IS FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH UNLUCKY? NOT FOR PAISLEY CONTINUATION SCHOOL ANYWAY; FOR ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 1950 WE BROUGHT HDME FOUR CHAMPIONSHIP CUPS AND THE INTER SCHOOL TROPHY FROM THE ANNUAL INTER SCHOOL FIELD MEET, HELD THIS YEAR AT TEESWATER.
RIVALRY BETWEEN THE COMPETING SCHOOLS, TEESWATER, TIVERTON, RIPLEY AND PAISLEY IS ALWAYS KEEN, BUT THE REALIZATION THAT RIPLEY WOULD BECOME THE PERMANENT KEEPER OF THE BIG SILVER TROPHY CUP SHARPENED THE CONTEST THIS YEAR. FOR FIVE YEARS THE RIPLEY ATHLETES HAD BEEN UNBEATABLE, BUT THIS TIME BY SCORING THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF POINTS RECORDED IN YEARS PAISLEY BEAT ALL RIVALS, AND CARRIED HOME THE TROPHY.
MOST OF THE FIELD DAY EVENTS WERE RUN OFF UNDER COVER, IN TEESWATER'S MEMORIAL ARENA, FOR THE DAY WAS BITING COLD, AND THE OUTSIDE RUNWAYS WERE VERY SOGGY AFTER A HEAVY ALL NIGHT'S RAIN. ONLY TRACK EVENTS AND BALL THROWS WERE HELD OUTSIDE, WHERE THE WIND STIFFENED THE MUSCLES AND CHILLED THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE GAMIEST CONTENDERS.
THE MEET GOT UNDER WAY TEN-THIRTY, AND THE BOYS SOON OUTSTRIPPED THEIR RIVALS BY WINNING FIRSTS AND SECONDS IN THE HIGH JUMPS, THE RUNNING BOARD, AND THE HOP-STEP-AND-JUMP. THE GIRLS WON THE FIRSTS AND SECONDS IN THE STANDING BROAD,THE RUNNING BROAD AND THE BASKET BALL THROW. THE PAISLEY GIRLS RUBY MCARTHUR, JEAN MCKENZIE, JEAN BROWN, SHIRLEY STARK AND GWEN IRWIN, FACED STRONG COMPETITORS IN LEONE WILSON, LOIS THOMPSON, PAT MEAD, AND RUTH MCKENZIE
EDDIE DUDDLE AND FRANK ROLSTON TIED FOR SENIOR BOYS' CHAMPIONSHIP, AND DON MCARTHUR WAS THE RUNNER UP. JOHN BRYCE OF PAISLEY WAS TIED WITH B. McDONALD OF RIPLEY, FOR THE JUNIOR BOYS' CHAMPIONSHIP. THOUGH THE PAISLEY GIRLS DID NOT WIN ANY OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS, RUBY MCARTHUR AND JEAN BROWN OF OUR SCHOOL WERE THE RUNNERS UP FOR THE SENIOR GIRL AND JUNIOR GIRL CHAMPIONSHIPS, RESPECTIVELY,
ALL OF PAISLEY WAS BURSTING WITH PRIDE WHEN THE WINNERS CAME HOME, AND FOUR SHINING CHAMPIONSHIP CUPS WERE SOON ON DISPLY IN THE DRUG STORE WINDOW.
