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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 24, No. 12. 1961.

Sports Section

Sports Section

Women's Indoor Basketball

Our team for Winter Tournament this year is:—

  • Merle Hudson (captain),
  • Rosalie Erikson (v. captain),
  • Mary Wesney,
  • Judith Smith,
  • Barbara Gibson,
  • Mary Wilson,
  • Shirley Thompson.

This year's team is new, but slightly better blended than the one we sent last year. There are three members of the "A" team, which is doing well in the club games, although only playing B grade this year. The new gymnasium has greatly improved the club spirit and we now have a goal to aim at. (literally!) We hope that next year with these advantages we will have many new members from which to draw our next year's Tournament team, which may succeed where others have failed!

Harriers

At the present it seems certain that D. Beauchamp, M. Honeyfield and R. S. Clark will be the stars of the V.U.W. Harrier team at Winter Tournament this year. D. Beauchamp has recently struck form and is running well within the standard of the top 20 harriers in the province. He should manage a good placing in the Tournament race. M. Honeyfield and R. Clark are both reasonably fit and determined runners. Also they both have three tournament runs chalked up already and so should enter Tournament this year experienced and hopeful.

The Rest

The team will be completed from the following men: B. Wilson, G. Caddie, T. Thornley, D. Eaddy and B. Wharton. B. Wilson is a strong runner with a steady record behind him in this year's events. In last year's tournament, though a newcomer to the sport, he ran a good race, finishing well up. This year should see an improvement. G. Caddie is very fit this year and if given the chance he would be likely to run himself tenaciously into a good fourth or fifth man position. J. Thornley, though not as fit as he could be, has run three or four good races this year. This man could run a binder and finish in the top 10 at Tournament, if he is given the chance. D. Eaddy and B. Wharton are both junior runners, but have been turning out with the fast pack at the weekend runs. D. Eaddy is a powerful runner and has led our junior team home in the junior races. B. Wharton is fit and, given the incentive, is capable of turning in a good race.

Although some of our best runners are ineligible for Tournament the team will still be a strong one. Already this year it has beaten Massey on the very course, that Tournament will be run on.

Table Tennis

This year the Vic. team for Winter Tournament at Massey consists of Lim Kim Woon, W. Verhoeven, P. Luk and P. Swain; Misses M. Thomson and P. Collins.

Without doubt this team is much stronger than last year, since the top two A grade players Lim and Verhoeven are available. Just recently Lim fully extended three Wellington representatives — M. Dunn. J. Crossley and R. Moffat. P. Luk and P. Swain are both first year students displacing two of last year's members. Both have shown good form in inter-club and P. Swain won the Wellington handicap tournament.

Misses Thomson and Collins are both experienced players. Miss Thomson has played in the team for the past two years and reached the semi-finals of the individual tournament both years. Miss Collins rivals Miss Thomson as a player and completes the strongest team that Vic. has had for some years.

Successes

At the recent Wellington 2nd grade championships Vic. was well represented with two semi-finalists in the men's singles, a semi-finalist in the men's doubles; finalists in the women's doubles, women's singles, and mixed doubles. Our congratulations go to A. Gooch and Miss Thomson on winning the mixed doubles.

New Gym

With the new gym in use, the table tennis club numbers have swelled considerably, and the standard of play has improved as a consequence. The club caters for all standards of players, with interclub teams from A to G grades. In an effort to raise the standard, various matches have been arranged with other centres in the North Island. Earlier this year 15 members played with distinction in Napier against some of Hawke's Bay's top players. A visit from the Manawatu Association is expected soon and a fixture with Wairarapa is under consideration.

Good Season

As far as interclub matches are concerned, all teams have been doing well. The three C grade teams have perhaps the best record, the No. 1 team leading in its section, and the Nos. 2 and 3 teams lying third in their sections.

Recapitulating, the. club has become increasingly active this year and with the availability of top players, the team should do very well at tournament.

Don't forget, club nights on Tuesdays, 7 p.m. in the gym. and everyone is welcome.

—L.R.R.

Your Guardian Angels at Tournament

Your representatives at the N.Z.U. deliberations at the forthcoming Tournament are Conor McBride (Senior Delegate) and Lance Leikis (Junior Delegate). These two will be on hand to straighten out any problems that may arise during proceedings.

Boxing Beaux

The Boxing Club this year at Vic. has not functioned with sufficient organisation or members to be an official club, but there are a few persons who have been interested enough in the sport to train privately at Koolman's Gymnasium down town. From these, no doubt, there will be several willing sacrificial offers to compete against the Massey Y.F.C. lads, the rugby fit enthusiasts from Auckland and Canterbury, and the cheats from Dunedin who have learnt how to box.

