NO.121
Old Wykehamist Sporting
Societies
OW Football Club
Arthurian League (Derrick Moore) vets
plate quarter-final result:
OW vets 8 – OW vets 1
GH Baker (H, 84-89) reports:
Unfortunately, the 8 were for Old
Westminster vets and the 1 was for us:
they gave us a proper hiding. It was a
perfect 3G pitch but very windy. We lost
the toss and were quickly under pressure
and two sloppy goals down. We shored up
a bit but two very good crosses undid us
and we turned around 4-0 down. We tried
to rally with the wind behind us, but
across the pitch they were (younger!)
faster, more physical and more composed
on the ball, and as a team they always
gave each other options.
We rallied for patches but were always
exposed the moment (and there were
many of them) our passes went astray.
Highlights were few, but included a
penalty save from Fionn Sweeney and a
belting free kick from Chris Salz.
Lowlights were too many to mention. We
can do better, but quite frankly we would
rather come up against worse opposition!
OW Golf Society
The Scott family and Golf
David Wybar (B, 69–74) writes:
The comment in DE Scott’s (H, 52 – 57)
obituary (TS120) that he was a keen
golfer prompted me to write. I played in
the same Halford Hewitt team in 1976
and remember him as a very long hitter
but, at the time, I had no idea about the
importance of the Scott family in the
history of amateur golf.
While Claudio Consul won the Italian
Amateur Golf Championship in 2004 to
add to the German (Closed) Amateur
that he won immediately after leaving
Win Coll in 2002, he was not the first
OW to win the Italian Amateur. In 1906
two OW brothers contested the final, the
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Hon Denys Scott beating the Hon
Osmund Scott, David’s grandfather.
Osmund was the better, playing for
England against Scotland in 1902 (one of
three OWs in the first ever international
golf match), 1905 and 1906, and losing in
the final of the Amateur at Prestwick in
1905.
They were members of an influential and
talented golfing family – their sister, Lady
Margaret Scott, won the first three British
Ladies Amateurs played in 1893, 1894
and 1895 before retiring from competitive
golf, and the oldest brother, Viscount
Encombe (also an OW), played for
Oxford in the 1893 Varsity match. Their
younger brother, the Hon Michael Scott,
was better still.
Kenneth Scott, David’s uncle, was an
outstanding golfer who played for England
in 1937 and 1938 while still an
undergraduate at Oxford and reached the
final of the President’s Putter in 1938 and
the semi-final in 1939. Kenneth was
killed in the Second World War and was
unable to fulfil his potential as a golfer
but, in the last five tournaments before
the war, he had an outstanding Halford
Hewitt record, winning 11 out of 14
matches played, losing twice in extra
holes and only once over 18 holes.
Harold Scott, David’s father, played in the
Halford Hewitt in 1952, 1953 and 1960
and was captain of OWGS in 1960 and in
1961, the last time Winchester reached
the semi-final. David Scott played for
Winchester in the Halford Hewitt
between 1970 and 1976.
In total, the Scott family played in 77
matches for Winchester in the Halford
Hewitt.
OW Tolling Club
AI Doolittle (Coll, 98-03) reports:
We had 12 OWs on the start line of the
Thames Hare and Hounds Alumni Event
this year, with a 13th in a traffic jam on
the M3, and we placed runners right
through the field from 6th through to
208th. Unfortunately – and not helped by
20
the team organiser’s lack of fitness – we
were lacking a runner or two at the sharp
end of proceedings and, with the entry of
a few new schools, we placed 6th in the
open event. James Hoad (once again) and
Simon Baines ran excellently, finishing
6th and 26th respectively. John Shaw
worked his way smoothly through the
field to finish in 51st, while the team
organiser was pursued by Ed Perry (first
non-scorer) to the line in 61st and 64th
positions. In the other age categories, our
V40s finished 6th and our V60s finished a
very solid 4th. The stars of the day,
however, were our V50 runners, who
cruised to an easy victory with a miserly
21 points. All credit to John Shaw, Doug
Teasdale, Hugh Scorgie and Rhodri
Davies, who (if I have got my maths
right) were responsible for that fine result.
It was great to see the team racing in
Colin’s new vests. Many thanks again for
these – they made a big difference. And
thanks also to those who joined for a pint
or two afterwards. With 217 finishers and
28 teams, the race has got much bigger in
recent years, but – with a couple more of
our quicker gents out – we should have no
difficulty in getting back into the top two
or three overall. And if the stars align, we
should be able to give Sherborne a good
run for their money too.
Obiter Dicta
Antarctic Cruise
An Ultimate Travel cruise to the
Falklands, South Georgia and the
Antarctic Peninsula in February 2016
coincidentally included no fewer than
seven OWs. Thus on 14th February, at
Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula,
a hot was held and ‘Domum’ was sung.
Those present were:Lord de Ramsey (F, 55-59)
HM Priestley (E, 55-60)
Viscount Younger of Leckie (F, 69-74)
I Edward (B, 72-77)
RP Wordie (K, 74-78)
MT Truell (H, 05-10)
MM Truell (H, 06-11)