Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « CRICKET THE 1934 cricket season, from the viewpoint of the School in general, was quite successful. The weather favoured us, and the desire to secure a real Shawnigan sun tan induced many to take up the game with added enthusiasm. There is plenty of useful material coming on for future years, but at present we still suffer rather badly from cross bat enthusiasts, some, it is true, with an amazingly g ood eye, but none of whom can really be relied upon to score twice in successive innings. The standard of bowling in the School is rather higher than that of the batting, though even here there is often a tendency to forget the value of a good length and to sacrifice everything for speed in practice. The fielding has been well up to the usual high standard, all of it being very keen and some of it really brilliant. The first eleven played six matches, of which one was won, four lost and one drawn. The team, as is so often the case in school cricket, was inclined to have days on and days off. The season opened with a very good victory over Cowichan C. C. and ended with an inglorious defeat at the hands of University School. All the other matches, with the exception of the Staff Match, were very good and evenly contested games. The side as a whole had quite a lot of cricket in it, and acquitted itself creditably except on the occasions when it suffered from an attack of nerves. SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL VS. COWICHAN C. C. Shawnigan Lake School beat Cowichan C. C. at Duncan on Saturday, May 12th, by one wicket. For Cowichan, Leggatt was the most successful batsman with 3 5, and Baiss scored 23 before he had to retire. For Shawnigan, Hum- phreys took 3 wickets for 8, and Bird 3 wickets for 18. Batting for Shawnigan Lake School, Bird batted very well for 32, Campbell II making 16 and Daw- son 14. For Cowichan, Green took 3 wickets for 29, Rhodes 3 wickets for 41, and Maclaughlin 2 wickets for 14. Scores: Cowichan C. C. Shawnigfan Lake School T. Maclaughlin, b Mackie II 3 Humphreys, ct Leggatt, b Green 7 F. Considine, b Mackie II 2 Mainguy, b Rhodes 2 G. Baiss, retired.... - - 23 Dawson, b Rhodes... 14 L. Maclaughlin, ct Bird, b Newton.... 3 Mackie I, run out 9 A. E. Leggatt, ct Newton, b Bird 35 Bird, b Green 32 H. A. Rhodes, b Humphreys 3 Niven I, c and b Rhodes 4 A. B. Slee, b Bird 1 Reed, b Maclaughlin 2 A. Downey, b Humphreys.... Newton, b Maclaughlin D. V. Dunlop. ct Campbell II, b Campbell II, not out 16 Humphreys 2 Torland, b Green 7 A. Green, lbw Bird..... 5 Mackie II, not out Col. D.-Heppenstall, not out 1 Extras 9 Total 87 Total 93 21

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Kidd scored between the posts. The kick failed. Shawnigan then opened the attack, but were soon in defense again. Tryon relieved the tension for a while with a fine run; but failed to score. Shawnigan then started the offensive and the first half ended with Tryon almost over. The second half was much the same as the first. Bush scored for Brentwood, the kick again failing. Then Shawnigan took up the offensive. For the rest of the game both teams were alternately attacking and defending. The final whistle came, leaving Brentwood the winners of a very even and hard-fought game, by six points to nil. Niven i, as fullback, played a good game for Shawni- gan, kicking accurately and tackling well. He was well backed up by the rest of the team. The Shawnigan team was: J. G. Niven, D. W. Burchard, J. F. Moore, A. R. Smith, R. B. Yuill, T. C. Tryon (Captain), D. Newton, H. G. Niven, R. L. Lake, I. Davis, D. P. Oakes, F. J. Mcintosh, J. H. Budd, J. A. Davis, and J. C. Smith. PROGRESS While eating dinner one evening at a country inn, I heard a heated argu- ment taking place on modern civilization. Three burly working men were aggressively upholding it and they were forcing all their statements down the throat of a small, unfortunate clerk, whose arguments against it must have been particularly feeble, as each of his remarks met with derisive laughter. Eventually the clerk rose to go and his departure was attended by a fresh outburst of laughter from his three opponents. I saw the poor man blush and make a feeble pretence at a smile as though trying to cloak his feelings of resentment. Two minutes later I heard a cry in the road outside the door. Running out into the street, I saw the clerk lying in a pool of blood. It appeared that he had been hit by a careless driver who had driven on in a desperate attempt to evade his just deserts. I could not help feeling that the clerk had provided the most striking argument I had yet seen against modern civilization. THE STEAM PLANT (With apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson) The black soot falls on white school walls And grey-green rooftops now turned nigger; The smoke clouds break above the lake, And the hated engine puffs with vigour. Belch, smoke stack, belch, set your dark mantle floating, Belch, smoke stack: answer, Hawksford, gloating, gloating, gloating. O hark, O hear! how loud and near The puffing engine always going! O thick and foul on sheet and towel The soot from power house densely blowing! Chuff, let us hear the doughty engine chuffing: Belch, smoke stack: chug engine, puffing, puffing, puffing. 20

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL VS. THE STAFF The Shawnigan Lake School Staff beat the School on Wednesday, May 23 rd, at Shawnigan. Scores: Shaw nig- an Lake School Humphreys, c and b Lonsdale Maing-uy, c Barrett, b Levien 12 10 1 Dawson, b Twite. Mackie I, b Levien. Bird, b Levien 11 Niven I, b Palin Reed, b Palin Newton, b Levien Campbell II, b Palin. Torland, b Levien Mackie II, not out Extras 13 Total 57 The Staff D. C. Ellis, b Bird 19 C. W. Twite, run out 21 M. C. Ellis, b Humphreys 41 D. V. Palin, b Newton A. F. Trotman, st Torland, b Newton 1 R. G. Humphreys, ct Torland, b Mackie I--.. 7 Capt. E. D. W. Levien, b Bird 9 C. W. Lonsdale, not out 17 A. P. Musgrave, lbw Bird H. Barrett, c Humphreys, b Bird 5 B. Frend, not out 2 Extras 15 Total 137 SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL VS. COWICHAN C. C. Shawnigan Lake School drew with Cowichan C. C. at Shawnigan on Satur- day, May 26th. Shawnigan batted first and scored 105. Humphreys with 1st CRICKET ELEVEN 1934 Back Row: J. C. Campbell, G. F. Mackie, J. R. Maybee, J. G. Niven. Second Row: J. S. Humphreys, J. I. Bird, J. F. Mackie (Captain), G. W. Reed, D. A. Dawson. Front Row: J. P. Torland, D. Newton. 22