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

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122 TRINITY COLLE That night at dinner. I was giving a description of the scene to my amused family tthe vicissttudes ot others are nearly always amusing! when the telephone raiw 4 b. Hello, came over the line, That you Jack? Well. have you missed any of your hens? I have just been out to count ours. and find we have two too many. Would you please come over and get them. while they are roosting7 My husband's reply was barely audible, as he hung up the receiver with a click, and turned to ine with a face crimson with convulsed mirth. QE SCHOOI. RECORD They're our chickens after all, he said, and poor Dick has them uncombed, unmanicured, and pro- bably even unable to lay an egg in such unaccustomed grandeur so I'll have to go over right away and bring them back, before they pollute his brood. Oh, my dear. to think of his calling our poor old birds the best of his flock! it is really too good. Amid gales of laughter he departed to rescue our lost ones, and the question as to who was responsible for their escape has never been settled. In fact, we have had so much enjoyment out of the whole affair, that we are almost beginning to regard the erstwhile guilty one as a hero, tor heroinel. JUNIOR SCHOOL RUGBY It cannot be said that we have been successful in winning .matches this fall, but we have really had a most pleasant rugby season nevertheless. Everybody has seemed to enjoy the turn-outs and the games, and fortun- ately there have been no injuries of a serious nature. And this has not been because we have not played hardg the tackling and bucking in some of the games was quite remarkable. and it was the more so when one considers that the team included several boys of only ten and eleven years old and that, for most of them. this was the first rugby season of their lives. Twice we were badly beaten by Lakefield. but with so many of the younger boys showing ability this year, we hope that next year we shall be able to play more of an offensive game. With just a little more shove we might easily have beaten S. A. C. on both occasions, but that necessary extra shove is a product of experience, just as much as it is of verve. and when we have acquired the former. the latter. if it has not always been present. will not fail. Robson was elected captain early in the year and proved popular and helpful throughout the season. Three excellent House matches were played during the season and the Rigbies. piloted by Rogers. are to be congratulated on winning the cup. They won by sheer determination. and that. perhaps. is one of the greatest assets of the House matches. viz., that everybody is out to play his hardest at all costs. The following were awarded Junior School First Team rugby colours after the first S. A. C. game: Rob- son. Cutten, Byers. Baly. Rathbone. The following received their colours at the end of the season: Cassels. Bell, Bickle, Rogers, Staunton, Armstrong, Cochran. Spragge, Pullen. LAKEFIELD GAME. OCT. 10 The game was played on our own grounds and in excellent weather. Lakefield soon showed us that they had a fast team. and in the first half they piled up a tremendous score. Our line was light, but had it stayed low in resisting opposing bucks. it would have been much more effective. Our plays seldom got beyond our own line. and only once did an end-run get away. After half- time, however. we really got down to it. Cutten did some good running, and Baly. Byers and Robson some good tackling. But Lakefield's back field was much too fast for usg their running and passing on end-runs was a treat to see. and it was this that was largely responsible for their rather shocking score of 66. to counterbalance which we were able to gain nothing. S. A. C. GAME. OCT. 17 We enjoyed this game more than the previous one because the teams were evenly matched and because we went about our business with more determination and life than we had before displayed. We lined up quickly, kept low on bucks and put our plays into operation with pre- cision and force. Tackling was good, and Cutten did some excellent running. Rathbone played well on the line. But, though we forced S. A. C. to their one-yard line more than once, we could not score. They gained one try which was nicely converted, and the final score was 6 to 0. LAKEFIELD GAME, OCT. 24 Games away from school are always popular, and this one was no exception. We had a fine drive to the Grove in Lingard's bus, and were most hospitably treated by our hosts during the day. They somewhat embar- rassed us by putting on a team much lighter than before -an embarrassment which was intensified when we were again beaten by 34 to 1. Cassels scored our only point with a slanting kick which went over touch-in- goal. Their backfielcl. which had remained unchanged, was again mostly responsible for the mischief, but apart from this. we played our poorest game of the season. The halves were disappointing, our tackling was not up to par and our bucks had little force behind them. Our spirits revived. however, when we temporarily drowned the memories of the game in numerous ice cream sodas in Peterborough, and we arrived at school again, singing and shouting, and with sufficient tack to have solved for a month all Miss Smith's problems of menu-making. S. A. C. GAME. NOVEMBER 1 The match was played at Aurora and we turned in, perhaps, our best performance of the year. S. A. C. scored early in the first quarter, as a result of a long extended end run, and from then on we buckled down and made the remainder of the game close and exciting. Many times we bucked them down the field, but were not quite able to push the ball over the goal line. Cassels kicked for a point and had Cutten, who was the fastest man on the field. been able to get away, we should have at least tied the score. We tried, however, to put our plays, and in general to run, too much through the centre. Cassels played well and showed us what is meant by tackling hard and lowg Bickle, Bell and Staunton must also be mentioned. Rogers' bucking was really spectacu- lar and he gained the majority of our yards. The final score was 6 to 1. It was a hard game to lose, but it served as a very creditable ending of the season. After the game we indulged in a swim, and to enlighten the rather tiresome journey back to school. we interrupted our slumbers at Oshawa by a visit to Woolworth's and other heretofore less-famous shops.

