Avon Old Farms School - Winged Beaver Yearbook (Avon, CT)

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place was taken by Henschel in the same event a record was set by Bill Turner in the breaststroke With a vic tory under their belts Avon surged on to make Suffield Academy its next victim As Avon gained power it continued the winning streak and successfully downed Hopkins Grammar As in past performances Choate again bettered his own time In the same event Tali aferro set a freshman record while other records were broken by Turner in the breaststroke and Antolini in strong Deerfield second team Avon met Canterbury s second team for its ninth meet First place was taken in the butterfly by Garvin Brown and in the backstroke by Williams but lacking three of our too men we were unable to take the final relay which decided the meet p 5 ' M J U1 'lf'-'7'l The last meet of the season was with Westminster Throughout the meet neither team gained a decisive advantage Antolinl swam a terrific race in the indi vidual medley to break the school record and the Con nectrcut Independent School Association record but because of the disqualificanon of the medley relay team Avon lost a very close meet At the close of the season Avon entered the Con necticut Independent School Swimming Association km and Suflield and took a very respectable second place Pete Antolim was high man as he captured a first place in the individual medley and a third in the backstroke Choate Brown and Draper finished their good season by successfully taking seconds 1,-M09 LCA'-l'b fllqlqfvfaf OM, fix '11,,kfvA ,I greg. .. J A K I 'I L I I- ff g , P E W X , X , g t. .-.Xpxlkkpn Q 5 5 . 'KX it U1 f l' Q ' f wr! LLIPQBJ, a 1 amz' ' 411 if , fm' ' Iv Q . a ' ' . , ' Y ' 9 . , ' 5 o . - s Q - , Q I q . the individual medley. After being defeated by the meet at Yale against Canterbury, Westminster, Hop- . . , . , . - . 7 ' Y Z H f V, ,- .4 If C U 4 ,., , if '- 1 ' 'I G . 4, ff 1' 4 I' I I' L A I 4 I qi , Cv' .-ff 1 'IL' '-f',' off' . A Q , ff -- ' If - - ,,.f,.-Q 9

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JYfllf Standxng Cleft to rrhtl Mr johnson W N Gordon Cunnrngham Beatson Sxegel Merrrll Black Kneelrng Cleft to rrghtj Rrckard Ross Srefert Blakeley Mr Tongue Noye Carey Trrmrngham TENNIS SEASON As the warm weather returns to Avon the thoughts of the students slowly begm to drrft toward sprrng sports and the great trmes on the arhletrc fields But for some thrrty or forty students the mam objectrve rs the tennxs courts and to be number one on the ladder or the best player rn the school These boys started therr workout a week before vacatron and although there was rerrrble weather they accomplrshed a great ea Because of the numbers of players thrs year s group had to be drvrded rnto three sectxons a varsrty group made up of the srx or seven best players the junror varstty group composed of the next srx or seven the freshman squad whrch was made up of the best players rn the two lower forms Thxs year as rn the past the coachrng was under taken by Mr Tongue wrth the assrstance of Mr John son and Mr Sprcer The team had many returnrng var stty and yunror varsrty players among them from the varsrty Roy Attrrde Wrlson Wyatt Granny Toogood Brll Bearson and Buddy Stegel from the Junror varsrty Ed Rrckard Dave Davrs jerry Robrnson jerry Blakeley and Dave McShane There were also several talented and much welcomed newcomers to the squad Mrke Cunnrngham Rusty Fowler Gary Black Denny Good rrch and Henry Sage , A , .K . ll fl 4 K ' 1 Sa . ff ' If Y ' V A . -.4 ' 1 A F, .S 1 ' ' : . , . . , ' , , ' , ' , , Fowler, Toogood, Mr. Sprcer ' ' : ' , , ' , , - , , , ' 7 - 1 s ' , . Q ' ' 7 . 3 3 7 I . , . . Q , d l. , , , , . 5 , y 1 v 7 9 ' , Z ' 144