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Athletics

A tremendous amount of activity, honest endeavour, disappointments, and successes would, I think, just about sum up the athletic season now drawing to a conclusion.

It all began with Sports Day, passed on to the District Championships, the County Meeting in June, the Harrow Athletic League meetings, the 1913 Athletic Association competition in July and, of course, our usual inter schools meetings. One of these will certainly be remembered by those who took part - the annual meet with our friends at Hounslow College.

It was an evening when the heavens absolutely opened, the rain fell down throughout the entire programme, the track was flooded and anyone seeing us must have thought we were all daft.

Perhaps we were, but for all this it proved to be a most enjoyable evening and the programme was completed, which was no mean achievement in itself.

A number of new school athletic records were established as a result of all that went on in these few months, and they are listed below. Overall results in the District and 1913 Association championships were disappointing really, the exception being the Senior team. So congratulations to the Seniors and goodbye to many of them, who have now left the School. They have been team members for the past seven years and recorded many fine performances. They will be missed next year, but others will take their place, and the tradition will continue.


New School Athletic Records
Track Events
U.13 100 mets. D.Butler 13.7 Old Record 14.0
U.13 200 mets. D.Butler 29.4 Old Record 29.4
U.16 200 mets. G.Clements 25.8 Old Record 26.5
U.15 400 mets. G.Holland 56.5 Old Record 57.8
U.17 400 mets. M.Moore 53.7 Old Record 54.2
U.13 800 mets. D.Taylor 2min.36.0 Old Record 2min.37.8
U.14 800 mets. C.Bohane 2min.26.9 Old Record 2min.31.1
U.18 2000 mets. steeplechase 7min.47.8secs
4X100 mets. relay U.15 49.5secs
4X100 mets. relay U.19 47.1secs
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Field Events
U.13 Discus K.Corbett 70ft.4ins.
U.15 Javelin M.Smith 94ft.7ins.
U.18 Triple Jump D.Butler 40ft.1ins. 39ft.9 1/4ins.
U.14 Pole Vault P.Wildsmith 6ft.6ins.
U.16 Pole Vault S.Walton-Smith 7ft.0ins.
U.18 Pole Vault C.Clubbe 8ft.3ins.

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