The principal social function of the year for most sports clubs, and certainly for Harriers and Athletic Clubs is the Annual Dinner or Supper.   The terminology varies but the format is always the same – a formal dinner dance with speeches before or after.   These come at the end of the summer season or at the start of the cross-country season in October.   In 1933 Dumbarton AAC had a formal ‘Supper’ at the end of April and were no small affair.

Quite a lot to take in on this page.   The ticket, beautifully printed indicates the cost of 2/6d which is approximately £9 in today’s money, tells us it was a Social and also that George himself won the club championship.    The format is presented in the programme  reproduced below:

The two big open and invitation sports in the West were the Rangers Sports and the Queen’s Park sports.   A man like George who kept abreast of Scottish athletics would naturally have included such photographs.   In this case there was a special interest when Fullarton of Dumbarton AAC won the open handicap 100 yards.

 

The summer season as recorded was short  and the cross country season started with the opening run on 7th October 1933 from the Brock Baths. The club handbook for the winter season is included in George’s book but stuck down.   The handbook ran to 16 pages but the back page is presumably blank.

 

 

There are lots of interesting facts about the sport in the early 30’s here regarding fixtures, training nights but there are also rules for club members and information about subscriptions, life membership and so on that are worth a close look.   It was now the start of the 1933/34 cross-country season which will take a new page.