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water swim and training at Langlands Park. You can be assured it improved
our swimming. Why not come along next year? We may be more successful as we cry. “Come on
Wynnum, grey, green, grey”.
Life Saving closely
contested

This year a record number of nine schools
entered the McWhirter
Cup Life Saving Competition for girls. Our School
team consisted of: P.
Clarke (captain), B. Clarke. R. Drevesen and B. McQuillan. They gained
5th place, being just 2.85 points behind the first team. The small difference
in points among the leading teams shows how keenly contested is this
competition and our girls are to be congratulated on their good work.
Special congratulations are due to P. Clarke who has now gained her
Distinction Award, being the first girl from this School to do so.

Boys’ Tennis a popular sport ----------------

Time rings its changes, and for the first time for some years Wynnum
A team of boys played through the series without a victory. The reasons
for this may be placed on the superiority of our opponents and that all
players in the A team were new to tennis in the inter-school competition.
Despite this series of setbacks, we enjoyed the matches, gained much
experience and hope that next year we shall give a better account of
ourselves.The boys of the B team fared much better, winning four matches
and losing four matches. Here again all players were new to High School
competition and the quality of the players augurs for greater success in
1961.
Beside the competition tennis, there are also those boys playing on
the far flung courts from Wynnum North to Manly, on Wednesday after
noons. Some eighty boys are playing and the difficulty of meeting their
requirements in tennis courts is a real one. To the owners of courts, where
the boys played, we express our deep appreciation of the privilege and hope
that in 1961 more courts may become available.These boys represented the School in A and B
grade fixtures: Larry Bolitho. Barry Myatt. Glen Randall, Graeme Bell, Ray Fletcher, Geoffrey
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