It is the Sports term at St Austin's College (600-plus boys; cricket,
racquets). But we start with the Public Schools Boxing at Aldershot. Tony
Graham of St Austin's knocks out his cousin, Allen Thomson of Rugby, in the
final îf the Middleweights. This is a novel, though the episodes hang
together loosely as though they started as short stories. The silverware
sports prizes disappear from the Pavilion and cached in a hollow tree in
Squire Sir Alfred Venner, MP's pheasant-coverts, out of bounds to the boys.
Inspector Roberts comes down from Scotland Yard. In the boys' Houses there
are plenty of study frowsts and teas. Charteris ('the Alderman') who talks
rot pleasantly, as though he might develop into a Psmith, shares a study
with Welch, the all-rounder.
Charteris edits The Glow-Worm, an anonymous
and jovial school monthly magazine.
Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.