Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 7, No. 8. August 9, 1944
Exact Sciences Severely Slashed
Exact Sciences Severely Slashed
In spite of predictions that the Kirk Cup would fall through this year as it did last year, the traditional match was played on Kelburn Park recently with great celebration and jollity.
At the beginning of the afternoon's sport a letter from Prof. Kirk was read apologising for his' enforced absence—the first he had missed since the inauguration of the match.
The fun then began. A colourful mass raced gracefully onto the field. This resolved itself into two masses and tossed for ends, thereby revealing itself as the mixed hockey teams—the Maths-Physics-Geology team in shorts, the Chemistry-Biology team in gym. tunics. A blast from the whistle of Social-Committee live-wire Viv. Rich set the game going, in which it shortly became plain that Chemistry-Biology had the upper hand. Senior A men's hockey star—voted most becoming man in skirts—Ivor Ting, moved modestly about in the back line of the C.B. team, not wishing to make too crushing the M.P.G. defeat. Crowd held its breath as fast-moving score-shooter Johnny Nicholls approached collision with sturdy M.P.G. defender Marie Simpson, who, however, with a neat twist, deftly threw him. A rotation occurred, Marie's attractive red shorts twinkling evanescently against the green field, and there lay Johnny, his manhood all dashed out upon the ground. For all that, C.B. won the game 4—2.
The tolerant football-minded crowd now eagerly awaited the football match which was to decide which section of the Science Faculty was to bear away the "coveted Kirk Cup. Doctor of Philosophy. Zoology lecturer, laboratory martinet Richardson muffed the kick-off, but kept on his feet, disappointing Stage I Chem., who had been promised by a Physics demonstrator that he would slip. The game was played in the appropriate spirit. C.B. captain Harry Cutler frequently assisting the opposite side in his big-hearted way. C.B. backs took the game more seriously, but not C. L. Smith of M.P.G., who by his pantomimic contempt for the game and froglike mode of progression tickled the crowd not a little. High-light of the game was a mysterious scrimmage from which a jersey and trousers emerged, followed suddenly by Snuffy Smith, ball in hand, clad in panties and a brassiere, who made a huge inroad into enemy territory before his disguise was penetrated. The crowd stayed to the finish, in spite of several attacks by the combined teams, to see C.B. win decisively, the score being (taking an average poll of spectators' opinions) 17—83.