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CRAIG COOK
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CHAMPIONS
From the Calgary Herald - JUNIOR SKIING TITLES DECIDED Lac Beauport, que.
Helen Weider of Collingwood, Ont. emerged star of the Canadian junior ladies ski championships at Lac Beauport.
The 15 year old Miss Weider, already Ontario
ladies downhill, slalom and cross-country junior champ., won the Canadian downhill and slalom with an easy margin over her opponents.
Again we congratulate uur little Miss Weider on her splendid performance.
Congratulations, Helent Lot·s of luck in future competitions\
On Friday October 8,I954 Craig Cook accomplished a noteworthy achievement.He has written his name in the annals of both O.S.C.V.I. and C.D.C.I. His achievement was the clearing of a small cross-bar which was placed at a height of six feet.This feat climaxed a long succession of attempts to better the other competitors.
Last spring at the Georgian Bay trials at Pickering College he won first place by jumping 5'5".He won the c.o.s.s.A.meet at Peter- borough the following week with a jump of 5'?".A week later he won proved himself the better with a leap of 5'8i".This gave him the Ontario Championship and entitled him to go to Windsor in a meet against the best from the Dominion.In preparation for this meet he went ~o Montreal and won the ~uebec Champion with a record jump of 5'8!'' .This record stilr stands.At Windsor Craig suffered his first defeat,when he was only able to obtain a second with a jump of 5'7". During the summer he entered the Canadian Olympic Training Plan and after a week's training he won this event with a jump of 5'I0t".In an attempt to break the Canadian Juvenile High Jump record he missed
~he height of 6't"by a hair!s breadth.In our ~wn meet, however, he lost to Bruce Crew at a height of 5'6".But on Friday,October 8,I954 he redeemed himself by breaking the six-foot barrier and attaining his goal.
This year he hopes to go on in his jumping in an attempt to make the Olympic team of I956.He hopes to attend all the meets that he did last year and to attain greater heights.
