, Bredon; in is on the Severn between Upton and Tewkesbury. the immediate foreground, about half a mile across the The plan of the church is more ambitious than you river is seen the spire of Bredon Church piercing a usually look for in a village church, perhaps it is due cluster of yews, planted, as yews always seem to be to its connection with the monastery of bygone days; planted, in the shape of a wedge. The village is hidden it is cruciform with a central tower. We think that from sight. some such impression as this is nearly always produced Bredon Church is one of the finest in the county. by the sight of a village church built on the plan of a The spire was the work of Wilkinson, who also built big collegiate or cathedral church. In the latter there that of St. Andrew's, Worcester. The marvel is that is a manifest unity of design: soutli transept corresponds such good work should have been done in a century— exactly to north transept, choir to nave. The presence the seventeenth—so dead to good works of this kind. of the tower at the intersection seems quite an accident i The tower stands between the chancel and the nave. and in no way to break the continuity of the work. Such a position, when there are no transepts, is usually But you are in danger of falling into no such illusion awkward, either the tower is narrow, in which case the in the village church, the different parts are painfully connection between nave and chancel is broken, or it independent, they look as if they had been built is absurdly wide and so suffers itself. At Bredon, at different times without any attempt at correspondence; however, a happy compromise has been effected. The the chancel roof is usually lower than the nave roof. tower is large in every way, and does not look disThe whole as a design does not seem to have existed proportionate ; there is also an interesting Southern from the first in the mind of the architect. All this Chapel built on to the main fabric. Its character at once is true of Eipple. There is one feature of interest reminds you of the windows in the Lady Chapel at however about the church. After the Cathedral and Worcester, the style is in both cases the same, and the Malvern Abbey it stands alone in the county in having similarity extends even to the shafts of Purbeck marble. a set of carved misereres to the _choir stalls. They Both were built at the same time, and perhaps by the were very stiff when we visited the church, as if unused same hands. It seems to have been the practice of to being lifted by the hands of the curious. The mediaeval masons to travel from place to place getting carvings represent, as is natural, scenes from agricultural fresh commissions. life. They included, as far as we remember, illustrations The chancel is in the Decorated style, but the nave of the different steps in the process of cider making. is Norman. The North door of the nave is a particularly Prom Piipple to Bredon is but a little way, and the fine piece of Norman work, late perhaps, and therefore walk is charming, especially in Autumn. Descending more elaborate and richly ornamented for that style. the churchyard and making your way through an The West end recalls the corresponding part of Ledbury orchard, you soon strike the Tewkesbury road, which Church, for on each side of the nave rise two quaint here runs through some high common ground. A stone turrets, each surmounted 'by a pyramidal cap;
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they are severely simple in appearance. We remember hardly anything that disfigures the church except a hideous tomb of Jacobean times, with a couple of " recumbent effigies," as they would be called ; there is a heavy canopy over them. We should much like to see swept from English churches all the tombs of the Stuart and the Early Georgian times, with their conventional paraphernalia, cypresses, skulls, pagan urns, and all such unsightly symbols, on which the imagination of the artists of that day dwelt.
whose tops are not the least rounded, but quite angular. Above these is another row ; between the upper lights are timbers, much after the style of the little timbered church at Eesford. Tower there is none, but out of the nave roof rises a short wooden spire. The whole church suggests, in a quiet way, architecture in the making, you can see style passing into style ; Transition it is emphatically. H. M. C.
