According to the Gleaner of Thursday June 30, 1910
Wolmer’s School carried its colours to victory yesterday and come out with the championship cup, in the first annual championship sports of the secondary schools in Jamaica. The meeting was held at Sabina Park and was witnessed by a large number of person prominent among whom were, His Excellency and Governor and Lady Olivier, the Hon. J. R. Williams, Cannon Simms and several others.”
The weather was fine, though a trifle warm, but this seemed rather as if it served to stir the boys to keen spirit of rivalry and enthusiasm, all of which went to make the meeting a notable and successful one”
Jamaica College is superior in Class 1 as their senior athletes score 20 out of a possible 30 points for the six events. In the open event these same senior athletes score another six points, giving them a total of 26, 9 more than St. George's and 16 ½ more than Wolmer’s. But JC failed badly in classes 2 and 3. Here they score only .4 of a point in seven events whilst Wormer’s scored 22.
The Jamaica College Magazine of 1910 took the class 2 and 3 boys apart by saying that “the performances of the boys in class 2 and 3 were most discreditable as they only gained 4/10th of a point. 2 point at least aught to have been gained in the long jump. Wolmer’s Boys in class 2 and class 3 were in splendid form and showed good promise of retaining the cup for their school for many years.”
“In the flat races, other than the 880 yards the boys were divided into two or three classes according to age and the first and second in the heats competed in the finals. It was a stiff fight between Wolmer’s, Jamaica College and St. Georges, and at one time the dark blue and white of the ‘J.C.’ Boys came a rather close second. But Wolmer’s maintained its lead to the end winning the Olivier Championship Challenge Cup.” (Note: it was not the Olivier cup).
The hundred-yard (finals) class one was a pretty smart dash and won in 10 1/5th with Manley (J.C,) a close second. Another keenly contested event was the hundred yards finals in class 2. So close was the finish that the referee had to be call upon to decide. The pole jump was excellently good. Lecesne of St. Georges College carrying it off with a jump of nine feet six inches. The long jump for boys over 5foot 2 inches in height was won by J.R. Lewis of St. George’s College. In his first jump which measured 19 feet 6 ¼ inches.
