Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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EASTERN ECHO Sl Riverdale-The two closest games of the schedule were against Riverdale. In the first game Commerce did everything but put the ball in the basket. Unfortunately, that is the objective of the game. Commerce had the greater part of the play but Riverdale had the greater number of points, with 16 to Commerce's 12. The return game was a thriller. Riverdale were leading S-1 at half- time but Lowe and Norman, with some fast work, scored 6 points each. What was the surprise of the Commerce team to have the Riverdale team score the winning basket in the last minute of play. VVhat a heartbreak! Final score, according to latest reports, was-Riverdale 14. Commerce 13. Northern Vocational-Commerce had a fairly good basketball team. Northern had a group of boys and Shack. Shack Qon his lonesomei scored 22 points. His grateful teammates helped the good cause along by contributing 4 points. Commerce put their best foot forward and gained 12 points. , With the watchword being Look out for Shack, Commerce began to show their real basketball ability by running Northern ragged. For the first time in the season the Commerce juniors were leading at half-time, the score being 13-6. In the second half Northern tightened up, Shack broke loose. and the game ended in a heart-breaking defeat for Commerce, 21-20. During the season several exhibition games were played, especially against the All-Star Commerce team. Of these games, the juniors won two and the seniors won one and lost one. INTERFORM BASKETBALL The second Interform Basketball Tournament is now under way. .-X new ruling has been made which forbids any player who plays for a school or outside team to play for his interform team. Thus the boys now playing are evenly matched and are gaining valuable experience which will help them out in the future years when they will try out for regular teams. The tournament, which was held by the Athletic Society last year, resulted in 3A winning the championship from 2A. The final score was 28 to 14. INTTERFORM BASEBALL The first real interform baseball championship games were held last spring. After various elimination games had been run off it was found that 2B had won the junior championship and 3A the senior. Accordingly, these two teams played off. The game resulted in a victory for ZB, who won with a score of 12-8. SOCCER The soccer was handled this year by Mr. L. Halpenny, who produced a junior and senior team. The juniors showed line football ability and lost only one game. The seniors, although they did not win any games, did well for they did not have any practices. The juniors played four games and the seniors three. Jarvis'-The junior team had an easy time with Jarvis. T-hey did not exert themselves and just played with their smaller opponents. After a dull game, the goals were counted up and Commerce were the winners, 6-0. The Jarvis Seniors had a very good team and they did not have much difficulty in beating Commerce 3-0. Although there were no goals scored in the first half, Jarvis had the best of the play and they deserved their win.

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80 EASTERN ECHO merce had played against the same team. Although it is sad to relate the final score was 43-18. Riverdale-Riverdale had what was supposed to be the best team in the group, but the undaunted Commerce team had a great desire to lower their banners. I For the first half Commerce had the superior team and were leading at half time. During the second half Riverdale recovered and began to put in the odd basket, at the same time holding the Commerce team scoreless. Final result-27-17 in favour of Riverdale. The return game was another thriller. Wfith Commerce leading and their supporters nearly hysterical, Riverdale girded up their loin-cloths and set to work to wipe out the lead. We wish that they did not have such grim determination down at good old Riverdale. The score, several hours after full time, was in favor of Riverdale-35-31. Northern Vocational-Usually tie scores in a game mean a thrilling finish and a game replete with good work. This was the exception. Commerce had a large advantage in the play but they seemed to have for- gotten where the basket was. A game fighting spirit tied up the score for Northern and it remained 30-30 until full time. The return game at Northern was full of thrills and it made up for the dull display given in their first game. Commerce gained an early lead but Northern'5 knowledge of their own floor gave them the advantage and after several thrilling plays the Northern team walked off the iioor victors by a score of 31-29. JUNIOR BASKETBALL The job to be done at the iirst of the basketball season was to find a coach for the junior team. Mr. Copp, a newcomer to the' school, offered his services and they were gratefully accepted. Although the team did not win any games they showed great promise and as most of them are eligible, for the junior team next year great things are expected of them. Mellway and Norman alternated at centre and guard, Lowe and Philip were the forwards and Chalykolf was the other guard. Williaiiison, Shea, Roe, Pomfret and Morlock were the alternate team. - Danforth Tech-The team opened their schedule against Dan- forth Tech. During the lirst half the play was even and Danforth were able to gain a lead of only 2 points. In the second half they ran amok, and although the Co-mmerce defence tried hard they could only keep the score down to 24-6. In the return game the Tech team again demonstrated their superiority by scoring a very much larger number of points than did the Commerce team. Commerce displayed great ability but their shooting was weak. The final score was 32-11. North Toronto-North Toronto ha-d the -biggest team in the league and Commerce had the smallest. Draw your own conclusions. North Toronto were beaten in the finals by only 2 points. Judging by the game they played against Commerce they should have won the Canadian championship. The score was 32-12. In the second game of the series, Commerce were outplayed in the first half, but in the second half they scored 12 points before North Toronto scored any. However, North Toronto buckled down to w-ork and made short work of putting the game on ice. The final score was 43-18.

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82 EASTERN ECHO Riverdale-Riverdale juniors had a small team but they were not lacking in football ability. Commerce took things easy at first but were lucky to force a tie with the score being 2-2. Riverdale seniors reached the finals. That is probably why they were good enought to take the Commerce team into camp, 5-1. Commerce tried hard but so did Riverdale. The game was a good one for the first half and then the Stenographers Wilted. ' Danforth Tech-Danforth Tech juniors had a good team and so did Eastern Commerce. But Commerce left their team at home and Dan- forth had no difficulty in winning from Commerce 3-O. The seniors also presented a substitute team and Tech seniors won by the same sc-ore as their juniors Cprinted abovej. The game was Tech's all the way through. Northern Vocational-lf a miracle had happened Commerce had a chance for the junior championship. It didn't happen but they beat Northern Vocational by a score of 8-1 to give them second place in the group. Both the Commerce seniors and the Vocational seniors being out of it, it was decided to save car tickets by calling the game off. Eastern Commerce has won the cup twice. So has Danforth Tech. If either one of these .teams wins the junior championship again they will hold it for good and all. It is up to any good junior football player to come out and play for the team next year and help Commerce keep the cup. TRACK AND FIELD The 27th day of May, 1931, being the day scheduled for our field day, it naturally had to rain. The school was given short periods so that we could have a large group of spectators to cheer the boys to victory and new records. I After the contestants had run and jumped for what seemed to be an champions declared: indeterminable length of time, the scores were counted up and the following Senior ........................... ........ J ack Smith Intermediate .................................................................................... Vic Gibson junior ............................................................................................. Stan Norman The section for boys under 15, which was introduced last year, was won by Brick. The new section for boys under 14 was won by B. Matthews. . During the course of the day four new records were set. E. Marinett toppled the old intermediate hop, step and jump mark. Ed. Roe broke the junior high jump record and Stan Norman made new marks in the junior hop, step and jump and the junior 440-yard run. The new set of records are on file and may be obtained by applying to the Athletic Commi-ttee. In the Toronto Championships held at Exhibition Park, jack Smith obtained two firsts in the 100 and ZOO-yard dashes for boys under 17. Stan Norman came third in the 440-yard dash for boys under 16. At the Toronto District championships jack Smith won the intermediate 100 and -came second in the 2ZO. At the Cntario district championships jack Smith was nosed out in the 100-yard dash by Bert Pearson, the present Canadian champion.