of our present Mr. J. Mathew), a Currie Cup player whose ball control was the envy of every snooker player in the country; Mr. "Freddy" "Fhorp (still with us), wbose mop of hair made every hairdresser in Wynberg thoughtful, and who would have become a soccer international at outside-right had he not, too frequently, fallen over his own feet. Mr. D. du Toit, one of our famous rugby players of those days, was also in the team. His objection against playing with a ball tbat had no corners was immediately overruled, and it took some time to convince him that he had to kick under the cross-bar and not over. Or. Godfrey Bobbins, the English master, and former member of the University first soccer team, found the parts of speech very comforting when he was fouled. Even in those days, Mr. Arguile ("Gloom") predicted beforehand that the masters would lose, and that the time could be spent to greater advantage in teaching the boys
more Latin. You will also see Mr. Daniel Marais ("Choker"), the Afrikaans master, who could tell a boy his fortune in five different languages without repeating himself. Wynberg was a much smaller school in those days and so the team had to be strengthened with some of the senior boys. This accounts for the presence of Mr. Ralph Felbert, who has since been President of the Old Boys' Union on more than one occasion. Mr. Felbert is today a fluent speaker, which] realised he would be when I heard the way in which he addressed that soccer ball. It was a Test Match in so far that it showed
that soccer at W.B.H.S. in those days compared favourably with netball and marbles, and that we had nothing to be ashamed of in our tactics to beat the referee. Indeed, it might even be said that this match did more for the retention of rugby as our major winter sport than all the arguments advanced ever since.
The standard of the golfers in the school has greatly improved during the past year. We now have two single figure handicap golfers in Gordon Bunting (5) and Ian Saevitzon (6). Gordon has distinguished himself in both adult and junior golf and noteworthy among his performances was his victory in the 1964 Western Province Junior Championships at Westlake. Ian Saevitzon did well to reach the semi-finals. Gordon won the junior division of the men's club championship at Clovelly last year and Ian Saevitzon carried off the Colt's title. Ian and Gordon were runners-up in the School's Golf at Rondebosch last year with the excellent score of 81 - 79 - 160. They both played in the Western Province Amateur Championship and Gordon qualified for a place in the play-off for the Kingsley Trophy. He was subse-
quently chosen to play for the Western Province men's team in the trials. In the Boys vs. Masters game at Royal Cape, Seftel and Silbowitz defeated Mr. Le Roux and Mr. Hopkins while Bloch and Saevitzon went down to Mr. Parkins and Mr. Kooy. Handicaps of boys playing golf at the school are at the moment: Gordon Bunting Ian Saevitzon Maurice Bloch . Brian Seftel Harry Silbowitz Gregory Fine .....
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Coljn Braude, Jock Goldblatt and Jules Miller have also started playing at Clovelly.
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