ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Vol. 1. No. 1.

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Foreword by His Grace the Archbishop 2 Most Rev. William Godfrey, D.D., Ph.D., Archbishop of Liverpool ... facing 2 School Notes 4 About Cricket 6 College Groups at Lourdes facing 6 and 7 Ave Maria 7 Thomas Aquinas 10 Music in Particular 12 Old School Books 14 Speech Day 15 The Motor Car ... 18 Cycles and Cycling 19 The History of Childwall " Abbey" Church 19 Examination Results 21 An Appreciation of the late Br. Gibbons 24 Rev. Br. M. D. Gibbons ... facing 24 Snapshots at Lourdes ... facing 25 Lourdes . 25 Penicillin . 26 Photography 27 Make Mine Country Style 28 Before e'Transporter were built 30 The Helicopter ... 32 Eurovision 33 Sports Day 35 Athletics ... 38 First Cricket XI...... facing 38 Senior Athletics Group ...... facing 39 House Notes 40 Society Notes 44 Our Crest and Motto 50 Old Boys' Notes 52 Sports Notes 53 Senior Seven-a-side. Colts Seven-a-side facing 54 Junior Athletic Shield Winners. Junior Colts Rugby XV facing 55 College Roll 63

All Communications to be addressed to the Editor of the Magazine, St. Edward'. College, Sandfield Park, Liverpool, 12. 4 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE

School Notes our Blessed Lady, it is fitting to acknowledge here our indebtedness to the Staff for their work in the \.J.r HISfirst issue of the of newthe College series to Magazine be published is the 'rr' annually, and unlike the following issues, organisation of the pilgrimage. We are grateful coversonly part of the scholasticyear as the Christ• to one of the School Prefects, P. Alger, for per• mas number of the Magazine covered much of mission to reproduce some snapshots of the the Autumn Term. pilgrimage. *** ** * The Superior-General, Very Rev. Br. E. F. To enable our parents to see some shots of the Clancy and the Provincial, Rev. Br. M. C. Wall, pilgrimage taken by Br. Coffey, we were very as w~ll as the Headmaster, attended the solemn pleased to welcome a very large number of parents enthronement of His Grace the Archbishop. We and friends on 18th July to a private film-show in had an opportunity of assuring His Grace of our which was included some shots of various school prayers and loyalty on the occasion of Speech Day activities. The audience had an opportunity of when despite urgent business the Archbishop hearing the Plainsong Choir as the choir had been found time to distribute the prizes and to decorate recorded earlier on a tape-recording machine. We Mr. John Curtin with the Bene Merenti Medal acknowledge our indebtedness to Br. Coffey and which our Holy Father had awarded him for his Mr. P. Lynch for their work in arranging a musical services to Catholic Education. We are grateful, background for the silent films. In July too, we too, for the kind permission granted by His Grace had the " Miracle of Fatima" film for the schoolto to reproduce a recent photograph as our frontis• stress the Marian Year and to deepen devotion to pIece. the Mother of God. * ** * ** The Annual Three Days Retreat in Holy Week Mr. Curtin presented the Colours in April to was given by Rev. Fr. G. Fitzgerald, C.S.Sp., and the members of the 1st Rugby XV who had been he spared no pains to encourage all to make a good awarded them. Old Boys will recall Mr. Curtin's Retreat. We very much appreciated his zeal and own contribution to school games in the years we hope that his instructions will be long remem• gone by and his brother's perennial contribution, bered and lived. the words of the School Song. * * * *** The School Pilgrimage to Lourdes was ex• The school teams-rugby, cross-country, tremely well supported and sixty-three boys athletic and cricket, had very good seasons, and a accompanied by five members of the Staff-Rev. full account of their fixtures appears elsewhere. Brs. Coffey, O'Brien and Mullowney and Messrs. Congratulations to the teams for the spirit in which J. Fraser and K. Morris, travelled with the their fixtures were carried through. National Schools' Pilgrimage at Easter. We *** understand that our group was the largest single During the last two terms further changing contingent. accommodation was made available by alterations ** * and improvements. The benefit of the new changing rooms will be felt by the school teams as Other parties from the Brothers' Schools in well as by our visiting teams. We acknowledge England and from one of the schools in Gibraltar our indebtedness to the Architect, Mr. F. Pritchard attended, and a group photograph is reproduced and to the Contractors, C. J. Doyle and Sons, Ltd. in this issue. Whilst thanking the parents for their fullest co-operation in this act of devotion to *** ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 5

The " old " tennis courts were removed and in end of the school year Mr. M. Regan left to take up their place a cricket square has been laid down; a post in commerce. We were very sorry to lose much work was entailed in this operation and the his services and our best wishes follow him. Mr. help of the seniors in levelling the soil is readily T. Rackett and Mr. P. Boyle were appointed to acknowledged. the Staff as from 1st September, 1954. At the *** end of August five members of the Community Congratulations to the Old Boys' Club in secur• were transferred: Brs. Cowley, Mullowney, ing a ground for their various fixtures. Con• 0' Keeffe, Caulfield and Dee. We record our gratulations, also, to Mr. F. Loughlin, on his appreciation for their services to the school and appointment as President of the Old Boys' Associ• wish them every success in their new assignments. ation in succession to Mr. F. O'Neill on the ter• Br. Cowley, apart from VI Form work, edited the mination of his period of office. A debt of Magazine for some years. Br. O'Keeffe, who had gratitude is owed to Mr. O'Neill for his services been on the Staff for twelve years, had among his to the school on many occasions. Mr. Loughlin responsibilities the duties of Games Master. The is well known to the school as a former member of school owesa large debt to him for the organisation the Staff before his present business appointment. of games in the school and for the spirit and skill *** which characterizes the teams. Re will be missed Br. J. F. Moss, likewise, a former member of also by countless Old Boys who have happy recol• the Staff, recently celebrated his Golden Jubilee as lections of rugby and cricket fixtures. Brothers a Christian Brother. The school sends him our Robinson, Liddane, Boyle, Buttimer and Foggerty best wishes and assurance of our remembrance. joined the Staff in September. Br. Robinson is *** well known for his work earlier in the Catholic We were very sorry to hear of the sudden death Institute, St. Mary's College, Great Crosby and of Rev. Br. M. G. Gibbons, until two years ago a recently in Prior Park. To these Brothers and member of the Local Governing Body of the Masters who have joined the Staff we wish every school. Br. Gibbons' contribution to the school welcome and ad multos annos. wasespeciallymarked during the period of evacu• ** * ation. An appreciation of his work at that time Two Old Boys of the School in the Brothers with special reference to this period of the school's have been recently appointed to offices in the history appears in this issue. Order: Br. T. G. Owens as Master of Novices *** and Br. R. A. Grice as Superior of St. Boniface's Sports Day, 1954! The previous day and the College, Plymouth. We send them our congratu• morning and early afternoon would have damped lations and best wishes. the hearts (and bodies) of all, so intense was the *** rain. But still the preparations went on. About Fr. K. Mulhearn was raised to the dignity of 2-45 p.m. on this, the day of the canonisation of the Sacred Priesthood during the Summer Term. St. Pius X, the weather cleared, the sun shone. We were very pleased to welcome him back to the Two thousand saw the Sports run off, and for school. Ad multos annos. their loyalty and confidencein braving the weather *** we are more than grateful. Lt.-Col. J. Graeme We look forward to the visit to the school of Bryson,T.D. distributed the prizes and we were very Mr. D. Watts and Mr. J. Ward to give a demons• pleased to hear subsequently of his decoration by tration of the pole vault. We are very grateful H.M. The Queen in his award of the O.B.E. for this kind offer. *** ** * A belated welcome to Mr. J. Cunningham who Our thanks are due to various kind friends for was appointed to the Staff last January. At the their benefactions over recent months: to Mr. A. 6 ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Barter, Mr. M. Bennett and P. Anwyl, for gifts to tinued success. To the Archbishop Godfrey the Library; to Dr. and Mrs. Azurdia for a Secondary Technical School and the Brothers and trophy; and to an anonymous donor for an Masters and pupils we send our best wishes for amenity to the school. the new foundation in which they are sharing, and *** which represents in Liverpool a new development In the various examinations held by Local in the facilities for Catholic boys. Authorities for admission to Grammar Schools, * * * thirty-two boys secured Grammar School places, We are not unmindful in our prayers and and six others passed the Governors' Entrance thoughts of those boys who have been ill during Examination to the Upper School. *** the year in hospitals, and of those boys whose homes have suffered bereavement. The General Certificate of Education results which are detailed elsewhere were very satisfactory * * * at all levels. Our special congratulations to Last summer over one hundred boys left the Michael Gregory on his Balliol Scholarship and school, nine to follow a vocation to the religious to the other University Scholarship winners. life or to the Priesthood. Our thoughts follow *** them all and we wish them every success in their St. Anselm's College, Birkenhead, celebrated in journey through life. Over one hundred boys September, 1954,their twenty-first anniversary of entered the school in September. We wish these opening. We send them our best wishes for con- every success and happiness in their new school.

About Cri.cket lately dressed gentlemen rapidly grewin popularity. It by this time had become the duel between bats• ~ passes ritual everyof six day hundred before theyears' eyes standing of the cricket spectator. True, pictures of thir• man and bowler, but the latter could endeavour teenth century " cricket " little resemble those of to knock the batsman's hat on the wicket to get the present day streamlined Test matches,but they him out. prove that the sportsman of that era had the same Then fell a blow to cricket! Hill insisted on craze as our modern gentlemen, to hit bat against bowling overhand. When his style was accepted ball. the top hats and curved bats of the period were As centuries progressed men became bored with out-dated. The necessity to duck surpassed the merely hitting the ball aimlessly, with no penalty necessity to look dignified. if they missed. They introduced wickets, two From that time till now the game has changed stump wickets it is true, with a hole between the little. Recently a cry arose for brighter cricket. stumps big enough for the ball to go through, but Each of the game's previous changes arose from recognisable wickets. The sport had become a that same demand. What can be done now? worthy pastime for the gentlemen of Surrey, The implements of cricket are as efficient as they Kent and Hampshire. can be. The players devote all their time to the The newly-invented top hat was eagerly poun• sport. No imprQvements can be made in that ced upon as a worthy headpiece by eighteenth ,line. I suggest reverting to the eighteenth century century cricketers. The cricket of these immacu- form. ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 7

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After a typical French breakfast of coffee, rolls we assembled at Lime Street Station to and butter, we returned to our coaches to say the T was a Wednesday morning in April when 1board our train for London. There were Rosary, which was led by the Prefects. nearly seventy boys from St. Edward's,about thirty Soon we passed through Les Aubrais, which is from St. Mary's, Crosby, and about fifteen from the junction for Orleans and Nevers, where the St. Anselm's, Birkenhead. We were about to incorrupt body of St. Berl1lldette is venerated in embark on one of the greatest journeys of our lives, the convent of St. Gildard. A short time later we for we formed a small section of the Catholic passed Blois and St. Pierre des Corps, the junction Schools' Pilgrimage to Lourdes. We were to join for Tours, a city that was built up around the the rest of the Pilgrimage, composed of groups monastry of St. Martin. As the train ascended from sixty-five different schools, at Westminster the Vienne valley, and followed the Clair to Cathedral on Wednesday evening, for Benediction. Poitiers, we were called to lunch. Eventually, after the usual elbowing and push• In the early afternoon we arrived at the vast ing, we managed to reach our seats, and settled station of Bordeaux, which was the last big town down to enjoy our journey to London, which on our route. Many of the pilgrims settled down passed pleasantly enough. to try and get some sleep, for the sun was very It was late afternoon when we pulled in at warm and the air inside the train very stuffy. Euston Station. When the groups had been mar• Those of us who were unable to sleep had to be shalled together, we made our way across London, content with admiring the French villages we by tube, to Victoria, and so to the Cathedral. passed. Benediction was given by Bishop Halsall, who Eventually we arrived at Pau, a famous health reminded us of our three main intentions : resort set in the foothills of the Pyrenees-soon (1) The guidance of Our Lady for the Hierarchy we would be in Lourdes-again the Rosary was of the country ; said in the coaches. Now preparations were being (2) The preservation of our Catholic schools; made for the end of the journey. The railway and (3) The Pilgrim's own private intentions. follows the river Gave, and soon the Basilica After Benediction we had high tea at the Empire spires appear, and then we can see the Grotto Restaurant, Victoria Station, after which we itself. In a few minutes the journey was over• boarded our trains for Folkestone, which we we pulled in to Lourdes, the whole length of the reached about 10-0 p.m., and went on board ship. train resounding with the echoes of over a thousand We left Folkestone about half an hour later, and youthful foices, all singing their praises to Mary after a rather rough Channel crossing, arrived at in that wonderful Lourdes hymn-" Immaculate Calais at midnight. We disembarked, and boar• Mary." ded the special trains, which would carry us to From the station we were taken in coaches to Lourdes. our hotels, where we were able to wash away the It was very early on Thursday morning when we dirt and grime of the long journey. After an pulled out of Calais, and began our long and ardu• appetising dinner at our hotel many of us, although ous journey through France. During the night it was now rather late, paid our first visit to the we passed Boulogne, Etaples and Amiens, but Grotto-a sight which, although impossible to des• were unable to see much of the French country• cribe in its full beauty, remains firmly fixed in our side. In the early morning light we saw Paris in minds-a huge hollow· in a massive rock, revealed the distance as our train skirted the city and by the light of about sixty candles, whose glow is stopped at Valen~on, where dining-cars were directed chiefly towards the beautiful marble attached. statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, which stands 8 ST. EDWARD~S COLLEGE MAGAZINI! majestically in a smaller hollow over our heads. Conception, which is built over the Grotto rock. Immediately below the statue lay the altar at which It contains numerous altars and has a remarkable Mass was said for the sick every morning. The series of stained-glass windows. Below the Basi• altar lay in the very centre of the Grotto, leaving a lica is the third church, the Crypt, which has five clear space round the walls, so that pilgrims could altars and communicates from within tIre Basilica kiss the rock on which Our Lady stood, walk of the Immaculate Conception. round the back of the altar and place their petitions As we left the Basilicas and turned towards the in a small hollow there. The rock from which the Grotto, we passed under the Arches, over which Grotto is hollowed is called " Massabielle," which the Torchlight Procession proceeds, and came means" The Old Rock." upon the Baths. These are situated between the We returned to the hotel, where we were told Rosary Church and the Grotto, and adjoining the about the programme for the following day, Baths are a number of taps by which the miracul• Friday. ous water is released. The pilgrims went to 8-00 mass each morning, We finished our tour of the sanctuaries, and either at the Grotto or at one of the other altars returned to the hotel to prepare for the Blessed we will mention later. At 10-00 on the Friday Sacrament Procession. Those of us who had morning the whole pilgrimage assembled at the brought cassocks and surplices with us were privi• Grotto for an address given by Bishop Halsall, in ledged to walk in the procession, while many of which he again stressed the importance of our the others who were lucky enough to have cameras intentions. After this brief ceremony we had made their way to various parts of the Rosary lunch, and we were then free of any ceremony Square and Arches, from where they could get until the Blessed Sacrament Procession which took some snaps. Many of the other pilgrims also place daily at 4-30 p.m. walked in the procession, but behind the Blessed All the pilgrims went sight-seeing on Friday Sacrament. After the actual procession, the afternoon, some in twos and threes, and some in Bishop or Priest carrying the Monstrance went larger groups. We visited the various sanctuaries round the sick, blessing them. During the pro• first, entering the actual vicinity of the Grotto, cession and later, various invocations were chan• which is separated entirely from the noise and ted, in four different languages. bustle of the village itself, by St. Joseph's Gate. After the Blessed Sacrament Procession, we We approach the statue of the Crowned Virgin were free to explore the village itself, which every• which, after the actual statue in the Grotto, is one found very interesting, especially the Old perhaps the most frequented statue in Lourdes. Town of Lourdes. We returned to the hotels This is situated on the Rosary Square and is the for dinner, and prepared for the Torchlight normal assembly point of pilgrims. Immediately Procession. on the right of the statue is the Asile, a large hos• We assembled for the Torchlight Procession pital for sick pilgrims. To the right of this won• near the Grotto. First five decades of the Rosary derful building, and in front of the statue of the were recited in French. Many of our pilgrims Crowned Virgin, is the Rosary Basilica. The recited it in French, having mastered the recitation Rosary Basilica contains forty-three altars, the lat• of the prayers quite well. There were other pil• ter being consecrated to the joyful, sorrowful and grims, however, who said the prayers in their own glorious mysteries. The Basilica is approached language-and it was a truly magnificent experi• across the Rosary Square, where the Blessed ence when we first heard this recitation of the Sacrament Procession and the Torchlight Pro• Rosary in many different languages-there were cession are concluded each day. Spanish, Italian, Swiss, German, English, Ameri• Above and behind the Rosary Basilica is the can and French pilgrims answering the prayers in Upper Basilica, or the Basilica of the Immaculate their own language. As the Rosary was finished, ST. EnwARl)'s COLLEGE MAGAZ1Nl! the small choir, which was composed mainly of Mass, which was given by Bishop Halsall. The Lancashire boys, led the rest of the pilgrims as we Mass was celebrated at the new altar of St. Berna• sang the Lourdes hymn. Then the thousands of dette, which has been built into one of the huge pilgrims began to move, until the lighted candles arches. The Mass was sung by the pilgrims, and which each pilgrim held showed up as one long, the altar-servers were provided by the Christian moving column of fire, winding slowly over the Brothers. great Arches and across the Rosary Square, past In the afternoon, after the Blessed Sacrament the statue of the Crowned Virgin, and along the Procession, there was a group photograph taken great tree-lined walk which stretched away from of all the Christian Brothers' Schools represented the Rosary Basilica. Then, turning in a sweeping on the pilgrimage. After dinner that evening all arc, it wended its way back, until all the pilgrims the younger members of the pilgrimage were stood together in the vast Square, singing endless ordered to bed, as we were to have Holy Hour at praises to Mary. Then, as the strains of the ll-O o'clock, followed by Midnight Mass. The hymn died away, we all chanted the "Credo," older pilgrims went off to the Torchlight Proces• which was followed by the blessing. We then sion as usual, and assembled for Holy Hour after• either retired to our hotels or took a short walk wards. Holy Hour, which was celebrated by around the Old Town. Bishop Halsall, was followed by the Midnight The other days were to be spent in much the Mass, during which there was a collection taken sameway, with occasional differences. On Satur• up from the boys and girls for the upkeep of the day morning we assembled at the Chapel of Con• sanctuaries at Lourdes. This was handed over fessions, which stands at the foot of the Way of to the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, who later the Cross. Then, in various groups, and led by informed us that over sixty pounds had been col• the pilgrimage priests, we commenced our ardu• lected, and expressed his sincere thanks. ous ascent. Before the first station was the Scala On Monday morning many of us went around Sancta, a shrine composed of twenty-eight steps the Old Town buying our souvenirs and visiting leading up to the first station. Each pilgrim to places of interest in Lourdes. Lourdes is advised to mount this shrine on his First we visited the Cachot, the disused police knees, as an act of penance, saying the Our Father, cell in which Bernadette lived at the time of the Hail Mary, and Glory Be ... at each step. first apparition. From there we went to the All the pilgrims were greatly impressed by the Maison Paternelle, the home of Bernadette's marvellous figures at each station, which stood parents, which contains interesting relics. Fur• about six feet high. The climb was very steep ther on was the Holy Mill, the Saint's birthplace. and the additional discomfort of a broiling sun This was a very interesting place, also containing caused a few of the pilgrims to faint. The first relics and pictures. twelve stations led up to the summit of the moun• Next we visited the Musee Notre Dame, which tain, where we heard Mass, the remaining two also contains relics. We came to the Municipal stations lay on the other side of the mountain, Hospital, which is directed by the Sisters of thus leading down from the Crucifixion to Our Charity of Nevers, who had a school there in Lord's burial. We completed the journey in St. Bernadette's day-the saint attended the ele• about an hour, including the Mass. On our des• mentary classes and made her first Holy Com• cent many of us went off to explore a few of the munion in the present Chapel, near which several many caves which run through the Massabielle. of her relics are displayed. In some of these caves there have been set up Not far from the Hospital is the parish church. various altars and shrines. We then returned to It has many points of interest connected chiefly the hotel. with Mgr. Peyramale, Bernadette's Parish Priest, On Sunday morning we had Pontifical High whose tomb is in the crypt. On the way down to 10 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE

the Grotto from the parish church we came upon our heads from the sun. There was little differ• the sister hospital to the Asile, the hospital of the ence between the Lourdes market and an English Sept Douleurs, which provides for the accom• market, except as regards goods, the main wares modation of sick pilgrims. being fruit and vegetables. On Monday afternoon all the pilgrims went On one of the main roads leading out of Lourdes on an excursion to Pau, where we visited the Old was the Palais de Justice, an extremely impressive Chateau, in which Henri Quatre is supposed to building of a modem style, surrounded by care• have slept. We then went to the local sports fully laid-out gardens. stadium to see an exhibition of the traditional As we turned back towards the fort we saw Basque game of "peloto." In this ball game, behind it the Pic du Jer, a high mountain at the which is also popular in Spain and Spanish end of the valley. A funicular railway ascends the America, the players wear a curved basket attach• Pic, which is surmounted by a cross illuminated at ment on their right hand. This is called a night. "cesta." The hard ball, which weighs about The afternoon was spent in buying the last of four ounces, is made of rubber and wire, and is souvenirs as we were to leave on the following covered with leather. The game is played in day. much the same way as "fives," the ball being Early on Wednesday morning we went down to struck with the cesta against a high concrete wall• the Grotto for Mass, after which we filled our a team scores a point if an opponent fails to return holy water bottles at the Baths. We returned to the ball to the wall without it striking the floor. hotels for breakfast and made preparations for the The game is very skilful if played well. departure. Our luggage was made ready and On Tuesday morning we visited the places brought down to the coaches which were to take of general interest. First was the old fort, which us to the station. At the station we boarded the was built on a huge rock rising out of the Old train and assembled by the windows for a last look Town. The fort dominated the entire Lourdes of Lourdes. Then as the train moved slowly out Valley, and could be seen from anywhere in of the station, we all raised our voices in a farewell Lourdes. Not far from the fort was the market praise of Mary-"Ave Maria." place-here many of us bought berets to protect P. ALGER,VI B Mods.

