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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 3, No. [3]. 1940

Tournament Review

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Tournament Review

Another Tournament has come and gone, and once again, after a lapse of two years, Victoria has succeeded in collecting two wooden spoons. Taken all round it was a very bright Tournament (see "A Tournament Diary" in the last issue of Salient). So far as V.U.C. was concerned we had some exceedingly bright spots and some exceedingly dark ones. Final points for Tournament Shield were:
A.U.C. 21 ½
O.U. 20 3/4
C.U.C. 19 3/4
V.U.C. 14
Drinking Horn C. U. C.

We of V.U.C. wish to congratulate Auckland on winning both the Tournament Shield and—for the first time in Tournament history—the Athletic Shield.

Athletics

Undoubtedly the highlight of the athletic events was J. Sutherland's defeat of Dunn (Aust.) in the 100 yards, and his win in the 220. In Sutherland V.U.C. possesses one of the most promising sprinters N. Z. has seen for many years. The outstanding features of his running are his strong leg drive and powerful finish, both showing the influence of careful training patterned on the methods of A. L. Fitch.

Another outstanding event was the mile, won in record time (4.22.2/5sec. ) by Shaw of C.U.C. from Kofoed of Auckland.

In the sprint hurdles Patience retained the title for Victoria, and ran second to Day (A.U.C.) in the 220 yards hurdles.

Opie of Otago was outstanding in the discus throw and shot- putting, breaking both records. Gillespie and White of Auckland both broke records in their respective events, the javelin and hammer throws, but these were not allowed owing to the following wind.

Scrymgeour of V.U.C. could only run second to Kofoed in the three miles, in the slow time of 15.172/5.

The Australian University athletes performed well in their events. Mention of their performances is made later.

Rowing

C.U.C. won the rowing by 3/4 length from O.U. Our boys rowed a good fourth. Congratulations to R.G. Bannister on his rowing blue- well done, Doggie!

The Rowing Dinner was a great success.

Swimming

The Swimming Shield was won by Otago with Auckland and Canterbury close behind them. The outstanding swimmer was C. R. Buchanan of A.U.C. Davies of O. U., as usual, won the 220 yards breaststroke.

Lane of Massey swam second to Buchanan in the 100 yards backstroke and freestyle Taylor (V.U.C.) was second to Buchanan in the 440 yards.

Sylvia Hefford was once more defeated by Miss Eastgate of Otago in the women's breaststroke.

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Boxing

With five finalists, V.U.C. collected five titles to win the Boxing Shield easily. The title-winners were:
Featherweight: D. A. Muir
Bantamweight: M. Parr (O.U.). Most scientific boxer,
Lightweight: P. J. Sheehan
Middleweight: T. Mullinder
Welterweight: Kearns (C.U.C.)
Lightheavyweight: A. McLeod
Heavyweight: C.B. Cornish

The outstanding fight was that between Parr and D.G. Anderson (V.U.C.) in the preliminaries. Anderson fought exceptionally well, but Parr's extra experience told in the end.

P. J. Sheehan's performance was meritorious. In the morning he came straight from the rowing to win his preliminary bout.

These results are a tribute to the energy and keeness of the Club's young coach Ken Coveney, title-winner for V.U.C. two years ago.

Basketball

A. U. C. won the Basketball Shield. The first match on Monday morning (A. U. C. v V.U.C.) was perhaps the best of Tournament, but incecurate throwing by our girls no doubt accounted for Auckland's victory 17-15.

Against Canterbury our team triumphed after playing extra time, 17-16.

On Tuesday morning the team did not strike anything like its usual form, and went under to O.U.

Blues for Victoria went to M. Walker, P. Higgin, and B. Marsh, who was throughout the outstanding player in our team.

Shooting

Haslam Shield was won by C.U.C. from Otago, with V.U.C. third. Taken all round the standard of shooting was very poor, but this may have been due to lack of practice. C.U.C. 's winning score of 597 was 40 points below Otago's last year's score.

The highest scorer was I.B. Jacobsen of O.U., whose score of 131 equalled the record.

Tennis

This year we lost the Tennis Cup to Otago. The only final won by V.U.C. was the Men's Doubles, won by K. Dyer and P. Renouf from Baird and Childs of Otago, 6-4, 6-3.

The Women's Doubles were won by Misses J. Howie and Warren (A.U.C.). In the Singles Miss Howie defeated Miss Davis (C.U.C.) 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.

Once more Baird defeated Renouf in the Men's Singles, but was beat on in the final by W. J. Smith (O.U.), 6-1, 6-1.

The Mixed Doubles were won by Smith and Miss J. Thomson from T.D. Childs and Miss R. Brown (O.U.).

The form of our team was very disappointing. After a hard match against Pattinson in the Canterbury championships, Keith Dyer lost easily in the singles to V. Jones of Canty. The women representatives did not play up to expectations, but no doubt the experience gained will benefit them in future Tournaments.

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"'Tain't What You do"

The visiting Australians.

Under the mangaement of Les Philpott the Australian athletes acquitted themselves like men on both the athletic and social battlefields.

Sutherland showed Dunn a clean pair of heels in the sprints, but an unfamiliar climate and track no doubt adversely affected the latter. In the broad jump however he came out well to defeat Thom of A.U.C.

In the 120 yards hurdles J. S. Wilson beat Patience of Victoria but in the 220 hurdles ran third to Day and Patience.

Blewett of Canterbury defeated Brian Curtin in the 440 yards in 50.2/5sec.

Arrowsmith ran well in the 880 yards to defeat Blowett in 1.57.275.

Parkin ran third to Shaw and Kofoed in the mile.

In the Inter-University relay Australia ran second to Canterbury, half-miler Shaw being too fast for Arrowsmith.

Another Record Broken

In the first round of the Drinking Horn contest Otago beat Victoria and Canterbury beat Auckland. In the final Canterbury beat Otago in 20.4/5 sec. The Wikitorians however were not yet oiled, and in the contest for the wooden spooen they defeated A. U. C in the record time of 20sec. A challenge was immediately issued to Canterbury, and amid rousing hakas the horn winners were defeated in 20.1/5sec. So once again, Canterbury, we've proved that under favourable conditions we' ve got the goods.

A. R. A.