ATHLETICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3685, 14 December 1874, Page 3

ATHLETICS.

The High School Tennis Cup this year fal’s to J. Alien At the Gymnasium on Saturday, in the prose ice - f a large number of ladies and gentlemen, Mr Long’s senior and junior classes gave exhibitions of their p; ogress during the year Thirty boys competed for the six prizes offered, and so keen was the competition in some cases that the judges (Messrs G K. Turton and Stuart) had c nsiderable difficulty in awarding the priz-s To Mobi-on first and Webster second in the senior classes, the best prizes vveie deservedly given ; Burn, in the junior class, obtained a prize for clean style and finish ; while Webster, Maclean, and Brent received honorable mention. Mr P. Muir, who was to have been one of che judges, but did not arrive tdl near the cl-se of the exhibition, gave, at Mr Long’s request, an exhibition of what he could do with the flying trapeze, perform ng some leaps that excited the « arm a Imitation of those present; and, dining the interval, Mr Long himse’f performed on tin horizontal bar. The prizj-takers were c -nior Class : First, W. L. Mol ison; second, Weston ; third, Hardy/, Junior Ciasi : Fist, Burnsecond, Banks ; thirl. Wheeler. Honorable meet on: Webster and Vlac’ean. Thefollowing marches have been ar anged for to-day and to-morrow between pupils of Mr Long’s class : A boxing match at the gymnasium at eight o’clock this evening; a" swimming match at the fVechet Bay baths to morrow morning, immediately on "the arrival of the Per - train ; and a cricket mach the sune afternoon on the orth Recreation Ground ! urton has offered a pr za for each of these competit'-is