gress, because of his great talents and his happy excepted) is the greatest of the Saints of disposition for virtue. St. Austin tells us that the T is not for anyone to say who (St. Joseph 1God, yet it is perhaps true to say that none various passions as impatience, jealousy and the has had so much written about him as St. Thomas like, which appear in young children, were absent Aquinas who, some have said, possessed the from Thomas. When he was ten years old he greatest mind ever created. was sent to the University of Naples. Thomas Thomas Aquinas, the seventh son of the noble soon saw the dangers which surrounded him and family of Aquino, and related to almost every pined for the sanctuary of Monte Cassino. While crowned head of the time in Europe, was born in at the university he spoke little, which little was 1225. At the age of five he was committed to the always to some purpose, and he eschewed con• care of the Benedictine monks at Monte Cassino. versation with any young men whose lack of There, these good monks instructed him in the virtue might be a source of scandal. When others first principles of religion and learning. His went in search of pleasure, he would retire to a tutors soon saw with joy the rapidity of his pro- quiet room or church, making prayer and study, ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 11 his only pleasures. Owing to his quietness he With a humility equal to his marvellous mental became known as the " Dumb Ox," and earned powers he made no show of his learning. On the reputation for stupidity among his fellow• one occasion a paper on which he had written students. some notes for the help of a fellow-student was Frederick II of Prussia, in the course of his taken to Blessed Albert the Great. The latter remarkable predatory manceuvres, military and at once saw what a master mind was concealed political, made a swoop on the large and wealthy by the unpretentious manner of the saint, and Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino and stormed foretold his future glory. "We call him the and sacked the place. He was ably assisted by "Dumb Ox," but he will give such a bellow in Count Landulf of Aquino, Thomas's father. It learning as will be heard all over the world." had long been apparent to Count Landulf that This applause, however, 'made no impression on nothing could be done with Thomas except to the humble saint; he continued in the same make him an abbot or something of that kind; simplicity, modesty and silence, because his and it would be a tactful and delicate act to invest humility was unaffected. his son with the abbacy of Monte Cassino. This Just as we are accustomed to link the names of would serve as an apology to the church; and Plato and St. Augustine, so we connect the writings also, it would appear, the solution to a family of Aristotle with Aquinas. While Aquinas was at difficulty. Cologne his tutor,' Albertus Magnus, gave him However, Thomas decided to join the mendi• the ethics of Aristotle to study. Soon Thomas cant order of the Friars Preachers, and when he was equal to his master as shown by his first was seventeen he received the habit in the convent published works, which consisted of comments of of Naples. When the members of his family Aristotle's ethics and other philosophical works of heard what he had done they were furious. His the learned Greek. Altogether he wrote thirteen brothers pursued him along the public roads as he works in commentary of Aristotle's philosophy. was journeying to Rome, half rent his friars' frock As the late Archbishop Downey states: "The from his back and finallylocked him up in a tower. supreme achievement of Aquinas was the blending During his imprisonment he was at various of philosophy and theology into one harmonious times subjected to " talks" from members of the whole." To quote G. K. Chesterton: "Aquinas family, which ranged from cajolery to intimida• reconciled Aristotle with God and not God with tion and unseemly acts, to dissuade him from his Aristotle. If from the stand point of his philo• vocation; Thomas was, however, determined to sophic system Thomas owes much to Aristotle, pursue his vocation. This enforced solitude fur• yet in view of the purifying of his doctrine nished him with the happy opportunity for holy Aristotle owes still more to Thomas" (Jansen's meditation, assiduous prayer, and study. Some O.S.B.). "Between Aristotle seen in Aristotle time after, his sisters secretly sent him books, viz., and Aristotle seen in St. Thomas there is the same a Bible, Aristotle's Logics and the work of the difference as between a city beheld in the light of Master of Sentences. torches borne by men and the same city beheld in For more than a year our saint, in silence, suf• the rays of the morning sun." (Jacques Maritain). fered this imprisonment and persecution. On the What place, one may ask, does St. Thomas remonstrances of Pope Innocent IV and the occupy in modem thought? Has the genius any Emperor Frederick, because of the acts of violence relation with modem physical science or psy• in his regard, both his mother and his brothers chology ? St. Thomas began his literary career began to relent. They allowed him to go to by writing a scientific work, "De Principiis Naples, where a year later he was professed. Naturae." Although the amount of information From here he was sent to Cologne, where he con• possessed by St. Thomas was encyclopaedic there tinued his studies under Albertus Magnus. was in the thirteenth century small advance in 12 ST. EnwARD'sCOLLEGEMAGAZINE

observation of phenomena and the formation of ophy which is a synthesis of Christian doctrine hypothesis to explain them. We know that he and classical rationalism. His philosophy was familiar with medicine, surgery, architecture, flourishes today and in questions relating to such metallurgy, glass-staining, dying and other scien• things as justice, freedom and war, his answers tific arts; but delicately constructed instruments, are studied and respected. They form a strong as we know them, were unknown to him. There counterblast to the materialistic and pagan teach• were no telescopes, miscroscopes or accurate ings of today. Many philosophers try to lead us balances, no means of measuring temperatures or into a wonderland or a " crazyland " of their own minute changes of length or time, yet as Dr. where very few can follow and where the philos• Francis Aveling remarks: "St. Thomas had opher himself is lost. But not so with St. Thomas. none of these refinements of research; yet he " He has gathered up the wisdom of ancient Greece drew conclusions from observed facts of the same and Rome and Judaism and subsumed it under a nature and general character as those studied Christian philosophy which gave a pattern to the today. You may see more with the microscope diverse activities of nature and man." (M. C. than with the naked eye; but what you see is D'Arcy, S.J.). characteristically similar in both cases. Micros• No sketch of St. Thomas would be complete copic examination does not give lie to ordinary without reference to his tremendous love for the vision." Yet he had the true scientist's approach Blessed Sacrament. He poured out his soul on to his subjects. He was not willing to accept at this holy subject in sermons, writings and such second- or third-hand conclusions of the thinkers hymns as Lauda Sion; he composed the Mass of his day. and Officefor the feast of Corpus Christi. It is of course as a philosopher and theologian "Well hast thou written concerning me, that St. Thomas is most revered. Besides taking Thomas; what shall I give thee as a reward? " a leading part in the church controversies of the " Nought save Thyself, 0 Lord." thirteenth century, he evolved a system of philos- JAMESP. DONLEAVY,VIBSc.

About the greatness of music I shall probably become excited and incoherent later. For the ~ F mystified all the arts the that mind ever of moved, man, maddenedmusic is the or latest to develop, if not the greatest ever to moment I shall say that music is the most direct exist. A long time ago, in a country of pagans, method of approach to anyone's emotions. painting, poetry, sculpture and architecture were No comedy show is complete without it; all brought to perfection: this was in ancient musical turns may be simply thrown in between Greece. Music, however, was different. It did comedy sketches, as is usually done, or else the not attain full greatness until 400 years ago, in music may form part of the comedy itself, as in the 17th century, the time of an Italian composer the recent radio show" Life with the Lyons," named Giovanni da Palestrina. Since the civiliza• where it is wittily used to give continuity and to tion he lived in was thoroughly Christian, it is not suggest the passage of time. No film is complete surprising that he wrote church music. In fact without it. It has been objected that, in the he wrote masses to be sung in the Vatican, at the words of some American or other, backgrqund installation of a new Pope, for instance. The music to films is either unnecessary or too loud ; music that is heard nowadays is much more recent nevertheless there are some films where this does than that even; very little of it is more than 250 not happen-" The Third Man," for example, or years old. "The Moon is Blue "-and those who direct the ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 13 making of films seldom feel safe without any back• with it. I wrote earlier on the first great com• ground music. So it remains. Dancing would poser being chiefly a writer of religious music. not exist without music. Such things as circuses The most important state occasions always have and pantomimes simply do not function without music to accompany them: think how much was it, and anyone who has never enjoyed a pantomime specially composed for the Queen's Coronation. or a circus can scarcely be regarded as human. It is used in these ways to make sure that a ritual It is noticeable that television parlour games or will have a meaning for the people who attend it. panel games are mostly done without music, and Poetry-to change the subject-is much more that people are becoming bored with them already. pointed and effective than prose. You can test I see, however, that a new musical parlour game is this for yourself by taking some such specimen of being tried out: it may prove interesting. Those poetic inspiration as : who have contracted the soul-destroying habit of " There was a young lady of Limerick, continuously and indiscriminately watching tele• Who ... (etc " vision must by now have grown to like the delight• and seeing how all the wit is lost and how colour• ful andfantastic arrangement of tunes that is heard less it is if you simply tell the story in prose. A before the children's programme begins at 5-0 bad poem may well form an effective climax to a o'clock. paragraph of good prose. But the difference Probably opera is of all arts the one with the between poetry and prose is that poetry is more greatest popular appeal; a fact which we usually rhythmical and often more melodious: in other fail to realise, since there are few good English words, more musical. We are back to music operas and few opera companies, and in any case again. And since poetry tends towards music and we are most of us less responsive to music and is admired as a higher expression of human feeling less emotional than, say, the Italians are. This than prose, therefore music ought to be an even was not always so, of course; England was once higher expression of human feeling than poetry. more devoted to music than any other country, In case anyone generous enough to read this and to be unable to take part in singing was once might not be generous enough to accept my argu• the sign of bad manners and a lack of breeding. ment; I shall quote the opinions on music of people England has changed since then. All the best far more worthwhile than myself. Shakespeare people now play bridge (so I am told), and cer• must have been very fond of music; he is con• tainly get less enjoyment from it. Anyone, inci• tinually praising it, and using it for effect in his dentally, who doubts the power of music over plays. Gilbert Keith Chesterton showed his wide large crowds of people is recommended (I write understanding when he said that " music is mere " recommended" because I know how to spell it) beauty; it is beauty in the abstract, beauty in to go to the Albert Hall in London, or for greater solution." Although Chesterton was as un• ease and comfort to sit in an armchair viewing musical as the most sceptical reader, he was one of television, and watch the audience at the last night the most sensible writers that ever lived. Poets of the promenade Concerts. Promenaders like often recognize the aspiration towards music in music so enthusiastically that their applause at their own art of poetry : Paul Verlaine's motto of the end of a concert gets on many people's nerves, "music above all" is well known. My own and indignant letters about it are sent to the favourite poem about music is Robert Browning's newspapers. "Abt Vogler," in which Browning compares a com• Music is in demand, not only for almost every• poser with other artists and decides that, while thing that is enjoyable, as I have shown, but also they get their inspiration from a scene or from a for almost everything that is important. Religion, story, 1he musician receives his directly from God : for instance, is supremely important, and religion " But God has a few of us whom he whispers in always has music of one kind or another associated the ear : 14 ST. EDWARD'SCOLLEGEMAGAZINE

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we just as effectivelyas a picture can. It can express musicians know." any feeling, or conflict of feelings, with special I make these quotations to support my own subtlety of its own. It can increase the intensity opinion, though I cannot understand why anyone of a story, a drama or a poem. I seem to be tend• should doubt my word, since I am not a good liar. ing to the conclusion that " music can be every• Another important thing about music is its thing, better than anything else can." Instead of almost unlimited range. It might be called the making such a statement, I shall point out music's most catholic of the arts, if catholic means uni• one defect: that an unfortunate minority neither versal. Music can be as powerfully dramatic as understand nor enjoy it. any play. It can bring a scene to the imagination RANDALLMcDoNNELL,VI B. Mods.

Now I come across the place where a young student seems to have devoted his genius to the HIroom LEI the was other looking day, through I came the across junk a 'Y/+tt1\I,.\J,\ heap of old books. These books I study of motion pictures. As yet, as far as I can was about to throw back when I noticed their see, his talents in that direction have been limited worn appearance, so I looked at the titles. ' Yes, I to the drawing of little pin-men in the south-west had judged correctly: they were old school text corners of the pages of his History book. books. My interest now aroused, I flicked What can be found in this seemingly dull poetry through the pages, hoping to bring back to my book? Not many pages, I notice, for nearly half mind someof the oldmemories of my younger days the book seems to have been set for prep. at some at school. time or other. Is this absence of invaluable matter Turning over the dog-eared leaves of an old unusual? Apparently not, for half the Latin Latin book, I found many instances which seemed grammar is missing and all the French irregular to indicate that the learned tutors, engaged by the verbs. school to drum lessons into the poor defenseless As yet I have failed to come across those closely• boys, had been wasting their sweetness on the written sheets found at the end of every language desert air. Here, for instance, some misguided book. These notes, when complete, give the youth had been engaged in covering a whole page exact translations of every passage in the book. of his Latin reader with a mass of squiggles and These were originally compiled by some generous general" doodling." However, I was thinking of being and left in the back of the book for the forgiving the poor unfortunate for this temporary benefit of those misguided youths who do home• deviation from the course of knowledge, when I work. Woe betide any unfortunate who lets these found, to my horror, that he had also completely copious leaves fall into the hands of alien masters, filled the next twenty-five pages with his doubtful for to him is allotted the terrible task of doing " modern art." homework without a crib. Oh! Here some scholar has been studiously I seem vaguely to recall that I never obtained minded, but I have grave misgivings as to his one of these invaluable sheets. How, then, did I purpose in inserting the English translation be• manage? Here is an old exercise book; let me tween the lines of his French book. Neverthe• glance through. What have we here? Three less, I gave him the benefit of the doubt; he games of noughts and crosses, one game of dab might have thought that that was why they left cricket and a bluish-black stain marking the end spaces between the lines. On trying to find justi• of the historic "Flight of the Ink Dart," but fication for this thought, it may be noted that I nothing resembling an exercise. Oh! I remem• failed to find the French translation in the English ber now! I did them on paper, but I cannot book. remember what happened to them! ! B. LOWE,Lower V Alpha. ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 15

Sp)eechDay tion in general. He called attention to the world• wide work of the Christian Brothers and the ~;.:,J PEECHinThe the Most College DAY, Rev. as Hall. Dr. in former Godfrey, Our years, Archbishop, making was held one manifold results of their labours. Indeed the of his first public appearances, was the principal Collegeauthorities must be heartened by the glow• guest. Having been invited to Buckingham ing tributes from His Grace. Palaceon the following day, His Grace was unable Two Old Boysof the school, Mr. F. O'Neill and to remain for the whole programme. This meant Mr. E. Furlong, had the honour of moving a vote a last-minute reversal of order, a change carried of thanks to His Grace. Supporting the Chair• out with the smooth and ordered efficiency that man, they promised Archbishop Godfrey the fer• one has come to expect. vent loyalty and prayers of present and past. The Canon Grace, from the chair, offered a very vote having been carried with acclamation, His warm welcometo His Grace, paid him high tribute Grace had to leave. and promised him the affection and loyalty of the On another page the reader will find an account College. of the concert, choral and orchestral, which fol• Then followedthe Headmaster's report. Recent lowed. One wished that His Grace could have reports have shown the school to be very sound been present for such an outstanding effort in one spiritually, making continued advancement part of the school work! academicallyand playing a very full part in many The proceedings ended with a vote of thanks to spheres. The picture given in 1954 was no Canon Grace. In his remarks, Mr. T. P. Egan, exception. also an Old Boy, congratulated the Canon on his Having presented the prizes, His Grace addres• very worthy appointment to that office, expressed sed the gathering. His references to and em• the happiness of those present at his restoration to phasis of the essential points in the Headmaster's health, and offered him well-deserved thanks of all account, left no doubt of His Grace's deep interest connected with Catholic Education for his arduous in the College in particular, and Catholic Educa- and noble work to that end.

THE HEADMASTER'S REPORT, 1952-1953

It is appropriate to commence the review of the the Staff, the whole-hearted co-operation of last scholastic year with the results of the various parents and the ability and industry of the boys. qualifying examinations which the pupils in Without these elements such success would be Runnymede, the Lower School, take for admission impossible to attain. It should be borne in mind to the Upper School, the Grammar Dept., 27 boys that although the standard of admission to Runny• passed the selection examination for Grammar mede is necessarily high, the classes are large• Schoolsset by the Liverpool Education Authority and last September for the first time we were able and three the Lancashire Selection examina• to reduce our classesto a maximum of 40 boys ... tion and 13others passed the Governors' examina• and that only by declining to accept more. tion for residuary or fee-paying places. It must Pressure on places will always tend to keep these be borne in mind that the examinations (as far as classes high. With a three-form entry at present weare concerned) are to a large extent competitive, in the Upper School it would be unwise and unfair as the places available are inadequate for the num• to admit more classes to Runnymede, for there ber applying. These results were even better than would then be even less of a probability of securing the previous year's and reflect at once the zeal of a place for all in Catholic Grammar Schools in the 16 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE city where places are already in so much demand. six, and the average number of subjects gained was The question of the bulge in the child population 4.6. These results qualify most of our leavers for will be in the Grammar School Governors' minds employment in various walks of life and enable very much these days-our contribution to ease many to claim exemption from the preliminary that problem is determined largely by finance. examinations of professional bodies. Capital expenditure would be needed and this At the advanced and scholarship levels the would have to come from sources other than present results were good. The number of awards to grants and fees. Universities gained was higher than the previous The Lower School curricula envisage for its year but they were not of the same status-5 State pupils a Grammar School course and therefore the Scholarships, 1 Coal Board Scholarship, 2 Liver• boys are expected to train themselves to the sort of pool University Scholarships, 5 Liverpool Senior obligations and the type of work which are expec• City Scholarships and 3 Lancs. County Scholar• ted from Grammar School boys. It is not too ships. On these results, 18 boys entered on early to train them to the discipline of study or University careers to study the wide range of training in homework. I stressed last year that if subjects indicated on your programme-and in the interest shown by boys and parents at the time Liverpool, Leeds, Cambridge, Manchester and of the selection examinations were sustained Southampton Universities. At the moment there throughout the school life of the pupil examina• . are 75 Old Boys pursuing University studies. tion results at the General Certificate level and the Four other boys left the Upper VI form last sum• development of personality would be so much mer. One is in a bank, one training to be a improved. pharmacist, one entered a Benedictine Abbey and Once a boy is admitted to the Upper School the one intends after National Service to train as a next series of public examinations which confront teacher. him is the General Certificate of Education at the I am glad to report the number in the VIth form ordinary level. The results of the 102 candidates last September was higher than the year before. who were presented for the examination last year The appeal I made therefore last year to parents were even better than the previous year's and to encourage their sons to take a VIth form course create a new record. The results ought to give provided that the boys have the ability and the satisfaction to the Staff, whether actively engaged proper attitude to study I make again. A two• in preparing the examination classes or preparing year course in Form VI can do so much for the boys for more advanced work in junior classes, boy emotionally, morally, physically as well as joy to the parents of the successful candidates and intellectually. It is noteworthy that a higher relief and gratification to the candidates that five proportion of boys who have passed through our years' work had been crowned with success. Lower School tend to remain on for advanced We all know and appreciate that we have con• work. The contribution the seniors make to the stantly to master ourselves, to overcome inertia, life of the school is valuable and it is appropriate tedium and disappointment, and it is re-assuring here that I pay tribute to the School Prefects for therefore to know that effort brings at times such their co-operation and help. palpable rewards. No boy in the U. Vs was pre• Humanly speaking, therefore, the examination cluded from taking the examination, and four results of last year were very good on any standard, candidates from Form VI who under the previous and Old Boys of the school can rightly feel that year's regulations were excluded on account of the traditions are being well maintained by the their age were presented for the examination. 76 pupils of to-day. The young of every age will of the 102 gained four or more passes-twenty respond to a challenge-provided they are given more than the previous year's. The average num• the opportunity, the encouragement and the en• ber of subjects presented by the candidates was vironment. To further these opportunities the ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 17 ltchool now offers a full course in Biology and believe in the efficacyand necessity of prayer. A ,IGeographyto advanced and scholarship level. boy's complete trust in the love of his mother and There are still further developments in the school's his unquestioning belief in the wisdom of his l/1CUlTiculumwhichawait implementation when father are wonderful aids in the training of a child. r financialcircumstances allow them. You have delegated to us part of your respon• Allstudy and no games makes for an unbalanced sibility for the training of your children-you have r; boy-and ignores his nature and neglects his full not abdicated from your responsibility-that is kttaining. Our physical education programme in• implicit in your marriage responsibilities. May I r cludes physical education in the restricted sense, therefore conclude with some observations which r organisedgames from which boys are exempt only day-to-day experience suggests need emphasis. on medical grounds-and cross-country running. Pupils in grammar schools at all ages need sensible We hope that next year with the co-operation of supervision to a greater or lesser extent-on what )the Local Education Authority we shall be able to they read, what films or T.V. shows they watch, resume medical inspection. the companionship they cultivate-and com• The aesthetic training in Music and Art you panionship creates most of the problems which will have an opportunity of assessing yourselves, schools have to cope with-and it is natural that as the Art Room is open for your inspection, and this should be so for after all the influence of per• the Orchestra and Choir will later take their place sonality, the impact of one person on another, is in this programme. one of the greatest of social influences and a proof The various school societies have continued of our social nature-and we strive and ambition their work and offervarious opportunities of airing to train young men and women to live their views,learning something of the conduct of com• private and public lives to bring others back to mittee and private meetings-and of some of the the sanity and peace which comes from the know• graceswhich oil the wheels of public affairs. The ledge and love of Christ. May I, therefore, stress Societyof St. V. de Paul carries out its duties very the need to watch over your son's progress, ensure quietlyand its work is supported by contributions that he has time to do his homework, and that from the whole school. when necessary he is spurred to effort ... encour• .The spiritual life of the school is fostered by the age him to have ideals, strengthen his loyalty to annual retreat, given last year by Fr. G. Hall, his home, school, and his God. . S.V.D., by lectures given by various priests and In this age of materialism and selfishness,it is by occasionalBenedictions. A pilgrimage in con• re-assuring to record that seven Old Boys were nectionwith the National Pilgrimage of Schools to ordained Priests last year, and that nine boys left Lourdes has been arranged, and some 60 boys to devote their young lives to the service of their with fivemembers of Staff,will travel to this shrine Creator by joining Religious Orders or entering of Our Lady, at Easter. seminaries. Collections for the poor, for the In the upbringing and education of the young blind, for the orphaned children, not only foster with the Church one matter alwayslooms large ... the spirit of gratitude for what is possessed, and the child is taught his absolute dependence on and self-sacrifice but reflect the spirit of the homes his obligations towards a Supreme Deity and His and parishes from which our boys come. Laws ... and this is indispensable in the proper May, I, finally, thank all those who have helped , development and formation of the man. The the school and its work, who look after the closer,therefore, the co-operation of the home and premises, attend to the canteens-parents, priests, the school the better. We, and you and the the Local Authorities and especiallymy colleagues school, are so well situated in this respect-we on the Staff who in and out of school labour for believe in the same principles-we believe in the the benefit of the boys in the school and help to necessity of self-sacrifice and mortification-we create the spirit which characterises the school. 18 ST. EnwARD'sCOLLEGEMAGAZINE

For many years, Your Grace, your predecessor, School Art Prizes Dr. Downey, distributed the Prizes. To him the Senior: Murray, R. C.; Junior: Townson, school and the Brothers owe much for his encour• D.e. agement, abiding interest and advice. To you, Your MUSICAL PROGRAMME Grace,for fitting in this visit despite the duty which THE ORCHESTRA calls you to a long and tedious journey, we are Conducted by EUGENE GENIN deeply grateful. Your visit and the presentation 0 "Allegro, Minuet and Trio" Prizes will be added incentive to us all. On this, from" Eine Kleine Nachtmusik " Mozart your first visit to the school, I would assure you of SELECTION-"Hibernia " arr. Mareston our loyalty and our prayers for the success of the PIANOFORTESOLO-"Rondo in D " ... Mozart duty which Our Holy Father has called upon you RANDALL McDONNELL to shoulder. VIOLINSOLo--"Arioso in G" Bach Further awards presented on Prize Day not JAMES FRANEY given in the last issue of magazine :- Accompanist: JAMES HARRIS Bro. MacNamara Cup THE CHOIR Murray, M. M. Conductor: C. LYONS Bro. Wall Cup Accompanist: F. R. BORASTON Keating, P. J. SONG(in Canon)- Bro. Forde Cup " Orpheus with his lute" ... Charles Wood SONG(in Unison)- Azurdia, J. R. " Cronos the Charioteer" Schubert

lrhe M[otor Car West show, we had been pulled up by the police four times on a charge of disturbance of the peace. '1'r'\Jt- HEformotor-car comfort. was The old. wheels Too had old, not in been fact, re-tyred since 1934. From the outside it Whenever we go to the country the cows gener• looked a rather pleasant car, from the inside the ally stampede and the bulls see red. Oh ! I for• outlook was very, very different. A whiffof petrol got to mention; " Matilda " is a rust red, there is is pleasant enough, but when there is an eternal much more rust than red, I am sorry to say. smell of the stuff, one feels a bit sick of it. Whenever we wish to change gear, it takes two of All the dials were either smashed or out of order, us to push the gearstick. The brakes, by a so father could not tell whether or not he was miracle, still work, sometimes too well. exceeding the speed limit: not much chance of The horn works also, but I wish that it did not. that, anyway! More often than not it refuses to stop when we The engine was rather temperamental; if it press it. worked, it worked; if it did not work, it was just The window at the back of the crate is very hard luck, we would have to catch a bus. draughty; that is either the result of somebody's Explosions were fairly frequent. Father had catapult or one of the more recent explosions. been in hospital three times, mother once, and after that she said that she would never set foot We have tried to persuade father to sell the car and buy a new one, but of no avail; he just will in that THINGagain. Father, however, still had faith in the crock. not part with his beloved " Matilda." The exhaust pipe sounded better than a Wild LEO KELLY,Form III Alpha. ST. EDWARD'SCOLLEGEMAGAZINE 19

