SPORTS TROPHIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22431, 29 May 1936, Page 9

SPORTS TROPHIES

SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS FUNCTION AT ST. HELIERS Sports trophies won during the past year by pupils of the St. Heliers Bay 'School were distributed at a function held yesterday afternoon - in the school grounds, and attended by MajorGeneral Sir George Richardson; to--j gether with of the Eastern Suburbs Amateur Swimming and LifaJSavfng Club and members ol the school committee. Sir George Richardson, who represented the Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis, patron of the Eastern Suburbs Club, presented the swimming cups, and Mr. T. C. Hobbs-Jones, chairman of the Auckland Centre or the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Associa--1 tion, handed certificates for swimming distances ranging from 25yds. to SSOyds. to 57 pupils. Cups and medals gained at tennis were presented by Mr. J). B. Smith, chairman of the school committee. Sir George Richardson told the children that, pn first entering the grounds, he had been impressed by the environment of the school, and his thoughts had turiaed to schools in London and other parts of the old world, where the children came out of sunless classrooms into a email courtyard, which was their only playground. The school motto, '"Sacrifice to Serve," had rsminded him of the-King, whom he had met several < times. The King was modest, kind-hearted and manly, ai»d his motto, which interpreted meant "I serve," was similai to the children's own. "You children must learn - ta. awim,". said* Sir George, "and | must strive to be swimmers like those receiving trophies to-day. You must always take defeat m good s'pirit, and", if victorious, must never ridicule the loser." Sir • George handed »the Herbert Smith Cup for the eastern primary schools'- relay championship to Owen Girven, captain of the St. Heliers team, and the Herbert Smith Cup, the prissy'for the inter-schools' efficiency championship, to Mark Bell, who gained it for St. Heliers. Bell also received Herbert Smith cups for winning the junior and* tiny-tot boys' points competitions conducted by the Eastern Suburbs Glub, and .another cup from the fsßjne donor was awarded to Rita Sangar for first place in the tiny-tot girls' competition, Eastern Suburbs pennants for inter-school championships were handed by Sir George to Gijvan, Bell, Rita Sangar and Nellie McNiece. Prior to distributing the certificates, the awards of the Auckland Primary School* and New Zealand Amateur Swimming Associations, Mr. Hobbs-Jones said that; as the St. Helters district was endowed with fine beaches, there was no excuse for any child not being » swimmer, Th« children were fortunate in the keen -interest taken in them by the Eastern Suburbs Club, and he congratulated the- pupils and their teachers on- the number of .certificates gained.