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCIIOOI. Rl'X'UIilI 21 CHICKENS COME HUMIC TO H01 PST? By Spectator. We have a few chickens, Leghorns, and, consider- ing the amount of care they don't get tthe sum total of what they do receive is too neglible for mentionj they repay us in true Christian spirit--full measure, and running over. Running over, reminds me that is what I started to write about. Our chickens, tthough Heaven knows they should be content in a small rocky run-way of about fourteen feet squarel have taken to running over to the neighbors, whether to borrow, or merely to gossip, we haven't yet decided. The question of how they ever got out in the first place is one that occupied our minds for some little time. There are no breaks in the netting enclosing them, and the door leading to their abode, though unable to stand of itself, does nicely when propped by an ancient garden fork, unless, of course, the prop itself lies down on the job, and one would hesitate to accuse an old and tried friend of such ingratitude, when from selfish, or other motives, that is all that it has ever been asked to do! Personally, I blame my husband, and equally dit- to, he blames me! twe are an unique couplei. My argument is this. What more likely than, that when by some strange trick of memory he was mind- ed to feed the flock, before dashing off to his office fifteen minutes later than he had intended, that he should have forgotten to replace said fork? The idea seemed plausible, and I was even prepared to be mag- nanimous enough to overlook the delinquency, had he not'with fiendish cunning, tried to attach the blame to me. Oh no. my dear, he gloatingly replied to my a- foresaid accusation, It wasn't me, I, either, he a- mended hastily, as the light of conquest. and always enjoyable desire to correct, flared up in my accusing eye, I never forget that fork. I know the consequenc- es too well, after chasing the mothers of these chickens who used to get out two or three years ago. No, it was you I am sure, sometime when you have ordered eggs for lunch, and found there weren't any, and so made a rush out at about twelve-forty-five, so you could have them in an omelette at one o'clock sharp. I am sorry, my dear, but I am afraid you are the guilty one, this time. All this with an air of conscious virtue, to which I can never get accustomed, but which ever has the one effect-renders me so speechless with rage, that the dear creature is delivered of his outrageous ut- terances and away, before I can even trust myself to sputter! I think I have said enough to prove to the person of ordinary perspicacity that I am the innocent victim of untoward circumstance. But don't we all know that men are such child- ren that since Adam laid the blame at Eve's floor that-well a million other examples, if I could remem- ber. them, show what an infant the strongest man real- ly is. so we'Il leave the subject, and pretend that it was I who forgot to prop up the chicken-house door fthe idea is really too preposterousj the last time they went off on a holiday. Now, if we are a little Heimy in the amount of care bestowed upon our hens, our neighbors more than make up for it by the unceasing vigilance lavished on theirs. Their chicken-run is roomy, and well-kept, the house is comfortable-almost spacious-the nests are kept clean, straw changed regularly, and for encour- agement in the gentle art ol' lziying --elf-etrir lights burn brightly far into the night. Une would ii-'ver - ten suggest one of these female lleau lirurninels being af- flicted with anything so entirely unbeeozning lu their station as lice, and yet, when two ol' our lousl' bi llyllf wandered over fora peck and a gossip, the ladies we-i-e well received. Indeed it would almost seein that too inurli per- fection had begun to pall on the satiated appetites ui' the lutocrats, so cordial were they in their grei-tint 'll' Welcome to their lowly neighbors. The hen-party was in full glory and had spent a sociable and peaceful afternoon, without even a dog to mar the pleasure, when the owner of the clit-rislied ones drove home from an office which had taxed his pa- tience and ingenuity for the last six or