Sorrow

A shadow of sorrow lay over the Harrier Club at the week-end before last. Frank O'Flynn, popular leading member of the Club, had lost his father. The Club was well represented at Requiem Mass at the Basilica on the Saturday morning, and takes this opportunity of again offering Frank its sympathy.

With Frank not running, and with Myles O'Connor plucked from us at short notice to go Home Guarding, the team for the inter-club race over the Dorne Cup course at Hutt Park was sadly weakened. Had Myles and Frank been able to turn out, we would have held high hopes of beating Scottish, but without them we were not good enough. Giff Rowberry ran a splendid race, his best of the season, and one of the best he has ever run for the Club, to get second place, while Ian McDowell turned on another good performance to be ninth, but Scottish had a full four-man team home by then.

We landed a nice group in getting twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth places, but they were too far back to help. The rest of the green-singleted coterie scrambled aimiably through fences, splashed boyishly through patches of mud, and gambolled across paddocks with equal enthusiasm and varying effectiveness. There were more of us in the first half of the placings than in the last half, anyway.