The whole district teems with interesting churches; but we will now cross the Severn. Holt Church seems HE generally unsatisfactory progress of the little known, but it is unequalled in the county for the season was atoned for by the excellent richness of its Xormaii work. There are two fine doorEegatta that closed it. The postponement ways north and south of the nave ; the figures on the of the race with Hereford brought it more to the capitals of the pillars are somewhat worn away on the northern one, but splendidly preserved on the other. front than it would have been otherwise. Xor was The subjects are treated in the grotesque style usual in less interest attached to it from the fact that there ornamentation of that age. Hero we have the " laidly were less means of forecasting the results than usual. worm " devouring its tail, there a couple of archers, It often happened that the same fellows rowed in snakes wriggling about one another, the face of a man several races following with little break : hence short wearing a frightfully hideous grin, etc. In quality they courses were imperative. In fact, it almost looked as hardly fall short of the work at Iffley, near Oxford. if the committee of the Bowing Club had been going There are several Norman windows, but perhaps the through a mathematical problem to find the number of chancel arch bears away the palm. The font is one of combinations of 16 men taken four together. We the oldest and most interesting in the county, it recalls were favoured by beautiful calm weather and a normal the Runic font at Chaddesley Corbett. Bound its sides condition of current, which gave the winners of the On Wednesday, are carved rude representations of the devil chained. better station no great advantage. Inside the church you grope about in the gloom of that March 30, some of the pairs were rowed off, the course reaching from the Promenade to the end of the wall " dim religious light" which pleased Milton so well. The number of slits and niches in the walls are a below Mr. Binns's house. First Pleat. puzzle. What was their use? from their positions Fuller ii. \ ( Bavies ii. they could not have all been " squints." Some explain Cook i. > V. < Chamberlain. them as openings through which food was passed to Steward ii. j ( Button. Cook won rather easily. the lepers. Broad was is another interesting church, west of the Second Heat. West. i ( Steward i. Severn. It is built in the prevailing red stone, which Webb ii. • V. J Fuller i. here wears not that cheerless and depressing air so Morris ii. ) ( Button ii. painful elsewhere, as for instance at Slmiwley, HartleA close race, just won by Webb's crew. bury or Astley. The Southern Chapel is a fine piece The two winning crews then raced, leaving a bj-e of work, especially in its windows ; at its east end it for the winners of the third heat, which was rowed has an exquisite rose window, below which are a the next day. Scml-Finul. couple of lancets. The grouping of the three reveals Cook's crew V. Webb's crew. how the development of the great Decorated windows Webb's crew were certainly to be pitied in their cox., came about. A fine old timber porch is over the south door, which itself suggests something half way between but they were well beaten by their opponents. Thursday began with the School House v. School Norman and Early English. The west end is curious, on a level with the eye are half a dozen simple lancets, Junior IT.
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This resulted in a decided victory for the Lower School. Then followed the race in which, after the race with the O.Y.'s, the keenest interest was taken ; the two crews were very well balanced, each having a couple of first four men. Plence winning the toss meant a decided advantage for the school who had the slightly better station. The race was very close up to the finish, when the School, by a final effort, won by three-quarters of a length.
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The next item was the Scratch Fours, which rarely fail to cause amusement by the glorious uncertainty of the drawing, when bow may weigh twice as heavy as stroke, and the respectable oar find himself behind the most persevering crab-catcher. Scratch Fours. First Heat. Mr. Eammell. "] [ Cook. C. C. Faram. I | Laurie. \ Beat \ West. Webb i. W. Bolland. | | Chamberlain. [ Ley (cox.) Davies ii. (cox.) J In the beaten boat, the rapidity of stroke so upset two that half way up the course he retired from the unequal contest and yielded to his fate.
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Second Heat. Mr. Summerhayes. ] f Conacher. Mr. Jordan. | j Pickin Fuller i. f- Beat -{ Richings Webb ii. [ [ Davies i. Button ii. (cox.) J [ Steward ii. (cox.) A somewhat varied crew was Bavies's, for whom the superior weight of their opponents proved too much. The final of the Pairs did not belie its promise to be a tough contest. Conacher. j \ Fuller. Button i. V. V Cook. I Steward ii. (cox.) Dutton ii. (cox.) I The boats were very close to each other all the way down, when Dutton's boat won by a bare half-length. By this time the O.V.'s were ready to row the School. All the four races were up-stream, but this course was considerably longer than the others, extending a little way above the first locks to the Promenade. For the first part of the race the boats were almost neck and neck; only in one place did the Old Boys shew any tendency to get ahead. When opposite Mr. Binns's, Dutton spurted magnificently, and his stroke being well backed up, the School won a good race by a length.
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Chamberlain. ] ( D. Pember. Webb i. I ! G. Telfer. Cook. }- Beat, -j W. Branthwaite. Dutton i. ! 1 C . Faram. Dutton ii. (cox.) J [ W. A. Higgins (cox.) The final of the Scratch Fours, in which, after a good race, W. Bolland's crew beat Webb ii.'s, ended a very pleasant afternoon. H. M. C.
