Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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24 GROUP C 50 Yards Freestyle. — 1 Martin, 2 Lancaster, 3 Lewis. Time: 34.4 sees. 50 Yards Breaststroke. — 1 Nelson, 2 Martin, 3 Lancaster. Time: 40.4 sees. 25 Yards Backstroke. — 1 Martin, 2 Critchley, 3 Lancaster. Time: 19 sees. Diving. — 1 Nelson, 2 R. Cooper, 3 Pantry and Critchley. GROUP D 50 Yards Freestyle. — 1 Seymour and Petty, 2 Harrison. Time: 29 sees. 50 Yards Breaststroke. — 1 Petty, 2 Vivian, 3 Harrison. Time: 40.4 sees. 25 Yards Backstroke. — 1 Seymour, 2 Vivian, 3 Wyatt. Time: 16.4 sees. Diving. — 1 Harrison, 2 Smith, 3 Bray. GROUP E 100 yards Freestyle.— 1 McBeath, 2 Woollard, 3 Robinson. Time: 79.3 sees. 100 yards Breaststroke. — 1 Wool- lard, 2 McBeath, 3 Hallam. Time: 99 sees. 200 yards Freestyle. — 1 Robinson, 2 Terceira, 3 Hallam. Time: 4.07. 50 yards Backstroke. — 1 McBeath, 2 Terceira, 3 Robinson. Diving. — 1 Terceira and Hallam, 3 Woollard. Junior 100 yards Freestyle Relay. — 1 Darrell (Lancaster, Lewis, Cox and Critchley), 2 Butterfield (Martin, R. Cooper, Astwood and N. Cooper), 3 Watlington (Pantry, Hordern, Shanks and G. Nelson). Time: 1.06. (New Record.) Senior 150 yards Medley Relay. — 1 Butterfield (Seymour, Petty and Harrison), 2, Saltus (Smith, Vivian and Gosling), 3 Darrell (Hallam, Woollard and Terceira). Time: 1.49.2. Senior House Shield: 1 Butterfield, 39 points; 2 Darrell, 33 points; 3 Saltus, 10 points. Junior House Shield. — 1 Butterfield, 25 points; 2 Darrell, 243 points; 3 Watlington, 20) points. Tennis The Saltus Tennis Season of 1945 was limited to two sessions. First, the Inter-House Competition was played in March during the last week of the Easter Term. Each House was represented by a team of three singles players and two doubles combinations.

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23 the Senior Shield Competition, Butterfield won with a total of 39 points, but not without some close competition from Darrell House, who collected all of 33 points. These two houses had the Senior meet fairly much to themselves since Saltus House, placing third, had but 10 points. In the Junior Competition, the meet was ex- tremely close. Not until the final race was completed did Butter- field House realize that it had nosed out Darrell by a score of 25 points to Darrell ' s 243 . Watlington was not far behind with 203 2 points. In the course of the meet, three records were broken. H. Lancaster set a new record for the Group C 50 Yards Freestyle covering the distance in 31.8 seconds. Also in Group C, G. Nelson lowered the time for the 50 Yards Breast-stroke from 41 seconds to 39.8. Finally, the Darrell House Junior 100 Yard Freestyle Relay team of H. Lancaster, C. Lewis, M. Cox and T. Critchley set a new record time for the event of 60 seconds flat. During this term, the boys have the opportunity to use the Princess Swimming Club ' s Pool on Mondays and Fridays. During June we hold the competition for the four Pentathlon Shields for individual swimmers. These shields were presented by the Saltus Old Boys Association in 1936. The events and standards of the competition were drawn up by Mr. Jack King, O.S., and Swimming Coach Bill Brooks. This Spring swimming plan encourages the boys to get an early start in the season so that by the time that the S.G.S. and Inter-School swimming sports are held (i.e. late Sept.) they will have had some four or five months ' practice and training. H. C. E. M. Swimming Competition GROUP A 25 Yards Freestyle. — 1 Stone, 2 Trimingham, 3 Nelson iii. Time: 19 sees. Diving. — 1 Nelson iii, 2 Jacobs and Stone. GROUP B 25 Yards Freestyle. — 1 Allington, 2 N. Cooper, 3 Gibbons. Time: 16.4 sees. Diving. — 1 Ryan, 2 Whitney and Barnes.

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25 In the play-offs, Saltus House defeated Watlington, while Darrell defeated Butterfield. The finals saw Saltus capture the House Shield from Darrell, the winner of last year ' s competition. Many of these matches proved most interesting, particularly in the final match in which Robinson managed to outlast Eve. Due to the generosity of Sir Howard Trott, we were able to play the finals on the Princess Hotel Tennis Courts. At the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Stadium on a Saturday morning late in April, Messrs. Rogers and Kerry, accompanied by a few of the boys, witnessed the defeat of the School Team by the more experienced Staff. The School Captain of Tennis, Gosling, was defeated by Mr. Masters. Mr. Hallett ' s serve put Eve back on his heels. Mr. Gascoigne ' ' supermoused his way to victory over Seymour. Miss Smith proved for Skinner that tennis and football were quite unalike. Mrs. Trott talked Terceira out of any idea of victory on his part. Finally, the Headmaster, feeling that the boys were becoming quite demoralized, decided to sacrifice himself at the hands of Smith 2. The Staff won two of their doubles matches but dropped the third when Smith 2 and Terceira defeated Miss Smith and the Headmaster. During this very pleasant affair all players were kept fresh by refreshments very generously sup- plied by the Headmaster. H. C. E. M. Gymnastics At present the Saltus Grammar School has an enormous gymnasium! Where? Why, the Games Field, of course! The activities of the gym classes extend beyond those that could be held in a gymnasium, and, in fact, include very few of those that would be held in such a building. Last Fall and up to the time of the Boxing Competition a major part of the time in gym classes was taken up by boxing instruction and training. The improvement shown in the actual Boxing Competition especially among the smaller boys showed that we can do something while we are waiting for our future gymnasium. Since the boxing, the activities have been confined mainly to work on the ' ' horse on the field or on the suspended rope in the Assembly Hall. The boys have shown great physical and co-ordinative improvement in their work with the above apparatus. For instance, about ninety-seven per cent of school can climb the rope with the use of both their arms and legs, while about fifty per cent can do it with the use of their arms alone. All in all, we are trying to make the best of what we have on hand, but are surely looking forward to the day when the proposed Saltus Old Boys ' Memorial Gymnasium may be officially opened. H. C. E. M.