Spectrum - 1965 - Southgate County School

Staff v School Hockey
Staff 5, School 3
April 2nd, 1965—and the school again assembled
on the sacred turf to watch for blood as the staff played
the school First XI at hockey. There was in fact a
minimum of blood—the match being remarkably
civilised. The staff scored first, but the school seized an
opportunity to equalise within minutes. An excellent
goal from Mr. Bigg added to the tension and at half time
the score was 3—3. The second half of the match was
less exciting. The school attacked continually but was
unable to score, while the staff taking advantage of their
speedy wingers, twice scored from breakaways making
the final score 5—3 to the staff.
PAT TAYLOR.
House Results
Senior
Junior
1st BRAMLEY 1st BRAMLEY
2nd CHACE
2nd TRENT
3rd HADLEY 3rd HADLEY
4th TRENT 4th CHACE
School Tournaments
Senior Girls: Penny Swinburne
Junior Girls: Avis Marlowe
Boys: A. Squires
Mixed Doubles: Dianne Smith and J. Davis.
CROSS COUNTRY
This, now, much revered event attracted strong
competition throughout the school and produced some
very exciting races. Some of the competitors had been
training for months and now the results of their labours
showed as they alone were able to keep up the fast pace
which is always present at the start of the cross country
races. The one record that was broken was in the middle
school when C. Lawrie of Trent House broke the old
record by 26 seconds.
TENNIS
It was very disappointing for the teams that despite
all our efforts we were only able to arrange two tennis
matches, one of which was cancelled. The one match was
against Minchenden who beat our first six enabling them
to retain 'The Rose Bowl' Trophy once again, but the
second six are to be congratulated on beating Minchenden
for the first time in many years.
Generally tennis has seemed to have gained tremendous
popularity throughout the school. All eight courts
were used nearly all the available time including lunch
hours and even during break by some enthusiastic first
formers. This interest has been shown not only by the
girls but also by vast numbers of boys and a rota had to
be worked out so that everyone had the opportunity of
getting at least one game a week.
The school tournaments were severely hit by a
shortage of time and much of the excitement was ruined
by walkovers. However when finals day came the
matches proved to be very close and exciting.
Unfortunately the school v. staff match had to be
called off owing to the elements and it is left to the
imagination as the only method of drawing any conclusion
as to the result of this, usually, magnificent battle.
Teams:
PENNY SWINBURNE
(tennis capl.)
1st VI: Dianne Smith, Penny Swinburne, Lysbeth Hill,
Linda Davies, Christine Clarke, Gillian Pearce.
2nd VI: Jennifer Stone, Christine Champion, Linda
Murray, Christina Law, Diane Williams, Katie
Stanford.
Results
Senior: I. C. Side (T); 2. R. Goodere (H); 3. R. Hill (H).
Time: 19 mins. 56 sees. Record: 19 mins. 12 sees.
Middle: 1. C. Lawrie (T); 2. B. Holbrook (H);
3. J. Davies (T).
Time: 17 mins. 31 sees. (New Record).
Junior: 1. R. Davis (B); 2. I. Drew (T); 3. B. Chaliis (T).
Time: 12 mins. 23 sees. Record: 11 mins. 20 sees.
Form I: 1. R. Vale (H); 2. S. Saunders (H);
3. G. Milner (H).
Time: 8 mins. 30 sees. Record: 1 mins. 56 sees.
SWIMMING
Of all the sports catered for at school swimming is
probably the most neglected. After the first year there is
no room for it on the timetable and the only official
recognition of it is in the annual school gala which is now
held at Arnos Baths. However within the school a club
has been formed and fairly regular meetings were held
last year at Wood Green. Although this has not had any
immediate effect on our results in inter-school galas we
hope that in a few years this extra practice will pay
dividends.
In this year's North Middlesex Gala our senior
girls' team was placed fifth out of the 24 schools competing
but our other teams were unplaced. Penny
Swinburne, R. Janes and the relay team all qualified to
go through to the all Middlesex finals.
School Gala Results:
Boys:
1st. CHACE 54 pts.
2nd. HADLEY 53 pts.
3rd. BRAMLEY 43 pts.
4th. TRENT 23 pts.
Girls:
1st. HADLEY 67 pts.
2nd. BRAMLEY 66 pts.
3rd. TRENT 50 pts.
4th. CHACE 46 pts.
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