the athletic half of school life we have taken a step forward greater than any during the last ten years. The Eowing Club has had a chance of shewing what it can do against another school, and made the most of it. At the beginning of the season a challenge was sent to Hereford Cathedral School inviting them to send their four to compete with our own on the Severn. We hardly expected to beat a school with a name for rowing, such as Hereford has, but thought we might make a respectable race, and at all events our rowing could hardly fail to benefit from some definite object of this kind; and we hoped, if
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the first trial was encouraging, to make it an annual event. Our proposal was taken up most heartily, and the suggestion to race on the Severn this year being agreed to, the next step was to arrange the date and the boats to be used. The Hereforclians promised to come on the 2nd April. Everton was having built a couple of light tub fours, much like the one we have used In these it was agreed to row the several years. race. The slight difficulty felt by the Hereford fellows, who are accustomed to lighter ships, was to some extent met by their arrangement to hire for a week the boat in which they were to row. As the term went on the outlook was far from cheering. One misfortune after another hindered the crew from getting together ; and when at last they did, we had come within a fortnight of the time. But at the last moment an outbreak of illness at Hereford put off the race till May 21st. This step, necessary as it was, caused great disappointment to those who looked for nothing but half-hearted interest in a deferred event: in the long run it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, and the additional time thus gained was certainly the means of winning the race. Little was done till the last ten days of the holidays, seven of which ought, of course, to have been in the summer term. Mr. Melville, however, then began to have his men out every day, and the course was regularly done, the time being gradually brought down. The distance was nearly half a mile, from the Dog and Duck Ferry to the Grand Stand, a reach which seemed on the whole preferable to the stretch from Diglis to the Deanery. The record time during practice was 2min. 46secs., at a rate of 39 strokes a minute, made two days before the race : the next day was spent on the lower waters, and chiefly in making starts. At length, expect at a dies ailerat, and with it the Hereford crew, their Head Master, and G. Fowler, Esq., their coach, besides a considerable number of the school. The weather was fine : the moderate breeze astir was blowing down stream, and the current, though more powerful than it had been for a fortnight before, was in strength far below the winter average. Just after three o'clock the Hereford crew were caught sight of paddling up the course to the starting place, where our men, who had walked, were now awaiting them. Astbury won the toss, and chose the western station, undeniably, if either was, the better of the two : for just at this point the water is shallow on the Pitchcroft side,
which would have anyhow caused Dutton to take his boat out into mid-stream; at the same time he had to start well out to avoid anything like a bend at the beginning. The boats were arranged level without much difficulty, and Mr. Melville started them. For full twenty strokes neither boat had any clear advantage, as far as could be seen by the excited crowd which followed their movements from the bank. Then. Hereford, who were pulling a stroke so quick as to come little short of a bucket, drew ahead. The greatest advantage they had at any time cannot be accurately determined owing to the contradictory statements uttered : some say that at their best they were leading by three-quarters of a length, while others deny that it was more than a bow's length. The former seems unlikely, when wo remember the extreme rapidity with which they were afterwards overhauled, while the latter perhaps understates the truth. Wo shall not be far wrong in saying that for some time they were half a length ahead. This, of course, was the critical point of the race. Some oarsmen might at once have shortened and quickened their stroke and thereby thrown their men out hopelessly : to have done so would have been to fling away all chance of winning, but Dutton showed himself proof against any such temptation and persevered in his long swing, well backed up bjr his men. At length a point was reached, beyond which his knowledge of the course told him that it would be dangerous to put off the spurt; at the same moment Mr. Melville's whistle was heard louder than ever. Two strokes, and no more than two, brought the boats level; soon the Worcester boat was seen to have an advantage which increased into a lead of nearly a length, and so they passed the winning post. The time was 2min. 42secs., or 4secs. under the best previous time ; the rate at the end was 42 strokes a minute. If wo may be allowed to offer any criticism, we should say that the Hereford men were in too great a hurry to win at the first, while Dutton was content to bide his time, and remembered that races are not necessarily decided in the first half of the course. Individual praise is invidious when all the crew were doing their best. An account of the race would be but half written if we forgot to utter the deep feeling of obligation throughout the school to Mr. Melville. We are quite sure that the crew will not think that anything is taken away from the credit due to them if
THE VIGORNIAN. we say that without him the race would never have been won. He gave us no small portion of his time, and besides the actual benefit of his coaching, he inspired the crew with wholesome confidence in themselves by encouraging expressions of opinion drawn from much experience, Certainly, if the race showed anything, it bore out the accuracy of his forecast. The officials were :—
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final. The mile was a very good race, though not so exciting as it was last year ; Laurie only just winning by a good spurt in the last hundred yards. Laurie also won the champion medal, and we heartily congratulate him, for he ran very well both in the long and short races, with good form and pace. The officials were :— Judges : Rev. W. E. Bolland, H. Clarke, Esq.