The Men

Of this group Chas. Little could be the most experienced, although he has only one amateur fight to his credit. This lad is solidly built and will enter the ring a semi-fighter-cum-boxer. Maurice Rowe is a stocky well-shouldered youth for his weight, whose stalking style serves him well on attack, but leaves a tendency for slowness on defence footwork. Noel Clarke has progressed from the ignorant-of-boxing stage to the stage where he can realise how little he knows, However, his long reach and dogged style could be effective. Roddy Duncan has a heavy but slow punch. With even some training his weight could become very effectively directed. Roger "X" has an asset in his long loping left, but his footwork and defence will need improving. Tony Cooper is a light but tall lad who started in experienced but has trained steadily over the last few weeks. Others interested are: John Armstrong, Tom Wilson, David Hull end B. Haldane.

The Strategem

The main strategy of the team could be to be fit enough to run fast for three two-minute rounds. Then again, it might not be.

Editor's Note: Boxing at Tournament is now only a provisional sport. That is, points from the Boxing are not added to the total for the Tournament Shield. Should there be a resurgence of interest in the game, however, due consideration will be given to its inclusion in the programme as a full tournament sport.

Judo Club Teams for Tournament

Open teams contest.

T. S. Gan, G. Hewitt, D. Pidgeon, B. Baker, B. Teviotdale,

Restricted teams contest.

N. Jordan, R. Smith, P. Diggle, M. Cameron, P. Squires.

Our open team is fairly strong this year, consisting mainly of orange belts. Unfortunately, our opposition is unknown, but they also might have improved since last year. The restricted team is also likely to do well. This contest is likely to be very hard-fought.

In the individual championships we are suffering from the loss of last year's cup-holder, A. Guzzwell, but Gan, also a green belt, shows true Indonesian class and our hopes are pinned on him.

Varsity Tramping Club Hut

The pen sketch shows the University Club's hut in the Southern Tararuas. This hut was built as a memorial to two members of the club who lost their lives in a climbing accident in the Nuemann Range in the Southern Alps. These two, Roy Dixon and Stanley Alloway, were members of a large club party that was climbing and tramping in the Alps over the Christmas vacation after the 1946 session of the University. On New Year's Day. 1947, the party had reached a col in the range and were descending in steps when a slip occurred and 11 of the party were involved in an accident that resulted in the death of two, Dixon and Alloway, and nine injured.

As a memorial to the two dead, a hut was built by members of the club, and today it is the centre of the club social occasions during the year. It is situated about two hours from the end of the road, the track in being through beautiful New Zealand bush. The only obstacle of any dimensions is the notorious "Puffer," a saddle of about 700 feet between the Kaitoke Valley and the Tauherenikau valley, which the track follows for the remainder of the distance in to the hut.

Ski-ing

This year, the Universities skiing tournament will be held at Mount Cheesman, Temple Basin, from August 13 to 19 and is being put on by the Canterbury University Ski Club. Unfortunately, the National Ski-ing Championships are also on during those dates, at Coronet Peak.

Most of Otago University's skiers will be at these, but so also will Mr Prestant and Tom Huppert, probably the best university skier outside Otago.

These two are a loss to our team but we still have skiers of the calibre of Tom Robbins, Mike Goddard, Kevin Crossley and Colin Jeffeoat ably supported by Rod Moody, Tony TayIor and Jotin Patterson, and some excellent girl skiers in Jill Huppert, Anne Perry and Stephanie Moody.

The feeling is that we could fill either second or third place.

Last year, Victoria put on a very successful tournament at Mount Ruapehu and we came an overall second, the best achieved by a North Island university team for many years.

The Vic. team for this year will be posted on the Ski Club Notice Board after the weekend July 29 and 30. when the inter-club races are held on Mount Ruapehu.

Indoor Basketball

If determination to win is any indication as to the final result of the Men's Indoor Basketball at Tournament this year, then Victoria should leave Palmerston North with the honours. So far this season the club as a whole, has been doing quite well, especially the A team, which is coming second to Marist in the Wellington A grade competition. Marist, with several N.Z. representatives have been winners of the A grade competition for the last two years.

The Team

Representing Victoria at Massey will be P. Betts, D. Edwards, D. Roberts, M. Clark, R. Heyworth. D. Lacey and J. Eade. Betts and Edwards, noted for their accurate set-shooting and hard driving play, with Roberts, at his best when under the basket, form an effective nucleus on attack. This will be Edwards's fifth. Roberts's third, and Betts's second tournament. For Eade, a steady defensive player, this tournament will be his second. Clark, fast and reliable with Heyworth and Lacey, two promising players, complete a fairly strong team. These last three will play at tournament for the first time.

The Opposition

The opposing teams will be hard to beat, especially Otago which is fielding the same strong team that won at Christ church last year. Canterbury, from past performances, can also be expected to field a strong team. Auckland generally manage to cause at least one upset and Lincoln has shown considerable improvement over the last two tournaments and now ranks as one of the leaders. Even though of little success in previous years, Massey have the advantage of playing on their home court.