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Sporting News By Pluto

NE section of school life is very sadly neglected at this School, that

is, Sports. The fact that there are only about eight boys and about
seventy girls partly accounts for this state of affairs. One can’t make up
a team for football or baseball with eight boys. And anyone knowing
the seventy girls would realize at once the utter hopelessness of forming
a team; any team.

Therefore our sporting activities have been restricted to throwing a
baseball around at recess on Hamilton Street, to an occasional game of
cricket in the Life Room, jumping hurdles in the Commercial Art Room,
various acrobatics in the same room, standing broad jumps in the rooms
and up the stairs, and an odd game of tennis.

Peter Meilleur is the star acrobat; he stands on his hands in quite
the style. Fred Amess is the mainstay of the ball-throwing squad, and
also of the jumping fraternity. Jim Reardon and Vito Cianci excel in
H 1 | jumping up the stairs, while Lance Hardy makes himself generally useful
we | in the cricket league. Grahame Nicholls is used by the others to field
i balls down around the Cenotaph.

At present, there is a rumor in the air that an effort will be made
next year to organize a basketball team. This is particularly Bert Quinn’s
game, and we hope to do great things.

{ However, the chief topic of sport conversation just now, is tennis,
14 and many are the enquiries as to when the courts in the Central School
i grounds will be ready for us to use.

COMPOSITION