Starter : Eev. W. G. Melville.
Starter: T. E. Rammell, Esq.
Judges: Revs. W. E. Holland and T. Thistle.
Stewards: Rev. W. E. Bolland, H. Clarke, Esq., T. E. Rammell, Esq., E. D. Jordan, Esq., J. H. Hooper, Esq.
Canon Clanghton was present to decide, if there had been any doubt.
Committee: H. M. Conacher, J.T. Chamberlain, F. H. Dutton, J. H. West, F. Davies, J. Cook.
Names and Weights of the Crew* : W. C. G. S.
J. T. Chamberlain G. Webb J. L. Cook F. H. Button, str A. Button, cox
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Treasurer: Rev. W. E. Bolland. Hon. Sees. : J. T. Chamberlain, F. H. Dutton.
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JUhletic Sports. pUB Annual Athletic Sports were held as usual at the end of the Easter Term, on Thursday, April 7th. The state of the weather was all that could bo desired, and consequently there was a larger attendance of people than we remember ever to have seen there before. This year again, as last year, we decided to have only one day at Boughton, and most of the heats, throwing the cricket ball, and some of the jumps were decided on the preceding Saturday on our cricket ground. The sports commenced fairly punctually, and there was very little to find fault with in the way that the programme was carried out, each event following closely after the preceding one. Nearly every race produced a large number of competitors, and some of the finishes were very exciting. The junior quarter-mile resulted in a dead heat between Chaplin ii. and Spark, and the race had to be run again, Chaplin ii. managing to beat Spark in the
The following is a list of the winners :—• THROWING THE CRICKET BALL (OPEN). — Prize, bat. J. T. Chamberlain, 86 yards. LONG JUMP (OPEN).—Prize, sugar basket. Cook, distance i6ft 2in. LONG TUMP (UNDER 15).—Prize, bag. Telfer, distance 13ft ain. HURDLE RACE.—Prize, aneroid barometer. Cook. HIGH JUMP (OPEN).—Prize, racquet. F. Davies, height 4ft. 6^in. 120 YARDS HANDICAP ( O P E N ) . — F i r s t Heat: West i, Cook 2, Fuller 3. Second Heat : Laurie i. i, Davies i. 2, Chaplin 3. Final Heat : Laurie i. (opera glasses) I, West (cruet) 2, Davies i. (pencil) 3. 100 YARDS (UNDER 15).—Telfer (clock) i, Fuller ii. (pencil)2. 130 YARDS (OPEN).—First Heat: Davies I, Chamberlain 2, Cook 3. Second Heat : Laurie i. I, West 2, Fuller!. 3. Final Heat : Laurie i. (aneroid) I, West (pencil) 2. 100 YARDS (UNDER 13).—Laurie ii. (butter dish) I. HIGH JUMP (UNDER 15).—Prize, racquet. Webb ii., distance 4ft. 2in. QUARTER-MILE (OPEN).—J. West (a prize presented by Mr. Binns) I, Laurie i. (fish carvers) 2. QUARTER-MILE HANDICAP ( U N D E R 15). -— Chaplin ii., 25 yards (given by Mrs. Bolland) I ; Spark (cup) 2 , Fuller ii., 5 yards (knife, given by Mr. Plum) 3. HALF-MILE HANDICAP (OPEN).—F. Davies, 10 yards (a prize given by the Masters) I, J. Chamberlain, 5 yards (cup) 2, Webb i., 15 yards (ink pot) 3. HALF-MILE ( U N D E R 15).—Harrington i. (clock) i, Laurie ii. (knife) 2. OLD BOYS' RACE (120 YARDS).—F. Hadley (meat carvers) I, R. Webb (flask) 2. ONE MILE (OPEN).—D. Laurie (a prize given by the Head Master) I, West (clock) 2, Davies i. (wreath clock) 3. SACK RACE.—Prize, photo frames. Steward ii. CONSOLATION RACE (220 YARDS).—J. Liddell (cricket ball) I, H. M. Chaplin (clock, given by Mr. Spicer) 2, Fuller i. (knife) 3. FIVES TOURNAMENT.—Prize, cup. J. Chamberlain. CHAMPION GOLD MEDAL.—Laurie i.
