Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 2, March 16th, 1949.
Tennis Club Blues
Tennis Club Blues
The Tennis Club is plugging away, but with wide knowledge of Otago's strong team our hopes are not too high. There is a definite shortage of women players, in fact the women's Senior A team have not won or even looked like winning a match. Our first lady is ineligible this season much to our woe but we have a steady second in Valmae Turner. After that the team is anyone's guess. The men might do well in the men's doubles with Hugh Davidson and Jack Walls—last year's Wellington doubles champs but if Jeff Robson is playing men's doubles for Otago, as rumour has it, there will be a great fight. If Canty play Jean McGibbon and Otago play Cecily Neave, we are straight away counted out of the women's singles. Men's singles are a foregone conclusion with Robson in Otago's team. Mixed doubles are always an unknown quantity. We might . . .