Men's

This year's tournament team should be notable for balanced team work and good all-round play. No player "carries" the team: the success it will undoubtedly have at tournament will be contributed to by all players.

At centre Neville Dawkins, a stocky "pivot" player who shows promise of becoming one of Victoria's [unclear: outstanding] players. Playing in a position with which he is not familiar, he has already given a very good account of himself in club competition, and is one of the team's consistent scorers. Dawkins is supported by two very fast-breaking forwards in Gerald Aitken and Derek Johnston. Both these players have ironed out shooting faults, and they and Dawkins now form a very formidable forward line. Newcomer from the B team, King Fletcher, is a fast, aggressive player, and from his recent performances it seems that he will be in the upper bracket of for-wards at tournament.

At the back of these players are guards Peter Doogue, Ken Stevenson and Bunny Honiss, all of whom have performed creditably in interclub com-petition. Honiss and Doogue (captain) can fill the forward and centre positions efficiently, giving the versatility necessary of players in tournament play. The tallest man, Stevenson, is a good all-round guard whose natural ability more than overrides his lack of experience.

Defensively this team is first class and will be one of the hard ones to score against at tournament. Offen-sively under the direction of coach Jim Lewis a very strong combination is being built. This will certainly be a team that will take a lot of stopping.