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

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unimaginative. Each House finished by forming a Pyramid, the only one of any consequence being that built up by Lake ' s House. Loughary is to be con- gratulated on obtaining the highest individual marks, closely followed by Alan Parke, McKay I and Green in that order. Parkinson was the best Junior, with Bellm II and McAlpine I next in order. PHYSICAL TRAINING DISPLAY — May 28 th, 1949 The Physical Training Display was held in the afternoon, after the Cadet Corps Inspection. The weather was rather ominous looking, with many rain clouds hovering too near for comfort. There were three classes on display, Junior, Intermediate and Senior. The Junior class with Coates as leader, took the field first to perform a group of eight exercises to run concurrently with only the briefest pause between each exercise. The boys were obviously very nervous, but managed to overcome this in a commendable manner and they gave a good performance. Their errors were not too noticeable and, compared to some of the bizarre and uncoordinated efforts made in practices, were remarkably few. It was a pleasant surprise. This class was followed by the Intermediates under the leadership of David Bellm. Their group of exercises was more advanced although they took no longer to do. Quite naturally this class was smarter than their younger pre- decessors and did its exercises with good effect, except for a slight difference of opinion as to the timing at the beginning and a rather careless error at the very end. The Senior Class now came onto the scene and took up their positions with better dressing than either of the two classes that had gone before The exercises that followed were performed smartly and, it would appear to the lay observer, correctly. However, to the Hyde-Lay observer, there were one or two positional errors that lowered what would have been a very good performance to just a good one. Alan Parke, who led this class, must be congratulated on his smart- ness and his excellent positions on all movements of each exercise. The Box Horse and Tumbling Squad were now on display. This squad consisted of Green, Johnson, Loughary, Parke 2, Cowell, Edgett, Maclnnes I and McKay I. As soon as they started, the weather, which had hitherto done its best, broke, and it started to rain softly at firs: but ever increasing. This ruined the Box Horse work as the spring board became slippery and dangerous to use; so it was cut short and the boys turned to their Tumbling exercises. However, they seemed to have lost their zip, and while they performed ade- quately, each one individually was disappointed with his own showing. How- ever, Johnson did a fine swallow dive over the Horse and followed this up by doing his somersault over, so perhaps it is an ill wind that does not blow some- body some good. On reflection, one might say that the Display was a success and as good as one thought it would be, but not quite so good as one hoped it might be. Track and Field 1948 The Annual Track and Field Competitions were held on two afternoons near the end of the Summer Term. As usual, the events were run off on an School Magazine Page 27

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of our best players were not playing. Patrick, who scored 16 points, was the top scorer on the floor. The second match was played at the School on February 9th. It was a very different story; we had our full team and, consequently, we beat them 43-13. The team played surprisingly well and Patrick, Johnson and Green marked their men with considerable skill. The top scorers were Johnson and Patrick, both of whom sunk 15 points. Our Colts team played their Intermediates on the same night. As a result of the efforts of Wilson I and Goodenough, who were both in a class by themselves, we won 3 8-0. Wilson scored 18 points and Goodenough 14 points. The Inter-House basketball was not very close since five of the first six players in the School were in Groves ' House. However, there was an upset in the first round when Ripley ' s beat Lake ' s 24-16. Lake ' s had a better team but Ripley ' s fought doggedly and managed to win. In the final, Groves ' beat Ripley ' s with considerable ease by a score of 54-14. Physical Training and Gymnastics 1948 This year ' s activities culminated in a display held after the Annual Cadet Corps Inspection. It commenced with Group Calisthenics and Swedish Drill performed by two squads of boys, twenty-five in each squad, these squads being led by T. Brooks and G. Parke respectively. No spoken word of command was given and the exercises foll owed one another without a break for about twelve minutes. This was followed by an exhibition of Box Horse work and Tumbling performed by a team of chosen boys. The exercises while not too difficult were performed with precision and smartness. The Display was brought to a close by the boys performing some Pyramids. It is hoped that next year an Inter-House Gymnastics Competition will be held. The House Gymnastics Competition 1949 From a spectator ' s point of view, seeing an exercise performed a dozen or more times consecutively with varying degrees of success and smartness is not what one would call a fascinating pastime, so our audience is to be con- gratulated on its patience. Groves ' House won the Competition. However, the whole performance was rather disappointing. The competitors, obviously nervous, performed their exercises with a sluggish lethargy not usually associated with Gymnastics. No one, it seemed, had a chest to stick out or a head to hold up, and each one moved around as if he personally were heading a funeral march. The exercises them- selves emphasized control but were not at all spectacular to the audience, although performed adequately by the boys. Barring one or two exceptions, the originality of the voluntary exercises chosen by each boy were singularly Page 26 Shawnigan Lake