At the conclusion of the races, the prizes were given away by Mrs. Melville.
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OTdchet. W.C.G.S. v. Mn. LITTLEBURY'S XL Saturday, June 2nd. jjHIS was the first match, of the season, and resulted in an easy victory for the School on the first innings. For the School, Chamberlain took seven wickets for four runs, while Mr. Eammell batted well for his score. In the second innings Mr. Littlebury's team showed to better advantage. MR. LITTLEBURY'S XL first Innings. R. Webb, b Chamberlain J. T. Carding, b Chamberlain .... A. Merridew, b Chamberlain . . . . G. Newman, b Chamberlain E. Webb, not out F. Newman, b Chamberlain O. Forrest, b Rammell R. Littlebury, b Rammell A. Maughan,cSheiM b Chamberlain
Second Innings. 5 1 b w, b Jordan.... o 6 st E. Holland, b Rammell 27 I c Rammell b Jordan I I b Chamberlain .... 21 o b Chaplin 2 o run out 4 o not out 8 0 b Chaplin o
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W.C.G.S. E. W. Bolland, b E. Webb i A. P. Bolland, b E. Webb 8 E. D. Jordan, Esq., c Newman b R. Webb .. 6 T. E. Rammell, Esq., not out 30 J. T. Chamberlain, not out 11 G. Webb, D. Laurie, R. Telfer, J. S. Liddell, H. II. Chaplin, and J. G. Sheild did not bat. Extras 10
66 W.C.G.S. v. DEAN CLOSE MEMORIAL SCHOOL, CHELTENHAM. Played on the School Ground, Saturday, June 4th. In this match we did not show to advantage. Nobody scored but Mr. Eammell, and in the short time for which we batted in our second innings four wickets fell. Mr. Holland's bowling analysis was very good. Perhaps the match was unique for the number of cases of 1 b w. Our captain came out twice in this most disappointing way.
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W.C.G.S. v. NORTON BARRACKS. This was played at Norton on Tuesday, June 7th. We made up for the ill-success of the previous match by scoring another century. The feature of the day was Mr. Bolland's innings of 46, the highest so far scored this year. His partnership with Laurie put on nearly 40 runs. Laurie's innings of 21 also deserves mention. NORTON BARRACKS XI. Lieut. Townshend, c and b Fuller Sergt.-Major Poole, b W. E. Bolland Dr. Carrol, c Chamberlain b Fuller Captain Monro, c Jordan b Fuller Sergt. Maybury, b Fuller Lieut. Maitland, b W. E. Bolland Dr. Percival, b W. E. Bolland Sergt. Harris, b W. E. Bolland Pte. Priest, b Chamberlain Pte. Mence, b W. E. Bolland Dr. Kennard, not out Extras
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THE VIGORNIAN. W.C.G.S. T. E. Rammell, Esq., c Carroll b Priest J. T. Chamberlain, c Percival b Priest E. D. Jordan, Esq., b Monro E. W. Bolland, b Monro G. Webb, c Priest b Monro Rev. W. E. Bolland, b Monro F. C. Fuller, b Monro A. P. Bolland, run out R. Telfer, b Townshend D. Laurie, c Carrol b Percival J. Liddell, not out Extras /
25 o o 3 9 46 ,. 9 8 o 21 o ' 10 131
W.C.G.S. v. Mr. LITTLEBURY'S TEAM. Thursday, June 9th. We expected to fare rather badly against the strong team which Mr. Littlcbury brought against us for the return. The visitors put on 35 for their first wicket. The rest of the team did not do much, except E. AY ebb, who made his 23 in a very short time. The School began well, but after Mr. Eammell, who had been hitting the bowlers about the field, came out, things looked bad—five wickets fell for as many runs ; but Telfer kept his head and hit the winning stroke. The two last wickets put on 17 runs. MR. LITTLEBURY'S XII. H. Brierley, b Chamberlain G. Leggett, b Chamberlain H. Bennett, b Fuller . G. Watts, c Webb b Fuller E. Webb, run out R. Webb, not out J. Walker, b Chamberlain M. Webb, b Chamberlain H. Blair, c Rammell b Fuller R. Litttlebury, b Chamberlain O. Forrest, b Fuller H. Littlebury, c and b Chamberlain Extras . W.C.G.S. T. E. Rammell, Esq., b Brierley J. T. Chamberlain, c Brierley b Watts E. D. Jordan, Esq., b Webb E. W. Bolland, c Brierley b Webb G. \Vebb, b Brierley F. C. Fuller, b Webb A. P. Bolland, c Brierley b Webb R. Telfer, b Brierley H. M. Chaplin, b Brierley D. Laurie, b Brierley J. Liddell, run out J. Sheild, not out Extras
