Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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25 First Seven (Rugby) With, tne Lompiiments of a. . Ljoopti Second Seven (Rugby) With the Compliments of Dodds Barber Shop

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24 INTER-HOUSE FOOTBALL REPORT This year ' s football competition was the cause of an unusual and vigorous determination to win. The spirited rivalry was due to exhaustive attempts to Instill greater house spirit in the boys, which efforts bore fruit. The bid for the championship was very well contested indeed and the decisive match between Darrell and Watlington exhibited some constructive and gentlemanly football with Darrell taking the honours with a penalty, clinching an extremely close game, 1 -0. Unfortunately, Butterfield and Saltus were handicapped in their lack of able footballers and lost 3 and 2 of their 3 games respectively, which, incidentally, is no indication of the great enthusiasm and fight which the two teams exhibited In all of their games. Darrell captured all 3 of their games and Watlington were successful in 2, their only loss being against Darrell. The football competition is always one in which good clean rivalry and sportsmanship is shown, and it is useful experience for junior league players to play against senior boys. J. R. SIGGINS, Sr. V. RUGBY FOOTBALL Getting off to a slower start than last year, due to a prolonged football season, two potential seven ' s were quickly formed and trained by Mr. Hunter and Mr. Farrow. This year positions in both teams had to be earned, consequently training sessions were more frequent and harder. It was soon found that we had more three quarters than forwards, and it was in the packs that our main weakness lay. A week before the actual seven a side Tournament, both sevens had been formed and were playing together smoothly, the three quarters were getting the ball out to the wing and the forward getting It back In the loose. Unfortunately the first seven didn ' t really hove strong enough opposition in practise games, and chaps were inclined to play out of position. All the same, by the time the big doy came both teams had a good idea of how rugby should be played. As usual Saltus A team has the unfortunate knack of picking the strongest opponents for the first round, in this case Kindley A , who beating us in the loose every time, never gave our very fast three quarters a chance to get moving. Had they done so, I feel the outcome would hav been different. The marking was bad but the tackling, although slow, was good, the forwards although vastly out-weighed put up a gallant fight, led by C. E. Campbell. The B team. Captained by A. D. Dodwell, were again beaten by a Kindley team, but as they did last year, showed surprising spirit and played a very keen, if somewhat wild, game of rugger. In conclusion, both sides deserve credit, everyone gave of their best, and with the young blood, which is now taking a keener interest in the game, combined with the experience of the older players, we should do well next season. C. K. MURDOCH-MUIRHEAD, Sr. V.

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26 SCIENCE EXHIBITION CHEMISTRY AND ELECTRICITY At the termination of Idjst yeor ' s Christmos term there was a display put on by the Science labs. In the Physics laboratory several superb exhibits were on show in most of the fields of pressure, electricity and light. On entering the laboratory one saw a demonstration by I. Campbell and D. Skinner showing the effects of atmosphere pressure on evacuated objects. Next to them D. Rogers was demonstrating the use of the expansion of metals by heating to make a fire alarm. As you passed on into the electricity section, P. Welch had exhibits indicating the magnetic effect of an electric current and Barlow ' s wheel showing the direction of a current carrying conductor in a magnetic field. While B. Davis demonstrated a simple electric motor at work. In his exhibits G. Pantry showed the function of the dynamo and the process of induction coils. In the light section the spectrum of ordinary white light and yellow sodium light was seen with a spectroscope. The Brownian movement showing the irregular motion of carbon particles under a microscope was also exhibited by E. Rose. The function of the photo cell and its amplification was demonstrated by G. Gibbons. R. Hawke showed the breaking down of air under high voltage and the passage of electrons through vacuum tubes. On the whole all the visitors who came around to see the experiments seemed pleased with the show. THE PHYSICS DISPLAY The Physics part of the Science display this year was carried over into the adjacent form room. Here a number of boys had displays arranged for the visitors. Pendulum characteristics and the displacement can method of volume measuring were exhibited by Mark Andrew; Archimedes Principle was demonstrated by Richard Ahern and Gregg Hamilton. Grant Gibbons arranged an experiment to find the efficiency of a bicycle. With the aid of different types of magnets, Mark Barritt and David Holgate showed the lines of force surrounding these. The final table was wholly dedicated to sound for which Geoffrey Frith and Bruce Barker had a number of experiments inc ' uding organ pipes, an oscilloscope and a short film on sound. M. D. KAY, Sr. IV.