Port Perry High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Port Perry, Ontario Canada)

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l l Back Row-Dan James, Ken Hallett, Charles Bailey, John Hewitt, Bob Gibson. Front Row-Bud Warriner, Melvin Dittrick, Jack Owen, Sinclair Robertson. -. INTRAMURAL BOYS SPORTS As our boys intramural athletics is but one phase of a most varied and interesting extracurricular activity programme, time nor the availability of the boys failed to permit for, what we had hoped'for a banner year in intramural sports. However next year the situation will be slightly relieved with a ' G separate gymnasium and auditorium being available and with storage equipment for the apparatus and table tennis making for t a happier set-up. Q A c i G GYMNAQSTICS y The first interform gymnastic meet in our school's history turned out to be one of the highlights of our intramural sports programme as boys from six grades competed with teacherls acting as judges. While most of the applause was gained by Grade ll, Grade l2 and especially Special Commercial and Grade l3 fthe latter two combining because of limited nos.l, the finflly tally saw Grade QB winning, with Grade QA placing second, followed by Special Commercial and l3 and l2 and ll respectively. ,The members of the championship intramural gymnastic team for P.P.H.S. for l952-I3 were Bob Gray, Jack Dowson, Floyd James, Clive Boyd, Dave Jackson and Jim Aird. The best performers in this meet were selected to participate in an hour gymnastic display for open house

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All our players enjoyed themselves in this tournament, QUEEN'S BKSKETBALL TOURNAMENT Gary Lawrence Each year, Queen's University at Kingston sponsors an invation basketball tournament for High Schools of HAH, HBH, and WCW classifactions. WAN classifaction includes schools which have an enrollment of more than 25O boys, HBH those which have fewer than 250 and WCW those which have fewer than 175. - Because of its fine record, our school this year was asked to enter a team in the WCW section.4 Ten players, the manager and the coach went to the tournament which lasted three days. The schedule included 38 games and was under the direction of A. L. Lenard of Queen's University staff. In its first game Port Perry faced strong opposition from Renfrew High School. In the hard fought game, Port Perry came from behind in the last dying seconds to gain a tie with a basket by Norm Haugen. ln a sudden-death overtime period, both teams had a chance to score but Bud Warriner sank the second of a Hone and onew foul shot to give Port Perry the game by a 29 to 28 overtime score. The second game which came at eight o'clock the next morning saw a sleepy Port Perry team beaten hh to 35 by a very much underated team from Deep River, a school of 3l boys. The next opposition was a highly rated Prescott team which bowed Ll to l8 to our fast breaking P.P.H. squad. This left Port Perry in the semi-finals against none other than Renfrew. This time a bitterly fought battle saw first one team and then the other take the lead, until in the last quarter Renfrew began to pull away. With two minutes remaining, Port was six points behind. Two baskets by Owen and Dobson and a foul shot by Haugen put P.P.H.S. within one point ofla tie. With eighteen seconds left, Earle Dobson gained a jump in the Renfrew key. He tipped to Warriner who used Owen as a screen. Warriner's set-shot went in. The final score was 3h to 33 for Port Perry. This game finished at ten minutes to six. At seven o'clock a tired team entered the final against Perth, who had not played since eight A.M. Port Perry kept the score close and at times held a small lead, until the last quarter when the Perth team gained a L2 to 3O Victory from a tired P.P.H.S. squad. The champions finished with four wins and no losses against a record of three wins and two losses for the runner-up, Port Perry. winner of the WAN series was the Niagara Falls team. Albert College won the HBH title. The including the late arrival who slept on C.N.R. station,the first night, and the found practising his renowned hook-shot morning without the oenifit of lights. a wooden bench in the early riser who was at four o'clock one We hope that next year the WC' school trophy will find its way to our Port Perry trophy room. We could manage to accomodate it!

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LSA-5l'N.Jii'l'IISHLL A most enthusiastic group of some 3O P.P.H.S. youngsters played junior league intramural basketball with Jack Owen, Garnet Palmer, Sinclair Robertson and George Cochrane acting as captains. With each team playing two games each week for about six weeks, the final standing prior to the play-offs was l. Owen's, 2.Lawrence's 3, Cochrane's. 4. Robertson's. In were Owen's beat Robertson's 39-19 28-ll in the semi-final games. In the junior play-offs the results and Lawrence's beat Cochrnae's the final play-off tussle, Owen's team earned the honour of Junior Intramural champs for l952-53 by decisioning LawrenceYs quintet by a count of junior cage champs were Jack Owen Ccaptainl, James, Bob Gibson, Gary Tummonds. A very fine intergrade playoff was also with Grade ll beating Grade l2 by a tally of tussle and then the Grade elevener's went on 2l-l3. Members of this Dave Jackson, Floyd held in basketball 15-8 in a semi final to edge Grade l3 and Special Commercial in a real thriller by a 26-23 margin. Members of the Grade ll Intergrade Basketball champs for l952-53 are Jack Owen Ccaptainb, Bob Gibson, John Hewitt, Charlie Bailey, Sinclair Robertson Bud Warriner and Melvin Dittrick. VOLLEYBALL The top intergrade athletic competition within the school as far as the boys were concerned was in volleyball with teams from Grades lO, ll, l2 and l3 with Special Commerciali Grade l2 edged l3 and Sp. Comm. l5-l3 in a real hair-raiser, in the finals the lead see-sawed between Grade ll and Grade l2 throughout the contest but with the score knotted at l9 to give the boys who won the interirade basketball title ancther laurel in their athletic achieve- ments for the year. 3 INTYAHURAL GYMNA STIC AWARDS . fy, A After considerable discussion a combined boys ani girls athletic athletic awards in phases in which to appear as minature forms of the and planning it was passed at meeting to provide intramural students excelled, 'These were , game for which they were awarded and hence were entirely different than school bars. ,The athletic socities were rather lax in letting this important item of business lay unattended and it is hoped it will be carried out early next year. This plan of giving intramural athletic award recognition has proven successful in all the schools in which it has been used with Pickering H.S. being one of the most recent to install its practice, I soFTBALL, 3 N A complete intergrade softball tournament is being planned.for noonhours following our cadet inspection but the results will not be available for this year's Year Book. 'At present it appears Grade lZ and Grade.llgwill meet in the finals and an excellent series is V. p anticipatedfw f. G. . fi ' A sG4R.A.D.E-Q , 1 , - J A Individual play-offs 9A and B with the honours basketball game ending in a tie. . , - f 1 , were held in various games between Grades being fairly well distributed, and the