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Inter-House team basis, with the results that all events were very keenly con- tested. Groves ' House emerged victorious with Lake ' s House second and Rip- ley ' s third. 1949 Groves ' House proved to be fairly easy winners, by virtue of the fine showing of their Intermediates, who won every event except one. However, it was not all due to them, the Seniors did well too. This year more events were included, and the whole meet was spread over four days. This accounted for better performances as each boy rarely had more than one race a day. Perhaps the highlight of the whole affair was the Senior 100-yard relay, which was won by Groves ' from Ripley ' s by the closest of margins. The two final leg runners breasted the tape inches apart, Parke 2 just ahead of Butt. There was also a keen tussle between Lake ' s and Groves ' in the Senior 440 and 8 80 relays. The same four boys ran the two races for their House, so the rivalry was quite keen. Groves ' won the 440 and Lake ' s the 8 80. The longer races seemed to suit the Lake ' s House runners better, for in the Trail Race, Berry, Burr and Birch occupied the first three positions with Loughary fourth. Other perform- ances worth mentioning were: Green ' s prodigious heave of the Cricket Ball of 103 yards, 1 foot; Gordon Parke ' s standing throw of 110 feet, 9 l 2 inches in the Discus Throw; Butt ' s double victory in the High Jump and Shot Putt, coming in as a last minute entry in the latter event. Grove ' s Intermediates swept all before them and many of their fine performances would not have disgraced their Seniors. They had a fine quartet of runners in Edgett, Bellm 1, Webster and Tutin. In the under 13 events, Casselman romped home first in all the races, while in the under 10 ' s, Vandersluys, another Ripley ' s boy, won easily. He accomplished a fine leap in the Broad Jump, covering 1 1 feet 6 inches, a good effort for a boy of eight. The last event, as usual, was the Tug O ' War. Once again Groves ' were victorious pulling Ripley ' s two straight pulls to none, and then repeating the dose against Lake ' s House. It was decided that, as there were no School Records available, we would make some this year, so five open events were arranged. Considering the fact that the track here at the School is a grass one, and the boys ran in running shoes, and not track shoes, the times set were good. R. T. Berry won the Mile from four other runners in the time of five minutes, 4.4 seconds. He was followed by Burr the whole way, but managed to keep ahead of him to the tape. A. A. Parke pulled a surprise in the 880 yards coming from behind to win by two yards from Burr. He was lying third one hundred yards from the tape but just had enough in him to pull out and overtake Burr and Berry. His time of two minutes 10.6 seconds is a good one. The 440 yards was a two-man race between Parke 2 and Birch, the latter winning in the time of 56.0 seconds. D. G. Butt was a double winner in the 100 yards and the 220 yards, in 10.8 seconds and 24.6 seconds, respectively. In both races he was followed home by Birch. The running in the School is not keen, in fact boys have had to be coaxed to run. However, the present crop of sprinters and middle distance men in the School is promising and one or two boys, if they bothered to do any training, would be good; particularly Berry and Birch. Neither of these two did any training whatsoever, yet managed to do well in the actual races. Berry is a very graceful runner and if he decided to take things seriously next year, could Page 28 Shawnigan Lake