St Edward's Rhubarb

ST EDWARD’S

M A R T Y R S

(C, 2011-2016),

Sam Hamilton-Peach

(G,

2010-2015),

Hugo Marsh

(E, 2010-2015),

Tacita McCoy-Parkhill

(K, 2010-2015). John

Wiggins and

Will Morgan

(B, 2008-2013)

raced to second place in IM3 double sculls.

September saw the second annual Eton

Revival being held at Dorney Lake. Three

races, side by side and a rather weighted

scoring system saw Eton take home some

sizable silverware leaving the Martyrs finishing

a very close third.

Edward Nurick

(E, 2000-

2005),

Tom Coles

(G, 2004-2009), Rupert

Singfield, Will Morgan, Andrew Scott,

John

O’Hara

(H, 2006-2011) (+subs) and

Street

(D, 2003-2007), coxing.

Hamish Roots has designed and organised

Rhubarb tops to go with the cornflower

blue and gold lycras of old and the boat club

has bought a selection for crews to race to

ensure that we stand out!

The increased interest from younger

OSE has meant that two boats raced at

Wallingford Head in November with both

boats finishing in the top three in their events.

Crews were ‘Young guns’: Ben Sthamer,

Oli Knight

(B, 2012-2014), Felix Obholzer,

Rupert Singfield, Alex Simmonds and

Charles

Gosling

(B, 2011-2016) with Sam Lapage and

Oli Stanhope (SESBC coaches) and current

1st VIII cox, Sam Shuker; ‘Muskets’: Katie

Greves (MCR), Andrew Scott,

Chris Cox

(D, 1961-1966), Will Morgan,

Andy Knight

(C, 1975-1978), John Wiggins, Ric Colborne,

Hamish Roots and Tacita McCoy-Parkhill

(cox). John Wiggins and Andy Knight went on

to win in their double at the Upper Thames

Autumn Head.

Looking ahead, City of Oxford is on

the 18/19th August and Dulwich College

Alleynian and Eton Revival are in September,

dates tbc.

Tennis

Mark King

(G, 1988-1993) reported that

he had the pleasure of taking part in a

Martyrs tennis match at the end of April

this year. The Martyrs came away 8-1

winners!! The wily old foxes,

Dominic

Evan-Hart

(F, 1989-1994),

Greg Kratt

(H, 2012-2017),

Tim Usher

(E, 1960-

1965),

Hugh Watson

(C, 1991-1996),

Simon Talbot-Williams

(A, 1974-

1979), getting the better of the young

thoroughbreds. Hopefully the Martyrs will

be back next year with a bigger turnout!

Squash

Though the snow lay round about, deep

and crisp and even in March, four of our

depleted squad of OSE arrived at the School

to find that Simon Palferman had persuaded

a magnificent dozen of the School’s

squash enthusiasts to join our morning’s

Tournament. We ran a Swiss-style Monrad

event that is designed to give all 16 players

four matches and result in a graded result

in order of 1 to 16, with matches becoming

progressively more closely matched. With

Jenny McCarter from the OSE Office doing

most of the time-keeping and scoring,

we staggered through the event pretty

successfully (it being our first attempt at

this format) and all but one player seemed

to enjoy the morning. Less fortunate was

Kishida Naoki, who stumbled in his first

match and went down with a fractured wrist

Martyrs at Wallingford Head

and was sent off to hospital for an X-ray.

Quite by chance, Paul Denvir, Mike’s father,

arrived at that exact moment ready to step

in if we needed a replacement, so we were

immediately back to 16.

The top eight of the Competition saw the

Martyrs taking the first four places:

Horatio

Lyon

(B, 2011-2106),

James Dubois

(C,

1960-1965),

Tim Smart

(C, 2001-2006)

and

James Moore-Stanley

(H, 2012-2017).

The next four from the School were Giles

Wordsworth, Alexia Drouliscos, Mike Denvir

and Hamish Smart (no relation). Followed by

brunch in the Main Dining Hall, it was a fun

outing and the pupils demonstrated a good

mix of skill, enthusiasm and warm hospitality

to those of us who have gone before. Here’s

to 7th October.

James Dubois

(C, 1960-1965)

Golf

There was a near record turnout for the

2017 Autumn Meeting, with 25 OSE and

four guests, as the Martyrs returned to

Huntercombe for the first time in over 20

years. In beautiful late Autumn weather, the

competition was fierce.

David Leadbitter

(H, 1995-2000) won the Latham Bowl for the

best gross stableford score, scoring 38 points

(playing off 12), while

Tim Smart

(C, 2001-

2006) won the Kitchen Quaich (awarded to

the best net stableford score) with 37 points

(playing off 5). We were delighted to welcome

Society debutant

Anthony Marten

(E, 1960-

65), as well as a number of OSE who, for

various reasons, hadn’t attended a meeting for

a number of years, including

Chris Stevenson

(A, 1952-1957),

David Cannon

(G, 1969-73),

Ed Craven-Smith

(B, 1984-89), Jonny Lawes

Autumn Meeting winners Tim Smart and David

Leadbitter

(H, 1984-89), Duncan Wethey (E, 1985-90)

and Ben Way (F, 1990-95).

Peter Neal

(K, 1993-1998)