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Entering Childwall Church by the south porch, squint, originally three feet above the ground, is which was rebuilt in the 15th century with now almost hidden, being below the level of the materials from an older one, the visitor notices, soil. It was put there in pre-reformation days above his head, four stone heads, one in each not only for lepers but even for excommunicated corner. Beneath these are the emblems of an axe, persons to see into the church. a cup, a human head and a bull's head, teaching by At different times the Bishops of Chester have symbol that the heads represent the four evan• used the powerful weapons of the church very gelists. In the wall are to be seen carved stones freely at Chester. For instance, in 1592, the of a very early date, probably Scandinavian and Bishop excommunied Henry Hale and Ralf on the building are some mason's marks. Whitfield for piping on the Sabbath in the church• The door into the church proper is a study of yard. He also excommunicated some for sleeping simple strength. It is about 500 years old, it has during Mass, and others for drinking in the ale• never felt the plane and is as originally adzed out. house during the time of service. Its outer side is decorated with iron studs and the How the church came to be called Childwall latch, handles and hinges are fine specimens of "Abbey" no one can tell, but it is probably called local blacksmith's work. Oak pegs have been thus because the hall, built by Bamber Gascoyne used instead of iron nails. Chiselled out of the 1780resembled a monastery. A nearby pond (one masonry at each side of the door are holes by side of which is still lined with stones) is said to means of which the door could be barred with a be a Monk's bath and the legend is still believed wooden beam. that the man who first ploughed up to it was A noticeable feature of the church is that the seized with a sudden illness and died soon after. west end is much below the level of the church• As an educational agent, an old church, if yard. The reason for this is that, when the studied properly, it cannot be surpassed; and so it present spire was built, the debris from the old is with Childwall Church. A few hours spent in tower was allowed to remain, being simply this church can bring back centuries of history. smoothed over. As a result of this, the leper's PETER HAYES, L. VA.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following :- the Magazines of Prior Park College, St. Brendan's College, St. Joseph's College, St. Anselm's College, Preston Catholic College, St. Bede's College, Upholland College, St. Francis Xavier's College, Clonmel High School; and The Torch, The Beacon, The Grammarian, The Quarry, St. Boniface's College, Pretoria College, Kimberley College, St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's, Newfoundland, and The Ionian. We look forward with interest to the next number of each of these Magazines. ~ ST. EnWAIlD'S CoLLEGE MAGAZINE 21 f

OliverGoldsmith Open Scholarship (English Universities Represented Literature), Balliol College, Oxford Oxford, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and North Gregory, M. J. Staffordshire. State Scholarships General Certificate of Education Anwyl,P. A. Moran, P. M. (Advanced Level) McNeilis, A. F. Murphy, P. A. (Candidates normally present three subjects) State Supplemental Scholarship Anwyl, P. A. (3) Lomax, A. B. (3) Gregory, M. J. Azurdia, J. P. (2) McAleer, D. J. (3) Bradley, H. J. (2) McLean, P. G. (2) British Architects' Registration Council Brown, B. (2) McNeilis, A. F. (3) Scholarship Browning, B. J. (3) Marmion, V. J. (2) Brown, B. Capstick, R. M. (3) Mills, G. (3) . Liverpool Senior City Scholarships Colford, J. M. (3) Moran, P. M. (3) Anwyl,P. A. Moran, P. M. Cunningham, J. P. (1) Moore, B. J. (3) McNeilis, A. F. Murphy, P. A. Fitzsimons, W. J. (3) Mulholland, J. J. (2) Lancashire County Scholarships Fleming, M. (3) Murphy, P. A. (4) Colford,J. A. Lomax, A. B. Gannon, P. (3) O'Brien, G. (2) Fleming, M. A. Stevens, D. J. Gloyne, G. F. (1) Pontet, F. R. (3) Gregory, M. J. Goodall, B. (2) Quirke, G. A. (3) Harkins, F. (2) Robinson, E. (3) Entrants to Universities: Hart, J. A. (2) Stevens, D. J. (3) Arts Harris, P. F. (3) Stubbs, M. W. (3) Browning, B. J. Gregory, M. J. Jensen, S. (3) Wren, M. W. (3) Colford,J. M. McAleer, D. J. Lennon, W. (2) Zanetti, P. J. (3) Fitzsimons, W. J. McNeilis, A. F. DISTINCTIONS ON ADVANCED PAPERS: Gannon, B. Marmion, V. J. English: Anwyl, P. A.; McAleer, D. J. Chemical Engineering Geography: McNeilis, A. F. Jensen, S. Latin: Fleming, M. French: Moran, P. M. Engineering Mathematics: Lomax, A. B. Goodall,P. Robinson, E. Physics: Murphy, P. A. Lomax, A. B. Stevens, D. J. Chemistry: Murphy, P. A. Moore, B. J. Law Yates Cup (Arts Studies) Azurdia, J. P. R. Moran, P. M. Anwyl, P. A. Medicine The Alderman Farrell Cup (Science Studies) Bradley,H. J. Murphy, P. A. Murphy, P. A. Harkins, F. Wren, M. W. British Empire and Commonwealth Metallurgy History Prize Capstick,R. M. McNeilis, A. F. Veterinary Surgery The Br. Forde Fr.ench Debating Cup Zanetti, P. J. Mills, G. 22 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAzINE

The Br. MacNamara Cup (Head Prefect) Thomas, D. S. (3) Valentine, P. J. (5) Colford, J. M. Toolan, M. P. (7) Waring, F. J. (5) Unsworth, J. E. (1) Weston, B. L. (7) General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) First Place in Science Studies: (Candidates presented a varying number of subjects, Holden, T. L. maximum seven) First Place in Arts Studies: AlIen, J. H. (3) Hughes, P. H. (6) Azurdia, C. M. (6) Jennings, D. (1) Goulbourn, P. Blackburn, R. A. (3) Jones, J. P. (3) Civil Service (Scientific Branch) Blackburne, J. W. (2) Jordan, H. (7) Cookson, W. Reid, P. Blanchflower,J. (7) Kennan, W. P. (7) Bowe, V. (6) KinselIa, P. (4) Entrance to Welbeck College: Brannan, E. L. (7) Lamb, P. K. (5) Stannard, D. Bretherton, M. T. (1) Lavery, H. J. (3) Burrows, F. J. (5) Linford, A. G. (6) Prospective Teachers' Religious Examination Bushell, C. A. (6) Ludden, B. A. (6) Bushell, J. G. (3) Lynch, A. J. (3) AIger, P. Linford, A. G. Byrne, P. J. (2) McBrearty, J. (7) CampbelI, P. J. (4) McDonald, G. A. (1) FORM EXAMINATIONS Carberry, B. J. (7) McGonagle, E. G. (7) Summer Results 1954 Carrier, J. P. (2) McMullin, A. M. (4) Clatworthy, R. A. (7) McNulty, l? J. (2) :VIA Mods Religious Knowledge: Anwyl, P. Comerford, J. (5) Manghan, G. H. (7) 1, Anwyl, P.; 2, Moran, P.; 3, McNeilis, A. Cowen, A. G. (6) Marshall, M. R. (5) VI A Sc. Religious Knowledge: Hart, J. Cunningham, J. E. (3) Miller, J. A. (1) 1, Murphy, P. A. ; 2, Lomax, A. ; 3, Jensen, S., Dodds, C. H. (4) Morgan, P. (3) Robinson, E. Downey, J. E. (5) Murphy, G. M. (6) VI B Mods. Religious Knowledge: McDonnell, Dukes, A. F. (4) Newberry, J. (3) R. Duvanna, D. F. (6) Patterson, E. (4) 1, McDonnell, R. ; 2, Lamb, D.; 3, Kenna, P. Fargher, J. A. (5) Peacock, J. (4) VI BSc. Religious Knowledge: Morgan, F. FarrelI, P. D. (4) Prenton, P. (4) 1, Keating, P. J. ; 2, Morgan, F. ; 3, Ashurst, B. Fetherstone, E. M. (3) Prince, A. (7) U.V. Alpha Religious Knowledge: Ratchford, J. Fletcher, H. A. (6) Radford, B. (6) 1, Holden, T.; 2, Carberry, B. ; 3, Toolan, M. Goodall, B. J. (5) Ratchford, J. A. (7) U.V A Religious Knowledge: Morgan, P. Goulbourne, P. (6) Rogan, J. (7) 1, Hudson, P.; 2, Hitchmough, T.; Grant, W. J. (3) Rorke, J. D. (6) 3, McBrearty, J. Hagedorn, P. A. (2) Shaw, A. (5) U.V Beta Religious Knowledge: Fargher, J. Hanlon, P. (6) Shelley, J. E. (6) 1, Fletcher, H.; 2, Azurdia, C. M.; 3, Harris, J. E. (6) Sheridan, M. J. (4) Fargher, J. Hayes, E. J. (7) Snape, P. (6) L.V Alpha Religious Knowledge: Lowe, B. Higgins, B. T. (7) Stanfield, J. (1) 1, Lowe, B.; 2, Duggan, R.; 3, Morgan, P. Hitchmough, T. (7) Stannard, D. D. (3) L.V A Religious Knowledge: Cogley, J. Holden, T. L. (7) Starkey, G. (6) 1, Rowan, B.; 2, Loftus, G.; 3, Hill, T. Hudson, P. J. (7) Sullivan, J. (7) L.V Beta Religious Knowledge: Corcoran, P. Hughes, P. (7) Taylor, J. A. (6) 1, O'Keeffe, M. ; 2, Corcoran, P. ; 3, Brigden, A. ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZ1NE 23

IV Alpha Religious Knowledge: Johnson, T. 11 Alpha Religious Knowledge: Murray, F. I, Kenny, B. ; 2,Woolridge, J. ; 3,VolIearnere,W. 1, Murray, F. ; 2, Minahan, H.; 3, Keating, S. IV A Religious Knowledge: McGrail, A. 11 Beta Religious Knowledge: Mann, E. I, Duncan, R.; 2, Milner, J.; 3, Meakin, J. 1, Deane, P. ; 2, Mann, E.; 3, Gray, P. IV Beta Religious Knowledge: KelIy, J. 11A Religious Knowledge: Gower, B. I, Parker, J.; 2, Wright, D.; 3, Walsh, W. 1, Coady, B.; 2, Hurst, R.; 3, Darragh, M. III Alpha Religious Knowledge: Wolfenden, B. 11R Religion: ScahilI, M. I, McDermott, A.; 2, Bryson, I.; 3, O'Hanlon, P. I, ScahilI, M.; 2, Hawes, P.; 3, Spencer, W. III A Religious Knowledge: Colquitt, B. and VI Religion: Maybury, P. Thistlewood, E. 1, Kennedy, M; 2, Fletcher, P.; 3, Owens, C. I, Caulfield, F.; 2, Kieran, J.; 3, Massey, B. LI Religion: DonnelIy, P. III Beta, Religious Knowledge: Green, P. and 1, DonnelIy, P.; 2, Rudd, E.; 3, Butler, D. Weston, P. Prep. Religion: Morgan, A. I, Emsley, B.; 2, Green, P.; 3, Levy, F. !1, Morgan, A.; 2, Downes, M.; 3, Laird, A.

Old Boys' Acadlemic SlU[ccesses BIRMINGHAM LL.B. Lennon, M. (Hons.). B.Sc. Serrano, M. (Hons.). B.Sc. Francis, T. (Hons.). Harrison, T. K. (Hons.). DURHAM MitchelI, F. W. (Hons.). B.A. Hil1man,J. (Hons.) Finnigan, J. J. (Hons.). Diploma in Education LIVERPOOL Bennett, M. H., B.A. M.A. Forde-Johnston, J. L., B.A. TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES M.C.D. Craig-McFeely, K., B.Arch. St. Mary's Training College Dixon, W., B.Arch. Loftus, J. F. BoA. J. DilIon (Hons.). Lunt, B. W. Kieran, J. A. (Hons.). McGrady, A. F. Maguire, T. J. (Hons.). McMullin, V. E. I Quinn, J. (Hons.). Noonan, G. I~ Rose, P. H. (Hons.) De La Salle Training College O'Dowd, B. J. Melia, G. C. ] M.B., Ch.B. By MR. J. F. MULLEN, M.A.

ANYProvince Old will Boys hear of with the Christian deep regret Brothers of the death Schools in Ireland in the on Sunday, English .lll'}AI\.. September 19th, of Brother M. D. Gibbons. He was born in Westport, Co. Mayo, in October, 1896. His first scholastic appointment as a Christian Brother was to Gibraltar. In 1925 his superiors directed him to Prior Park, where he remained for two years. Then followed tours of duty throughout the Province-Plymouth, Crosby, Liverpool (1933-35), Bristol (Superior 1941-47), Birkenhead, Liverpool (1939-40), Blackpool, Crosby (Superior 1949)until his retirement four years later through ill-health. A wander• ing scholar, indeed! Only two periods, all too brief, at St. Edward's, and yet what an unpayable debt of gratitude the school owes him. We must go back to that grim day in early September, 1939. Half the school are leaving Knotty Ash Station for Llanelly, South Wales. To the boys, in charge of Brothers and laymen, it may have been something of an adventure tinged with loneliness at leaving home and family; to the grown-ups, a huge question mark in an anxious mind. As night was falling we arrive to be met by Br. Gibbons, who had preceded us to make arrangements for our reception. Thanks to his efforts all were settled in a few days, and we had time to take stock of new surroundings, domestic and scholastic. Great was the change I-a settled life of home and school routine for the war-time uncertainties of life among a strange but friendly people. With Br. Gibbons were Brothers Hooper, Ambrose, Whitehead, Finnegan and Taylor. For some time community life was broken until an empty house was leased and furnished with only sufficient comfort to make community life possible. But that was not home to the Brothers alone ; lay staff and boys found a homely welcome there whenever the stresses and strains of separation from home became unbearable, and that was not seldom. Educa• tional matters perforce assumed a secondaryimportance when we were hearing of the difficulties being experienced at Sandfield Park. An acute sense of being adrift prevailed. A sure lead was looked for, a strong lead found. Daily Mass became a habit with a large number of boys, encouraged by the kindness of Canon Moran and his curate, Dr. Crowley. The spiritual welfare of the boys cared for, what of their temporal welfare in their temporary homes? Imagine conditions• blackout complete in a strange town, small though scattered over hilly ground. Often Br. Gibbons and his staff would visit the billets to ensure the welfare and comfort of the boys. During the day at the County School cordial relations enabled education to go on with unexpected smoothness. Good relations with town, church and school authorities was Br. Gibbons's achievement, and the fruit of that labour was a complete reintegration of the school at Easter, 1940. That, briefly, was his mission, and in the carrying out of the task assigned him he became in the highest sense of the phrase a good shepherd. Those who were privileged to know him and serve with him will have a sure sense that The Good Shepherd will know how to welcome one who so unerringly interpreted and so steadfastly followed His example. R.I.P. ST. EnwARDjs COLLEGE MAGAZINfl 25

and Bordeaux, and we reached Pau just before and preparing for this pilgrimage to Our seven. It was then not far, and for the last few jf ORLady's weeks shrine beforehand at Lourdes. we had At been 9-30 waiting a.m. miles the windows of the train were packed, wav• we assembled at Lime Street Station and at ing to the people working in the fields. When we approximately 10-10 a.m. we left and started out rounded a bend in the line the white spire of the on our journey which would take us over hundreds Basilica came into view and a great shout went up of miles of countryside. We had our lunch on along the train. At 8 o'clock we got off the train, the train while we were watching the green English cramped after nineteen hours journey. countryside. We arrived at London at about A couple of ramshackle buses took us to our 2-0 p.m. and the first stage of our journey was hotel, the Hotel Padoue, and we were shown to over. We spent the afternoon viewing London's our rooms on the fifth floor. After our tea the famous sights. Then late in the afternoon we rest of the evening was ours. Some of the party went to the cathedral for a service. In the cathe• went to bed, others went to the grotto or got to dral were many blazers and colours of schools and know their way around. At seven the next morn• St. Edward's was the largest group. After ing we were up in the glorious sunshine to go to the service we were given directions for our tea 8 o'clock mass. When we came back we had our and the second stage of our journey. Then we breakfast and went out. We wandered round the had our tea and went for our luggage, which we town and saw the shops and the people of Lourdes. had previously left at Victoria Station. There were Germans, Spanish, Italians, and many At about 7-0 p.m. we left for Folkestone, the other nations there. There were pedlars in the Channel port from which we were to leave for streets and many nuns and priests. At four in the France. It was a short journey to Folkestone and afternoon we went to the blessing of the sick. only took two hours. At 10-30 p.m. we left for There were invalids on their backs on stretchers Calais. The sea was rough and the ship rolled a and many in wheel-chairs. They were all blessed bit, but we arrived safely at Calais at mid-night. and the procession ended. The last procession of At one o'clock a tired band of schoolboys and girls the day took place after dark. We each bought a boarded the long French train on which they were candle for the torchlight procession. When the to spend most of the next day. We did not sleep procession was moving singing the hymn " Im• much during the night because we were very maculate Mary," with each one holding a candle, excited, but about 4 o'clock, lying on the floor it looked a great sight. At the end of the proces• and on each other, we fell asleep. We were awake sion all gathered in the square before the at an early hour, for the rumbling of the train Basilica and then they dispersed. kept you awake. Then we had a wash and waited The next day some of us went to see where to get to Paris. At Valencra, near Paris, we took St. Bernadette lived. It is a small house down an on restaurant cars and changed to an electtic loco• entry. Everything like the stairs has been covered motive. Then we had the usual French breakfast with wire netting to preserve it. There is a small and returned to our compartment. At intervals shop in the house. In the house is the bed where during the journey we said the rosary. The jour• St. Bernadette slept, and many pictures of her. ney was very monotonous and we talked most of People have spoilt the house by writing names on the time or looked out of the window. At 11-30 the walls. we had a large lunch, for it had to last until we On Sunday we went to Mass. In this church reached Lourdes. We passed through Poitiers there are a great many altars and Mass is going on 26 ST. EDWARDIS COLLEGE MAGAtIN~ at each one all the time, so you are always in time filled our bottles with holy water and returned to for at least one Mass. Then after our breakfast our hotel. we made the stations of the Cross. Some people During tea we were told that we had to be up do it in their bare feet. It is a rough track up a at five in the morning, so we had to go to bed at mountain with life-size figures at the stations at seven. At five we were up and at six o'clock intervals up the steep slope. From the top of this Mass. We had our breakfast and left for the mountain the snow-capped peaks of the Pyren• station. At exactly 8-13 am. we pulled out of nees can be seen and we took photographs of them. Lourdes. As we passed the grotto we sang Im• Most of our spare time was spent wandering maculate Mary. Then all day we travelled, and around the town looking for suitable presents and at 1 o'clock on Thursday morning we boarded the souvenirs and taking photographs of holy places. boat. As it was beginning to get light we dis• On the night before we were to leave, there was a embarked at Folkestone. Most of us were asleep closing service at the grotto, when we placed our and had to be wakened up at Victoria Station. petitions in the grotto and kissed the rock where Then we had our breakfast. At 12.30 we left for Our Lady stood. The rock is becoming black Liverpool, and at 4 o'clock a happy band of tired with the smoke from the many candles. Then we pilgrims left the train after a long journey. C. CUCKSON, L. VA. lP>enicilli.n one per cent. of penicillin. Although this seems enemy of disease should have come out of a very small concentration, its results on mice and T seems odd to us that the greatest known 1an ugly greenish-blue mould, yet such is the other animals injected with bacteria were out• case. It was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming standing. St. Mary's Hospital, London, in 1928. At the Because of the difficulties of manufacture in time when the Professor made his discovery he England during the war, production was carried was experimenting with those evil germs with the on in the United States, under the guidance of formidable name of" staphylococci "-the cause Profess'or Florey and the other members of the of boils and abscesses and similar infections. Oxford team. Fleming discovered that the mould containing As the research went on the extract gradually penicillin acted powerfully on other forms of got purer, until in 1945 the original concentration bacteria. Most of all he learned that it did no had given way to a light-coloured preparation damage to the white blood-cells, nature's own which was 30 per cent. pure; and eventually priceless armour against disease. scientists achieved the preparation of 100per cent. The difficulty which first faced the production pure white crystalline penicillin. of the new drug was how could it be obtained Penicillin is less easily administered than the from the mould in the correct concentration. sulphonamide drugs, which as a rule are taken in Immediately this question arose, Professor Harold tablet form, or crushed and mixed with milk. If Raistrick devised a new method for extracting the penicillin is swallowed it is attacked by acid in drug, but it was still impossible to obtain the the stomach and bacteria in the intestines, and necessary concentration. thus robbed of its power against the disease germ. Then in 1938, a team of Australian scientists To counteract this, it is usually given in the form under Professor Howard Florey, set to work in of injections. earnest to obtain the elusive drug. After a long Although penicillin is effective against most struggle they at last succeeded, and obtained a diseases against which it is useless, these include reddish-brown powder, which contained about measles, chicken pox, influenza and tuberculosis. 27

Like the sulphonamide drugs, penicillin's action tremendous stimulus to medical research, and on germs is indirect. Its effect is not to kill the already other valuable drugs-many of them also bacteria, but to weaken it and prevent it from derived from fungi-have been prepared. The multiplying; and, nature's defenses destroy the most famous of the successors of penicillin is weakened invaders. However, if it is used in streptomycin, discovered in 1944 by an American, large quantities, penicillin proves to be a germ• Dr. S. A. Wakesman, which has been used with killer, and a very powerful one, too. success in cases of the deadly children's disease The discovery of penicillin has proved to be a tubercular meningitis. JOHN COGLEY, Lower VA.

JPlh0 tOglL iCIllP lhy amateur learns first, and when these can be done covered that silver chloride blackened in without supervision you realise the money which 1777 Schee1e, the famous chemist, dis• INsunlight, an important fact which was to you can save by not sending them to a chemist. help the steady progress of photography. Then In developing a film, the actual film (celluloid) in 1814,Nicephovede Niepce commenced a series is taken off the backingpaper, in the dark, and of experiments, but they were very crude and fitted into a tank into which no light can enter. impracticable, having to have an exposure of Then you rinse it with water and pour the devel• several hours for one picture. So, joining with oper in and "agitate" for about eight minutes Daguerre, he became his partner and in 1839 (different films have different times). When the Daguerre, six years after Niepce's death, started time is up, the developer is poured out, and after the process which is so well known as Daguerre• rinsing, the Hypo is poured in and agitated for type. For years and years, experiments were about eight to ten minutes, after which time it is carried on by such men as Fox Talbot and Sir taken out, washed, and hung up to dry. Humphry Davy and in 1889 paper films were When it has dried, the film is cut up into the done away with, and celluloid films came into different negatives. This process of printing is use. more difficult than the developing, and it needs On account of all these continuous experiments more experience. There are three kinds of print• through the years, there is a vast difference in the ing paper: hard, medium and soft, and you have cameras and the implements used in photograpy. to be able to use the correct paper for the correct It is sometimes looked upon as a hobby or a pas• type of negative. When you have sorted out your time, but there are many people who are profes• negatives into these groups corresponding to the sional photographers and usually only start from three types of paper, you can start to print, "scratch." Many a person has started by just Usually a test piece is used so as you can get the taking wedding photography in his spare time, right exposure for all the negatives of that class. and then with the money he gains he can buy When you have exposed the first one, it is put more equipment and perhaps finish his own job, into a dish of developer while you watch the pic• and take up professional photography, because ture slowly appearing until it has all the detail there is plenty of money in it. which you require, and then you rinse it and put Not only are there professional photographers, it into the Hypo and afterwards wash it. Some but also many amateurs who practise it as a hobby. photographers like to glaze the prints, but it is They usually get more enjoyment from it than do not essential. Some people say that if a print others who do it for what they get. Developing has a good gloss it is " smashing," but they never and printing are the main processes which an look for the important item-detail. 28 ST. EnWARDlS COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Home photography, as some people say, is an photography in the past fifty years. In 1929, expensive hobby. It is at the beginning, when cinemas were showing moving pictures with music you have to buy the equipment, but in the long accompaniment compared with beforehand, still run it turns out much cheaper than expected. silent pictures. Nowadays when slow-motion is The more photography that you do the more your shown on a cinema the pictures are taken at the interest grows, which leads you to buy still more rate of 240jsec., but are projected at the rate of equipment to put in your photographic cupboard, 24jsec. The actions still seem continuous, but and as a result of this you not only take more they have been slowed down ten or more times. snaps, but better ones. Then perhaps you may Then colour photography about 1915 was in its start developing and printing your friends' and early stages and gradually became popular until relations' photography at a cheaper rate. today when dozens of people buy them. The There is more than the practical side of photo• only reason why more do not is because they are graphy as taking developing, printing and enlarg• expensive to develop. Such men as Professors ing pictures. There is also a very wide theoreti• Seebeck and Gabriel Lippman and Otto Wiener cal course, for an every-day example, the difference brought colour photography into the limelight. between Orthochromatic and Panchromatic films. Since about 1820 when photography was only Orthochromatic films are coated with a film which in its very, very early stages, up till today, photo• is sensitive to all rays of colours, except orange and graphy has advanced in leaps and bounds. It is red. Panchromatic films are affected by all used in many ways today for various kinds of colours and therefore must be developed in total subjects. In astronomy it is used for making darkness. Both Orthochromatic and Panchro• charts of the celestial bodies; in the detection of matic films and plates are used to obtain a truer criminals and in scientific research. It is also reproduction of tones, when subjects containing used for reconnaisssance workfromaeroplanes and many colours are photographed. for surveying and map-making, and this was Orthochromatic and Panchromatic films are only amply demonstrated during the 1914-18 war. two ideas which have been brought in the line of E. P. BLACKIE, L. VA.

