In his prime as an athlete, "Mick" Terry was not only a fine sprinter and middle-distance runner, he was also the champion axeman of the Australian Commonwealth, and he held a number of world records for the 12-in, 15-in, and 18-in standing blocks. He often competed very successfully in private handicap woodchopping contests. He later became an athletics coach. He moved to South Africa in 1909, as the coach of "The Blue Streak" Jack Donaldson, He was short-listed to coach the German team in the 1916 Summer Olympics; however, the 1916 Olympic Games were later cancelled due to World War I. He was the coach of the South African Olympic Athletic Teams in 1924 and 1928. He was an athletics coach for the Australian Olympic Athletic Team in 1932. He died in Durban, Natal, South Africa on 7 July 1964. Schoolboy athlete Ted Terry attended St Virgil's College, a Christian Brothers' college, in Barrack Street, Hobart; and, whilst there, was an outstanding all-round schoolboy athlete. He excelled at track and field athletics, cricket, football, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, rowing, and handball. Handball Given that St. Virgil's was Christian Brothers' college, handball was very strongly promoted amongst the students, driven by the Brothers' view that handball "affords an excellent preparatory training for football, as it calls into play all the resources of the physical man". Handball is one of the best ways for a potential Australian Rules footballer to acquire the optimum level of hand–eye coordination, ambidexterity, smoothness and flexibility, and sense of where one is in time and space (e.g., Bill Serong who played in three Grand Finals for Collingwood, went to the Christian Brothers' College in Victoria Parade, and was the Australian handball champion in 1974, aged 38). Terry became the school's handball champion, and won the College's handball championship's gold medal in 1921. Tennis On Saturday, 19 November 1921, playing for St. Virgil's College against Hutchins School, Terry lost his only singles match, but won his two doubles matches (those two wins were the only wins for St. Vigil's on that day). On Saturday 15 April 1922, Terry was beaten in the final of the Associated Schools Tennis Singles' Championship. Swimming At the 1919 Southern Tasmanian Secondary Schools' Annual Swimming Carnival, he came third in the under-15 50 yards freestyle. In 1922 he was St. Virgil's open-age swimming champion. Cricket He was the first St Virgil's batsman to score