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Troy Caine, Guest Columnist
The first of the '10 things you didn't know about Tony Hart' listed in the Outlook (Sunday Gleaner, December 29, 2013) certainly stumped me and, perhaps, scores of other readers to learn that Tony was Munro College's goalkeeper "in the 1949 daCosta Cup final against Cornwall".
Really? Well, that would have been an impossibility, considering that the daCosta Cup competition was not started until 1950. Up to 1949, rural grant-aided secondary schools were only competing for the Olivier Shield, and at that point, only Munro, Cornwall, Clarendon College, and Beckford & Smith's (now St Jago) were the country teams from which a semi-finalist would emerge to engage the winner from the Corporate Area.
Perhaps Tony was the goalkeeper Munro used in the two Olivier Shield country semi-finals against Cornwall in 1949 when they drew 2-2 at home in the first match, then spanked Cornwall 4-2 in the second match at Montego Bay to clinch a 6-4 aggregate and the right to face Kingston College in the finals.
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Munro's basic line-up for those finals in '49 were: Trevor Parchment (captain), N.A.D. Tappin Jr, N. Nelson, N. Holness, E. Thomas, P. Chuck, J. Tai Pow, R.P. Profitt, A. Edwards, R. Martin, and goalkeeper C.G. Miller. In the first final in Kingston against KC (captained by Freddie Green), Munro lost 1-4, but won 2-0 at Munro in the second match and failed 3-4 in their bid to lift the Shield for the 14th time.
Indeed, the year 1949 actually turned out to be the last time that only the Olivier Shield and the Manning Cup were the senior football competitions in secondary schools.
After the inauguration of the daCosta Cup for rural schools in 1950, the Walker Cup for the top four schools in the Corporate Area started in 1961, followed by the Northern Ford Cup (for All-daCosta vs All-Manning) which was donated in 1962 by Tony Hart, then manager of the Northern Industrial Garage in Montego Bay.
Much later came the Ben Francis Cup for rural-zone winners, somewhat similar to the Walker Cup competition.
political career
Munro's first victorious daCosta squad in 1950, captained by Tappin and with goalkeeper Derrick Dyer, became their first team to capture both the daCosta Cup and the Olivier Shield. This feat would be repeated in 1951 when their 13-year-old boy wonder, David A. Lindo, took over as custodian - and 16 years later took custody of the East Rural St Andrew seat as a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member of parliament.
Among the many hats he wore, Tony Hart also had a relatively brief foray into local and national politics, but with mixed results. He was the elected JLP councillor for the Rose Hall division in the St James Parish Council, 1966 to 1974, and was the losing JLP candidate against the PNP's Francis Tulloch in the old Central St James seat in 1972.
At Munro, Tony came up just slightly behind his older cousin, Hugh Hart, who also distinguished himself as an outstanding Munro athlete in various sports in the mid-'40s. In fact, Munro College became the school of choice for many generations of Harts dating back to the late 19th century, and included the dads of both Tony and Hugh - Alan Keith Edmund Hart and Clinton Hart, PC.
Kudos to Mr Tony Hart for his PSOJ award and for his extensive phenomenal achievements, but most especially as an old Munronian who has kept intact the resplendence of the city set upon a hill. A happy and peaceful New Year to everyone, and may 2014 be the year when we attain greater accuracy in what we report, research, write, and analyse throughout the Jamaican media landscape.
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The first of the '10 things you didn't know about Tony Hart' listed in the Outlook (Sunday Gleaner, December 29, 2013) certainly stumped me and, perhaps, scores of other readers to learn that Tony was Munro College's goalkeeper "in the 1949 daCosta Cup final against Cornwall".
Really? Well, that would have been an impossibility, considering that the daCosta Cup competition was not started until 1950. Up to 1949, rural grant-aided secondary schools were only competing for the Olivier Shield, and at that point, only Munro, Cornwall, Clarendon College, and Beckford & Smith's (now St Jago) were the country teams from which a semi-finalist would emerge to engage the winner from the Corporate Area.
Perhaps Tony was the goalkeeper Munro used in the two Olivier Shield country semi-finals against Cornwall in 1949 when they drew 2-2 at home in the first match, then spanked Cornwall 4-2 in the second match at Montego Bay to clinch a 6-4 aggregate and the right to face Kingston College in the finals.
details of the facts
Munro's basic line-up for those finals in '49 were: Trevor Parchment (captain), N.A.D. Tappin Jr, N. Nelson, N. Holness, E. Thomas, P. Chuck, J. Tai Pow, R.P. Profitt, A. Edwards, R. Martin, and goalkeeper C.G. Miller. In the first final in Kingston against KC (captained by Freddie Green), Munro lost 1-4, but won 2-0 at Munro in the second match and failed 3-4 in their bid to lift the Shield for the 14th time.
Indeed, the year 1949 actually turned out to be the last time that only the Olivier Shield and the Manning Cup were the senior football competitions in secondary schools.
After the inauguration of the daCosta Cup for rural schools in 1950, the Walker Cup for the top four schools in the Corporate Area started in 1961, followed by the Northern Ford Cup (for All-daCosta vs All-Manning) which was donated in 1962 by Tony Hart, then manager of the Northern Industrial Garage in Montego Bay.
Much later came the Ben Francis Cup for rural-zone winners, somewhat similar to the Walker Cup competition.
political career
Munro's first victorious daCosta squad in 1950, captained by Tappin and with goalkeeper Derrick Dyer, became their first team to capture both the daCosta Cup and the Olivier Shield. This feat would be repeated in 1951 when their 13-year-old boy wonder, David A. Lindo, took over as custodian - and 16 years later took custody of the East Rural St Andrew seat as a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member of parliament.
Among the many hats he wore, Tony Hart also had a relatively brief foray into local and national politics, but with mixed results. He was the elected JLP councillor for the Rose Hall division in the St James Parish Council, 1966 to 1974, and was the losing JLP candidate against the PNP's Francis Tulloch in the old Central St James seat in 1972.
At Munro, Tony came up just slightly behind his older cousin, Hugh Hart, who also distinguished himself as an outstanding Munro athlete in various sports in the mid-'40s. In fact, Munro College became the school of choice for many generations of Harts dating back to the late 19th century, and included the dads of both Tony and Hugh - Alan Keith Edmund Hart and Clinton Hart, PC.
Kudos to Mr Tony Hart for his PSOJ award and for his extensive phenomenal achievements, but most especially as an old Munronian who has kept intact the resplendence of the city set upon a hill. A happy and peaceful New Year to everyone, and may 2014 be the year when we attain greater accuracy in what we report, research, write, and analyse throughout the Jamaican media landscape.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mcol...1841514151497/