And the net result was that, when Adair succeeded to the captaincy of Rugger and cricket in the same year, Sedleigh, as Mr. Downing, Adair's housemaster and the nearest approach to a cricket master that Sedleigh possessed, had a fondness for saying, was a keen school.

He hopes it will lick Bedford at Rugger and Malvern at cricket, but he rather bets it won't.

"He's captain of cricket and Rugger," said Jellicoe impressively.

But, as Carey, a contemporary Rugger blood, coarsely remarked, he hadn't the innards to go far wrong.

You would never have supposed that Lawrence, Captain of the University Rugger during his last two years, Captain of the English team through all the Internationals of the season 1913-14, could have had anything in common, except football, with Dune, artist and poet if ever there was one.

Stripped, he looked so thick and so strong, with his short neck and his bull-dog build, that I couldn't help saying, "You don't look a day older than the last time you played Rugger for Cambridge.

Rugger days are over.