Swimming

The Tub Regatta

After an impartial and uncooked draw, St. Peter's Boat Club carried on tradition by having the Annual Tub Regatta once again this year. The first "knock-out" races were held on a Saturday and the semi-finals and finals on the following Wednesday.

On the Saturday everybody turned up dressed in various weird costumes to compete in the races. A York City B.C. tub was borrowed, which, sad to relate, had to be bandaged up after every race, but one crew did manage to win in her. The best race of the afternoon was between Mr. Ping and Barker, and Brown A. C. and Corry, the former contriving to win by half-a-length.

On the Wednesday only the best crews were left. Dodd and Ping went through into the finals, beating Mr. Ping and Barker in the old boat, but afterwards losing to Pryer and Morris.

The Cox's Race was highly amusing, being won by Simpson and Gregory.

We should like to thank Mrs. Ping for the prizes which she kindly presented to the winners.

The Boating Dinner

The 1st Crew were extremely grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Ping for continuing the Annual Boat Club Dinner. In spite of the war all were well and truly filled, and the evening was thoroughly enjoyed. During the course of the evening, Mr. Rhodes reminded us that we were not only celebrating the Annual Dinner, but also the asst anniversary of Mr. Ping's connection with St. Peter's Boat Club, and we heartily congratulate him on his "coming of age." !

At the end of term Mr. Ping was presented with an oar blade, inscribed to commemorate the occasion.

SWIMMING.

It has long been felt that, though the School is generally well represented in sport, there has been a deficiency ; a school which competes for the House swimming cup with such enthusiasm should surely be able to produce a team for competition against other schools. A start was made in remedying this deficiency in the summer term of 1941 with a match against Bootham School. This summer, however, three matches were arranged and the team, under the very able coaching of Mr. A. C. Webster, for whose services we are very grateful, showed such an improvement as to win two of the matches. 46

There is no doubt that in Athletics the standard system, which has been used for two years, resulted in both improved performance of the outstanding athletes and better average performance. It will justify the innovation of swimming standards last term if the same can be said, in two years time, of swimming. Such an innovation also nullifies the accusation, levelled at swimming more than at any other sport, that the Kazerooni cup is a virtual Victor Ludorum of swimming rather than the culmination, as it rightly should be and for which it was originally presented, of the effort of the whole house. Included also in the Kazerooni cup were the School tests and it is heartening to note that 6o passed the 6 lengths test and only 17.3 per cent. of the School were non-swimmers.

Apart from the standards and tests five boys entered for, and were successful in, the Royal Life Saving Society's Award of Merit. They were : Dodd, Leigh, Miller, Penty, J. and Wyman.

Finally we would like to mention the hard work put into the baths-swabbing by a number of enthusiasts. We feel that it is the duty of everyone who uses the baths to help in this necessary task and we extend to those who did help (willingly or unwillingly) our grateful thanks.

That the season has been such a success and that the swimming has become a School sport as well as a pastime, is 'due to no little extent, to the enthusiasm of Dodd, the captain, and to Barker, who w& should like to thank and congratulate, both on their personal achievements and on their pertinacity.

Match v. LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

On June loth, the team beat Leeds Grammar School at Leeds. The outstanding feature of the match was the relay which was to decide the issue. We had the disadvantage of not having trained for relay work and the result of bad starts of each member of the team was a five yards gain by Leeds to be made up by Barker in the last 25 yards. The result was a dead heat and the match was ours by 27 points to 26. , too yards, freestyle—I, M. Barker (St. P.) ; 2, D. P. Wright (Leeds); 3, J. H. Morrish (Leeds). Time, 72 1-5th secs.

ioo yards, breaststroke-1, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 2, P. K. Chamber- lain (Leeds) ; 3, J. H. Morrish (Leeds). Time, 84 secs.

so yards, backstroke—I, R. E. Rossall (Leeds;; 2, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) 3, K. Brown-Grant (Leeds). Time, 37 2-5 secs. so yards, freestyle—t, A. J. Radcliffe (Leeds) ; 2, D. L. Pryer (St. P.) 3, P. V. Leigh (St. P.). Time, 31 4-5 secs. Dive-1, Buckler (St. P.) ; 2, R. E. Rossall (Leeds) ; 3, R. E. Dodd (St. P.). Relay—Dead Heat. St. Peter's 27. Leeds 26 points.

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Match v. AMPLEFORTH COLLEGE.

