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

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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

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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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Sli I GIRLS' ATHLETIC SOCIETY EXECUTIVE B. Mason, D. Wickham, B. Leofherdole, M. Warren. Inter-School Track and Field Meet At Tillsonburg On the Thursday after the local track meet, contestants from Ingersoll, Delhi, Aylmer, Norwich and Tillsonburg met at Tillsonburg's Fair Grounds. The day was cold and damp, but there was heated competition and nothing dampened the enthusiasm of each school's supporters. Tillsonburg's winners at this meet were: Juvenile: Patricia Gray, 8 points. Intermediate: Shirley Phillips, 10 points. Senior: Jennie Denys, 13 points. 60 W.0.S.S.A. Track and Field Meet The Wossa B track and field meet at London was the final important annual track meet. Tillsonburg brought home the Senior Wossa B pennant, and credit for the winning of this championship goes to Jennie Denys, runner-up champion with a total of six points. Credit also goes to Amelia Gerhardt, Marilyn Stilwell, and Betty Leatherdale, who brought points and honour to T.D.H.S. THE TATLER