Basketball

With a more than usually numerous band of enthusiasts the Basketball Club seemed likely, this year, to have an active and successful season. At the N.Z.U. Tournament held in Wellington at Easter, the Victoria rep. team, playing with outstanding speed and precision, all but succeeded in winning the Shield from the more experienced Aucklanders.

After Easter the team was unfortunate in losing two of its members, and later in the season, handicapped by a lack of training, it never quite recaptured Tournament form. However, the standard of play was high. The combination of the centres was excellent, their passing quick and reliable, and the defence proved formidable in breaking up tactics of the opposing backs. The goals were at a disadvantage through changes in their trio.

The second team seemed the most promising which the Club had produced for some time, and was entered in the Senior B Grade, but it too suffered from inadequate practice and from changes in players and position of pray.

Pixie Higgin again won a N.Z.U. Blue, and V.U.C. Blues were awarded to Pixie, Beryl Marsh and Caroline Abraham, to whom we offer our heartiest congratulations.