After Nine Years

Now that the tumult and shouting has died, we are in the position of analysing, more or less calmly, our achievements at Tournament. We knew we were sending away an imperfectly balanced team, yet a team that was so strong in most departments that we felt that the weaknesses known to exist would be effectively counteracted. And so it proved.

We scarcely won a point in swimming; in athletics we did little better; in boxing we won only one of the six weights: yet so heavy did we score with our virtual monopoly of the tennis titles, and our success in rowing, shooting and basketball, that we emerged victors by a substantial margin.

Thus a depressing era in the sporting history of Victoria College has ended. It was away back in 1929 that we last won the Tournament Shield. In the interim we have held the wooden spoon an embarrassing number of times, Now, after a lapse of nine years, we have won again; yet though victory in four of the seven sections is cause enough for jubilation, our complete eclipse in the important pastimes of athletics and swimming is disquieting. In the former we obtained three firsts in eighteen events; in swimming not a single victory. Little better was our boxing record, but here some bad luck played a part, Next year let us strive to improve the standard in these departments, while endeavouring to maintain the satisfactory standard reached in the other four.

—L.B.S.