Make M[ilme large country ham and a butcher's knife. "Uncle" given it a name; "Country Music" comes as Dave sliced from the ham three times daily, saying near as is possible at present. There are many that he had heard that California was a very long who believe that in history it will be known as the way off, and that they would certainly need some• true American music. thing to eat. There is little need to say that many attempts The younger school of country entertainers, Red have been made at over-commercialization, the Foley, Ernest Tubb, Hank Smith, Hank Williams ruin of all pure forms of mmic, jazz included, but and Carl Smith, had one thing in common: they so far country music has remained virtually un• all wanted to be like Jimmy Rodgers. The uni• harmed by this curse. That does not mean, how• versal appeal of country music over the whole of ever, that all the country-boys are amateurs: far North America is shown by its attraction not only from it. For example, Tubb has been known to to Tubb and Williams, from Texas and Alabama, leave Nashville after the Opry on Saturday and but also to Hank Snow, a Canadian. "Jimmy begin a nation-wide tour, starting with a flight to Rodgers was beyond compare, there'll never be Pennsylvania and then going to Texas, but always another like him," said Tubb. The late Hank returning to Nashville for the Saturday perform• Williams was typical of this group. He was lean, ances of Grand Ole Opry. One famous musician sad and poetic, and had lived the kind of life travelled ninety-thousand miles in six months. about which he sang. A boy when the depression These country musicians are not without tempera• came, young Hank sold peanuts to railroad wor• ment, but on the whole they are plain-spoken, and kers, polished shoes, and heard Rodgers singing as co-operative as one could wish. During a tour his famous ballads-' 'T for Texas, T for Ten• of the nation, Hank Williams was appearing on nessee," and many others. Hank wrote hundreds the same bill as many other first-class entertainers, of songs, some under the name of Luke the including Bob Hope, Carmen Miranda, and Drifter; a large number of them became very another comedian, Milton Bearle, whose habit it popular even in England. Cold, Cold Heart, was to try and appear in everyone's act. After his Hey Good-Iookin', Half as Much, Jambalaya• own act, Bearle found Williams waiting for him in the list prolongs itself indefinitely. Gifted with a the wings. "Mr. Bearle," Williams drawled, " if high intelligence, an amazing memory, and a you even try to get into my act, I'll wrap this here poetic talent which filled his pockets with the guitar right around your head." Mr. Bearle did songs which his untimely death prevented him not appear in Williams' act that night, or on any from publishing, Williams always remained the other occasion. typical unsophisticated country boy who felt the Country music is essentially music for the songs he wrote and sang. people, who may not know the significance of a " If you aren't a country boy, you can't write or Wagner opera or a Sibelius symphony, but do sing country music," says Roy Acuff, known as know what it is to hear the tuneful melody of a the King of Hill-billies. Roy, who sings in a style country-style ballad, and to hear songs which tell 30 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE a story and touch the heart of city and country folk Face." These are all the names of songs telling alike. There are some who can remember how stories which the ordinary people understand and " Mamma and Dadda Broke my Heart"; many the intellectuals appreciate. It was inevitable that have prayed incessantly for" Just a Closer Walk such a folk-music should grow up with such a with Thee" ; and nearly everyone at one time or people and such a society as exists throughout the another has known a " Little Angel with a Dirty United States. E. G. D.

lBefolFe etlrlF(CJUnSlP>OlrtelFWelre blUlilt the marshland of Widnesse oft did cross the Merseye stream to the hillock of Runcorn (or OSTgreat important architectural cities achievementsin the world have for .l.A"'- 11,] which they are renowned and which Halton) in pursuit of dinosaurs. As no records of become almost synonymous with the name of the these times have yet been found, however, all city itself. Very often the architectural feat con• attempts to explain the mode of crossing the river cerned is a bridge, e.g., the Golden Gate Bridge at must be pure conjecture. There is only one San Francisco, or Sydney Harbour Bridge, and record of pre-Norman days. In the year 919, with such outstanding structures I venture to in• Ethelfteda, a daughter of Alfred the Great, visited clude the pride and joy (?) of Widnes, the Trans• the area and had a castle built at Runcorn known porter Bridge. as Halton Castle. No similar protection was The Transporter is not the only item of singular afforded to Widnes, which was then a mere hamlet interest and beauty in the borough ; however, the ravaged by the attacks of brigands from neigh• other items are generally somewhat difficult to dis• bouring areas. cern through the cumulostratus belched continu• The next milestone in the history of the sister ally from the conglomeration of factory chimneys, towns was laid after William of Normandy had and, while these are essential for the town's pros• conquered England. The new king bestowed the perity, they do tend to make certain areas appear Earldom of Lancashire upon Roger de Poicton for as if they are experiencing a permanent eclipse of his part in the conquest, and that knight estab• the sun. lished a barony at Widnes to protect his southern However, to return to the point, have you ever border. The first Baron of Widnes, a Norman considered the Mersey at Widnes without the named Yorfrid, evidently regarded his domain as Transporter? It seems fantastic admittedly, but a somewhat left-handed recompense for his ser• it must have been so at one time, for despite all vices in the conquest, for there is no evidence that rumours, the bridge was not built by Adam! he ever lived there, or that he built a castle or This illogical succession of digressions finally similar residence in the area. It must be stated brings me to the theme of this article, and I should in his favour, however, that the atmosphere of here like to point out that the following is an Widnes did not at that time possess the invigorat• attempt to trace communications between Widnes ing ozone that is its boast today, and, what is and Runcorn from the earliest recorded times up more relevant, the terrain of the south-west border to the construction of the Transporter. of Lancashire was then half-marshland and half• It is quite conceivable that in the pre-historic moorland. It is of note that the Barony ofWidnes days of Lancashire, the cave-men who inhabited including such growing areas of modern juvenile ST. EOWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 31

developmentas Tarbock, Rainhill, Huyton, Roby, While it appears that the traffic across the '" Knowsley,and Eccleston, in fact it extended over Mersey at this time must have been considerable to ~ somefour thousand acres. warrant the number of craft owned by the ferry ; During the next hundred years or so, the company, it dwindled to such an extent during BaroniesofWidnes and Halton (Runcorn) changed the next two centuries, that in 1728when the ferry hands several times, and, by the intermarriage of was sub-let, the profits were so small that the the ruling families, they were united in 1172under ferryman was obliged to take a part-time occupa• John Fitz Richard, Sixth Baron of Widnes and tion in addition to his regular employment in order Halton. This Baron and his successor were res• to provide for his wife and family. Not until 1831 ponsible for the recognition of the Runcorn• did the ferry become a paying concern, when, as a Widnes ferry by two Charters. It is known that result of the newly completed St. Helens-Runcorn the Second Charter was dated 1190, which shows Gap Railway, numerous Widnesians used the ferry that the crossing is now over 760 years old. to reach the station at Runcorn. The ferry now Beforethe ferry was begun the Barons probably ran to a new schedule to correspond with the possessed a personal boat for crossing, but the times of the trains (there were two per day). tenantry and retainers had to swim across or ford In 1865the London and North Western Railway it at ebb-tide. The delay in the establishment of a took over the lease of the,ferry and charged " two• regular crossing, and hence a ferry, was due to the pence per person per trip," as related by Mr. S. fact that for some fifty years after their foundation Holloway. However, at low tide there was more the Baronies were ruled by different families. to crossing than just paying twopence. When the Regularcommunication did not become necessary tide was on the ebb the river used to run in two until their union, when Widnesians had to cross streams, and anyone wishing to cross at this time the Mersey to pay their taxes at Halton Castle. was landed by one boat on the intervening mud• Accordingto the First Charter, half the mainten• bank, obliged to slither across, and board another anceof the ferry (" navis de Widnesse ") was pro• boat which carried him across the stream. Before vided by Baron John; the remainder was raised this lease expired the company erected the railway by a toll on the passengers. By the terms of the bridge over the Mersey near the ferry, and a foot• Second Charter, Garnier de Naplouse, Grand bridge wasincorporated within the structure, which Prior of the English Brotherhood of Knights Hos• with drier and more reliable means of crossing,soon pitallers, granted certain lands to Richard de la claimed most of the ferry's passengers. In fact, More, Baron John's suCcessor,in return for four the ferry was soon·reduced to one boat and that shillingsrent, and on condition that (a) a third of was only seen on the river at rare intervals. The the goods and chattels of Richard and his heirs final nail was driven into the coffinof the Runcorn• were, when they died," reserved to the Brother• Widnes ferry in 1905 when the Transporter was hood for the good of his soul," and (b) that he opened. maintainedthe ferry. As long ago as the beginning of the nineteenth Little is known of the ferry for the next five or century, people felt the need for a bridge across sixhundred years, except that it remained in exist• the Mersey at Widnes. The only existing cross• ence and that there were several boats plying ings were the Liverpool ferries and the bridge at betweenthe two towns. During the years 1529-30 Warrington, although the river could be forded at in the reign of Henry VII, there was a successful low tide and by most forms of carts and carriages prosecution by the proprietors of the ferry against both at Widnes and Hale-the latter ford was a rival company. The latter were charged with much used during the Civil War (1642-45). A breachof custom of the toll of the ferry by illegally Captain Brown in conjunction with Thomas operating three boats for public conveyance be• Telford (later famous for his Conway and Menai tweenWidnes and Runcorn. Straits Suspension Bridges) after considerable re- 32 ST. EDWARD'SCOLLEGEMAGAZINE search, constructed a model of the first chain sus• suceed the Transporter is a suspension bridge pension bridge. It has a span of a hundred feet similar to his own original design, but costing con• between the two main towers, and the designers siderably more. successfully drove over this in a hackney carriage Mter Telford's idea, several schemes were sug• to the accompaniment of lusty cheers from the gested for bridges of various kinds, and even a excited and interested onlookers. The practic• tunnel, but nothing practical came to light until ability of a chain suspension bridge thus estab• 1900, when a transporter bridge was proposed. An lished, Telford designed one for crossing the Mer• application for the construction to begin was made sey between Runcorn and Widnes, and reported, in Parliament the same year, but the scheme met complete with plans, to the committee reviewing with considerable opposition. Eleven petitions bridge proposals in 1817. The proposed bridge against such a venture were compiled by interested was to have a span of one thousand feet, with a parties on both sides of the river. However, after thirty-foot roadway between two stone pyrami• a very stormy passage through its committee stage, dical towers, the clearance between the high water the Bill authorizing the work was finally passed by level of the river and the underside of the bridge both Houses and received the Royal Assent on the at the centre of the span being seventy feet. The 10th July, 1900. The construction began almost committee were favourably impressed, but when immediately, and the new Widnes-Runcorn Trans• they were informed that the estimated cost was porter Bridge was opened on May 29th, 1905. £90,490 for the construction alone, they decided The following comment made at the time ade• to refer the scheme for further consideration. As quately sums up the value of the bridge: "There a result nothing further was done, but the scheme is little doubt that the convenience and compara• was valuable inasmuch as it was the forerunner of tively small cost of the bridge will ensure complete his great suspension bridges at Conway and the success to the enterprise financially and be a boon Menai Straits. I am sure that Telford would split to the residents, farmers and tradespeople on both the sides of his coffin laughing if someone were to sides of the river and to travellers of all descrip• tell him that the new proposed road bridge to tions in the surrounding districts." L. LUDDEN,6A Mod.

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lE1U[]["O V is LOJ[ll change by the fact that most of the countries out• side England and France only commenced tele• ~ N biggest Sunday, step June forward 6th, since television Britain took started its the world's first high definition service in vision within the past few years. Because of this, 1936. For the first time eight countries were Britain, the parent of television, sent much vital linkedby a vast network of cables and transmitters equipment to the Continent, and every network -a network across 4,000 miles of Europe, from taking part used some British-designed equipment. Kirk 0' Shotts to Dover in the British Isles, and One British-equipped radio-link station situated from Copenhagen to Rome on the Continent. some 15,000 feet up on the Jungfrau carried the The 44 transmitters and 80 relay stations were television programmes from Switzerland into Ger• checkedand re-checked by engineers in Belgium, many and Italy. Germany, too, has chosen a Holland, Denmark, Germany, France, Switzer• good deal of British equipment-a fine tribute to land and Italy. its quality, for the contracts were obtained in the All this preparation could hardly have been face of fierce competition from Holland and realisedby the viewer as he sat in his arm-chair America. Now Denmark has decided to build and saw scenes relayed over hundreds of miles and the backbone of her final television network with shared by millions of others watching precisely equipment from Britain. the same thing at precisely the same moment. Yet in spite of the infancy of television on the Further interest was added to the television ex- Continent, it is making rapid strides and is already 34 ST. EnwARD'sCOLLEGEMAGAZINE flourishing in many countries. Western Germany, France. In 1952 came the television interchange for example, has eight transmitters in action and week with "Radiodiffusion" Francaise; the new lavishly-equipped studios. There is a strik• result, although not technically perfect, held great ing similarity between the German programmes promise for the future. Then came the Corona• and those of the RB.C. The Germans are just tion, and from Britain the impressive scenes as concerned about the weather as are the British• flowed forth into a Europe awakening to the new and the special weather forecast programme is a television era. duplicate of the method used by the RRC. There The first programme in the exchange came from are panel discussions, fashion shows, and even a Switzerland and we in Britain witnessed the gay magazine programme called " Kaleidoscope !" scenes of the International" Fete des Narcisses." The Italian network promises to emerge as one In the evening the awe-inspiring sight of the of the most go-ahead in Europe. Recent Italian grandeur of the Vatican was crowned with (as it progress in television has been phenomenal. How• seemed through the enchanting magic of the tele• ever, up till now, the number of television sub• vision screen) an intimately private audience with scribers is only about 35,000-no doubt due to the His Holiness, the Pope. Thus within a few hours high licence fee. Many receivers are installed in we were transported as far away as Switzerland the public squares, and it would be reasonable to and Italy. Britain repayed this luxury by con• assume that a maximum audience would amount tributing five shows to the network-the Rich• to a little more than 100,000. mond Horse Show, one special edition of" Cafe France, which has had a longer start over the Continental," an athletic meeting from Glasgow, rest of Europe-excluding Britain-has so far a trip with the " roving-eye" camera around flood• managed to open only four transmitters-two in lit London, and, as the highlight, the Queen Paris, one in Lille, and a small-power station in reviewing the R.N.V.R. parade. Perhaps the Strasburg. French programmes are limited to most thrilling and attractive event on the whole about four hours a day. exchange was the chance to see the best football One of the troubles is lack of finance, and this in teams in the world participating in the World turn must spring partly from the fact that the Football Championships in Switzerland. French spent a lot of time perfecting the highest Although the great television exchange plan was definition system in the world-instead of relying originally scheduled to last only one month, it is on a lower definition and a faster coverage. now intended that the greater part of the enterprise Belgium, with two stations, runs a bi-lingual will continue until the end of the year. But service. Holland and Denmark have one trans• whether further exchange programmes will be mitter and one set of studios each, and here, as arranged depends on the technicians. For, at this might be expected at the present stage, viewer stage, the birth of " Eurovision " and its growth totals are small. Switzerland has its main studio into a healthy, sturdy child must depend primarily at Zurich, together with a transmitter, and also a on the technician. subsidiary transmitter at Basle. The Swiss claim Eurovision could, if used rightly, be one of the to be among the first nations to appreciate the greatest forces for peace ever known. It can unite value of television. Their Dr. Tank gave a East and West, for television exists today behind demonstration of the new medium in a tiny studio the Iron Curtain as well as in front. It can forge in Zurich in 1939. the first genuine link between the peoples of Eurovision has its roots in an experiment that Europe. But the right hands must guide it when started in 1950. It was then that the RB.C. the technicians retire. relayed a memorable series of pictures from J. LE ROI, 6B Mod. ST. EOWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 35

Sports lD>ay Junior Championship and the 100 Yards (Divi• sion F.). ~ PORTSonly wash-out Day at in first the last threatened seven years, to be but the a ;;Jquarter of an hour after the start the sun A race which will not soon be forgotten by any .brokethrough the clouds, and the day remained who saw it was the Open Mile. More serious fineuntil the end. Unfortunately owing to the athletic considerations paled into insignificancebe• stateof the ground, the Drill Display, which had side the gallant attempts of R. Azurdia to hold off been awaited with keen interest, had to be can• J. Comerford who was challenging for third place. celled. He failed, but, in recognition of his great Two new events at this year's sports were the exertions, he was given a special prize. The win• PoleVault and the Steeplechase. The former was ner of the race was A. Lomax, whose new record wonby J. Rogan and the latter by A. Lomax. of 4 mins, 38 secs. gained for him the Senior P. Anwylrecorded his almost automatic victories Victor Ludorum. in the 100 Yards (Division H) and in the Senior At the end of the sports the prizes were presen• Championship. In the latter he beat the previous ted in the AssemblyHall by Lt.-Colonel J. Graeme .record by one second in a time of 23.5 secs. Bryson, who made a speech well in accordance f W. Lomas completed a similar double in the with the tradition of School Sports days. P. MORAN. Results of Athletic Sports

LONG JUMP PUTTING THE SHOT (l2-Ib.) DIVISION S. DIVISIONS H. & S. ht, Harris, P. (18-ft. 2-in.); 2nd, Pontet, R.; 3rd, Ist, Cunningham, J. (38-ft. 3-in.); 2nd, Harris, P. ; - Gannon, B. 3rd, McHugh, B. DIVISION H. DIVISION G. (lO-Ib.) ht, Franey, J. (I8-ft. lO-in.); 2nd, Hayes, E.; 3rd, Ist, Shaw, A. (34-ft. O-in.); 2nd, Hoffman, J.; 3rd, Anwyl,P. Rogan, J. DIVISION G. DIVISION F. "ht, Snape, P. (I8-ft. 3-in.); 2nd, Edwards, A.; 3rd, Azurdia,M. Ist, White, B. (33-ft. 3-in.); 2nd, O'Hare, P; 3rd, DIVISION F. Woolridge, J. ht, White, B. (I4-ft. 6-in.); 2nd, O'Hare, P.; 3rd, DISCUS Collins,M. DIVISIONS H. & S. (Junior Size). DIVISION E. 1st, Cunningham, J. (lOO-ft. I-in); 2nd, McHugh, B. ; "lat, Carter, J. (14-ft. ll-in.); 2nd, Gordon, D.; 3rd, 3rd, Pontet, R. O'Hare, M. DIVISION G. (Youth's Size). HIGH JUMP 1st, Fearns, H. (92-ft. O-in.); 2nd, Shaw, A.; 3rd, '.. DIVISION S. Pinnington, M. ht, Pontet, R. (4-ft. 8-in.); 2nd, Kenna, P.; 3rd, DIVISION F. Dillon,E. 1st, O'Hare, P. (91-ft. 6-in.); 2nd, Lomas, W. ; 3rd, DIVISION H. Collins, M. lat, Marmion, V. (4-ft. 8-in.); 2nd, Hayes, E.; 3rd, JAVELIN Manghan, G. DIVISION G. DIVISIONS H. & S. lat, Huby, B. (4-ft. 10-in.); 2nd, Rogan, J.; 3rd, 1st, Linford, A. (1l6-ft. 10-in.); 2nd, Cunningham, J. ; Griffiths,J. 3rd, Colford, J. DIVISION F. DIVISION G. It, White, B. (4-ft. 6t-in.); 2nd, O'Hare, P.; 3rd, 1st, Shaw, A. (lIS-ft. 9-in.); 2nd, Fitzgerald, M. ; Maxwell,L. 3rd, Rignall, W. DIVISION E. DIVISION F. 3rd, bt, Noon, M. (4-ft. I-in.); 2nd, Carter, J.; 3rd, 1st, O'Hare, P. (76-ft. 4-in.); 2nd, Collins, M. ; . O'Hare, M. Emsley, R. DIVISION D. POLE VAULT (Open) Tat,Wolfenden, B. (4-ft. I-in.); 2nd, Gallagher, P. ; 1st, Rogan, J. (8-ft.); 2nd, Anderson, K.; 3rd, L 3rd, Rolston, F. Connor, G. 36 ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINH

100 YARDS DIVISION G. DIVISION C. 1st, Addison, P. (18.9 sec.); 2nd, Huby, B.; 3rd, 1st, McDonnell, W. (14 sec.); 2nd, O'Driscoll, B. ; Edwards, A. 3rd, Scahill, J. DIVISION F. DIVISION D. 1st, Collins, M. (19.4 sec.); 2nd, Cuckson, C.; 3rd, 1st, Wolfenden, B. (13.1 sec.); 2nd, Emsley, B.; Maxwell, L. 3rd, Smith, F. DIVISION E. EGG & SPOON DIVISION B. 1st, Carter, J. (11.9 sec.); 2nd, O'Hare, M.; 3rd, Moorhead, T. 1st, Gaffney, J.; 2nd, Owens, C. ; 3rd, Hawes, P. DIVISION F. DIVISION A. 1st, Lomas, W. (11.2 sec.); 2nd, Cuckson, C.; 3rd, 1st, Egan, T.; 2nd, Bannon, P.; 3rd, Morgan, A. Maxwell, L. JUNIOR HOUSE RELAY DIVISION G. 1st, Mersey; 2nd, Domingo; 3rd, Hope. (51.4 sec.). 1st, Dodds, C. (11.5 sec.); 2nd, Edwards, A.; 3rd, SENIOR HOUSE RELAY Walsh, B. DIVISION H. 1st, Sefton; 2nd, Mersey; 3rd, Domingo. (2 min. 1st, Anwyl, P. (10.8 sec.); 2nd, Manghan, G.; 3rd, 42.9 sec.). Marmion, V. 880 YARDS DIVISION S. DIVISIONS H. & S. 1st, Harris, P. (11.1 sec.); 2nd, Colford, J.; 3rd, 1st, Rogers, P. (2 min. 7.4 sec.); 2nd, Lomas, A. ; Gannon, B. 3rd, Kenna, P. 80 YARDS DIVISION G. DIVISION B. 1st, Snape, P. (2 min. 14.2 sec.); 2nd, Addison, P. ; 1st, Scahill, M. (12 sec.); 2nd, Taylor, M.; 3rd, 3rd, Pinnington, M. Banks, P. VARIETY RACE DIVISION A. DIVISION A. 1st, Prescott, A. (13 sec.); 2nd, Morgan, A.; 3rd, 1st, Bannon, P.; 2nd, Murphy, D.; 3rd, McQuirk, B. Frost, C. SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP (220 yards) SLOW BICYCLE RACE OPEN OPEN 1st, Anwyl, P. (23.5 sec., record); 2nd, Colford, J. ; 1st, Fetherstone, M.; 2nd, Feeney, D. ; 3rd, Brannan, 3rd, Gannon, B. E. STEEPLECHASE 440 YARDS DIVISIONS H. & S. DIVISION F. 1st, Lomax, A. (3 min. 41.4 sec.); 2nd, Linford, A. ; 1st, Doyle, M. (62.8 sec.); 2nd, Boyle, F.; 3rd, 3rd, Marshall, M. Davidson, B. DIVISION E. OBSTACLE RACE 1st, Carter, J. (61.2 sec.); 2nd, Forde, E.; 3rd, DIVISIONS D. & E. Chamberlain, D. 1st, Richards, J.; 2nd, Richards, M.; 3rd, Weston, P. DIVISION C. SIAMESE RACE 1st, Aldridge, J.; 2nd, Maher, L.; 3rd, Ward, J. DIVISION B. 440 YARDS 1st, Banks, P and Arnold, R.; 2nd, Scahill, M. and DIVISION G. Hughes, M.; 3rd, Murphy, A. and Mulholland, G. 1st, Snape, P. (56.6 sec.); 2nd, Dodds, C.; 3rd, DIVISION C. Matheson, A. 1st, Murphy, M. and Mulroy, B.; 2nd, Murray, F. and DIVISIONS H. & S. Fitzsimmons, A.; 3rd, Morgan, B. and Morgan, S. 1st, Franey, J. (55.4 sec.); 2nd, Comerford, J.; 3rd, Kenn1, B. OLD EDW ARDlANS' 100 YARDS 1st, Rogers, V. (11.7 sec.); 2nd, Rogers, S.; 3rd, JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP 220 yards) OPEN Pearse, F. 1st, Lomas, W. (25.6 sec.); 2nd, Collins, M.; 3rd, MUSICAL CHAIRS Forde, E. DIVISION A. 220 YARDS 1st, Morgan, A.; 2nd, Smith, P.; 3rd, Butler, D. DIVISION D. DIVISION B. 1st, Wolfenden, B. (28.9 sec.); 2nd, Emsley, B.; 1st, Banks, P.; 2nd, Buckels, J.; 3rd, Sullivan, C. 3rd, Irving, R. DIVISION C. FATHERS' MEASURING WALK 1st, O'Driscoll, B. (31.8 sec.); 2nd, McDonnell, W. ; 1st, Mr. B. Byme; 2nd, Mr. Geoghegan; 3rd, 3rd, Morgan, S. Mr. Addison. HURDLES (120 yards) MOTHERS' COMPETITION DIVISION S. 1st, Mrs. Coady; 2nd, Mrs. O'Driscoll; 3rd, Mrs. 1st, Harris, P. (19.5 sec.); 2nd, Pontet, R. Caulfield. DIVISION H. 1st, Franey, J. (19.8 sec.); 2nd, Manghan, G.; 3rd, OLD EDWARDIANS' 880 YARDS Linford, A. 1st, Rogers, S.; 2nd, Rogers, V.; 3rd, Burke, B. ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 37

880 YARDS Mr. J. Darragh Mr. & Mrs. G. Reid DIVISION F. Capt. W. Gillespie Mr. & Mrs. P. McLindon 1st, Doyle, M. (2 min. 28.1 sec.); 2nd, Ripley, J. ; Mr. A. Riley Mr. J. Dooley 3rd, Lloyd, J. Mr. T. Butchard Mr. W. Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. F. Linford MILE Mr. W. J. Hattley OPEN Mr. E. Rudd Mr. J. C. Tindall Mr. J. Walsh Mr. & Mrs. O. Lawler 1st,Lomas, A. (4 min., 38 sec., record); 2nd, Rogers, Mr. J. C. Williams Major & Mrs. Nicholl P.; 3rd, Comerford, J. Mr. W. Warburton Mr. A. Dyson CONSOLATION RACES Anon Mr. L. Owens UNDER 9. Mr. J. Pozzi Mr. D. Dukes Mr. J. J. Carrier Mr. M. Moore 1st,Martin, P.; 2nd, Boland, P.; 3rd, Byrne, J. Mr. F. Goodwin UNDER 11. Mr. J. Richardson Mr. J. B. Chamberlain Mr. W. England 1st,Rudd, L.; 2nd, F1etcher, P.; 3rd, Spencer, W. Mr. B. Jordan Mr. T. Rigby UNDER 15. Mr. R. Carberry Mr. R. Banks 1st,Matthews, J.; 2nd, McShane,W. 3rd, Wolfenden, B. Mr. T. Green Mrs. W. McShane OVER 15. Mr. P. McArdle Mr. E. Rogers 1st,Jordan, H.; 2nd, Lavery, H.; 3rd, Keenan, W. Mrs. J. Griffiths Mr. F. Byrne Mr. A. Fargher Mr. J. Neill WINNING HOUSE.-HOPE. 2nd, DOMINGO. Mr. J. M. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. E. Jones Mrs. D. Howard INTER-HOUSE CROSS-COUNTRY Mr. & Mrs. J. Harkins Mr. J. J. Murphy Mr. R. Collins Senior Cup.-HOPE (Captain, A. Lomax). Mr. G. W. Hawes Dr. M. Devlin Mr. O. McDonald Mr. C. Blackburne Junior Cup.-DOMINGO (Captain, M. Noon). Mr. E. Smith Mr. J. Simpson Senior (3 miles) Dr. M. J. O'Donnell Mrs. E. Fitzsimmons 1st,Linford, A. (15 min. 43.6 sec.); 2nd, Rogers, P. ; Mr. H. Davidson Mrs. C. Molyneux 3rd, Lomax, A.. Mr. T. McGuirk Mr. J. W. Brown Mrs. D. E. Kearney Mrs. W. Grant Intermediate (2 miles) Mr. T. Lamb Mr. & Mrs. J. Button 1st, Snape, P. (12 min. 57 sec.); 2nd, Addison, P. ; Mr. G. P. Morgan Mrs. M. Hale 3rd, Matheson, A. Mr. & Mrs.W. McDcnnell Mrs. M. Jensen Junior (2 miles) Anon Mr. P. J. O'Hanlon 1st,Forde, E.; 2nd, Noon, M.; 3rd, Rylance, J. Mr. J. Gaffney Mr. L. C. Baker Mr. M. C. Wren Mr. E. Bibby Under 13 (It miles) Mr. A. Roose Mr. D. E. Jones 1st,Horan, J. ; 2nd, Wolfenden, B.; 3rd, Plunkett, M. Mr. J. McDermott Mr. J. A. Saunders Mr. G. Rooney Mrs. E. Gray The School gratefully acknowledge the Mrs. A. Noon Mr. W. G. Brewer Mr. J. Mulroy Mr. J. Brown receipt of Subscriptions and Prizes from Mr. J. Hurst Mrs. W. Gloyne Mr. A. P. Kelly Mr. R. Pope the following: Mr. A. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. F. Matthews The Headmaster Mr. M. Byrne Mr. J. Robinson Mr. W. Williams Mr. A. Gilbettson Mr. T. Laird Mr. R. Cookson Mr. K. Anderson Mr. T. Prenton Mr. P. G. Mattin Mr. L. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. H. Tomlinson Mr. W. Dunn Mrs. R. A. Bradley Mrs. E. Kennedy Mrs. M. Jones Dr. J. Kay Mrs. W. E. Lowe Mr. A. J. Hughes Mr. C. Bywater Mr. J. R. Lunt Mr. C. Hoffman Mr. J. O'Brien Mr. P. Murphy Mr. R. Speak Mr. S. Thomas Mr. B. Marmion Mr. F. Blackie Mrs. A. Reekers Mr. F. Rooney Dr. J. McGovern Mr. L. Faulkner Mr. & Mrs. Hargreaves Mr. & Mrs. H. Snape Mr. H. V. Robetts Mr. E. Patterson Mr. J. Marsh Mr. R. H. Hodge Mrs. E. W. Irving Mr. J. Smith Mr. M. J. Moore Mr. G. B. Watterson Mr. W. G. Milne Mr. J. Prescott Mr. T. Mooney Mrs. V. C. Marshall Mrs. F. Carter Mr. A. Dunn Mrs. W. Walsh Mr. J. Kinsella Mr. H. P. Maybury Mr. R. Furneaux Mr. C. Kearney Major H. McClellan Mr. G. H. Walker Mrs. M. Dunn Mr. & Mrs. G. Crawford Mr. W. J. Butler Mr. A. Buckels Mrs. M. Quirke Mr. T. P. Egan Mr. F. P. Plunkett Mr. T. Sullivan Mr. J. Kelly Mr. J. R. Holden Mr. R. Clarke Mr. J. Ludden Mr. W. Voiels Mr. J. M. Roberts Mr. B. Byrne Mr. T. Moorhead Mr. J. Shea Mr. A. J. A. Taylor Mr. J. Bannon Mr. A. A. Arnold Mr. F. Durbin Mr. P. Moorhead Mr. W. G. Brereton Mr. F. Fitzgerald Mr. A. Cowen Mr. T. Jennings Mr. W. Seymour Mr. N. Dagnall Mr. J. McMullen Mr. D. Morgan Mr. J. Hudson Mr. T. G. Huby Mr. T. Donleavy Mrs. K. Jones Mr. J. Cunningham Mrs. A. Johnson Mr. R. Richards Mrs. E. M. Stubbs Mr. W. Lomas Mr. E. Slater Mr. S. Hassett Mr. D. O'Driscoll Mr. J. C. Graven Mr. E. T. Fetherstone Mr. K. Jones 38 ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Mr. T. C. Morgan Mr. T. Cowie Mr. F. Lynch Mr. J. E. Lambe Mr. E. McCann Mr. E. A. Fay Mrs. H. Naughton Mr. J. P. Bums Mr. H. Lunt Dr. J. J. MacMahon Mr. G. Waring Mrs. M. Weston Mr. L. A. Asbury Mr. A. R. Smith Mr. S. Boylan Mrs. R. Judge Mr. P. J. McDonald Mr. F. J. Moore Mr. J. Le Roi Mr. L. Be1field Mrs. B. Wolfenden Mr. & Mrs. J. Wills Mr. K. Rowan Mrs. E. ShelIey Mr. C. J. Hill Mr. H. Langley Mrs. R. KelIy Mr. F. A. Hughes Mr. A. Dolan Mr. A. Fletcher Mr. B. Caulfie1d Mrs. T. Largan Mr. E. Traynor Mrs. G. Gallagher Mr. P. MarshalI Mr. J. Cunningham Mr. T. Ashurst Mr. J. Armstrong Mr. T. Mercer Mr. C. Smith Mrs. J. Coffey Mr. H. C. Geoghegan Mrs. L. Wardley Mrs. E. W. Jennings Mr. J. Woolridge Mrs. E. C. Benbow Mr. J. S. Wilson Mrs. C. Deane Mr. J. C. McGonagle Mr. F. Davies Mr~ T. Gregory Mr. F. J. Williams Mr. G. Ford Mrs. J. Gordon Mr. G. D. Coady Mr. R. J. Craig Mr. J. White Mr. H. Fearns Mrs. H. Duncan Mrs. E. Bruen Mr. J. Mulholland Mr. A. WalIey Mrs. W. Henry Mr. T. J. McHugh Mr. G. Wilson Mr. J. Lavery Mr. R. Emsley Mr. H. M. Fleming Mrs. G. Doyle Mr. & Mrs. J. Padden Mr. J. Devine Miss M. McKay Mr. E. Colquitt Mr. A. McLacWan Mr. H. Gannon Mr. D. W. Milne Mrs. C. Burns Mr. F. W. Goodwin Mr. J. C. Bryson Mrs. E. Cheetham Mr. J. A. Morgan Mr. E. Leddon Mr. H. Moore Mr. B. Hurley Mr. & Mrs. J. Comerford Mr. T. J. Colquitt Mr. B. Dawson Mr. A. Matheson Mr. J. Kieran Mrs. K. Alger Mr. M. Toolan Mr. & Mrs. G. Manghan Mr. E. Cunningham Mr. M. Murray Mr. G. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. J. O'Neill Mr. F. Molyneux Mr. A. P. Young Mr. V. B. Horan Mrs. A. Matthews Mrs. M. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. T. Morgan Mr. J. Edge Mr. J. Kelly Mr. H. Coady Mr. E. O'Brien Dr. J. R. Azurdia Messrs.- Mrs. A. Boon Mr. T. Kenna Mr. F. Stafford J. T. Parkinson Ltd. Mr. & Mrs. J. Watters Mr. J. A. Curran Mr. J. Dickenson J. W. Towers & Co. Mr. D. Gibson Mr. C. F. BushelI Mr. R. F. Cogley Ltd. Mrs. F. Loftus Mr. J. C. Ratchford Mrs. E. Hughes James Kilburn Mrs. G. Taylor Mr. P. Hawe Mr. M. Moran Philip, Son & Nephew Mrs. M. Hannaway Mr. J. Mangan Mr. G. BushelI Ltd. Mr. & Mrs. G. McLean Mr. J. Glynn Mr. T. Hurst AlIens (Disinfectants) Mr. E. Fylan Mrs. P. Hart Mr. E. Fearon Ltd. Mr. W. H. Addison Mr. J. E. Minahan Mr. F. Hare E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd. Mr. J. S. Anwyl Mr. J. Colford Mrs. S. Ravey H. Hunt & Son Ltd. Mr. J. J. Swift Mr. T. V. Quinn Anon Kearley & Tonge Ltd. Mr. G. HolIes Mrs. E. J. Mooney Mr. R. G. Duggan C. J. Southcott Mr. W. Wallace Mr. M. Williams Mrs. A. O'Hare Co-Partnership Ltd. Mrs. S. Donald Mr. G. Gower Mrs. S. Townson Philip Harris Ltd. Mrs. M. Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. J. Morley Mr. G, F. Roper Aerowata Ltd.

Athleti.cs absence through injury all the more regrettable. The Junior team (15-17 years) retained the " Jack ~HIS~ athletes has of been the aschool, very andfull it season is possible for the to give only the briefest review of their many Edge Cup" by a 20 points margin, being placed achievements. in every event. The Boys (under 15) team, in the The first meeting of the season in which teams person of W. Lomas, gained 1st place in three of from the schooltook part was that staged by Sefton the four events, and M. O'Hare was third in the Harriers for the "Coronation Shield" and the High Jump. " Jack Edge Cup." In the former, the seniors In the Northern Schools Sports we gained 7th (17-19 years) gained 3rd place. P. Harris gained a out of 57 entrants. The best performance of the creditable third in both the 100 Yards and the day was that of the captains, P. Anwyl, who won Long Jump, performances which made his later the 100 Yards tide, beating the holder, J. A. N'j ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 39

Railton, in the final. Our relay team, consisting firsts, a second and a third, in the Hammer, Shot, of Franey, Dodds, Colford and Anwyl, did well to Discus and Javelin, respectively. finish 2nd in the final. Other points scorers were Junior and Senior fixtures at Pilkington Recs. A. Linford, 4th in the Steeplechase; A. Lomax, resulted in victories for both teams. Although 6th in the Mile, and J. Cunningham, 6th place times were generally fast, E. Forde's 2 mins. 13 and standard in the Shot. secs. in the Junior 880 Yards gave promise of A far less exacting event was a triangular con• better things to come. test against St. Mary's and St. Anselm's, in which The fixture against the Old Boys resulted in both Juniors and Seniors gained easy victories. the expected victory for the school, although the The most outstanding feature of this event was the margin was smaller than anticipated. The only exceptionally forceful running of K. Gilligan for performance of note was that of J. Cunningham, St. Mary's, which ensured that he will not soon who beat his own record for the Shot, with a putt by forgotten even by those who normally take of 39-ft. 6-in. little interest in athletics. A fitting finale to the season was provided by The Under 15 inter-schools, city championship the inter-college sports at Wyncote. The Junior for the " Machlachlan Cup" ended in a tie for team gained an easy victory, and at one time a the first time in 25 years, ourselves and Rose Lane double looked a distinct possibility, although even• being the schools concerned. The result was in tually the Seniors had to be content with second doubt until the last leg of the relay, which was the place. Cunningham won the Discus and was 3rd last event. When it looked as if Rose Lane would in the Shot, while B. McHugh was second in the win, W. Lomas came from behind to snatch vic• Discus. P. Anwyl was narrowly beaten by J. tory. Incidentally, we are both the first Catholic Railton in the 100 and 220 Yards, while A. Lomax school, and the first grammar school, to gain the was 3rd in the 880 Yards and 2nd in the Mile, in trophy. the latter event recording the praiseworthy time In the Junior County Championships we had of 4 mins. 28 secs. Our hopes were kept alive large contingents in both the Junior (Under 15) until the last event, the relay, but were finally and Intermediate (Under 17) city teams. dashed when the baton was dropped. In the In the Intermediate J. Rogan, A. Linford, Junior competition the outstanding performers J. Franey and P. Anwyl won their respective were W. Lomas, winner of both the 100 Yards events, the latter setting a new record of 23.5 secs. and the 220 Yards, and E. Forde, winner of the for the 22 Yards. The last three have been selec• 880 Yards in the new record time of 2 mins. 10 ted to represent the County in the National Cham• secs. J. Carter was 3rd in the 100 Yards, L. pionships, while W. Lomas (3rd in the 220 Yards) Maxwell 2nd, and C. Cuckson 3rd in the 440 gained a similar honour in the Junior Section. Yards. A visit to Wyncote saw our Senior team lose to Generally this has been a satisfactory season, the University 63-53. On this occasionA. Lomax and the marked improvement of recent years has equalled the school 880 yards record in a time of been more than maintained. 2 mins. 4.4 secs., while J. Cunningham gained two P. MORAN, (Hon. Sec.). 41 osity. "The Happy Wanderer" must now rank House at St. Edward's, thank you. To the with the "Foggy, Foggy Dew" as a School juniors, if you follow the achievements of your classic. predecessors and give next year's captain the same Going back a bit (a big bit) our congratulations support as I have had, you won't go far wrong. are due to the junior cross-country cup-winning Finally, to all Houses, a long and well-earned holi• team. Ford, Noon (capt.) and Rylance took the day. May the eternal struggle be renewed in first three places. Domingo now holds no less September! than four School records: no House can better ROBERTAzURDIA(House Captain). this. *** The Rugby title slipped out of our grasp at the HOPE last hurdle. In one of the best games ever of the This year has been one of varying fortunes for series, Sefton 1st XV beat us by 16 points to 14, a Hope. The end of the rugby season found the magnificent performance against the School back house at the bottom of the table, the small number division, and ourselves without the inspired leader• of points gained being due mainly to the lack of ship of our captain who long mangled, hors de rugby talent in the senior house, our only mem• combat on the touch-line. Well done, Sefton! bers of the 1st XV being L. Ludden and The less said about cricket the better. Domingo T. Holden. Other members of school rugby sadly missed Brian Body, last year's vice-captain teams were mentioned in the previous house of the School XI, and have thrice been, frankly, notes. humbled. They have been unfortunate in meet• With the advent of the cricket season, we were ing Shaw and Stannard in top form, and the determined to improve on our earlier efforts, wicket really has played tricks. Mention must be which we did, mainly because of the good all• made ofP. Murphy, D. Jennings, T. Hitchmough round play of A. Shaw, A. Linford and P. Doyle. and D. Rooney, for excellent performances in the Doyle and Shaw have been regular members of 2nd and 3rd Xl's. the 1st XI, the latter having been the backbone of The strong point of this House is loyalty. the side's batting throughout the season. P. Alger Every man is willing, more than willing, to do has played for the 2nd XI on several occasions, more than his bit in every sphere of House and and Armstrong, M. Doyle, Massey, Wolfenden, school activities. Amongst its outstanding mem• and Flanagan are members of the Colts and bers are Vic. Marmion, always ready in "class Under-14 teams. and field," a pillar of the Debating Society where It is in athletics, however, that Hope has really lucid thought and delivery have done much to shone. The climax was the winning of the Inter• maintain the level reached in recent years. Gerald House Shield on Sports Day, a success to which O'Brien, at almost no notice took on the arduous all Hopeites contributed wholeheartedly. A. Shaw task of announcing on Sports Day, with what suc• has impressed us with his javelin throwing, while cessful results we know. Then, in the juniors, P. Rogers, P. Kenna, A. Linford, B. Gannon and Messrs. Emsley, Forde, Mitchell and Neill, with A. Lomax have proved reliable middle-distance their successful pacing in training, helped create runners. The above-mentioned have represented the Mile record on the day. Thanks, lads! the school in senior fixtures, while M. Doyle (880 It is noticeable that no competition was held yards), B. White (shot putt) and B. O'Hare (High this year for the Tug-of- War. It had become a Jump) are members of the junior team. Linford Domingo prerogative, and our team-spirit thus and White won Lancs. Schools' Championships, makes ours a House without parallel. in the under-17 mile and under-I5 shot putt res• These are my last notes as Captain of Domingo. pectively, and the former was fourth in the i-mile To all my fellow-members for their wonderful steeplechase at the Northern Schools' Sports. co-operation in making ours the best supported On the academic side we possess two prefects in 42 ST. EnwARDls COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Moran and Lomax, while Hopeites continue to City, Manchester, in June. Rogan established a make their presence felt in the various school new Best Performance for the intermediate pole societies. J. Donleavy was runner-up in the Br. vault, and Franey also set up a new 440 yards Wall Debating Cup competition, a fine achieve• record. ment for a member of VI BSc. Mersey contributed three of the four speakers In conclusion, I would like to thank all mem• in this year's finalof the Br. Wall Debating Cup• bers of Hope who have struggled, often without Keating, Donleavy and Morgan. Philip Keating success, to uphold the good name of the house was the worthy winner and M. Donleavy the throughout the past year. runner-up. A. B. LOMAX(HouseCapt.) It would perhaps be trite to reiterate Wellington *** and say that Waterloo was won on the playing MERSEY fields of Eton; but there are few who would deny It is with a sense of nostalgic regret that I pen the value of sport and genial rivalry as we have it these notes for the last time. A mere litany of in this school. It is no great thing to win, but it successes cannot possibly reflect the true greatness is a very great thing to try to win, and if I may of a house; the true greatness of Mersey lies in say so, Mersey has tried with no little success. the zeal, enthusiasm and heart-warming spirit of P. G. McLEAN. its members. This is not to say, however, that SEFTON Mersey is bereft of any successes in the academic The end of the school year 1953-54is approach• and athletic field. ing and once again the " Mag" goes to print and As ever, Mersey was represented in the victori• House Notes must be written. ous 7's teams. The brilliant hooking of Dillon in Sefton won for the second time in two years the Seniors, immediately recalls the sterling work the Rugby Championship. The school too, won of Bob Hughes in the same position last year, and two seven-a-side tournaments and in the Collegiate combined with the solid power of McLean con• one our success was due mainly to our helmeted tributed much to the omnipotence of the Edwar• scrum half George Quirke, whose lightning bursts dian pack. In the Colts 7's the accurate service were augmented by Pip Anwyl and Joe Colford. from scrum-half Collins, and the determined run• George's efforts and the efforts of other Sefton ning and defence of Rogan, ensured our success. members in Senior XV's, players like R. Dingle, P. G. McLean and M. W. Wren were both A. McNeilis, J. Ratchford, W. Doyle, M. Azurdia, awarded Colours this year. In the Junior Ban• were initiated to great effect by Junior Seftonites. tams, R. Nelson, the vice-capt., continued a force• The 1st Year XV boasted players of the calibre of ful season to finish with 64 points. C. Ledden, W. McDonnell, A. McClellan, The Mersey members of the 1st XI have played P. Christmas and J. Scahill. So mature, in fact, consistendy well. B. McDermott, F. Harkins, were these young players, Br. Caulfield, our F. Morgan, J. Rogan, P. Hanlon and M. Wren, Junior House Master, gave them places in the suc• have enlivened the play with their elegant stroke cessful Junior House 1st XV. Assisted by " old play and accurate bowling. In the Junior Cricket hands" V. Dipple, D. Lunt and A. Maxwell of Teams we have Wolfenden and Wallace in the Bantam fame, G. Kennedy, B. Colquitt and Colts, Sparks the captain of the under 14's and T. Cleary from the Junior Bantams, plus the ster• Taylor captain of the Chicks. ling work of P. Gaibraith and B. Butchard, the In the athletic sphere we have achieved notable Juniors proved well nigh invincible in the House successes. Lomas is captain of the Juniors and is Championship. also the Junior Victor Ludorum. Rogan, Franey, Turning now to cricket, we find yet another Dodds, Huby, Lomas and Carter, were all mem• Seftonite, G. Quirke, captaining the 1st XI. bers of the Liverpool City Team at the White Others who keep him company are: J. Ratchford 43 and D. Stannard (regulars), A. McNeilis, M. B. O'Driscoll all ran extremely well, while the Azurdia and D. Asbury (able substitutes) and Seahill family, A. Maxwell and A. Moorhead, P. Anwyl (when he wasn't doing "evens "). gained valuable points in their respective finals. Cricketers from the house abound in other XI's• However, our success is not due merely to the B. Davis from the 2nd XI, B. Davidson, A. Max• efforts of those mentioned in these columns. well and B. Butchard of the Colts. D. Asbury, Certainly they had a great deal to do with it. But captain of the Colts, has been the outstanding those boys in the 2nd and 3rd XV's and Xl's also member of this side. His best effort was an un• helped, and it is because of their efforts on the defeated 71 against Collegiate. Sefton is also well rugby and cricket fields and in the classroom that represented in the Chicks XI with regulars Sefton is so successful. P. Christmas-a big hitter, A. McGrath, and the Our success in the classroom is reflected in the lively C. Ledden. efforts of F. G. Mills in the final of the English Those who failed to find fame on the cricket Debate and A. McNeilis and F. G. Mills in the field turned to the athletic track, and once again final of the French Br. Forde Debating Cup, won weprovided the captain, in the person ofP. Anwyl, by the latter, whose well-reasoned arguments scin• for the school team. Pip set the right example in tillated with wit. the Northern Counties School Championships Many of the Senior members will be leaving when he defeated the previous year's winner to this year and their support to the house will be take the 100yards title. In the Liverpool Harriers missed, but it is not irreplacable. There are many Championship he clocked evens-a remarkable Juniors and Seniors who can adequately fill these achievement for one who also assists the school gaps, and to these and my successor I wish the 1st cricket XI. On Sports Day G. Comerford, best of luck and every success. P. Snape, K. Anderson, W. McDonnell and J. COLFORD.