28 17 o 2 6 23 9 o I 2 2 I 95 38 o 16 6 11 2 I 6 o o 6 o 20 106
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W.C.G.S. v. WORCESTER BEGIMENT (3rd Battalion). Tuesday, June 14. This match was arranged instead of one with Spetchley, as that club could not get an eleven to meet us on that day. Mr. Jordan played a useful not-out innings of 19. For the rest of the team, Wodehouse's bowling proved too much. The soldiers began well, but the issue looked uncertain when six wickets were down for 36. However, the partnership of Fetherstonhaugh and Arden put an end to all doubt; the seventh wicket fell for 80. W.C.G.S. T. E. Rammell, Esq., b Wodehouse J. S. Chamberlain, c Long b Pitt E. W. Bolland, c Wodehouse, b Pitt E. D. Jordan, Esq., not out G. Webb, run out F. C. Fuller, c and b Wodehouse Rev. W. E. Bolland, b Wodehouse A. P. Bolland, c Long b Wodehouse D. Laurie, c and b WTodehouse R. Telfer, st Scott b Wodchouse J. Liddell, b Wodehouse Extras REGIMENT (3rd Battalion). Lieut. Wodehouse, b W. E. Bolland Capt. Scott, b Chamberlain Lieut. Dillon, c Webb b Chamberlain Lieut. Townshend, b W. E. Bolland Sergt. Walford, b W. E. Bolland Sergt. Pitt, run out Capt. Fetherstonhaugh, b Fuller Lieut. Arden, not out Pte. Priest, c Liddell b Rammell Pte. Long, st E. Bolland b Rammell Dr. Carrol, absent Extras
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W.C.G.S. v. HEREFORD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. This match was played at Hereford on Saturday, June 18. We naturally felt great interest in it, as it was the first time that we met this School. Fuller's innings of 40—the highest score obtained by a boy for three years—was a display of fine cricket. He was equally good on the off and leg side. In his partnership with Mr. Eammell runs came slowly at first, but after a time the score mounted very quickly, when Mr. Eammell came out for a well-played 24, wickets fell quickly, and the innings closed for 108. Perhaps Chamberlain's bowlingcontributed to the result almost as
THE VIGORNIAN. much as Fuller's batting. His analysis reads well—six wickets for 34 runs. Hereford batted vigorously for their first wickets, but could not keep it up. Boycott's innings was useful. There was some excitement just before his wicket fell. Over after over went on without a run being made. However, all hope of winning vanished when he got out. W.C.G.S. T. T. Chamberlain, c Crook b Capel , 4 F. C. Fuller, 1 b w, b Doulton 40 G. Webb, run out I T. E. Rammell, Esq., c Chave b Doulton .. 24 E. W. Bolland, b Craven I Rev. W. E. Bolland, by Craven O A. P. Holland, c Chave b Craven o D. Laurie, c Owen b Crook o R. Telfer, b Crook II J. Liddell, not out o J. Sheild, b Doulton I Extras 25 108
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. T. Lofthouse, c Sheild b Chamberlain 26 S. Craven, c and b Chamberlain 13 A. E. Capel, st Bolland b Chamberlain o R. G. Owen, b Chamberlain I H. Crook, c Sheild b Chamberlain 9 C. H. Doulton, Esq., b Fuller 8 E. A. Jones, b Fuller 5 H. L. Chave, b Chamberlain o A. E. Boycott, c E. Bolland b W. E. Bolland. 15 A. E. Oakley, not out 2 T. E. Hinks, b W. E. Bolland 2 Extras 4
W.C.G.S. v. NORTON BARRACKS. 21st June. In the return match the Barracks' XI. was certainly stronger, but the poor performance of the School was inexcusable. The fielding was very slipshod; if it had been up to the ordinary standard of respectability the Barracks should have made fewer runs ; but as it was, 61 was no terrible total to pass ; however, the School failed signally in batting. Mr. Rammell as usual scored, and Fuller got into double figures ; but after the second wicket fell for 25 nothing was done.
