HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 125, 14 October 1912, Page 6

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.

ANNUAL SPORTS. The New Plymouth High School Girls' Annual Sports attracted a large number of girls and lady visitors to the High School grounds on Saturday afternoon. Everything went off successfully, and, judged by some of the performances, the schoo] turns out good sports among the girls as well as good scholars. All the events were spiritedly contested, the exceptionally large number of entries necessitating numerous heats being run. Results:

Slow Bicycle Race (27 entries).—lst | heat. Constance Penn 1. 2nd heat, Helen Bullard 1. 3rd heat, Olga Wallach 1, Alix Warren 2. Final, Constance Penn 1. Three-legged Race (32 entries).—lst heat: C. Penn and Grace Mouat 1, A. Warren and Nellie White 2. 2nd heat: Mabel Okey and Florence Winfield 1, Olga Wallach and Alice George 2. 3rd heat: Kathleen King and Alice Brown 1, Isabel Whitaker and Evelyn Short 2. Final: Alix Warren and Nellie White 1. Walking Race (21 entries). —Ist lieat: Alix Warren 1, Olga Wallach 2. 2nd heat: Margaret Tobin 1, Rata Whitton 2. 3rd heat: Margaret Terry 1, Claribel Pellew 2.4 th heat: Marjory Bollinger I 1, Evelyn Monteatli 2. Final: Olga WalI lach 1.

Hopping Race (15 entries). —Ist heat: Alix Warren 1, M. Terry 2. 2nd heat: R. Whitton 1. S. Jackson 2. 3rd heat: M. Lennon 1, M. Tobin 2. Final: A. Warren 1, S. Jackson 2. Relay Race.—Fourth Form (C. Penn's •team) 1, Sixth Form (E. Monteath's team) 2, Fifth Form (Mona Corkill's team) 3, Third Form (Ada Stoddart's team) 4. Potato Race (30 entries). —Ist heat: M. Lennon 1. 2nd heat: F. Winfield 1. 3rd heat: A. Warren 1. 4th heat: H. '.Bullard 1. Final: H. Bullard 1, A. Warren 2.

Bicycle Obstacle Race (23' entries).—

Ist heat: A. Cocker 1. 2nd heat: C. Penn 1. 3rd heat: R. Whitton 1, 4th heat: G. Mouat 1. Final: R. Whitton 1.

Thread-the-Xeedle llace (20 entries). —

Ist heat: M. Terry 1, A. Warren 2. 2nd heat: K. King 1, N. Warren 2. 3rd heat: E. d'Ath 1, G. Mouat 2. Final: M. Terry 1. Old Girls' Race, -50 yds ('l2 entries). — Ist heat: Elsie Greatbatch 1, Kathleen Earp 2. 2nd heat: Mildred Thomson 1, Dorothy Simpson 2. Final: M. Thomson 1( E. Greatbatch 2. Egg-and-Spoon Race (32 entries).—lst heat: M. Tobiti 1, Olive Simmons 2. 2nd heat: M. Okey I, N. Bendall 2. 3rd heat: G. Mouat and K. King 1, E. d'Ath 2.4 th heat: A. Pope 1, A Cocker 2. Final: A. Cocker 1, M. Okey 2. ' Musicalßace (10 entries).—lst heat: G. Mouat and partner 1, F. Winfield and partner 2, O. Wallach. partner 3. 2nd heat: A. Cocker .and partner 1, C. Pellew and partner 2; Final:- 4* r Cocker; and M. Lennon. 1, C. Pellew and R. Whitton 2.

Relay Race, (past v. present pupjls).— Won by present girls' tesm. . ; - Old Girls' Race" (100 yds) 1-r-Margaret Corkill 1, Mrs. L. B, Wfb'fter' ?.

Junior Team's Championship,.—N. Bendall beat A. Warren in the finals. ~

Senior Tennis -Championship. .The final between Olive , AmbuvVf apd C.on : stance Penn has yet-to Jbe"'playeifc '.- During the afternoon, just, before the afternoon tea interval, .there,was a display of fancy marching by tlic gifls under Mr. Lints' direction,