We are failing to sustain the effort, begun so well at the Easter Tournament at Auckland, to raise the general standard of sport at V.U.C. and to regain the prestige we had some years ago in the sporting world. In some degree that failure can be attributed to inertia and apathy. There was a record attendance at the annual meeting of the Rugby Club and, apparently, players in abundance, including much good material. Results in practically all grades have boen frankly disappointing. Wilh capable coaches and improved facilities for practice, this should not be so.

The story of men's hockey is no better. Here is a large club that places six teams in the field every Saturday, yet the total number of games won by those teams so far this season could be counted on the fingers of both hands. The players are asked to attend practice for a couple of hours on only one evening a week. More often than not the attendance is under 30.

The harriers have suffered through the retirement of several old stalwarts, but the Club should still have been able to do better than come 7th (8 clubs competing) in the first inter-club race of the season.

We cannot take the basketballers to task; they are doing well. They have a record that the Women's Hockey Club probably envies. This Club now has only one team, which is noticeably improving. It may be true that, playing senior, it is in too high a grade, but V.U.C, with its scores of women students, should be able to held a hockey team of senior standard.

The remedy lies in the hands of the players themselves. Regard attendance at practice as a duty, membership of a sports club as a privilege, and von yourself and V.U.C. will benefit.

—L.B.S.