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Updated: May 4, 2025
Of the two Ripton matches, the one played at Wrykyn was always the big event of the football year; but the other came next in importance, and the telegram which was despatched to the school shop at the close of the game was always awaited with anxiety.
Joe's style, with improvements. Mike put on his pads; and Marjory walked with the professional to the bowling crease. "Mike's going to Wrykyn next term, Saunders," she said. "All the boys were there, you know. So was father, ages ago." "Is he, miss? I was thinking he would be soon." "Do you think he'll get into the school team?" "School team, miss! Master Mike get into a school team!
In a way one might have said that the game was over, and that Sedleigh had lost; for it was a one-day match, and Wrykyn, who had led on the first innings, had only to play out time to make the game theirs. Sedleigh were paying the penalty for allowing themselves to be influenced by nerves in the early part of the day. Nerves lose more school matches than good play ever won.
You see, it's all right for a school like Wrykyn, but with a small place like this you simply can't get the best teams to give you a match till you've done something to show that you aren't absolute rotters at the game. As for the schools, they're worse. They'd simply laugh at you. You were cricket secretary at Wrykyn last year. What would you have done if you'd had a challenge from Sedleigh?
"What a terrible experience for the poor boy!" said Mrs. Jackson. "Much better than being in a beastly bank," said Mike, summing up. "I'm glad he's having such a ripping time. It must be almost as decent as Wrykyn out there.... I say, what's under that dish?" Two years have elapsed and Mike is home again for the Easter holidays.
Allardyce had succeeded Trevor as Captain of Football at Wrykyn, and had found the post anything but a sinecure. For Wrykyn had fallen for the time being on evil days. It was experiencing the reaction which so often takes place in a school in the year following a season of exceptional athletic prosperity.
On the morning after the Aldershot competition Linton met the paper-boy at the door on his return from the fives courts, where he had been playing a couple of before-breakfast games with Dunstable. He relieved him of the house copy, and opened it to see how the Wrykyn pair had performed in the gymnastics.
Patterson had had gambling transactions with a Wrykyn tradesman, had been found out, and had gone. "You remember what a surprise it was to everybody. It wasn't one of those cases where half the school suspects what's going on. Those cases always come out sooner or later. But Patterson nobody knew about." "Yes. Well?" "Nobody," said Trevor, "except Ruthven, that is. Ruthven got to know somehow.
If you're before me, you might get the second court, will you?" The second court from the end nearest the boarding-house was the best of the half-dozen fives-courts at Wrykyn. After school sometimes you would see fags racing across the gravel to appropriate it for their masters.
Once Jevons got off for Ripton, but Trevor brought him down safely, and once Rand-Brown let his man through, as before, but Strachan was there to meet him, and the effort came to nothing. For Wrykyn, no one did much except tackle. The forwards were beaten by the heavier pack, and seldom let the ball out.
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