A Lot of shilly-shallying around has been going on over the topic of where next year's tournament is to be held, but it appears tournament is still going to be here at Victoria. After seeing the magnificent way that Auckland organised everything, there's going to be one helluva lot of work to be done to do as well. So give some thought, hey fellas? Hey Fellas? Well durn me I thought I had an audience a minute ago!

Men's Indoor B'ball

♦♣ Defending Champions in this event, Victoria had to be content to share the men's indoor basketball title with Auckland. The competition was so close that after three rounds Victoria, Otago, Auckland and Canterbury had each won two games and lost one, poor Massey having lest all four games. Victoria cleaned up the Cantabrians to take six points.

Outstanding for the Greens was Graeme Hellberg, who notched up 67 points over the series, and as well was one of the stars of the NZU 'A' team that narrowly beat Auckland 'A'. Also playing for NZU 'A' was Bob Ryerson while Paul Stannard and Roger Booth gave Victoria representation in the NZU 'B' side. Stannard looked like winning the game by himself until he became fouled-up and fouled-off.

Victoria beat Auckland 57-56, Canterbury 71-66, Massey 68-45, lost to Otago 52-69.

Judoka

♣ An Apology is due to the Victoria judoka; they must have been mixing saki in with their rice because they made hash of a suggestion that they didn't have the strength to do well at tournament. In actual fact all the four universities that entered teams were of such an even standard that there was a three-way tie for second place. As a university sport, judo seems to be on the up-and-up, with a coaching team coming over from Australian Universities in the near future, and such close competition at tournament.

Otago 22, 1; Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury, 19, 2.

Shooting

♣ The Team did very well and came very close to relieving Canterbury of the ICI Shield which they have held continuously since 1959. Four of the team gained places in the NZU team which beat Auckland quite convincingly. Bruce Ward did not shoot as well as can be expected of him but Gra me Harvie shot very we11, as did Mike Burch.

Final ICI Shield totals were: Canterbury, 2368, first; Victoria, 2362, second; Lincoln, 2302, third.

Badminton

♣ Faced With an almost impossible draw Victoria performed very creditably. Monday morning they drew 8-all with last year's winners, Otago, but lost 18-19 on games. Then on Monday afternoon they played eventual winners, Auckland, who had a bye that morning and were thus completely fresh. Undoubtedly this was not deliberate; however it was both stupid and unfair. Strong words, but this happened to Victoria last year too.

Victoria's top player. Lim Ee Chlat, was No. 1 for the NZU t am and playing with Gaynor Simpson came close to upsetting the top Auckland pair Richard Purser and Heather Robson in the mixed doubles section of the NZU match against Auckland. Also in the NZU team were Jane Mowatt as the women's No. 3 and Seow Bin Gay as a reserve.

Victoria beat Canterbury 11-5, Massey 15-1, lost to Auckland 5-11, Otago 8-8 (18-19).

Golf

♥ The Victoria golfers hit their little white calls with some expertise to get within 18 strokes or an Auckland team playing on their home course. Although no detailed results were available, Victoria's P. Rankin appears to have been the best golfer in the tournament and to have been largely responsible for his team's second placing.

Auckland, 954, 1; Victoria, 972, 2; Canterbury, 990, 3; Lincoln, 1033, 4; Otago, 1063, 5.

Table Tennis

♣♦ The Table Tennis was won rather unexpectedly by Auckland but Victoria were breathing down their necks—a difficult thing to do from the other side of a table-tennis table. The Victoria men were the strongest at the tournament, but the women just couldn't match the ability of the Aucklanders.

Barry Cross and Harrison Waterhouse fought out the men's singles final, won by Cross, and combined well to take the doubles final to add nine points to Victoria's total. Both were automatic selections for the NZU side that played Auckland province.

Auckland 16½, 1; Victoria 14, 2; Lincoln 1½, 3.

Fencing

♦ Victoria Fencers slashed their opposition to ribbons and left bloodied swordsmen all over the place—or would have if lethal-type weapons had been in use. It was really magnificent to watch a Victoria team completely dominate a sport—they won the men's foil, epee and sabre and came third in the women's foil, quite a performance.

David Lind-Mitchell, Zoltan Apathi and David Hurley took three of the four places in the NZU side that went down to Auckland 3-13, not too bad when it is remembered that Auckland has some of the country's finest fencers. Helen Schwarz was the outstanding female fencer of the tournament, dropping two games through carelessness only, and fought for the NZU women s team.

Smallbore Rifles

♣ Unheralded and unsung, the Victoria smallbore shooters surprised a lot of people by taking second place behind Canterbury. In fact, the team nearly caused one of the biggest upsets of tournament, finishing only five points in arrears.

Victoria had four representatives in the twelve-man NZU side, M. Borch, P. Whitmore, B. Ward, and G. Harvie. Definitely a heartening effort from a team that did much better than expected, probably the only one to do so at that.

Canterbury 2367-162, 1; Victoria 2362-152, 2; Lincoln 2302125, 3.

Soccer

♣ As Expected, Auckland won the Association Football, although they had a close call against Otago. The Victoria team could only manage third equal with Canterbury after a surprise loss to Lincoln on a muddy ground that made the playing of good football nigh-on impossible. Goalie Rod Bustard and backs Max Bognuda and Bill Arcus showed how to do it throughout and Bognuda was unlucky not to make the NZU team.

Victoria beat Massey 3-0, Canterbury 2-1, lost to Auckland 1-5, Otago 1-2, Lincoln 1-4.

Squash

♣ Ably Led by Brian Christie, the squash team came a good third and nearly defeated Otago for second place. Canterbury were too good for the others and won fairly easily. Christie as No. 3 for the NZU team won their only game when they played Auckland and all in all the Victoria team did as well as could be expected.

Victoria beat Auckland 3-0, Massey 3-0, lost to Canterbury 0-3, Otago 1-2.

Men's Hockey

♠ When a Club sends a team to tournament that is a mix ture of its first, second and third teams, because most of the regular first team members are ineligible for tournament, then the club is going to fail rather horribly, particularly if tactics are built around a few star players who become unavailable. The Victoria men's hockey administration were obviously unaware of this with the result Victoria came last equal with Otago and Massey.

Victoria beat Massey 2-1, lost to Otago 1-2, Auckland 0-7, Canterbury 1-6. Auckland won the title when they defeated Canterbury 1-0.

Women's Indoor B'ball

♠ The Women Indoor bas ketballers as a whole did not have the experience, fitness and general ability required to do well in a tournament of this nature—or indeed, of any nature. Even so, Mary Hurst and Judy Coveny were above the average standard, the whole team kept on trying, and as consolation they beat Massey.

Victoria beat Massey 24-13, lost to Otago 7-46, Auckland 14-52, Canterbury 8-23. Otago won the title for this year.

Harriers

♠♠ Otago's Peter Welsh made this year's cross country field look silly by taking off and winning by about 300 yards. The Auckland team made the race even sillier by getting seven men in the first nine. As expected. Victoria came fifth and last in the team's event, but this rather sordid performance seems to have shaken up the club to such an extent that an improvement next year is highly likely. The main problem is attracting young runners to the club, because let's face it, Vic harriers haven't much to offer at the moment.

Women's Hockey

??? There is nothing much one can say about the performance of the women's hockey team, except to express the wish that if a team is sent next year, they compete as an independent side and keep the good name of Victoria untouched. We won't say we hope they enjoyed the parties, we know they did!

Victoria lost to Auckland 0-12, Otago 1-7, Canterbury 0-8, Massey 1-5. OUCH!