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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 8, No. 11. August 8, 1945

Brand New Kirk Cup Collected by Maths and Physics

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Brand New Kirk Cup Collected by Maths and Physics

Tuesday afternoon dawned bright and clear. At about 1.15 the mixed hockey curtain-raiser started, but long before this Kelburn Park had been filling with excited spectators.

This mixed hockey game was very funny. Following the scheme initiated last year, one side wore shorts and the other wore skirts. Viv. Rich again refereed and Ivor Ting, playing for Maths., Physics and Geology, kept the score fairly even as well as looking very dashing in his gym tunic. Chem. Biology won 4-3, and it was just as well, too, in view of what happened to them in the football.

The football match was taken quite seriously. They had a real referee, dressed in those referee's white things, and everything. From the moment Mr. Monro managed to kick off, an expectant hush descended on the spectators. They were all lined up along the footpath and no doubt the hearts of the young ladies in (say) the Physics department went pit-a-pat as they viewed the men of (say) the Physics department, locked with their rivals in combat upon the muddy field.

At half-time the score was 5 nil.

In the second half MPG decided to change sides with CB and it was soon apparent that their new end of the field suited them much better. Except for a few scrums and line outs, they scored pretty regularly. It is felt that no good would come to posterity or anyone, of stating the exact score of this game. Suffice it to say that in spite of the device resorted to by CB supporters in an attempt to save the day, the MPG team were the winners. They were presented with the shining new Kirk Cup by Professor Kirk himself.

But now a few words about the device employed by the CB rabble to confound the victorious MPG team. Towards the end of the second half, the evil geniuses of the Chemistry department were observed getting up to a bit of no good on the southern side of the field. A light southerly breeze was blowing. Suddenly dense white smoke belched forth from some containers placed by the chemists. This spread swiftly across the field and for a few minutes it was very difficult to play without risk of collision. But, alas for the CB side, the breeze freshened and dispersed the smoke screen to such an extent that play continued unabated. Thus the flrst attempt to introduce chemical warfare failed; and it might be fitting to close this report with the pious hope that in future all measures will be taken to see that the game is conducted in the British tradition of fair play.