In the semi-finals School House again rowed well and vanquished Rise. Temple, after beating a Grove scratch crew—which rowed surprisingly well—were well matched by the steady School House crew. Temple won, however, by half a length. The crews were as follows :SENIOR DIVISION.
Grove :—Whittaker, March, Newhouse, Kendell; Foy. Manor :—Hunter, Cobham, Hartley, Gibson; Humble. Rise :—James, Daneff, Hawkins, Goodburn; Haxby. School House :—Hilton, Brooks, Groves, Knowlson; Shenker. Temple :—Hourigan, Green, Calvert, Fletcher; Bird. JUNIOR DIVISION. Grove :—Everitt, Ramsden, Golightly, White; Foy. Manor :—Pallant, Weightman, Quirke, Thompson; Jackson, R. A. Rise —Powell, Simpson, Lochore, Knowles; Sharpe. School House —Rhead, Frost, Collins, Smithson; Shenker. Temple :—Dwyer, Marshall, Robinson, Bird; Bradford. :
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HOCKEY, 1950 We had a disappointing Hockey Season. A year ago we won two and drew one of our four inter-school matches; and six members of that side were available again this year. So our prospects seemed good : and early practice games and the match against York H.C. (though we lost decisively after leading 1-0 at half-time) seemed to confirm the impression that we should develop into a good side. The weather, on which we depend so terribly, has been rather unkind, and we have had less hockey than in 1949. This year in our inter-school matches we lost to Bootham (1-3) and to Worksop (2-5), winning only against Ashville College. Harrogate, on our own ground (2-1). When we begin to look for reasons for this lack of success, several facts stand out clearly. Only against Ashville College had we a full side available. Baker was not playing against Bootham, nor Hodgson against Worksop and though it is not suggested that their presence would have turned the scale, we get so little practice that it is very difficult to adapt ourselves to enforced last minute changes. :
Again, Hodgson—our best forward last year—has unfortunately never been really fit this term : and though he 'has played whenever available with that determination we expect from him, he has never played as well as he did last year, and our attack has suffered accordingly. So an attack which was expected to score goals has never realised our hopes. In defence, too, a weakness began to appear. It was due to a combination of three factors. None of these factors by itself would have worried us overmuch, but added together they made a gap in 50
