Athletics (British Sports Library)

FOR PARENTS AND SCHOOLMASTERS 17 HOLDERS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ATHLETIC CHALLENGE CuP-Continued 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 Lancing A boy's athletic career after he leaves school will be governed by his circumstances. If he goes up to one of the two seriior universities he will join either the O.U.A.C. or the C.U.A.C., and will train to represent first his College, and with the hope of ultimately attaining the distinction of a " Blue " and representing his university at Queen's Club, possibly of figuring for the combined English Univer– sities against the American Universities at home or abroad. The system in Scotland and Ireland is very much the same, comprising Inter-Scholastic and Inter– University meetings. There are also to be considered the Provincial Universities. Each holds its own sports meeting. Then there are the Christie Sports, held annually between the Universities of Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester, and the Inter-University Board of Great Britain and Ireland Championships, in which the various events are fought out between the pro– vincial universities of Abergavenny, Aberystwyth, 2