Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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19 High Jump— 1 B. P. Seymour, 2 D. S. R. Smith. Height : 5 ft. lYi ins. GROUP E.— Boys over 15 Years (Continued) Standing Long Jump. — 1 B. P. Seymour, 2 C. R. Diel. Dis- tance: 8 ft. X Yi ins. Putting the Shot. — 1 R. H. Petty, 2 B. P. Seymour. Distance: 28 ft. 11 ins. Throwing the JaveHn. — 1 C. R. Diel, 2 B. P. Seymour. Dis- tance: 90 ft. 6 ins. 50 Yard Dash, Old Boys under 30.— 1 H. C. E. Masters, 2 2, P. N. Spurling. Time: 6 1 5 sees. 50 Yard Dash, Old Boys over 30.— 1 H. M. Cooper, 2 S. Gascoigne. Time: 6 2 5 sees. Standing Long Jump, Old Boys.— 1 P. N. Spurling, 2 H. C. E. Masters. Distance: 8 ft. 9 ins. Sack Race. — 1 R. Sayers, 2 J. F. Vivian. Senior Inter House Relay. — 1 Watlington, 2 Darrell. Time: 1 min. 50 sees. (New School record.) School vs. Old Boys. — 1 Old Boys. Time: 1 min. 41 3 5 sees. (New School record.) Junior Inter House Relay. — 1 Butterfield and WatUngton, 2 Saltus and Darrell. Time: 2 mins. 10 4 5 sees. (New School record.) Boot Race: 1 T. K. Shanks, 2 W. B. Gray. Senior House results. — 1 Butterfield, 2 Watlington and Dar- rell. Junior House results. — 1 Darrell, 2 Watlington. Senior Point Cup. — D. Harrison. Junior Point Cup. — G. S. Nelson. Captain of Athletics. — D. H. Harrison. a Role in the B. S. A. Athletic Sports This year the School turned in a very fine performance in the Inter-School Sports. We won no less than nineteen event Trophies and four Group Cups. In the first four groups we took all but two events, making a clean sweep of Groups B and D. The school set seven new records through the efforts of Martin, who increased the Group C Long Jump distance to 16 ft. 5 ins. and won the 220 Yards in the record time of 27.4 seconds; Harrison, who lowered his own Group D Half Mile record time of last year to 2 mins. 15.4 sees.; Skinner, who brought the Group D 220 Yards time down to 25.6 seconds; Minugh 1, whose time for the 75 Yards in Group B

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18 Long Jump. — 1 R. G. Doe, 2 T. B. Oatham. Distance: 12 ft. 9 ins. High Jump.— 1 N. B. Dill, 2 H. C. Anfossi. Height: 3 ft ll} 2 ins. 100 Yards Dash.— 1 T. B. Oatham, 2 E. L. Minugh. Time: 14 1 5 sees. 220 Yards Dash.— 1 N. B. Butterfield, 2 T. M. Collis. Time: 32 sees. Quarter Mile.— 1 J. C. Astwood, 2 T. M. Collis. Time: I min. 9 3 5 sees. (New Sehool reeord.) GROUP D.— Boys 13 years to 15 years One Mile Road Raee.— 1 E. A. Hutt, 2 R. Sayers. Time: 5 mins. 48 3 5 sees. Half-mile.— 1 E. A. Hutt, 2 J. T. Fall. Time: 2 mins. 38 3 5 sees. Quarter Mile.— 1 C. F. Martin, 2 J. T. Fall. Time: 1 min. 4 4 5 sees. (New Sehool reeord.) 220 Yards.— 1 G. S. Nelson, 2 R. Sayers. Time: 271 sees. 100 Yards Dash.— 1 G. S. Nelson, 2 C. F. Martin. Time: 113 5 sees. (New Sehool reeord.) Long Jump. — 1 C. F. Martin, 2 D. A. GosHng and J. T. Critehley. Distance: 16 ft. 6 ins. High Jump. — 1 D. A. Fisher, 2 J. T. Critehley. Height: 4 ft. 7 ins. 120 Yards Hurdles.— 1 G. S. Nelson, 2 J. T. Critehley. Time: 20 2 5 sees. (Equals Sehool reeord.) GROUP E.— Boys over 15 Years Two Mile Road Raee.— 1 D. H. Harrison, 2 G. H. Leseur. Time: 11 mins. 32 3 5 sees. One Mile. — 1 D. H. Harrison, 2 G. H. Leseur. Time: 5 mins. 113 5 sees. (New Sehool reeord.) Half-mile. — 1 D. H. Harrison, 2 G. H. Leseur. Time: 2 mins. 15 3 5 sees. (New Sehool reeord.) One-quarter Mile. — 1 D. H. Harrison, 2 C. E. Woollard. Time: 59J sees. 220 Yards.— 1 D. M. Skinner, 2 C. E. Woollard. Time: 25 3 5 sees. 100 Yards Dash.— 1 D. M. Skinner, 2 C. E. Woollard. Time: II 2 5 sees. 120 Yard Hurdles.— 1 C. E. Woollard, 2 C. R. Diel. Time: 19 sees. (New Sehool reeord.) Long Jump. — 1 D. H. Harrison, 2 C. E. Woollard. Distance: 18 ft.

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20 was 10.4 seconds; the Group B Relay team of Doe, Minugh 1, Ford, and Nelson 3, whose time of M)A seconds was a record; and the Group D Relay team of Harrison, Skinner, Nelson 1, anrl F all, which made a record time over 440 yards of 50.6 seconds. Other individual winners were Lawton, Marshman 2, Doe, Gox, Critchley, Smith 1, and WooUard 1, the last-mentioned being the lone Group E victor, who captured the 440 Yards. Considering that they were competing with eight other schools, the School did do a very credit- able job! H. C. E. M. Boxing The annual competition for the Cox Shield took place on Fri- day, March 9th. His Excellency the Governor, who presented the shield to Skinner on behalf of Watlington, the winning House, is a Steward of Appeal of the British Boxing Board of Control, and consequently a spectator whose criticism and appreciation are both to be valued. In his speech after the fights His Excellency stressed the value in after life of learning to keep one ' s temper while fighting hard, and added that Boxing was one of the oldest and most British of all sports and that it was very satisfying to see that it was being kept up in the finest spirit. There were no bad fights, he said. Saitus boxers should take that to heart. The standard of boxing here has been praised in the last few years by a number of people who know what they are talking about, and it is a tradition to be proud of, certainly, but, even more, to do one ' s best to maintain, especially at a time when there is the temptation to imitate more showy and flashy methods, which may excite the applause of those spectators who know little of the game, but would have little value in a real scrap. Much of the praise for the high standard of the performances this year must be given to Mr. Masters. During the winter he regularly gave instruction in boxing in gym periods. For the last week or two before the competition a practice ring was set up on the field, and in future this can go up much earlier. Thus we shall no longer pray every morning for a month in the presence of the ring. At last, through the generosity of the Saitus Old Boys Associa- tion and the energy of Mr. Gascoigne and a number of devoted labourers from among the boys, my dream of recent years has come true. The ring was on the stage. I rather doubt whether Mr. Cjascoigne knew, when he started, the labour required. The stage slopes down to the front and is not deep enough to accommodate a ring within its own limits. This necessitated the construction of an eighteen foot square of flooring, which projected some six feet in front of the stage and had to be raised at least a foot above it. We were afraid at first that something might collapse during the