The Story of the "Britannia": The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.Statham, Edward Phillips
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The Story of the "Britannia": The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.
Statham, Edward Phillips
Britannia (Ship); Great Britain. Royal Navy; Naval education -- Great Britain
Cadet Bentinck, b Hillyard 24
Capt. Bainbridge, c Booth, b Pyke 5
Cadet Nugent, b Pyke 0
Underwood, c Johnstone, b Wells 15
Cadet Johnson, c Johnstone, b Wells 0
Sergt. Meakin, b Arbuthnot 8
Cadet Collins, b Wells 15
Lieut. Thomas, b Pyke 13
Cadet Brock, b Wells 5
Cadet Loring, b Wells 4
Cadet Vivian, not out 2
Extras 12
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Total 103
The College score was not a formidable one to face; but when the "pro"
was out for 15 there was considerable anxiety. Lieut. Thomas, however,
the other great "stand by," was still to go in. When he was bowled for
13 there was consternation indeed. The College team were generous in
the matters of extras, however, and the hundred went up amid shouts of
applause, a glorious match being brought to a triumphant conclusion.
May 31st, _Britannia_ _v._ Plymouth Garrison:
Garrison, 65 (Captain Quill, 46); _Britannia_, 257 for seven wickets
(Bentinck, 73, Lieut. Thomas, 62).
This was a great victory, as a Garrison team is usually pretty strong.
In addition to "foreign" matches, of which there was a full programme
every season, a great deal of ingenuity was exercised in organising
both cricket and football contests among the cadets: Port Watch _v._
Starboard; the Admirers of Cambridge _v._ Oxford; Over 5 ft. _v._
Under 5 ft.; Odd Classes _v._ Even Classes; _Britannia_ _v._
_Hindostan_; to say nothing of the various matches between the terms.
No "foreign" football matches appear in the earlier numbers of the
magazine, but a regular programme was instituted later on.
In a match on November 11th, 1884, Over 5 ft. _v._ Under 5 ft., the
game was considered by the "cognoscenti" to be a hollow affair for the
Overs. These heroes, however, received a lesson as to the folly of
holding a foe too cheaply; for the Unders won by 7 goals to 0! The
Overs, no doubt, got well chaffed about it; and the smaller boys must
have played a very good game to win so easily.
Cambridge twice beat Oxford; the Third Term beat their seniors, the
Fourth, by one "corner" only; while the Second Term beat the "News" by
6 goals to 1.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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