TWO MEDALS PRESENTED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 61, 3 July 1914, Page 5

TWO MEDALS PRESENTED.

TO STRATFORD SCHOOL BOY£, While the Stratford School Cadets were being drilled this afternoon two presentations were made by Mr P. Skoglund, chairman of the School Committee. The first was of a silver medal to Sergt. Roy Coutts, the highest scorer in the team which won the Ladies’ Challenge Cnp, which was also on view and which is held by the school for a year.

Mr, Skoglund said the Cup was the outcome of a subscription raised by Lady Godley, the ladies of the whole of the country having subscribed. A Cup similar to the one on exhibition bad been presented to each school in the country. The cadet company fired for the Cup, and a medal was presented to the highest scorer in the team. The name of the winner of the medal would be inscribed on the Cup. Coutts then loft the ranks and received the medal.

Mr Skoglund then presented the handsome gold medal which goes to the winner of the Bayly Memorial Scholarship to Charles Lawn. Mr Skoglund said that in the previous year he had presented one of these medals to Coutts, and everybody would feel very proud indeed that another Stratford boy had won the scholarship again this year. No doubt some of the boys had never known the late Mr Alf. Bayly, while some would only just remember him. He felt sure that Lawn would worthily uphold the reputation made by previous winners of the scholarship . This was the fourth year of the scholarship and the previous winners had done all that was expected of them. The idea of the Rugby Union in providing the scholarship was to enable boys who might not be in the first flight as scholars to enjoy the benefits of a scholarship. The Rugby Union hoped that Lawn’s future career would bo entirely successful. Ho (Mr Skoglund) could only express the hope that Lawn would grow tip such another fine man as Mr Bayly was—Mr Bayly was a man whom all should delight to honor. The function concluded with hearty cheers for Lawn and Coutts.