HUTT VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 17, 18 September 1930, Page 3

HUTT VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

Splendid Results in Rugby and

Basket Ball

The Principal of the Hutt Valley High School .writes as follows: — ©OBQta weeks ago one of your corresp.sadests wrote criticising the play of a Hutt Valley team in a curtain raiser to the last Test match with the British teara. He assumed t>hat it was a Hutt Valley High School team, whereas it -woe a primary school representative teamn. I did not see the ganve in question, but the Hutt Valley Primary £Wdi©o2 teams have played so well of Toecm?. years that I feel that, your-cor-respondent was merely •expecting too luaab. As a penalty for your eoi'resmistake would you allow y—jfinalf to he inflicted with a little] trwoapot-'bloiwing on out part? The boys 'have just completed a very sixjeesstfiil Rugby season. They entered soven ,fifte>ons (a good number for a roil of 200 iboys) in ithe Secondiary Seiiooia Competition. This competition (tiie so-icalled "Intermediate" Grrade a£ the Rugfoy Union Gsompetitions) inetades all th© teams from the WeULng--Iwa Soeon'diary School except thia Welliagton College First Mfteen and St. Pat's College ]?trst. Fifteen, whi'eh. are still too strong for the rest of us. No i!(Qßnl^s; of tHese games are pu'bliah.&a, i because we wish the 'boys to play just "rior the sake of tlhe game, but my colleagues in the other schools will not/ object, to tHe following resume:— The First Fifteen Won six games, lost £2*re© and drerw two. Th.ey were succeesfui in detfeatin-g the Eongotai ColJ'qge ajid Scots College First Fifteen and drew Tvith Technical ColTege. The 'Beoond Fifteen had six wins: and five Saaaea. In the lower grades the school ■teams had phenomenal success and gn»d>e a name for themselves amongst ihe hoys of the other colleges. They won forty-one games, drew two, and lest only "eleven! Totalling the Tesnlts <tf itiae seven teams we have 54 wins, 4

(.lm-vvs and 19 losses. This is t>hc result ofkeenness on the part of ftfhc boye and enthusiastic work by the staff, which, is "wieU known to )be as good a i&ug.by ■coaching staff as there is in ]Srew Zealand. More often, than not our ■boys inlet heavier teams; they won their games iby their., skilful -play. ~d following were tihe members of the S^ist Eifteen: Oraig (eapt), Collins, MieConville, James, Button, Wallace^ BosweH, H. Browii, Dame, Ti'eiaewan, Padding, Jenkins, •Bornholdt, Burgess, Sargisson. and Turner. Ohurcih. and Warnes playcct as emiea'g'eneies. Four of ottr !Pifteen —MeCoaviUe, James, 2>orne and Bornholdlt —.were chosen to represeaiit the Secondary School teams in a mQ/teh with anothei* Grade. , •' Th 6 girls of the school have six teams (a"bout.7o girls) in the Secondary Schools' Basket Ball Competition. This is again a large nuaniber—'larger than that, of any of the other schools. The ■coniipetitions arc not yat eomipleted, but the. results so far arc v«ry good, and .are improyinig as the season goes on. The Pirsft Team 'has defeated Technical College and Wairarapa High School, but has lost (to Wellington College and Wellington East, in each case by a narrow margin. They hope to turn the tafbles on these two in the second roun>3. The anjeonlbers of the team are as follows: — Bettty Olp&ert (©apt), Pauline Mawartt, Annette StrLcMand, 4 ..Yjexa, Burns, Beryl Aldous, Adelaide Mowatt, Ngaire Meet, Ethel TUxomtus and Winifred J>oul>le. May M«Nieol and Joan Edwards have played as emergencies. The five reauaining teams have won twenty, drawn seven and lost thirteen games. This ■makes a total for all ■the teams up to ■the present stage of 23 wins*, 7 draws and 16 losses, and the team a-re improving their position as the season advances. : If we add the iboys' and girls 7 results' together we find that out of 122 games played, with the other secondary seiJiools of tihe district this winter the Hutt Valley High School has lost only 35. •