seven hours. As he stepped from his motor, and out oi' the gar- age, he noticed the door of his chicken-house slightly ajar, and after a hasty glance round, discovering two fat hens outside, proceeded with a sigh, and an ill-con- cealed curse, to approach said delinquents, in order to drive them back where they belonged. The hens, who had ideas of their own as to where that place was. started to squawk and scatter in great alarm, follow- ed by the irate gentleman, who chased them wrathfully across the road into our garden, much to the surprise of the lady of the house tniyselfl who happened to be working on some flower-beds at the time. Muttering a hurried excuse for trespassing on our property, our energetic neighbor shouted to his wife and daughter, whom he espied sitting on their veran- dah, to come to his assistance, while I in turn made feeble suggestions that said hens might be ours--not his-but his only reply was a wave of the hand. and a hurried, No, our hen-house gate was open. and these are two of my very best. Qtill doubtful, but feeling myself an entirely in- adequate judge of poultry, I stopped protesting, re- turned to my gardening, and determined not to assist in the chase, for if our neighbors will be careless about leaving doors open, it is surely not my affair, or my duty to help restore the escaped prisoners! Joined by his women-folk ,the gentleman renewed his attack on the excited birds, who, more frightened than ever, now made desperate efforts to escape his frantic clutches. Up and down the garden they flew, through the berry-bushes, and into the corn, followed by their re- lentless pursuers. I, with feelings of intense relief, had quickly given up all claims of ownership, and now watched the con- test with delighted, if surreptitious interest. It was well worth while! All three of my poor friends were presently. what is vulgarly known as in a sweat Their breath came in short gasps, their clothes, and particularly their shoes, showed unmistakable signs of war-fare-and still those stupid hens eluded their grasp, and insisted on their right to remain on our property. At last, after an hour or more of running, dodging. cornering and swearing. both hens were run into the nice, warm, well-lighted house. I could retire, and laugh my fill, after ill-concealed explosions ot' merri- ment all through the chase. VVith gusty sighs of relief, and a most virtuous expression of a hard task well over, my neat neighbors withdrew into their domain, to change and brush clothes, bathe, and rest after their strenuous labour.

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TRINITY t'OI,I.l t'I SVIIUUI. llliftlllll ' SHAKESPEREAN RUGBY Much time has been devoted in the past few years to research work for the uncovering ot' facts to show that many of Shakespeare's characters were olden-time grid stars of note. At least, even if they did not play. they must have been rabid fans, as in the course of ordinary conversation some remark, reminiscent of past grid battles, would often slip out. For instance: Down, downf,-Henry VI. Well placed. -Henry V. A touch! A touch, I do confess. -Hamlet. More rushes, more rushes. -Henry IV. Pell mell, down with them Y -Love's Labour Lost. This shouldering of each other. -Henry VI. Being down, I have the placing. -Cymbeline. Let him not pass, but kill him rather. -Othello. 'Tis sport to maul a runner. -Antony and Cleo- u 65 H K6 patra. I'll catch it ere it comes to ground. -Macbeth. We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns. - Henry VI. Worthy sir, thou bleedest, thy exercise has been too violent. -Coriolanus. It is the first time that ever I heard the breaking of ribs was sport. -As You Like It. A buck of the first head. --Love's Labour Lost. Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You It ld Like . With all appliances and means to boot. -Henry IV., Part II. Come, my coach! Good-night, sweet ladies: good- night. -Hamlet. -T. E. N. and D. W. McL. COLOURS First Team Colours have been awarded to the following: C. D. Cummings, D. Cassels, F. Douglas, G. S. Elliot, R. P. Howard, G. H. Johnson tCaptainJ, D. W. McLaren, J. E. T. McMullen, R. M. L. Mudge, T. E. Nichol, J. Popham, T. H. Roper, G. D. Russel. Second Team Colours have been awarded to the following: R. D. Cameron tCaptainl, G. Davy, R. A. Fisher, T. M. Fyshe, J. P. Gilmour, L. Hudson, H. Martin, H. Maulson, J. P. Pearce, R. Schell, P. Usborne, R. Walton, G. B. Wily, S. F. Wotherspoon. Extra colours: M. Cleland, L. P. Harris. Third Team Colours have been awarded to the following: S. H. Ambrose, D. N. Byers, A. De Pencier, R. Hees, J. Irvine, H. M. Johnson, N. Kirk, J. Law, S. Lea, D. Neville, S. Robertson, H. B. Savage, M. Sowards, A. C. Stone fCaptainJ. Extra colours: W. Cory, J. Gibson, G. Harvey, F. Jemmett. Fourth Team Colours have been awarded to the following: C. F. Harrington, T. Usborne, R. S. Inglis, C. Kirk, H. Knight, G. S. Lucas tCaptainl, E. W. Spragge, J. G. Osler. J. C. Worrell, W. H. Broughall, W. Burrill. Fifth Team Colours have been awarded to the following: H. W. Allan, T. D. Archibald, A. R. Carr- Harris, R. E. Chown, L. Cowperthwaite tCaptainl, W. M. Crossen, D. W. McLean, G. L. Neville, H. Paterson, C. M. Robson, C. B. Ross, G. Savage, T. L. Taylor, A. Wilkinson. Extra colours: K. C. Dawe, P. Howard, W. S. Leggat. Oxford Cup Colours have been awarded to the following: P. R. Usborne, G. S. Elliot. R. M. L. Mudge, J. P. Gilmour, S. F. Wotherspoon. HOCKEY NOTES The first hockey team has started its career for 1928- 29, and has already had two practices on the London Arena ice. Mr. Tippet and Sergeant-Major Batt very kindly agreed to drive some of Bigside over, while the rest were taken via the taxi route. The first practice, as may be imagined, was ratlnfr ragged, combination in the forward lines 1,..j,,p vt.-rv scarce, but the game did the whole squad of fourteen a trenu-ndous amount of good. The game resulted in a 6-Sl win for the Inst team. The second turnout showed a very much better brand of hockey. insofar as the Firsts were t-oin-1-i'in-d. tin- f l'W1l flS- l Hllboscd of Vameron, I'Illio1t and Turnbull. combining well, while the defence of Johnson and Nichol was too much for the few rushes that reached them. The Ifirsts scored about 15 goals, while the Seconds got one when Howard was a little slow in clearing. Cummings had the misfortune to stop a drive of McMullen's with his face and had to be assisted off. The team this year will be coached by Mr. Harry King, one of the players of the local intermediate club. and if the Firsts live up to the form shown so far, they should prove a hard nut to crack. OLD BOYS AT R. M. C. lst Class Nick Kingsmill is in his Senior Year and graduates next June. He is an Under Officer and Captain of the Hockey Team. He also subbed for the first Rugby Team. Ned Rogers is also in his Senior Year, holds down the rank of Lance-Sergeant and played on the Rugby squad. Theo Dumoulin is a Lance-Corporal and came in seventh in the Intercollegiate Harriers. 2nd Class Swotty Wotherspoon is a Lance-Corporal and played on the Junior team. He is also head of his class and boasts a nice Harm. Geoff Boone played for the Juniors and is also a champion squash player. Leo Apedaile is working hard, and won the Aquatic championship. George Archibald played football this fall and is working hard like the rest of us. Freddie Vokes is still the same. He was very valuable to the first team this year. Brick Osler is plugging away and is becoming quite adept at squash. 3rd Class Archie , C. M. Archibald, is senior of his class and also played rugby. As usual he is the brainiest of his year. Ian Croll is developing into a fine gymnast and is also interested in flying. Ape Ardagh is a very good artist in the gym and was at Camp Borden this summer learning to fiy. Tam London is stronger than ever and is quite satisfied with life on the whole. George Hees has grown a lot and was a sub for the first team this fall. Jack Burns is still taking life as it comes and seems to have a pretty good time. Ken Whyte is working hard and enjoys his occasional trips to Montreal. Recruits John Cape is enjoying his recruit year and is a hard worker. Jim Cleland is losing much weight, but likes being a recruit. Bill Ralston had an unfortunate attack of append- icitis and has been laid up for a while. He is working hard and is getting quite snappy. -An Old Boy.