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~HE the main Br. Wall feature Debating of the Cup, Easter which term was theymany showed tongues. that Our the thanks lure of are a prizedue to could those loosen mem- '1"r' won by Mr. Philip Keating. The other bers of the Staff who so generously gave up their finalists were: Mr. Gerard Mills (runner-up), spare time to adjudicate. Mr. Frank Morgan and Mr. James Donleavy. It The summer term activities were, of necessity, is sad to notice that only one of the finalists- slight. One lecture was given; the Secretary Mr. Mills-was from the Upper Sixth Moderns- delivered a paper on the" Satirical Novel of Mr. the form which should be the backbone of the Evelyn Waugh." society. All the cup debates were well contested, The imminence of important examinations gave and attended with enthusiasm. If nothing else, many members a reason, and many more an ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 45 excuse, for not devoting their time to the prepara• two years I have been Secretary there have been tion of debates. One important result has been many fine debates and debaters. Attendance has that some members of the Upper Sixth forms have been regular. My complaint has never been that not spoken at all this year. The sole consolation the standard of debating was low, but that the for Mr. Chairman and myself is that they will number of speakers could have been greater. Too suffer more in the future on account of this omis• much was left to too few. To the following, on sion than we did in the past. Again, the Lower behalf of the Chairmen, Mr. Barter and Bro. Sixth Moderns have been surprisingly reticent. Cowley and myself, I would like to give sincere Despite the vigorous and often evocative noises thanks for all the help they have given; Messrs. that issue from their room during the intervals Robert Azurdia, Philip Keating, Gerald O'Brien, between periods, they have, with the exception of Gerard Mills, Peter Moran and Gerald Gloyne. Messrs. Brookes, Curran and Kenna, preserved a They " bore the burden of the day and the heats " shy silence in the debating theatre. I hope that in order to entertain their lazier brethren. With• next year they will debate as much as this year's out them, the society would have been a dull and senior sixth did in their first year. It seems too silent place indeed. much to expect that members will speak regularly To the brave man who will succeed me, my during both their sixth form years. sole advice is that he pray to the Holy Spirit that However, I do not wish to paint too gloomy a our society might meet, discuss and decide all picture. The Lower Sixth Science did excep• things to the greater honour and glory of God, tionally well to provide three out of the four and that He, the Paraclete, should do for the finalists for the Bro. Wall Cup; and during the Sixth Forms what He did for the Apostles. MICHAEL J. GREGORY (Hon. Sec.).

power to prevent wars between nations; and, if war does break out, they send troops to end the '1'T'\Jtr HEandalways question the been motion of a popular politics " Que lesandsubject politiciens ptlliticians for debate, sont has war as quickly as possible. M. Azurdia now les plus grands ennemis de l'Etat," proved to be a received some well-earned support from M. subject of great interest to the members of the McDermott (Pro.), his colleague. M. McDermott Society. In fact, four members actually volun• is obviously a historian of no mean repute, a fact teered to speak for or against the motion, thus which he proved by his method of attack. He saving themselves the trouble and inconvenience related the untold misery which Peter the Great of being forcibly delegated for the purpose! inflicted upon his subjects when he tried to alter The opening speaker, who proposed the motion, their habits and customs. Napoleon too, made a wasthe inimitable Raz himself-M. Azurdia, with ruin of France, and in the United States Senator all the powers of voice, gesture and invective at McCarthy was doing precisely the same thing his command, he proclaimed that politicians were today. But, stated M. McDonald (Con.), it must responsible for the present condition of the world be remembered that there are two types of poli• today, let alone the State. M. Moran now took ticians: the idealistic, and the practical. Worn• the floor, and aptly pointed out that, without poli• out ideals are a danger, whilst the realistic approach ticians there would not be any State. In fact, he to political problems is far the best. Thus, one declared, politicians often prove our salvation. cannot say that all politicians are the greatest For example, Foreign Ministers do all in their enemies of the State. The debate here ended 46 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE with a terse, cogent summary by M. le President, sible, he said, to protect people from the dangers who awarded the victory to the Pros. of the H-bomb, but it is well-nigh impossible to From politics to the hydrogen bomb. The protect the public from the ravages of wreckless, motion under discussion was that " Les epreuves incompetent drivers. He was opposed by M. de la bombe-H doivent cesser." M. Fleming Quirke, who explained the advantages of the proposed the motion, pointing out the hideous motor-car, and attributed accidents to the negli• effects of an H-bomb explosion. M. O'Brien gence of pedestrians rather than of motorists. He, (Con.) was of the opinion that the use of the H• in turn, was answered by M. Mills, our form bomb would either win or prevent a third WorId comedian, who gave a most entertaining and amus• War. However, M. Gannon, supporting the ing speech on behalf of the motion. A sensible motion, confessed that he placed his trust, not in point which he made was that the H-bomb, though H-bombs, but in diplomacy. The debate ended a weapon of destruction, helped to preserve a with a speech by M. Lennon, who declared that balance of power, since each country would be Britain must preserve her superiority at all costs, unwilling to use the bomb for fear of enemy retali• and that this can be done by using the H-bomb. ation. M. Quirke was seconded by M. Fleming, Here I must own to having kept the best wine and the successful semi-finalists were M. Fleming until the last. By this, of course, I mean the and M. Mills. M. Mills ended his speech with a report of the French Debating Cup Contest. fine piece of silver Latinity, which, for the benefit The opening semi-final took place to discuss the of the classicalscholars amongst us, I beg leave to view that" Le Grand National est un sport bar• quote here: bare et cruel." M. Anwyl (Pro) declared that the Ego lunam video,. luna me videt. welfare and safety of the horses should be con• Transite pontem, sed non in Dragonet. sidered above all else, since the horses are more Bomba cadunt,. 0 tali Nocte! important than their riders-it is they who have Flate te, Johannem,. ego sum.~O.K ! to jump the ditches! M. Kenna, however, said The subject chosen for the final debate was that there was no danger in the race; during the that: "L' Education a apporte plus de mal que last Grand National no horses at all were killed. de bien aux classes ouvieres." M. Azurdia, pro• Moreover, the horses jumped the ditches and posing the motion, opened the debate. He spoke hedges at their own risk, and of their own free first of the G.C.E. (Slackers' Charter), for which will, for, he said, you can lead a horse to water, nobody works, since it is so easily gained. Before but you cannot make it jump. M. Kenna was the war, he said, the English were ignorant-but opposed by M. McNeilis (Pro), who declared that happy. Furthermore, they were the possessors of thorny hedges used in the race were mere instru• a Great and Glorious Empire, etc., etc. M. ments of torture, and suggested, as a remedy, that McNeilis, opposing, quoted Moliere to prove that the number of hedges be reduced. The debate "Without education, life is but a shadow of was concluded by M. Azurdia, who made the point death." M. Fleming, proposing the motion, re• that the cruelty and suffering (if any) caused in the plied that "A little learning is a dangerous thing," Grand National is negligible compared with that and quoted Plato, Chaucer, Bernard Braden, and inflicted in modern warfare. MM. McNeilis and other well-known authorities. M. Mills (Con) Azurdia were adjudged to have been the best pointed out that many famous politicians, scien• speakers, thus winning their way to the final. tists, etc., are of the working classes, and that The motion discussed in the next semi-final therefore education of the working classes is a was that " L' auto est une plus grande menace a good thing. The debate, and the cup, were rightly la civilisation que la bombe-H." M. Colford won by M. Mills. (Pro) opened the debate by giving a detailed The Society's activities this term have proved account of recent fatal motor accidents. It is pos- to be of immense interest to the Lower Sixth, and, ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 47 surprisingly enough, to the Lower Fives. Many hope that the present high standard of debating of our present members will be unavoidably con• will be maintained by next year's Lower and spicuous by their absence next year, perhaps en• Upper Sixth. joying a stay at Catterick Holiday Camp, but we M. FLEMING (Hon. Sec.).

Le foyer Francal§,) equally at fault. This was followedby the Annual General Meeting at which the minutes of the pre• ~ HEone past for members term has beenof the a Foyer. particularly Through busy \.W the hard work of Miss Moore, the Secre• ceding year were read and signed. This year tary, many interesting and instructive lectures were showed a favourable bank balance as compared given. To enumerate them all would be a with a deficit last year and for the first time the lengthy task and one which would serve no useful treasurer would be able to start the next session purpose. However, there is one talk which readily with some money in the bank. As members springs to mind as perhaps one of the best we showed an unusual reticence about asking ques• have had the pleasure of hearing. It was given tions or suggesting improvements, the meeting towards the end of the term, by an old friend of was closed. the society, Professor Inebnit, ofPestalozzi Village Before closing these notes, I would like to say a fame. He chose as his subject, "Epees et Char• few words to the 6B Mods who will form the rues." Perhaps the greatest compliment one can nucleus of this school's Foyer membership next pay the Professor is that he was readily understood year. The Foyer Franc;aiswas formed solely for by all those present, with the result that, being your benefit. By attending its meetings you are able to follow his arguments, we were much more offered a unique opportunity of perfecting both appreciative of him. your pronunciation and your understanding of the As a pleasant diversion and conclusion of a very French tongue. Your role must not be a passive successful year, four" assistants" who have been one; it is up to you to co-operate and make use most helpful to the Foyer in the past, gave us a of the facilities at your disposal. Unless you do play-reading from Jean Anouilh. This was looked so the Foyer will not be a success. These injunc• forward to very much, but, unfortunately, it did tions are evoked by an all too-bitter familiarity not live up to expectations. The majority of it with the apathy and lack of interest displayed by was inaudible and unintelligible, mainly through this year's 6A Mods. Do not imitate them in this the actors turning their backs on the audience. respect but, by giving up one night per fortnight, However, in all fairness, it must be added that we show those officials who work so hard that their ourselves, unaccustomed to hearing the French efforts are not in vain. language spoken by a native, were probably P. A. ANWYL, School Representative.

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an achievement in itself sufficient to justify the club's existence. The club itself is an entirely HEduring School the autumn Chess Club term towas gratify inaugurated an evi- I'f'r'\Jt- dent and increasing enthusiasm for playing non-profit-making organisation and is limited to chess. Such was the popularity of the game at Forms VI and Upper V. one stage that allusions to it began to find their Apart from the usual abundance of friendly way into the speeches of the Debating Society : games, a " ladder" competition was run until the ST. EDWARD'SCOLLEGEMAGAZINE 49

end of the autumn term, when it was abandoned When the possibility of holding a championship in favour of the Club Championship. was first considered, it was felt that a trophy ought Three of our members took part, with some to be awarded to the winner; some of our mem• success and much enjoyment, in the Liverpool bers therefore clubbed together and bought a small Junior Chess Congress, held at Liverpool Col• silver cup. Here it is only right that I should legiate School during the Easter holidays. Of thank our chairman, F. V. Morgan and his sister, these, Morgan tied for first place in Section 4 ; and also Gannon, Burrows and Alger for their Pontet gained a respectable position in the middle generosity which made the purchase possible. of Section 5; and McDonnell tied for first place Twenty-five entries for the competition were in Section 6. Pontet also took part in the simul• received, and Brian Gannon justified his expendi• taneous display given on the last day of the Con• ture by winning the championship without losing a gress by Mr. P. C. Road of the Liverpool Chess game; our congratulations to him. Club, and achieved the somewhat doubtful dis• In conclusion I should also like to thank first of tinction of being the last to be defeated. all Br. Cowley, and secondly the committee• More recently, the G.C.E. examinations have including Messrs. Morgan, Gannon, Burrows and occupied the time and the minds of many of the Alger, and previously, before he left school, Mr. club's members. The chief matter of interest has McKenna-for their help in forming and running oflate been the playing of the club championship. the club. R. McDoNNELL,Hon. Sec. Music Notes J. Comerford (Grade V), Theory. P. Carrier (Grade VIII), Violin, with merit. ~~ URING have met the period regularly under for review practice. the Choirs The singing of Latin hymns and antiphons at J. Franey (Grade VI), Violin. morning assembly has been extended and the tape B. Moore (Grade 11),Violin. recording machine recently acquired should help *M. Gibson (Grace VI), with merit. the choirs and orchestra immensely. The end of *B. Davies (Grade 11),with merit. the term concert was as usual largely impromptu. *J. Fegan (Grade I), with honours. The items included : *K. Lamb (Grade I), with merit. Pianoforte Solos- *B. Davies (Grade Ill). " Dance of the Comedians " *A. Stubbs (Grade I). " Yorkshire Bell" .., Addison *Pianoforte. Violin Solo-" Serenata" '" Toselli The following were awarded Studentships by J. FRANEYaccompaniedby J. HARRIS the Liverpool Education Committee or had their Monologue-" Soliloquy during Prep." Studentships renewed : T. MOORHEAD P. Carrier (Violin) J. Comerford (Violin) Pianoforte Selection-Po EDWARDS P. A. Murphy (Violin) J. Harris (Pianoforte). Further opportunities are being made available for Lower V Alpha Select Choir developing an appreciation of music by lectures School Choir-" The Ould Lammas Fair" illustrated by records. School Song We are grateful to Mr. Lyons, Mr. Genin and The National Anthem Miss Hogg for their work for music in the school; The following passed examinations conducted and our debt to Mr. Boraston for his continuing by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of interest in all that affects the musical training of I Music. the boys is immense. We are happy to sce him so P. Carrier (Grade V), Theory. welland so generous of his time in all that concerns J. Franey (Grade V), Theory. the school. 50 ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Cross, in the angles of which were four martlets and one at '1"'r'~HEwhich have elements a the meaning boys of our of Crest with the the base. In heraldry, martlets College should be acquainted, appear on the arms of younger that they may take an intelligent sons, signifying that as these interest in the badge of their birds possess no feet and so School and understand the in• cannot rest upon the earth, the structive symbolism it embodies. junior members of a noble On the white ground of the house, possessing no lands of lower part of the Shield, stands their own, must depend upon out, in red lettering, worked as their own exertions and strive a Gothic capital, the initial of the to attain, by virtue and merit, name of the Royal Saint who is what they dQ not possess by our Patron and after whom the inheritance. A useful lesson, College takes its name. Around indeed, to encourage our boys this letter a tiny plant is seen entwined-many in the battle oflife, teaching them to cultivate self• words are not needed to explain the meaning of reliance and independence of character, to realise this symbol, the Shamrock of St. Patrick, the that in themselves lie their best hopes of success. emblem of the Sister Isle. In the centre of the blue ground is, promin• The Stars are the symbols of Faith and Learn• ently displayed, the emblem of Royalty, the ing, twin lights that, with God's help, will Crown of Edward, Saint and King. It is sur• always shine brightly in St. Edward's halls mounted by the Cross, the distinctive sign of a and which, let us hope, will never be dimmed Catholic school, where Religion, without which in the lives and aspirations of St. Edward's there can be no true education, is taught and alumni. As the Star led to the Divine Babe the cherished, and forms the grand motive power Wise men, distinguished for learning and im• of all its activities. It is the great sign of our bued with lively faith, so the stars in our badge Faith from which comes the illumination sym• will serve to remind us that our learning, linked bolised by the stars-CCthe Light which en• to our holy Faith, should lead us to God• lighteneth every man,"-through which we gain Faith strengthened by learning and knowledge the most precious learning and to which all our illumined by the Star of Faith. learning should lead : "Miser est sapiens qui Above, on a ground of royal blue, are shown sapit absque Deo." The conjunction of the a Cross, a crown and two birds. The sym• Cross and the Crown may remind us, too, of that bolism of the birds is interesting. They are King's highway of the Holy Cross, which leads martlets and are taken from the Shield of St. to the everlasting Kingdom, to the Crown of Edward, which showed on a blue ground, a Life Eternal. ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 51

M[ottto hood; it is not a weak or decadent thing, it is the exercise of the highest manly qualities. To be HEbut motto telling of phrase a school the expresses spirit that in ashould brief "1'r"\.W animate its members, the aim of its work virtuous is to be truth-loving, scorning the mean, and the ideal of lofty conduct and high character rejecting what is base and pursuing honour, un• which it proposes to its pupils as a worthy object daunted by human respect, constant in adversity, of their striving. Not alone in schooldays does it not unduly elated by success; so when we are point to the path along which they should tread, bidden to "act manfully," it is as much as to but later, when engaged in life's battling, when say: "act virtuously." there is danger, amid the sordidness of commercial When, in later years, things may go ill with us endeavour or the engrossing struggle for the and under the buffetings of chance we are disposed world's prizes, that the fine gold of youthful ideals to give up the struggle, the remembrance of our should become dim, the motto of their school, if old school motto: Viriliter Age-Play the man, borne in mind, will be as a lamp to their feet and a will inspire us with fresh courage, rousing us from light unto their ways. the torpor of despair. When the tempter tries to In the motto of our school-Viriliter Age• seduce us from our allegiance to good and the our boys have an exhortation to a standard of storm of passion threatens to overwhelm, the conduct embodying a complete concept of the memory of our schooldays will be our saviour, if highest fulfilment of human purpose, and con• we hearken to the insistent warning: "Do not taining in its compass the whole round of man's yield; Viriliter Age-play the man." duty in the various complexities of human action : In the varying fortunes of our earthly course, they are bidden to " act manfully." adherence to principle, steadfastness in virtue may Man is the noblest work of God's visible not always bring temporal rewards, but this will creation, made "a little less than the angels," not daunt the man, who in the spirit of Christian dowered with the gift of God-like reason, the faith, looks beyond, strong in the hope inspired by dignity of his human substance wonderfully the words of the Psalm from which we take our created and still more wonderfully reformed, made splendid motto: "Expecta Dominum, viriliter unto God's image, his nature elevated and hal• age,et confortetur cor tuum et sustine Dominum " lowed by the assuming of his manhood unto God -" Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy in the Incarnation, destined for unending glory as heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord." the joint heir of Christ his Brother in the mansions May the spirit of manliness then be the spirit of of his Father Who is in Heaven. our school, may those now within our halls be To act in all the ways of life in a manner con• imbued with it, may it inform their actions when sonant with this high dignity of his manhood, is they have passed on into the great school of life, the lesson taught by our motto. To do manfully teaching them, in accordance with their old tradi• is to fulfil our duties to ourselves, our fellowmen tions, ever to be responsive to its promptings, in and to God. Virtue is manliness, vir-tus, man- all the relations of life, to act manfully. 52 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE

these. Let them nevertheless take pride in the is often regarded with either kindly fact that their efforts in this direction will make mOUTHFULtolerance orenthusiasm gentle cynicism is a quality by the which older them the unknown benefactors of the generations and, presumably wiser generation. It is im• of Old Boysto come. possible, however, to view the upsurge of youthful The Rugby Club-unbeaten last season apart enthusiasm in the C.l. Edwardian Association from a defeat in the final of the Caldy Seven-a• with any such indifference. The young men• Sides-will in all probability run four sides on perhaps they should be described as the young their own ground this season, and they are hoping Old Boys-of the Association have suddenly to recruit some of the talented players now jumped from the back seats which they formerly gracing the St. Edward's College sides. They occupied, and it is no vain hope that their drive will welcome, too, those school-leavers who have and energy will hasten a long overdue era of not played for the school but none-the-Iess enjoy prosperity. a game of rugby. It must be admitted that for more than five years now our headquarters have been saved from Mention of playing successes leads naturally complete disintegration only by a handful of to Old Cathinians, the Association's "Soccer" stalwarts who have had to slave and sacrifice to section. Last season Old Caths won the Liverpool prevent a valuable structure from falling apart. Old Boys' Senior Shield at Anfield, and they The faithful few are now gradually becoming the believe that their present playing strength is faithful many-and their ranks are being swelled considerable. Many youngsters who have re• daily by the boys who have recently left St. cently left school have given Old Caths good Edward's College. The more of the "new Old service-and it is remarkable that so many boys Boys " we see the happier we are, incidentally. seemingly find the transition from Rugby to What exactly are the young men doing? That " Soccer" such a simple matter. Brian Finnegan, question would be best answered by a visit to who at the time of writing is appearing for Bishop's Court, where, though the premises may Liverpool F.C. Central League team, is an Old still possess a forlorn look, the atmosphere seems Boy, and others such as Jim Moran and Tom to be inspired with a new spirit. Cunningham have attracted the representatives of Take, for example, the Old Boys' Rugby Club, Football League Clubs. whose members do not reserve all their good It was thought worthwhile to mention in detail work for the football field. Mr. Jim Johnson, the these sporting activities of the Old Boys' Associa• club captain, is typical of these boys, who have tion in view of the ground which is now available played and won-not merely points but a battle for fixtures. In the early days of the Association for support, funds, pitches and recognition in it was the Soccer teams which largely formed the Merseyside sporting circles. The Rugby Club• nucleus of the Association and we hope that with and the writer, by the way, is a "Soccer" the amenities now available the various activities fanatic-will surely be regarded one day as one of Bishop's Court will be strengthened. The of the finest in the Liverpool area. Probably the other attractions and annual events of the Associa• work they have done for the Association will tion are sufficientlywell known not to be stressed never be lauded other than in articles such as in this article.

