The Football Club may, appropriately enough, have its ups and downs; the Glee Club, moribund one year, may be full of lusty life the next; various male social clubs may die and, dying, Phœnix-like gave birth to successors themselves no longer lived; but the Hockey Club is a worthy rival of the Scriptural bay-tree—it still retains the proud distinction of putting more teams into the field than any city club, and it still maintains a consistently high standard of play in each grade.

A notable absentee from the ranks of the First Eleven is that old warhorse Rawdon Beere, a consistent goal-getter for something like eight seasons, and more than once an indefatigable captain.

On the whole, however, the team is not greatly changed; the backs are all in their last year places, the new-comers being Cleghorn and "Strack tertius" in the forward line, and if any one has any doubts as to the efficiency of the said forward line we can but refer his to the Monday issue of nay of the local dailies.

At one time it was contemplated entering the Seconds as a Senior B team, but as this course would have deprived the First Eleven of its reserves, the Committee thought better of it, although the team is really well up to Senior standard.

The season opened with a seven a-side handicap tournament, in which College was represented by four teams. The A's reached the fourth round, but the task of catching up their opponents' handicap proved beyond their powers. The B's went one better and reached the semi-finals, but they too succumbed. The C and D teams had perforce to be content with a smaller measure of success.

We give below a summary of the various matches played up to the time of going to press.