Swimming in our bath, the team was victorious over Ampleforth College. Kerstens, of Ampleforth, swam a very easy ioo yards freestyle in what, owing to the watch stopping permaturely, we could only estimate to be about 69 seconds. He also won the 5o yards backstroke. St. Peter's, with better starting than at Leeds, won the relay. zoo yards, breaststroke-1, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 2, Reed (A.) ; 3, Danaher (A.). Time, 81.7 secs. zoo yards, freestyle—I, Kerstens (A.) ; 2, M. M. Barker (St. P.) ; 3, Mawson (A.). 9 yards, freestyle—I, Bamford (A.); 2, D. L. Pryer (St. P.) 3, Hickey (A.). Time, 34 secs. 9 yards, backstroke-1, Kerstens (A.) ; 2, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 3, E. Sherriff (St. P.). Time, 35.8 secs. Dive—I, P. V. Leigh (St. P.) ; 2, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 3, Bamford (A.)• Relay—St. Peter's. St. Peter's 28, Ampleforth 22 points.

Match v. BOOTHAM SCHOOL.

Bootham again had a very good team waiting for us and succeeded in winning every event, except the breaststroke, which Dodd won in 79.8 seconds, and the dive in which Sparkes, of Bootham, and Dodd tied for first place. zoo yards, freestyle—I, Sparkes (B.) ; 2, Blackshaw (B.) ; 3, M. M.

Barker (St. P.). Time, 7o secs. zoo yards, breaststroke—I, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 2, Steinberg (B.) ; 3, Garrod (B.). Time, 79.8 secs. 5o yards, freestyle—I, Noble (B.) ; 2, D. L. Pryer (St. P.) ; and

Sanderson (B.). Time, 31.4 secs. 5o yards, backstroke-1, Wilkins (B.) ; 2, R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 3, Garrod (B.). Time, 38.6 secs. Dive—I, Sparkes (B.) and R. E. Dodd (St. P.) ; 3, Sanderson (B.). Relay—Bootham. Bootham 35, St. Peter's 15 points. * * *

COLTS v. BOOTHAM SCHOOL.

The Colts' match, which was also held at the same time, was lost by a smaller margin. Bootham were disqualified on the relay but, fortunately, since they were obviously the better relay team, this made no difference to the final result.

so yards freestyle-I, Gray (B.) ; 2, Priestman (B.) ; Gregory (St.

P.). Time, 34.6 secs. 5o yards breast-stroke-1, Reynolds (St. P.) ; 2, Ward (St. P.) ; 3, Carr (B.). Time, 41.8 secs. 5o yards backstroke-1, Sherriff (St. P.) ; 2, Hartley (B.) ; 3, Gray (B.). Time, 40.4 secs. Dive-1, Barnes (B.) ; 2, Priestman (B.) ; 3, Terry (St. P.). Relay-St. Peter's (Bootham disqualified on take over). Bootham 21 3

St. Peter's 20 points.

SWIMMING SPORTS, 1942.

As usual the weather at the end of the summer term was most unsuitable for swimming. It was also unsuitable for house cricket, so that owing to that and the pressure of other events the heats were relegated to the Sunday afternoon before end of term. The sports were held on the following Monday. School House started with a lead of 3 points on the result of the standards and kept the lead throughout to win by 145.5 points to 120.7 points by Clifton Rise and 98.75 points by Temple. Detailed results follow.

Senior. too yards freestyle-I, Barker ; 2, Dodd ; 3, Dench. 5o yards freestyle-I, Barker ; 2, Dodd ; 3, Buckler. Time, 29.5 secs.

too yards breast stroke-I, Dodd ; 2, Dench ; 3, Reynolds.

Time, 90.4 secs. 5o yards backstroke-1, Dodd ; 2, Barker ; 3, Frost. Time, 40.9 secs. so yards obstacle-1, Dodd ; 2, Barker ; 3, Buckler. Time, 41.7 secs. Dive-1, Dodd ; 2, Miller ; and Leigh. Plunge-I, Dench ; 2, Thompson ; 3, Barker. Distance, 46 ft. 2 ins.

Intermediate. 5o yards freestyle-I, Pryer ; 2, Hart ; 3, Sheriff. Time, 33.7 secs. 25 yards freestyle-I, Pryer ; 2, Hart ; 3, Sheriff. Time, 15.5 secs. too yards breaststroke-I, Knowlson ; 2, Ward ; 3, Hodgson.

Time, 107.9 secs.