As we go to press we learn of the death of Mr. Boraston. An obituary notice will appear in the next issue. We assure the family of our sympathy and prayers. R.l.P . I• •r ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE 53

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Birkenhead Park Sevens game for the School XV backed up well and took The same S.E.C. team took the field at Birkenhead Colford's pass at speed for a picture try. Waterloo had Park and won the competition for the second successive a try before the interval. year. Half-time: S.E.C., 9 pts.; Waterloo, 3 pts. In the first round v. Rock Ferry, Anwyl had three Goodall's fielding and general full-back play was first• speedy tries and Harris one. Quirke converted two. class and he looked the safest back a-field. McNeilis Ferry kicked a penalty. sent Quirke through for a try which he converted, but S.E.C., 16 pts.; Rock Ferry H.A., 3 pts. Waterloo came back for a penalty goal. W. Cookson and Holden did trojan work in the loose and C. Hunter V. Park High School tackled well. Dingle's quick thinking set the line mov• Anwyl and Quirke had tries and Colford a conversion. ing and Harris crashed through for an unconverted try. Park scored a goal. S.E.C., 17 pts.; Waterloo Schools' XV, 6 pts. S.E.C., 8 pts.; Park H.S., 5 pts. Team: P. Goodall; P. Harris, G. Quirke, A.McNeilis, P. Anwyl; J. Colford (Capt.), R. Dingle ; Final v. Birkenhead Institute R. Azurdia, M. Sheridan, T. Holden, J. Cunningham, RI. had a goal and Anwyl scored a try. Colford's P. McLean, R Moore, W. Cookson, C. Hunter. try was converted by Quirke. S.E.C., 8 pts.; Birkenhead Institute,S pts. St. Edward's College v. St. Mary's College 2517 342373ForRECORDW24164681413105411167219019100152DL02114472 611 Agst...,... P OF15181412 SCHOOL TEAMS 1953-54 At Chesterfield Road 20/2/54 UnderUnder2ndColtsXVXV 14121stTeam 13XV ...XV ...... Points Early in the game St. Mary's went into the attack and when S.E.C. headed, Quirke could only deflect a wild pass from Dingle and St. Mary's touched down and then added the extra points. Quirke was having a good game at fly-half and made some telling breaks. He got the ball to Colford on the wing and the latter side• stepped and dummied to score between the posts. Quirke converted. S.E.C. forwards were slow but covered well and did their utmost to play to their backs. Quirke sent Anwyl over for a try but Quirke's fine kick St. Edward's College v. COVl'ley School was touched on the way over by a defender. McNeilis At Sandfie1d Park 12/12/53 was magnificent in defence and soon Colford raced A hard-fought game. S.E.C. were slow to settle through for another try. Cookson, Ratchford and down and could find few loop-holes in the visitors' McLean were the best of the forwards during the first defence. A long kick ahead bounced awkwardly for half and Goodall was very safe at full-back. full back and winger and Cowley were up to score Half-time: S.E.C., 11 pts.; St. Mary's, 5 pts. between the posts. S.E.C. were fortunate to escape a McNeilis made an opening for Anwyl who scored far few moments later when another kick-ahead almost led out and from then on St. Mary's forwards pressed but to a similar score. Dingle and McNeilis got going and could not find a way over. Cunningham and Hunter an inside pass from the latter to Quirke allowed him to brought off some excellent tackles, while Moore and jink his way past for a try converted by Colford. When Holden did well with the ball at their feet. Azurdia trying to score well in Colford after a magnificent run was always to the fore but forwards generally lacked was robbed on the line. stamina after the month's snow. Quirke and Dingle Half-time: S.E.C., 5 pts.; Cowley, 5 pts. made two breaks before being hauled down and Wren On the resumption both sides played great football found some good touches. St. Mary's landed a penalty but defences were on top. L. Ludden, who was having goal and then pressed hard, only to find the way barred. an excellent game, unfortunately broke his leg when S.E.C. 14 pts.; St. Mary's College, 8 pts. charging down a kick, but the remaining seven forwards TEAM : P. Goodall, M. Wren, A. McNeilis, P. Anwyl, put in extra effort to hold the visitors' pack. Harris J. Colford (Capt.); G. Quirke, R. Dingle; T. Holden, got little room and Anwyl made one particularly good J. Ratchford, R. Azurdia, P. McLean, J. Cunningham, run before being brought down. McLean and Cun• R Moore, W. Cookson, C. Hunter. ningham, aided by Azurdia, came away with the ball, but a passing movement broke down when McNeilis was bundled into touch. Both sides had their promising St. Edward's College v. Oldershaw G.S. moments but could not clinch them. The home side At Sandfie1d Park 3/3/54 attacked for the last few minutes but without success. "Declining to make the game a forward one and playing all the time to their backs, St. Edward's College, S.E.C., 5 pts.; Cowley School,S pts. undefeated in school games, beat a plucky, but an out• TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Harris, G. Quirke hooked and outpaced, Oldershaw G.S. team by two A. McNeilis, P. Anwyl; J. Colford (Capt.), R. Dingle ; goals, a penalty goal and five tries to nothing in this R. Azurdia, J. Ratchford, T. Holden, J. Cunningham, Rugby game at Sandfield Park yesterday. P. McLean, L. Ludden, B. Moore, C. Hunter. Not all that the winners tried came off; ball and ground conditions were too bad for that, but they kept St. Edward's College v. Waterloo Schools' XV the ball moving all the time. At Sandfield Park 16/1/54 But for the fine tackling of the Oldershaw centres, Played on a heavy ground, the home forwards, though watchful covering on the wings and the sound full-back beaten in the line-out, hooked well if slowly from the play of Parry, more tries must have come from the many scrums and the backs made good use of their oppor• clever moves engineered by Colford and Quirke, and tunities. Outstanding forward was R Moore, whose from the running of the two speedy St. Edward's wings, footwork gained him two tries. Sheridan in his first Anwyl and Harris. ST; EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 55

In getting the ball back at all times possible the St. Quirke. Azurd.~ left the field through injury but made Edward's forwards played their allotted part well. It a later come-back. Cunningham, Holden and Dillon was not their role to be conspicuous in the loose, but were the pick of the forwards and Ratchford hooked they showed up when needed to support an attack, and very well. McNeilis showed speed and determination no one more often than Ratchford, a hooker who has in the centre and Goodall had little to do at full back. the Evans' knack of being on the spot when it is any• Half-time: S.E.C., 5 pts.; Wirral G.S., Nil. one's ball near the line. Anwyl, again from a pass by Quirke, opened the Anwyl, from fast handling which just left him room, scoring in the second half. Play then moved up and opened the score with a 70-yards run during which he down till Harris put in a fine run and when challenged, outstripped many would-be cutters off. Quirke, who cross-kicked. The ball" tricked." the opposition by later kicked a penalty goal, converted and before half• hitting a goal-post round which Harris swung to ground time, Harris crossed twice first from a great run and the ball for a try. Colford converted. Then came the opening by Colford, and then from a bullet dash, straight best try of the game. From a set-scrum outside the through his waiting opposite. " 25 " S.E.C. heeled and Dingle feinting a break, threw Second half cross-kicks brought tries to Ratchford a reverse pass to Colford who took it at speed near the and Quirke and a conversion by Colford but with feet breaking scrum and handed on to the blind side wing playing and handling more difficult, Oldershaw for forward Dillon, who scored. whom Jennings and AlIen nearly brought a score, had S.E.C., 16 pts.; Wirral G.S., nil. an increasing share of play, though they dropped fur• ther points when Quirke and Colford put Azurdia in and when Cookson scored in a forward rush."-Daily St. Edward's College v. St. }oseph's College, Post. Blackpool TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Harris, G. Quirke, At Sandfield Park 17/3/54 A. McNeiIis, P. Anwyl; J. M. Colford, R. Dingle; A sunny day and a firm ground and yet the rugby was R. Azurdia, J. Ratchford, T. Holden, J. Cunningham, not as good as that seen in previous encounters. The P. McLean, B. Moore, W. Cookson, C. Hunter. close marking of the backs accounted for lack of con• S.E.C., 28 pts.; OIdershaw G.S., Nil. tinuity in the play. S.E.C. got early possession from line-out and Quirke made the running on a few occasions but could not make the opening for his winger. When St. Edward's College v. St. Anselm's College the ball came to Quirke from a heel in the" 25 " he At Sandfield Park 6/3/54 promptly dropped a left-footed goal. St. Joseph's were The home team opened the scoring with a goal by quick in the loose but their speedy backs were well Colford and when St. Anselm's pressed on our line a watched. Colford who didn't have a very good game, break by McNeilis was backed up by Colford, who cross-kicked and a lucky bounce was gathered by again scored between the posts and then converted. Anwyl who scored between the posts. Quirke con• The visitors' forwards were good in the loose but their verted. The visitors pressed, but McNeilis relieved backs could not get going and soon Harris broke through pressure with a lengthy touch-finder. and Colford carried on to send Azurdia over for a try Half-time: S.E.C., 8 pts.; St. Joseph's College, nil. which Colford converted. Cunningham, Cookson and St. Joseph's got more possessions from the line-out Hunter were prominent in the line-out and Ratchford and set-scrums in this half and from a sustained effort a showedgood positioning. St. Anselm's landed a penalty forward broke through from a scrum near the line for an goal before the interval. unconverted try. S.E.C. went into the attack and Half-time: S.E.C., 15 pts.; St. Anselm's, 3 pts. Dingle slung a blind side pass to Quirke, who cut through The visitors were more determined in the second half for an unconverted try near the corner flag. Cunning• and from a dropped pass their centre went on to score ham, McLean and Moore were good line-out forwards far out. The try was converted. S.E.C. backs were for S.E.C. and Azurdia and DiIIon were best in the loose. unable to break through a tight defence and for twenty Promising moves on both sides were ended early by minutes St. Anselm's had all the game. Then came a sound tackling but Colford eventually opem;d the way fast jinking break by Quirke which ended in a try. for Harris to score and Quirke to convert. Goodall Colford converted. The forward struggle was relentless played very well at full-back right through the game. but Dingle's breaks and tackling prowess kept our line S.E.C., 16 pts.; St. Joseph's College, 3 pts. intact. Goodall fumbled at full back but was able to TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Harris, G. Quirke, recover, and when the ball came across the line, Anwyl A. McNeiIis, P. Anwyl; J. Colford (Capt.), R. Dingle ; raced through to score. R. Azurdia, J. Ratchford, T. Holden, J. Cunningham, S.E.C. : 23 pts.; St. Anselm's College, 8 pts. P. McLean, E. DiIIon, M. Wren, B. Moore. TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Harris, G. Quirke, A. McNeilis, P. Anwyl; J. Colford (Capt.), R. Dingle ; R. Azurdia, J. Ratchford, T. Holden, J. Cunningham, St. Edward's College v. C.I. Edwardian's M. Wren, C. Hunter, W. Cookson, B. Moore. At Sandfield Park 20/3/54 On a heavy field there was not much good back-play. The school forwards had the better share of the loose St. Edward's College v. Wirral G.S. scrums and Ratchford heeled very well against a heavier At Cross Lane 10/3/54 pack. Two good moves by Quirke brought Harris into In an evening game which was spoiled to some extent play but his cross kick was well taken by the C.1. full• by rain and a lack of continuity in the play, S.E.C. were back. Cookson defended well for the school and brought masters of a poor Wirral side in line-out, loope and set• the ball away at his feet supported by McLean and scrums, but it was outside the scrum that the difference Moore. Quirke had to leave the field through injury was most marked. Following good efforts by Harris and McNeiIis went to fly-half where his kicking and and Dingle, Anwyl raced through for a try converted by defence were first-class; Anwyl checked a promisir.g 56 ST. EnWARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE move by Johnson and McLachlan. Fearon crossed for rally, but Quirke's attempts at drop goals were well wide the C.1. and Cunningham converted. of the mark. Anwyl hesitated when he might have Half-time: C.1. 5 pts.; School, nil. made the line and Colford reached the goal-post but Still with depleted numbers, the school put up a good could get no further. At last Colford cut through for a fight and Holden, Dillon and Azurdia were clever• fine try which Quirke converted, but though they had moving forwards. Moore, who had been moved to most of the attack in the last ten minutes their equaliser centre, defended bravely, but there was little penetration would not come. in the school back line. Doyle at scrum half was in• S.E.C., 10 pts.; West Park, 13 pts. clined to lob his passes but his footwork was good. TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Harris, A. McNeilis, The school attacked for long periods but their only G. Quirke, P. Anwyl; J. Colford, R. Dingle; reward was a penalty by Anwyl. In the closing stages R. Azurdia, E. Dillon, T. Holden, J. Cunningham, the C.1. were luckily put on-side and Pearse scored P. McLean, C. Hunter, W. Cookson, B. Moore. between the posts for Cunningham to convert. S.E.C., 3 pts.; C.1. Edwardians, 10 pts. TEAM: P. Goodall; J. Franey, P. Anwyl, St. Edward's College v. Park High School A. McNeilis, P. Harris; G. Quirke, W. Doyle; At Sandfield Park 10/4/54 T. Holden, J. Ratchford, R. Azurdia, J. Cunningham, Despite the absence of Colford and Azurdia who were P. McLean, E. Dillon, W. Cookson, B. Moore. playing for Lancashire Schoolboys at Vale of Lune, S.E.C. were more than a match for the visitors. Rogen who came in at fly half found Dingle's long and strong St. Edward's College v. Rock Ferry H.S. pass rather disconcerting but soon got confidence and At Rock Ferry 24/3/54 took and gave passes like a veteran. Outstanding in the On a narrow pitch, S.E.C. found their three-quarter pack were Holden and Dillon, their speed and smart line cramped, but Harris managed to bring over a few handling paving the way for Anwyl's first try converted defenders for the first unconverted try. Rock Ferry by Quirke. Goodall frequently made the man over in tried few moves from their backs, but their heavy for• attack. Thanks to McLean and Hunter a move origi• ward broke through to level the scores. Both sides had nated which Anwyl finished off with a try converted by chances and Colford cut through beautifully, but his Rogan. Park, after strong pressure, scored a try. grabber kick was not gathered. McLean and Cun• Half-time: S.E.C., 10 pts.; Park H.S., 3 pts. ningham were prominent in foot-rushes and the heeling The visitors were prominent for the first twenty from the loose was good. Goodall, was playing soundly minutes of the second half and only strong defensive at full-back and Sheridan hooked well. work by Harris, McNeilis and Hunter kept them out. Half-time: S.E.C., 3 pts.; Rock Ferry H.S., 3 pts. Then S.E.C. took over and eventually Quirke landed a For twenty minutes of the second half, S.E.C. ran into long-distance penalty. Some good attacking football trouble with their passing movements, but then decided was served up by both sides and though the home team to switch the attack. Colford landed a penalty goal and bore down repeatedly on the visitors' line a score would soon took Doyle's pass a speed to break the defence and not come. Park had a goal in the last minutes of the score between the posts. He converted his try. game. McNeilis had hard luck and when a move going right S.E.C., 13 pts.; Park H.S., 8 pts. was suddenly reversed, Goodall came up and beat four TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Anwyl, G. Quirke (Capt.), defenders to touch down for a try to which Colford A. McNeilis, P. Harris; J. Rogan, R. Dingle; added the extra points. Cookson and Hunter tried T. Holden, E. Dillon, B. Moore, P. McLean, J. Cun• hard, but Sheridan's quick handling sent Colford away ningham, C. Hunter, J. Power, W. Cookson. and put Anwyl through for an unconverted try. S.E.C., 19 pts.; Rock Ferry H.S., 3 pts. TEAM: P. Goodall; P. Harris, A. McNeilis, SECOND XV P. Anwyl, B. Moore; J. Colford, W. Doyle; In the last issue of the Magazine it was recorded that R. Azurdia, M. Sheridan, T. Holden, P. McLean, the Second XV had played 9 games, won 6, drawn I and J. Cunningham, E. Dillon, W. Cookson, C. Hunter. lost 2. This very satisfactory record was even bettered in 1954 during which the side played 7 games, won 6 St. Edward's College v. West Park C.G.S. and lost 1. Four games were cancelled. At West Park 31/3/54 Birkenhead Institute (A) Won 20-3 There were many handling mistakes on a hard ground Cowley School (A) Won 15-8 and West Park had an early advantage in the loose St. Mary's College (H) Won 11-6 scrums. Harris was forced into touch following a good West Park G.S (A) Lost 3-8 run and when Quirke sent him on his second he went on Oldershaw G.S '" (A) Won 34-0 to score between the posts. Colford converted. West St. Anselm's College (A) Won 42-0 Park scored far out and converted with a magnificent Rock Ferry High School '" (H) Won 19-5 kick. S.E.C. were slow in getting the ball to their backs Played 16, won 13, drawn 1,4 cancelled. Points for, and lost some good chances. When Park went into the 373; against, lOO. attack near our posts, a foolish fly kick gave them pos• The following played during the season: M. Knight session and they added a goal. (Captain), D. Murphy, F. Harkins, J. Mulholland, Half-time: S.E.C., 5 pts.; West Park, 10 pts. M. Wren, M. Gregory, K. Anderson, J. Franey, The visitors had more of the ball in the second half P. Keating, J. Power, G. Brooks, E. Dillon, J. Le Rio, and Anwyl and McNeilis made some good efforts. B. McDermott, H. Jordan, G. Manghan, A. Prince, Goodall gathered and came through at speed but the J. Ratchford, G. Starkey, B. Weston, G. Bushell, tackling in both sides was keen. From a line out and C. Dodds, P. Goulbourn, P. Hagedorn, P. Hanlon, loose scrum within the" 25," a West Park forward E. Shelley, M. Azurdia, B. Melvin, M. Sheridan, broke through for a try. S.E.C. put all they had into a W. Doyle, J. Rimmer and C. W. Hunter. ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE 57

JUNIOR COLTS XV West Park C.G.S. (A) Lost 625 Birkenhead Institute (H) Won 28-3 St. Anselm's College (H) Won 90 Cowley School (H) Won 8-6 Oldershaw G.S.... (H) Won 250 St. Mary's College (A) Won 44-0 Played 13, Won 9, Lost 4, Cancelled 3, 136 pts, West Park C.G.S (H) Won 18-0 against 95. St. Anselm's College (A) Won 18-10 Won Collegiate Seven-a-side Tourney. JUNIOR BANTAMS Played 15, won 3, lost 2, cancelled 4, 342 i'ts.; This year's Junior Bantams, while by no means an against, 61. outstanding success, were on the whole up to the required standard. B. Massey played quietly but effi• BANTAM XV cientlyat full-back. B. Wolfenden's display as a winger Oldershaw G.S. (A) Won 43-0 by no means lacked any of the qualities required for that Birkenhead Institute (H) Won 30-0 position: he had both speed and courage, and seldom Cowley School (A) Lost 9-11 were his onslaughts baulked. Brian Colquitt's per• Wirral G.S. Lost 5-18 formance at out-half could best be described as (A) "elegant." His passing, receiving and kicking were St. Mary's College (H) Won 21-9 Collegiate School ... (A) Won 27-12 very elegant and graceful indeed. Gordon's continuous St. Anselm's College (H) Lost 6-11 side-stepping and dummying often left his opponents Oldershaw, G.S.... (H) Won 50-0 wondering where he had gone to, but it also made his St. Joseph's, Blackpool (H) Won 8-0 own team wonder why he did not gain much ground, Bootle G.S. '" Won 52-0 instead of going from one side of the field to the other. (H) The forwards were capably led by Nelson, whose Played 18, won 13, lost 5, cancelled 5, 411 pts, height proved very advantageous in the line-out, and against 167. whose accurate place-kicking often pulled a game out of the fire, or gave a comfortable lead. On the whole the BANTAMS' SUCCESSFUL SEASON forwards were very hard working, and the hefty push Won 13, lost 5, 411 pts. against 167. from Flannigan and Nelson often nullified the Bearing in mind the lightness of this year's Bantams opponent's advantage of " loose head," combined with they can be happy at a successful season. The quality Weston's nimble hooking. P. Green was a marauding of their game was up to our best Edwardian standard ; wing-forward, and played vigorously and intelligently ; an open game played sportingly under all conditions. the opposition often had a lovely well-planned move• Their handling was good usually; scrurnmaging was ment sabotaged by his quick spoiling tactics. tight enough and tough enough; occasionally, their running was very good-two or three ambitious backs essayed a " scissors " successfully once or twice to their FIRST YEAR XV great glee, and, generally, their tackling was adequate. Nov. 14 (H) v. Liverpool Collegiate Won 27-025-046-020-016-619-00-39-33-68-0 The best game was against St. Mary's away-skilful 28 (H) v. St. Anselm's CollegeLostWonWonWon and thrilling; the best handling and passing was seen Dec. 5 (A) v. St. Anselm's CollegeWon in both Oldershaw games-won easily and a golden ten 12 (A) v. St. Mary's College minutes in the second half against B.I. is worth Jan. 23 (H) v. St. Mary's College recalling, too. Feb. 20 (H) v. St. Mary's College As B. Davidson is a sensible fellow,we can say he was Mar. 4 (H) v. St. Ambrose's College, the very best player at all times; a clever attacker, an Altrincham ... effective tackler and a captain whose few words were 13 (H) Y. St. Anselm's College hearkened to by all. His 17 tries sum up his efforts. 20 (H) v. West Park C.G.S. His vice-captain, F. Boyle, was an effective pack-leader 27 (A) v. Oldershaw G.S.... who was particularly good at opening up the game. Of April 10 (H) v. Park High School the backs, V. Dipple's forceful running brought him 17 14 (H) v. De la Salle G.S. tries, but the other centre, T. Kilkelly, spoiled much good work by selfishnesswhich he overcame only late in "B" Team the season. The wingers, T. Wolfenden and J. Carter, Dec. 5 (H) v. St. Anselm's College Won 3-0 improved game by game and were adequate to all Mar. 13 (A) v. St. Anselm's College Lost 3-8 occasions. P. Armstrong, varied a good service with Last season saw the First Year XV uphold the tradi• intelligent occasional kicks and breakaways, though not tions of their predecessors. They played 12 games, fond of tackling. He kicked 139 points. L. Maxwell won 10, lost 2, scoring 190 points with only 21 points was the most improved forward, being very effectivein against them. Only two games could be arranged for the line out where G. Wallace helped him most. R. the " B " team. The team's success was due in great Emsley and A. Azurdia were good at close-quarters measure to the inspiring leadership of A. McGrath and where D. Alger's " fore and aft" bulk was most useful his deputy, D. Taylor, both of whom had experience too, while T. Pearson, M. Doyle and D. Lunt were very from the previous year. A very fast and elusive back persistent in the loose. Finally, to the honest endeavours line co-operated with a strong pack, ably led by A. of J. Boon and the all-round ability of J. Dunn and his McMullen, to achieve the best results and provide some short shorts. very spectacular rugby. As a result of quick heeling in Collegiate School ... (A) Won 90 set and loose scrums, open play was characteristic of St. Mary's College (H) Won 260 the team. Whenever our XV lost possession in the set Oldershaw G.S.... (A) Won 140 scrums, the wing forwards, C. Leddon and F. Rolston, St. Anselm's College (A) Won 63 were quick to spoil the efforts of the opposition. F. Wirral G.S. (A) Lost 38 Murray and A. McClellan were excellent in the line out 58 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE and could always be relied upon to give full support to taking part, their positions were filled by members of their pack leader. C. Leddon, F. Rolston, E. Mann the " B " team. and A. Houghton gave every ounce they had. S. "A" TEAM: A. McGrath (Capt.), Derek Taylor Keating hooked very well. Of the backs, Billy (Vice-Capt.), J. Ward, E. Kelly, F. Smith, R. Irving, McDonnell, J. Smith and J. Ward were outstanding. W. McDonnell, P. Christmas, C. Leddon, E. Mann, The full-back position was filled by J. Ward. Even F. Rolston, A. McMullen, A. McClellan, F. Murray, when under pressure, he was always successful in getting S. Keating, A. Houghton, B. Gallagher, T. Flynn. in a good touch. His tackling was deadly. On occasions he weaved his way through all opposition to " B" TEAM: J. Armstrong (Capt.), David Taylor touch down for some of the best tries of the season. (Vice-Capt.), J. Richards, M. Richards, R. Johnson, R. Irving, E. Kelly and P. Christmas complete a back T. Lloyd, D. Colquitt, F. Davies, T. Sullivan, J. Dolan, line which was a pleasure to see in action, whenever A. Brookfield, K. Milne, E. Geoghegan, J. Hunt, illness or injury prevented any of the" regulars" from J. Scahill. F. Davies also played for the "A" team.

