Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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TBINTTV COLLEGE SCHOOL EEfORD 17 Flyweight. Dinj wall heal Hiitliii ; ITees beat Millor: BalCour Ix-at Davidp:o ma.; INrillit ' liaiuj) l)eat Rodford-Jonos. IIocs l)oat Dinp:wall: Ralfonr l)oat rillicliaiiii). Finals. Middleweight. Burns, max. beat London. Although the latter fought very pln.ckily Burns was oldei ' , nioi ' o experienced and taller, and won faii-ly easily. Welterweight. Cartwright beat Lazier. This bout Avas exeellent. Botli boy.s boxed well and the l)ont Avas not won until tlie tinal gong. In the first round Cartwright gained a margin chietly by getting under Lazier ' s guard by rights to the body and at the same time by countering effectively his opponents sjieedy attacks. In the second round the bout continued fast with Cai-t- wright on the defensive, showing real science ])y drawing his opponent ' s atta ' k and avoiding the same with minimum of effort, thus multiplying its effect, and then counteriug quick- ly. There was no slowing up in the third round. Lazier made a good point, l) it Cartwright quickly shook off the effects of this and retained tiie lead which he had gained earlier. LightAveight. Gwyn beat Burns ma. This Avas also a good bout. The three rounds did not seem long enough to bring out their l)est, for both boys defended themselves carefully to the ex- clusion of initiative and attack. GAvyn, although having the longer rea- -h, did not make proper use of it, and bett ' i-ed Burns ' scoi ' c by only a small margin. FeatherAveight. Stone l)eat ]Martin ma. This bout, postponed l)ecause : lai tin was ill. was (piite up to standard. Stone Avon on points. BantaniAveight. Kingsmill beat Defries. The latter, although having a better style, Avas not able to Avard oft ' the rushing tactics adoj tcd by his opponent, Avho gained the vei-dict on i)()iiits.

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16 TKIXITY COLLEGE SCHOOL EECORD BOXING. The piTliiiiiiiary I ' oiiikIs of the H()xiii z: Competition stiirtcd on Mai ' cli -ird., and, as th(M-e was a total entry of 115, l)outs were fouirlit nearly every day for the next fortnig:ht. The results of tlie Junior Sehool boxing are given elsewhere. In tlie Senior School boxing the Cup for the best boxer was awai ' ded to J. S. Cartwright. The results follow: Preliminaries and Semi-Finals. .Aliddleweight. P urus max. l)eat Stevenson. Hui-ns max. I)eat Oray; London beat Xisbet. • Welterweight. Laziei- l)ea Cassard; Osier max. beat Xoble ; Osier ma. beat (iot ' don ma. Lazier i)eat Olser max.: Cartwright beat Osier ma. Lightweight. Archibald beat Robertson; Owen beat ( ipe; Gwyn beat Smith. Bui-ns ma. beat Beattie; Archibald beat Owen; CUvya beat McLaic ' ii uui.-. Massie beat Lyon ma. Burns ma. beat Archibald: Gwyn beat Fas.sie. Featherweight. Martin ma. l)eat Dalton: Ai-dagh l)eat Kitchie; Stone beat Boone . Mus.seii heat Tentland: fartin nui. beat Ingles; Fyshe bc;it Ai ' dagh; Stone heat Wallt)ridge. .Martin ma. heat .Mussen; Stone beat Fyshe. liantamweight. Read beat Baldwin. Kingsmill beat Somers; Read heat .Malins; Defries beat Martin max.: ( ' roll beat Evans. Kinu ' smill heat Read; Defries beat Croll.

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18 TIUXITY COLLEGE SCHOOL EECOED Flyweight. Ileos beat Balfour. This bout was also fought at a later date on account of the loser ' s illness. Hees won on points. Paperweight. Pearce Avon from Macdonald by default, the latter being prevented from boxing by an injury. SHOOTING. The Imperial Challenge Shield Competition. The results of this Competition Avere not published until early in January and did not reach us until some weeks later. The delay was due to the large entry from all parts of the Empire and the long Avork of checking the targets. The total number of boys competing Avas 16,786 representing 622 corps. Of these units Canada furnished 67 AAath a total of • M42 boys. And it is gratifying to note that the highest proportion of expert shots «3ame from this country. The conditions, under which this competition is shot, Avere changed in 1924 to concentrate on mass efficiency in- stead of jiroduving small teams of expert shots as in former years. The Senior Sliield, aAvarded to the corps in which Senior Cadets predominate, is based on the combined score of both Senior and Junior Cadets, to AA iich is added a handicap alloAV- ance of .025 per cadet in excess of 50. In this competition the results Avere as folloAvs: 1. New Zealand (49 Senior, 26 Junior) net average 88.:J7, handicap .62, gross average of 88.99 per cent. 2. Trinity ( ' ollege School (85 Senior. 15 Junior) net av. 85.68, hdcp. 1.25, gross av. 86.93 per cen t. 3. Wingham H. S. (87 Senior, :38 Junior) net av. 86.74, h(l j). .05, gross av. 86.79 per cent. To (pialify for this competition a eorps must liave a min- iiinim strength of 50.