Brentwood College School - Brentonian Yearbook (Mill Bay, British Columbia Canada)

Page 20 text:

Brentwood College Magazine Tennis THE past season has not been so active with regard to match play as in former years, owing to the increased interest shown in cricket. As live of the First Six played on the first cricket eleven, Tennis matches have suffered accordingly. Nevertheless, the majority of the boys have taken to the game as enthusiastically as ever. The doubles ladder was discontinued, but the singles ladder, with over sixty participants, has proved more successful than in former years. In this way we were able to select our First Six, which was composed of Hanbury ma. (Capt), MacSwain ma., Robertson, Yorath, Green and Williams. At the end of the season Wootten won a place on the team, but had no opportunity of representing the College. The school tournaments took place at the end of the Summer Term, with an entry of fifty-nine players in the singles and twenty-nine pairs in the doubles. In the finals, which were played on Speech Day, Hanbury ma. won the singles, while the doubles fell to Hanbury ma. and Hanbury mi. Brentwood was unusually successful in the Provincial Lawn Tennis Junior Championships, played on the courts of the Victoria Lawn Tennis Club. MacSwain ma. won the under-eighteen event, while Hanbury mi. was at the head of the under-fifteen and the under-sixteen classes. This is the first year that Brentwood has been able to win all three events in the Provincial Junior Championships. The only outside match the First Six had was against the strongest team the College has ever faced, and we were fortunate in being able to draw the match. What would have proved a very interesting match against the Victoria Lawn Tennis Club, in Victoria, had to be cancelled on account of rain. TH ist VI. Page Eighteen

Page 19 text:

Brentwood College Magazine The following were the winners of school prizes : SCHOOL PRIZES — V Form (The Redpath Prize). 1, Robertson; 2, Lawson; 3, Strain. Remove. 1, Luxton; 2, Undecided. IV Form. 1, Smyth; 2, Undecided. SPECIAL PRIZES— Headmaster ' s Prize for Reading in Chapel. Kirkpatrick. Leeder Prize for Music. Gray ma. The Williams Prize for Conspicuous Ability in Languages. Symons. The Crease Prize for the Encouragement of Art. Griffith. The Curtis Prize for Conspicuous Ability in Mathematics. 1, Gray ma.; 2, Williams. Prize awarded to Williams. The Angus Prize for Natural Science. 1, Deane; 2, Shallcross and Wiseman. An Exhibition of $100 for the boy showing the best School Spirit during the year. Bracketed — Symons, Nickson. Two Exhibitions of $150 each, awarded on the Rhodes Scholarship plan to boys returning to school for at least one more year. 1, Harrison; 2, Robertson. Yarrow Shield and Medal. Bracketed — Green, Pugh. The Scott-Moncrieff Prize for English Literature and the Logan Cup for the best Account of an Expedition were not awarded. Ode to the New Matriculation Common Room On bleak and freezing January eve. The world seemeth to leave The earthly and become an hoary death, Grotesque and fearful in his garb of snow ; While cruel wind doth howl and fiercely throw The icy pellets on his stinging breath : Then cometh need for cheerful fireside bright, To scatter gloom of winter with his light, While magazines and books do much abound To speed the clock around. On flaming, cloudless afternoon in May, When the world falleth prey To fiery onslaught of the summer ' s birth, When not a stone ' scapeth the searching glare Of knifelike rays, seeming to pierce and tear Into the deepest sinews of the earth : Then cometh need for shelter, dark and cool, Where one may slack each burning, aching limb, And feel refreshed; as though a shadowed pool Had close enfolded him. To such a place the proud fifth-formers swarm, The common room of the matriculation form. Alec. A. Ballachex Page Seventeen

Page 21 text:

Brentwood College Magazine Unfortunately, rain also marred the match between a scratch team composed of members of our second and third teams and juniors from the Duncan Lawn Tennis Club. The inter-house tennis match was very closely contested, but was finally won by Mr. Cocks ' House by five matches to four. The following were awarded their First Team Colours : Hanbury ma., MacSwain ma., Robertson, Yorath and Green. Brentwood College 1st VI vs. Mr. Izard ' s Team, at Brentwood. Drawn, 4-4. Brentwood College 1st VI vs. The Staff at Brentwood. Won, 5-0. Brentwood College Scratch VI vs. The Duncan Lawn Tennis Club Juniors, at Brentwood. Drawn, 3-3. HE swimming season has been short this year. Early in the Summer Term the old scow was turned over and re-caulked. Lumber was bought and work parties very rapidly built a diving stage of three tiers. The new boys all passed their swimming tests successfully. On Speech Day some very good races were held. The junior race was won by Rothwell, whose steady side stroke took him ahead of the splashing crawlers. The intermediate race was won by Malkin by a few feet only. The inter-house relay race provided many thrills ; first one team and then the other gained the lead, Round ' s House being a few feet ahead at the finish. The diving competition was won by Appleton. The diving was good, but boys have not shown enough initiative in the development of trick diving and somersaulting this year. Thoughts oj a Roman Catholic when Sunday Chapel Bell Rings The warning bell rings out so clear and free ; The sailing boys come in from off the sea ; The rower homeward pulls his weary way And leaves the world to solitude and me. Even the lordly cricketer must run Down from his sweaty sport beneath the sun, And change from cricket whites to Sunday blue, Not quite deluded that his toil is fun. And soon the noise dies down, and then I hear The oft-repeated hymns of school ring clear. I think high thoughts — until a sudden roar Arouses me. Ah ! supper must be near. Matches Swimming L. S. Herchmer. Page Nineteen