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Salient.Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 32, No. 17 July 23, 1969

Vic team overwhelms Massey harriers

Vic team overwhelms Massey harriers

The annual competition with Massey for the Paekakariki Cup was held recently over the club's 7½ mile course at Queen Elizabeth Park, Paekakariki.

Vic won the cup for the third year in succession, overwhelming completely the weaker Massey team. (The Vic team scored the lowest possible possible total of 21 points to beat Massey's 99 points. With the first six runners in each club counting for points, Vic had seven runners home before the first of the Massey team finished...

Victoria's team was Ian Stockwell (1), Peter Simpson (2), Eric Cairns (3), Ian Hunt (4), Martin Fisher (5), Peter Williams (6).

Massey's placings were: Bruce Hill (8), Dave Baunmberg (12), Bruce MacKintosh (16), Barry Rance (18), D. Maxwell (22), J. Salisbury (23).

Undoubtedly Massey while it still would not have won the Paekakariki Cup, would have improved on its poor showing if its two top runners had been competing. However, Euan Robertson and Sieve Kent were for various reasons unable to take part. So Massey suffered its most humiliating defeat ever in the annual competition.

The Paekakariki Cup competition began in 1950 when the cup was donated by Mr. G. C. Sherwood. As it stands at present, Massey has won the Cup 8 times and Victoria 12. At present the record for the greatest number of successive victories is held by Victoria (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954).

Club Championship

Also run in conjunction with the Paekakariki Cup was the club champs.

The club course, covering 7½ miles (3 laps of a 2½ mile circuit) including as it does, sand dunes, swamp, beach, creeks, rolling hill country and the famous "bull paddock" is reputed to be one of the most testing cross country courses in New Zealand.

Taking the lead right from the start, the 1969 club championship was convincingly won by Ian Stock well, in a time of 46m 8s. This was 28s ahead of the second placegetter, Peter Simpson.

This win by Stockwell was a continuation of the do dominance of old boys of Hawera High School who have now won the club championship 4 times in the past five years.

Peter Simpson, as he was also the first junior home, won the Shorland Cup, which reappeared after mysteriously going missing for several years.

Peter, who is the son of the Vice Chancellor, has been improving in every competitive run.

On his present form he should easily make the Wellington Junior team for the National Cross Country Champs which are to be held at Gisborne on August 9.

The third to finish was another junior, Eric Cairns. He finished some 16s behind Simpson, with a time of 46m 52s.

Eric should also make the Wellington junior team.

Fourth to finish and the second senior home was Ian Hunt in a time of 48m 13s, with the third senior being Martin Fisher (48m 37s).

The tentative cross country team for winter tournament is: I. Stockwell, P. Simpson, E. Cairns, I. Hunt, M. Fisher, P. Williams, A. Burse, J. Horsley.

Future runs for the Club are:

July 26.—Wellington Centre Championships at Blenheim.

August 2.—Invitation T. H. Beaglehole, 260 Cockayne Rd., Ngaio.

August 9.—Invitation J. Rise-borough (Senior) at. Plimmerton.

August 16.—Invitation F. D. O'Flynn, Otaki.

August 23.—Invitation C. P. McBridge, 41 Koromika Rd., Highbury.

August 30.—Wellington-Masterton Relay.