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