iSermemenz v. C. 1, M. Senor, Following upon the annual C. I. school sports, already reported, an athletie competition between the Settlement and the schools was hold on Saturday, the 28th of April, on the school field, The weather was perfect. The events were most strenuously}contested, and, amid the most intense excitement, the school won by a single point.
two teams were made up as follow The Settlement: G. C. F. Russell, 3.R, Lynoss, 0. Ang, M. Tonkin, Dome The School: R, Parry, F. Patry, G. Robinson, H. Molly, S. Clarke, The six (1) 100 yards race 5 (2) Sump; (3) Long Jump (4) 220 yards (8) 880 yards; and (6) Team rai The firat race, the 100 yards, was won by Frank Parry for the school. This Was @ very close race and Russell who the high jumping it the tables w: neal upon Russell easily winning at and Tonkin taking the second plac The Settlement was now two points The 220 yards was an exciting race, Lyness had " considerable lead till towards the close, when Frank Parry, who was in splendid form, began to press him hard, and, amid groat mont rapidly 220 yards and in the long jump the two teams scored an equal number of points The Settlement thus remained two Interest was now concentrated on the half-mile, as, according to the original arrangement, this was the last race from which points might be scored. From the beginning Robinson took thi 1 soon it was evident that the him and Tonkin. Steadily maintaining his advantage, notwithstanding all attempts to pass him, and, finally, in the Jast half-lap, bring: ing all his reserves into action, he quite ran away from Tonkin, who was already at his limit, and Gnished easily in 2 min. 31 sec.
The result of this fine victory for the school was to make the score even— twenty-five points teach team. It was arranged accordingly that the team race should decide the day. The greatest excitement prevailed. The ruening of the two teams of five was magnificent, Each time the school got sway more expedi ly with the flag, but sometimes the balance was within an ace of being restored. Once more Russell and F. Parry entered the lists together in the final round, and again amid " per fect hurricane of cheers from the boys and other spectators, Parry, with fter start, maintained the lead, wis ning, to the tumultuous joy of schoolfellows, both the race and the ds From an analysis of the scoring it appeared that Russell obtained eleven out of the twenty-five points for his side, while F, Parry accounted for ten of the twenty-five on the other side.
Small silver modals bad boon pro-prizes for each of the events, brief speech by Mr. F.
recalling the similar competition held in 1900, these wore pi soured to the several winners by Mi B. M. McOwan, "The photographing of thecomp. judges, and others, concluded a most interesting and enjoyable afternoon. The judges were Messrs. V. Eckford dB. M. McOwan, the starter Mr. F.
joCarthy, and the timekeepers Messrs, The football monson ended with a cous—Sottloment v. C. I. M. first of these the school to nil, The second nothing being scored by either side, Both matches were hard-fought, the annual matches four R. Parry's team by one goal to nil, winning the sil vor medals presented by Messrs. Eckford, who also gave an enormous cake to the losing team.
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