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JC takes home trophy for the 12th time

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Members of the Jamaica College track and field team which secured 54 points to win the 42nd renewal of the annual Games at Sabina Park in April 1952 last are: in front (L-R) Frank Hall, Alex Ewart, John Maxwell, Keith Bair (capt) and Class 1 champion Rodney Moodie, Leo Lawson, Winston McKenzie. Middle row (L-R): Howard Nethersole Colin Gaynair, Howard Hamilton, John Stockhausen; Mr Gerald Foster, coach; Herbert Bramwell, Lascelles Warmington, Robert Marley. Louis Jones. Back row (L to R): Max Maxwell, Emerson Jones, Franklin Powell, Trevor Patterson, Howard Redshaw and Neville Chin Onn.

Kingston College and other competitors were no match for the Hope Road school at the annual inter-scholastic track and field championships. Jamaica College had strategic placements in all major events, and this led to them being victorious.

Published Monday, April 7, 1952

JC dethrone KC in day of record

Four set, two tied as Games end

Gleaner Sports Reporter

FOUR RECORDS WERE SET and two existing marks equalled as Jamaica College (JC) won the 42nd renewal of the annual inter-scholastic  track and field championships at Sabina Park on Saturday last. Trained by Olympic coach Gerald Foster, the boys from Hope Road were in peak form and beat favourites Kingston College by 54-52 points in the race for the highest honour in local schoolboy athletics.

In the 42 years of the competition, JC have won 12 times, Wolmer’s 10, Munro 8, Calabar High School 6, Kingston College 4, and St George’s College 2.

Highlights of the meeting were the magnificent running of Ken Donaldson of Cornwall College, who, without keen competition, lowered the mile record from 4m 49 secs to 4m 42 secs.  And the superb last 25  yards burst, which Frank Hall turned on to win the Class 1 hundred in 9.9 seconds, lowering Norman Manley’s 10 seconds flat in 1911.

There is a romantic history of the elusive 100 yards record. Manley made it in 1911. Lester Foote of Cornwall College equalled it in 1925. ‘Coco’ Brown of Wolmer’s equalled it in 1940 and 1941. Dick Mahfood of Jamaica College again equalled it in 1950. Now after 41 years, it is gone.

Jamaica College’s victory was built on a solid team of entrants in the major class field events supported by a trio of runners Hall, Ewart, and Nethersole.

Hall ran a great anchor leg in the final of the Class 1 relay to beat Melvin Watson of KC and secure seven valuable points for his school.

The champion athlete of the meeting was Howard Aris of Kingston College with 14 points. Hall was Class 1 champion.

At the end of the meet, certificates were presented by Mr George-Desnoes, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association, and Mr Hugo Chambers, headmaster of Jamaica College.

 

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