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·rHE GLEANER Hockey
Coilingwood has won more Hockey Championships than any town of its size in the Domin~on of Canada. The Collingwood Collegiate Institute has made no !;mall contribution to those Championship teams and therefore it is quite natural that :Hockey should hold a prominent p-:>sition in our Collegiate sports. Unfortunately the flight of time has not allowed us to keep all our graduates with us and many have gone out into thP. wider sphere of life not only to play the game of Hockey, but .also to play, in a manly fashion, the game of life. We might mention some of the fellows who have graduated from -our school of learning and are now playing on teams in other towns. Bert McLeod is one of the mainstays of the strong Peterboro team. Bruce Cox is another member of the Peterboro seniors. "Butter" Burmister played for Niagara Falls Seniors this season. Artie Clark was with the fast Grimsby Intermediate team. Bern Brophy, who played last year for Pittsburg Hornets, was given a trial by the Montreal Mar·:>ons. Mike Brophy was with Owen Sound last year and was a tower of strength on the defence.
However, we still have some Hockey players in the school who will make a name for themselves as their predecessors hav. Most prominent, perhaps, is "Red" Fryer, who is still of junior age, but played right wing for our Intermediate team and helped them win the Group Championship. Bill Dey also played for the Intermediates. On the Junior 0. H. A. team there were three Collegiate boys: Harold Shipley played goal; Edgar Fryer played right wing and has developed into a high class player; E.lwood Hughes was a substitute on the Junior team and played a good game. Within the school we have a Hockey League, con- sisting of six teams. Regular League games are played at the Park Rink and the keenest competition has been shown to date. Bert Hartle's team seemed to be the strongest entry, not only in Hockey, but also in physique. He had such players as Bob and Sleepy Johnston, Criddle Allan, Cogg Smith, Jack Allison and Harry Smith. The other five teams were by no means outclassed and at any time Hartle's team was apt to get a rude jolt. The other teams were all good and were captained by Dune. Mc- Queen, Len Arnold, Phil Bedenham, Meldrum Wright and Sher- man Taylor. Dune. McQueen had some high class players, in·· eluding Clarence Ditson, Pete Duguid and Jack Shields. Len Arnold seemed to be the mainstay of his team. He played goal and put up a high-class game all season. John Livingstone, Dick Walters and Jack Tilley were the pick of the other players. Phil Bedenham had a real good team and gave them all a tough tussle. The most prominent on his roster were Wilbur Prentice. Geo. Sled, Bob McKee and Ernie Rolling. Mel Wright's team looks to be a strong aggregation, but seem to be outlucked
like the New York "Pros". Some say that the lights of Broad- way have dazzled the New York team; perhaps the new school Page Forty-nin e