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S.E.C. v. Collegiate At Sandfield Park 8/5/54 Collegiate S.E.C. Tomlinson l.b.w. Stannard 16 Stannard b. Blackburn 9 Lea l.b.w. Stannard 29 Doyle b. Keelgy ... 12 Lewis run out .. 1 McDermott l.b.w. Blackburn 4 McMullan b. Stannard 3 Quirke b. Blackburn o Bennett b. Shaw . 23 Shaw b. Keeley ... 40 Noden b. Morgan . 2 Harkins b. Keeley 1 Lambert l.b.w. McDermott 9 Morgan l.b.w. Blackburn 7 Blackburn c. Edward b. Shaw 4 Rogan l.b.w. Blackburn ... 9 Evans b. Shaw 3 Edwards b. Blackburn 5 Keeley b. Shaw o Ratchford not out ... o Hagg not out 2 Azurdia M. c. Hogg b. Keeley o Extras 7 Extras 6 Total 99 Total 93 o M R W Av. Shaw ... 95 2 20 4 5 Morgan 11 3 24 1 24 McDermott 7 o 23 1 23 Stannard 10 5 12 3 4 Result: S.E.C. lost by 6 runs.

S.E.C. v. Waterloo At Cambridge Road 15/5/54 Stannard b. McDonald . 3 Waterloo Doyle b. John . 3 Woods c. Quirke b. Stannard 1 McDermott b. McDonald 4 McDonald c. Ratchford b. Shaw o Quirke b. McDonald 34 Anderson K. c. Shaw b. Stannard 3 Shaw b. McDonald 16 Hart b. Shaw . o Morgan c. John b. McDonald 9 Anderson E. b. Stannard . 1 Harkins run out ... o Chatterton b. Stannard . 5 Wren not out 10 Privaux c. Doyle b. Stannard . 1 Rogan not out 6 Thomson A. c. McDermott b. Stannard o Agurdia R. did not bat Cartwright c. Ratchford b. Stannard 10 Ratchford did not bat John run out 1 Extras 6 Thomson F. not out o Extras o Total 91 Total 22 o M R W Av. Shaw ... 9 4 8 2 4 Stannard 9 3 14 7 2 Result: S.E.C. won by 69 runs. 1061083124334332469536·...10.1...... 11191813-2510...... 043295786.1619..· ..·.... . - 2221011334422123113311611617125 115 Result: S.E.C.•••••••'0 ••••lost by ,0.0 • 10 wickets. - RatchfordK.WebsterA.BirchHerbertWhitlockBrooksAllanP.O'BrienDowAv.WMRWAv.MRWAv.234.313 MeehanBlanchardDevineWhite42.5MR runb. l.b.w.Extras...... st.Extras b. l.b.w..Stannard not...... c.did notout Ratchforddid Stannardnot Ratchford Shaw out didnot..... out notTotal Harkins out.Total notbat ...... bat ...... ':." b. bat... b. Stannard Shaw...... ·..... At Sandfield- Park Total0 Total- RoganHarkinsAsburyMcDermottDoyleT.J.MorganA.HiggitF.P.QuirkeStirzakerStringfellowSheridanStannardShawBagot- Meehan EnworthyIKearneyRoyleCallaghanFlanagan-Result: runb. notb..... l.b.w.b... b.l.b.w.. didAIston,l.b.w. Holloway Hollowayb. out didHolloway didb. didb. Hollowaynotdid Shaw..... S.E.C.Holloway notAlston, Shaw. notMorgan not batnotG. bat bat bat..,...... ·.. batwon lost... G. ... by by·.. 2. 64 runs.ST. runs.·. EnwARD'sAtAt Sandfield22/5/54 Sandfield12/6/545/6/54 COLLEGESt. ParkAlsop Park Mary's~.E.C. MAGAZINE59 HarkinsRoganMcDermottMorganDoyleHanlonRatchfordHollowaySheridanAlston,WardleyQuirkeBevineClarkeSimpsonShawMcDermottBrybonHill b. c.Extrasl.b.w. b.not B.G.run b.Stannardc. b.Dow b.runc. b.Shaw Downot b. J.HiggitMeehan,SheridanDow out McDermottRoganWhitlock out c. Shaw HerbertAllan outc.Shawb. outb. Stringfellow DevineAsbury Dow ... b. ... J.b. Harkinsb.0 Shaw b. HiggitOld O'Brien b.StannardO'LearyS.E.C. HiggitS.E.C.Boys'Sheridan ... XI c.b. Harkins b.Dow O'Brien ... b. Stannard-Hanlon-RoganEdwardsShawMorganRatchfordQuirkeStannard- c.Extras b. c.b. ...DevineI.b.w.HarkinsMorganStannard b. b.FlanaganHarkinsAsburyMcDermott O'Brien notMeehan,Shaw Flanagan O'Brien out Flanagan b. ... b.O'Brien P. Meehan,StannardHarkins ... J. S.E.C.S.E.C. v. v. St. Old Mary's Boys' XI XI S.E.C. v. Alsop H.S. 60 ST. EnwARD's COLLEGE MAGAZINE

S.E.C. v. St. Francis Xavier's S.E.C. S.F.X. Sheridan c. Bushell, M. b. Parr ... 31 Fraul b. Morgan 22 Rogan b. Frodsham ... o Bushell, M. l.b.w. Stannard 11 McDermott l.b.w. Frodsham 2 Neuling c. McDermott b. Morgan 8 Quirke c. Neuling b. Neuling 13 Santangeli c. Linford b. Stannard o Shaw l.b.w. Neuling ... 19 Flewitt b. McDermott ..... 13 Stannard c. Neuling b. Frodsham 2 Williams st. Ratchford b. Morgan o Linford b. Parr 3 Crean l.b.w. Morgan 1 Anwylb.Parr 2 Bushell, J. b. Shaw 7 Morgan run out o Neil b. McDermott 3 Ratchford c. Fraul b. Neuling o Parr, b. Stannard ... 13 Harkins not out 3 Frodsham not out 1 Extras 7 Extras 6 Total 82 Total 85 o M R W Av. Shaw 6 3 10 1 10 Stannard 9 3 20 3 6.6 Morgan 9 2 27 4 6.75 McDermott 4 1 7 2 3.5 Result: S.E.C. lost by 3 runs.

S.E.C. v. Bootle G.S. At Sandfield Park 19/6/54 S.E.C. Bootle Sheridan st. Martin b. Hurley . 12 Martin l.b.w. Shaw 11 Harkins b. Hurley . 3 Watt b. Shaw 1 McDermott c. Philips b. Walmsley 47 Walmsley run out ... 9 Quirke hit wicket b. Walmsley 4 Fairc10ugh b. Shaw o Shaw b. Watson ... 74 Wynne l.b.w. McDermott 6 Stannard b. Walmsley 11 Hurley c. Ratchford b. Shaw 1 Morgan not out o Philipps b. Shaw . 4 Rogan did not bat Liens not out . 4 Edwards did not bat Procter, C. b. Stannard 3 Hanlon did not bat Procter, L. b. Stannard 3 Ratchford did not bat Watson b. McDermott 16 Extras 10 Extras 5

6 for (dec.) 161 Total 63 o M R W Av. Shaw 12 3 19 5 3.8 Stannard 8 1 24 2 12 McDermott 5.4 3 10 2 5 Result: S.E.C. won by 98 runs.

S.E.C. v. St. Anselm's At Sandfield Park 26/6/54 S.E.C. St. Anselm's Sheridan c. Humphreys b. Kelly o McDowall not out 9 Harkins c. Humphreys b. Humphreys 3 Jones l.b.w. Pontet 2 McDermott b. Humphreys 1 Small not out 4 Quirke b. Kelly 6 Cooke did not bat Shaw b. Kelly 5 Delamese did not bat Stannard b. Humphreys . 1 Humphreys did not bat Edwards b. Kelly . o Colgate did not bat Morgan c. McDowall b. Humphreys 6 Gay did not bat McNeilis c. Colgate b. Kelly ... 2 Beynon did not bat Ratchford c. McDowall b. Humphreys ... o Kelly did not bat Pontet not out 1 Dowling did not bat Extras 4 Extras 15

Total 29 Total (for 1 wkt.) ... 30 o M R W Av. Shaw .... 4 2 4 Pontet '" 5 8 8 Harkins 3 1 3 Result: S,E.C. lost by 9 wickets. 13810012335302826222027615760·...... 121052.131817...... fi271116...... ••4036758219I1.1..· ·..... ·.. - •••.0 •• • 0 • - 13 .0. '0' StannardAsburyMorganEdwardsRoganDoyleQuirkeHarkinsHanlonShawMcDerrnottSheridanStarkeyQuirkeMorgan-Stannard3541McDermottSheridanShaw16Av.101840WWAv.MRM82701011031001624159222I11817RRWRWAv.333.6I220 1IBr.Mr.Result:Result: b. b.Extras notc...... ran.. b.Extrasl.b.w. not..didCowley Brennanc.b..run Orme.Regan b.Mr.Fraser...notBr. b...... Orrne c.b. c.Valentineout. outFlanaganOrmeOrmeout notMr.Flanagan c.out AscroftMeenan,Cowley Walkerout l.b.w.c.Fraser Mr...... '0' S.E.C.Total Br. School.Total Roylebat ReganFraser459 ...Fraser Mulowney ...... Valentine·b...... • ••••••·... b.lost.. 0..b..J. ••won ValentineOrme Br. b.O'Brien ...by byMeehan,..... Brennan...00 3966. •• b. 9 runs. wkts.Br.ST...... at·...0.... Cowley P EnwARDtsAt Sandfield ....At Chesterfield.....·... Quarry10/7/5414/7/543/7/54 COLLEGE Park--- BankSchoolWrenEdwardsRatchfordRoganHarkinsShawHanlonSheridan RoadS.E.C.S.E.C. MAGAZINE c.b. b. b. Meehan,b. O'Brien b. c.Flanagan notc. Jones O'Brien FlanaganCallaghan Valentine out61 J. ... b. b. Flanaganb. Meehan, Walker P. Total 0 Mr.IrelandNevinMeehan,BurtonWalkerJonesBr.AscroftProudloveOrmeWhiteFlanaganCallaghan,DevineCall1ghan,Mr.ValentineRoyleKearneyBlachardShepherdBr. O'KeeffeMullowneyBrennanRing MorrisQuirke CowleyO'Dowd BolgerMcDerrnottReganFraserStarkeySheridan did rundidExtrasShaw didl.b.w. b.notdidc. P.J.l.b.w. did notEdwards McDermottdid notc.outT. D.notc. c.outnotb. c. c.b.not c.Ratchfordb. RogannotMcDermott bat...notWrenb. batdidShaw batTotalout QuirkebatMcDerrnott DoyleShawbatb. Starkey outShaw bat outbat notShaw ...b. b. (for b.batShaw b. McDermott Stannard b. StarkeyQuarry 73Quirke... Shaw Shaw wkts.St.HarrissO'BrienBr.Staff Mary's ...decl.)ded.) ...Caulfield Bank b. l.b.w. Sheridan... b. Harkins Sheridan------ExtrasMcDerrnottStannardShawMcDermottHarkinsSheridan ... 0 S.E.C. v. Quarry Bank S.E.C.School v. St. v. Staff Mary's 62 ST. EnwARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

SECOND XI July 1 (H) v. Bootle G.S Won 62-34. The Second XI acquitted itself quite creditably during 15 (H) v. Bootle G.S Won 92-62. the season. They played 7 games, won 5, drew 1 and Of the thirteen who played last year for the Under lost 1. The side was ably captained by P. Keating. 13 XI five, including the Captain, were not available McNeilis proved himself the most consistent bat and this season. Their places were filled by members of achieved an average of 27 being not out in three of his last year's "B" team. Only four matches could be five innings. Keating had a good day against Waterloo arranged, but it is hoped that there will be more fixtures G.S., hitting 29, not out. Gregory was unlucky as an for 1955. The highest scorers were: J. Callaghan 22 opener, though he scored 36 against S.F.X. Hanlon, (av. 12.3), J. O'Hara 22 (av. 9.5), B. Colquitt 15 (av. on the two occasions that he played for the side, scored 8.5), J. Durbin 16 (av. 8) and B. Massey 18 (av. 5). 17 and 23. Rylance and Maybury, two of our young J. O'Hara, in one game, took 6 wickets for 8 runs. players, shaped well and should make the higher level J. Durbin's best was 6 wickets for 10runs, and J. Callag• in the near future. G. Bushell, who made 19 not out, han 5 wickets for 15 runs. topped the bowling aver!lgeswith 17wickets for 52 runs. The following played: D. Sparkes (Capt) Starkey took 30 wickets for 101 runs and Keating 9 B. Colquitt (Vice-Capt.), B. Massey, J. O'Hara, for 46. J. Flanagan, J. Durbin, B. Wolfenden, J. Callaghan, Results A. McDermott, F. Caulfield, R. Nelson, J. Watters, v. Collegiate G.S Lost. 39-42. J. Dunn, A. Ford, S. Keating, D. Chamberlain. v. Waterloo G.S Won. 100 for 5- 24. v. Alsop High School Won by 6 wkts. v. St. Francis Xavier's Won. 93-32. UNDER 13 XI v. St. Mary's College Game drawn. Venue Opponent Result v. Quarry G.S Won by 8 wkts. A Collegiate School... W. 23 for 0 wkt. against 18 v. St. Anselm's College Won by 4 wkts. A Waterloo G.S W. 49 for 7 wkts. against 48 The following played: P. Keating (Capt.), H S.F.X. College W. 44 against 28 A. McNeilis, G. Starkey, M. Azurdia, R. Azurdia, A St. Mary's ColI W. 40 for 4 wkts. against 39 P. Goodall, G. Bushell, P. Hanlon, J. Rogan, M. May• H Bootle G.S W. 78 against 49 bury, B. Davis, J. Rylance, M. Gregory, P. Alger, H St. Anselm's ColI. W. 73 against 28 A. Prince, R. Pontet, M. Wren, P. Goulbourn. A S.F.X. College ... W. 46 for 7 wkts. against 43 H Quarry Bank H.S. W. 22 for 3 wkts. against 20 H St. Mary's ColI. ... L. 49 all out against 50 for 7 COLTS XI The Chicks practised regularly and enthusiastically Venue Opponent Result H Collegiate School... W. 25 for 2 wkts. against 24. and so won most of their games. They batted soundly, H Waterloo G.S L. 27 against 28 for 4. bowled steadily and fielded very well. H Alsop H.S W. 89 against 45. The excellence of D. Taylor's leg-break bowling A S.F.X. College L. 30 against 42. should be commended highly; 38 wickets at 2.2 each. H St. Mary's CoIL L. 53 against 54 for 3. F. Murray played very promisingly as wicket-keeper A St. Anselm's ColI. W. 50 for 5 against 48. batsman. He stumped 10 batsmen and held 7 catches H S.F.X. College ... W. 40 for 2 against 39. at the wicket-an able ally for Taylor. R. Irving, A Quarry Bank H.S. W. 22 for I against 21. A. McGrath, P. Weston, were best among the others A St. Mary's ColI.... L. 28 against 52. and fielded very well, as did J. Harvey. Players were: D. Taylor (Capt.), F. Murray, R. Irving, A. McGrath, S. Keating, B. Sparkes, UNDER 14 XI P. Weston, C. Leddon, G. Shawcross, P. Gallagher, June 17 (H) V. St. Anselm's ColI Won 90-45. P. Christmas, F. Smith, E. Kelly, P. Lewis, M. Taylor, 29 (H) v. St. Mary's College Lost 37-101. T. Flynn, J. Harvey. ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

School Prefects McHuGH, B. CUNNINGHAM, J. E. PINNINGTON, M. ANWYL, P. A. McLEAN, P. G. DAVIDSON, B. RIMMER, J. QUIRKE, G. A. QUIRKE, G. A. DAVIS, B. ROWAN, B. E. McLEAN, P. G. DUGGAN, R. J. SHERIDAN, T. ALGER, P. VI B Science EDWARDS, A. SMITH, J. ANDERSON, K. GEOGHEGAN, P. S. F. WILLIAMS, C. AzURDIA, C .. CURRAN, D. GRIFFITHS, J. A. WILLS, J. J. BRANNAN, E. L. DILLON, E. J. HAYES, P. J. CARBERRY, B. J. DINGLE, R. 1. HILL, T. R. J. CLATWORTHY, R. A. KEATING, P. J. HODGE, R. F. Upper V Beta COWEN, A. G. KNIGHT, M. HUBY, B. G. BAKEWELL, I. DOWNEY, J. E. KENNA, A. P. KIRKBY, J. A. BENTLEY, C. DUKES, A. F. LUDDEN, L. J. LOWE, B. BLACKBURN, A. HAYES, E. J. LE ROI, J. J. MCSHANE, E. BLACKBURNE, J. HIGGINS, B. T. McDERMOTT, B. McMAHON, G. BLOWER,B. HITCHMOUGH, T. MORGAN, F. V. MAYBURY, T. M. BULLEN, J. HUGHES, P. H. POWER, J. MORGAN, P. D. DIVINE, J. JORDAN, H. J. ROGERS, P. P. MURPHY, S. B. DOWNEY, P. LAMB, P. K. MURRAY, R. DOYLE, M. LINFORD, A. G. NEWBERRY, J. FARRELL, P. VI A Se. MARsHALL, M. R. 0' HARE, P. FARROW, D. MANGHAN, G. H. ANDERSON, K. O'KEEFE, M. FITZPATRICK, P. MURPHY, G. M. ASHURST, B. PADDEN, T. 1. Fox, J. NICOLL, 1. T. BOWE, T. R!PLEY, F. A. FYLAN, E. RATCHFORD, J. A. BROWN, B. RooNEY, D. 1. GERMAIN, P. ROGAN, J. J. CONNOR, H. ROPER, F. J. P. GRANT, W. SULLIVAN, J. DINGLE, R. J. WHITE, B. JENNINGS, D. TOOLAN, M. HENRY, A. JOHNSON, G. WARING, F. J. KEATING, P. G. LAVERY, H. WESTON, B. L. KENNY, J. Upper V A LOMAS, W. KNIGHT, M. ASBURY, D. L. MARTIN, P. LEYLAND, M. VI B. Mods. BLACKIE, E. P. MATHESON, A. MULHOLLAND, J. COMERFORD, J. BOON, J. MCGUINESS, A. MORGAN, F. DODDS, C. H. BOYLE, F. J. MILLER, J. PONTET, F. DOUGLAS, E. BRIGDEN, A. MORISON, K. POWER, J. GoULBOURN, P. BROWN, J. O'HARE, J. REID, P. HUDSON, P. J. CARRIER, J. P. RIGNALL, W. ROGERS, P. JOHNSTON, F. COGLEY, J. SHANNON, S. LUDDEN, B. COLLINS, M. P • . SIMMS, A. VI A Mods. McMuLLIN, A. CORCORAN, P. WALSH, B. PATTERSON, E. CREWE, D. ALGER, P. CUCKSON, C. SNAPE, P. L V Alpha ANWYL, P. TAYLOR, J. DOUGLAS, P. BROOKS, C. FEARNS, H. E. BELL, J. CURRAN, D. FEATHERSTONE, E. M. BENBOW, P. DILLON, E. Upper V L FITZGERALD, M. BENSON, N. FALLON, P. ADDISON, P. GLYNN, J. P. BURNS, J. FLEMING, M. BARRY, B. HOFFMAN, J. C. CALLAGHAN, J. KENNA, P. BARRY, B. W. JONES, K. J. CARTER, J. LAMB, D. BENSON, J. P. KELLY, P. CHEETHAM, K. LE ROI, J. BYRNE, P. J. LOFTUS, G. J. COSTELLO, J. LUDDEN, L. CASSIDY, P. LYNCH, A. J. DIXON, N. McDERMOTT, B. CHAMBERLAIN, J. MCGoVERN, J. F. DUNCAN, R. McDoNNELL, R. CIMELLI, A. NORRIS, E. EMSLEY, R. ST. EOWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

FINNIGAN, T. WILLIAMS, B. McMuLLEN, A. CLARKE, S. GIBSON, M. WRIGHT, D. MAsSEY, B. DALY, B. GILLESPIE, B. MOONEY, L. DUNDON, P. JOHNSON, T. MOORE, P. EDGE, T. KENNEALLY, K. LVB O'BRIEN ,J. FEGAN, J. KENNY, B. ADDISON, J. O'HANLON, P. FORDE, E. LEWIS, J. ALGER, D. O'HARA, J. Fox, T. LUNT, D. ASHTON, J. STEPHENS, M. GoODWIN, G. LYNCH, G. AZURDIA, A. TAYLOR, D. HORAN, J. LOFTUS, J. BUTCHARD, R. THOMPSON, J. HUGHES, B. MEAKIN, J. DIPPLE, V. TOWNSON, D. HUNT, J. MILNER, J. DOWNES, J. WALSH, C. HURST, R. MOORE, H. DUNN, J. WILLIAMS, J. LEAHY, J. MORAN, A. EDWARDS, P. WOLFENDEN, B. MCGARVEY, P. NELSoN, W. FARRELL, V. MCSHANE, W. SPEAK, R. FITZPATRICK, H. MITCHELL, G. TINDALL, J. HEWS ON, V. IV A MOORE, B. UNSWORTH, B. HIGHTON, E. NELSON, R. VOLLEAMERE, W. HOLLES, A. BONER, M. O'NEILL, J. WAGLE, P. HURLEY, D. BUCKLEY, A. PLUNKETT, M. WALLACE, G. KELLY, I. COLQUITT, B. POPE, R. WHITE, A. JACKSON, P. DAGNALL, J. PRESCOTT, P. WOLFENDEN, T. LAMB, P. DITTMAN, M. SWIFT, B. WOOLRIDGE, J. LAMBE, A. EMSLEY, B. TOAL, A. LLOYD, T. FLANAGAN, J. WALSH, J. MALONE, P. FROST, C. WESTON, P. LVA MCANN, B. GILCHRIST, A. WILLIAMS, K. GORDON, J. ARMSTRONG, P. McCARTHY, D. GREEN, P. BAKER, T. MOONEY, V. KEARNEY, J. BUTCHAKD, B. MORLEY, M. III Alpha KELLY, J. CHAMBERLAIN, D. MURPHY, P. ADDISON, P. KELLY, W. COCKS, P. PEARSON, T. BOYLAN, M. KENNEDY, G. COLLINS, F. QUINN, E. BROOKFIELD, A. LAWLER, M. CRAWFORD, J. RYLANCE, J. BUSHELL, F. LEVY, F. CUNNINGHAM, P. SLAVIN, J. CHRISTMAS, P. LONERGAN, M. DUFFY, T. STUBBS, A. COADY, B. LOWRY, E. DUKES, M. COFFEY, J. MAKIN, G. FEENY, D. COLQUITT, D. MCCLELLAN, A. GALBRAITH, P. IV Alpha CRAIG, C. McDONOUGH, A. GRAY, J. BRYSON, I. DARRAGH, M. MOORE, H. HANEY, J. BUTCHARD, J. DOLAN, K. NEILL, T. HAYES, G. BYRNE, F. FITZSIMMONS, J. O'HARE, M. JORDAN, B. BYWATER, B. GEOGHEGAN, M. O'KEEFE, E. KELLY, J. CAULFIELD, F. HALL, M. ROBERTS, H. LIVINGSTON, H. CLEARY, T. HART, D. ROOKE, E. MATTHEWS, J. DARWEN, A. HURST, R. ROPER, M. MCGRAIL, A. DOUTHWAITE, P. IRVING, D. SCULLY, J. McMAHON, P. DURBIN, J. JOHNSON, R. SWANICK, B. MERCER, A. FISHER, C. KEATING, S. THISTLEWOOD, E. MOLLOY, J. FOLEY, M. MCQUIRK, J. WATTERSON, M. MOLYNEUX, P. GRIFFIN, A. McMuLLEN, N. WILLMOTH, R. MOORHEAD, T. HUGHES, D. MAHER, L. YATES, J. MAxWELL, L. JONES, E. MILNE, K. NOON, M. JONES, E. MINAHAN, H. PARKER, J. JUDGE, M. MURRAY, F. PEACOCK, G. KELLY, L. IV Beta NAUGHTON, W. POWER, J. KIERAN, J. BENNETT, W. RICHAKDS, M. SPARKES, D. MCCANN, J. BROWN, W. ROLSTON, F. WALSH, W. McDERMOTT, A. BURKE, D. SCAHILL, J. WATTERS, J. MCGRATH, A. BURTON, W. SHANNON, J. ST. EDWARD'S COLLEGE MAGAZINE

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