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as a result, a very unusual and untiniely
fog descended· on the Gatine~u
Hills on Sunday. Although the jumving
was finally held after many ci?n-
sultations, the longest jump made
was 160 feet by Lucien Laferte of
Three Rivers.
However, Art Tokle
....-put on an excellent display to l~ap
189 feet in a meet held by the Gatineau
Ski Zone on March 11 and easily
broke Reidar Andersen's former matk
of 168 feet.
With a few alteration:>
in the jump it should not be too difficult
to add another eleven feet to
this distance.
On the local front competitive
skiing opened on January 7 with
John Clifford and Doug Minnes winning
the preliminary senior and jun!or
cross-country races at Camp Fortune.
Poor conditions on the hills prevented
the holdlng of any downhill or slalom
e-vents.
On the following Saturday Glen
Lowes captured the. Southam Trophy
over a field of twenty-two junior
cross-country racers to become the>
first individual to win 1.he award since
GeOTge McCor·mick triumphed in 1924.
In 1925 the Trophy was put up for
team competition amongst the high
schools, but offidals were forced .. to
revert to the former practice la'3t
Winter when the Collegiate Institute
Board of Ottawa, on the recommendation
of the athletic coaches, refm:ied
to permit their students to compete
for their respective schools. They
felt that they could not take the
responsibility for student competitions
when no member of their staff
was in charge of the pupils. Altho~gh
team competition had been followed·
for twenty-six years it had to b.:l
abandoned in" favour of individual
honours, despite the combined efforts