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INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
The Inter-House Sports were held a little later than usual this
year, on September 3, and as has been the custom in the past, the
weather treated us to a fine day.
This year 10 records were broken and four equalled, eigth of these
by the boys. Ralph Railings set a new record for the mile with a time
of 5 min. 6.6 sec., bettering his previous record by 17.4 secs.
The Wentworth senior 4 x 220 relay team broke the standing record
of 1 min. 42.4 sec. by 1.2 sec. -Both 440’s provided good times with
Selwyn Loynes’ new record of 54 secs., and Graham Pearson’s 62.6 secs.,
equalling the record. Dennis Davis, the minor champion, set a new hop,
step and jump record of 33 feet 6 inches. Griffith House minor and
senior boys won both their relay events in record time, 1 min., 46.6 secs.
and 1 min. 32.6 secs., respectively.
Lorraine Hillier ran well all day, breaking one record (75 yards
junior in 9.2) and equalling two. The ball games this year were rather
slow with only two records being established and one equalled. The
new records are 47.4 by Griffith minors in leader ball and 42.6 by Lilley
juniors in the File Gap. Wentworth seniors equalled the leader ball
record.
This year's senior champions were Marjorie Lee and Gary Cummings,
both of Wentworth, as were both the junior champions, Lorraine Hillier
and Graham Pearson. Elaine Phillips and Dennis Davis of Griffith were
the minor champions.
Total points were Griffith 360J, Wentworth 318J, Lilley 229. All
agreed that it was a most enjoyable day, especially the members of
Griffith House who became holders of the cup for the first time.

Q.S.S.S.S.A.
BOYS.
We went into the Exhibition Grounds on Friday, September 27, full
of high hopes. We had every reason to be confident for, not only had
the re-grading of schools favoured us, but it was generally recognised
that this was the strongest side we had fielded for some considerable
time. In spite of the shocking condition of the old oval, our boys had
turned in some really sound performances both in the school carnival
and subsequently in practise runs, and it was felt that our open section
was the strongest it had been for years. Our under 16 boys looked good
on paper, but failure to train hard and often was to tell on them, while
our under 15 group was not rated highly.
The early events went as we expected. Robert Martin, in the
under 16 220 yards heat, although placed, was blowing hard, owing, he
admitted, to lack of condition. Our boys must realise that they are
expected to compete against some of the best runners in Queensland,
and to take training lightly is fatal.
Len Starika, in the under 15 220 yards was considered our best,