NORTON BARRACKS.— First innings. Capt. Scott, st E. Bolland b Chamberlain .... 15 Sergt.-Major Poole, c Chamberlain b W. E. Bolland o Lieut. S. Clarke, not out 28 Capt. Fetherstonhaugh, b W. E. Bolland .... 9 Lieut. Wodehouse, b Chamberlain 2 Pte. Long, b Chamberlain I Lieut. Townshend, c E. Bolland b Chamberlain o Dr. Fletcher, b W. E. Bolland o Pte. Tibbets, b Chamberlain i Father Nicholson, b W. E. Bolland I Capt. Monro, b W. E. Bolland i J. Sheild, st Nicholson b Wodehouse o Extras 3 61 In their second innings Norton Barracks scored IO2 for six wickets. W.C.G.S. T. E. Rammell, Esq., b Monro 18 J. T. Chamberlain, c Scott b Monro o F. C. Fuller, c Long b Munro 10 E. D. Jordan, Esq., c Townshend b Wodehouse o G. Webb, c Nicholson b Wodehouse o E. W. Bolland, b Wodehouse 3 Rev. W. E. Bolland, b Monro 6 A. E. Bolland, not out , o D. Laurie, c Nicholson b Monro o R. Telfer, c and b Wodehouse I Extras 3 41
W.C.G.S. v. OLD VIGORXIANS. Thursday, June 23. This match resulted in a win for the School, after an exciting game, by three runs. The credit of this victory is due chiefly to the vigorous hitting of E. W. Bollaud and E. Telfer ; while for the O.V.'s the partnership of the two Roans was very useful in averting a more decisive defeat. W.C.G.S. J. T. Chamberlain, c Bolland (sub.) b Monro.. 9 F. Fuller, b Monro ^ G. Webb, b B. Roan E. W. Bolland, c J. E. Roan b B. Roan A. P. Bolland, b Monro •D. Laur:e, b B. Roan R. Telfer, run out O. Forrest, c Webb b B. Roan J. G. Sheild, c Monro b B. Roan J. S. Liddell, c H. Bolland b Monro H. M. Chaplin, not out Extras
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THE VIGORNIAN. OLD VIGORNIANS. H. W. Holland, c Sheild b Chamberlain .... 19 E. D. Jordan, b Fuller , 6 W. H. Higgins, st E. Bolland b Chamberlain I H. B. Roan, c Webb b Fuller II J. E. Roan, c E. Bolland b Webb 13 W. A. Telfer, b Webb 2 H. Webb, 1 b w, b Fuller o F. M. Webb, not out 2 G. N. Monro, absent o A. P. Higgins, run out o H. Webb, b Fuller o Extras 2
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School fletos. E. A. White (Hertford Coll., Oxford) has taken a First Class in the Honours School of Final Mathematics. We have heard privately that he stood first among those in for the School. G. W. Bird (Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge) has passed first part of the Final Examination for the Begreo of M.B. He is also Captain of Tennis at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. He played for the United London Hospitals. H. Pearson has been rowing in the first Gains boat, of which he was Captain. T. A. Branthwaite took a Third Class in Honour Classical Mods, last March. A fresh Ambulance Class was formed under Br. Walpole Simmons last winter; the greater part of it passed the first Examination. All that were left of the previous class took their third Examination at the same time, and all passed. The Examiners were Brs. Mann (for the Juniors) and Simmons (for the Seniors).
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G. W. Bennett has taken his LL.B. at London, January, 1892. The Editors beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following contemporaries:—Cantuarian (2), Falstedian (2), Herefordian, Ipswicliian, Ulula (2), Tonbridgian (2), Ousel (2), Coventry School Magazine, Leodiensian, Trinity College (Stratford) Magazine, Raven, Old Hallian, Roffensian (2), Oswestrian (2), and others.
Chess. Solution of Problem No. 27 :— (White.) K a t K R s q . It's „ KB, 6 and Q 4. B „ K Kt. sq. Kt's „ K Kt 3 and Q Kt. 8. P „ QKti (Black.) K „ K4 Kt's „ K 3 and Q 4. P „ K2 1 B to K 3. 1 K takes B. 2 K to B 6. 1 Kt takes R. 2 K to Q 7. 1 K to Q 3. 2 B to B 4. 1 Anything else. 2 Kt mates.
Problem 28. Composed for " Vigornian " by W. E. B. BLACK.
WHITE. White to play and mate in 2 moves.
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