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PETERITE. Vor. . XII .
AUGUST, 1894 .
No . iii.
SCHOOL LETTER. T is our sweet duty, before proceeding, to congratulate Mitchell on his Cambridge cricket " blue, " or on his innumerable successes both in the batting and bowling departments of the game. Our own successes have been, we pride ourselves, by no means small ; for have we not beaten Ripon, Durham, in fact every school we have so far played, and also the Old Boys ? the Yorkshire Gentlemen, however, behaved to us in a manner far from gentle, but otherwise we have not much to sadden us. Nhincup, Sullivan, Hudson, and Clemons have been hitherto rewarded with fifties, and the team generally is covered with glory. The sight that greeted us on June i i really amazed us : hordes of begrimed workmen were busy with spades and other weapons digging the site for the gymnasium ; numerous old pots, flesh-pots, water-pots, flower-pots, and other Roman antiquities have been fished out by the workmen. The Athletic Sports will soon be here, and the editors cutely tip Partington as the winner of the quarter, pole jump, high jump, and scratch hundred ; Whincup ought to do good time for the mile, and win the throwing the cricket ball . We hope there will be " thirds " this year, and that the handicappers will deal kindly with the editors. Commemoration day was a great success, thanks to all parties ; we won the Old Boys match, though the splendid batting of the
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