b'F R O M T H E B E G I N N I N Gcaptain for Australia. For many years he maintained an activeinterest in the school. He coached the rugby team and, in 1975,he was guest of honour at Speech Day, presenting the prizes tothe boys.Theschoolhasalsohadapartininternationalcricket.Samuel Charles Everett, who enrolled at the school on the day itopened, was a fast-medium bowler and a left-handed batsmanwho played Sheffield Shield Cricket from 1921 to 1930. In 1926he was awarded a place Herb Collins Australian team to tourEngland. Coogee Prep has always been a very physical, outdoor schoolwith a delightful freedom about itdue largely, no doubt, to thepark at its door. Many of the boys lived nearby and would walkor ride their bikes to school, although in the 1920s, John andRichard Inglis were often brought to school in their fathers sulky.Cricket and rugby would be played in the park before school, at morning tea, at lunch-time and again after school. It was inAlisonPark,MauriceGulson(192432)remembers,that R.A.S.Thurlow(1929)wontherecordforthrowingacricket ball90 yards and 2 feet.During the Second War there were shortages. One Old Boyremembers the large cupboard in Nimmos classroom where all thesportsgearwaskept,whichcontainedfootballsoftheoddestshapes.Once a week on Thursdays, the boys would form a long croc-odile, three abreast, and passing endless stables and horses walkto the Randwick Oval, the small oval (which adjoined RandwickGolf Course) at the top of the hill in High Street, where the WallaceWorth School of Medicine at the University of New South Walesnow stands. The large Moreton Bay fig, which stood at the gate, isstill there. Here all the boys would be coached in cricket or rugby,by Mr. Nimmo and, sometimes, the assistant master. Some yearslater,theweeklypracticewasmovedtothemiddleoftheRandwick Racecourse.Skill was rewarded. Walter South (1927) earned a skull cap,with a gold bar above the Alpha, when he hit 25 runs in a cricket5 6'