Seventh Annual WATERLOO COLLEGE INVITATION GAMES The Seventh Annual Waterloo College Invitation Games will be held at Woodside Park, Queen street south, Kitchener, on Saturday, May 4, 1946. For obvious reasons the games were not held during the war. Steady progress up to the sixth games in 1940 had brought a record attendance of 314 contestants representing 30 collegiates, high schools, and continuation schools. This meet sponsored by Waterloo College has always enjoyed the full approval of physical instructors in this part of the province. The excellent high-and-dry athletic field at Kitchener's Woodside Park, a better than eighty per cent "break" in weather conditions, the orderly conduct of a varied programme of field and track events, and the certainty of spirited competition have given teachers and students confidence in a sportting event which became an institution--a recognized feature in the athletic schedule of a large number of secondary schools in Central Western Ontario. A pioneer in many respects, this meet often received the compliment of imitation. The growing tendency in Ontario to develop large-scale inter-scholastic competition in track and field events for girls (and not for boys only) reflected the success achieved in the Waterloo College experiment, which dates from 1935. An increase in the number of meets sponsored by smaller high and continuation schools for themselves and their district rivals may also be traced to the Invitation Games. It has always been the Waterloo policy to ensure success and recognition for even the smallest schools by a strict division of all competition into two groups--one for collegiate students and the other for high and continuation students--with separate events and equally, generous rewards for each group. The aim of the Invitation Games is still the development of individual athletic ability by friendly competition of girls and boys, of small schools with small schools, and of collegiates with collegiates. The quality and number of awards is unexcelled. The collegiate amassing the largest total of points receives the large Goudie Trophy, donatedby Mr. A. R. Goudie of Kitchener; the high or continuation school with the best team aggregate wins the no less handsome Hains-worth Trophy, donated by Mr. George Hains worth, who needs no introduction to hockey fans. Winners of individual events receive handsome trophies. There are thirty of these trophies divided equally as awards to boys and girls of the two groups. Ribbons go to second and third place winners, and banners to the schools successful in the various relays. On the calendars of many physical training instructors in this district there will be a ring around the first Saturday in May. This comparatively early date was selected because it does not interfere with final examinations in the schools and because it affords preparation under actual competitive conditions for contests sponsored later by the various secondary schools' associations. The early date has been upheld through the years because it has been approved by coaches and contestants and because the b9gey of bad weather has faded out in the light of experience. The meet has the official sanction of the Ontario branch of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada, whose rules are used. Trained officials, headed by representatives of the A.A.U. of C., provide efficient supervision. Waterloo College does not compete. It is not a secondary school. A degree-granting institution of higher learning, affiliated with the University of Western Ontario, and training young men and women for the B.A. degree, the College plays the part of host as its students and professors do everything possible for the comfort and entertainment of the visiting principals, coaches, competitors, and spectators. Mr. Arthur Conrad, a Waterloo student who won the annual Track and Field championship of the University this year, is chairman of the Games Committee. Any student, boy or girl, under 20 years of age, May 4, 1946, in regular attendance at a secondary, school in Central Western Ontario is eligible to compete, provided that application is made with the consent, and over the signature of his or her Physical Director. (over)