THE COTTONIAN
out of the farm Quinn was well ahead but Kavanagh was moving into third place and soon into second ; at this point Curley was about ninth. Quinn won in the good time of 17 minutes 58.3 seconds. Kavanagh had run into second place. he future he must not let the leaders have too much of a lead in the early stage of the race; this must also be learnt by Kilgallon and Curley, who finished third and fourth, after moving up from the farm. These four had run extremely well in such poor conditions.
Middle School started soon after most of Lower School had returned. At the top of Green Lane Long was leading from Calnan and Warren. But at the farm Calnan had made up the ground lost early on when his shoe-lace had to be retied, and was now ten seconds ahead of Warren and Long ; behind these three there were several changes being made by Richardson, Blakemore, Applin and Macdonald who finished in that order. At the finish Calnan had a lead of two hundred yards over Long and Warren, who ran in together. This had been a good race and the winning time of 23 minutes 41.5 seconds was very good for such muddy conditions.
The conditions for the Upper School race were so bad that the qualification time was extended by three and a half minutes to 46 minutes 30 seconds. Shipman won and his time of 33 minutes was really excellent ; he was over two and a half minutes ahead of the rest of the field. Behind him McGhee and Statham had a private battle which was not decided until they reached the cemetery, when McGhee ran into second place. Both had run very well. Further down the field there were other battles and much hard running but in trying to keep pace with Shipman I did not see them.
Duffy is Captain of Athletics this year but he is not a cross-country runner. He encouraged the runners and often set an example by running with the junior teams
in training. Shipman, therefore was the `running' captain, the results show that he set a very good example in training, for only very hard training could have produced his own performances. He was first in every school match ; his performances in the major competitions were excellent, and not least, he set a new record for the School course.
RESULTS
Seniors
SCHOOL V. MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL
at Manchester. Lost. 28 points to 6o.
(I Shipman, 7 McGhee, 10 Hickey, 13 Finneran, i4 Castille, 15 O'Reilly and Hayward tie, 17 Tinney. First six to count.)
SCHOOL J. BURTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL V. BEMROSE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, DERBY, at Burton. First. Cotton 38 points, Burton G.S. 62 points, Bemrose G.S. 73 Points.
SCHOOL V. NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL V. WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL, at Cotton. Second. Newcastle H.S. 51 points, Cotton 59 points, Wolverhampton G.S. 6,1 points.
(I Shipman, 5 Statham, 8 McGhee and Finneran tie, 17 Tinney, 1q Trinham, 21 Castille.)
SCHOOL 1'. KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, STAFFORD D, at Cotton. Won. 26 points to 58 points.
(1 Shipman, 3 Hickey and Statham tie, 5 McGhee, 6 Finneran and Trinham tie, 10 Tinney, ii O'Reilly.)
SCHOOL v. LOUGHBOROUGH GRAMMAR
SCHOOL. At Cotton. Lost. 311 points
to 46k points.
(1 Shipman, 5 Hickey 7 Statham, 10 Tinney, ii Finneran, 12 Castille, 13 McGhee. First six to count.)
(1 Shipman, 4 Hickey and McGhee tie, 7 Statham and Finneran tie, 13 Trinham, 17 O'Reilly. First six to count.)