The Archive · 1901

When Henley, and the Varsity and

THE WANING SEASON

Eton and Harrow cricket matches are numbered among the events which have occurred, the London season may be considered practically over. This year all these have been particularly successful functions, owing mainly, doubtless, to the kindness of the Clerk of the Weather, who. seems to have turned on an unusual spell of brilliant sunshine and cloudless blue skies; so much so in fact that numbers of people are suffering from severe nerve exhaustion, and some dozens are treated daily for hoyt apoplexy and kindred complaints.

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