No . 131
The Trusty Servant
Sporting News
Much of the OW sporting news in the last edition focused on hopes for reopening matches this year . We are delighted to report on the following two OW fixtures that took place as soon as social-distancing rules allowed .
Golf In the first OW golf fixture since the partial easing of lockdown , a team of OWs led by Christopher Cornell ( K , 53-58 ) played a team of Riflemen , led by Cameron Reeves ( F , 68-73 ) on a cold but sunny spring day at the Berkshire . The outcome of the match depended on the last of eight pairings , which the Rifles edged . The final result was 4½- 3½ in favour of the Rifles .
Appropriate team face coverings for the occasion
Most of the OW team , still smiling at lunchtime with the score level at 2-2 ! L-R : Christopher Normand , Jeremy Wilkins , Christopher Cornell ( Capt ), Richard Pawson . Sitting : Alastair Maxwell , Colin Scott-Malden .
WSC Richard Darley ( K , 67-71 ) reports on the 2021 Belvidere Cup , the first event for WSC since September 2019 :
On Saturday 24 th April Winchester competed in the annual Royal Thames Yacht Club match-racing event for private-school alumni at Queen Mary ’ s Sailing Club . Eight teams took part , and after some intense racing that tested every muscle in gusty conditions , our crew came a creditable third out of eight entries .
Obiter dicta
Nigel Day ( F , 99-04 ) recently performed major surgery on Nick Taylor ( F , 99-04 ). In the same operation Nigel successfully reversed a colostomy and performed a right hemicolectomy , the removal of a section of bowel from the right side of the abdomen . Nick has made a full recovery and wanted it noted that it was only two years since Nigel sang at his wedding . Nigel has proved himself quite the all-rounder .
Oliver Caroe ( Q , 79-82 and E , ( 82-86 ), Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul ’ s Cathedral has designed the memorial in St Paul ’ s Cathedral for those who have died from COVID-19 . Remember Me , led by St Paul ’ s Cathedral and supported by the Prince of Wales , has more than 7,300 names of those who have died as a result of the pandemic since it launched in May last year . Oliver Caroe , architect and Surveyor of the Fabric of the Cathedral , lost his mother , Mary , to COVID-19 aged 81 on April 5 th last year . Mary Caroe ( née Roskill ) was the niece of Rt Hon Lord Eustace Roskill ( D , 24-29 , Go Bo 82-86 ). She was a famously passionate gardener , a GP and police surgeon . Her husband and Oliver ’ s father , Martin Caroe ( E , 47-52 ) was also an architect ; Martin ’ s grandfather William Caroe was a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and designed the present panelling and great organ case in Chapel as well as a new stained-glass window – see article above .
WSC will be defending the Arrow Trophy on the Solent over the weekend of 2 nd & 3 rd October .
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