Indoor Basketball

At the commencement of the season, as a result of two grading games, this, the VUC second team, was placed in C grade, and has since then played with varying success on Saturday mornings.

Skippered by Trevor Turner and ably supported by Dave Jibbets, Eddie Wong,——Jones, Ray (Sugar) Robinson,——Corkill (jun.), the team showed possibilities of developing into a side strong both on attack and defence. However, the untimely explosion which almost incinerated an ancient Model T. along with a large part of greater Wellington and several innocent bystanders during the Capping Procession, also nearly put out the light of a most promising forward in the shape of Eddie Wong. This loss, coupled with some difficulties encountered by the worthy skipper and some other members of the team from arising early on the Saturday mornings following Capping and Jubilee Balls, and the onset of the holiday period when all the boys hijacked it out into the open country to escape the Conversazione and other things, the team became hard-pressed for players. In fact on two (or is it one) occasions the team had to default! The team has however, had a majority of successes in other games played to date and is shaping well in practises against the A team.

The most notable recent victory immediately prior to going to press was the defeat inflicted on Marist by 16 to 15, mostly due to the efforts of John Corkill (skipper of the D grade team) who came in as a spectator but showed the remainder of the boys how to shoot goal. Nucleus of the attack (if he has been able to awake when the alarm goes off on Saturday mornings) has been Mae (Tartan) Turner, whose penetrating thrusts and accurate goal shooting have provided both the initiation and completion of many scoring plays.

With play improving every week the team is obtaining greater cohesion and should aquit itself creditably in the future.

Trevor Turner is to be warmly congratulated for selection and play in the C grade reps, trials game played on the Saturday before King's Birthday week-end.