Tillsonburg District High School - Tatler Yearbook (Tillsonburg, Ontario Canada)

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which showed remarkable promise and augured well for the future of Canadian track events. One would scarcely expect to witness renowned athletes from distant corners of the globe participating in a meet in one of our smaller Canadian cities. However, Norwegians, Hollanders, Americans, and Canadians who had made records in Olympic games, gave fine demonstrations of their skill, speed and stamina. Included among these persons were such famous athletes as Viola Myers, who placed first in the sixty-yard final: Donald Stone- house of Westdale Collegiate, Hamilton, who placed first in the sixty-yard and three hundred-yard finals for boys under eighteen years of ageg and Harrison Dil- lard of Cleveland, Ohio, the 1948 one hundred-metre Olympic champion, who thrilled the crowd with his graceful ex- hibition while winning the sixty-yard hurdles and the sixty-yard dash. Such a display of prowess demonstrated to me that to be a good athlete it is neces- sary for all athletes to live cleanly, to receive good coaching and to train diligently. BOOM-A-LACCA Boom-at-laccu, boom-a-laccu, Bmw, u'ou', wow, Chiclf-a-laccrl, chick-a-Iacca, Choir, chow, chow. Boom-a-lacca, chick-a-Iaccn, Sis-Izoom-bah, Tillsowburg District rahf rahf rah! Sf-ws.. BOYS' ATHLETIC SOCIETY STANDING: R. Service, H. Bailey, V. Holmes, D. O. Deon, D. Richards, W. Osborne. SEATED: G. Fentie, R. Scott, R. Mason, R. Mannell, R. Prickett. 58 THE TATLER

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an BOYS' JUNIOR BASKETBALL STANDING: E. MacMillan, N. Mason, Mr. Sinclair, R. Smith, N. More. SEATED: G. Leatherdale, D. Peacock, MY REACTIONS TO AN INDOOR TRACK MEET by Reginald Mason, XIII For some time I had cherished a secret desire to attend an indoor track meet. Distance, a heavy demand for tickets, and the time and energy which I needed to constantly apply to my curricular deficien- cies, tended to thwart me from realizing my dream. However, the meet this March, sponsored by the Olympic Club of Hamilton, was scheduled for a Saturday night and tickets were procured from a friend on the executive. It was surprising to find, long before the advertised hour, a milling crowd of enthusiasts literally crushing forward to the entrance. It was equally surprising to see every inch of available seating accommodation of about tive thousand THE TATLER D. Eckel, G. Miller, C. Wilson. claimed. The spectators seemed to be not only acquainted with the history and names of the competitors, but also to understand the technical workings of the meet in every aspect. In the centre of the armouries, one of the most dazzling spectacles was that of a large trophy table, filled with the finest trophies and silverware which I have ever seen. The outstanding trophy was the Silver Rose Bowl, which, later in the evening, was presented to Miss Viola Myers of Toronto, voted by sports writers as the outstanding woman athlete of Canada for the year 1948. The events were dispatched promptly and the arrangement of straight races, hurdles, and relays proved interesting to the observers as well as beneficial to the contestants. From collegiates and techni- cal schools of the area there were entries 57

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G I R L S 1 S P 0 R 'I' S Edited by Jennie Denys, xii SENIOR BASKETBALL FRONT: A. Gerhardt, G. Demaiter, M. Warren, N. Warren, S. Setterington. BACK: M. Foreman, M. Stilwell, R. Monk, D. Wickham, M. Lilly. Field Day The annual track and field meet of Tillsonburg District High School was held on October fourth. Student interest was high, but regrettably few outsiders at- tended the meet. The girls were divided into four teams bearing the colourful names, Red, White, Blue and Black. The morning events were the basket- ball speed throw, the baseball throw, the running broad jump, the standing broad jump and the high jump. Base-running and basketball accuracy throwing had been held a few days before THE TATLER to prevent the accumulation of too many events on the same day. Dashes and relays were run off in the afternoon. Competition was keen but finally the winners emerged as follows: Senior: Marjorie Warren, 25 points, run- ner-up, Jennie Denys, 17 points. Intermediate: Shirley Phillips and Nancy Warren, 21 points ftiedl. Junior: Edwina Heckford, 18 points, run- ner-up Elizabeth Sergeant, 14 points. Juvenile: Mary Elizabeth McLeod, 24 points, runner-up Patricia Gray, 23 points. ' 59