Malvern Collegiate Institute - Muse Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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THE MUSE 'F s 1-,LT tai: 'Nt ATX T' 4 ' sn A is A -5 'Q at Ar A s ' h 9 A xfk as Honorary President ...... ............. . lack Guest President .................... ..... X Villiam Stewart Vice-President ............. ................ .... J o hn Pond Secretary-Treasurer ..... ...... D onald Walkinshaw Coach .,.......................... ................. 3 lr. Blakeley N SPITE of the fact that rowing is, with regard to the school term, a post-seasonal sport, the machines in the armouries work at fever pitch all through the year. For spring training the crews go to the Argo- naut Rowing Club, where their racing boats ere kept and where conditions are favour- able for training on the water. The popular idea of rowing seems to be that a strong man steps into a boat, splashes his oar into the water and pulls--the strong- est man winning the race. This is, of course. erroneous. While muscle is necessary. it is secondary in importance to good form. It is very possible, for instance. for the weakest contestant in a race to win. He may get ' more distance with each stroke and with less HILL STEWART 9X9l'tl0Y1- An analysis of one stroke will serve to illustrate the perfect co-ordination between mind and muscle necessary to good form. ill The knees and back are fully bent. arms outstretched. oar turned with the blade perpendicular to the water. 121 The back is straight- ened with knees still bent. 435 This position is held while knees straighten and the seat moves along the slide. I-lj The back moves backward. 451 The arms are bent. 461 The oar is turned to a hori- zontal position. Each movement is duplicated in reverse order to come forward: the less splash the better the stroke. In the beginner. each movement is separate. In the nrnwnurn, the nmrf'n1enz'.w sgnfcfzro- nite in fl snmoflz stroke. All through the year the teams work for form and condition for the two possible races, viz.. Dominion Day Regatta at Toronto and I '39 l

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TH E .11 U S E g DO YOU KNOW THAT- -Malvern's outstanding Flying Wing of all time was one Gordon ltlinkl Duke 11911-191-ll. Gord was one of Canada's first airmen and was killed while flying in England '? -In the early days our rugby squads boasted of such stars as Howie Orr, Cecil Annis. Sandy Pearce, Morris Hughes, Dick Kidd. Mac Muirhead lyes, a brotherl, Frank Commins, Eric Lickley. and How Hamlin 'F These compare with the best of the pre- sent crop. -Malvern won the Junior High School title for the first time in 1923. with only four substitutes, and defeated Oakwood to the tune of 19-11? -Malvern repeated in the Junior in 1924? -This 1924 team has been rated as the best junior team to date '? It included such stars as Yip Foster llater with Balmy Beach and Boston Bruinsl, Red Moore tof Balmy Beach and M.A.A.A. farnel, Claude Harris lof Balmy Beach, now starring with Marlborosl , lDr.l Johnny Stewart tlater outstanding flying wing with Varsityl, Freddie Rose and Hatton Taylor, to mention just a few. -This team scored 152 points in four games: was never scored against and won the final 25-0? -This team defeated Varsity III team lJunior Intercollegiatel by the score of 8-O in a half-hour game on Varsity campus and won going away '? -Malvern Rowing Club was organized in 1922 and had as its first Henley crew Hilbert Mason fstixl, Tom Ivens 135, Johnny Stewart 121, Harold Kirke fbowl '? -Malvern oarsmen have won five Dominion High School Champ- ionships in the fours and two in the eigbts. They have won seven Dominion Day Regatta titles and have raced a dead heat? -Malvern has defeated on the water Upper Canada College, Hamilton Collegiate, Hamilton Tech., St. Catharines C. I., Ottawa Glebe C. I., Brockville C. I., Parkdale C. I., Buffalo H. S. and Lafayette lBuffaloJ H.S.'? Malvern has not lost a race since 1922. -The boats used cost 25550.00 and the money was raised through the efforts of the Malvern Merry Minstrels? -We won our only hockey title in 1924, defeating Humberside 1-0? -Jack Guest, winner of the Diamond Sculls, is Hon. President of the Rowing Club ? -Seven members of the Balmy Beach Rugby Team, Dominion Champions for 1930, were ex-Malvern players? -Malvern gymnasium teams were for years among the best in the province, and fstrange to sayl were first organized in 1915 by Mr. I.. II. Clarke? ' -A. W. B. lsixj

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THE MUSE Canadian Henley at St. Catharines. The crews are sent to St. Cath- arines for about a week. where they go through mild work-outs and then make use of the year's training. At this meet they mix with the cream of sportsmen. Malvern. more often than not, takes iirst place. It is a school habit. The boys work in the knowledge that, owing to the season, the glory of their win with the black- and red-tipped blades will fade before the next school term. Yet sufficient unto rowing is the sport thereof. -W. D. STEWART. Punk How-HALPI11 Pirris, llox XVALKINSHAVV, JACK MCEACHERN, BRUCE lllL'C1lRHIl.l.. Ton WEs1'1,,fxkE, A. BLAKI-:1,m'. F,-om Ii:-iw-gA. Fisum, W. Srnymnr, R. Mormon, A. W1ckENs, J. POND. E701 -..l