FOR THOSE budding sportsmen and women lucky enough to get the call-up, a young shots’ driven day during the Christmas holidays is an invitation to look forward to above all others. For novices who are still learning the ropes there may be anxiety about performing in front of peers – not to mention eagle-eyed parents and minders – but if the smartly turned-out schoolboys shooting pool in the basement of Bolton Hall this December morning are remotely nervous, it does not show. One or two may still be recovering from the Red Hot Ball – another northern rite of passage – a few days earlier, but the ambience is relaxed and friendly. With the exception of 17-year-old Henry Jones-Perrott, who is in his final year at Sedbergh, the young guns are all in their early teens and most
