Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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12 competition was also close and excking, Butterfield House defeat- ing Watlington House, and Saltus House was in third place. There was much disappointment when it was announced that the B.S.S.A. were not going to hold their annual Inter-School competition. It is hoped that it will be revived again this year. H. J. H. Swimming Results GROUP A Diving, l(Pearman and Cooper V), 3(Trott and Trimingham.) 25 yds. Freestyle, 1 Gibbons III, 2 Peniston IV and Pearman II. Time, 20 1-5 sees. GROUP B Diving, 1 (Lancaster and Shanks), 3 (Gray and Pearman I.) 25 yds. Freestyle, 1 Lancaster, 2 Shanks, 3 Hutt 11. Time, 16 2-5 sees. GROUP C Diving, 1 Harrison, Smith 11 and Brewer. 50 yds. Freestyle, 1 Seymour, 2 Petty, 3 Harrison. Time 33 1-5 sees. (Record.) 50 yds. Breaststroke, 1 Brewer, 2 Petty, 3 Conyers II. Time, 44 1-5 sees. 25 yds. Backstroke, 1 Hutt I, 2 Seymour, 3 Adderley II Time, 18 4-5 sees GROUP D Diving, 1 King, 2 Spurling II, 3 Motyer II 50 yds. Freestyle, 1 King, 2 Spurling II, 3 Chiappa Time, 30 sees 50 yds. Breaststroke, 1 Chiappa, 2 Pantry I, 3 Motyer II. Ti e, 42 sees. 25 yds. Backstroke, 1 King, 2 Pantry I, 3 Spurling 11. Time, 16 3-5 sees. (Record.) GROUP E Diving, 1 Tucker I, 2 Anderson. 100 yds. Freestyle, 1 Spurling I, 2 Anderson, 3 Leseur I. Time, 62 2-5 sees. (Record.) 200 yds. Freestyle, 1 Spurling I, 2 Tucker I. Time, 158 2-5 sees.

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11 Long Jump, 1 Brewer, 2 Seymour, 3 Harrison. Distance High Jump, 1 Brewer, 2 Seymour, 3 Smith H. Height 4 ' 9 - Throwing Cricket Ball, 1 Brewer, 2 Bromby I, 3 Seymour. Distance 81 yards 0 ' 1 . GROUP A 100 yds, 1 Spuding I, 2 Spurling H, 3 Motyer I. Time 11 2-5 sees. 220 yds. 1 SpurHng I, 2 Spurling H, 3 Pantry I. Time 26 sees. 34 mile, 1 Spurling I, 2 Spurling H, 3 Motyer I. Time 59 3-5 sees. ■ } 2 mile, 1 SpurHng I, 2 Spurling H, 3 Motyer H. Time, 2 mins. 28 2-5 sees. 1 mile, 1 SpurHng I, 2 Younger, 3 Anderson. Time, 5 mins. 28 4-5 sees. 2 mile, 1 Younger, 2 Spurling H, 3 Spurling I. Time 12 mins. 6 3-5 sees. 120 yds. Hurdles, 1 Spurling I, 2 SpurHng H, 3 Motyer H. Time, 19 1-5 sees. Long Jump, 1 Spurling I, 2 Spurling H, 3 Browne. Distance 18 ' 4 ' ' . High Jump, 1 SpurHng I, 2 Browne, 3 SpurHng H. Height, 5 ' 43 -. Putting the Shot, 1 Spurling I, 2 Spurling H, 3 Anderson. Distance, 31 ' 0 . Throwing Cricket Ball, 1 Spurling H, 2 Beardsley, 3 Browne. Distance 89 yds 4 . Standing Long Jump, 1 Spurling I, 2 SpurHng H, 3 Hallam. Distance, 8 ' S% . Junior Inter-House Relay. 1 Darrell, 2 Saltus, 3 Butterfield. Time, 2 min. 12 1-10 sees. Senior Inter-House Relay, 1 Saltus, 2 Darrell, 3 Butterfield. Time, 1 min. 51 3-5 sees. School vs. Old Boys Relay, 1 Old Boys, 2 School. Time, 1 min. 42 1-5 sees. Swimming The Inter-House Swimming competition was held at the Langton pool on September 25th of last year. Some excellent races resulted and three new records were established. Competition was very keen in the senior group where Saltus House defeated Watlington House who had won this competition for the five pre- vious years and Butterfield House was placed third. The junior

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13 100 yds. Breaststroke, 1 Tucker I. Time, 1 min. 40 sees. 50 yds. Backstroke, 1 Spurling I, 2 Anderson. Time, 37 4-5 sees. Junior House Relay (100 yds. Freestyle), 1 Butterfield, 2 Darrell, 3 Watlington. Time, 63 4-5 sees. Senior House Relay (150 Medley), 1 Watlington, 2 Saltus, 3 Darreil. Time, 1 min. 50 3-5 sees. Boxing This year we tried an innovation in disposing of the prelimin- ary fights. In previous years it has been the custom to work them off after school for two or three weeks before the night of the finals, always a difficult and uncertain task, which interrupts the games and sports practice, and is interrupted by them; nor has it been easy to persuade competent judges to attend regularly over such a period. This latter difficulty has been more than doubled by the death during the year of Mr. Floyd, who has always taken the greatest interest in our boxing and given up hours of his time not merely to judging the fights, but to coaching the boxers also. So, to avoid this trouble and uncertainty, the various weight limits were published early in the term, but the preliminary fights did not take place until the Monday before the finals. On this day we disrupted school from nine o ' clock onwards and disposed of all the fights in one day, sending for competitors as they were required, and returning the battered remains afterwards. For the prehmin- aries the officials were as follows: the referee was Lieut. D. J. Wil- liams, B.V.R.C., O.S., and the judges Lieut. L. Smith of the Pic- tou Highlanders and P.c. M. HilHer. These gentlemen spent a very arduous day deciding something over forty fights and our heartiest thanks are most certainly due to them. This system, apart from being fairer, in that a boxer is weighed a few hours only before he has to fight, is also productive of better boxing. There is little enough opportunity at best to give any useful amount of tuition in the school, but, under the old system, if a boxer was beaten in his first fight early in the term, he probably fought only the once during the year; for there was no incentive to go on practising when once he was out of the competition. Now, on the other hand, there is ample opportunity for practice before the first fight takes place. The standard of boxing showed the effects of this, and one or two boys who had been persuaded to enter the competition only with the greatest difficulty did sur- prisingly well. There was still a tendency for those with little experience to enter the ring convinced beforehand that they were going to be beaten, and at least one fight was definitely lost for this